Are Physical Dimensions Training Grounds or Experiments in Creativity?
The question people most frequently ask me is, Why are we here? What’s the point of physical reality? Even the most intelligent leaders of the mind-body-spirit community will often offer a pat answer—we are here as a training ground for higher spiritual development, as though the Earth plane were a kind of boot camp. Physical reality has gotten a very bad rap from Buddhism, Hinduism, Platonism, and Christianity. My reply to this issue is for now only preliminary. It will be presented in depth in my next book on reincarnation and the oversoul.
The idea of physical life being lower than non-physical life is a vestige of all the above archaic philosophies. We are not here because we are too dumb to know better, too unevolved to get off the arduous wheel of reincarnation. As I argue forcefully in The Last Frontier, the notion of spiritual evolution is nonsensical in the greater reality of non-spacetime from which we spring. We are a part of that greater self, the oversoul or entity, and we willingly choose to be here, fully aware that we will have to deal with a slew of limitations. I must add here that the current interpretation of everything in life, in-between lives, or in the afterlife as learning processes is repulsive to me. We are not in a perpetual schoolroom. We are gods. And we create universes while seeking to fulfill ourselves.
Obviously, non-physical dimensions—which the greatest part of us is in now—are far more thought-responsive than the physical ones. In the life of in the body, bringing forth matter, that is materialization, is a very specific kind of creativity, and although also thought responsive, it is far less immediate than that of non-material dimensions. It takes enormous energy and focus, and several steps are needed to achieve a desired goal. In order to maintain this kind of creativity and focus, we must put aside much of our native transcendent awareness.
If we really grasped how we are creating reality, how we, for instance, create each other or the chair you might be sitting in right now, we would be astonished by the task we have cut out for ourselves. We would be proud of the part we play and the sacrifices we make that are necessary to the development of a highly experimental realm, a realm that is exceedingly rare in comparison to the near infinite number of non-physical realms. We are here not because we are dumb or too unevolved. We are here because of our innate drive to create and experience in wholly new ways. We are pioneers, we are curious, restless, we are tough and like to take on big challenges, and most of all, we are courageous.
We have not just invented matter, we have invented time and space. And we use these inventions to good purpose, to further our creativity and exploration and to add contour and texture to an entirely different universe. We also invented the ego to enhance our ability to focus. The sheer creativity of it, nanosecond-to-nanosecond, is breathtaking.
What we are doing here is literally plucking form and substance out of a subatomic stew, a stew that composes our physical bodies as well. And we do this by concentrated intention, which nevertheless seems effortless to us. On consensus, we create a chair, for example, out of this stew, or we create our own bodies. Four people in a room will create four individual chairs, with chair five being the original intent of the chair maker. Each chair is unique as is the perception of it. If you go to sit down in a chair but miss it, perhaps falling to the floor, it is because you reconstructed the chair in a slightly different place, without realizing it. The existence of an object or a living being flashes in and out of our reality. In every Plank unit (the smallest unit of time) a new chair, or, for that matter, a new physical you is formed. Growth and decay are illusions we also create.
All of this is achieved through mass agreement. Perceptions from different cultures will not allow certain objects or ideas to form while promoting others unknown—No, unthinkable— in some societies. I remember reading about a film made in the West and shown to people in the Congo. What the Congolese saw was chickens in the forefront. Not one of them noticed the machinery in the film. Why? Because they did not recreate the machinery. Machinery was unthinkable. They instead altered the film by eliminating the machinery. It simply was not there.
Most of us have seen evidence of how material creations alter when the consensus or mass agreement changes, although we may not have realized it. Not so long ago, I returned to the house I lived in as a child. The owner allowed me to come in and look around. Nothing was the same. The house seemed smaller, for one thing, and looked as though it were set at an angle. Even the rooms looked slightly slanted and certainly narrower. It was clear to me that this was not the house I lived in. This phenomenon, experienced by so many of us, is usually attributed to the difference between a small child’s perception and an adult’s. The truth is, however, the house itself has altered according to the repeated changes in consensus. Consensus is built on the expectations of its inhabitants. Now that’s a big topic, but for later.
So when people ask me what we are doing here, I immediately think of a toddler exploring a table leg with its tongue. The sharpness of it, the coolness, the taste, the smoothness, the edges all have such deep but inexplicable meaning. The illusion of solidity that we constantly create has an unmatchable brilliance, but it comes at a price. What we do in this experimental and still-developing universe adds considerably to the range of experience in all realms. We should revel in it, as artists revel in their painting and composers in their music making.
