The Purpose of Creation: Why Consciousness Becomes a Story

The Purpose of Creation

[00:45] Q – Why leave unity at all?

“Dear Thom, if our natural state is a Unified Field, and we aspire to live that state and or return to that unity, then what is the purpose of birth into a singular trapped little state of consciousness?

On appearance it seems as if we decide to be born only to rub against the grain of our natural being, fighting passively to recover or return from where we came, to suffer the indignity of leaving home and then to spend our life finding our way back to it. What’s the purpose?

I’ve developed good experience at knowing what possibly is better not to do or engage in, which has been a long way around to find that Being is as fruitful as doing.

Kind regards, Rick.”

[01:38] A – The Purpose Is Storyline

I’d like you to read Homer, and particularly his book The Odyssey, where Odysseus, whom the Romans renamed Ulysses, goes off on an adventure from his comfortable home on his comfortable island with his beautiful wife Penelope and his wonderful son Telemachus.

Instead of staying home and enjoying the unity, he just finds himself forced to go off, and then you read page after page after page of the wondrous and wonderful adventures of Odysseus on his odyssey.

If Odysseus had not gone off on his adventure, we wouldn’t have that marvelous book.

[02:55] Manifestation Is Sequential Elaboration

Now, what’s the purpose of departing from Unified Field consciousness into diversity consciousness, diversity-dominated consciousness, and then returning to Unified Field consciousness? The purpose of it is storyline.

We could ask a larger question. Since everything is emergent from one indivisible Unified Field of unmanifest Nature, Unified Field has two natures, unmanifest Nature and manifest Nature.

Everything is emergent from, everything means every form, every phenomenon, every subnuclear particle, every wave function, every molecule, every being, every form, every phenomenon, everything, all is emerging out of the unmanifest field of pure Creative Intelligence that has infinite potential embedded in it.

And then it breaks its symmetry, retaining its unmanifest Nature, but adding to it its manifest Nature, where there is storyline, there is sequential elaboration.

So what is that sequential elaboration doing? It’s working in a sequence from lesser knowledge, lesser sophistication, to ever increasing greater knowledge and greater sophistication. In aid of what?

In aid of being able, emerging from all of this relativity and ever change, to experience the truth once again of the underlying field of unmanifest Nature, which now one can see, that unmanifest, in fact, is simply undulating as all of this relativity.

[05:22] Variety Makes Potential Interesting

So what’s the purpose of all this? Why does Universal Consciousness go from being infinite potential, where no thing is happening, no thoughts, no being, no beings, no events, no forms, no phenomena, and move through unmanifestation through manifestation, only in aid of coming back and discovering transcendence and integrating that into the manifest? Why? Why bother?

The answer is story. Story. Sequential elaboration is story.

There’s another way of putting this. Without that fun of variety, just being one unmanifest whole indivisible consciousness state is, dare we say it, boring.

It’s boring just being one, all-capable, all-knowing, when there’s nothing to know. There’s no individuality. There’s no manifestation. There’s no timeline. There are no sequences. Everything is one simultaneous oneness.

Then there’s nothing to know except Knowingness knowing Knowingness, and Knowingness continuing to know Knowingness.

In order for there to be some value in having potential, potential has to go kinetic. It has to go from being just potential into being functional.

[07:04] The Bow Becomes a Story

Leaning over in the corner of the room here are a number of the instruments of archery referred to as a bow.

We look at a bow and we get a little bit kind of curious. It’s a stick. Some of the sticks have curves in them. Some of the sticks are relatively straight. The straighter ones are called long bows and the curvy ones are called recurves, not surprisingly.

You look at it and you think, “huh, that’s an interesting looking thing. Let’s make it even more interesting. Let’s put a string on one end of it. Let’s bend the bow and string it.” Now you have the instrument of archery in pure potentiality.

A bow with a very taut bow string on it, and you lay that in your lap and have a look at it. Fascinating, absolutely fascinating. What’s more fascinating? What can this thing do? What’s it capable of doing? It’s just potential right now.

In order for that bow to live up to its potential, it has to go kinetic. So I take the bow and hold it up like this, and then I take an arrow and I knock the arrow onto the bow string. It goes click, and it’s on there, and then I begin to stretch that string, pushing the bow limb away from me, and I stretch it all the way back out to here and aim it at something safe, like a target off in the distance.

