Diagram 033

Re Talk: 133

       What is being done by Life -- through me -- is to help you See in 4-D.  I am going to give you a new diagram; it is called a Process Loop and what it represents does not exist in only two or three dimensions. The Process Loop is the 4-D world described in 3-D language and drawn onto 2-D paper.  The diagram, as drawn here, runs in a loop.  But remember, in 4-D it does no such thing; nor does it move in a singular sequence only.  The Process Loop runs at right angles to itself, continuously.

     This diagram gives you a new name for something:  the "C, D and E Systems."  For now, forget the "Three Forces" and other names that may have aided you in the past.  Consider "Three Systems."

     Each System has three possible modes:  "kinetic," "recoiling," and "inert." I have used a small circle with a horizontal line and labeled it "kinetic," relating to movement.  The small circle with a vertical line is labeled "recoiling," defined, for instance, by the action that a gun makes after it is [fired].        

     In this diagram there are three "Isles of Articulation."  By "isle" I mean a stationary piece of terra firma in the midst of unstable or fluctuating oceans.  By "articulation," I refer to that which is capable of being spoken, or -- to stretch it a bit -- that which is capable of being described.  There is also another definition of "articulation" -- that which has distinct, recognizable parts organized into a coherent or meaningful whole.  All these things I refer to in the term, "Isle of Articulation."  It is relatively stable, can be described in words, and has distinct parts but is organized into an apparently coherent whole.  When you perceive a seemingly coherent situation, thing or idea which can be articulated -- "All right, I am conscious of this problem, it's what I'm faced with right now" -- you are looking at an Isle.  You seem to be directly conscious of one isolated section of reality.

     Consider the Primal Flow (PF on the diagram) to be the source of what seems to be human life.  The existence of such a primal source has always been reflected in human literature and mythology.  I am not going into it now, but there is a physical, scientific reason why nothing would "happen" at this level.  For now, simply consider the Primal Flow as one loop in the process.

     The Primal Flow splits.  At the first scission is that which divides the Primal Flow into what I have called the C, D and E Systems.  The Flow comes out of the first scission as what would amount to pure C, D and E, Systems, that is, with no particular mode.

     The Systems re-form at the first Isle of Articulation, represented by Circle Number l on the right.  This is the first stage at which consciousness is conscious.  What comes out of the Primal Flow and forms the first scission could be described as tantamount to pure.  It is primitive consciousness, and at the first Isle of Articulation, consciousness is simplistic.  I am not describing a form of consciousness that existed only in the past.  There are some people -- some parts of Life's body -- still operating at this level today.

     Remember, though this makes no sense verbally, that seen in another dimension, the Process Loop does not operate in a time sequence as it appears to in this 3-D representation.  At the ordinary level, you will continually be drawn back into hearing what I am describing as something which moves in a timely, sequential fashion.  But Remember, that is not how it operates.

     The first Isle of Articulation is apparently the first level, which I have tentatively labeled "religious consciousness."  At this stage, consciousness has such ideas as gods and demons, good forces and evil forces.  (Note that, even though I have drawn three lines -- C, D and E -- moving from the Primal Flow, connecting the Isles of Articulation, ordinary consciousness sees only two.)  Information and maps available to this level of consciousness seem to describe a battleground divided between constructive and destructive forces.  The explanations offered by religious consciousness are quite simplistic.  There is no doubt about what is going on; there are no questions of ambiguous or situational morality.  Right is known from wrong.

     Notice that ordinary consciousness cannot see where it came from.  Consciousness can never perceive C, D and E in a pure state, nor can it perceive the Primal Flow.  Speaking from the first Isle of Articulation, religious consciousness would say, "You can't see the gods.  Humanity will never understand the gods." And they are telling the truth, on that level.  Not because the gods are hidden or living in heaven, but because ordinary consciousness only began at the first Isle of Articulation.  It cannot somehow go backwards and find its source.

     Beyond the first Isle of Articulation is a second  scission.  (Remember, though, that the process does not move in sequence.)  At the second scission, each System has picked up the possibility of being operated by one of the three modes, so in the second set of lines connecting the first Isle to the second Isle, I marked the C System as in a kinetic mode, the D in a recoiling mode, and E in an inert mode.  That is just one possible combination.  The C System could be inert, with D kinetic and E recoiling, or any other combination of systems and modes.  The point is that consciousness has become more complex.

     At the second Isle of Articulation, the Systems re-form at a second level of description -- the second apparent place where flows can hit human consciousness and be described.  Consciousness operating at this "psychological" level comes up with the perception that things are not so simple.  It's no longer a matter of good spirits against bad ones or an obvious right and an obvious wrong with no grey area. Psychiatrists do not describe a world populated by good people and evil people; their description is much more complex.  They might describe one person who is fairly well-adjusted and sane, yet seems to be filled with self-defeating motivations.  This person loves his mother, but seems to want to hurt the ones he loves. And all of this is going on in one person.

     At the third scission, the Systems split again so that each System has within two modes that can be operational.  This is similar to a weather front coming through an area -- part of the system can be sunny and another part can be experiencing a tornado, but it is all one weather system.  You have the C, D, and E Systems, but each one has picked up an additional mode.  The combinations could be those shown in the diagram or numerous others.

     To Consider the three Systems -- each having two of the three modes in operation -- and figure out all possible combinations, might seem like the way to see all possibilities which create the illusion of reality.  That is on the right track, except for the fact that you're still operating minus one dimension.  The process is happening in a non-sequential, non-timely, 4-D manner while you are still seeing it 3-D.

     Back to the diagram.  Each System has picked up another mode, so two modes could be operating at any given time in a System as all three Systems re-form.  At this point is marked the third Isle of Articulation, which appears extremely complex, compared to the second ("complex") and the first ("simplistic") isles.  And past the third Isle of Articulation, each System has all three modes in operation. This area would be described as "unbelievably complex."

     Let me remind you of several things.  Ordinary consciousness -- splitting and re-forming, categorizing as it must at Line level -- is constantly jumping from one Isle of Articulation to another, moving from simplistic to complex to extremely complex.  Also remember this:  throughout the process, consciousness is only perceiving two.  There are three Systems; there are three possible modes; but consciousness sees two -- only two.

     To further describe this process, each of the modes is fractional.  For instance, look at the area between the Second and Third Isle, where C has two modes in operation.  The fractions of the two modes would equal l00%, within this 3-D representation.  The C System could have the kinetic mode operating at 30% and the recoiling mode operating at 70%.  Or, at the extremes, kinetic could be at l% with recoiling at 99%, or recoiling 97.5% and kinetic 2.5%.  And this would alter the complexion of everything.

     What appears to be change in the ordinary world is not change.  Words and numbers are inadequate to explain this, but Consider, for example, a man who has been a heavy drinker all his life who suddenly quits drinking.  Maybe a doctor tells him, "Your liver is shot," and he says, "I finally see the light!  I was tired of it anyway, I'm going to quit, starting today."  And the doctor says, "Good for you, not a moment too soon."  That is no change, yet everything in 3-D consciousness says it is change.  From the ordinary viewpoint, the news about his liver caused the man to change.  But once you begin to See the Systems, you understand that the Systems in the modes do not bring about change in the ordinary sense of the word.  As they move through people, a certain combination of the Systems -- with a particular mode in operation -- can be present and there will be a kind of recoiling going on which apparently results in, "He has really changed -- this man has changed for the better."  But he hasn't.  The shifting of the situation is not a matter of better or worse, but just the operation of modes in the Systems, shifting as they move through him. JC Talk 133