Russian Dolls

The fun of russian dolls seems to be endlessly fascinating, and one way of looking at it is perhaps, that none of them are actually "it." They all point to each other, and the multiple reciprocal references are the explanation of the whole concept more than anyone doll is the explanation of the concept.

I'm working on that kind of an experience in real life, with my weekly workshops at the Theosophical Society in Manhattan, details here: Course in the City, since, starting March 4th, we made a start studying Gary Renard's The Disappearance of the Universe, which is a format we've tried once, with a chapter out of Gary's second book, and it certainly produced an interesting dynamic. So this time we decided to go thorough all of his work in this kind of a fashion. So this is a chance for the members of the group to experience what it might feel like to be an ascended master... or, at the very least to think about it, and to get in touch with our own feelings about this whole story, much more so than if you're just reading it, and it's Gary's story. When you play it out it becomes your story.

At the same time, taking on these roles allows us to be at different times and places, and identify more with the notion that we may in fact have some deeply hidden awareness or experience of being at different places in different times. So the whole thing becomes a discovery voyage about how the mind works, and the results are quite interesting. It is a seemingly innocuous, but very profound way to question a lot about our self concept.

One of the things which presents itself, is perhaps the faintest discovery of our own feelings about where we were at the time of Jesus. People often have quite significant experiences around that issue, when their own relationship with Jesus in the present is being cleaned up, as might happen when they study ACIM.