Friday, December 08, 2006

CYCLES, BEINGNESS, NON-BEINGNESS, AND BEYOND, Part Five

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From a site visitor: You might remember that I ordered a copy of FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE not long ago. I agree with Tyla that it’s the most important book I’ve ever read, but two questions came up while I was reading. 1. When the manifesting is taking place, the conscious-energy, as you referred to it, is moving from the field and headed toward manifestation in some physical form or matrix. You show its movement from the Absolute to the True Self to the witness to the Child Ignorance stage. First, what is the difference in the True Self and the witness? Also, it seems that the True Self and witness would come after the Child Ignorance stage. Why do you teach the reverse? (This is not to debate your teaching, just to understand it.) Thank you. Randall

F.: [Continued from yesterday] Now, Randall, the more salient points about the cycles will be reviewed for you and other site visitors so that the entire process can be viewed and the exact ordering of the cycles can be understood. [Only the major points will be touched upon. The book you’re reading, FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE, provides the full explanation for those who are interested.] The exact route that energy followed—in order for that which is called “Randall” to be—shall be seen, but first, note the millions of years of preceding events involved in the “causation” of “Randall.”

Consider the Absolute to be a field of potential energy. Since energy can neither be created nor destroyed, there was no “creator” associated with the Absolute, not was there any “destroyer.” [Thus, creator, sustainer and destroyer gods, as well as one god that creates, sustains, and destroys, are the stuff of dreams…or nightmares.] Absent from that energy field was any beingness or non-beingness; there was only energy which had the potential “to manifest and to be aware of,” if certain conditions involving manifestation were to happen. The pool or field of energy, not having been created, always was, is, and shall be. Since the discussion involves this space called “Randall,” the focus will be on how events unfolded on planet earth, spontaneously and naturally over a period of millions of years, and set the stage for "Randall" to be. Realize, however, that the Absolute is the original. All else followed.

As various atmospheric conditions evolved on the planet, so too did plants which—via the process of photosynthesis—began to add oxygen to the atmosphere. Seas and oceans formed and within their depths, life-forms began to evolve. Those life-forms below the surface of the planet (as well as the plants on the surface) all developed in like fashion: all had some kind of nervous system; all developed the ability to circulate the life force…the oxygen; and all of that functioned within a space of temporarily-combined elements that were involved in what is a never-ending series of cycles. Cycling, a process common to this universe and to all universes, was happening—as it had happened for infinity and as it will happen for infinity.

Many types of energy were functioning throughout this universe, but prior to all that—making all the cycles and life-forms possible—was that energy with the unique potential for consciousness. The original atom that split and re-combined to form a different type of atom with which it collided...all those atoms were all one and were conscious of each other. Later, manifested, that consciousness of itSelf would continue. As all of the cycles were happening, those cycles and their functioning and their very beingness were dependent upon the cycling of that seminal energy that was already moving into and out of that vast pool of energy referred to as “the Absolute.”

As conscious-energy cycled via the plants, it operated with awareness. Manifested, that formerly potential energy would function as kinetic conscious-energy. In the case of the plants, it guided the form by which it manifested to re-direct the angle of its leaves. It guided, naturally and spontaneously, the performance of all of the plant’s other functionings. The consciousness was functioning without identifying with the plant. Further, no thinking was happening within the plant. All that was happening was happening spontaneously and naturally. The consciousness was witnessing environmental events such as “sunrise” and, spontaneously, happenings were happening; however, there were no words, no “thought-words” and no “mind”-stuff. [It is to that original state of natural functioning which the "path" of Realization can return You for the remainder of Your manifestation.]

Eventually, life-forms would evolve. From the water, life-forms moved to the surface and crawled about on the planet. Those forms evolved over millions of years as one form mutated into another. The form that would eventually be the most mutated of all would be called “human.” Humans evolved from herbivorous animals, so they were initially herbivorous as well. As they consumed plants, that which they consumed cycled into various type of cells to also cycle a series of “human bodies.” Among the cells were sperm cells and egg cells, and acts of friction resulted in sperm cells and eggs uniting. Nothing was created. The elements existed and plants—or animals that had eaten plants—were consumed. Conscious-energy that was moving within the plants began to move within sperm cells and eggs (and eventually within the space called “a fetus”). Again, neither matter nor energy was created. Both were in existence and will always be in existence. Persons, viewing elements with the naked eye which cannot see what is what, think that “someone” was created. That is a lie. That energy called consciousness “knew” all that was required for the cycling process to unfold, just as the functionings of one acorn—with no instruction necessary—can result in a forest.

Millions of years after those early processes on the planet first began, a mixture of elements and the manifestation of consciousness known as “Randall” happened automatically and spontaneously. (No “father” was taught the basics of fornication; no “mother” was taught the basics of fornication; no “mother” had to concentrate and direct and control the formation of organs in a fetus. It all happened automatically and spontaneously. There was nothing “holy” or “special” or “sacred” or “divine” about the process of fornication or about the ways that various elements temporarily integrate, associate with each other, and eventually dis-integrate. Snakes have fornication down pat; rats have fornication down pat; roaches have fornication down pat; and humans have fornication down pat. Of all involved in these cyclings, only one—the ignorant human—experiences the triggering of ego and experiences an unfounded pride around this simple, natural process. Of all the life-forms on the planet, only programmed and conditioning humans—totally out of touch with reality—assign some "supernatural" aspect to their totally natural fornication and totally natural reproduction processes. Please enter the silence of contemplation. [To be continued]

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