Table of Contents

Introduction

A Spirit-Being Perspective

Continuing Interrelated Developments

Beyond

A Dyadic Biography

Going Beyond

At the same time in the later 1970s when I was removing what I’ve termed the trouble-making designs as operating patterns from my psychic structure—oppositional duality, hierarchies of superiority/inferiority, either/or choices, One Truth, and fear—I was also replacing them. The replacements were patterns I had culled from yoga, Native American beliefs, Buddhism, Taoism, the I Ching, and other Chinese philosophies. An important overall replacement belief I chose was that humans by nature are basically good. Frankly, I hadn’t been sure, but as I delved more fully into various spiritual belief structures worldwide, believing in the original goodness of humans felt right to me.

In addition to going inside myself via yoga, from Native American beliefs I was seeing all Earth species horizontally, from Zen Buddhism I was developing intuitive direct knowing in the present, and from Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching I used the perspective that “the journey of a thousand miles begins with one step” to which I added, “and then I take another step and another one, until I get to where I want to be.”

From the I Ching, the Book of Changes, I became very clear that life is a process of continual change that is made up of multiple variables, many of which are invisible but can be understood as energies in motion. It was also clear how beginnings usually develop early-on, and oftentimes are not seen until they manifest more directly. From Buddhist teachings there were some I adapted and played with extensively as operating patterns, such as mindfulness. Included in my mix were Christian beliefs from my past about Jesus’ messages of Love, God’s universal Love, “life” after this life, and from Luke 17:21, “behold, the kingdom of God is within you.”

In terms of going within, starting around 1977, for years Jim and I read the Seth/Jane Roberts books, extensively practicing Seth's recommendations for inner sense activities and exercises. I believe developing skillfulness with the use of one's inner senses is extremely important, as an addition to our human physical senses. And Seth Speaks was very valuable for dream Understandings and levels of consciousness events.

The cullings I was translating from various belief structures and from what I read and heard from other people, along with my own experimentations and multidimensional experiences, have continued as a process up to the present time. Even though I have never had a spiritual teacher in the formal sense, there have certainly been dozens of fellow spirit-beings I’ve made connections with and learned from!

Many belief structures include a perspective about energy vortexes—oftentimes translated as “chakras”—that are connected to our body organisms. In the present I’ve been choosing to include them in my worldview, without any cultural patterns attached, and see what happens when I/we play this way. I’ve also been loosely playing around with an invisible energy body that is composed of all my psychic content—spiritual, mental, psychological, and emotional—as a blueprint for the physical body, again without interposing cultural interpretations about what it all means and how it manifests. And, I’m energizing the idea of chi, a flow of universal energy, bringing forth Understandings of how to think about it and beneficially use it in my/our life.

Buddhism says the mind and individual are an ever-changing dynamic stream; I agree. For me, seeing everything as temporary has been a great design overall. Therefore, I can savor the present while not needing to hang on to it. This is how I choose to understand and apply what’s called “non-attachment,” that transitory moments make up the process of life. Hence, in each immediate present I can both fill it full and take care of what is appropriate to make significant and activate, letting it all move on with divine Trust. In terms of a Buddhist emphasis upon “desire,” I think it depends upon who/what is the “I” that is originating the desiring, which wavelength one is on, and what one desires.

At this point I want to add how important I think it is to develop an effective procedure to dissolve cultural operating patterns one chooses to no longer use and experience; otherwise, I think new patterns usually interweave with the old ones, where the experienced results are a mix of both of them. That’s why I think many attempts to change one’s Life oftentimes don’t work well-enough. How do you know if you’ve been effective? By being aware of your thoughts and emotions. I believe each of us has a natural feedback system to tell us where we are at that moment. If designs are still operating that you no longer choose—be easy, step back, thank them, and dissolve the energy form or forms, and keep doing it until it and they are gone. If you’ve been effective with their removal, that too you will know.

Another valuable procedure has been the following. In “Which Brain, Which Mind” I wrote about rarely experiencing what are culturally described as negative emotions. I want to add to that picture because I was talking primarily about fear, anger, jealousy, and their associates. As I/we have continued to extensively study the existing DCBA reality, there are many times “we” feel a type of sadness and tears emerge. When that happens we will choose to not add our energies to those of the people and events that are already burdened; instead, we focus on seeing the whole situation and individuals within it as globes of glowing spirit-being lights, and we pray for their divine help in highest good terms. That procedure also moves me and my body organism onto a different wavelength, a healthier one for everyone as I understand how it all works. I agree with the perspective that an individual primarily vibrates with the frequency of that which one is focused on.

