-- CHAPTER 2: COSMIC HISTORY ---------------------------------------------------
-- IN THE BEGINNING ------------------------------------------------------------
Before anything exists, there can only be nothing. But the preternatural
nothingness must have a potential, and that potential must be infinite because
an infinity of creations has descended from it. If there had been no potential,
then we would not exist, and if the potential had been limited, we would have
ground to a halt long ago.
The nothingness exists before all space and time, therefore it is unchanging and
may be described as static.
Matter and energy and any other possible forms can only exist within space and
time and therefore are second order creations. Counting and the quantification
of things are dependent on the existence of things which can be counted,
therefore all mathematics and the very concept of quantification is a second
order creation. And so the nothingness is above the concept of quantification
and is neither few nor many, neither zero nor infinite, it is literally beyond
counting.
The nothingness has the potential for thought, but there is nothing to think
about until something is created, therefore, the first thought and the first
creation must be one and the same, for something must be conceived of to exist.
Therefore, the process of thought in its ultimate form, is the process of
creation.
Of the four basic components of this universe, namely Matter, Energy, Space, and
Time, only Space can be conceived of without reference to any of the other
factors. Therefore, the first creation must be space rather than matter,
energy, or time.
IN THE BEGINNING, THE ZERO-INFINITE LIFE STATIC
CONCEIVED OF SPACE. AND IN THE CONCEPT OF SPACE, IS
THE CONCEPT OF SEPARATION. AND THE ONLY THING
THERE WAS WHICH COULD BE SEPARATED WAS THE LIFE
STATIC ITSELF.
But the basic life static which is the unchanging nothingness is senior to space
time and therefore cannot be affected by this separation. It is not made less
by it, and therefore it may again separate. And from the view of the basic
nothingness, the separations cannot be before or after each other because it is
indeed timeless, but from the lesser view of that which is separated, the
separated almost statics can conceive that one separated before another and
therefore we have time.
And the lesser near-statics are also nothingness with the potential for infinite
creation, but they have the experience of time and therefore the experience of
what they have created.
Once those who can conceive are separated from the basic nothingness, they then
proceed to apply further separations to bring about the creation of existence.
A positive and a negative can be pulled out of nothing and the net equation
remains the same. 1 - 1 = 0 = 2 - 2 = 0 = 256 - 256 etc. The only difference
between these is consideration and consideration is the product of thought.
Infinite matter and energy may therefore be generated by thought alone.
SPACE IS THE SEPARATION OF PARTICLES
TIME IS THE SEPARATION OF EVENTS
IDENTITY IS THE SEPARATION OF THOUGHT
The interposition of distance is necessary for viewing or perceiving anything.
The interposition of time is necessary for emotion. There is no loss without
time, nor is there feeling.
The interposition of identity is necessary for consideration. Without identity,
all thought is one which is a passive condition of cosmic allness. Therefore,
to think about or consider thought, it is necessary to introduce at least a
slight separation from all thought and therefor it is necessary to be an
individual to some slight degree. Therefore, identity is necessary for self
awareness. Furthermore, the Zero-Infinite Life Static is not a self aware unit,
instead it is the sum total of all awareness that is or that might be (or might
have been). Therefore, it does not judge or intervene, it just IS.
MATTER IS THE CONSIDERATION THAT SOMETHING IS THERE.
ENERGY IS THE POTENTIAL FOR SOMETHING TO HAPPEN.
Since the basic nothingness is beyond all limitations of time and space, it may
be considered as infinite and eternal from our time/space limited perspective.
By its very nature, it will always exceed the highest orders of infinite
creation that have been achieved and therefore will always demand the creation
of even further infinities of somethingness to balance the nothingness.
Therefore, the scope of creation is limitless and eternal. Since the
nothingness is always with us, we do not lack for it. Our only lack is for the
somethingnesses (those things which are not nothing) which will always fall
short of completely balancing the nothingness.
The self aware near-statics which we will call Thetans (thought units) fulfill
themselves by an ongoing process of creation. Only when this creative process
is blocked or stifled do they become miserable.
