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"What will we do," I asked the Master,
"for this other world?" He said,
"You will draw it toward ecstasy just
as your mentors draw you toward
ecstasy. Right now there are brilliant
creatures that are looking at the sky
and devouring the flesh of their own
children, just as you did. Unless you
help them, they will not make their
evolutionary leap in time and will
go extinct."
The Key:
http://www.unknowncountry.com/transcripts.phtml
Stars Nearest Earth:
http://cassfos02.ucsd.edu/public/nearest.html
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The Key, Part I
Copyright © 2003 Unknowncountry.com
This is Whitley Strieber: I've ended up living a lifetime of the
unusual and the unexpected and the unknown. Many, many things
have happened to me, some of which I've written and spoken about,
others of which I have not, but I think that perhaps the central
experience, at least that I remember right now, was my
conversation with the man I have come to call the Master of the
Key. This conversation happened in the small hours of the night in
June of 1998 in the Delta Chelsea hotel in Toronto, Canada. I was
awakened by a knock on the door. I had eaten late and room service
had not yet picked up my tray, so I assumed that it was the room
service boy. I did not realize that it was two o' clock in the
morning or shortly thereafter, so I jumped up and threw the door
open, and immediately a man came in. He was dressed in a gray
sweater and pants, he had white, thinning, hair, and he was about
5'7" or 5'8"; he was not a large man, in fact he was rather a
slightly built man, an older man. He looked to be in his 60s or
70s, and he had a slight smile on his face.
He walked past me very quickly and to windows at the far end of
the room, where he turned around in front of the closed curtains
and immediately began to speak. I began to think that I'd made a
major mistake, that I had let somebody into my room who should not
be there. This has happened before. I was once in a hotel in Chicago
when a fan came into the room late at night. The woman came out of
the closet and engaged me in conversation. It turned out she had
bribed a bellman to let her into my room in order to tell me her
story. Obviously, this was not a good way to get somebody's attention
and I thought a similar thing had just happened, only this time,
since I had been asleep, I had let the individual in on my own.
I was just getting ready to try to throw him out when he began to
speak, and this is how the conversation went:
I said or I yelled something like, "Why are you here?" And instead
of saying, "I'm here to pick up your tray," he said, "You're chained
to the ground."
"Excuse me?"
"I'm here on behalf of the Good. Please give me some time."
"Who are the Good?"
"Those whose lives are directed toward ascension."
"You mean like religious types?"
"Belief impedes release. The ascension I refer to is the process of
finding God within, and the Universe without."
"Meaning?"
"Mankind is trapped. I want to help you spring the trap."
"What makes you able to do this?"
"The key I offer you consists of a new way of seeing yourselves that
will free you."
"There's nothing new under the sun."
"There are thoughts unthought and words unspoken. For example, I have
a message for you about the next Age and the one just passed."
"Dare I ask?"
"The most important thing about the last Age was the Holocaust."
"An Age means what?"
"An Age is a bit over 2,000 years, the length of a Zodiacal sign."
"Yes."
"And the Holocaust was the most important event in the past 2,000 years.
You were meant to have acquired the ability to leave the planet by now,
but you are still trapped here."
"You make me irretrievably lost."
"This is of absolutely fundamental importance, because the Earth will
soon be unable to support you, and yet you will not be able to leave.
This is because of the Holocaust. The destruction of six million may
well lead to the destruction of six billion, so it is the most important
event, by far, of the Age."
Now, subsequent to that, I have made a study of Nazis and interstellar
travel, trying to find out if there was something that ended up lost or
hidden that was discovered at that time that could have taken us off the
planet. Incredibly enough, I found an ally in none other than the editor
of Jane's Defense Aerospace Weekly, Nick Cook, who says that the Nazis
did develop anti-gravity craft, and that this technology is still being
worked on even in modern times by Boeing. Boeing has denied it, but
nevertheless, Mr. Cook, who is one of the leading aerospace reporters
in the world, says he was shown internal documents from Boeing
indicating they are indeed working on this technology now.
