"Why come to Earth in the first place? Earth is not the only place in the universe where there is a time-space reality system, nor does it lie on the only vibratory level where there are space-time realities, but life here (because of the nature of life on Earth and the extreme dualities and polarities involved) represents one of those places that represents a unique challenge to any entity who has problems to work out that require such a location. According to Monroe, any time-space scenario (of which Earth is a whopper!) has unique aspects which contribute interesting ways to the development of both intelligence, awareness and experience.
Why Earth experience? Choice.
Many
that reside on other vibratory levels choose not to participate in 3rd
density direct experience, especially because of the effect of
sequential/group habituation and suppression of the unique individuality of
the Higher Self, and have not developed knowledge and comprehension of as a
result of having chosen this kind of experience, especially from a
simultaneous point of view – that’s why they feel the need to be obeyed, worshipped, and identify with CONTROL and MANIPULATION. Going to a level where the NORMAL non-physical rules of existence are suspended is beyond their willingness to give up their identity with control. Psychological
identification with the physical body is ubiquitous. This is the environment
in which we choose to participate.
Next, it requires that you select a propitious birth entry point with appropriate genetic, environmental, social, political and economic patterns that you calculate will ensure realization of the very purpose for your entry into 3rd density, despite the existence of variable that could severely impact the realization of ones purpose, and the whole journey may involve taking certain actions to realign the probable/possible income. Since there are many who seek embodiment experiences (and many who seek to avoid it at all cost), very often a specific kind of birth entry point is not available, and one is presented with less than ideal circumstances. It’s sort of like bungee-jumping without the cord.
Bam! Out of the tube with previous memories veiled and into the light. No longer in your natural state, you suddenly discover that the physical body has severe restraints. A while is spent playing with your toes and other strange appendages, trying to obtain control over them before they obtain apparent control over you (that happens later when “body consciousness” is reinforced to the maximum through social conditioning). In your natural state, energy simply flowed to you. Now you have this overwhelming desire to consume nourishment for the body, amidst a cacophony of sensory overload, genetically-programmed drives (and later, raging hormones), genetically (and later culturally) programmed response patterns which become habit, and genetic memories from anyone who ever had anything to do with the DNA patterns the body is composed of. Combine all of these with pain, pleasure, sexual stimulation and body-driven emotional complexes. What a bungee jump!
Since you are seemingly stuck in a genderized body, you are subject to various brain learning mechanisms. Primary learning occurs when you focus on something. What you do not have a focus on (when you have a focus on something else) is the “stuff” involved with secondary learning processes, and a third form of input occurs while your body is sleeping and you end up in a brief, non-functional void. Initially, and probably throughout a good part of your life, your attention is motivated by virtue of the pain-pleasure cycle. Then, you go to cultural “school”. “School” is a process of non-educational programming stressing low-order repetitive experiences and the physical senses, which results in an unnatural situation centered around the knowledge, manipulation and control of physical matter and low-order energy systems geared toward reinforcing survival imprints and social ego-orientation, as well as BELIEF patterns, many of which are not at all based on actual experience, which results in the establishment of a secondary psychological drive in society to “look for what is true”. The process also eliminates any remaining threads of contact with essence-memory and knowledge of your actual origin and identity. Then, you “interact in society”.
Society is where the individual is conditioned to identify with the body and then the ego/image, in that order, and accumulate emotional attachments relating only to expression in a time-space reality, to the degree where a compulsive need develops to re-enter the time-space continuum (trapped on the lower rings, again?) solely for the purpose of satisfying the need to complete physical agenda. “Human” existence can become addictive. The original genetic survival drive of the body becomes further distorted through cultural programming and results in distorted patterns which focus on body protection (where is that gun?), body maintenance (what IS that new aftershave?), sexuality and reproduction, and the need to “protect things” that “one owns” in order to “support the body”. As if that is not enough, sex as a creative act is distorted to the point where it results in irrational and restrictive “attachments” and “commitments” based on cultural ideas that are actually unattainable, besides being an addictive perspective itself. But, they don’t tell you that, do they? You’ll understand a lot more as you read this book. You are advised to go through the material once, read the Q&A and then re-read the material for the maximum impression.
Important: You may believe you “are” a “male/man”, or a “female/woman”, only when you as an androgynous spiritual being operating through a body buy into the cultural lie and the DNA programming that says or makes it seem you “are” your body and the gender of the body. Are YOU really a “male”, or a “female”? No! However, most incarnations here think they are! When you read the term “male/man” or “female/woman” later in the main material, the author is talking about those who at this time believe they are their body and gender, not the spiritual being who they really are. If you take some of the material relating to gender “personally”, that shows your orientation, right? Right. To be “offended” on one hand, and at the same time claim to be in a spiritual orientation, just shows you’re trying to fool yourself. You can’t, so don’t try. You would do better, to the degree you can, to move toward orientation with YOU, and alignment of your “persona” with who you REALLY are. No one knows YOU better than YOU. Your various persona are temporary.