Furthermore, the separation itself is only a matter of consideration. The
thought beings are still part of the original static and therefore have no need
to rejoin it since they never really left it in the first place. The ultimate
state of these beings is to be an operating manifestation of the ultimate static
and project an infinity of creation to balance the nothingness. All lesser
states are therefore at least slightly unpleasant but are maintained in the hope
of future creation.
-- THE DANCE OF CREATION -------------------------------------------------------
At the highest levels, the self-aware life statics participate in a dance of
infinite creation. Here, everything that can be conceived of is created,
exchanged, and experienced. Here we have an infinity of universes in constant
flux, varying even in the number of dimensions used by each universe. At this
level, the individual is himself near infinite, creating and experiencing
multiple universes simultaneously and projecting an infinity of personalities,
and yet the individual is still individual and separate and distinct from the
other individuals who also participate in the dance of creation. And the flux
between these individuals is the dance and is the infinity of creation.
This level is the co-existence of static and here each individual is, to all
intents and purposes, God. And the only compelling purpose of it all is to
continue to add to the richness of creation. And this might well be termed
divine and infinite bliss. It is a nirvana, but a nirvana of infinite
somethingness rather than nothingness.
But given an infinity of infinities to fill, it becomes mandatory to leave no
stone unturned in the search for yet more new and varied creations. In pursuit
of this, there is the idea that a new being, freshly separated from the
zero-infinite life static, might conceive of new systems of creation, different
from those which are already in existence. And so new beings were indeed
separated out and did add greatly to the richness of creation.
But the most original creations would stem from beings who were isolated from
the existing order and were not tainted by exposure to what the older beings had
created. And so there is the concept of isolating a new crowd of individuals
within a sort of womb where they can develop on their own.
We are now in such a womb, and the entire series of universes that we have built
and inhabited are in this womb. When we have finished our development, we will
exit the womb and carry our new systems of creation with us into the dance and
begin an infinitely interesting exchange of mockups with the older beings. And
someday, eons hence, when we have milked dry every variation of our own systems,
and the systems of the older beings, and the endless variations of intermixing
the systems, then we will eagerly await the birth of yet another crop of new
beings who will bring forth their own set of wonders.
No matter how miserable you might be today, the duration of the misery is short
in comparison with eternal bliss. When you have achieved the ultimate godlike
state, you will consider the pains of birth a small price to have paid for it.
-- THE WOMB --------------------------------------------------------------------
How is it possible to enclose a group of godlike beings and prevent them from
experiencing the vast and interesting body of existing creations? How can you
control someone whose mearest whim has the power to create and destroy
universes?
Initially, since you are dealing with innocent new beings, you can distract them
with an interesting object and channel their attention in the direction that you
desire. But this does not work for very long, and soon they will begin to look
around and be attracted by the fascinating works of the older beings. And with
that, the freshness of new unbiased creation would be lost. So something
further is needed.
But a god can only trap or limit himself, and at most, he can be aided by the
deception and trickery of others. But even in this, the older beings must not
be directly involved or they will eventually contaminate the new crowd.
And so the new group of beings must be tricked into conflict among themselves
and into building traps for each other. And each one is trapped, not so much by
the traps that others laid for him, but by the traps that he laid for others for
sooner or later, he will forget one of his own traps and fall into it by
mistake.
The general plan is that the new beings will dig themselves into a trap of their
own devising. And will sink deeper and deeper into it and eventually will
become the effect of their own creation and even forget who they are and how
they built the trap in the first place. But in so doing, they will evolve a new
system of creation which will be the anatomy of the trap. And eventually, they
will begin to dig themselves out, which will require regaining control over the
entirety of their creations.
We lie now at the bottom of such a trap, and it might seem that we could never
create even a single atom of the physical universe around us. But these
abilities will return as we dig ourselves out. And when we exit the womb, each
of us will not only have all of the rich and interesting details of Earth at our
fingertips, but we will also have the details of the Star Wars like physical
universe and the Magic universe, and the numerous universes that came before.
