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The Ring-Pass-Not

Joseph Dewey

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March 9, 1999

The Ring-Pass-Not

The question:

Can you think of a decision that is beyond the consciousness of most intelligent people?”

Let us say, for instance, that the plan of your life by Higher Powers, is to get incurable Cancer at the age of 50 so you can learn certain lessons. If you make a definite decision to live to be 100 it is possible to get an alternative plan from your soul as to how you may learn the lesson and override the original program. This is rare but it can happen.

Then there are times that your decision blends in with decisions of Higher Lives or a larger group. When this happens these influences must be taken into consideration if your decision is to be attained.

One thing we should understand as we continue in this vein is the principle of the “ring-pass-not.”

Let us say that a born again Christian has made a definite decision to go to a certain mountain on the first of next month and meet Jesus who he expects will snatch him up into heaven. Will this happen just because he has made a decision about it? Why not?

Let us say that each member of the group decides that they will live to be 100 because they think this is a great idea, but then put the decision to the back of their minds and pay little attention to it. Is it likely then that they will live to be 100? If the answer is no then what is lacking here?

Remember that DECISION-CONSCIOUSNESS-ATTENTION is a key of knowledge. In other words contemplation on this key can lead you to greater knowledge.

Glenys gave a good answer to the definition of a ring-pass-not. I will repeat it here:

“My understanding is that, at the human level, it is a level of attainment beyond which a person cannot go; a stage in a person’s growth from which he or she is unable to pass onto a higher stage because of some inhibiting factor in his or her make up, usually a mental or spiritual delusion. However, it can be applied to all levels of creation from sub-atomic matter to the Planetary and Solar Logos and even the Creator itself.

“We all have our ring-pass-not. In most humans, it is the level of the mental body which extends well beyond the physical and enables them to operate at the lower mental levels. Soul contact would extend the ring-pass-not and allow activity on the higher mental levels.”

In other words, the ring-pass-not is the highest point that your consciousness can perceive, the highest point you can make a real decision. If you cannot make a believable decision to live to be 100 then that decision is beyond your ring-pass-not.

Jesus spoke the truth when he said that “nothing is impossible to him that believeth…” but to make the impossible come true, the ring-pass-not must be expanded. If we all examine our lives (or perhaps we should examine the lives of others – they are easier to see correctly) we will see that our ring-pass-not in some areas may be fairly high and in other areas may be low.

For instance, one person may understand many beautiful metaphysical principles yet his ring-pass-not in the real world makes it difficult to pay the bills. How to create abundance for his self is beyond his consciousness, but mystical things are not.

We must work to round out our ring-pass-not so the orbit is circular rather than elliptical. When we expand our ring-pass-not then many things become possible that were previously impossible.

There is a difference between expanding your ring-pass-not and your belief system. A belief that you can walk through a wall does not give you the power to do it. But if your ring-pass-not is expanded into this consciousness then you will realize this power is possible, and you can attain it if you desire.

The mere belief in the possibility has little power but is a good starting point to expand your ring-pass-not if illusion is dispelled along the way. Belief, even in something true, if it is mired in glamour and illusion, can become a millstone around the neck.

Question: What is the difference between one who believes he will live to be 100, but will not, and another whose ring-pass-not has expanded so he can really make this happen?

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The Ring Pass Not

Joseph Dewey
This entry is part 09 of 98 in the series Principles

Principle Nine

The Ring Pass Not

The ring-pass-not is the highest point that your consciousness can perceive and the highest point that you can make a real decision. If a thing is beyond your “ring pass not” then you either cannot believe the thing is possible, cannot understand it or just cannot conceive of its reality.

If you cannot make a believable decision to live to be 100 then that decision is beyond your ring-pass-not.

Jesus spoke the truth when he said that “nothing is impossible to him that believeth….” but to make the impossible come true the “ring pass not” must be expanded.

If we all examine our lives we will see that our ring-pass-not in some areas may be fairly high and in other areas may be fairly low.

For instance one person may understand many beautiful spiritual principles yet his ring-pass-not in the real world makes it difficult to pay the bills. How to create abundance for himself is beyond his consciousness, but mystical things may not be.

We must work to round out our “ring pass not” so the orbit is circular rather than elliptical.

When we expand our Ring Pass Not then many things become possible that were previously impossible.

