Many Ways of Being
Teacher: Scott Walter, Sensei
Being in the eternal plane and being in the temporal plane, which is an aspect of the eternal, refers to a state of being, a way of being, something being, someone being what is, has been and will be in something that is, that was and will be. It represents and refers to “be”ing and anything and anyone that is, was and will… and to the many ways that can be expressed and that which is being expressed and that from which the expression comes, serves and intends.
Being, being of, and being a certain way means that something has been, is being or will be that way. Nothing can be unless it is.
Thoughts, ideas, feelings, dreams, memories… everything… attitudes, knowings, inspirations, and inventions are all from being and beings being the form of that being. It was written, “To be or not to be,” and many believe this refers to living or dying, but it really refers to being this or something other than this.
When we believe there are no beings, we fellowship with the beings who believe that. When we believe that all beings are good, we fellowship with the beings who believe that. When we believe in fear, we fellowship with other beings of fear. This happens outwardly and inwardly and the inward will produce more outward.
There are many ways to be and there have been many ways of being recorded within the human and also recorded on the outside in our history, architecture, art, music, language, science, religion and more. Just as there are beings dwelling in various states of being in our outside world, there are beings dwelling in various ways in our inside worlds.
Being in the spiritual plane means something is being in the spiritual plane and there are many ways of being, therefore there are many states of being and these can only be because they have been, are being or will. For anything to be it has to become, and to become is to come to being that which is the way that defines it.
There are states of being that exist because — meaning caused to be — they were animated or existing in the form described by the state of being that they were being, or are being or will be. Beings must always exist for anything to be. If something is being something, then something has to be the something that is being what the something is. Nothing exists unless it is. When nothing becomes something, it is. It is not always what we think it is, but it is. Any form of being may have more or less to do with what it is being. This is why we must be careful in how we judge the way something or someone is, has been or is becoming.
When I speak of beings I am referring to the beings being the beings I am referring to. Even general states of being have beings being them or they would not be states of being. Souls are beings and they exist as they have been and are now being. The current state of being of certain souls can be different from what the being was being before, but the being that was being the experience of the soul is still being something, and the newer something includes all that it has been and how it combines the many beings into a way or state of being in the current moment.
Some beings have been being what they are being more consistently than some beings that are less consistent. Some more consistent ways of being that become tendencies and pulsars in the starry heavens are examples of this type of being. Some beings tend more to conduct higher forms of love and truth and some beings tend to deny truer love and more loving truth. Archetypes exist because something is being them. If the somethings that are being them were to cease being them, they would no longer be.
Some people may think that beings that are no longer being are still being but only as memories. But the only way the memories can still be is when the beings that were being them are still being, even though they may also be being something else and they may also have been something and will become something else.
The potential for what has not yet become a state of being is still being the potential and the potential will still be the potential even when it gives itself to become a being other than the potential. The only way the potential can cease to be is when the potential has been changed in form from the potential in every regard, and even then the potential will be existing as a being that became the being that it gave itself to become. In this example, the potential would still be within those beings that Knew it.
Some states of being are inhabited by many beings, while others are uniquely sparse and even solo states of being. The state of being created by the being of a being living in that way of being, can also be being in that state by other beings that have adopted the way of being in that particular state, who might continue the way of being that form of being while the former being or beings being that way moved on to another way of being. The ones moving on bring with them a sense of the former state of being, which can influence the new state of being, and it can even know that influence if it still Knows what it was being before it became what it currently is. And if it does become aware, it will change the state of being to one that also Knows what it is, based on what it was, and taken further, it can also come to Know itself to realize what it is becoming.
Within each of us is an awareness of our former states of being, our current inner states of being and what we have come to be and are becoming. Even our current and past current relationships over time in eternity are affecting our being what we have been, are being and will become. We do not typically access this awareness because the space within us that lacks an awareness of it, or because we are tending to dwell in states of being that are in denial of our greater awareness. Negative beings and negative states of being tend more toward this, not because of something necessarily bad, but because the relative negative state turns us away from the more Knowing being positions within.
Maybe we do not have enough relationship with the beings within that do Know, or maybe we are moving away from being what that Knowing would reveal. There are many values for being and each value reasons according to its position.
Knowing the beings and Beings is to know ways of being and to Know Ways of Being. Our inner world is made up of a myriad of beings and states of being just as we can see outward examples of in life. Remember, whatever has come to be, has come to be from within!
Look at the stars and galaxies in space and know that those stars are also within you. They all came from within and so have you. Everything that has ever been is still existing within everything that is. It is our way of dwelling in the moment that makes us more or less aware of everything that is.
Scott Walter, Sensei
September 23, 2009
Many Ways of Being
© 2009 by Great River Institute
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