4 March 1999, 7:30 p.m.
Harris: Good evening, Peter.
Peter: And good evening and welcome to those of you in form and to those of you not in form. We understand you have a program for us to follow. [laughter from group] Who would like to be the brave soul to explain that to us?
Harris: You heard it, Peter, press on. Consciousness 101 is the topic for the evening. Beyond that, you’re on your own.
Peter: Umm, we appreciate your efforts and applaud them. We welcome your inputs always, not only on this occasion, but on others as well. And, if you want to speak of consciousness, we will do that. We are assuming you do not want to start on too elementary a level, lest it take months or years, we believe was the expression. [ group laughter] So, we will start, and then you may give some input if it is at an appropriate spot, so to speak. Do you see?
Now, Harris, if you heard the concept “sentient consciousness,” what would this do for you, what would it be for you?
Harris: Well, that might differentiate between those with minds, and things like rocks that don’t have a known consciousness that we’re aware of scientifically.
Peter: Umm…
Harris: That’s not an accurate description, is it?
Peter: We were curious to see where you would be. Some of the others of you, what would this be for you, like for Harris?
Gerry: What comes to mind for me would be what we call human consciousness that humans could relate to as opposed to a consciousness of some…trees or animals of various kinds. That’s what comes to mind for me.
Lassiter: For me, I’d say, consciousness that’s aware of itself, and maybe questioning itself….exploring itself….in a “conscious” way! [laughter]
James: Isn’t all consciousness by definition sentient?
Peter:Ummm, this is what we were testing your brain matter on, to see what you would do with such a concept if we were to use it. Where would it take you in your thought process? In using concepts without forming the foundation for them, umm, we run the risk, so to speak, of using a concept that may have your brain going off this way [gestures] when actually we are going off this way [gestures in other direction], together, do you see? Two opposite directions or perhaps two different directions. So, we were curious to see what such a concept would do with your intellect, and how it would take you, and so on.
So, let us speak of consciousness, then. In our framework, in general, we have said: Energy Is. Energy Simply Is. You are asking for the basic concept. That’s it. [laughter] Do you see? ‘Nuf said, in actuality. However, human brains sometimes do not connect “energy simply is” with the day to day. It seems as if there may be “some stuff” in between those statements, those frames of reference, so to speak. And so, what develops is a look at the stuff in between, so to speak, do you see? When we say energy simply is, even that statement is limiting to what we are referring. We are categorizing in that statement all that you can think of, know and imagine, and then some. Energy simply is. Energy does not have to be conscious, energy does not have to be this, is not that. Words and descriptions are not with meaning when that statement is used.
However, we do know some things about the stuff in between “that stuff” and you. We know that “that stuff” in between IS conscious. We know that “that stuff” in between IS free, has free will. We know lots of things about that stuff in between that may, in fact, lead you through your exploration to some notion of what energy simply is, do you see? Even in form, even in human form operating in dimensional reality systems, it is still possible to have some feeling for energy simply is. So when we look at consciousness, we are looking at patterns of the “stuff” between energy simply is and where you find yourselves now.
Consciousness, you might think of as an awareness. To some it is a becoming aware, it is sensory perception, it is cognitive awareness, it is a system of pulling together awarenesses and forming new, and so on. So you all have notions of consciousness; you all have some basic definitions in your own mind that when your hear the term consciousness, or conscious, you have some things to latch onto, some words, some ideas, and so on.
When we say “Consciousness 101,” we are beginning to look at not so much these definitions of consciousness, but what are the patterns of consciousness? How does it work? How is it between here and here [gestures] that consciousness is such a player? And as you will see, if we have “time” this evening, consciousness is an important understanding for many of the items and ideas that are in your own realm of reality, do you see? So, if we say, to begin with, about consciousness, all is conscious. All is conscious. Conscious-ness is like, a living state. All is alive. All is conscious, do you see? So, consciousness is not something separate from energy expanding, energy free, and so on. Consciousness is very much a part of that. We might think of consciousness as the pattern developer, so to speak, do you see? As energy expands, consciousness develops patterns and pathways for what we call experience, and that is the basics for this process that we’re going to speak about.
Lassiter:Is there a difference between sentience and consciousness, in the way you originally asked the question?
Peter: We were hoping to use “sentient consciousness” as a concept to be a little more all-encompassing, as going more to perhaps a feelingness as opposed to an awareness, which is oftentimes taken to mean intellectual, sensory based, and so on, do you see? The kind of consciousness that we are referring to in its most elementary form would be more sentient in nature, do you see? It would be a sensation of feeling, and here we’re not speaking of emotion. Feeling is a different concept, and perhaps some time we could do “Feeling 101” for those who are interested in exploring that.
Consciousness, then, could be described as the, umm, like the navigator, so to speak, of energy, like that aspect that takes on the role of wonder, and the awe-inspired one. Oh, let’s go over there and see! Oh, let’s go over here and see! Do you see? Consciousness, then, becomes more than what you are perceiving with your senses, or the awareness that you are developing from experiences that you may have in your particular metaphor or in your particular belief system. Check next sentence with the tape. Consciousness, then, has a character that is important to understand outside, and other than, these elements of awareness or consciousness. When you are speaking of your consciousness in your physical form, these words would apply. But remember! You are the creator of what you experience. Your experience is also coming from the inner and expressed in the outer. You create. No thing happens to you, all things happen through you. So it is in the bringing forth of what you will perceive and then deciding how you will perceive it. All of this is deliberate action in the field of dimensional consciousness, do you see?
