I *tried* to follow up on Sunday's POF with more on Cocurrents/Adjacents/Linear lives, etc, but what I got was more questions.  I really want to get Troy and Michael in front of a board and draw it all out.

We were rowdier than usual waiting for Michael to come in, so I'm including their initial comments :).

MICHAEL: Hello to each of you. We are here. We can now respond to your questions. As an aside: we would share here that one of our "favorite things" is experiencing the boisterous exchanges among our students as we "arrive." We may begin now.

MARTHA:  I’m trying to map out what I know about my past lives/concurrents using the information you gave me last time.  This is helping me relate to the structure you’ve given. My first assumption for the 4 lives at 6^th Old would be me as #4 plus the first three lives (working backwards) that you described as linear. That immediately brought up questions: Am “I” linear?  Are some of the “current concurrents” of me linear?  (Elderly FL woman, Italian maid, Hong Kong photographer’s assistant, Canadian actor is what I got before).  As an “elderly” concurrent in FL would be quite a bit older than me, I wondered if she is linear.

Can you correct the below linear lives’ positions and tell me how the “current concurrents” fit in?  Also, a brief sentence or two on each one about what Essence wanted from it/why it was chosen would be great (working backwards as time permits). I’ve listed more than can be covered in the time period but wanted enough info to be at hand in case this came more quickly than last time.

6^th Old life #4 – “Me”? Which concurrents go here or which is the linear if not me?

6^th Old life #3 – Auschwitz child? Any concurrents?

6^th Old life #2 – American activist? French painter is her concurrent, any others?

6^th Old life #1 – German medium? Two concurrents – Antarctic and Oregon expeditions, any others?

5^th Old life #11 – German shoe shop woman, contemporary of Beethoven

5^th Old life #10 – Spanish woman interested in card reading, etc

5^th Old ? – 17^th century theatrical performer in Florence

5^th Old? – 1650 era French deformed artist child

MARTHA: lol

MICHAEL: From "within" the Physical Plane, this can be quite difficult to grasp, as whole truths must be broken down into parts that do not break down as simply as words.

MICHAEL: In response to the first part of your questions:

MARTHA: do your best and we'll try and wrap our brains around it

GERALDINE: or we can always make stuff up

MARTHA: that too

GERALDINE  lol

MICHAEL: The concepts and terms of "linear" and "concurrent" are relative, so that when we speak to "you" in other timelines, Concurrents, etc. THAT "you" is the "real you." No "you" is ever addressed as being less than another, and all of them have a linear, concurrent, and parallel aspect.

MARTHA: I wondered about that

MICHAEL: What we suggest is grasping how everything works from "your" perspective, and then it can be expanded upon from different angles.

MARTHA: exactly

MICHAEL: For those purposes, "you" are "linear."

MARTHA: whew

MICHAEL: Your other "you" said, "damn."

BOBBY: lol

* @GeraldineB seriously cracks up

MARTHA: what??  Oh My God

MARTHA: :)

MICHAEL: To address the second part of your questions: Your current Concurrents

MICHAEL: The "assistant" and "actor" are linear branches of what you have identified as the "performer" and the "artist" of the 17th Century.

MARTHA: Aha

MARTHA: tossing out my spreadsheet now....

MICHAEL: These link to the "painter," as well.

MARTHA: Picasso contemporary painter?

MARTHA: so artist - performer - painter are linear relative to each other?

MARTHA: good god this is confusing

MICHAEL: The "elderly" and the "maid" are linear to lives not yet identified.

GERALDINE: lol

MARTHA: as in I've not asked or heard about their "roots" I take it

MARTHA: I think I need Troy, Michael, and a drawing board to figure this all out

MICHAEL: Keep in mind that we use the term "linear" loosely, as we merely mean that there is a direct sequential aspect, but this does not go beyond that resonance.

MARTHA: I understand

MICHAEL: We suggest keeping your "spreadsheet" as this will eventually reveal quite a lovely mosaic of your Essence's journey, if you endure the learning curve. It is possible.

MARTHA: yes, I'm very interested

MICHAEL: In response to the next part of your questions:

MARTHA: how then do you map this back to "4 lives at 6th level Old" - I guess I have alternate versions of my 6th level old

MICHAEL: In those terms, we spoke of the Arc of Internal Monads for Essence, and those that were relevant to "you."

MARTHA: I get it, multiple versions :)

MICHAEL: More accurately: a collective.

MICHAEL: They are not separated beyond these limitations of words to describe it. We must break it down, and then, eventually pull it together. Try to remember that every response to your question is a part of a larger response that is not complete. We have much more to walk through in terms and concepts before the whole picture comes clear.

MICHAEL: So we would not refer to these as "multiple versions" but more as facets.

MICHAEL: As we have begun to convey how Cadres and Entities are structured as spheres, and Essence is a faceted sphere, and the universe is best understood in terms of "foam," imagine that the whole of you, as you incarnate, is functioning in that same way: as bubbles that cling to and around one another, and then "burst" into sharing all the each once contained.

MICHAEL: Your "concurrents" are bubbles around "you," while you are a "bubble" around them, and the "linear" aspect is how other bubbles have dropped barriers, combined, and "now" share the same air.

MICHAEL: The lifetimes that we refer to as "linear" for you, share the sam air, if you will.

MICHAEL: You have converged.

MICHAEL: Your current sense of wholeness is built from all that has combined along that way to your "bubble." While other "bubbles," or Concurrents" have been built from other bubbles.

MARTHA: this ties into the "all lives are happening at the same time" thing, doesn't it

MICHAEL: In some ways, yes.

MICHAEL: We realize this has turned into a Lawrence Welk Universe, but our analogies are valid.

MARTHA: LOL