*Free Will and the Oversoul* Q: Would you clarify this idea you keep referring to, that your reality is a perfect reflection of what you want, as many of us, because we have created the idea of separation, when you say, "you," we consider that to mean our aware ego consciousness. B: /You/ consider it to mean that. Q: That's what I said... that's what I meant to say anyway. B: Thank you. Q: Yeah, well, there are others who... B: All right, but no need to speak for them, you are speaking for yourself. Q: All right, I'll do that. B: Thank you. Q: So, would you clarify this idea that since we have chosen to make... B: /"I."/ Q: Since /I/ have chosen... you have too? Ha, ha. (Laughter) Since I have... well, I'm asking the question for other people. B: Why? Q: Because /I/ understand the principle. B: Are they here? Q: Um, I don't know. B: How about you ask it for yourself? And then you may be able to share it with them later. Q: Okay, I'll ask it. B: Understand, that no matter whether you say, I, or we, /I/ will understand that you are asking it for yourself - that is /my/ perspective of you. Q: Okay, I'll ask it as though I was asking it for myself. Ah, I create the idea of separation such that I view myself, my outer aware ego consciousness, as all that there is of me. B: Yes. Q: And then this idea comes along that I create my reality and I'm saying to myself, well, I didn't create this accident. Obviously you're referring to other portions of myself that I consider separate from myself. B: Yes. Q: And I create the idea of difficulty in connecting your use of the term /you,/ with my outer aware ego consciousness and all the other parts of myself. Could you elaborate on what you really mean when you say, you create your own reality, and how it reflects all the other portions of our consciousness? B: The /total/ /you/ creates the idea. Q: What does that mean? B: The non-physical, all right? Q: Okay. B: It creates the ultimate, quote/unquote, ultimate choice of what you wish to experience. In this way, that non-physical, higher consciousness /you/ creates the choice of having a physical life, a physical reality. In this way, the physical you, the physical mentality that you recognize - you physically recognize - to be your physical mind, creates many of the /methodologies/ of choice, the manner in which you fulfill the non-physical choice to have the experience. By analogy, the non-physical you says, you will walk down this hallway. And the physical mentality determines /how/ you will walk down the hallway, but walk down it you will. Because the physical mentality is subject to the non-physical Oversoul. Do you follow me? Q: Yes. B: Will this have answered your question? Q: Yes. Now what about those cases where the physical beingness finds discomfort in that which the Oversoul beingness has chosen? B: Then that is simply the way, and the methodology, that the physical mind has chosen to walk down the hall - in discomfort. Q: Let's think of it in terms of, like, an automobile mishap... B: Yes. Q: ... where the guy, to all his present consciousness doesn't believe that he had anything to do with it. B: So what? Q: Would you comment on that? B: I just did. Q: Well, the guy... B: To the Oversoul, it does not matter. The Oversoul /knows/ what the purpose is. It is up to the physical mentality to discover that. Q: Right. What I'm saying is, the physical mentality has not chosen a methodology for getting into an accident. B: Then that /is/ the choice, period. And that is the purpose of the life, to experience the idea of separation and the frustration that may come with it. But understand that when the being is once again non-physical, they will know why they chose to create it that way. And they will understand how it has added to the overall understanding and creation of themselves as a total being. To the Oversoul it does not matter, ultimately, in this way, what the physical mentality thinks. If that is the methodology that has been chosen, has been preferred, then that is the one that will be physically lived. Understand that to the Oversoul there is infinity. There is no need to think that they are wasting time in experiencing a life in that manner. To the Oversoul, lives are simultaneous; it is all going on right now. Will this have clarified the idea to some extent? Q: To some extent. B: All right. Q2: I have a problem though with this. B: You have a what? Q2: I don't understand where the free choice comes in, when we are in the physical body. B: All right. /How/ you go about it is the majority of the free choice you experience in physical reality. The fact that you /will/ explore certain concepts is the choice of the Oversoul. And the physical mentality will not be able to /not/ explore those ideas, except in one circumstance - suicide. But when you suicide, you automatically go back to the point where you know that this is what you wanted to do. And you will put yourself right back in a similar situation until you allow yourself to fulfill the agreement that you made from physical consciousness to your higher consciousness, and vice versa. Do you follow? Q2: Yes, I think so, to a certain extent. B: All right. Keep it simple, no need to complicate it. Recognize, in this way, simply all we are saying is that you, in your non-physical state, will determine to experience a certain concept or idea. The physical mentality will be the determiner of exactly how