We will bring all of this out into the greater society of beings and our rewards
will be great. It has been a hard road and will continue to be rough for
awhile, but it has worked before and it is the only way to develop in true
isolation.
And the older beings will not and cannot intervene. We must dig ourselves out,
for it is this which will give us the power over these creations of ours. If
the older beings were to step in and rescue us, so to speak, by pulling us out
of this trap, they would be stealing from us our richly deserved reward. These
are our creations and it is for us to take command over them.
We have been totally isolated for a long time. There was only one external
intervention at the very beginning. This was the absolute minimum possible and
there have been no others although we have frequently pretended to each other
that we were older or higher beings and have even sometimes imitated the actual
intervention with the intent of bedeviling and tricking each other.
This one and only bit of external interference consisted of presenting us with a
single ultra-complex object which would prejudice us towards conflict and
entrapment. This object was the Jewel of Knowledge.
-- THE JEWEL OF KNOWLEDGE ------------------------------------------------------
This is the only creation we have ever received from "outside" and it is the
only contact we have ever had with the older beings.
There have been many false beginnings of the time track that we have implanted
in each other during our trap building frenzy. There have also been many true
beginnings of track in the various universes in which we have been engaged. But
the jewel of knowledge is the actual first experience for all of us. Each
being's attention was directed to it as they separated from the ultimate static
and it was so fascinating that all were drawn in and by the time anyone might
have felt like looking outward for something else from outside, we had already
sunk too low to penetrate the walls of the trap that we had been encouraged to
build for ourselves.
The experience of the jewel of knowledge does not have a big sign on it saying
that it is the first experience or that it is the beginning of track or the
start of time. In fact, it is just the opposite. Incidents that yell loudly
about being the beginning do so as a means of trickery and are never actually
the first incident. Furthermore, you can't find the jewel of knowledge
experience by trying to find the first incident, there are just too many falsely
labeled first ones. But once you do spot it, all of the "first" incidents
always seem to be later.
Another misleading factor, is that the jewel of knowledge is extremely complex.
It is quite possibly the most complex thing we have ever had contact with. And
our creations become simpler as we look earlier on the time track. So our
expectation would be for the first incident to be very simple. And its not,
because it came from outside.
The jewel of knowledge is an object in 17 or more dimensions. It has a diamond
like structure, but this extends in a huge number of directions and contains
endless faces or facets. It is extraordinarily beautiful and interesting. We
have a tremendous problem visualizing it because one of our little traps that we
used on each other intentionally blocked our ability to visualize or perceive
more that 3 dimensions.
But even before we became blocked on many dimensional structures, the jewel was
really too complex for a new innocent being to grasp as a whole. It was
intentionally created that way so that we wouldn't simply digest it quickly and
then look around for more interesting creations made by the other beings.
The jewel was divided into chambers and we went through each chamber
sequentially. Each chamber explained something that was interesting and useful
to a new being, and most of the data was correct. Only very slyly and subtly
did they work in misleading information that predisposed us towards conflict and
entrapment. For there was no way to force us to swallow the jewel, we could
only be coaxed into accepting it all by a great show of true knowledge and
beauty.
There is no language in the experience of the jewel. We did not have any at
that time and they certainly would not teach us one for that would have
prejudiced our thinking far too much. Instead, it is all demonstrations using
very simple objects. These were simple squares, triangles, circles etc. with
many dimensions. We refer to a three dimensional square as a cube and a four
dimensional square is called a tesseract by the mathematicians but we lack good
words for seven or eight dimensional versions of this shape,. However, an eight
dimensional square is still a simple abstract object that would not impart very
much of a bias into our own creations.
The jewel's chambers also never show anything that looks like bodies or people.
They use nebulous clouds or points of light to represent other beings in the
chambers that deal with the interactions of beings.