There is a difference between expanding your ring-pass-not and your belief system. A belief that you can walk through a wall you does not give you the power to do it, but if your ring-pass-not is expanded into this consciousness then you will realize this power is possible and you can attain it if you desire.

The mere belief in the possibility has little power but is a good starting point to expand your ring-pass-not if illusion is dispelled along the way.

If one wants to accomplish beyond the norm he must not only believe but also make a decision within his ring of consciousness.

Belief, even in something true, if it is mired in glamour and illusion, can become a millstone around the neck.

Question:   What is the difference between one who believes he will live to be 100, but will not, and another whose ring-pass-not has expanded so he can really make this happen?

One may ask why the term we are discussing is called the ring-pass-not? Why not consciousness-pass-not or some other phrase?

The reason is that expansion in consciousness is best represented as circular waves like that of an orbit of a planet around the sun. If we use this correlation then the ring-pass-not of the earth is 93 million miles from the Sun. In its present state this planet just cannot expand its orbit beyond this point.

All planets do not have an exact circular orbit. Some are close to circular and some, like Pluto, are somewhat elliptical. Because of this Pluto is sometimes the furthest planet from the Sun and other times Neptune is.

Consciousness is best described as circular because it is divided into seven general areas corresponding to the Seven Rays. If one expands consciousness evenly in these seven directions then your consciousness ring-pass-not is seen as circular, but if your development is lopsided then your ring-pass-not is seen as elliptical. If your ring-pass-not is too lopsided then cause and effect will force you to work on your greatest weakness so your orbit can go back to the circle again.

The ring-pass-not does not apply to humans only but all forms of life from the atomic to the Solar and beyond.

That which lies beyond our ring-pass-not is a freedom or a door to greater freedom that is beyond the present ability of our consciousness and intelligence to grasp and incorporate into our reality.

This is perhaps easier to understand if we examine the animal kingdom below us. There are freedoms that are beyond their ring of consciousness that seem ridiculously simple to us. Take a dog, for instance. Tie him up to a post on a long leash and in a short while he will run around the post wrapping the leash around it as he goes. Then after the leash is entirely wrapped and there are only inches left the dog will continue forward almost choking himself. Even though it seems simple to us it is beyond his consciousness to go backwards instead of forwards and unwind the leash so he has greater freedom.

The ring-pass-not in an animal prevents him from considering going backward to greater freedom.

A dog may go through a door if all he has to do is push ahead, but it is beyond his consciousness to consider turning a door handle unless he has been extensively trained by a human.

On the other hand, a chicken has a lower ring-pass-not than a dog. The dog has a sense of loyalty to a human owner, but this concept is beyond the ring-pass-not of the fowl. It seems to the chicken that loyalty to humans would bring less freedom not more, but the dog realizes that loyalty to the human will somehow lead to greater freedom and expression.

To the dog the humans are Gods to be loved, but to the chicken we are overlords to be feared.

To us normal humans there are possible powers that are beyond our ring-pass-not that could be quite simple if we had higher knowledge.

Some of these are:

  • The power to live without food and water for extended periods of time.
  • The power to shift in and out of this world and the next.
  • The power to become invisible.
  • The power to perform miraculous healings.
  • The power to manifest a body at will through the power of Decision-Attention-Consciousness.
  • The power of telepathy.
  • The power of omnipresence.
  • The access to all knowledge, and many others.

We must understand our own ring-pass-not, or our own limitations, and we all have them whether we be a slug, a human or a God. All lives in the universe must find their limitations before they can become unlimited. If our limitations are not discovered, or known by us, then our limitations will find us and reveal themselves to us and embarrass us and sometimes cause great pain.

Within our ring-pass-not we have power to create our own reality. We either create our own reality or allow someone else to do it for us. There are decisions made from outside our ring-pass-not that effect our realty over which we have no control. The best thing to do with these influences is to accept them once we learn what the program is.

There are many truths beyond our ring-pass-not that we are unprepared for and would be devastating for us to prematurely learn.

Even so, most of us are truly seeking our next level of truth and there is indeed joy in discovery when we are ready and seeking.

When the ring-pass-not is increased, the human consciousness grows into it and uses the increase of power in ways never dreamed of in the past.

