Topic: Intuitive Upthrust

[nichi]

I become more and more convinced that the mass psyche is preparing for another intuitive upthrust, and that within its vast ranges it does possess the solutions, visions, and wisdom that we need. That power is making itself felt in the private arena. It’s expressed and personified in the psychic experience of large numbers of people. It speaks through the spacemen and saints and psychic heroes of automatic writings and Ouija board messages; even in the cults and the frenzied activities of the fundamentalists. The mass psyche is looking for a way out of official beliefs. It’s ready to form a more comprehensive vision.

But we must stop automatically taking such information at face value, translating it automatically through ancient beliefs. We must look directly at our own experience again—and learn to trust it. We must be our own psychic naturalists, combining reason with intuition. We must refuse to let old theories define our realities for us, limiting and distorting the very scope of our lives.

Instead, we must learn to acknowledge and interpret our own psychic perceptions; to distinguish between, say, psychic newscasts, documentaries, dramas, fantasies, and educational programs. We have to learn to read the language of the psyche and to discover far more about the psychodrama’s strange blend of inner and exterior events. And to do all of that, we have to trust ourselves and our impulses.

In order to be sane and healthy, in order to even begin to understand our potentials as a species, we have to cultivate ideas and philosophies that provide us with a secure psychological base as good creatures, alive in a good universe. Otherwise, by our own definitions, we condemn ourselves as meaningless subjective mechanisms, or as the sinful children of an ancient revengeful god.

From The God of Jane: A Psychic Manifesto by Jane Roberts

[Michael]

The mass psyche is looking for a way out of official beliefs. It’s ready to form a more comprehensive vision.

this is interesting - I was at a seminar last night at the uni, by a man speaking of exactly this matter, albeit in a slightly different way. I would like to summarise his ideas elsewhere when I get time.

He talked mainly of Thailand and Asia in general, but demonstrated how it applied everywhere. His primary point is that the official line is very different to the popular world. In Thailand the people are immersed in the world of spirits with an intensity that is not recognised by official levels. He gave many reasons for this, but one was the people who made maps, where land was give a distinct secular stamp, aside from a few big temples.

He talked about how western culture was also responsible for this, but that everywhere, in people's lives, places and things were of significance often in spiritual ways, that has no recognition in the official religious or secular institutions.

Yes, I feel all is not lost when seen this way - there is a change happening.

[Nichi]

I become more and more convinced that the mass psyche is preparing for another intuitive upthrust, and that within its vast ranges it does possess the solutions, visions, and wisdom that we need. That power is making itself felt in the private arena. It’s expressed and personified in the psychic experience of large numbers of people. It speaks through the spacemen and saints and psychic heroes of automatic writings and Ouija board messages; even in the cults and the frenzied activities of the fundamentalists. The mass psyche is looking for a way out of official beliefs. It’s ready to form a more comprehensive vision.

But we must stop automatically taking such information at face value, translating it automatically through ancient beliefs. We must look directly at our own experience again—and learn to trust it. We must be our own psychic naturalists, combining reason with intuition. We must refuse to let old theories define our realities for us, limiting and distorting the very scope of our lives.

Instead, we must learn to acknowledge and interpret our own psychic perceptions; to distinguish between, say, psychic newscasts, documentaries, dramas, fantasies, and educational programs. We have to learn to read the language of the psyche and to discover far more about the psychodrama’s strange blend of inner and exterior events. And to do all of that, we have to trust ourselves and our impulses.

In order to be sane and healthy, in order to even begin to understand our potentials as a species, we have to cultivate ideas and philosophies that provide us with a secure psychological base as good creatures, alive in a good universe. Otherwise, by our own definitions, we condemn ourselves as meaningless subjective mechanisms, or as the sinful children of an ancient revengeful god.

From The God of Jane: A Psychic Manifesto by Jane Roberts

[Firestarter]

Thats very wise. I think its been upthrust-ing for quite some time. Certainly theres still some who are 'living in the past' in various ways and its not good. They havent modernized enough. We all do it - look back. I think what it is though is 'how do we look back?' Are we looking back but our eyes are fixed, or are we taking something from the past, assimilating it perhaps, then moving forward. There is so much more in forward movement, we all need to do it.

I like what she says about direct experience. In the end, its what matters. Its important. We have our own direct experiences with spirit and we cannot let that wash away, write it off because of what some naysayers might say about it. Thats also part of moving forward.

In so many ways we 'are' our experiences, deep down. Nuts and bolts of it. Not just what the past gives humanity.

[Nichi]

“Only people who trust their spontaneous impulses can be consciously wise enough to choose from a myriad of probable futures the most promising events ...” Seth

[Nichi]

Excerpt from The Nature of Personal Reality, Jane Roberts
The Nature of Personal Reality. Amber-Allen Publishing. ISBN 1-878424-06-8; Roberts, Jane (1977)

Telepathy operates constantly.