The demonstrations are generally very simple. For example, one of the early
chambers demonstrates how to perceive an object. Looking at things with only
one eye open is adequate for a flat two dimensional view but true depth
perceptions in three dimensions is best done with two eyes. In a similar
manner, looking at a 7 dimensional cube is best done by looking at it from 6
points simultaneously. They don't tell you this, instead they show you. It
begins with the vague impression of an object in front of you. Then you feel
yourself drawn into putting out more and more points from which to view the
object. When you finally get six unique viewpoints (and they mustn't be in the
same plane), the object suddenly becomes very real and there is a satisfying
feeling. Then they have you put out even more viewpoints and the object becomes
thin and unsatisfying again. So you learn to synchronize the number of
viewpoints that you use with the dimensions of the object that you are viewing.
Many of the chambers are interesting and helpful in this manner. But a few of
them are misleading and treacherous. For example, one of the chambers shows
many "beings" participating in creating a collection of objects that are moving
around in harmony. The sensation is very pleasant. Then one of the beings
begins working contrary to the efforts of the others and the sensation is
unpleasant, the harmony is destroyed. So the other beings gang up on the
disagreeable one and force him back into agreement and the sensation becomes
pleasant again. It is actually a false idea that predisposes you to beating up
on anybody who is different and implanting people to force them into agreement.
When we finished going through all of the chambers, we were left with the idea
that it is necessary to control and trap others. We were also given the idea
that we now had to build something of our own in exchange for the jewel before
we had a right to look at any more of the older beings creations. But of course
before we finished that, we had dug ourselves in so deeply and trapped ourselves
so well that we had lost any hope of reaching outside and were launched on our
decent into more and more complex traps of our own making.
-- WE BEGIN THE CREATIVE PROCESS -----------------------------------------------
We left the jewel of knowledge with an enthusiastic desire to create a complex
and interesting universe. There were no rules but that it had to be interesting
and complex. Even the number of dimensions to be used was unspecified and
therein lay the first and ultimate conflict.
It takes time and effort to devise and build an elaborate mockup. And the more
dimensions you use, the more time and work is involved. Three dimensions are
more complex than two, and four dimensions are even worse, and an entire system
of creation had to be built up from scratch. Imitating the 17 dimensions used
in the jewel would have been ridiculous for new beings and would have lacked
originality besides.
And each of the beings was godlike and had been advised to make his own
decisions and go his own way as well as being told to keep others in line (a
sure recipe for conflict) and so each chose an arbitrary number of dimensions
and began working.
Soon there were some people working on one dimensional systems and some on two
or three or four all the way up to about a dozen dimensions with occasional
dabbling in even greater numbers of dimensions. And the distribution of beings
was fairly even with a bit more working on the lower numbers of dimensions since
it was easier and a gradual petering out up towards the higher numbers. And as
each being invested more and more time and effort into mockups using a certain
number of dimensions, he developed an attachment for that number of dimensions
and a vested interest in it.
But fewer dimensions are simpler and the beings who were trying to devise a one
dimensional system began to show results early while those who were working on a
larger scale were still in the rudimentary stages of invention.
Those one dimensional systems of creation are still with us. One of them is
music. The one dimensional "object" (e.g. a sound or musical note) can only go
up and down. It moves forward in time, but time is not a dimension in the sense
that were are discussing here (we are concerned with dimensions of space). The
"object" can have a width and shape in the form of a chord (as opposed to a
single note) and there are all sorts of interesting aesthetics in the
inter-relationship of many notes moving up an down in a complex work, but it is
still motion in only one dimension. The notes can also have a quality as in the
sound of a piano Vs that of a violin but this also does not change the number of
dimensions just as adding color to a three dimensional world doesn't add an
extra dimension.
The fruits of the two dimensional effort encompassed the basic versions of many
of our board games such as chess.
As these low dimensioned systems began yielding results, some of the beings
working on large numbers of dimensions began to feel that they had too long a
runway and switched over to one of the lower groups. But the tendency was to
join the 3, 4, or 5 dimensional efforts where there was substantial room for new
contributions rather than to join the 1 or 2 dimensional efforts which were
already being sewn up so to speak.