The focus on all of this is further reinforced (especially if the skin of the body you inhabit is of a shade that provokes judgment among the unenlightened who identify with the body) by cultural importation of opiate drugs by the controlling powers of society, inundation with neurologically mind-bending pharmaceuticals and the rest of it, all of it designed specifically to keep the attention of your consciousness bound within the purview of the lower three structural areas of the brain, as well as to financially sustain cultural and economic infrastructures based on ego, security, image, sensation and power --- all of which have absolutely NOTHING to do with WHO the entity really IS or WHY the entity is here on Earth in the first place. Except for experience. All of this results in the “search for the meaning of life”, because the creative energy within the essence, the spirit, is functionally diminished to where the SOURCE and one’s true identity, is forgotten.
Monroe’s Recommendations
Monroe’s advice about experience on Earth was to:
1. Store the memory, experience and wisdom in life and leave the emotion connected with the experience behind.
2. Recognize that you are responsible for the results of your actions within a space-time continuum.
3. Enjoy the cosmic humor in life. You need to expand beyond social consciousness to see it.
4. Seek to remove emotional energy from your being connected with pain/pleasure connected memory patterns.
5. Maximize sleep periods, promoting tertiary learning processes, creating a break from left-brain thought patterns and “physical input”.
A lot of these recommendations Monroe made with the intention of giving people guidance on “purging” habitual thought patterns and beliefs. If everyone took his advice, John Edwards would play to an empty house. Of course, that’s not going to happen.
Monroe’s Meeting With Some of His Incarnations
An interesting interaction in Ultimate Journey, Chapter 12, occurred between Robert Monroe and what he termed his “executive committee”. In his travels outside 3rd density, Monroe encountered this group of entities who indicated that in all the times during his life where he had anomalous incidents (such as coming through unscathed after an accident, or finding something you really needed, just when you needed it, or listening to a subtle voice and acting on it) it was them, either one or more, sometimes even from other energy systems, who actually manipulated circumstances in physical reality to allow “Monroe” to reach an understanding or goal which was in line with his incarnational mandates – the main purposes, intent and experience desired by the Higher Self in the first place relative to that specific incarnation.
Asked by Monroe if they were his ‘guardian angels’ “They” replied:
“We aren’t your anything. You and we are the same. You’ve been helping yourself all the time. We are just the part that helps you remember.”
Most surely, adventures in consciousness are sometimes like psychotherapy on steroids, producing tremendous leaps in understanding and knowingness. Monroe asked why people went through multiple lifetimes, and it was indicated that the unique nature of experience as a “human” meant that it was not possible to get enough 3rd density experience in one incarnation. These other components of Monroe’s Higher Self indicated that information from more than a thousand incarnations on Earth, relative to his Higher Self, is immediately on hand:
“Every possible situation is here, every emotion. There is nothing you can encounter in an Earth life that isn’t stored here … in fifty different ways.”
They told him that he had incarnated this time to pick up one final piece of experience, and that after this “they would be gone” to a place only Monroe’s “I-There” (Higher Self) could tell.
Simultaneous incarnations are in different periods because the different dynamics provide more varied experience. Although not on 3rd density Earth, sequential incarnations in 3rd density are typical of “alien” experiential processes. It is also where we started before we chose the simultaneous path of acquisition of experience. Sequential incarnations experience a lengthy evolution in societies that are usually socially boring, where everyone looks the same, acts the same, etc., and the planet or race evolves as a group.
Monroe pondered on the idea of the incarnations that had seemingly “run astray” by being caught up in belief systems, and indicated that it seemed “like a waste”, but he was told that much was learned from what happened in those experience – there are no wasted incarnational experiences. It also appears that one task of Higher Self complexes is to “pick up” previous personalities who had become so overwhelmed with Earth life, it’s addictions and belief systems that “the essence of the personality was unreachable”, and restore those personalities.
One of the more interesting discussions about what Monroe called the “I-There”, what we refer to as the Higher Self, revolved around a discussion about an un-named field of energy which penetrates both inside and outside of space-time, throughout all the densities. According to Monroe, this spectrum of energy was seen as divided into various “bands”, one of which involves an aspect of this field that actually “in-forms” or enfolds intelligence into life forms. According to information given to Monroe, the Higher Self is composed solely of this field energy.
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