2009-5-15 05:37:00
[Compiler's Note: The "Early Keys Posts" articles are a from a series of lessons that JJ Dewey gave while conducting classes on AOL (America Online), circa 1994.]
You ask for answers to questions that you maintain that you do not know the answers to and then you tell me I am wrong. How do you know I am wrong if you do not know the answers.
I am short on time here, but I will make some comment on your response:
On the ultimate nature of matter; I cannot make sense of your objection to my answer here. I will admit that there is more that can be written on the subject. Pagmatico, for instance, added that there is a third neutral ingredient to the wavelength.
The other point of view is from the formless worlds where neither matter, time or space exist. There can be no time without the motion of form. You said nothing to disprove this.
The Mayas were partly right about time going forward and backward at the same time. It flows somewhat like the wheel of a car. Half of the wheel is going forward and the other half going backward. On the other hand, the vehicle that is being carried by the wheel goes one direction.
We are being carried along by time from the past into the future and with each turn of the wheel history repeats itself on a higher turn of the spiral.
Only by withdrawing your consciousness from the world of form to formlessness can you see the past, present and future as the "Eternal Now."
The fact that space cannot exist without matter is easily seen if you think about it. Space is merely the measure of voids between defined matter. If there was no form there would be no such thing as a distance between anything. If your consciousness existed in a place where there was no form your only awareness of form would be the point of consciousness where you exist. Nothing outside of yourself would have any meaning or definition, including time.
There are other worlds of form governed by laws quite different than some that we recognize. There are worlds where the life principle is governed by the square, others governed by the circle. Ours is governed by the triangle.
There are other life forms in the universe built on a foundation of silicon rather than carbon as ours is. The computer is the beginning of the creation a new life form. Loving your computer may have some meaning in a future age.
Foundation principles are the same in all creation. Branch principles will vary.
Your dog does not think before he barks, he does, however, have consciousness. Most of your dog's barking is from an internal program. Some advanced dogs and other animals are learning to think, but few of them do at present. Language is not before thought, nor is thought before language. They are created simultaneously just as male and female were.
Few humans have mastered more than 10% of the thinking process.
Using your computer brain is not thinking. Becoming the computer programmer is thinking.
You are welcome to try and trap me whenever you want. You are right. Life is full of them. Fortunately, yours is a harmless one.
The main purpose of this system of teaching is to encourage the student to seek for an answer within. If both student and teacher are reflecting within together they will come up with the same inspiration, for in the world of the soul all is one.
It sounds to me (and I think you will agree) that the comments you have given me on decision are not any new light to yourself, but knowledge you have believed for some time.
I have tabulated your comments on decision and choice so far and they are as follows:
Also indecision is more negative than wrong choice as even wrong choice shows us clearly an outcome that we can do something about.
My decisions are not reactions. They are based on my observations and my choices. I have never felt limited in any way. Maybe that's good, I don't know. As far as who/what am I, I know that I am material and spiritual and the spiritual is predominant almost forgetting the material or not limited by it. What is next?
I decide, I do not react. My decisions are based on my observations alone. I don't see that releasing any power other than a clear cut view of my path in life. I have no limitations in the way that I view myself. I am different in my decisions since no one else would choose what I do in the order that I do.
I find no fault with your words, you just haven't gone far enough.
You can pick almost any word and plant it in the twilight between your consciousness and the soul and receive much light from it. Decision, on the other hand, is not just any word. It is a foundation word. A book could be written on each of the keywords we will talk about.
I do not expect you to write a book, nor do I expect you to reveal the ultimate knowledge about decision, but you are expected to go to a new level of understanding about it, so you will view it in at least a slightly altered way.
You seem to think you know all there is to know about it and want the next step. Even the masters who have overcome death do not know all there is to know about it, even the Solar Logos does not.
We are all unlimited when we look at time as a whole, but we all have limitations in the present. All of us have limitations on our decision set by our present state of consciousness. This is called our ring-pass-not in esoteric writings.
I just achieved a new piece of enlightenment on decision this past week. I do not know why I did not see it before.
The key is to plant a question about decision in your mind as you would plant a seed in the ground. Look for growth to happen and nourish it with your expectation.
Here are some questions to contemplate:
What is your next level of understanding about the principle of decision?
Where is your present Ring-Pass-Not for my power of decision? Is there an area of your life over which you do not think you have power that you could assume power with the principle of decision?
Example: We seem to be powerless to overcome death, disease and aging. Can decision return power to us?
How is decision related to the life principle? Does life even exist without decision?
How is the motion of all things related to decision?
You are not expected to obtain all knowledge here, but to merely go a step forward in your own consciousness and understanding, then we will advance to the next principle.
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
-- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
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