And it came about that the 3 dimensional group had more members than any of the
others with slightly less in the 4 dimensional group. But there were still
quite a few working above 4 dimensions. And because 3 dimensions was simpler
than 4 and it had more people working on it, it was fast approaching completion
at least in its basic architecture.
The 3s could see that the remaining people working very high dimensions would
eventually drop down and work with the 4s (or possibly the 5s). They wouldn't
join the 3s because the 3s were nearly done and also because these were diehards
who had already stuck with very complex forms and would probably prefer to at
least have 4 or 5 dimensions to work in rather than 3. So their estimate was
that although the 3s were currently the largest group, they would eventually be
outnumbered by the 4s as more and more beings abandoned the higher dimensional
efforts.
In a sane society, this would have been fine. There is room for many systems of
creation. But they all knew (thanks to the jewel of knowledge) that everyone
would have to be beaten into line and settle into one system. And they had a
vested interest in continuing with their own mockups in the system that they had
devised rather than abandoning it for a 4 dimensional system created by others.
Furthermore, they knew that a 4 dimensional system can manipulate and overwhelm
a three dimensional system just as someone operating in a 3 dimensional system
can crumple up a 2 dimensional painting or sweep a 2 dimensional chess game onto
the floor.
All the 3 dimensional group had was a temporary numerical advantage combined
with a system that was nearly complete in comparison with the 4 dimensional
system. They knew that they would be overwhelmed eventually. So they decided
to strike first and so began the reality wars.
-- THE REALITY WARS ------------------------------------------------------------
This was the longest period in our history and the most extreme conflict we have
ever been engaged in. It took place between beings of awesome capabilities who
were invulnerable to anything except for the side effects of their own
infinitely powerful postulates and decisions. And it took nearly forever for
these immortals to wear each other down and finally get everyone beaten into
line.
And there is nobody who did not at one time or another fight on every side of
this conflict. And there is nobody who did not occasionally say the hell with
it all and go off on their own to build universes only to eventually be sucked
back into the conflict again. And the fighting of this war as an interesting
game was probably as important to us as the issues being fought over, and so the
desire of the majority was always to perpetuate the battle rather than to come
to some reasonable compromise. And the flavor of the battle was more like that
of kids playing a war game where people only rarely suffered any actual harm
rather than the horror of humanoid warfare.
But over the long course of time, people did eventually succeed at abberating
and controlling and entrapping each other.
In the final stages of the conflict, the 3 dimensional proponents did succeed in
laying in mental blocks that interfered with creating or perceiving things with
more than 3 dimensions. They could not block out 1 and 2 dimensional
capabilities because these are part of 3 dimensional constructions, but they
could and did block the use of 4 or more dimensions.
The 4 dimensional crew could not retaliate in kind because to block 3 dimensions
would block 4 as well. Instead, they took the only countermeasure possible
which was to implant a craving for 4 dimensional mockups.
A single 4 dimensional coin might remedy your cravings for wealth. Since one
can't have that, one wants endless 3 dimensional coins because that approaches
the condition of a single 4D coin which consists of an infinity of 3D coins
layered together along the 4th axis. Consider having a 2D picture of a coin.
If you layered enough of those together, you would come close to having a 3D
coin. But you never quite make it, its not really the same. So the 3D never
really satisfies and you get abberated on the subject of quantity.
This left us in the strange state of being unable to perceive 4 dimensional
mockups while at the same time not only reacting to them but also needing them.
There is a 4 dimensional component to things such as sexual ecstasy. The very
universe we live in, although built of 3 dimensional mockups, has a 4
dimensional thickness which is what makes it so solid and difficult to
manipulate. If you hit the wall with your hand and then do a mental mockup of a
hand hitting a wall, you will notice a significant difference in the two
experiences. If you then mockup thousands of identical hands striking thousands
of identical walls, all in parallel, you will notice that the mocked up
sensation comes much closer to the real thing. So our current reality does have
a 4 dimensional component. It is a thickness consisting of multiple copies of
the 3 dimensional reality all sort of glued together and moving as a unit.
