29/01/2012 by Ted.

Before the Beginning 1
SESSION 882—September 26, 1979
9:14 P.M. WEDNESDAY

Now. The universe will begin yesterday. The universe began tomorrow. Both of these statements are quite meaningless. The tenses are wrong, and perhaps your time sense is completely outraged. Yet the statement: “The universe began in some distant past,” is, in basic terms, just as meaningless.

In fact, the first two statements, while making no logical sense, do indeed hint of phenomena that show time itself to be no more than a creative construct. Time and space are in a fashion part of the furniture of your universe.

The very experience of passing moments belongs to your psychological rooms in the same way that clocks are attached to your walls. Whenever science or religion seeks the origin of the universe, they search for it in the past. The universe is being created now . Creation occurs in each moment, in your terms. The illusion of time itself is being created now. It is therefore somewhat futile to look for the origins of the universe by using a time scheme that is in itself, at the very least, highly relative.

Your now, or present moment, is a psychological (existing only in the mind) platform. It seems that the universe began with an initial burst of energy of some kind (the “big bang”). Evolutionists cannot account for its cause. Many religious people believe that a god exists in a larger dimension of reality, and that he created the universe while being himself outside of it. He set it into motion. Many individuals, following either persuasion, believe that regardless of its source, the [universe]1 must run out of energy. Established science is quite certain that no energy can now be created or destroyed, but only transformed (as stated in the first law of thermodynamics). Science sees energy and matter as being basically the same thing, appearing differently under varying circumstances.

In certain terms, science and religion are both dealing with the idea of an objectively created universe. Either God “made it,” or physical matter, in some unexplained manner, was formed after an initial explosion of energy, and consciousness emerged from that initially dead matter in a way yet to be explained.

Instead, consciousness formed matter. As I have said before, each atom and molecule has its own consciousness. Consciousness and matter and energy are one, but consciousness initiates the transformation of energy into matter. In those terms, the “beginning” of your universe was a triumph in the expansion of consciousness, as it learned to translate itself into physical form. The universe emerged into actuality in the same way , but to a different degree, that any idea emerges from what you think of as subjectivity into physical expression.

The consciousness of each reader of this book existed before the universe was formed (in your terms) but that consciousness was unmanifest. Your closest approximation —and it is an approximation only—of the state of being that existed before the universe was formed is the dream state. In that state before the beginning, your consciousness existed free of space and time, aware of immense probabilities. This is extremely difficult to verbalize, yet it is very important that such an attempt be made. Your consciousness is a part of an infinitely original creative process. I will purposely avoid using the word “God” because of the connotations placed upon it by conventional religion. I will make an attempt to explain the characteristics of this divine process throughout this book. I call the process “All That Is.”  All That Is is so much a part of its creations that it is almost impossible to separate the “creator” from the “creations,” for each creation also carries indelibly within it the characteristics of its source.

If you have thought that the universe followed a mechanistic model, then you would have to say that each portion of this “cosmic machine” created itself, knowing its position in the entire “future construction.”

You would have to say further that each portion came gladly out of its own source individually, neatly tailored to its position, while at the same time that individual source was also as intimately the source of each other individual portion.

I am not saying that the universe is the result of some “psychological machine,” either, but that each portion of consciousness is a part of All That Is, and …… the universe falls together in a spontaneous, divine order and …… each portion of consciousness carries within it indelibly the knowledge of the whole. The birth of the world represented a divine psychological awakening.

Each consciousness that takes a part in the physical universe dreamed of such a physical existence, in your terms, before the earth was formed. In greater terms than yours, it is quite true to say that the universe is not formed yet, or that the universe has vanished. In still vaster terms, however, the fact is that in one state or another the universe has always existed.

Your closest approximation of the purpose of the universe can be found in those loving emotions that you have toward the development of your children, in your intent to have them develop their fullest capacities.

Your finest aspirations can give you some dim clue as to the great creative thrust that is behind your own smallest act, for your own smallest act is possible only because your body has already been provided for in the physical world. Your life is given. In each moment it is renewed. So smoothly and effortlessly do you ride that thrust of life’s energy that you are sometimes scarcely aware of it.  You are not equipped with a certain amount of energy that then wears out and dies. Instead you are, again, newly created in each moment.

That is enough for now. End of session, and a fond good evening.

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29/01/2012 by Richard.

Wishing you a very happy 78th birthday Ted.Many happy returns of the day and have a good one.

love from all in worcestershire

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10/01/2012 by Ted.

From today’s Telegraph.

Millions of people who take a daily dose of aspirin in the hope of preventing a heart attack or stroke are at risk doing themselves more harm than good, researchers have warned.

Nicotine patches no better than will power to quit smoking
Nicotine patches may not help smokers to stub out the habit, according to a new study.

The above are todays latest examples of the partly formulated and prematurely published crackpot, and potentially harmful, ideas referred to in my last blog.

Giving people nicotine patches to help them quit the nicotine addiction always did seem crazy to me.  Like saying to a heroin user trying to give up  - “You want to quit? Well instead of sniffing the stuff inject it instead”.  A crazy idea.

The appalling thing is that both of these partly formulated and prematurely published and now discredited crackpot ideas are officially approved and have been launched at vast public expense and will no doubt continue to be put into practice despite the latest findings and the potential risk to, and disillusionment of, their victims.

To change the subject, and on a lighter note, the first signs of Spring are now evident here in Cumbria.  I saw my first wild snowdrop of the year yesterday, the gorse bushes are radiant with their yellow flowers, the early flowering bushes are well budded, the birds are beginning to sing and pair up again and strings of geese are migrating North. Also, believe it or not, the days are getting longer - by just a minute or two each day at present - although it is still pitch black at 0700 hrs up here at present. Everything is looking good!

And I had a lovely experience yesterday.  As I walked on the beach a man and his dog appeared about five hundred metres or so ahead, walking towards me. The man was throwing a ball for his dog. When the dog spotted me it bounced along the beach as if to greet an old friend and on reaching me dropped the ball at my feet and looked up expectantly as if to say, “Do you want to play?” So I picked it up and threw it as far as I could whereupon the dog ran and retrieved it and brought it back and once again dropped it at my feet to be thrown.  I repeated the throwing again and again until the man himself arrived when the dog left me once more and continued his walk with his owner. It fair made my day.

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