This post was promised in a former post, William Buhlman on Out-of-Body Trips into the Afterlife.
Mark
2014-01-23 @ 6:18 PM
Wow Julia! You always blow my perception of reality wide open with your thoughts. Being someone that hasn’t developed the ability to talk to the other side, it is really one of the tougher concepts I struggle with. Thank you for helping me see it from a different perspective.
Julia
2014-01-23 @ 10:41 PM
Your welcome.
NATHALIE, BELISLE, SOLENTHALER
2014-01-23 @ 7:56 PM
I so love the ” the Last Frontier.” I have recommended it to a few of my hypnotist colleagues who specialize in past life regression. I am very much looking forward to Julia’s next book. Definitively looks like its going to be an amazing ride!
Nathalie Belisle
hypnobliss.org
Mark Hobbs
2014-01-24 @ 1:19 AM
Thanks so much for the dedication Julia. Your example of how reality shifts as expressed in the story of your childhood house was wonderful and enlightening and I think should be explored. Your point about your house literally changing is a great example of how we continually create our own reality and shift dimensionally, even here on the earth plane. Your house was your creation whilst ever you considered it to be yours and thus it remained as perceived in the dimension in which you originally created it. Your focus on it as it, even now, continues to hold it as you imagine it to be. At some point, you chose to leave the dimension in which that version of the house was physically manifest and others took ownership and ‘reworked’ your creation to meet their own specifications. The creation you had originally manifested (the house as you described it to originally be) had effectively dissolved from your now reality. That early version still exists exactly as you describe it in the original dimension you spoke of occupying when young, but not in the dimension you have shifted to. Both the backstory and potential future story that supported your original version of the house remain with the version of the house you left behind, existing as a dimension in it’s own right. A dimension just as real as the one you and I individually and dually occupy right now . None the less when you re-visited the house another had taken ownership and seemingly modified it. There’s no use in digging out the old house plans or asking the neighbours because the ‘back story’ for the current version will also have shifted to support the dimensional version you recently accessed. The things is, the house you created no longer exists in your current dimension, so in effect you were visiting the dimensional reality of the new owner. I think that is very close to what is happening. This is a great example of how dimension shifting works. And we are constantly doing it, for the most part unaware… Julia, I have come to believe every moment we experience is a dimension in its own right, with both a back story and a future story attached available to experienced if chosen. We simply choose, moment by moment, which dimension we will step into and occupy. The dimensions available to us, with their future and back stories, are infinite, but within the density of the third dimension, radical lateral dimension shifting is pretty much off the menu and, as you have said, the creation called time is also an enormous restraining factor. Hence dimension shifting here is for the most part incremental. Who knows how many earth years it took for the ‘modified’ house to manifest?… All dimensions are actually occurring concurrently in the moment of now, but we experience the particular dimension that we briefly occupy by way of where we choose to place our focus. The other parallel dimensions we could have chosen in any given moment only seem dormant by comparison. All are real. All are happening now. We are always experiencing the same now moment, It’s just that we do so from an endless range of perspectives. It’s huge…very, very huge…
Mark Hobbs.
Julia
2014-01-24 @ 9:32 AM
You are right again, Mark. It is huge. And it could only work in a non-spacetime or nonlocal universe!
Mark hobbs
2014-01-24 @ 11:11 AM
Hi Julia, you write such interesting and thought provoking pieces. I couldn’t resist picking up and running (somewhat wildly) with another of your points from the current topic.
“The existence of an object or a living being flashes in and out of our reality. In every Plank unit (the smallest unit of time) a new chair, or, for that matter, a new physical you is formed”.
I’m not trained or particularly well versed in matters quantum, but I’ll give it a shot.
I’ve heard it suggested that at the point of the smallest possible unit of time, a unit of any given dimension is actually approximately equivalent conceptually to a still frame in a movie. Meaning that all the necessary information is within it, but it has no individual motion (flashes in and then almost instantaneously flashes out). Any sense of motion that is experienced by the observer or participant is just illusory. Just as happens when we roll a celluloid film. It is the product of experiencing each individual frame linked in sequence at a speed necessary to create the illusion of movement. Each ‘frame’ is almost identical to the one manifested before it but it contains the slight changes (new, modified or deleted information) that carry the story forward. Whist each frame within the context of a story is perceived to be part of a continuum, it definitely exists as a new individual creation in it’s own right as you say Julia. The thinking I’m playing with here then, is that it is the higher self/soul, call it what you will, that selects, rather than creates the frames that make up the story it is exploring, be it a story in the physical or the non physical realms. So, does the soul actually create the frames of our story at the time they are manifested as so many believe?