It is 60-plus years since World War II ended, and we are still flying
old-fashioned jets that were invented during and right before
World War II. We have made no progress in terms of propulsion since
then, none whatsoever. And I think the Master of the Key knew that,
and that's why he said what he said.
Now let's continue with the conversation:
Next I asked him, "Why has the Holocaust prevented us from leaving
the planet?"
And he said, "The Holocaust reduced the intelligence of the human
species by killing too many of its most intellectually competent members.
It is why you are still using jets 75 years after their invention.
The understanding of gravity is denied you because of the absence of the
child of a murdered Jewish couple. This child would have unlocked the
secret of gravity, but he was not born. Because his parents went, the
whole species must stay. In other words, we were tested. World War II
was a test: Would we tolerate Hitler, or would we not? And we did.
In 1937, ‘38 and ‘39, the world had many opportunities to overthrow
Adolf Hitler, and we did not do that. We elected not to intervene in the
actions of a sovereign state, and so therefore condemned our species to
becoming trapped on the Earth, at a time when we must find a way out;
we must."
This is why, a few months ago, I wrote in my Journal on
unknowncountry.com, that we should intervene in Iraq. I don't think we
should make the same mistake twice. The peace movement is quite right
that Iraq is a sovereign state and under normal circumstances, we should
not have the right to intervene in the affairs of a sovereign state, but
is it a legitimate state when it is run by a vicious dictator? Is any
such state legitimate? I think we should have learned a lesson from
Adolf Hitler, and that the world should proactively intervene in these
cases. We need to establish standards of statehood that are
internationally recognized. We have not done that yet, and as a result,
we have suffered immense damage. We should have intervened in the
creation of the soviet state. We tried to, but failed. We should have
put more energy into it. We should have intervened in the case of Hitler.
If we had done those two things, millions and millions of lives would
have been saved, but more importantly even than that, as the Master of
the Key has said, we would now have the ability to leave the Earth in
large numbers, because the mind that was available to us, or would have
been available to us to solve the riddle of gravity, would have already
been born and done his work. Extraordinary.
So let's go on with the conversation:
I asked him, "You're saying that the catastrophe we're facing now,
too many people and no ability to leave the planet, is punishment
for the Holocaust?"
"What is happening is consequence, not punishment. The Holocaust was
triggered when economic disorder combined among the Germans with the
feeling of being trapped, due to overpopulation. The resulting explosion
drove the German tribe to lash out against other tribes, especially the
one that lived in its midst. Unfortunately, they murdered the bearers
of the intellectually strongest genes possessed by your species."
Then I asked him, "Why are we so blind?"
This is his fascinating answer: "At deeper levels, you are a very
different species than you appear to yourselves. Just as the biblical
story of the fall of Man and the banishment from the Garden is really
an allegory of the destruction of the previous civilization, so, also,
the story of the Fallen Angel is an allegory of your fallen heart.
The Demon is the part of you that hungers for destruction."
Interestingly enough, some months after The Key was published, I
interviewed William Henry on Dreamland about his book the Cloak of the
Illuminati, and what did he say? He refers to the Garden of Eden being
an allegory for a lost civilization, the exact same thing that the
Master of the Key told me in 1998, before I had even heard of
William Henry!
I asked him then, "Why do we do these things?" and he said,
"This is a fallen world." And there followed one of the most profound
moments of my life when I asked him, "What is a fallen world?"
He said, "Be as the lilies of the field."
When we hear that, we think: ‘How can we possibly do that? We need to
make shelter; we need to gather food.'
"You are at war with your fate."
And then I thought to myself, 'At war with fate' I always have seen
fate as being another word for God's Plan,' so I asked him, "Are we
a species at war with God's Plan?"
And he said, "Because you have no plans for yourselves, there is no
Plan for you. God wants companions, not supplicants. Become the
friends of God, and you will find your Plan."
