Blessed Are They . . .
Righteous
One way of generating a fresh and clear perspective
or viewpoint on the word righteous is to see its meaning
in terms of two words: “right” and “use”.
Right-use-ness then can guide and prompt the consciousness with the question: what is the right use?
Having
This right use entails the whole issue of having.
Whatever befalls the zone of individuality,
our term for what we often have called “me” and “mine”, is for right use.
Having is not to furnish the self with meaning or worth.
All meaning and worth comes from function, from participation,
from being and doing in behalf of All That Is.
Having serves the function, the participation, the being and the doing of our lives.
Idolatry
In the same way we understand that to allow our meaning or worth
to be determined by representation about us is a form of idolatry.
This is because we exchange a relationship with who and what we are,
for a relationship with the representation.
No less so, when we define our meaning or worth in terms of what we have,
we are indulging in a kind of idolatry.
We are not making right use of having.
We sustain strengths and health in the zone of individuality,
as one kind of opportunity which requires right use.
Equally, we must sustain weakness and ill health, as another kind of opportunity,
requiring right use.
How can we cling to or possess for a self
which is only a partitioned off fund of being?
Do we even use the zone of individuality to transform it into a furnished self?
To live involves a flow.
The flow requires a building up and a breaking down of substance and form.
The building up and breaking down is the metabolism of life.
This metabolism has a direction of transformation, a form towards which we grow.
But any form towards which we grow is also a form through which
and beyond which we grow.
Our zone of individuality is complementary, it fits together, it merges and joins,
it creates a social memory complex.
Our having, with right use, supplies the social memory complex.
Each member supplies the group with unique explorations and possibilities.
Social memory complex
In the same way that each cell is afforded mobility, agility and strength,
kinds of motion and force unavailable to individual cells,
when combined into an organism, that celf is similarly benefited
when combined into a social memory complex.
Memory
We need to remember the nature of memory when we use this term.
Memory is not representational only or mostly.
That is why the most difficult things to remember
are arbitrarily assigned names or words.
Arbitrarily assigned names or words mediate or get between
and may obscure the connection to the transactional reality of the past
to which memory connects the mind.
We can change the past
like we can change the notes in a chord we play on the piano.
We can modify the past to create a better harmony with all the other notes:
present and future.
Our experience is formed by our beliefs.
What if that principle seems to lie beyond our experience?
Why does it lie beyond our experience?
Because our experience is formed by our beliefs.
The agency for the creation of experience is dreaming.
Remember, anything we believe either is true or tends to become true
as a result of having believed it.
Does it then seem to be an unreal and false assertion when we say,
“I am innocent”?
Do we instead remember our mistakes or deficiencies?
Are we nourishing an unchanged and unchangeable past with our beliefs
that it is out of range?
Remember when Milton Erickson, the psychiatrist, took the woman
who claimed to have no childhood friends, back in time, back to her childhood.
Was she reconstructing her behaviour from engrams,
from neural representations of the past, or was she simply connected
to her childhood in its transactional reality as a simultaneous reality?
When Milton Erickson became her childhood friend, was this a deception –
with its only validity in the engrams of her neural substance,
the representations she makes about herself to herself
or was it a change in her past because she has the power to change the past?
Didn’t Milton Erickson make right use of an opportunity to heal, to make whole?
Why did hypnosis open the access to the reality of the past or of the future?
Hypnosis is belief leading.
Suggestibility is the mobility and agility of consciousness
to overcome the blindness of there only being an immediate reality.
Why would Edgar Cayce gain access to akasha
because a hypnotist helped him with a voice loss problem?
Because he crossed the barriers or boundaries of the physically defined self
with his agility and mobility of consciousness led by belief.
Memory, imagination and creativity are all such powers of belief access.
Hypnosis or hypnotic trances are the barrier crossing means familiar to us.
But we must be responsible and not abdicate responsibility to others
to cross that barrier.
We have experienced deep and complete relaxation during our meditations.
We have experienced a dimming of senses, a numbing, a limpness.
It was a matter of communication to the body consciousness that made it possible.
This required repetition and clarity.
My right arm is limp and heavy – repeated six or seven times,
or I use groups of threes – six or nine times – when I am by myself
and perhaps having a hard time getting my attention focussed.
We can connect to the past.
Do we do so to constrain us in the present or to liberate us?
When we connect to the past with forgiveness, we use the past
to show us how our action and neglect combine or fail to combine.
Then we assimilate the past in the ideal we create.
An ideal balanced and made continuous, free of abusive action or neglect.
We use our access to the past not to constrain us with guilt, but to liberate us
with transformation of the past.
It may seem that others who participated in the events of the past
will preserve them unchanged or unchangeable.
That is their opportunity and responsibility.
They can nourish the reality with their minds whether or not you participated.
In Seth’s terms, we can create a divergent or parallel reality.
We can say, “I am innocent” and mean it.
I have overcome the constraints of guilt and the consequences of error
by forgiveness, tolerance, mercy, charity, understanding instead of criticism.
We must even forgive ourselves for not being forgiving,
tolerate ourselves for not being tolerant,
be merciful to ourselves for not being merciful,
not criticize ourselves for being critical.
We can face ourselves in our descent into materiality and materialism,
into self and selfishness, and change the past.
Anything and everything I have ever done or been does not disqualify me,
it qualifies me, by showing me how things work, by granting understanding.
We can go back, we can go back in time,
we can leave the track of sequenced time, we can connect with the past
and amend the past.
When and where we were envious, we were wanting to have,
and we were believing that our meaning and worth was determined
by what we either have or should have.
Now we eradicate envy with understanding, with forgiveness, with tolerance.
When and where we were jealous, we believed
that our meaning and worth was determined by the exclusivity of our relationship.
We didn’t understand that the deeper and stronger the other relationships were
with one we loved, the deeper and stronger our own would be.
When we were untrusting, cynical, abounding in doubt, we were submerged
in our blindness in a reality too small to even account for the life
and opportunity we enjoyed.
But that became the foundation for our trust, our trust in the benevolence,
the justice, the goodness of the universe and our openness to it.
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.
copyright 2011, 2013, ECOhealth / Eve Revere
