Thank you Rony

Hi Rony

Gosh, it is such a long time ago when I did that episode. If there is more in the video than there is in the script, that must be because I adlibbed when I recorded it. That what is the most likely cause. I did my last recording for the series you are watching now in 2024. That series finished last monday. It continues on with a new format and I am currently working on putting up those episodes. There should be about another 90 to add to the current 560+ that are already out in the wild.

Thank you, Rich

My current series ends this month, but continues into a new series, where the theme is a review of the diagrams I have been presenting to highlight the topics of my various presentations. I will then explain exactly what each diagram is all about. The diagrams themselves will be self-explanitory and will be posted into a Knowledge Atlas on the Websit, AdventuresoftheMonad.com

On a different theme, I will be starting a new channel, which I will trailer on my exisiting channel, just before the new one goes live. That will all happen in October. So you have a basket of riches to look forward to!

The active/passive distinction is part of a four-level ladder consciousness climbs through as it develops: potential (latent, unresponsive — early mineral matter), passive (can react to a stimulus but can’t initiate anything — think a crystal responding to light, or basic plant tropism), active (can learn and retain experience without being self-aware of the process — this is the animal kingdom, and also a huge amount of what runs in us on autopilot), and finally self-consciousness, where the “I” that can reflect on its own experience shows up. The key thing to hold onto is that these aren’t stages you pass through and discard — a human being still has all four running simultaneously, with self-consciousness as the newest, thinnest layer on top. And each level corresponds to a genuine grade of matter, not just a behavioural category — matter itself is understood to carry consciousness at whatever level it’s currently developed to, which is why the “grade” framing isn’t metaphorical.

The etheric web fits right into that picture. It’s the fine structure of the etheric envelope — the layer of subtle matter that interpenetrates and organises the physical body — and one of its jobs is exactly what you’d guess from the name: filtering. It’s the protective network that keeps the volume of impressions coming in (physical, emotional, telepathic) at a level the organism can actually handle. When it’s thinned — by shock, trauma, or other depleting factors — people become more porous to input they’re not equipped to process, which is part of why psychic “flooding” or hypersensitivity tends to track with etheric weakness rather than being some special gift. So the etheric web isn’t decorative plumbing; it’s doing real perceptual triage before anything reaches the more familiar layers of awareness.

The subjective/objective piece is worth being exact about it: subjective consciousness means you can sense activity at a given level of matter, while objective consciousness means you can actually register, control, and communicate about it in a stable way. And esoteric lore is explicit that subjective always arrives first — a normal person during incarnation, for instance, is only objectively conscious through the physical organism, while the etheric, emotional, and mental envelopes are all running subjectively, sensed but not yet fully commanded. That gap is the whole story of development: consciousness feels its way into a level long before it can operate cleanly there.

Which is really the throughline connecting all three of your questions — matter grades, the etheric filter, and the subjective/objective lag are all describing the same underlying evolutionary mechanism from different angles: consciousness doesn’t jump levels, it seeps in as feeling first, gets filtered and metabolised by structures like the etheric web, and only slowly — over what Hylozoics frames as an enormous span of incarnations — solidifies into something stable and objective. That’s the implication for evolution: it isn’t a ladder you climb by insight alone; it’s closer to a soaking-in process that eventually crystallises.

William

Ultimately, we get what we deserve. The world you speak of will happen when we change ourselves. There is no point in having leaders who espouse such virtues if there is no one to listen to them. We had this guidance once, back in the 4th Root Race, and we told them to bugger off!

Well said William