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Footnotes1: Simeon’s way of describing the human evolutionary or expansion principle as rather-bes, to me is very apt for our twenty-first century thought. At least a few religious persuasions scold followers for even mild discontentment, while I believe Simeon attempts to engender a different understanding about the human hankering to explore new possibilities within the realm of change. “Rather-be” can be as much a creative process as “being.” A few days prior to receiving this session, I’d felt the weight of changes that come with aging and losing the ones we love. I’d lost my maternal grandmother a few years back and was particularly recalling some of the finer details of her life just the week before: the way she rolled out homemade pie crusts, and the sound of her laughter.
Footnotes2: This session marks the first of Simeon’s repeated discourses concerning the nature of time and space, and his assertions appear to fall in line with quantum theory. When we chase down the nature of an atom to energetic fields, redefining matter as empty, fluctuating space, then three-dimensional matter becomes illusion. We, the observers, perceive this energy in an organized, solid state. By the same token, time in its observable state becomes nothing more than a mental construct, or field of ideas. These alternative thoughts about time and space are difficult to grasp, let alone accept. The human ego seeks to preserve itself and what it perceives as its own survival insurance by keeping the time continuum alive. The ego needs the continuity of bringing the past along to the present. It understands the present and arranges the future in terms with the past.
Footnotes3: “Letter to Families” is included in the book Simeon, The First Year.
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