Lately, as an integrated-wholistic Being, I completed my studies and involvements in and within what I've seen as a centuries-long Experiment amidst the basics of the Earth system, for the purposes of expanding our human and other species options and opportunities in terms of freewill choices.
One of those previous large-scale emphases of mine was the land of my birth, the United States of America. I was asking what were the factors that made it unique and different from other global areas, both past and present? That focus began to be actively set forth one afternoon during the summer of 1975, when I lay on a Tobago beach and tearfully told Jim I had to go back. At the time, we were in the Caribbean exploring the idea of leaving the U.S.—finding a place to live with an easier, simpler life-style.
That day in Tobago decades ago, I was homesick. Yes I missed America, and I was also sick about what was happening there. I told myself and Jim that the U.S. was The Land of My Birth— that I Loved it and its people … yes there were many problems … and I had to return, to play my part as best I could, which I now think I've done. During the past decades I've traced original U.S. designs back to primarily English fore-bearers who settled colonies on the East coast of what is now the United States of America, while also seeing the results of other European powers of that era—especially Spain and France— playing out their designs too on the North American continent.
My conclusion today is that each area of the world is unique and different in its own ways, with its own past. Yes, at the time of early North American colonialization there were opportunities here—in what was called The New World—that weren't available elsewhere, but by not using an evaluator of superiority, they were unique, period.
Currently here in the U.S. the diminishment of the middle class and their life-styles that has been taking place for decades—is increasingly evident. The picture I see is one where the U.S. middle class emerged after World War II, amidst a global context where U.S. businesses and production facilities were able to convert to peace-time activities while other industrialized nations were rebuilding their war-torn countries. Also, over time in a competitive sense, the wages paid to many workers in other counties were lower than most workers were making at the time here in the U.S. In addition, after WWII the American middle class was built by industrious veterans who used the government's G.I. Bill to help them go to school, buy homes, and start businesses. I think it was a unique era in the U.S. past—one that will not be repeated again.
This last July 4th weekend, via television I watched the celebrations from both Washington D.C. and New York City. I was especially impacted with seeing U.S. veterans from recent Middle East conflicts—in Iraq and Afghanistan—sitting in wheelchairs in D.C., while also experiencing a sight and sound technological extravaganza from New York City that was costing millions of dollars, polluting the air and water—while the money could have been used in other ways. Was I being a spoiler, being practical, or both?
I've also been seeing some of the significant patterns of our U.S. past from the Southeastern areas of the United States that led to the Civil War—regarding the economy of their region, their relationships with other humans who were seen as basically inferior blacks, etc.—playing out within current-day national and state political emphases.
Here in the United States, as we females have played out our culturally designated gender roles relationships have been one of our central focuses, activities, and topic of conversations with other females. In my Life my daughter Kim and partner Jim have been central relationships. Earlier this month I sent a book and accompanying letter to Kim, that brought my relationship with her to the present. These are major portions with a few small edits, from what I wrote:
Dear Kim, July 2014
Recently I've been in a process of completing my decades-long focuses of seeking basic personal power for myself, while also playing a part of encouraging others too in those ways, such as was one of my core intents in early 1999 when I began writing God's River of Love.
In your and my relationship from the start of your physical Life as Kim, I did what I could within the context of the time, place, and era, to provide an environment for you that was as close as I knew at the time to the basics of the Earth system—a place to celebrate the sun, the seasons, night/day, and all the wonders of the natural world, which I believed we humans were of course part of. In addition, I purposely didn't program you with many of the more debilitating and erroneous-based cultural designs (as I saw them), while energizing my own designs that there were more fundamentally realistic ways of thinking that could and would be discovered.
Then through the years I set forth the clearest communications I could as I moved along my self-chosen trajectory of getting as close as I could to the basics of divinity, the basics of the Earth system—their inter-relationship—and “how it all works really in this realm of Being.” Throughout my explorations I delved into many perspectives, worldviews, and large-scale belief structures in the past and present, from a combined coupling of both my basic intellect and experiences within various structures.
Along the way I shared with you some books (and other materials) I thought were valuable for you to be aware of …
And Now I/We, as-an-integrated-wholistic Being, are sending you the most concise and basically realistic worldview I/We are aware of—Seth's The Magical Approach … dictated through Jane Roberts in 1980. In The Magical Approach, I think Seth is directly saying, “This is it folks. This is how it really works in actual/factual ways‚ that are basically safe, sane, easy and effortless .… if you decide to use them as an overall framework, and are effective in implementing them.”
Jim and I recently read The Magical Approach aloud together, including conversations between us. I was pleased with what I've already achieved during my “journey of 1,000 miles,” as I/We Now implement the whole worldview Seth is proposing, as I/We translate and apply it.
As an integrated, composite Being, We have gone beyond previous focuses of basic personal power because We've concluded that by not using disabling designs from The Experiment, Our basic human nature is already naturally self-empowered.
