My take on masks.

[Diana]

Certainly.

First, I'm a very good liar.  I use it for defense.  I can't remember ever using it here on this forum (I hope I'm not lying by saying this  ).  I never felt that I had to.  Now I would like to understand why I feel the need to defend in this way.  I accepted that part of me already and I'm not even sure I would want to change that.  But at the same time I can't help thinking that there must be ways of handling those situations as effectively but without lying.  Is it even a blockage in the throat chakra that I would need to address?  I'm not sure.  An example: It is now fully legal in Canada to use cannabis and when we cross the border into the USA, the border agent can ask you if you have ever consumed cannabis at any time in your life.  If you answer yes to that question, you are not only refused entry, but you are banned forever to enter the USA.  I have absolutely no qualms whatsoever lying in such situations.  Not even a pinprick of unease.

This is a very interesting quandary. I am sure I would lie in that situation as well, though I don't consider myself a liar, which is what makes this so interesting. The question asked at the border is ridiculous, and it must be a given that people lie about it considering the consequences. I smoked pot in my twenties, and I wonder who hasn't at some time? This brings up the question of whether lying or transparency is the greater path. Would it have been advisable for a Jewish person to be transparent at the border of Germany while trying to flee Hitler's regime? I am not talking about good or bad; as I'm sure you aren't. But I do wonder if it causes blockages. I guess a consideration would be whether the person lying feels any resistance to it.

Also, I have serious difficulties listening to others properly.  I am pondering my experiences in real time pretty much all the time while they are happening (using the Law of One).  So I'm thinking a lot when I'm around people.  If a person starts talking to me, I'll often miss the start of the sentence because I'll let my thinking finish before giving full attention to the person.  And without full attention, what is said is completely missed.  I can only do one thing at a time (yeah I know, I'm a guy ).  I have to ask people to repeat all the time !  Plus I'm starting to lose a bit of my hearing it seems.  My father has serious troubles with his hearing, so that's not very surprising.

Listening is certainly an art and a service. In my experience very few people really listen. It is something I work on as well. The way I deal with it is to make a commitment when I interact with others. This is easy for me because I am alone most of the time and I work a lot (alone). So when I do decide to go out and interact with others, I make the commitment to do so and be of service. Therefore, listening comes easy. Difficulty arises with less than a handful of family and friends, whom I interact with randomly. My greatest issue with that is people talk about things that don't interest me (like you, my interests are philosophical in nature, or business oriented), so I lose patience at times.

It is curious to me that you have hearing problems. I know Ra says that the mind creates the body from the archetypes (paraphrased of course). But how does DNA figure into that? I have a similar situation. I inherited my father's talents, chief among them advanced artistic ability, but I also inherited his myopia (near-sightedness). I am the only sibling of 4 who did. So how does that fit with the idea that the mind creates the body? The myopia was likely there at birth for me, and got to a point where it became obvious around age 6 (it is progressive myopia). I have often speculated that when I "came here," or incarnated, I did not want to see what was going on here—because otherwise I have always been super healthy. It also has occurred to me that I come from a place where the eyes were very different, because as a child I always thought my eyes looked wrong. But how does that square with genetics?

So I am working on those two themes at the moment.  Mostly on listening.  And it's working too, I'm getting better.  Yesterday I even had a bit of telepathy it seems.  I had one of my elbow on the dinner table and my mind was screaming at me to remove it from there.  I remember thinking: "C'mon, no one here is giving any attention to a small thing like that".  But then my wife whispered to me: "Could you please remove your elbow from the table!" .  It was crystal clear to me that this happened because I am currently working on blue-ray.

That's awesome, and encouraging.