Amazing. We spend so much of our time passively saying, "Oh, well it
must all be part of God's Plan..." when the truth is, if we don't plan
for ourselves, there is no Plan.
"What is God?" I asked him. I figured at this point, why not? Maybe
he's got a good answer; he's got some fascinating things to say,
goodness knows.
He responded in an unexpected way. He said, "An elemental body is a
mechanism filled with millions of nerve endings that directs the
attention of God into the physical."
I immediately responded, "That didn't answer my question."
He said, "It did, very precisely. If you were a friend of God, you
would have understood. There is a much larger world behind your
backs; it is to this world which man is blind. Man is soul-blind and
God-blind."
At that moment, I realized I wasn't really talking to a man, not to
an ordinary man like you or me, but to a man who had been exposed to
something very great, and I thought, ‘Maybe this is an angel," and
I thought, ‘Maybe this is a dead man.' And I wanted to touch him,
and I wanted to put my hand out to him, but I thought there was
something about the moment; he was so contained and he looked,
in a way, so beautiful, that I resisted the impulse to stop the
conversation and hug him, which was very strong. And I asked him,
"How can we change?"
He said, "Surrender to God."
And I said, immediately of course, "What about free will?"
He said, "Free will is only possible in God. The will of the
fallen is slavery."
So I asked him, "How do we surrender to God?"
And here came an answer that I really hated to hear: "Return to the
forest, otherwise you will destroy the Earth and yourselves."
"Six billion people can't return to the forest!" I said,
"The forest can't possibly support us!"
"I agree; it's impossible."
At this point, there was a whole other line of questioning I could
have followed. I could have said, "What do you mean by this phrase
'Return to the forest'?" Instead, I jumped ahead. I know now what
he would have answered, or I think I do. "Return to the forest"
means, essentially, become a good husband of, take care of, the
Earth. And it's an old message, but coming from this man, at this
moment, it's a really important message. It's implicit in what's
written in The Key. I didn't ask him the question. I should have.
I went on, "But if we destroy the Earth, we end up dead, so what
happens to us, then?"
And then he says, "You go forth, even though you aren't ready."
"Go forth? To where?"
"To another state of being. Your access to elemental bodies ends."
And then I thought, ‘What is this elemental-body deal he keeps
talking about?' so I said, "What is an elemental body, anyway?"
He said, "A body formed out of chemical elements, something drawn
from the dust and made alive."
Now what's so interesting about this is, I learned from the visitors
(and this was repeated in a funny way, recently) that the way we
think and act and are an expression of the elements that we're made
of. We are, in that sense, an idea created by the earth. We are a
carbon-based species, and therefore the way we see the universe
around us is determined by the way this element is.
I don't pretend to know how that all works, but at Chilbolton, the
summer before last, there was an incredibly interesting crop circle
image of the medallion on the Pioneer spacecraft. And in the place
of Man on it, was one of the little gray creatures, and the
symbolism indicated that this was a silicon-based species, that
they were telling us, if this is real (and I frankly think it is
real on some level), that they are from a different element;
They are from silicon rather than from carbon. And, according to
what I have understood from them, that they literally see the world
around us in a completely different way than we do, and this might
account for the extraordinary gulf between us and all of the
secrecy and all of the confusion that surrounds our attempt to come
together. It may be that there is some deep, universal level of
reality that keeps us from coming together in the sense that we
see the world one way and they see it another. We think one way,
they think completely in another way because they're built out of
a different element. I can't take it further than that because no
one has ever really thought: ‘Would a creature that is formed from
another basic elemental source necessarily have a fundamentally
different way of thinking and seeing the world than we do?' Well,
interestingly enough, practically the only other element that
scientists believe complex creatures could be formed of would
be silicon.
I asked him, then, "What sort of body would we have without
elements?" because I thought to myself, ‘Well, if elements are
a problem, a confusion creating this gulf, maybe there's something
beyond that.'