My thoughts on this from here forward are based on two foundational belief/understandings.
Firstly, I hold that all creations, realities and options that ever will exist already exist now within ‘All that is’.
Secondly, that they are all happening concurrently in the ‘now moment’, whether chosen as experiences or not.
In my scenario, all potential choices and still frames must exist as options, but only one of the choices, one still frame, is chosen by the soul to insert and progress the storyline. It flashes in and out in a trilli-second (is their such a word?). Then the process is simply repeated over and over. The soul carries this out, from our perspective, at unfathomable speeds as the frames are chosen to take the desired experiences (which is the reason for creating the story), forward. Choosing one option (one frame, one motionless dimensional ‘snapshot’) does not cause the infinite number of not chosen options that potentially could have been chosen and inserted to somehow cease to exist. All possibilities, by definition, must always exist within ‘All that is’. This because ‘All that is’ seeks to experience itself from as many perspectives as possible and achieves this, in so far as we are concerned, through the agency of the free will invested in souls. Each soul being an individualised aspect of ‘All that is’. So then, We each have the awesome majestic being which is our soul, the most shall we say, authentic version of ourselves, creating our story for the simple purpose of experiencing it. The soul achieves it’s goal through the multidimensional versions of itself that are you and I. We get to play out our human or even non-physical roles in the soul’s pursuit of a good story..
But where exactly then is the creation happening as far as the soul is concerned? Is the soul creating the frames that are inserted at the point they are needed.? Following this line of thought it would seem not. The dimensional frames, if you accept my two foundational beliefs, must already exist within All that is. Is it true then that what is actually happening is that the soul is selecting from an infinite range of existing frames and skilfully weaving them together into a useful story? It’s worth a thought I think. The creative aspect of the process may actually just be the idea generated by the soul, the objective of the story and the details of how the story is to unfold. Do the components of the story exist in piece form like an infinitely huge box of meccano parts and the soul simply does the choosing and assembling to its own liking?…. And that’s not even to factor in the co-creation/co-ordination/role of others aspect that is needed for the whole process of running a story to work? Hmm,.. At this point I’m quite “attached ” to this idea but it needs lots of work. As always, my ideas only get to sit in my display cabinet until one that fits better replaces them. Any thoughts?
Mark Hobbs.
Julia
2014-01-24 @ 7:00 PM
Your celluloid metaphor is extremely close to the one I use in The Last Frontier, of the pixels that make up the still frame. We make them, of course, according to our individual expectations and beliefs and pulling in the hormones, emotional-psychological energy, and quatum elements that go into the making of anything, including thought. We make them and simultaneously they are within All That Is. We all grow by it, we are all enriched, All That Is as well. That is the meaning of free will. Without free will All That Is cannot grow. No creativity happens unless it is in imbalance, against something, or witnessed.
Jurgen
2014-01-26 @ 9:29 AM
How easy it is to gobble up beliefs and consider them to be truths, carved in stone without giving it a second thought, like:
WE ARE HERE TO LEARN!
Consciousness doesn’t seems to want to bend to our fixed ideas. During my solitary meditation retreat last year out in the middle of nature, in the celestial beauty of the Scottish Highlands, I quickly noticed that nature follows simple yet very efficient laws of Self Similarity, which the Mathematician Mandelbrot described in his fractal formulas last century.
During meditation I found that thoughts and even consciousness follow similar principles. It uses certain pathways which it repeats along self similar patterns. During one meditation I then noticed whilst involuntarily listening to the birds, that birds do the same in their songs. I soon saw this repeated within the clouds and after six days I saw it everywhere, a pattern underlying everything I looked at. On that day I had the most powerful experience of my entire life and it is still with me now.
It’s only natural to conclude that we are not here to learn at all as dictated by some super ego laying down the laws and the structure in order for us to find a reason for living, based on some super moralistic principle.
What if we are not here to “learn” at all, but simply are the result of a continuous creative and natural outpouring of consciousness? This would mean we have no other purpose in life than simply to BE and to POUR OUT?
Julia
2014-01-26 @ 11:11 AM
To BE and to POUR OUT, how beautifully put. And in that, our influence radiates out to all things and nudges them further toward self-fulfillment. Thank you so much Jurgen for the depth of your insights. I hope you will tell us about your Highland experience.