So just as energy takes on characteristics, adapting to where it is in its scheme of things, in its metaphor, in its chosen path, so too, do all of the elements that use this sentient consciousness. And yes, the cells of your form are conscious, the rocks have consciousness, everything, everything, be it matter or non-matter, has consciousness. As a matter of fact, when we begin to look at the diminishing impact of cause and effect, and we look at the two theories, the relativity and the quantum mechanics, the thing that pulls them together is the diminishing impact of cause and effect. And how is that accomplished? Through consciousness. Through understanding and utilization employing of consciousness. Consciousness was developed and utilized in massive ways in civilizations that you believe to be in your past. But of course there is no time, do you see? So, consciousness is, in a sense, elementary to many of the things that you will be exploring and doing.
So when we say consciousness, we are not merely referring to awareness or sensory perception, cognitive awareness, not even intellectual “figuring out-ness.” We are speaking of a feeling of knowing, a feeling of knowing, and that knowing, that feeling of knowing, is not something that is developed, it is something inherent in energy as it begins to expand. So, consciousness comes when Energy Is moves into that stuff in between Energy Is and where you are, and begins expanding, contracting, the free will of the Creator. And incidentally, Energy Is its own creator, so all of these things, then, represent a movement through consciousness. Consciousness develops just as energy develops. Consciousness develops just as experience develops, becoming develops, you develop, do you see? It would seem that you are moving through something, but actually something is moving through you. You are pulling in and then giving out through this pathway of consciousness.
So, if we were to look at how you, in your physical form, use consciousness in this frame of reference as opposed to its more conventional meanings, we can say some things about that. First of all, in your physical form when you reach that point of awareness where you begin to question such things as consciousness. You begin to question such things as: ” Is there more? How did this happen? Where is it all going?” and so on. When these questions begin to arise and you begin to seek out explanations, then you are preparing for a new turn of consciousness, so to speak. Not so much as it gets bigger, or better, but a different frame, a different shape for consciousness, do you see?
Consciousness, then, is not like a substance that you would partake of, it is a part of you. It is a part of you that you use, or not use, that you experience, or not experience, and all of these occurring simultaneously. When you are creating, and you are creating your dimensional reality system, or you are creating the holoverse (as opposed to universe), so to speak, of your experience in this particular case, you are pulling from within you, you are pulling from the inner world of you and putting into the outer. But do not be confused by direction here. Actually, you are everything from your skin out. The body represents the generator, the generator. It is like the energy source, the contact point. You are everything outside your skin. So when you, referring to the vastness of you, create, you create with this sentient consciousness, do you see? You create with it.
Relating-ships, we have said, is the key to understanding the functioning of things. Relating consciousness is important in understanding differences. Differences in experience. Differences in becoming. Awareness, and differences in whatever, do you see? So, consciousness, then, is a feeling state of knowing that ego identity has access to, that ego identity can us and employ, summon and call upon. Ego identity, however, usually does not experience, does not perceive outright. In other words, ego identity pulls inside from probability pools, and creates, and in looking at it perceiving the creation, ego identity often does not see the consciousness, the feeling state.
Consciousness, then, moves in and out, moves in and out, as forms change. That is, as you abandon this form, you change forms as the air and the water and the rocks and everything changes form. So, too, does consciousness. It carries with it, it carries with it, the jewels of your experience. Those gems that you select. Not ego identity, but the essence of you selects to become part of the wave of consciousness that you are riding upon, do you see?
Now, this all seems to imply time. Remember friends, there is no time. This is not about space-time, this is not about moving through space. You will come to know that space-time is, again, merely an element of the holoverse that you have created for yourselves, and really is not a player in your experience, unless, of course, you decided to use it as such. When you do, then it becomes a factor, just as air becomes a factor if you decide to breath air, and so on, do you see? So, consciousness, then, is that feeling state of knowing, that knowing state, that feeling state, in its most basic form. You say, well, how does expanding energy feel and know? What is it about that that feels and knows? When you think of the universe around you, begin very much to think of it as alive and having components just as you have components. It is thinking, it is feeling, it is perceiving, it is creating. It is not separate from you, it is, remember that, PART of you from skin outward, for all you can know, all you can imagine, and then some. This, Dear Ones, is you. This is ego identity’s playground, do you see?
Oftentimes, ego identity limits itself to one particular spot. Sometimes some of you live in one geographical area, sometimes in one house, all of your years in one lifetime, do you see? But even if you do that, it does not alter the fact that in essence and in truth, you are all that is outside your skin, do you see, and then some.
Consciousness, then, provides guidance, navigation. You say: “How is this, how is this?” Your thinking mind, the mind, the intellect, the part of you that thinks, does not have at its control center all of the aspects of creation. It utilizes a linear way of creation, as it believes itself oftentimes to be linear. However, there is a knowing part, even of you as an ego identity, and that knowing part recognizes that you are not linear. That in fact, linear is merely a choice for some experiences that you have opted for, do you see? And in that knowing, the doorways open for consciousness to bring forth the wonder, the possibilities, the new feeling states of knowing upon which new creations come. Your time now seems to be so speeded up for many of you. Events, occurrences. In one lifetime, more seems to be happening now than perhaps for centuries before. You say: “why is that? Is there some anomaly in time? In the flow of time?” and yet if you ask the scientists, the linear time-keepers, they would say, of course not. Time is still time, it is still moving in the same way. And yet, consciousness, that feeling state, that knowing state, seems to be moving at a different pace. It seems to be keeping a different “track” of time than time itself. How does that happen? How does that happen?