He said, and this is one of the most important things that he
said (and we'll develop this over the course of this conversation),
"A radiant body potentially formed out of conscious energy."
Now, this is the first time I had ever heard the phrase "conscious
energy," not "radiant body" (I'd heard that somewhere before),
but conscious energy. So I said, "What is this? How can we put it
to use?"
"Conscious energy", he replied, "is not like unconscious energy,
the servant of those who understand its laws. To gain access to
the powers of conscious energy, you must evolve a relationship
with it, learn its needs, learn to fulfill them. But also remember:
It is part of the electromagnetic spectrum, easily detectable by
your science as it exists now. You can learn to signal and be heard
and to record a response. The veil between the worlds can fall.
The undiscovered country can become your back yard."
At that point, I was immediately reminded of the
spirit-communications field and the people who are trying to
create communications using simple technology like tape recorders
and video recorders, between us and other levels of reality.
And they do record voices, spirit voices. Some of this material
is hoaxed; there is no question in my mind about it, but some of
it is very genuine. Are those voices just random sounds that came
from some radio station a thousand miles away, or is it really
communication with the other side? He says that using technology
that we have now, that we can do this. Is this the correct use
of it? I don't know. You can explore this a little bit more
thoroughly, and I'll tell you how: Go to unknowncountry.com.
Click on the Mindframe tab. On the right-hand column below the
Dana Augustine section (You'll see Dana's picture there), there's
a section called Other Websites. Go to Other Websites and scroll
down to the section called Ghosts and the Afterlife. Click on the
World ITC tab, and you will find Mark Macy's World ITC group.
They have really raised spiritual communication, electronic
voice recording, to an electronic art, and you can try it
yourself; it's not hard. The equipment is very low-tech.
I have tried it; I have not tried it much, and I have never
gotten anything, but that doesn't mean that you won't.
So, give it a shot and see what you think. Is this true?
Can the "undiscovered country" become our backyard?
Well, your backyard might not be a bad place to try this.
I asked him, "But how can you do this?"
And he said, "By first realizing that you are not cut off.
There is no supernatural; there's only the natural world,
and you have access to all of it. Souls are part
f nature."
Now, this is an amazingly freeing concept. We are dividers;
we divide everything: soul and body, natural/supernatural.
Science is constantly saying, "We can't study the
supernatural," and here the Master of the Key is saying,
"There is no supernatural." And if you think back to 100,
150 years ago, radio would have been part of the supernatural.
We couldn't study that because it's impossible, it's magic.
Yesterday's magic is today's science, yesterday's supernatural
world is today's nature, and that has been going on for
centuries. This conversation suggests that a soul is
conscious energy, is in some way part of the electromagnetic
environment, that presumably we can detect it and communicate
with it.
I might add, however, that this level of consciousness must
be highly intelligent, and my guess is, it is in absolute
control of the degree to which we have access to it. As things
become more desperate in our world, we have to ask the question:
Will it abandon us to our fate because we have failed in some
fundamental way and must then go extinct, or recycle in some
long term process? Or will it intervene and help us? I think
that the Master of the Key is an example of that kind of
intervention. This is a little book that has only been read
by a few thousand of you, of the people I regard as sort of
the spiritual elite, who are willing to entertain these ideas,
keep open questions, who disdain cults, who are old souls,
spiritually advanced people, and with open minds and the
willingness to entertain these things--but not necessarily to
make them into a belief system. And I think there's a reason
why this material is going to just this small group of people,
because you're the ones who can actually make use of it and
spread the ideas into the culture in a healthy way rather than,
God forbid, "gurufy" me or decide that the Master of the Key is
the Second Coming or some idiotic thing like that. You take it
like adults, with a grain of salt, with an open mind, in proper
perspective and with questioning.
I then said to him, "I don't feel that we have access to the
whole of the physical world. We're trapped here on Earth, for
example. Our space program has lead feet."
He said, "When you were challenged from the outside, your
government chose the path of public denial and secret defiance.
