June 07, 2014 - One But Needs to Look Back over a Lifetime

JUNE 07, 2014   SATURDAY MORNING

    Good morning, Honey Bun.  I love you as always.

    I believe we have infinitely more life to enjoy together.  These letters to you help me organize my thoughts and understandings in this world.  As I've mentioned before, without this connection from my soul to yours, my cognitive energies would not flow well enough to consciously study these spiritual level ideas.

    Most of the changes we experience in the physical and mental worlds are more gradual than abrupt.  But some jar us profoundly with sudden abruptness.  I think the sense of abruptness only comes from clumsy attention to changes in consciousness.  Perhaps, more specifically, to a lack of adequate attention paid to the process of dissolving attachments to “modes and forms” of real things; just the forms not the real things in themselves.  The real things remain in existence because their essence is the material substratum of consciousness.  That is, they are essentially made of what consciousness is.  

    But the forms and surface level patterns of reality change because mutability is a permanent quality of reality.  We are both verb and noun, so to speak.  Two aspects of one composition.

    We and perhaps all conscious entities are both permanent and changeable.  That, by the way, is what we all are in our physical incarnations.  On this plane we are in a state of constant change on every level from the microscopic to the macroscopic, as any physicist will testify, and yet we all know full well that there is a permanent part of us, a core which some believe is the self conscious "I" but which is really deeper than the “I”.  The word “I” and its associated accumulation of memories comprising its self image, collected over a lifetime, is an idealized facsimile of our pure consciousness that lets us know that "we are the inner essence of that I” inside that “I” which signifies us.  

    Not the word “I” but the thing the word points to, which is infinitely more personal and real.  As long as we realize the word is only a sign pointing to the real thing, our soul, we can say this “I” is permanent.  That is, what this “I” points to is our permanent self.  And if we will admit this eternal tenacity of our souls we will see that we are conscious entities who exhibit both changeable and unchangeable qualities of our souls.

    It doesn't make us a duality.  It simply shows that our single indivisible soul exhibits a bouquet of qualia.  The qualia is infinite in variety.  It will last the eternal lifetime of a god.  We are hugely more in spirit than what we ever exhibit in physical incarnation on earth.

    All one needs to do is look back over his or her years of life to see the changes and the permanent personal observer (the self) in the middle of all these changes.  Conscious perception has persisted through it all.  That conscious perception is our conscious soul forever alive.  One but needs to look back over a lifetime of change and see the permanence of the soul embodying that change, riding that process of change as if it were a vehicle going from here to some other experience.

    I love you, Honey Bun.  Thanks for all the good thoughts and awarenesses.  Keep the porch light on.  I won’t be in this old world much longer.