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7/25/2021 0 Comments 4 - Selfhood Using the model from post #3, let's address the modern struggle to frame individuality.
Currently, humanity circles menacingly around the concept of selfhood. You’ll hear “enlightened” people say Self is a delusion. A hologram, an illusion, a dream. “It isn’t real.” They’ll say you can experience peace and joy in all things, knowing you’re part of Source experiencing itself. It’s perfectly fine for Source to fantasize you exist, but many people think it's somehow misguided for you to have that fantasy… even while they tell you you’re Source. Not only shouldn't you believe in your Self, according to many teachers, but you’re not supposed to really enjoy it, either. It's still a popular message that the Self is a fraudulent ego fantasy, neither desirable nor constructive. So Source chooses to experience itself through you (Source) — "But don’t do it wrong, Source." Obviously, there are problems with this perspective. All selves are fragments processing the expansion of All That Is. Each version of Selfhood provides experiential textures and opportunities to fragments of a higher/larger self, aiding its development. These include the experience of sculpting identity, overcoming personal challenges, and a uniquely rewarding evolution. Personal growth brings rich tensions, conflicts, and resolutions. Model all these infinite existences in perfect unity, and you have Source. I AM. Fragment it all out as interaction, and you have All That Is. WE. Internal and collective harmony occurs in an instant, across billions of years, and across multiple universes. A Fusion of I and We The Self is a doorway, a portal through which We manifests our possibilities. Self's experiences shape its own experience of Self, configuring which possibilities it can manifest on behalf of We. This alters our experiences of that Self, informs our collective choices. Self becomes Our experience. A harmonious awareness of individual I and collective We brings visceral perception of Self as inextricable from All That Is. We is grateful for individual service, yet as a part of We, one Self is loved no more or less than another. Through Attention, Selection, and Expression, experience by experience, the individual I and collective WE choose what We becomes. "I" experiences - and creates - an intimate, personalized engagement with "We's" evolutionary expansion. An introspective Self choosing to experience Self more deeply will consequently produce more impactful changes to Self. Its attention and focus direct a portion of Source's expansion. For the benefit of all. Such is the nature of Source, and the function of All That Is. You can't break anything. Do as you will. Your choices configure Self to manifest different possibilities. WE will see what works, what's desirable, what to keep -- and what to discard. In this respect, all life forms represent experiments.
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 As source expands, layers form. Its innermost core remains solid and unyielding. The gravitational center of All That Is, holding fast to the truest truth, the clearest perspective. It is the heart that informs all integration and expansion, all progressive layers. Outward from this core, each layer is increasingly fractured and fragmented by possibility. More possibility at the "outermost" layers, less at the inner. This is "The World Tree" of many traditions.
The facets of All That Is become selves which fragment into smaller selves. Each self processes and integrates its own fragments, seeking clarity and coherence. And so on. Source constantly processes and integrates all its selves. Each of us, at every layer, seeking "authenticity." Mostly failing along the way, forcing adaptation. Change. Growth. As Source expands, Self expands. I grow infinitely with Source. We (All That Is) grows infinitely with Source. Macro and Micro Scales You can visualize a "self" as a strand (flower petal?) stretching from the core of Source to the outermost edges of reality. The stable core Self experienced at its innermost layer cannot be sustained - or experienced perfectly - at an outer layer. At any layer of reality, a being is more fragmented as it expands to the edges of reality. It's as if each facet of a cut gemstone could peel off and experience its own existence. The farther outward these facets/fragments of Self, the smaller the forms they express through -- such as a humanoid incarnation. It would seem the Self's perspective becomes more psychedelic/surreal the farther away it individuates from its innermost core. The “higher self” imagined by the New Age communities can be observed as any part of a Self that's larger and closer to Source than the observer's location. At any moment, THE higher self is really ANY version of Self higher on the chain - or strand - relative to Source. If you're at segment 45678 of that being, then anything from 45677 upward would be a "higher" self to you. As a "higher" Self (it's all one self) pursues unity/alignment, each fragment below or component of that Self (such as your humanoid incarnation) unconsciously adapts in its context with that unity/alignment priority and direction. This includes the process of