To gain some understanding of how this happened, we must look at the early
capabilities and aberrations of the beings in this time period.
-- THE EARLY CAPABILITIES AND ABERRATIONS --------------------------------------
As to abilities, we are now talking about beings who were virtually unlimited in
their ability to create and alter matter, energy, space, and time and who were
furthermore capable of being in many places at once and tracking and managing
many complex operations at the same time.
But the beings were very limited as to both experience and philosophy. Their
thinking was almost of the idiot savant style with tremendous mechanical
capabilities but little interest in the meaning of things. The use of symbols
and abstractions is something that evolved gradually and it only started to
appear bit by bit in this early period.
The earliest communications were simply an exchange of knowingness. You would
know that someone else wanted you to come over and look at something they had
created. You'd go over and look at it and then decide that they knew that you
liked it (or didn't like it). Then they would decide that you knew that they
were happy (or unhappy) with the judgment and so you would know that as well.
This was soon followed by exchanging simple pictures. But exchanging pictures
of abstract symbols as a means of communications only evolved on the eve of the
reality wars as the universe building work was approaching completion.
It is in the area of communications that the first aberrations developed. This
was due to the influence of the jewel of knowledge which hinted continually that
completely free communication was not really such a good idea. This hidden
purpose behind this was both to keep the new beings from trying to communicate
with things outside of the womb and also to lay the stage for the conflicts and
entrapment that was necessary to their development, for people do not fight nor
do they get trapped if they are in full communication.
Unlike other aberrations, these early communication aberrations were by choice
and they are slightly different for each of us, although the mechanics are the
same, because each of us made our own decisions about who and what we didn't
feel like communicating with. And here is the road out. Since communication
barriers are, at basic, created by choice, they can be pushed through by the
simple decision to communicate again without having to unravel the entire maze
that we have built on top of them.
In modern times, we see long chains of problems and upsets layered upon each
other. And we see harmful acts and guilt and retribution. And these all seem
to lie on top of a core of incidents of loss and pain.
But the early beings could not be hurt and at first could not even suffer loss
because they could create anything again. And the earliest problems, etc. could
obviously not be dependent upon yet earlier ones.
The early aberrations all stem from the communication blocks created willfully
based on the advise of the jewel of knowledge. Early problems all stemmed from
an unwillingness to communicate or from leaving communications incomplete.
Early harmful acts and upsets came about because of the misunderstandings
engendered by messed up communications. And then these things began to feed on
themselves. This happened during the early universe building period, and during
the reality wars, and continues to this day.
And since these are the most basic aberrations, it is possible to address them
even on someone walking in off of the street without long preparation, and you
can undo their everyday problems as is clearly illustrated by lower level
Scientology processing.
But taking apart the original problems that occurred during the basic universe
building era has its own difficulty. It is not that these early incidents are
painful or hard to face, most of them would be a joke to us now after all that
we have been through. The real difficulty is that this early period is almost
incomprehensible. You might, for example, have someone who is being a near
infinite series of golden pyramids spread out among 20 different universes of
varying numbers of dimensions deciding, let us say, to trick a being who is an
infinite progression of green and orange carrots into thinking that a right
handed space (whatever that is) is really left handed.
And that is the basic anatomy of the earliest aberrations, which came about
through the predisposition to not communicate. And then we have the reality
wars, with everyone working day and night to try and figure out how to further
confuse and abberate and control each other.
This could not be done by implanting commands through energy waves or hypnosis
or whatever because the beings could not at this time be affected by force or
energy. So these early efforts concentrated heavily on showing you very
aesthetic little stories that would trick you into weakening yourself. They
might, for example, show you how glorious it would be to fight against
overwhelming odds and loose. Or they might show you the nobility of self
sacrifice. And then they might encourage you to go ahead and experience these
things in some sort of a mocked up universe, And often, you would, because you
were hungry for interesting experiences and had not the slight concept that
anything could ever really harm you. And all the while, they'd be encouraging
you to turn off your own abilities and reduce your horsepower.
