Hatonn and one mind

[Stranger]

True story, peregrine. I'm working on getting my wings back, even as we speak!

Getting back to the original question, it occurs to me that it may be helpful to define what a thought-form is, vs. the Creator's Awareness or Presence.

A thought-form is like a computer circuit. It defines pathways through which current may flow. It constrains electrical current in particular, specific ways. And by imposing these limitations upon it, the circuit also creates possibilities of something more complex and interesting and useful being produced.

However, without electrical current flowing through it, a circuit is a dead, lifeless thing.

This is exactly what everything we can see, touch, or think about is: a thought-form, a concept, a set of rules defining how light may or may not flow through it. Concepts in the Creator's mind.

Without the Creator's presence in it, it is dead - like a costume with no one inside it.

When we are thinking about ourselves in terms of our attributes rather than our Consciousness, we are describing the layered thought-forms that comprise us. Q'uo calls it "the personality husk" - a husk is a dead thing, unless there is something living inside it. The only living thing is the Creator's awareness, which animates the husk and plays the game of allowing Itself to perceive itself as if it were the single husk, rather than All That Is.

Here's a nice explanation of this from Q'uo, http://www.llresearch.org/transcripts/is..._0904.aspx :

It is peculiarly difficult to talk about being, especially because of the fact that we are talking about being in such a way as to penetrate the outer husk of what your peoples consider it to be. So let us look at this just a bit.

When this instrument was five years old, her mother asked her, “Who are you?” This instrument’s mother was a born teacher and enjoyed working with her very intelligent child before schoolteachers got their hands upon her mind. She wanted to explore the world through this young child’s eyes and so she asked the one known as Carla, “Who are you?” and asked her to write down her thoughts. This instrument as a five-year-old industriously sat down and with her childish printing, which is all she had learned up to that point, wrote down that she was a girl and a daughter; that she was a member of society and a citizen of the world, and that she was a child of the Creator.

This is the heart of what we mean by saying that we would like you to penetrate through the outer layers or the husks of what it is to be. You are many things. You wear many masks. And even the deeper ways of being have mask-like components. From the standpoint of waking reality it is very difficult to gain a direct apprehension of your own presence. But we assure you that the part of you that is in flesh and is embodied upon Planet Earth is just the tip of the iceberg, if you will, of who you are.

As a body, mind and spirit dwelling in flesh, you are a doorway through which you have been able to bring, out of all that you are, a little suitcase-full of personality traits, gifts and limitations, which you have chosen very carefully and with exquisite thought. You wished to bring those gifts that you would use to offer your outer service. As well, you wished to bring blockages and limitations that you felt would enable you to be confused in certain helpful ways that would lead you to question your suffering. For indeed, the blockages and limitations are brought through specifically in order to offer you a catalyst, and therefore, what you normally conceive of as suffering, that would bring you face to face with those parts of yourself that you have not yet, in your own estimation, brought into perfect balance.

You are a spark of the Creator. We can only describe this to you in terms of a hologram. You are not part of the Creator. You are the Creator. But you are a spark of that Creator that, from the beginning of this creation, has been on its own journey, doing its own observation and research, culling out for yourself from all of the information and feelings that you have been through the winnowed treasure and harvest of your experience thus far.

You come to this present moment having come through experience after experience, incarnation upon incarnation. You have been through many worlds. You have been all things. And in that part of yourself that is not limited by flesh, you are everything you ever were and everything that you ever will be, all rolled up into the present moment, this precise point at which you are vibrating and experiencing the now. That is the extent of being you. You are all things.

Notice in particular how Quo says "you are not a part of the Creator; you are the Creator". That took me some years to finally understand. I hope I was able to explain it sufficiently well in my earlier post, with the video game metaphor.