This will be the first truly sizable post anywhere that i have made after what I term momentarily piercing through to the intelligent infinity.
Now, I wont be describing what I as an ego self think, but instead, i will be describing what I remember my world view as being like during the moments when I in my subjective world view pierced through.
So. It is not channeling, nor opinion, it is the memory of an opinion of what i perceived to be my inner self reflecting the absolute truth of creation. So, take it for what it is.
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In reality all is one, this is true on both the above realm and the below realm when in the absolute end. So, it is safe to say that if one direction contains a singularity of infinite mass and density and any action that takes me in that direction will lead me closer to that singularity, and that there is one in the opposite direction and what I can do is move between these two infinite singularities.
So. One of these singularities is the state where my mass becomes sufficient to warp my local space time so that i attain control over all the reflective surfaces in my presence (other fields). I perceive this as all other souls and energies dissipating and then vanishing. It feels like suddenly all the other souls in a form of self defence/love simply give into my desire for acheiving that singularity and they become less who they are and more what i need them to be to advance.
So. I in a way climb towards my singularity by using their singularity to help me. It is a patently self serving act. But what then happens is that if another is strong in their desire to reach their singularity as much as I am strong in my desire to reach my singularity, two identical singularity bubbles appear, and between them it is possible to both create and reflect anything and everything in creation because both are so determined to reach their singular singularity that no pain or loss or change of perspective matters, only that the truth is served. So neither side fears or hesitates or tries to harm the other, only to be better at twisting the other selfs field as a climbing tool so that you end up "higher"(faster) than the other self.
So, when it works properly, this reality with no other selves produces a reality that has a another self. When either side collapses, which they eventually will, the person that remains in that singularity will have immense speed in the spiritual sense, allowing them to use the energy of the other self merging in love with the internal self to produce massive changes in their perceived world due to the emotional intensity of the catalyst observed in the moment of divine merging.
How it works is simple, when you rise from the lower levels on up step by step you realise that there is a "best way to" do everything. That these millenia old ethical questions do have a best possible answer, it is in pure mathmathics and understanding the cause and effect or karma of the surrounding environment. Our technological society make the cause and effect seem a million times stronger than when it depended on things like observing plantgrowth. So the speed with which entities understand that for there to be a best way to do things, and cause and effect, then your way of doing things cant be the first, or the best. So while your individual life may not be mapped out, someone has mapped out the thoughts you are travelling through because as long as life is all about survival, life is all about mathmathics, and the levels preceeding awareness of the self are those of the survival mind.
Once this realisation hits, that it is possible to find the best possible way to move, the next logical question is how far ahead into the future can i project what is the best possible path for personal survival and reproduction.
At some point such projections produce singularities (able to conquer the whole planet, or able to breed billions of children or able to own the stockmarket in a week) and so on. Such singularities "break" the system and cause the negatively oriented wanderer great pain because it implies the aloneness of the self trapped in 3D existence.
From that a belief of separation is born and the veil is seen for the first time.
At this state it is possible to do anything, plan anything or build anything and carry it to its conclusion, but due to the method by which such a state is acheived, nothing is created.
The survival mind when thrust into a situation where it has absolute and total control over everything collapses on its own. So any negatively oriented seeker immediately upon contact with the intelligent infinity knows everything but due to the nature of the mind wants nothing because to want to survive from something a uncontrolled impulse must exist. And by reaching intelligent infinity the game ends. You are revealed to be behind the system of impulses created to project your personality to this moment and while that moment of infinity lasts as long as you wish because you are outside of time, when you wish to tell anyone of it you have to create more karma and through that, more to defend from.
The next great temptation then is obvious, create only the kinds of waves that produce the kinds of outcomes that you want. Such a state is also possible but without unknowns and without time it is a pointless state to be in, if you'll excuse the pun.
After that is experimented with, the next logical step is to create waves in a manner that you do not know the reaction to to create the world. Best way to do that is to have a shared common illusion where while I could climb high enough to see what impulse created the circumstances by which you enter into my life, reaching a point where I could control all in my perceptual cone till infinity, such a state is non beneficial to the enjoyment of existence itself, and as i am selfish, my enjoyment is my primary concern.
So I turn around from such a state and create the initial conditions that I desire (hardware/software changes required such as messing with your specific energy band is possible here, will do things like increase or decrease chemicals or electrical impulses in you rbrain, but such changes WILL also change the people around you because they are the surfaces that you reflect off of)
After returing at the same time through the root and the crown and then through the 3rd eye and the sex and then through the throat and the solar plexus, the union happens in the heart. And then it is understood properly.
What it is, is that this moment is not yet optimized.
Because it is impossible to optimize time, infinity and free will.
So, what happens is that mathmathics become a flight path not the existence itself.
Once you've been through the intelligent infinity and contacted everything, you realise that there are really thoughts "in here" that are trillions of years old, and if you want, you can surrender to them and they will control you in the moment, but only if you want to.
What you call your higher self, i dont know. But for me, my higher self is the intelligent infinity interacting with my personal wishes without others in between and the outcome of those pure interactions when projected through time. Or my concious mind controlling the near environment to prooduce the outcome I want by navigating through the energyfields present here.
Which mode I chose depends on which mood strikes me. One I believe is STO (implies surrender and relying on the inner self to guide) and i believe is STS (implies resistance and relying on personal strength for growth).
So then, you see, that your question makes very little sense.
Catalyst is everything and anything in motion tha tyou observe, the observence is the phenomena that the intelligent infinity WANTS to create. Catalyst is just whats shaken in front of you to get you to move on your own. Once sufficient motion is attained the nature of the catalyst is made more apparent and you are then on the path loving or hating that catalyst.
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My ego self/individuated answer to what you experience is:
"Is every catalyst planned by the higher self for everybody it effects?"
Yes.
"Some if not all events affect so many people in so many different ways."
Subjective and depends on the existence of the concept of people as the other self. If you wish the impulse can be divided to a smaller number of reflective surfaced but then it increases in intensity and pain. Many surfaces for every lesson gives less of a singular bright light, it tends to evoke pain/burn.
"I recently had an employee steal money and run away."
You had a paid servant that stole colored pieces of paper, how quaint! =D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp-R1o753pM (some cursing)
"Everybody it effects can either react with love or anger, i get that, but was it a random catalyst for some of the fringe players?"
No fringe if all is one, only the all is one. Distance and strength of emotional impact is mathmathically possible to calculate but wouldnt advice it for obvious reasons as stated above.
"Or do the higher selves, if different, get the all clear from each other before presenting a catalyst?"
Yes but speed with which the higher self gets the all clear is automatic but you might perceive a time delay because your world view requires for you to have a time delay.
but its how we react to it, will show if we grow, ensure a spiritual path or a million other things.