This is the path to failure. It must change its policy to one
of public admission and open defiance."
Now the interesting thing about this is that he didn't say,
"It must change its policy to one of public admission and open
acceptance," he said open defiance. And this gets me to
something Colonial Philip Corso said to me. Corso said he had
had a direct, face-to-face encounter with an alien. Did he or
not? I don't know, but the thing that rang so true about this
is he had been told to ask this being a question. The question
was essentially: What's in this for us? The answer is a terribly
authentic answer no matter where it came from. The visitors, as
I know them, would have answered the question this way.
The answer was, "What is in it for you is a new world, if you
can take it." If you can take it! That means, on a number of
levels, if you can grasp it, if you can bear it because of the
enormous change involved. Public admission and open defiance.
It does not say that the government should open the doors to
the visitors or that we should, it says that we should defy
them, and out of that friction, there will come the new world;
We will, in other words, take it. The reason for open defiance
is very simple: The visitors will not give us anything, we have
to take it. Everything's a test of strength. If we are strong
enough, this new world will be available to us, but it's going
to take tremendous strength and courage on the part of the
government to admit its mistake, and enormous courage on the
part of the individual, especially if the visitors actually
show up in a public context. After a very short time it would
be discovered that they were not all that easy to deal with,
and they would be demonized. They would be the source of terror
and fear. However, for those of us who know how to handle this,
they would be the source of incredible knowledge and incalculable
new energy. A relationship that is connected, that is based on
friction, is very, very valuable if you know how to handle it and
balance it. It's a constant state of testing, so I think that in
that sense, Colonial Corso's statement was absolutely authentic.
What is on offer is a new world if we can take it.
I don't believe I had spoken to Colonial Corso yet at that time,
but I'm not sure. Anyway, I then asked him, "You speak of secrecy
concerning the alien presence here."
He responded, "Until you take your place, you will remain trapped.
The threats that have been delivered to your government in secret
are a test. To pass it you must defy them. Your place will not be
given to you; you must be strong enough to take it." Exactly what
Colonial Corso said, in effect. Now this is interesting, because
back after I wrote Communion, I talked to my uncle, who's passed
on now, Colonial Edward Strieber, who was a very, very interesting
man. He was a lieutenant colonial in the Air Force, and he told me,
after he read Communion, that he had helped to assemble the debris
that had been brought to Wright Field from Roswell. And, he had
introduced me to his commanding officer, General Art Exon. And I
had quite a long conversation with both of them, and Exon said,
"Oh, we knew everyone from the White House on down knew within
hours that this was not of this Earth, the Roswell crash."
And he went on to say that he had worked with the Air Force to
liaison to what, he said, you know as MJ-12, although that's not
its name. He said, "I can't tell you its name, but I worked until
1963 in liaison with them, and I still go to meetings at Wright Pat
all the time." This was in about 1988, and I based my book Majestic
on what General Exon and my uncle told me, which was essentially
that the Air Force had wanted to reveal this to the public, but
that the CIA had stopped them they felt like the government had
gotten itself into an awful fix because of this. I don't know if
they were right or wrong, if they were just trying to get the Air
Force off lightly in history, but that was certainly their message.
In any case, my uncle said an interesting thing, "The government
had been told that if they revealed the presence of the visitors
publicly, on their own without permission and without agreement,
the visitors were liable to destroy the entire planet immediately,
without warning. And this is why people have died to keep this secret,
and why the government will never divulge it, never."
"A new world if you can take it." The Master of the Key says you
must be strong enough to take it. He says the threats that have been
delivered to our government in secret are a test. Does this mean the
threats are hollow and empty? If I know the visitors, and I think
I know them fairly well (I refer to these little gray beings),
it's not that kind of a test. It would be very, very dangerous
indeed to defy them directly and openly. In other words, there are
much deeper, more complex reasons for the secrecy. I am actually
communicating one of them, maybe the most telling one, without doing
it in such a way that it becomes an official pronouncement and ends
up being open defiance, but nevertheless, the secret is sort of out
at this point.
