Jul 16 2008
Protected: A little review
Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. (Genesis 1:3)
A Little Review
As noted in the introduction, this book picks up where volume one leaves off. In this book we learn about Immortal Spirit’s solution to the problem of ennui that emerged after we reached the dimensional ending of The Unfolding. However, before I talk about the solution, a little recap of The Unfolding is in order. Recall that in volume one I told the story about The Unfolding of Consciousness. I began in the literal beginning when the only thing that existed was an undifferentiated, but blissful, Fabric of Consciousness. At some point the undifferentiated, un-self aware, and perpetually orgasmic Fabric of Consciousness suddenly realized that it was no longer blissful and that it wanted something more. At the point where the original bliss of consciousness was no longer enough, something shifted. Consciousness became aware of itself as not being in bliss and out of that experience, “I” (the original intensification of consciousness[1]) was born. As noted in volume one, the first intensification of consciousness we call god with a little “g.”
Following the introduction of the original “I” in volume one, I went on to follow the glorious and fascinating blossoming of consciousness, and the manifestation of creation through the first seven levels of The Unfolding of Spirit/God. The story went something like this. First “I” was born. Then, “I” sat in solipsistic self awareness for a while, but that was boring so “I’ got the idea to create a lucid dream of creation that “I” could play with. At first it was as simple dream of Platonian form.[2] However as “I” got better, as imagination increased as a result of play, the dream became more complicated. However, there was only so much that a single “I” could do. There were only so many variables “I” could add to the equation and before“I” got bored. At that point, “I” created some buddies. “I” thought, and as “I” thought, the Fabric of Consciousness congealed and two more eyes/I’s were born. After the new births, we played together and that was great. With the addition of extra perspectives and egos, creation was more interesting. More perspective meant more variation, interaction, and excitement and just a little bit of uncertainly, and that was awesome because it really did make for some interesting playtime. With more perspective, the equation was more complex and with a more complex equation, there was much more room for variation, interaction, and discovery. Of course, that didn’t last forever and eventually, the possibilities of a three-perspective equation were exhausted. However when that happened, every time that happened, we invoked The Fabric and created more monads.[3] It worked. Adding new monads added new perspective and new egos and this created new conditions to create in. It even brought about qualitative shifts in the nature of creative reality. As you will recall, with each quantitative addition of monads, a qualitative dimension (i.e., time, space, etc) was added to creation. This grand Unfolding of Consciousness was the perfect solution to ennui and as a result, we went on like this for a long time adding “levels” and dimensions and variables until we had many trillions of monads working in a vast and complex multiverse[4] of creation. A summary of the first seven levels of The Unfolding is provided below.
Part One of The Unfolding
0 level à only consciousness
1st level à energy but no dimensions
2nd level à 1st Dimension à perspective
3rd level à 2nd Dimension à detail
4th level à 3rd Dimension à chance
5th level à 4thDimension à time
6th level à 5th Dimension à space
7th level à 6th Dimension à Daath
As you will recall if you read the Book of Light, unfolding consciousness in this way worked great for a very long time but then after seven levels of unfolding, we reached a creative conundrum. At the seventh level of The Unfolding, Daath, the dimensionless dimension, happened. This was the point where adding new monads to The Unfolding no longer created a qualitative shift in the state of creation.[5] This was bad news because it meant there were no new variables to play with. Every other time we’d added more monads, we’d always got that same qualitative shift. But now at Daath we were stuck with nothing and with no new qualitative shift in creation there was nothing that could alleviate the creeping boredom that threatened to drive us all insane. “I’ll” admit it, it was a scary thought for us and frankly, we didn’t really want to think it.
But what were we going to do?
Should we go on as before without a new dimension?
Should we wait and see if something came up?
Should we try something new and if so, what?
What were we going to do?
Well, I can tell you what we didn’t do.
We didn’t add new monads.
Clearly the numbers game wasn’t working for us anymore and there was no point.
Still, what were we going to do?
Well, we did two things.