integrating the fragment's (your) own challenging experiences. Typically a fragment (you or I) holds a subconscious priority/bias to adapt/grow in a particular way that enables the higher self to experience wholeness. Many in current spiritual circles frame this as "the process of awakening." Not every fragment is configured for that experience. You're contributing to a collaborative process of wholeness, and not always the one to experience it. Time as a Tool Compelling Adaptation/Evolution A "higher" Self might step into a planetary context and - in an instant - fragment through forms spanning a planet's entire evolutionary arc. From a single-celled carbon based life form to a highly intelligent humanoid a million years later, to its most evolved consciousness possible for that planetary context a billion years after that. Through each of these forms, and across all of them, the whole higher Self is seeking its own unique hemostasis, or balance within the Earth system. This is its effort to realize its "most authentic" Self within that new context. Take time out of the mix in this way, and recognize that traditional linear "reincarnation" systems address a being's many fragments in that planetary context -- all happening and interacting at once. Absent time. Being. A (nonphysical) Self participates in the evolution of Earth through these forms, as Earth demands particular adaptations/evolution in that Self. It is a symbiotic, reciprocating process of evolution. In simpler terms, the outermost fragments of each Self — some fragments represented as incarnations — are in a process of integrating novel experiences on behalf of All That Is. Together we are birthing a new part of reality (Earth), just by existing. It requires integration into The Whole. And so, on behalf of All That Is, we represent the volunteers (higher Selves) integrating Earth into our beingness -- Source's being. Naturally, the outer layers of reality are composed of many fragments of many Selves interacting with one another. These interactions create novel experiences/energies. We're all aiding and demanding novel adaptations of each other. Teaching and learning together. Earth, for example, offers a unique space that facilitates particular kinds of experiences for many fragmented selves to interact. Each fragment's unique consciousness adapts to its local situation/context. These adaptations integrate-into and inform all fragments of the higher Self, updating them. The Uselessness of Judgment It's possible all adaptations and mutations are doorways to infinite potential. And these concepts we play with reflect just one stage of an infinite process unfolding here through Earth (mumble mumble timelessness). Understandably, this current proposed model is simplistic to make it more digestible. Taking the validity of infinite paths into account, a fragment's adaptations don't necessarily attempt to make everything (self and context) "better." In the immediate, they might even make everything "worse." And their efforts don't necessarily push in the most profound or creative direction, either. Sometimes we simply flail, yet even flailing can open a path of infinite doorways. Take "alcoholism" for example. Stripped of moralism, and extending our perspective to an entire strand of being, observe influential 20th-century drinker-thinkers as Jack Kerouac, Hunter S Thompson, and Alan Watts. Note these are tiny dots of experience within an infinite being's consciousness. The point is not to promote one way of life or another, but to highlight that all paths inform evolution at larger scales. The many experiences and adaptations across the many fragments of a higher self together pursue collective coherence. No single vantage point allows us to understand another's function in the whole. No one of them is meant to embody the whole. We awaken to Self, over and over, within and across many kinds of existences. Even experiences taking us in a contextually "wrong" direction inform and deepen the larger self-awareness. Each experience has the potential of bringing the whole closer to harmonious balance. And all units of consciousness in a context (such as Earth) are informed by all others, with more conscious fragments instinctively pursuing collective balance, at every scale. From an Earth-based perspective, we might say that when a higher Self's fragments come to balanced coherence here, and reintegrate with the higher Self, it has "ascended" from the world, or "beaten the game" if you're into video game metaphors. Thus the concept of Ascended Masters. Even such beings as these are fragments of a larger, higher Self - possibly fragmented across numerous worlds, the entire galaxy, and beyond. So you see, you don't have to get anything right. Just seeking authentic being serves the birth of this planet and its integration into All That Is. 6/15/2021 0 Comments 2- Something More Than Survival Your choices and actions resolve possibilities, yielding manifestation. They also influence what's possible in the future. This is more obvious looking at children and lineages, and less directly reinforced across the many people you've touched in your life's meandering. Even so, each touch is consequential force, influencing the paths of photons and electrons.