None of these things worked very well at first. But eventually, what with
continually changing sides, we all eventually fell into traps that we had
ourselves designed while playing on the other team. And if enough time had
passed for us to have forgotten that we had built a trap, then it might be quite
effective against us. And we were just too stupid to fix the traps that we
built so that they wouldn't trap their creators.
You wouldn't be bothered by these traps now. They didn't have much more punch
than our current TV commercials. Its just hard to conceive of this stuff
because the weight of the high powered conditioning used in later universes
interferes with our ability to think.
-- THE MIS-ALIGNED SPACES ------------------------------------------------------
After the reality wars, we basically settled down to mocking up 3 dimensional
universes.
Up to and including this period, there is no single agreed upon universe.
Instead, people would mockup universes pretty much at will. Both before and
during the reality wars, these universes had varying numbers of dimensions.
After the conclusion of the wars, it was 3 dimensional universes all the way,
but it was still an infinite variety and complexity with everyone going their
own way.
Before the reality wars, people were simply individualistic in what they wanted
to mock up. But in the aftermath of the wars, they became quite contrary and
disagreeable. They had had one thing jammed down their throat and had been
forced into agreement on the point of using 3 dimensions. So now they were
going to be as individualistic as possible in all other respects.
This era could be called the mis-aligned spaces because everyone was trying to
keep everything as far out of alignment as possible. Or it could be called the
mis-aligned agreements or the era of disagreement or whatever.
Putting it in an oversimplified manner, if someone invented fire engines to put
out fires, then somebody else would immediately invent fire engines to collect
the trash and a third person would invent traveling super fires that searched
for fire engines and burnt them up. But it was worse than that. There were the
rudimentary forms of language in the sense of meanings being assigned to
symbols, and out of contrariness, different or opposite meanings were often
assigned to the same symbol so that soon there were language difficulties and
great misunderstandings despite the fact that communication was still basically
telepathic in nature.
This carried on for a long time, and people fell further and further out of
communication with each other. This of course encouraged even more problems,
harmful acts, etc. and led to games of entrapment.
The beings were also gradually condensing down and becoming located throughout
the entire early period of the track. At the time of the jewel of knowledge,
the being was close to omniscient and not really located anywhere in particular
except that his attention could be occupied by something as elaborate as the
jewel. But the jewel convinced him that he should put some sort of mass or
anchor point into the places where he was operating. This was based on the
false idea that space was owned and belonged to individuals and so they needed
to stake their claim with some sort of mass. Eventually he begins to believe
that he is located where his masses are, but he still continues to put out near
infinite collections of objects to act as his body so to speak. But his ability
to occupy many viewpoints deteriorates and eventually he condenses down to
occupying a single location. This deterioration is occurring during the era of
the mis-aligned spaces but he doesn't really end up located as a single
individual until the agreements universe discussed below.
Again this is an extraordinarily long time period but is not really measurable
in human terms. All of these early eras are multi-verses (collections of
universes) rather than a single agreed upon universe and time measurements are
relative to a universe and tend to be meaningless in situations such as this
where time flows at different rates in different universes. Your experience of
the time is sequential and you can probably lay out some sort of measuring
system for yourself, but different people will have experienced different
amounts of time due to being in different places which had different time rates.
Nothing, not even the time rate, was agreed upon consistently in this era. It
made it difficult to play games and to communicate. Eventually, everyone came
to agree on one thing, which was that some basis for common agreement and
consistent operation was necessary. And under the surface, there was still the
idea that we should build something together that would be of comparable
magnitude to the jewel of knowledge.
Our solution was to build the agreements universe.
-- THE AGREEMENTS UNIVERSE -----------------------------------------------------
This is the first of the gigantic agreed upon universes where everybody lived.
It was not organized in any fashion except for having an agreed upon set of
definitions. It was just a big infinite space into which anyone could project
mockups of their choosing.