The first thing we did was that we got down to the business of creation. Even though we were stumped[6] for a new creative variable, nevertheless there were a lot of new monads around and they were all brand new and anxious to play. So we played with them. It wasn’t quite as exciting as the last time of course. There were two problems. Problem one was simply that the “old ones” had already explored the creative potentials of creation and for them, the new iteration of creation was not nearly as exciting as the first time. There was the enjoyment that came from watching the new ones find their way around creation, but that wasn’t quite the same as actually participating in the playtime. The second problem was with the new ones themselves. Even though they were technically fresh, you have to remember they were emerging out of the Fabric of Consciousness and they participated in that fabric at an equal level. Therefore they could, if they wished, access all the information and knowledge that already existed. And they did that. Not all at once, of course, and not right away, but as time passed and creative challenges emerged, the natural tendency of the new ones was to dip into the knowledge base. Not all of them did, of course. Some liked to do it on their own, but many did not and to be perfectly honest, that spoiled and foreshortened the experience. It was the difference between building something for the first time, and building it a subsequent time. The second time you build it you have already chosen the best ways to do it (or at least have excluded many of the worst ways to do it) and you do it faster because of that. This was case at the seventh level. Not all creative possibilities were explored but those that had been were implemented faster. As a result, our experience of the seventh level was foreshortened and dulled.
Being immediately aware that our new experience would be dulled and foreshortened, the second thing we did was that we started to think of a solution. Obviously, with no new dimension and a foreshortened creative experience, we needed to figure something out and quick. The old ones knew the excitement would wear off pretty quickly and they wanted to be able to provide some kind of workable solution before that happened. So we thought and we thought and we thought. We created the lush gardens and the crystal palaces, but our hearts were simply not in it. All we could do really was worry about the future and, as you might expect, the longer we went without a solution, the more worried we became. Eventually, when it didn’t look like we were going to come up with a solution, when it looked like we were stumped, we started to get a bit scared. I mean, the last thing anybody wanted to experience was eternal boredom. Just imagine what an eternity sitting in a room with nothing fun to do would be like.
It would be literal hell. Ennui is a big problem. Eternity is a long time and no matter what anybody has told you about the nature of god, creation, or consciousness, the truth is you just can’t sit staring at your divine navel for all of eternity. You would go mad and if you don’t believe me, do an experiment. Do nothing for a few days. Just sit on your couch. Don’t watch TV. Don’t play games. Don’t talk to anybody. Just sit there and do nothing. See how long you can stay sitting there like that. Personally, I think most of us would break down in a few hours. Maybe if you got good discipline you might last a few days. But at some point you are going to go you nuts and that’s only within the limited timeframe of human life. Stretch the idea of “nothing to do” over an eternity and imagine how terrifying that idea might be to an entity fully cognizant of its immortality. No monad, and I do mean no monad, enjoys thinking about the possibility of an eternity of tedium within a fully explored state of creation (SOC). Nevertheless, that was what we were facing because, I got to tell you, the first time we encountered Daath, we couldn’t figure a way through. No matter how much we thought, we didn’t solve The Problem. It just didn’t happen for us and it was a bit disconcerting let me tell you. After seven levels of fun filled creative unfolding, we were stuck at a creative impasse.
Now some of us say our failure to find a way through was because we were not motivated enough. Some said that after seven levels of dimensional popping, we had become creatively lazy. They said we had become soft as a result of the easy popping of previous dimensions. Still others (dare I say the more calm and philosophically minded) thought that a possibility beyond Daath simply did not exist that first time around. These ones say that the “way forward” only became possible the second[7] time through. Really, the why of it is not that important. The important point here is that the first time we got to Daath, we didn’t figure out a solution. We were in fact stumped and by the end of it all we were bored to the point of hellish tedium.
So what did we do?
Well, finally, unfortunately, inevitably we realized that the only way forward was to go back. We realized that if we were going to bring new excitement to our creative endeavor, we’d have to start from a clean slate. Basically, we would have to unlearn and forget all the fantastic information that we had learned and acquired the first time around and “go back to zero,” “collapse into the fabric,” “erase our ego,” “enter back into Godhead,” or whatever you want to call it. We’d have to be “born again,” so to speak. It was the only solution, and so that’s what we did. We collapsed the Fabric back to “I.”Not right away of course. We would wait until everyone had their fill and boredom was getting to be too much. However, when everyone was satisfied that there was no road forward, we took the only path that was available to us. We (and by we I mean everyone but the original monad) committed a sort of divine seppuku and collapsed right back to “I” so that we could all be born again in a state of creative innocence[8] where, we sincerely hoped, everything around us would be wonderful, new, and different all over again.