James: Well, doesn’t consciousness have it’s own sort of time to sort things out, not necessarily connected to the agreed-upon time that everybody uses?
Peter: It could. Ego identity certainly could operate its consciousness that way.
James: Even on other levels. Isn’t there a form of “duration” just as an operating tool?
Peter: Could be created that way. Consciousness does not have to have movement and time-space, it can create that if it wishes to, do you see? And so far, consciousness has been creating time-space, so that all of you seem to be experiencing that particular thing, do you see?
Lassiter: So, the appearance of time speeding up, is that a reflection of an expansion in our consciousness?
Peter: Yes, it could well be, could it not? Certainly a change in consciousness, a ripple in “The Force”, so to speak, a disturbance in the Force, so to speak. Whether or not better or worse, higher or lower, such terms are evaluative when placed in the metaphor of consciousness. Consciousness itself does not require metaphor in which to function, although it can create that, do you see? So, when time begins to take on a different stance, so to speak, for ego identity, one of the areas ego identity might explore, is consciousness.
How is ego identity tapped into consciousness? The developing consciousness of ego identity? Even that would provide some insight into a broader based consciousness. Consciousness is connected. It is not like you’re here and consciousness is here [pointing in different directions] and so on, do you see? So that when ego identity begins to experience difference, difference in its perceptions, and remember that perception is chosen, so when it begins to choose different perceptions, is interesting because consciousness is taking some turns. Might be interesting to explore what consciousness is looking at, is focusing upon, do you see? Consciousness, your scientists are coming to know, is very much a player in how your universe is constructed, do you see? When the term “the observer” is used by your scientists, what does that mean? Someone who is looking? Looking at subatomic particles? Not necessarily. The change occurs when consciousness and energy dance together in their cosmic way, do you see? Consciousness, then, is energy’s like, ummm……
James: energy exchange?
Peter: Yes. Like counterparts. They are like dancing partners, do you see? Some times they dance back to back, sometimes they dance like this [clasping hands together and moving them around]. Umm, for those listening on tape, take a moment and describe that. [laughter]
Now, consciousness, then, and this concept of energy, are not separate concepts to be looked at differently, but in fact, they have partnerships, they have relatingships that you notice in the construction of your world. How you choose your probabilities, how you create in your process of moving through possibilities, the beginning of creative process, the feeling state of knowing, is consciousness, do you see? Is that element of consciousness. Now, is consciousness static? Is it one big thing and once you’ve grasped it you’ve have it? What do you think?
Gerry: I think not.
Peter: Excellent answer! You would not be so boring as to construct a universe that way. No fun in that, do you see? Consciousness is slippery like the eel. Just when you think you are ready to grab hold of it, it slips away. And the mystery continues. The mystery is not to baffle you, but to give you that sense of wonder and awe, which is the feeling state of knowing, do you see? That’s why Little Ones have it. Little Ones have it. They know it. Until, of course, you teach them to move out of that, do you see? But they have that sense of wonder, that sense of awe, that feeling state of knowing, and from that consciousness and energy are like this [clasps hands together again, dancing them around] they are relating in their cosmic dance, do you see? And in that relating, creation, creation, creation, do you see?
Now, let us look at the movement of consciousness. Some people wonder if consciousness evolves. Evolution implies linear, and we know that that would be taking you down a conceptual path that would not be accurate for your brilliant minds. {Do I detect a note of sarcasm here?} So, we will not go down that linear path, although you may play with it in your spare time if you wish. [laughter]
Consciousness, on the other hand, is not confined in this universe of yours, or even the holoverse of yours, which, by the way, is holographic universe smushed together.
James: That’s a reference to the book by Michael Talbot?
Peter: Is it? Anyway, consciousness is constantly moving, is constantly changing, just as energy itself when it leaves Energy Is, and leaves is wrong word but we have no other, so when energy begins it’s expansion and contraction and creation and free will and the mush of consciousness, all of this, then, is involved in a changing, moving process, which oftentimes you or your scientists are trying to pattern. What is the pattern of this? If we could just come to a conclusion as to how this thing works we’ll have it all snockered. And just as soon as they try to do that, just like the slippery eel, it moves away, do you see? Consciousness is not a substance like the clay that you make into the bust and fire it and it stays that way forever and ever. Consciousness, the very flavor of it, the feeling, the knowing state, involves not the static but the moving, the changing, and so on. You contribute to consciousness. Yes. Consciousness is not separate from you. You are creatures of energy-consciousness in their dance. How you are having them dance is ego identity’s contribution to consciousness. You have heard universal consciousness, universal mind, you have heard these terms?
[Murmurings of agreement from the group].