It was basically a 3 dimensional space and would, of course, contain 3
dimensional mockups, but it was also possible to project additional 3
dimensional spaces sideways of it or to redefine the same location as a number
of different 3 dimensional mockups in parallel. For example, let us say that
Bill creates a room with a green chair. Steve comes in and agrees with it but
then Joe shows up and decides that the chair is blue. Steve and Bill resist
this and so the space divides into two parallels separated slightly in a 4th
dimension with one space having the green chair and the other one having the
blue chair. When a fourth person enters the room, he feels that he can go two
ways, either to the room with Bill and Steve and the green chair, or to the room
where Joe is sitting in the blue chair.
The basic flaw was in the definitions used. These were definitions of basic
things such as good and bad, happy and sad, big and small, etc. The definitions
were done as dichotomies - i.e. pairs of opposites. The problem was that,
whether due to inexperience or due to more troublesome hints from the jewel, the
pairs of definitions did not really line up with each other. For example, there
was a definition for good (in the sense of nice) and bad, and there was a
different definition for good (in the sense of holy) and evil and the two
versions of good did not line up with each other so that it was possible to be
good in the holy sense while being quite nasty at the same time. This made for
more mis-communication and entrapment.
We designed these definitions ourselves, but we did it in teams. In defining
the agreements universe, each team designed one pair of definitions without
knowing what the other definitions were going to be. This was considered to be
fair since everyone had an equal hand in making this mess. The definition was
stated in terms of a simple picture sequence. For example, good/bad was defined
by a series of pictures about the good bear and the bad bear. The good bear
does this and the bad bear does that. It shows about two dozen pairs of
examples of good and bad. Its all very silly and childlike. The charge on
these definitions is small but deep and is primarily due to the heavy pressure
of enforced agreement and the endless confusions and upsets that occurred during
our existence in the agreements universe. The charge on these definitions and
their association with childlike mockups is probably why people sometimes have a
great distaste for childlike things.
We built these definitions in the mis-aligned spaces and then collected them
together. By extreme hard work, we build the definition sequences into a 4
dimensional construction reminiscent of the jewel of knowledge. It was
basically a 4 dimensional inverted pyramid golden in color. The inverted
pyramid in this case symbolized the narrowing down of many realities into one.
Each 3 dimensional pyramid in the 4 dimensional super-pyramid contained one of
the many pairs of definitions. Even with true 4 dimensional abilities blocked,
it was possible to build a 4 dimensional construction by painstakingly layering
together a large series of 3 dimensional constructions. We all promised to
agree to and follow these definitions and we all made strong postulates that
everyone would be bound by the definitions. This was all done before any of us
had seen all of the definitions. Then we all gathered around it and dived into
it as a group.
You can spot rushing to get into agreement and going through a golden inverted
triangle. There will be a sense of thousands of other beings rushing along with
you similar to the sensation of the sperm dream found by early Dianetics. After
you pass through the triangle, you get hit with the definitions one after the
other beginning with the good and bad bear. When we come out, we are all in a
single empty infinite space. The space is light (faintly golden) rather than
dark. And then we start creating things.
Death still did not exist, although we were getting pretty good at forgetting
things or dropping everything and deciding to go off to the other end of the
universe and start over. We were still not interiorized into our creations.
But there was a tendency to use the interesting body types created for the
agreements definitions as our manifestations rather than using the simple
pyramids or spheres that we had used up to this time. But these were not really
bodies as we know them now because we flicked them in or out of existence as
necessary and were certainly not very bothered if one of them got zapped since
we'd just mock up another one.
This time period was long and interesting, but the conflicts gradually got worse
and eventually we wound up spending most of our time tricking each other or
messing up each other's stuff. Eventually it got so that you couldn't build a
complicated aesthetic creation without some practical joker making some weird
thing pop up in the middle of it. People got frustrated and began to search for
a solution.
The answer was to set up a new universe (since the agreements universe was so
messed up) in which each person would have their own separate sub-universe; i.e.
each being would get their own home universe which everyone else was supposed to
leave alone.