[1] See http://www.thespiritwiki.com/index.php/Intensification_of_Consciousness
[2] By “form” I have in mind what the ancient Greeks had in mind when they used the word “form,” that is an idea formed in consciousness and that may or not become reflected in the material world. Of course, at this stage of creation form has become more than mere platonic solids, but as noted in volume one, it started out simple and no matter how complicated the manifestation of a form may get, a form remains basically an idea in consciousness.
Forms exist in the Fabric of Consciousness as potentials waiting to be intended into realty. For example, the idea of a square starts of life as a form in the consciousness of Spirit. So does the idea of the Garden of Eden start out as a form that, if there is enough will and intent to see it expressed, will (sooner or later) manifest in reality. Forms are subject to individual interpretation. What is one monad’s Garden of Eden may not be so for another. Nevertheless, the idea of The Garden, is a prototypical form used by Spirit to control the manifestation of creation.
Forms are universal only to the extent that a form is remembered. When Spirit no longer remembers a form, it is said to have disappeared, Nevertheless, even if forgotten, the form remains a potential that may be invoked in consciousness and therefore it is always possible to re-discover a lost form.
Perhaps it goes without saying here but forms have no independent existence outside of consciousness. A form (like “democracy” for example) exists only because it has a place in consciousness. Eliminate the form in consciousness and its reality inevitably evaporates.
Forms can be quite complicated and powerful ways to manifest. Carl G. Jung, the famous psychologist, identified a number of rather powerful forms used to organize human life on this earth. Jung called these forms archetypes and concluded, correctly, that these archetypes influenced our waking experience and the reality that we manifested.
As has been clearly demonstrated over and over again this century, forms/archetypes can be manipulated, invoked, and twisted beyond the point where they are recognizable as the type of creative idea worthy of a blissful, all-loving Spirit. Of course, the manipulation and twisting of archetypes is only possible when consciousness is veiled. A fully connected consciousness will always have access to the original form in all the sparkling beauty of its divinity.
[3] See http://www.thespiritwiki.com/index.php/Monad
[4] See http://www.thespiritwiki.com/index.php/Multiverse
[5] By “state of creation” I mean the current “condition” of creation. The “state” of creation is what creation “currently is” and would include all the important features and factors of creation, like the number of dimensions and their quantitative magnitude, the number of monads, relevant archetypes and their modifications, creative constants, etc. If you made each important detail a variable, and then threw all those variables into an equation, you would have an equation fully describing the state of creation (i.e., the current state of the Space Time Tube).
Although this may seem a bit mind-boggling when you first consider it, nevertheless you should know that creation currently has multiple extant “states.” That is, the multi-verse as it currently exists consists of multiple “bubbles” each of which represent a creative state in the unfolding Fabric of Consciousness. If you were to view the multiverse from a distance, the largest bubbles would represent “alternate” universes (as in universes where the variables and constants of creation were sufficiently distinct to require their own creative space). And of course, the whole thing would be layered. Each of the largest bubbles would contain medium bubbles. These medium size bubbles would represent galaxies. Within the galactic bubbles we’d also find bubbles that represent the containment of solar systems, planets and, finally, the creative spaces on each planet. In this context, the vast expanse of creation can be accurately visualized as a kind of frothing, churning, magical concoction of energy with bubbles forming and un-forming, merging and separating, in a chaotic, but brilliant, dance of spiritual intent. Call it the Cauldron of Creation.
If you ask me, this whole idea of states of creation, visualized as bubbles in a frothy soup of potential, is what the quantum physicists are trying to get at when they get to talking about “multiple universes,” multiple time-lines, and multiple realities. They have it about right with the concept of “parallel.” The problem is that concept does capture the idea that all universes are technically contained within a single “I” and therefore are in fact built up out of decision points and are technically parallel, the concept doesn’t sufficiently capture the creative separation that exists between the universes. The concepts of “states of creation” representing “bubbles” in a multiversal cauldron of creative froth is a technically, conceptually, and metaphorically accurate representation amenable to mathematical description.
[7] Or was it third. Or fourth….
[8] By innocence here I mean the kind of innocence that you see in a newborn child. You know what I’m talking about. This is the eyes full of wonder, “never done that, everything is so new and exciting I could just pee myself” kind of feeling that you only get from creation when you are fresh and new.