It is an interesting notion that some in form use, and have, do you see? So that all of your feeling-knowing states, if they were harvested at various times, and of course there is no time, the harvesting of feeling-knowing states, the harvesting of consciousness. You might think of that concept, the harvesting of consciousness. It is something that you do, all of you do, it is something that the universe does. This harvesting of consciousness provides opportunity for this universal mind concept, universal consciousness do you see? This notion of, like, the big bank in the sky, deposits and withdrawals and so on , do you see? How does this work? It works more for ego identity, perhaps, than for other things. Ego identity is familiar with such bank transactions and so ego identity is willing to participate in that particular metaphorical stance. Consciousness also does not have to be metaphorical, but it can be, do you see? Consciousness is complete and whole in and of itself as an energy form, it is whole and complete in itself, but it need not be, do you see? Consciousness then flows and moves, changes, provides to ego identities the way you can grasp onto it provides to you this feelingknowing state. Feeling-knowing state. Would you say, would you say, consciousness has a beginning and ending state?
[silence]
Lassiter:… No.
Sage: No
Gerry: No, that would imply linear handling…
Peter: Very good. Yes, yes. Very good. Ego identities often need beginning, middle, and ends for their own reasons, do you see, or at least they have in the past, with the diminishing impact of cause and effect even that will be changing, do you see? So the notion of consciousness is rather like the notion of Energy Is. It is, do you see? Consciousness Is.
Gerry: Quick question. I sort of go back and forth between, it sounds like what you’re saying is there is, like, one consciousness, there’s consciousness that is, and then sometimes it seems like there may be many consciousnesses, that ego identity may have some aspect of consciousness or something. Can you clarify that for me? Is there one consciousness or multiple consciousnesses?
Peter: Yes and yes. [laughter]
Gerry: I knew he was gonna say that! [laughter]
Peter: The one consciousness, think of it like the puppeteer. Attached to the one puppet are many strings, do you see, not just one. So, if the little person is going to move, one string may be pulled to move a hand, another string to move a leg and so on, do you see? Consciousness is complete and whole, utilized however in dimensional realities or in various reality systems, consciousness has the strings, the strings of consciousness flowing into all of these various arenas, do you see? And we use the word strings as it is the word now that you are creating for it in your physics and so on. This notion of consciousness, is-ness, with the strings of consciousness being acted out ….yes, Lucette is telling us, did any of you see “The Abyss?” It was a movie?
[Sounds of agreement]
One interesting thing was the tube of water, and in front of it was the face? Do you see? Imagine that you were going to find out where it came from. And you began following the tube and you are following and following and following, what do you think you would ultimately come to?
Gerry, Sage: The ocean. The ocean.
Peter: Huge, huge water, would you not? So it is like this is a tentacle, a string from a source and in front of it, there is the face to see and to talk into, to look around and experience, and the connection is always to that broader, larger {water}. So, yes, and yes, do you see? That tube of water would have one consciousness developing its feeling-knowing state through its metaphors, its choices of perception, its utilization of free will, its creation. The next tube of water going off into another area would be doing the same thing, do you see? So, there could be this variety as well as the complete. Now, it is an ebb and flow, this consciousness, do you see? It is not like, well, here is the big mama, and here are the babies, the baby strings, do you see? No. It flows. It is more like this, do you see? [moving hands in circles] It is more like circles and vortices, do you see?
Lassiter: Convection cells, is what I’m thinking of when you’re moving your fingers that way.
Peter: Yes. Yes. Very good. So, it is not that the system of consciousness is so separate, it is, in fact, very much moving in its coordinated way, do you see? And, you say, does consciousness have free will? We ask you, does consciousness have free will?
Harris: Yes, when it’s differentiated, and it has free will, it’s a creation as well as a creator.
Peter: Yes, of course. Consciousness is not separate from you. Do not think, well, consciousness is over there and we are over here, do you see? Remember, while it is a concept and we speak of it as if it were whole and complete in itself, it is very much a part of the ebb and flow of energy in the movement of energy from Energy Is through the stuff to where you are, this vast area in between is not full of separate functioning parts although you can explore separately functioning parts through your creation of perception, and for discussion, it is interesting is it not, on an evening in March, to sit and discuss such illusion. [laughter from group]
Lassiter: But that’s the way we’ve set it up, also, with our ego consciousness here and the other parts that seem to be separate.
Peter: Yes.
Gerry: That brings to mind another question, dropping back to “The Abyss” metaphor for a second, where is ego identity in that structure?
Peter: Where do you think ego identity would be?
Harris: Right up there in the face.
Sage: At the perception point, between the woman and the water face.
Harris: Yeah.
Peter: All agree?
Lassiter: I would say the face, yeah.
James: Mmmm, yeah.
Peter: Good. Perception, ego identity is a creature of perception. Ego identity is much more interested in experience, perception, creating perception, than exploring feeling states, until of course, ego identity becomes aware, that in fact the nature of its perception and its entire metaphor is influenced by feeling- knowing states. Then those ego identities say: “hmmm. Perhaps we need to take a look at this notion of consciousness.” And that is happening in massive ways on your planet Earth right now, and for a very short period of years in terms of the way you structure time in your universe. You are looking very intently at this notion of consciousness. How is it? Where is it? What is it? And the more you look at it, the more you learn you control it’s creation, do you see? So it is an interesting time to be alive, so to speak. Umm.