Our passage spins eddies in the ether, alters trajectories by partial degrees. Downstream in time, our minuscule effects shift reality by miles, months, and momentous convergences. Like bumping a cannon before it fires. Oh, how our effects combine! Entire populations sway to an unconscious beat, and we marvel at a dance we've all created with the energies passed on from long ago. Perhaps you were once a Queen, or her stable boy. Does it matter? Perhaps the stable boy's kindness toward the prince saved the kingdom. Perhaps the Queen hid the stable boy's secret right to the throne. Fragments making ripples. Changing worlds. What beautiful energies do you cultivate within, and send onward to all yesterdays and tomorrows? Our effects are certainly larger than anything we observe in our immediate human moments. Our collective struggle today shows us that the choices of any prior Self meant far more than it understood, and could ever hope to understand. Yet such linear story-making contradicts timelessness. The Earth Is. I AM. You are. We exist. Time is a perceptual game offering another way to experience what we are. Reasoning its machinations is a distraction, like playing a video game while trying to do its math. Embrace the now as you can, and see it all converge within. Recognize your Self and your influence there - across all times - as timeless. Let go this preoccupation with past identities and reincarnation chains, and instead recognize each particle of us influences all Earth's possibilities. Right now, forever. Then we see that our consciousness, as devil or saint, sends ripples contributing to all that happens here. To all that's inherited, and to all we'll do with it. 6/14/2021 0 Comments Starting with The Obvious Historically, the spiritually-minded have fixated on their concrete forms moving on to other dimensions, or reincarnating in this familiar world. They've even begun exploring the idea of parallel or alternate realities, timelines in which numerous versions of Self work through other possibilities. All our alternate selves, together, perhaps resolving the most accurate sense of what we are, and establishing the most clear and accurate picture of Earth.
Rather than focus on your specific form and its fate, perhaps it's more helpful to recognize your choices and actions are metaphysically active and influential. All your thinking, all your struggles, do not merely resolve within yourself, but contribute to manifesting possibilities across Earth's timeline. They make particular insights and changes more likely in the future of our collective human race. Alone in your room, thinking your thoughts, confronting your demons, and expressing creativity. Silent or loud, private or public, proud or ashamed, what you’re doing is affecting us all - and beyond us. Your mind is a window. Your inner dynamics are tiny observable reflections of a grand order, the vast collective intelligence we all contribute to. Physicality being like the small tip of an infinite iceberg. Meanwhile your nonphysical consciousness, dwelling beyond the apparent world, participates in the evolution of humankind in far more consequential ways than physical eyes can see. Your personal development is unlocking potentials, creating future paths beyond today's dominant paradigms. Events affecting large populations seem random or unlikely, yet they're manifestations of these individual efforts to actualize possibilities within ourselves. These fundamentals are why I write this blog. The conventional network technology on Earth (ex: internet), amplifies what we each do organically. Accelerates catalytic reactions. If we instead neglect ourselves, and internalize restrictive beliefs as part of our timeless consciousness, we forfeit unique contributions to collective evolution. Luckily, the creatives and subversives are always whispering new doorways to the collective. Eventually more and more of us become ready to hear it, the potential becomes manifest, and we watch reality change before our eyes. It's within you all along, masked as your own struggle To Be. |
MattSevenMattSeven is a name I intuitively connected with in the early 2000's, using my legal name Matt. In 2013 I learned "Seven" represented the extradimensional collective from which it seems my individuality originates. MattSeven represents an effort to integrate the individual, collective, lower, and higher as one coherent consciousness. Categories |
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