Awhile ago I asked myself the question, “What would I do if I wanted to try some explorations in these expanding ways and were more directly participating in our speeded-up world-of-today on a daily basis?” The first things that came to my mind were to slow down when I could, and begin to eliminate truly unnecessary activities, to free up time for myself. With my freed-up time I would begin to get more distance from and perspective about my Life, my choices, and activities. I’d also think, “Less is more.” Certainly, I would meditate/pray daily.

As I understand it, there are literally hundreds of invisible connections one can make with a variety of spirit-beings—both with physical bodies and without—not all of whom have one’s best interest in mind. Therefore, I would be sincerely and clearly focusing upon the highest good for all being everywhere, with a desire to play my part in that drama, expecting that more than likely healthy connections were being made. Nonetheless, I would feel responsible in terms of interpreting, evaluating, translating, and applying whatever these invisible (and visible) connections communicated.

One thing would undoubtedly lead to another as I made changes and adjustments. My relationships and interactions would change, becoming an expanding process where the goal was to craft and co-create the best Life I could for myself and those I was in relationship with, while doing so where they were also free. All along the way I would seek positive and healthy divine help, while also evaluating the messages I received, using health-promoting perspectives. And, I would keep in mind that my views of what is “best” and “healthy” would change throughout the process. Like the Tao Te Ching says, I would take it a step at a time, but not necessarily in a linear sense.

From my own past experiences and what I see happening with others in our oppositional culture, in order to have a feeling of strength (and sense of identity), one often finds something to be for which usually means something to be against at the same time. That’s certainly one way to feel strong. Nevertheless, it seems to me that way of living is so often static, leading to a life overall of “same-old, same-old.”

I would play with my Life and my abilities as a spirit-being, becoming increasingly identified with the invisible “me.” Easily pitching my consciousness to the most comprehensive dimensions I could achieve and experiencing the results, would provide important information. I would become adept at being able to put on the clothing of cultural beliefs when appropriate to do so, as I developed my abilities to be able to move in and out of various belief structures … it’s like being multi-lingual.

An additional important skill is to be able to be involved with others’ belief structures in respectful ways, putting effort in to Understand them as important to that person, while at the same time having a standing-back position—and to later be able to extract oneself from the whole thing, including the part one played in the event.

In 2004 I experienced a dream I titled “A Very Different Reality.” The setting was a school again, as had been one of the potent scenes in my later 1970s dream, “Something Different.” In the 2004 dream, the school building itself and curriculum were delightful. The locale was in southern California, with students from both genders and many ethnicities. The young people were expressing their uniqueness in various ways. There was a Trust in each child’s organismic process, where skills such as reading, writing, math, language, and composition were taught by caring adults. In addition, there was a lot of art and music taking place. A different matrix for individuality and being human was central there.

We visitors were told that the children were just naturally expected to become contributing members of their community as they explored their interests and talents. It was an inner-directed, individual process for each child, within an educational belief structure that was designed for it to all work well, with respect for each person.

The day after the dream I thought about how to introduce babies to their culture and reprogram those of us already here. These are the designs I proposed to energize in 2004, that still seem viable:

 

 

 

While being able to look back to the past and turn around to see what is happening in the present, we humans will naturally be moving into the future as both individuals and as a species. Lately, I’ve been thinking about my/our future.

As I’ve contemplated my Life these past months, going beyond has been a central theme throughout it. I think that was one of my father’s major emphases as a spirit-being in relationship with me, which was difficult for both of us because he had to use DCBA patterns to communicate his message. Jim’s creativity has also given me fuel for that theme. Hence, as I stand in the present and think about the future, I’m doing so with a “going beyond” viewpoint. “Going beyond” has also been a theme that has been emphasized by many spiritual teachers whose ideas I’ve read or heard over the years. The Buddha talked about it, and so did Jesus.

Adding more to what I have already written from reading Karen Armstrong’s book Buddha, when he was teaching men and women how to reach beyond and awaken to their full potential human nature, he also believed people needed to be invaded by the reality of suffering and feel the pain of all other beings. He further believed Nirvana was an entirely natural state, which was “nothing” because it corresponded to no thing that we know. And the biblical Jesus talked about others being able to do more than he was doing, which I’ve interpreted as his own version of advising humans to go beyond.

Actually, many of the world’s religions have some kind of conceptual “beyond” perspective. In our world-of-today, indigenous shamans from the Andes have talked about the human species becoming illuminated beings (homo luminous), and I've read that Tibetan Buddhist thought postulates a subtle order of consciousness that is not dependent on the brain, which says to me this is a “beyond the brain” perspective.