Yes. So perception is very important to ego identity. Which is why ones like Helen Keller are of such interest, do you see? Most ego identities look at that and say why would anyone want to take a form, manifest a form in a reality system in which sensory perceptors is it? That’s not only how you function, but it’s the good you get out of it, so to speak. But ones like this Helen Keller come to let you know, it is not only that perception that you do, it is not only that probability that you plunk out there in the hologram to experience that it’s all about. And ones like this one come to teach that, do you see? To let you know that even if you can’t see, you can’t hear, you can’t speak, and you are limited in many, many, ways, this is still a reality system in which functioning occurs. The cycle, the ebb and flow of consciousness, occurs. The movement from possibility to possibility to probability to reality is a complete cycle. Ego identities, even though they may prefer to think of mostly perception, “I saw that, I heard this, I know this, I did that,” do you see, the perceptions, while interesting, oftentimes, are not the gems of this metaphor of yours that you place into consciousness when you prepare to abandon this form.
Which brings us to another interesting point. What happens to consciousness when you abandon this form? If you are everything outside your skin in terms of consciousness, and the inner form, the physical form is like the generator, the focuser of movement in the metaphor and so on, what occurs when the form is abandoned to consciousness? Does it cease?
James: Never.
Peter:Correct. What happens?
James: Blends, merges. It actually… it’s not separate.
Sage: It sort of fills in the space where you were.
Peter: That’s an interesting way to say it. Yes. In a sense, it does. You may have considered yourself to be this intellect, this brain and so on, you are much, much more when you have the realization that you are everything outside your skin and you abandon this form, the form does not go away, it’s consciousness does not die or end. It is the cycle, do you see? It is the cycle. The form, the consciousness of the form continues. It continues in it’s newly emerging way. Same is true with the ego identity, which is like the self, all of the selves, the aspects, the alternates, the soul, such terms as these are often used. It is the essence of ego identity, that you decide to continue, to continue, do you see? To continue in consciousness and the cycle continues, do you see? The cycle continues, it ebbs and flows.
Now, think for a minute. You have a camera at eye level, and the camera is looking at a pond, and the pond is very still. The water is very still on the pond. Imagine that. You can see the light reflecting on the pond, and so you know it is a shiny surface so you do not see the water moving in the pond. Eye level, you are looking. Imagine now your camera is moving in very, very slow motion. You are looking, you are looking, you are using that sensory perception called eyesight, you are looking. And you notice the water in the middle of the pond, an indention in the water, and the water seems to move away from that indention in the water and you can see it, like, rolling away in this very slow motion, and then you see it rolling back in. And you watch until every movement stops. And once again, eye level you are looking through the camera at the pond, the surface of the pond.
Now, let us ask you some questions about this. What did you see? Lucette is answering, we will express what she is saying. She saw frozen photographs, she did not see movement. And she is explaining this because she couldn’t see what caused the water to do that, so it must be a photograph she is seeing. So she is seeing like a still photograph, and then another still photograph, and so on. What are some of the others of you seeing?
Sage: Action without a cause, without apparent cause.
Peter: Did you create a pebble, perhaps, or something hitting the water, did anyone?
James: Yes
Lassiter: No.
Sage: No.
Gerry: No.
Peter: Alas, Harris. [laughter from group]
Harris: I understood the concept, and then I said, well, I want a cause to go with that effect, so I did it.
Peter: Yes. Do you see why Harris and Lucette are trying to catch up with the rest of you? [laughter from group] For Lucette it was the same thing, except she couldn’t figure out how to make the cause so she just made them still photographs, do you see? So what could we say about perception, consciousness, in that particular scenario? What is the feeling-knowing state consciousness of ego identity and what is it’s state of perception? For each of you, think back on what you did and how you experienced. What do you think the feeling-knowing state was, is, and what did ego identity use from that feeling-knowing state, if anything, in creating the perception you had of what was explained to you? Harris has said his ego identity utilized the need for a cause, he produced a pebble or some thing falling into the water, so his ego identity, his perception, chose to add to the scenario in that way. What would some of the others of you say?
Harris: But it’s important to recognize that my ego identity knew that that didn’t fit, because the ripples didn’t make it all the way to the end of the pond. It’s a small pond, the ripples should have made it all the way, and so, so it was a reject right from the get-go, because it folded in upon itself and the ripples came back before they’d even reached the shore to rebound. So the perception didn’t match the cause-effect relationship that I established. So that was an interesting process as well.
Peter: And what was your feeling-knowing state in this process?
Harris: When I reached the point that all the pieces didn’t fit together, then my feeling-knowing state said this is as it is, and how it is, is how it is, and I don’t need to take it any further. In other words, an acceptance that, yeah, that’s possible. It doesn’t match the metaphor that I normally live in, and yet it’s fine and comfortable and ok and press on, let’s go with it. So I know that that’s possible whether it’s a part of my metaphor or not is basically what I’m saying. And it feels comfortable, and I can take that feeling-knowing state and move an with that and say, ok, there is a world where ripples in the Force are perceivable [chuckling] and, without a normal pattern of development.
Peter: Yes, and did all of you notice that really what Harris was describing is that when consciousness enters the realm of perception, in other words when ego identity is in the business of perceiving, busy, busy, busy, perceiving, and allows the notions of consciousness, the feeling-knowing states to enter, consciousness can be an opener of the experience, it can add more probabilities to the pool, do you see, it can widen the perspective of the potential perception. It can also narrow that if you choose, do you see? Ego identity could have said to Harris as he was experiencing this, no it must be this way, there is an error in the perception. He could have called upon consciousness to narrow itself so that it is possible for a laser beam, perhaps, to have gone through the water and not produced the cause and effect that he was looking for. So consciousness can serve ego identity as it perceives in many ways. It can both broaden probabilities that you create, it can also narrow them if you want, do you see? Anyone else have an interesting analysis?
