Timebody

[Russell Smith]

Student in BLUE.
My response in BLACK.

Ruminations, observations and questions:

I have probably asked this question before. So be it. Is the “Timebody” considered the same as the “Mental Body” and/or the “Soul”?

Hmm. Good question. Moments of Here and Now place us in the present time body. Moments that connect the Here and Now to a There and Then explain why the Here and Now is what it is. Remembering the past is remembering the past. Seeing the past’s connected threads to the Here and Now, in the Here and Now, is like becoming present to myself in the past even though I may have not been present to myself in the past. Kind of like infusing a moment of consciousness backwards through time and seeing myself There and Then as if it was a moment of Here and Now. This conscious viewing we call Timebody. I don’t think Mental Body or Soul is applicable, although the entirety of the fabric of me may be involved with the crystallization of Higher Bodies, i.e., even though I see things that will become fundamental bits in its future crystallization, they themselves cannot yet be called crystallized Higher Bodies.

Why do you consider Double or Nothing 1 more significant than April Fools?

April Fools shows a man how to re-attain Higher Emotional Center/Steward/conscience… the center my dog has. DoN-1 shows a man, who has re-attained a Higher Emotional Center, how to attain Higher Mental Center/Master/reason and impartiality… the proper center for a man. So, to me, the latter is more important. A lot of stimuli can make a man self-conscious (jumping off a bridge with a bungee cord… or any subjective awakening). So, first we need an objective way to awaken but then we need an objective way to fulfill that awakening. Although they are both very important, I see greater significance on my discovery of DoN-1 (an objective way to attain Reason and Impartiality) than on my discovery of April Fools (an objective way to attain Conscience). So, I don’t know… Awake, Die, be Born Again. Awaking is necessary, but dying guarantees being born again. Take your pick.

In your second presentation to the All and Everything Conference, A Law-Conformable Schematic for Awakening Higher Centers, you talk about the descent of the face cards and aces. Amazing image (clarifies the overwhelming sense of “ordinariness”). The various group leaders step down, the teacher leaves her office and enters the classroom! Would the principal be equivalent to the Joker/Extra Joker stepping down and entering the classroom?

The Extra Joker is equivalent to Conscience/Teacher and the Joker to the Master/Principal.

I do the exercise, “I AM, I CAN, I WISH” frequently. I associate the words with an image of a Carriage, Horse, Driver and Master. It goes something like this:
I AM: Master visualizes Driver (Purpose); I CAN: Master visualizes Carriage (Ability); I WISH: Master visualizes Horse (Instinctive Need)
I AM-CAN: Master visualizes Driver properly seated on the Carriage next to the brake (Ability unified with Purpose); I AM-WISH: Master visualizes Driver’s connection to the Horse through the reins (Purpose unified with the needs, desires and spirit of the Horse); I CAN-WISH: Master visualizes the connection of the Carriage and Horse through the shafts (Ability unified with the needs, desires and spirit of the Horse.
I-AM-CAN-WISH: There is Nothing (not even “I”)

Good. Very much like how it is described in the Archive:

#10. “I AM”, “I CAN”, “I WISH” – Life is real only then, when “I am”, Pages 110-111 & 135-136, Chapters Third Talk & Fifth Talk:

This is simply: A man is liken to a carriage, horse, and driver. The CAN is the carriage, the WISH is the horse, and the I AM is the driver. So when a man does this exercise he is acknowledging the three parts that are necessary for the Whole to function. He says I AM and acknowledges his driver. He says I CAN, and acknowledges his carriage. When he says I WISH, that is the power of the horse — the property of recognizing his horse. Then he says I AM CAN, which connects his driver to the carriage by his seat and the brake. Then he says I AM WISH, which connects his driver to his horse through the reins. Then he says I CAN WISH, which connects his carriage to his horse through the shafts. And then he says I AM CAN WISH, and recognizes the Whole as a team.

So…
I AM, I CAN, I WISH
I AM CAN, I AM WISH, I CAN WISH
I AM CAN WISH

And in so doing he recognizes them individually, recognizes their connections to each other and then recognizes the commonality of the Whole. All functioning in UNITY.

I AM… I CAN… I WISH

Man is 3 parts: upper, lower, and middle.
driver – carriage – horse
knowledge – ability – power

I AM CAN – the driver is connected to the carriage by seat & brake.

I AM WISH – the driver is connected to the horse thru the reins (the reins are visualization). He can’t just say to the horse don’t be angry. The emotional center doesn’t understand words. He has to visualize himself not being angry. That will instruct his Horse.

I CAN WISH – the carriage is connected to the horse thru the shafts. A strong connection. This makes it hard for the horse to turn without going in a big circle.

I AM CAN WISH – recognizes the whole as a team.

I would also insert this idea into the overall exercise: Purpose is of the Passenger; Knowledge is of the Driver; Ability is of the Carriage; Power is of the Horse; and Ownership is of the Master.

But “What Is”. I AM THAT I AM.

It signifys that the Higher Mental Center only has two parts – the Mechanical Part (intellectual center, "I") and the Emotional Part (higher emotional center, "Am") – and that the third part of the Higher Mental Center, i.e., the Intellectual Part, is the combination of its Mechanical Part ("I") and its Emotional Part ("Am") into "I Am" – its Intellectual Part… thus I often say that in the Higher Mental Center, "God is His own third part", or as God puts it, "I AM THAT I AM".

I hesitated to bring this up in Ventrilo as I did not wish to introduce something subjective into the exercise. Comments?

You are always welcome to convey ideas in Ventrilo. Perfect ones will be applauded. Ones that need slight corrections will receive slight corrections, and then be applauded. Ones that are totally wrong will be (to the best of my ability) made totally right and also be applauded.

Thank you for the explication and guidance through the “I AM” exercise. It did indeed leave me speechless. Question? Since “I” on the in-breath signifies the totality of one’s acquired knowledge, the formulation seems to suggest that “I” is something acquired; if so, that would seem to suggest that the ultimate reality of “What Is” is beyond any sense of “I”, any sense of Truth, any sense of Rules and Laws. ULTIMATELY: WHAT-IS-IS-WHAT-IS.

Indeed, until the "I" (of what is acquired) matches the "is" of what is.

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