And I want to add My/Our sincere Appreciation for so many of your emphases over the years, including how often you held me in the imaginative light of divinity with highest good wishes, and the lovely, Loving gifts you sent to both Me and Jim. Thank You.
Whether you choose to read any of Seth's book in the present, or in the future, or not at all, is totally up to you as far as I'm concerned. My primary intent is to get my part right, both as your mother and a fellow Earth traveler, without any expectations about your free will choices and freedom to choose.
And so I'll close with Love and Best Wishes, J
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In addition to the book Jim and I published, my manuscript that is on our J & J website, and blogs I've posted since 2009, I think there's a lot more happening at each moment within an inner communication dimension of our Beings. Awhile ago Jim wrote an essay he titled “The Internet and the Innernet.” The following are excerpts from his writings:
“The Internet is a mechanical-electronic network of and from communication by humans for the use of humans. It is limited by the existence and access to the machinery that creates it and the system that distributes it. It is also limited to receipt by those who have access. In comparison the Innernet is unlimited. It requires no machinery and equipment, and no distribution system. The Innernet is fueled by the thoughts and emotions of consciousnesses of all kinds and is open to receipt and use by humans and all beings in the whole of being. It is truly egalitarian and open. There are no secrets, so direct communication is the way it works.” In the same essay, he added, “So even though we have the wonder of the Internet manifested in our lives we also have an Innernet built right in our Being. I am intending to explore it much more extensively while I still have access to this physical body and see what we can do.”
One of the awarenesses I have now is that as the human species we have severely cut ourselves off from what I've experienced as The Basic Creative Process—that is, designing everything at the get-go—including who/what one is as the essence of oneself, who/what one is as an individual and as a spirit-being, what our bodies are and aren't, what our relationships are with other humans and other species members, the purposes we set forth and the patterns we originate to actualize them, the connections we make, the results of it all in terms of experiences—and then the evaluators we each use. Instead, as a species I think we have been primarily focused upon the result phase of it all.
A central basic I've become increasingly aware of is that nothing is really rigid and static … everything is always in a transformation process—just look at the natural world without distortive lenses!
I have also concluded that each person needs to get wholly in the processes of her or his own Life in order to Understand their own originations, opportunities, and responsibilities. During my explorations I discovered that we humans had used and were using many Experiment basic assumptions as our operating patterns and evaluators—such as survival-of-the-fittest in competitive ways— becoming clearer about the ones I still energized and then effectively dissolving them. Moreover, I Realized that the fundamental basics of the Earth system itself and also Basic Divinity have been and are ever-present as the foundation framework for all our lives and Life choices.—as many people have been aware of over the ages.
In transformative value-fulfillment terms—which is how I choose to think it really works—in the present I've been aware of many emphases I made in the past commingling with each other now in potential value-fulfillment ways. One of them are heart-wrenching stories I was hearing in the later 1970s-early 1980s about Vietnam veterans who had returned to a tumultuous America where there were protests regarding the Vietnam War, racial civil rights, along with the other American cultural eruptions taking place. Many of them felt scorned when they returned to their home-land. And some of those vets went off into the forests of Washington state's Olympic Peninsula, providing for themselves an easier environment from their perspectives. But as I heard some of their stories, they still had terrible flashbacks and nightmares about their experiences in Vietnam.
In our current-day world in the U.S. there are many stories about veterans from recent Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, where we now have a volunteer fighting force as contrasted to the draft during the Vietnam era. And most Americans today think our U.S. veterans deserve medical treatments, including an array of drugs for their pains that include mental/emotional sufferings. The other day on NPR I heard some first-person stories from vets who are voluntarily choosing to stop taking many or all of their medications … and I wondered how they were coping with what I hear are horrific nightmares. And so it is, from that overall context I'm offering the following perspective/suggestion:
In his essay about the Internet and Innernet, Jim discussed the use of dreams, which he and I have both done for decades, each in our own ways on a nightly basis. My suggestion to those who are suffering mentally/emotionally is to use a very different framework within which to view their identity and lives. Seth says the dream state is actually a realm wherein each of us have opportunities to explore various probabilities and options, helping us decide which one or ones we then want to manifest in what he calls Framework 1. (He calls the inner dimension Framework 2.) Throughout his books, Seth has interwoven exercises and activities to help acquaint an individual with their own basic processes and procedures, saying that each event and experience is actually a fluid story, that there are other stories an individual can originate … that nothing is basically static and rigid. Jim and I have individually used those exercises many times in past decades.
At the end of the dyadic biography of my manuscript, Within the River of Love, Translations and Applications, that is on our website withinlovesriver.com—wherein I wrote about Jim and I—there is a photograph Jim took of a swam taking off. At the time I wholistically and intuitively chose it as a symbol for each of us as a participating individual while The Experiment played out, as it is obviously doing at this “time ” … where each of us Now can Be Unfettered and Liberated, beyond gender, relationships, and other collaborative cultural design entrapments. Real Freedom can Now ring and sing in right-sized ways without grandiosity or impotence!