I then said to him, " I have the impression that the government
knows very little."
He said, "Then you have the wrong impression. But remember that
government is also very complex, and a good deal of it is not what
it seems at all. Much is hidden from your public officials.
This world is run in secret."
Now that started me on a journey that I have not yet left.
It got me interested in people like Jim Marrs and it got me
interested in the realities behind all of those conspiracy
secrets and so forth, the people like James Branford's Body
of Secrets, and the work that we've been doing on Dreamland,
talking about books like The War On Freedom and Peter Lavenda's
Unholy Alliance: The Continuing Presence of the Nazis In Our World.
The things like Hitler's flying saucer--the strange, weird idea that
the Nazis did learn to leave the cosmic egg; they did learn a method
of traveling in the cosmos. And something happened as a result of
that, because of the Holocaust, and because of who, therefore, gained
a hold of this secret, we ended up trapped here, isolated in the
Earth at a time when we really need to figure out how to get out.
I said, "So the government is not what it seems."
He said, "Form an assault on secrecy. You are right to fight against
official secrecy; it is the greatest present evil." That defines my
career, basically, on Dreamland, or one part of it. I am assaulting
secrecy, and you'll see in my Journal entries, in the one on my
childhood that's up just recently, that I am always saying we must
get past the secrecy. We must find a way to do this. He said,
"You must find a way, because the alternative is to be denied your
place in the higher world."
And I said, "What is this higher world?" Because I wanted to know
if it's going be a struggle (and it's obviously a tremendous struggle
to gain our place in it), and is it worth it?
He said, "What difference does that make to you?"
I said, "I'm trying to find out our relationship to it."
He said, "Not all human beings are radiant bodies, but all may become
such." In that sense, for every path that everyone of us has ever been
on, from the beginning of time to now, there is the aim. That's what
it is all about. It is what all prayer is about, it is what all
meditation is about, it is what all spiritual journeying is about.
I'll repeat what he said: "Not all human beings are radiant bodies,
but all may become such."
I said, "You're saying that we don't all have souls?"
He said, "I'm saying that you are not all discrete, radiant beings,
but all participate to some degree or other in conscious energy.
To remain a separate being after death, there must exist the ability
to maintain the structure of the radiant body by the action of
attention. This is why we have been so insistent that you meditate;
otherwise we will lose you when we die, and we don't want that.
If a being cannot self-maintain after the elemental body no longer
does it automatically, it is absorbed into the flux of conscious
energy. You go into the light, as it were."
You know, I always had the feeling that there was something about
going into the light that was a kind of defeat. No, that's too
negative a word: it's a wonderful experience to rejoin the wholeness
of consciousness after death, but potentially there is more--coming
back to, becoming a companion of God. True surrender is not a matter
of being absorbed, true surrender, ironically, is becoming a discrete,
separate radiance. It got me to thinking, what is a radiant body?
And thinking to myself about meditation. Then I remembered I had met
this man before, back in the early seventies, I remembered that
meeting very clearly. Afterwards and before it were what were hard
to remember. As I recall, I was sitting in my little office in our
apartment on West 76th St., just off Central Park. It's where I wrote
The Wolfen. I used to go for walks at two or three o'clock in the
morning in Central Park, and it was while I was on one of those walks
that I was shadowed by a pack of dogs, and out of that experience came
the inspiration for The Wolfen. By the way, you'd think: 'Who in the
world would go walking in Central Park at two o'clock in the morning?'
But it's perfectly safe, if you're not worried about getting sniffed
at by a pack of feral dogs. It's safe because no muggers go there
because they have no business because there's nobody there.
I used to love it.
Anyway, I was sitting in my office one morning, and I had been fooling
with some Tarot cards. I was very deeply involved at the time in the
Gurdjieff work. He came and was there for about half an hour, then he
left again. I remember it this way: I got up from the desk, walked from
the office to the living room and there appeared in my head a whole
path based on the Tarot. Just in a instant, it appeared in my head.
