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And though she feels as if she's in a play
She is anyway
I thought I'd create this thread to share passages you come across that are revelatory, illuminating, etc. I thought about putting this thread in the "other stuff" section, but I was intending it to be restricted to the "extended consciousness and spirituality" general topic. :)
In Robert Monroe's Far Journeys, I'm in the early part where there's an "explorer team" of OBErs set up in the lab in the 1970s who come into contact with extended consciousness (and sometimes beings, much like in some forms of mediumship, who will speak using the explorer's vocal cords, and can interact with the monitor).
Anyway, in this passage one of the explorers (a physicist) is describing his experience and the advanced knowing he's tapping into that I find resonates with a lot of other material I come into contact with - the idea of Source/"God" knowing/further creating/experiencing/expanding itself through a playful Experiment, and Source-parts being co-creating characters in this experiment/play.
Robert A. Monroe. (2001 [1985]). Far Journeys. NY: Broadway Books. p. 51-52.
And though she feels as if she's in a play
She is anyway
- Lennon/McCartney, "Penny Lane"
I thought I'd create this thread to share passages you come across that are revelatory, illuminating, etc. I thought about putting this thread in the "other stuff" section, but I was intending it to be restricted to the "extended consciousness and spirituality" general topic. :)
In Robert Monroe's Far Journeys, I'm in the early part where there's an "explorer team" of OBErs set up in the lab in the 1970s who come into contact with extended consciousness (and sometimes beings, much like in some forms of mediumship, who will speak using the explorer's vocal cords, and can interact with the monitor).
Anyway, in this passage one of the explorers (a physicist) is describing his experience and the advanced knowing he's tapping into that I find resonates with a lot of other material I come into contact with - the idea of Source/"God" knowing/further creating/experiencing/expanding itself through a playful Experiment, and Source-parts being co-creating characters in this experiment/play.
I've gotten into all kinds of things, and I've been trying to sort them and put them into some kind of rational order. First of all, I had the impression that physical matter reality - inasmuch of I guess what is normally called reality, not only physical matter, but also a certain amount of our daydreaming and our imaginative intuitive qualities - is part of a, sort of like a large daydream or thought from a higher consciousness. Just as we can daydream and invent characters and situations, we are characters in a situation that was invented or dreamt, quite consciously dreamt by a more advanced sort of consciousness. The part that we have to play in this daydream is one of education, one of learning and bettering ourselves, striving to become more.
Now, I'm not clear why this kind of over-consciousness or over-soul is having this daydream, but I have the feeling that it is for its own education. It learns as we learn. Anyway, we have such limited consciousness to begin because if you are going to set up a situation where you expect certain processes to happen - these processes, of course, are our education, our learning - you don't set up the most complex and involved experiment or situation. You set up a simple one that you can produce, that still has the qualities to get the results that you want. This is the reason that we are seemingly of such limited consciousness. But the reason that we have an option to develop our consciousness more fully is part of the experiment itself. We are to learn and grow and evolve and become and learn through experience in doing, and as closely as we can come to understanding and being a part of, our understanding a part of our creator, our over-soul daydreamer, if you like, then sort of the more power to us. The more of that we can understand, then the more learning that we've acquired. So it's not really - well, I take that back. It's not so much that we are driven to expand our awareness or that we should be, other than it's available, and being available makes it a direction in which we can evolve if we so choose.
Robert A. Monroe. (2001 [1985]). Far Journeys. NY: Broadway Books. p. 51-52.