Sage: I looked at it as though there were a missing piece of the perception that I didn’t get. You know, that, somewhere outside the description of the scene there was something else. You know, there was the cause, which was sort of outside the scope of what had been observed.
Lassiter: That’s sort of what I was thinking….
Sage: It was like, it’s a trick! There’s a way that this could happen, it could still be cause and effect, but, I just don’t have the whole picture. [laughing]
Peter: Yes. Some information is missing, and if you had it, it would make sense, so to speak.
Sage: Yeah. I could find a nice, neat cause and effect way to put it into my metaphor.
Peter: Yes. Yes.
Lassiter: I was just thinking there’s something there I don’t understand.
Peter: Yes. And what did you do with that notion? How did it affect your metaphor, your evolving perception?
Lassiter: Well, I wanted it to be a fish or something underneath the water, but I knew that wasn’t it. I just kind of left it there like that.
Peter: And, it was neutral in feeling to you, or was it curious, disturbing or some of those words?
Lassiter: More or less neutral, some curiosity, I guess, but mostly neutral.
Peter: So you were, perceptually speaking, going along with that which was presented and recognizing from feeling-knowing state that perhaps not the whole story was available?
Lassiter: Yeah.
Gerry: When I saw that, I really didn’t have any sense of wanting to know what it was, it was just very interesting that it was happening and I was just, sort of observing. I wasn’t, like, connected with trying to create a cause and effect, but just observing.
Peter: Yes. And what did you observe?
Gerry: Pretty much what was described. Something like an opening in the water which closed again and then it was very still. So, it didn’t match our perception of physics. That didn’t really matter to me. It was more of an interesting observation.
Peter: Yes. So your feeling-knowing state, then, your consciousness was not involved in either broadening or limiting the nature of your perception, would you say?
Gerry: I think that’s true.
Peter: In a case like that, what do you think consciousness is doing, if anything?
Gerry: My sense is that it was just observing and letting things be.
Lassiter: I was going to say allowing.
Peter: Allowing, yes. And on an even deeper level, consciousness was, in fact, generating what you were perceiving, do you see? Your own consciousness generating, pulling from within you, you were listening to words, you can say, yes, sounds vibrated on the eardrum and you heard words, and from the words you created a picture. Did ego identity create the picture? Ego identity utilized past experience, belief systems, universal information, and ego identity conjured, through consciousness, pulling conscious energy out, literally conjured what the experience was. Then ego identity, in the reflection of that consciousness being the hologram produced by the words, then the perception bounced back in a reflected way and ego identity then had choice. What is it we’re going to perceive? Ego identity could have said, consciousness was what I perceived. It was energy particles, they were moving. You were describing still and I was perceiving movement, vast movement, patterned movement, the water was alive, and so on, do you see? So that perception, then, for ego identity, is only conditioned upon what ego identity chooses, how ego identity chooses to perceive that which it has used to create. Which then is reflected back into ego identity for sometimes consideration, sometimes for acting upon, depending upon the metaphor, do you see?
So consciousness, then, becomes an important player, not only in creation, but in perception. It is there, it is present and utilized by ego identity as well as all the stuff in between. Consciousness is found everywhere. While consciousness is sometimes considered as energy, and you may do so if it would make it easier for you, the subtleties of it and the feeling-knowing states of it, sometimes are not communicated in the concept of Energy. Because if we say Energy Simply Is and we place that over here, then if we start referring to energy utilizing, the concept again may be confusing the original concept. So if we use the term consciousness and energy dancing together, do you see, relating together, and in that play, in that cosmic dance, the flow of energy, the movement, the metaphorical representations, the choice of experience, the choice of dimensionality, all of these choices are made richer and more abundant by this notion of consciousness, do you see?
Consciousness expands as energy expands, does consciousness contract?
Gerry: yes.
Peter: And what makes you say so? It seems logical?
Gerry: It’s a part of the cycle.
Lassiter: It’s a part of the dance.
Peter: Part of the dance, very good. Movement, movement. When we say expand and contract, do not take that literally, like, it can only go in one direction. We are speaking here of movement, a kind of ex-pansive-ness, not to be analyzed as meaning that it is moving out necessarily and then moving in, but rather that it is moving. It is not necessarily directional. The notion of non-locality is one that you will be hearing more and more of, do you see? So consciousness itself is not confined to a location, to a particular way. It is however, relating to energy, and in the dance they are performing, the substance is the sum, the “stuff” that you are a part of and that you use to create the experience you have. It is all a part of the same thing, do you see? It is not that that consciousness in that stuff is bigger than you are, that is better than you are, that it is higher than you are, you may hear hierarchies of this, and so on. Think of it only as different, and different because you choose it to be so, do you see? Ego identity chooses how it will interact and relate to consciousness. Everything you do is with consciousness, do you see? That feeling state is the beginning of your creative process, the first stage of possibility is that feeling-knowing state, con-scious-ness. We are not speaking here of thought, we are not speaking here of emotion, we are speaking of something much more basic than that, much more, much more basic than that, do you see?
So, all are understanding notions of consciousness?
Sage: That very last thing you said there, I started thinking about the consciousness of groups of people or things, in sort of an expansive way, and just sort of wondering how it applied to that, something composed of lots of consciousnesses?