Actually, I had had a conversation with him, but that had been edited
out of my consciousness. I went to my teacher in the Gurdjieff work,
a most blessed memory, Joe Stein, and I laid this path out for him in
the Tarot and he said, "Well, that's quite amazing." And I laid it out
for others, too. I laid it out for Jean Salzburger, who is a dear
friend in the work, and Mr. William Segal, one of the most sacred
beings I was ever privileged to know. And I laid it out for my group,
and it was quite wonderful and elegant and new. And then I spent many
years working in it, with it, and on it, as part of my being, as my
meditation. And I wrote, finally, the little book, The Path, which is
available in my little store on the website. It's based on this earlier
contact with him, and is a method of meditating in such a way that I
think it leads us to becoming more discrete beings so that we become,
potentially, companions of God.
I thought about what it would be like, to die and be a discrete being
after death, rather than being absorbed into the flux. I said, "Isn't
going into the light going to heaven?"
He said, "There is some ecstasy but it's not complete. When another
elemental body forms that fits the pattern of that particular fragment
(meaning you), it will return to the physical in search of more
sensation. Or if one never does, its unfulfilled desires will remain
forever as a part of the tapestry of memory."
In other words, what happens is, you go into the light, but you're
not complete. There are things undone that you need to do in life,
that you feel a need to do. I don't know what they would be, because
I don't have any clear memories of this. I know I've had other lives
so I've done this before; I've gone into the light and come back out
again. I think probably practically everybody on this earth has,
especially us, the "old souls." I think we've probably done it so
darn many times that we're really looking for something else at this
point. Hey, let me avoid it this time; I've been on the wheel of life
so long, my friends. And I know a lot of you are feeling this as well.
The little book The Path is about getting off the wheel of life.
We will return, otherwise, to the physical, in search of more
sensation, and by that I don't mean pleasure. Sensation is everything
that happens in the physical world; it's everything. It is the
existence, the filtering of the future and the past so that we only
live in the present moment. We really don't or remember fully who we
were or understand fully who we are, so we live in this diminished
state in order that experience flowing into our lives will surprise
us enough to etch change on our souls. It is why we are here, it is
what we are doing.
Later, as we continue to go through The Key together, we will get into
this issue of the tapestry of memory that exists in the universe.
This is the personality, as it were, of conscious energy that we are
contributing to. Everything that happens to us becomes a part of this
vibrant tapestry of being, and I will tell you this: I have lived in
and tasted that kind of memory from time to time.
There are cases where people have had operations on their brain.
Their brains have been probed and they have suddenly, vividly relived
an event from years ago in their early childhoods of some other time;
every taste, every smell, every nuance reappears suddenly and they
are living that event again. That's what that tapestry of memory is
like. It's like being alive all at once on a vast scale, not only in
your own rich memories, but also those of millions of other people.
It is a vastness of experience that is not available to the soul in
life because of the fact that so much of our perceptual instrument
is directed into the nervous system and the cells of the body and
out into the physical world. We are anesthetized to this larger
reality.
The danger is that, if we never return--if, for example, the Earth
is never again able to produce a body that fits this particular soul
that I'll call Me, our unfulfilled desires will remain forever part
of us, and therefore, there will be a permanent limit to the level
of ecstasy we can reach. And that is the danger of staying on the
wheel of life. This material is so deep and so secret; it's never
really been expressed like this before.
We've come to the end of three-quarters of an hour together.
That's really enough to contemplate. Chew on this; listen to it
and listen to it again and we'll get back to The Key in the next
couple of weeks. I'll keep doing this until we work our way through
the whole book of The Key. And we're going to work our way through
some other books, too. We'll work through The Path together; we'll
work through some books of the Bible, perhaps. There's a lot of
things that we can talk about. I love you.
The Key:
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