you will experience that - what symbols you will create, what situations, what kinds of relationships. Trusting that there are no interruptions in your life, and that everything in your life is a product of what you do want to experience, will allow you to know and to be in positive accord with the non-physical choices. So your life will become a positive, joyful manifestation, rather than a frustrating limiting one. Thus, you can in this way, almost actually, in a sense, not have to experience what you chose to experience, by allowing yourself to recognize what the experience is for, and simply integrating the idea within your overall knowingness, before you have to create the physical experience and put yourself through that. Do you follow me? Q2: I think so. B: That can be one of the ways in which you can allow yourself to go about learning what you chose to learn. Q2: What about the interruptions? You said... B: There are none. Q2: No, but in the first case you said - "provided there are no interruptions." B: The idea, the idea that you create an interruption. Q2: Oh, I see. B: There are no real interruptions. Even if you create an interruption, then you have chosen to do so. You are not really interrupting yourself, you are still in control even when you create a situation in which it seems you are out of control; because you are controlling the Idea of creating that "out of control" situation. Q2: But we still have to interact with other people. B: So what? Q2: And they all have their own realities they are creating. B: Yes, of course. But you have agreed to interact in many different ways. And understand this: one of the ideas for yourself, in what we have spoken of - in terms of not necessarily needing to manifest negative ideas, so that you can experience the idea you chose to experience - is to know that every individual already exists on every level of reality. And when you see them change, it is because you have changed yourself. And in this way, all you need to do to interact with whatever level of those individuals you wish to interact with is to put /yourself/ on that level. Then you will only interact with those individuals on the level you know yourself to be. Do you follow me? Q2: Yes. B: All right. Q1: She made a point about freewill, and I think the point that's trying to be made here is that in our outer aware consciousness, we don't always have a control that the concept of freewill, 100% freewill, seems to be telling us. B: All right. Q1: And I think that's the point that I wanted you to address. B: The majority of what you would think of as, quote/unquote, true freewill, comes from the /totality/ of your being - therefore, mostly the non- physical side. Q1: Right. So then, in certain cases, of course, you know... whether I'm sitting in the chair or whether I stand up, is an element of freewill for my consciousness, /but/ in those cases of burglary and quote/unquote, accidents etc, those being not freewill of our... B: Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Q1: ... of our? B: Yes, of your physical mentality. Understand that they are also ways to go about looking at specific whole concepts. There are very few specific whole concepts. The idea of being burglarized is not a specific whole concept, it is a way of allowing yourself to look at a /portion/ of a specific whole concept: the idea of being abundant. Q1: I understand that. What I'm saying is that the physical consciousness does not choose the burglary to occur. B: Yes! Yes... it does. What the Overmind chooses is that you will explore the facets of abundance. Your physical mind says I will either explore this facet by knowing I am abundant and /not/ having to have to create the idea of somebody being able to take something away from me, or I /will/ choose to explore it by separation's point of view and having somebody remove something from me. That is your physical mentality doing the methodology. The only thing the Oversoul has decreed to you is that you will explore the idea of abundance, in whatever way your physical mentality chooses to. Q1: So you are saying that we choose the burglary by virtue of choosing /not/ to view ourselves as abundant. B: The idea of separation as opposed to integration - this is all there is. Physical reality is polarity. All the experiences that you create in your life with your physical mentality all have to do with polarities: either integration or separation. That is it, that is all there is. Q1: The point that keeps coming back here, is that we do not choose to have somebody burglarize... B: Yes. (You do) Q3: You choose it by believing in it and attracting it to you. Q1: But I'm saying, not on the conscious level. B: Yes! Q1: Not on the physical conscious level. B: Yes, yes. Q1: I don't agree with that. B: All right. Understand that... Q1: I agree with it on a higher level. B: One moment. Your unconsciousness and your subconsciousness are /not/ products of the higher consciousness. They are products of the physical consciousness, viewed from the separation viewpoint. Understand that even many of your modern psychologists understand that there really is /no such/ /thing/ as an unconscious. There is an excuse. Audience responds, sighs: Aaah. Q1: Okay. B: Therefore, when we say it is a product of your physical consciousness, we are including "un" and "sub" consciousness. Q1: Oh, so /now/ you tell us. (Audience laughter) B: Thank