Peter: Yes, yes. Good thought. It would be a different operation, would it not? Because you would have the free wills interacting. Interesting in that when you think of group consciousness, you usually approach it from the notion of group action, the substance that holds the group together, what is it they have in common, their commonality and so on. Actually, group utilization of consciousness, group consciousness, is related to the alignment of perceptions more often than not, do you see? In other words, if you have a group of people who are making perception choices that produce for them an opportunity to be in consciousness together, and that could be from diverse differences or from very much likenesses, do you see? But when perception, which is ego identity’s big focus, big thing, do you see, not even the metaphors. The metaphors may be different. Look at the Awakening Tribe, the metaphors are different, and yet there is a commonality, a link somewhere in perception from ego identity’s point of view that allows the consciousness to develop, to be born of the group. Consciousness, does it have a form when it comes from a group birthing? It could. It could take form, it could have manifested form. It does not have to. Consciousness can be influential, even not in form, do you see, even not in form.
Harris: I think in this case, because it {the Tribe} started out as the Herb Group, in a different environment, in a different concept, that the birthing process for those who were involved in it almost necessitated an involvement such as that, that it take a form itself, so that we could rally around something different than the original concept.
Peter: And what do you think the form would be described as?
Harris: Well, very different for each individual within the group. I think we’ve seen that more and more as we’ve moved along. Some members of the group see it as defined in community and everyone participates, and others see it as a loose-knit group of people who gather together for their own awakening in a group setting.
Peter: Yes, Harris. You are looking at outcomes and reasons, we are looking at the dynamics of it. When all come together, what is their perception in common? Could we say the 12 {Many Friends}?
Harris: Well, we could say that, but even that is, uh,…I suppose since that was the focus initially we probably could say that. That’s an expectation certainly, and as such, is a focus.
Peter: When all come together, it might be interesting to ask about perception. What is the dynamics of the perception? Not so much the outcomes, the expectations, and so on, as these place it in linear….You are looking for the moving perception when there is gathering in groups. Sometimes that perception is grounded in similar beliefs, sometimes causes, and so on. Sometimes the spirit of a thing will hold a common perception. Once perception is agreed upon, in other words, once a group of people can agree upon, when they see x it is red, and when they see y it is blue, once they can have that agreement, then they are ready to go, do you see, they are all set and moving. Each of you, individually, is a group consciousness. You have aspects, alternates, reincarnationals, you have creations that are staggering in their scope, do you see? You are a community, a group consciousness. Your ego identity, while you may think of it as singular, and at times it may seem to be singular, recognize that you also have the influence and the understanding of group consciousness. When you come together with one other, when two or more of you gather, be it two or more of your parts or two or more of you in form come together, you have a congregation of consciousness. What does that mean, you have a congregation of consciousness? You have all of that feeling-knowing state. You have all of the energy of that particular dance at your disposal. Not only to project into the holoverse you’re creating, but also to perceive, to perceive. Which is what ego identity gets off on, perceiving do you see? Is there anything else you would like to know about consciousness, or has this preliminary, basic introduction, is it sufficient?
Lassiter: I have one more question regarding expansion and contraction, and in thinking of it as related to my personal experience as far as times of feeling exuberant and expansive, which would be reflected in interacting with a lot of people, joking, laughing, involved in a lot of activities, versus feeling very into myself, not wanting to be involved in activities, not wanting to talk to people. Is that a reflection of an expansion and contraction of my consciousness? Or is it a metaphor that I’m using?
Peter: It is certainly a different expression of consciousness. We would say to you that while you may have imagined that the former was the expansion, and the latter the contraction, that it might, in fact, be just reversed! Oftentimes, when one goes inside, you are among many more potential and probable entities and encounters than when you are out amongst those of you in form, do you see? So, we would say, play with it both ways. Certainly it is representing to you a different way of dancing with consciousness, is it not? The co-operative use, the co-operative application of consciousness often comes in, in those times, does it not? For example, if you are coming from that feeling state of bliss, euphoria, ecstasy, peace, and you are recognizing this, then it could be said that your perception and your conscious awareness, your consciousness, are aligning in a particularly interesting way. If you were to look at it in the physical world, the subatomic world and the quantum world and so on, it would provide interesting feedback for the alignment of energy particles. Whereas, sometimes one of the baffling things is that this quark loves color, this one has a gluon, and yet they are the same, they have no mass, no matter, no energy, and so on. And so, it is perplexing to look at something that should fall into a certain pathway, and does not. So we would say to you, that when you are recognizing that when you are in the state of consciousness, you are gearing up your motor, you are creating a pattern of being, creating a pattern of becoming that has such direct impact in a cosmic sense, in a cosmic sense, universal sense, that perhaps ego identity has not yet even become aware, do you see. And that state can come whether you are in your quiet time going inside, or whether you are out amongst others and so on. So, the alignment of ego identity’s becoming awareness, and it’s reliance upon creating perception, when that can align with interesting patterns with consciousness, this feeling-knowing consciousness state, the patterns that you produce are mimicked, so to speak, are generated for all of the universe, do you see? So it is very impactful. That is why words that you use such as I want peace, I want happiness, these are not mere words. It is ego identity’s approach to putting form around consciousness, that state of feeling-knowing. Ego identity recognizes the patterns it generates, even though in a subconscious way. And, of course, ego identity decided to rely not only on reflected perception, reflection of creation, in garnering its experience, but ego identity removed itself even one more step and said let’s have a subconscious, do you see?