In terms of scientific thinking, there’s a lot in motion currently. I’m seeing quantum physics and some spiritual beliefs coming closer to one another. In 2002 I read Lynne McTaggart’s book, The Field, The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe, published that year in the United States. Reading it was another important event and experience in my life. McTaggart was described as an American investigative journalist who moved to England in the mid-eighties. She writes that she began exploring on a global basis what some scientists, with solid credentials, operating according to rigorous scientific criteria had been and were discovering: human beings and all living things are a coalescence of energy in a field of energy connected to every other thing in the world. That is, at our most elemental, our bodies are amidst one underlying energy field.

My interpretive bottom line after reading The Field carefully, along with other studies, was that at the subatomic level the observer can affect what he or she makes significant. At the quantum level, physicists discovered their attempts to measure the phenomena they were studying affected the phenomena; subatomic particles respond to observation. Furthermore, I wonder how much a scientific observer can affect experiments that are not dealing specifically with subatomic particles?

Now to my way of thinking, none of this discounts scientific objectivity, where individuals focus on a similar situation and experiment. Instead, this way of thinking opens things up, giving objectivity more room by adding in the potential potency of the observers, too, making it more interesting and realistic in terms of how I think it really works. Hence, by correlating an expanded objectivity with personal subjective explorations, I think some really fascinating perspectives can be crafted.

And, if we spirit-beings can travel outside the limits of time and space as we know it now, aren't we also not basically limited by the speed of light or other such current-day scientific perspectives?

As the process unfolded during my evolution studies in January, it became even clearer to me that within my worldview at present, science and the scientific method can be seen as ways of taking the immense field of open probabilities that some physicists have been describing recently, and giving form to them with their individual and collective beliefs amongst the whole matrix of DCBA cultural beliefs. I suspect that the belief/emotion patterns we fuel as spirit-beings with bodies enclose energy into forms at quantum levels—that we and our body organisms then experience.

And it seems quite probable that some of the scientists McTaggart was describing, in their own ways, may be amidst a process of “going beyond.” She talks about us being poised on the brink of a revolution, that at the very frontier of science new ideas are emerging that challenge everything we believe about how our world works, and how we define ourselves.

 

After awakening the morning of March 9, 2007, without remembering any specific dreams, I wondered what messages my earlier hours might have for me. Next, the realization arose that the reality I had experienced up to this time as Jacquie of there being an invisible inner dimension and a visible solid dimension of physicalness—the subjective and objective—was all a co-created belief construction that we humans then experience. Instead, the picture that came forth is that everything each of us experiences is originated by ourselves as spirit-being energizers in coordination with other spirit-beings. At that moment, when yogic perspectives about “maya” and illusion emerged to my conscious awareness, I commented to Jim, “I can see what they mean, and I also think it all got distorted with their additions of hierarchies coupled with dualism in terms of either/or choices.”

Next, I became inwardly aware of the words of a shaman from Mexico I read years ago, where he advised dreaming another dream than the current collective one.

The realization I’ve just described—that everything is a belief construction we then experience, including what we call physical solidness—had a familiar feeling of rightness about it. At the same time I thought about how much investment there is into the current design, wondering if I would even write about this occurrence. The next step was deciding to do so because as I’ve frequently stated, I believe one of the fundamental principles of beingness, as I understand it, is free will and freedom of choice. Therefore, I’m describing my multidimensional realization and letting it go, where others are totally free to decide for themselves how to think or not think. I also continue to see the agreements that have held together what I have termed the DCBA experiment are in the process of unravelling.

For quite awhile I’ve thought that because of the patterns used for the DCBA experiment, it well could be one‘s body organism’s aging disabilities, aging illnesses, and how we experience “death” are integral parts of that structure. So I’ve been playing around with a different reality, where I’m choosing to imaginatively see my body organism in a matrix that doesn’t include the core designs of the DCBA one, and is aligned as much as possible with the more natural principles of being and divinity. By taking my Life into my own hands as I have done, I’ve been able to go beyond many of the limitations set forth within the past/present DCBA reality; and “we” will be discovering what happens with me and my body organism as we experiment with the realization that what is experienced as solidness is a co-crafted belief construction.

Furthermore, I’m playing with the perspective that our current-day environmental Earth reality is a DCBA one, where we can now collectively realize a fresh and healthy one, that our body organisms are all part of. But before getting more directly involved with that focus, I/we need to complete our past/present DCBA Understandings.

 

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