In ancient times it would have been considered evil to even think of disobeying the tribal leader, for the member of the tribe had no concept of what it would be like living outside the authority of the tribe and making his own decision to influence his destiny. Now in this age as our ring-pass-not has expanded, our view of good and evil have also moved to higher place. Today the closest thing to an ancient tribe would be a cult and a cult that is tightly controlled by a leader who makes all personal decisions for members is considered evil. Controlling your own evolution and destiny is today considered good.

To see the principle of freedom playing itself out you must find the ring-pass-not for humanity, your country, your group, your family and yourself.

Let us say that a hypnotist tells a subject that his legs are useless and he cannot walk. If the subject accepts this suggestion then his ring-pass-not does not include walking. The possibility does not even enter into his consciousness. Let us say that a few days pass and he discovers the truth of the terrible suggestion. What happens? Suddenly his ring-pass-not expands and he walks. The sphere of his power of decision has now greatly increased over what it was when he was deceived, for now he can make decisions concerning all areas of his life that includes walking.

He discovered the truth and the truth set him free — to a greater sphere of freedom.

In his state of deception he could have cared less if someone sought to impose rules and restrictions on walking for it would not have affected freedom as he knew it. But now he can walk, any attempt to restrict him from doing this wonderful exercise would be considered an infringement of the highest degree.

Before his ring-pass-not expanded he had no idea that he even could exercise the power of free will in the arena of walking.

Even so it is with us.

There are many things that we can do that we do not do. Either the idea has not even entered our consciousness or we are just mesmerized into believing that we are powerless. Our freedoms are within our ring-pass-not and it does not even enter into our heads to look beyond the ring. We do not usually even look beyond the ring until we enter a point of tension. A crisis of some kind will often force us to look outside the ring for answers.

One of the best examples of the limitations of the ring-pass-not is the story of Magellan’s ships.

Apparently, Magellan’s fleet of high-sailed ships would sail into the bays of primitive islands and the natives would be extremely fearful upon seeing the great vessels which were far greater than anything they could conceive of building. It would take some time for them to get used to both the ships and strange men but eventually, they would lose their fear and accept what their eyes showed them.

But on one occasion, the fleet pulled into a bay and to the surprise of all the explorers, the natives took no notice of them whatsoever. They simply went about their normal activities as it the fleet wasn’t there. It wasn’t until the crew got into smaller boats and came in closer that the natives reacted — and with even greater terror than their neighbors. They ran screaming into the island’s interior and it took weeks and numerous search parties to find them and reassure them that they were safe. But here’s the crux of the story. When the crew finally calmed them and learned enough of their language to communicate with them they found that these particular people didn’t react to the boats because they couldn’t actually see them! The ships were so far beyond their consciousness that they were literally blind to them.

In other words, the great ships were beyond the ring-pass-not of the natives, for it was beyond that which they could have even imagined as existing in their world.

It makes you wonder what may be lying plainly before us to which we may be blinded.

“It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.”
— Marlene Dietrich (1901 – 1992)

 

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Reality Check

Joseph Dewey

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Inspirational, Spiritual & Metaphysical Quotes

From The Writings Of JJ Dewey

1.  “If you feel forced by another’s viewpoint it is probably because there is some truth in it trying to force its way out.”

2.  “I know it’s fun to talk about theory and ideas that we can never prove true or false in this physical reality, but the time comes in the lives of all seekers where practical work and progress must be made. Such work must be demonstrated in the eyes of all, believers and non-believers.”

3.  “The idea of God or a Master appearing just to answer all your questions is a hypothetical thing that does not happen in the real world.”

4.  “Realism brings the seeker closer to the truth and spirit, not the other way around.”

5.  “The true realist looks beyond his bias.”

6.  “When two of us look upon the outside world with the same instruments of perception we see two different realities because the present is filtered through the memory of the past.”

7.  “Unless we face reality and have truth in our words true peace, love and harmony can never be approached.”

8.  “If you lose your brakes going down a steep incline, it does little good to tell yourself, “this is not the true reality.” It is a true reality that you are in the experience and if you do not make the best of it you will suffer loss.”

9.  “In this reality we are in, there is indeed success and failure.”

10.  “There is no opposite in reality to the dominating good.”

11.  “When someone says to me something like, “You can prove anything from the Bible” I give them something to prove and they cannot do it.”