And then, when I feel like it, I let the bow string slide off my fingers, and this thing happens: a story. The arrow spinning through the air and rocketing towards its target at 300 feet per second. That’s what the bow is all about.

The bow is not about just sitting there in the corner being a stick. It’s not about being a stick. What is the purpose of Beingness besides just being Beingness?

The bow, the flat line of Beingness, wants to be curved and strung. That’s when you become conscious of the Beingness. That’s the strung bow. Now it wants to go into action.

And so, to go into action, you have to have thought, that’s the arrow, and thought released into action, that’s the release of the arrow, and to watch the impact of thought moving into action. This is what it’s all about.

So bows are not about a piece of wood sitting in the corner, which would probably make a good piece of firewood on a cold day if you were cold enough. A bow needs to be about moving from potential into the kinetic, moving into activity. It’s about a story. Let’s get that story going. That’s what this is all about.

[10:14] Unmanifest and Manifest Undulate

So what is the purpose of pure potentiality if it doesn’t manifest, break its symmetry, and become the story of you sequentially elaborating and learning more and more, and then going back to and once again embracing, because at the end of your archery session, what do you do?

You put all the arrows away, you unstring the bow, and you lean it back over here in the corner. So there’s its unmanifest version. And then almost manifest version is the strung bow, that’s tomorrow. And then the arrow on the bow string, that’s tomorrow’s story.

So like that, this undulating back and forth between unmanifest and manifest, from pure potentiality to the entire sequential elaboration of kinetic function, this is what it’s all about.

It’s not all about just sitting back, unstrung bow in the corner. It’s not all about just sitting back in its pure potentiality and nothing happening, nothing doing. It’s about movement. Sequential elaboration is the purpose of creation. Story is the purpose of creation. We’re meant to be enjoying it, by the way. Read the Odyssey.

“I want you to read it. At the end he comes back to Penelope and Telemachus and there’s a triumph.” It’s a really worthy read. It might answer some of your questions.

[11:13] Q – How do we know our next steps?

So if life is a sitcom and it’s one just big elaborate story, what’s the point? How do we know what direction, when we step out the door, we’re going to take next?

[11:26] The Riches of Not Knowing

The joy is in the uncertainty. If we do know everything in advance, it’s not a story. If you’ve seen the episode of Seinfeld 15 times and you know exactly what’s going to happen, probably the 16th time is going to be a little bit boring because you’ve got the entire script memorized.

If you walk out the door and you know everything that’s going to happen, you’re not embracing uncertainty. And uncertainty is where all the riches are. “I don’t know what’s going to happen” is where the riches are.

What we’ve demonstrated with the pure potentiality being boring, kinetic being interesting, is that the ever repeating known, Oneness is an ever repeating known, “I’m just one, I’m one indivisible and whole. I’m pure Knowingness and there are no things.” Boring.

What becomes fascinating is I lose my capacity, intentionally, lose my capacity to know. When I was reading a story to one of my kids, it got very exciting at a certain point. And one of my boys said to me, “can we skip to the end and see what happens to Frodo?” And I said, “no, let’s just not know. Let’s not know.”

And I said, “you know one thing though, it’s Frodo who’s telling the tale, so he must be able to survive this.”

So to have baseline certainty that Universe is causing sequential elaboration with evolution, but I don’t exactly know how it’s going to evolve, this is embracing the unknown with enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm, En Theos, means in the style of God. Entheos, enthusiasm is where that word comes from. And that is not knowing, not knowing. All great stories involve not knowing what’s happening next and you having to wait for the sequential elaboration to show you what’s happening next.

[13:47] Q – How do we work with the unknown?

“And how do you operate with Nature to, you know, in the concept of the relative and having goals and the life that we live in day to day, wanting to achieve something, how do we then work with Nature within the unknown and within the chaos towards a specific desired outcome?”

[14:11] A – Recognize the Through Line

We use our excellent capacity of pattern recognition to identify themes of evolutionary change.

So there are changes that occur that are evolutionary. And there are changes that occur that are the non-evolutionary things dropping off. And, getting our pattern recognition capability in play, we can begin to identify the through line of evolution.

What is it that’s flowing frictionlessly like the river, and what is it that’s like the landscape through which the river is flowing that is relative to the river, not as evolutionary for the moment?

And so being able to identify the evolutionary path is the great detective work of every conscious being, and without that detective work, really life is meaningless.