you! Does that make it clearer? Q1: Yes! And that's the point I've been trying to get at. We have a stream of consciousness that we know that... you know, our self-awareness... that's what I'm trying... B: All right, allow me to say one more thing. Q1: Okay. B: The viewpoint that you /have/ a separation in your physical consciousness into an outer awareness, an un-awareness and a sub-awareness, /is a/ /physically conscious choice./ It is a reaction from something you fear to face. Q1: Okay. B: Therefore, it is a conscious choice. Q1: When you say it is a conscious choice, would you say we should also be able to remember /making/ that choice? B: You can. Understand that many times the only reason you do not, is that you assume it to be painful. In this way we do understand that your society, because of its choice of experiencing separation, has put certain limitations upon your consciousness that allows you to imprint yourself early in life with habits that you may not, in your exact vernacular, be outwardly consciously aware of, that you have. Q1: Right on. B: Understand, however, it is still - even though you do not recognize it - the mechanism itself of creating the unconscious and subconscious portions, is still a conscious act. You do decide, though you may not remember it right now, because that is also a product of the decision, but you do decide. Q1: Okay, for someone who has an awareness of his thoughts and says: "Well, I don't remember making that decision. I'm not aware of my subconscious, I'm not aware of my unconscious." How would you state it in such a way that it would be clear to them that they are in fact creating their own reality, even though they do not believe... B: One word. TRUST. Unconditional trust will allow you to open all levels of your consciousness physically. So that you will have /one/ outer aware consciousness that can then be in synchronous harmony with the non-physical higher consciousness in an integrated point of view, rather than a separated point of view. Understand that it is the symbolic creation of the unconscious and the subconscious, which keep you from consciously conversing with your higher consciousness. They are the blocks you create and put in between your awareness /here,/ and your awareness /there/. Q1: Then a statement that could be viewed as valid would be: even if a person does not consciously recall making a decision or something such as a burglary, it is happening at a level other than his outer aware ego consciousness. Whether it be subconsciousness, unconsciousness or higher consciousness, right? B: Yes. But allowing yourself to know that you /have/ made the decision to have this, will allow you to remember having made the decision. Q1: Of course, but for a person who believes that he is /only/ his outer aware ego consciousness... B: Yes. Q1: ... for him to realize that he does have different levels from which he is making decisions, and that it is in fact his responsibility, this will allow him to realize that there are other levels, and therefore, integrate them. B: Yes. Q1: Good, thank you. B: Thank you. Q4: So could you please talk about /what it is/ in the physical mind, some of the barriers involved, in seeming to stop the spirit from being aware of its own omnipresence. B: What we have just discussed. Q4: Yes, right. B: The idea, in this way, simply is that you have a habitual ritual. That is all. Create a new habit. Trust that if that is the way that you feel you want to look at yourself, then /act/ as if that is the way you look at yourself. And you will create a new habit that will allow you to see how that habit can only contain the idea of integration, and not separation. And bit by bit, you will transform into that new viewpoint, and then all your actions will be based upon /that/ knowingness of yourself, rather than a separated viewpoint of yourself. Do you follow me? Q4: Yes. So it's just a matter of re-education of the mind? B: Yes. Your personality is an artificial construct, it is not who and what /you/ are. It is a tool. It will do what you want it to do, when you know what the idea of yourself /is/, and trust that it can be what you are. Q4: Well, if we're there already... B: Yes. Q4: ... why are we playing the game of thinking that we're not there, to be there already? B: Why not, because that is one choice that you /can/ do? It is something you chose to do and began the cycle approximately 25,000 of your years ago. Now this is the end of the cycle and you are choosing something else. Q4: Are you saying this to me personally or... B: All of you. That is why you are here in this transformational life. Q4: And 25,000 years is the time period for this phase of humanity? B: Yes. Q4: Where were we before? B: Before the 25,000 years? Q4: Yes. B: In many other civilizations and many other ideas, both on this planet and off. Q4: So we came here to get messed up, uh? B: In a sense. (Audience laughs and sighs) Understand this idea: one of the ways in which you can know you are creating more of yourself is by the creation of very rapid, accelerated, intensified, highly focused experience - another term for physical reality. It is a great acceleration of what you want to learn, because it is so intensely focused. Q4: So in other words, a being wants that much more of himself, so he seems to take away more to find out how much more he is? B: Yes. Very good! Q4: Thanks. B: Oh, thank you.