12.  “Many there are who have their brains filled with wonderful teachings and theory, but if they cannot be applied in the real world they remain just that – unapplied untested dreams of wonder.”

13.  “We either create our own reality or allow someone else to do it for us.”

14.  “Within our ring-pass-not we have power to create our own reality.”

15.  “There are levels of reality and each level up brings us closer to the real. Just as there was a more real world above the dream state in the [movie] “The Matrix;” even so is there a higher reality above the state we are in now and that reality is more real than the present one.”

16.  “A third state [of reality we can be conscious of] is Soul Consciousness that we can enter through meditation or after death.”

17.  “Our reality is a part of this greater reality [Soul Consciousness] but does not encompass it, but Soul Consciousness encompasses our reality.”

18.  “In this higher reality [Soul Consciousness] we see a universe so real that it seems that we have arrived at the ultimate for we realize that it is much more real than our physical world.”

19.  “Reality can exist in light or dark in the seen or unseen.”

20.  “A great problem occurs in seekers when they want to live or dwell in the greater reality before they have mastered this one. We are here to master where we are now, not where we are not.”

21.  “We live in a reality where separation exists, even though we are parts of the one body. Some step out of the influence of the body for a time.”

22.  “One merely must ask himself how he creates reality.”

23.  “While it is true that there are complexities to time and space (of which I have written much) we must not ignore the reality which is right in front of us.”

24.  “To deny there is such a thing as a mistake is to deny the reality in which we live.”

25.  “There are many realities, and in [the] Ultimate Reality God is One, and you and I are only unmaterialized possibilities.”

26.  “We are in this reality and we must deal with it by the rules of the game we discover along the way.”

27.  “It is true that in some great ultimate reality everything is One, but if we dwelt in that reality now then you and I would not even exist as entities. Have we arrived at the consciousness to accept such a thing? I have not and I know of no one who has.”

28.  “It is important that we deal with the reality in which we exist for this is what we must do to take our next step.”

29.  “Many read teachings about some ultimate reality that is beyond cause and effect and they immediately assume that this is the next step for them.”

30.  “In Babylon the true reality is always hidden.”

31.  “In the true reality, there is neither male nor female, light and dark, hot and cold, but only the foundation God who reflected himself to infinity and caused these reflections to vibrate to create the appearance of real physical worlds of form.”

32.  “It is much more logical to go with the evidence rather than a view from an alternate reality that you cannot even experience.”

33.  “In the real world you need a certain amount of attachment to outcome or one would get nothing done.”

34.  “I know a lot of seekers hate the word absolute, but this word does seem to be accurate when looking at what is, for it cannot be changed – only our perception or memory can be.”

35.  “That which is true is merely an accurate description or representation of reality, or the foundations thereof.”

36.  “The changing of reality, or what is true is relative to the happenings of the day but the point of truth in time and space, is not relative to anything.”

37.  “The creation of what is true is relative but, when that creation becomes either present or past tense, then that which IS becomes absolute.”

38.  “We have people who expect to materialize all their dreams with no other effort on their part than thinking or meditating about it.”

39.  “The dream and waking state both have certain qualities that overlap and qualities that differentiate. For instance fear can exist in both states, but continuity of events and form only exists in the waking state.”

40.  “This [the dream state] seems real when we are in it but then when we awake we find the awake state is more real than the dream state. The waking state also encompasses the dream state, but the dream state cannot encompass the waking state.”

41.  “There is more to harmlessness than to sit in a corner, escaping from reality, and meditating all day.”

42.  “To reach the people one must start where the people are and then move them to a higher reality.”

43.  “The word “unlimited” has a basis in reality, but infinity, or infinite only exists in theory in this reality.”

44.  “In the true reality (as far as our consciousness is concerned) there is no space where nothing exists — light is universal and there is no darkness at all.”

45.  “Every once in a while coincidences are contrived by a higher power. But what usually happens when a coincidence happens to a superstitious person, much more will be read into it than is based in reality.”

46.  “The principle of correctly identifying or describing reality works through the principle of perception.”

47.  “We are all anxious to reach union, but we must stay in touch with the real world along the way.”

48.  “When we strip away the emotion and look at the actual words and works of a man then reality will reveal itself.”

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