[Group laughter] So you can really dabble with it, do you see?
Lassiter: [laughing] Subconsciousness 101.
Peter: Yes, yes. Subconsciousness 101. Everyone can go home and be in that sub-state, so to speak. So, ego identities, as you are becoming aware, and all of you are seekers, lest you wouldn’t be here spending your time discussing a subject that you already know, quite well, do you see. As you begin to map out the patterns, as you were speaking of Lassiter, sometimes you know that you are not in that peaceful state, sometimes you know that your are. And that peaceful state is not emotion, now. Sometimes peace can feel excited and anxious, sometimes peace can feel calm and smooth, and sometimes peace can be neutral, somewhere in between do you see? So it is not the emotion that tells ego identity when it is aligning with consciousness, it is the pattern of perception ego identity begins to have. Such as this movement of time, the fact that so many things are happening so quickly. In just a matter of years, there has been a complete reversal in the way the world is viewed, for example. Spirituality is going through dynamic changes, do you see? The nature of perception is on the fast track to heaven knows where, do you see? [laughter from group] So ego identity has many clues that there is an interesting possibility, a new set of probabilities on the horizon for operating with this consciousness, this feeling-knowing state, which is not apart from you. It is not separate from you. It is one of your tools and toys. Ego identity uses this, has access to this in-form-ation, if it wishes, do you see? When you are in form, you have access. Many do not know this.
Harris: Peter, I had a flash a moment ago…
Peter: Yes, a flash. [laughs from group]
Harris: When we get totally focused doing and being ourselves 100%, our perception, when we allow the perception to be full, sensory based, all of our senses involved, the ones we know about, the ones we don’t know about, is an opportunity to really align ego identity with consciousness because consciousness is here to experience. When we get it all together and get all of the senses involved and committed in experiencing, we’re most closely connected to consciousness, and yet it doesn’t seem that way when we’re focusing on ego identity capabilities, that the connection would be there.
Peter: We would not say “most,” Harris as that’s an evaluative term. But we would say that you’re onto something. Ego identity has it’s operators in dimensional reality. You have your senses, you have the beyond the senses which you are also developing, you have the inner journeying that you are learning to do and have learned to do. You have many tools and toys at your disposal. When you play the great juggler….have you seen one of those circus performers who sticks a stick on his finger and has a plate twirling around, and on this finger another, and one on his nose another and all these plates are twirling around?
Harris: The ultimate in full plates, huh?
Peter: Yes. Yes. And sometimes ego identity says what? And then crash. And ego identity sometimes say: {in a whining tone of voice} “I don’t have a plate.” [laughter from group] So ego identities have a challenge in becoming aware of the fact that you have an infinite number of plates and you can juggle them all. You have places on your body you didn’t even know you could juggle from. And so ego identities, as they become aware, Harris, you are right, ego identity’s one big great difference is it’s limitation in sensory perception. Use that to the fullest. When we say you are here to experience the richness of life, we mean just that. When you are not in form, you do not taste the ripe, beautiful strawberries, you do not smell the beautiful smells of a newborn baby, you do not hear the sounds of great music and laughter, you do not see all of the colors and all of the movements of colors that you do. In form is great—yes you say: “it is limiting, we want to be energy essence and unlimited,” and so on. Yes, you are unlimited already. You take on these tools and toys to dance with consciousness in a way that it is not danced with in other forms, do you see? So there is great beauty in the richness of ego identity. Ego identity does not have to do trial and tribulation, unless it wants to. We have often been asked: ” must I go through this depression, must I go through these bad times in order to come out wiser on the other end?” Only if you believe you must, do you see? If you’ve set it up that way. But you can unset it anytime, do you see? So ego identity has its way. And ego identity is also changing. Many of you are expanding your seeing and hearing, and you are expanding into knowing. When sensory perceptors expand into knowing, then ego identity merges with consciousness. This usually occurs when the form is abandoned, but it can happen in the form. You are not bound by rules and laws of how it’s done, you are making it up as you go. That’s frightening for some, but interesting, nonetheless. So, ego identity, when it uses it’s ability to live, and to be, and to do, 100% who you are, is beautiful alignment with consciousness. Is beautiful. Now, there is much to be experienced, and ego identity, even in such alignments, is not remiss from the experience pool. Ego identities still have adventures, and misadventures, and construct metaphorically, and so on. The more you understand of it, however, the more artisan you become in using your tools and toys. It is like you are apprentices of yourself and you are learning how best, in your definition of what best is, to be and do who you are in this life. And in so doing, aligning yourself in a very special pattern dance with consciousness that is not linear time related, but in the moment of the dance is impacting all of creation. You are the creator. You are the created. You are the cycle complete, do you see?
Now, was that enough of an introduction? [group laughter]
Harris: It certainly put us into contemplation.
Peter: It is good to contemplate.
Harris: That’s why we have navels.
Peter: Is it? It is interesting, that notion. So, is there some way you want to finish off these recordings, Harris?
Harris: I can’t think of any. I think your final statement was an excellent summary.
Peter: Very well, then. We are enjoying these focus groups. Focus has many meanings, you will come to see. So for all of you here, in form and not in form, for all of you who may, in linear time, experience this in a different way, know that you are here also, experiencing, we say to you until we meet again, we wish you well, and good evening.
Group: Good evening, Peter. Thank you