One of the first things you do in a research project with the Records is decide what you want to explore. There is a whole lot out there to choose from, and what you choose becomes the focal point, the basis for every other choice you make. No right or wrong in the choosing.
And the tendency, every time, is to turn the choosing into a rabbit hole. You start thinking, oh, I'll have to ask this, and this, and I want to look at this too, and pretty soon you have the equivalent of ten PhD research projects. I won't say never do all ten. I will say: not a good place to begin.
One Question
This is where begin today:
One What IS question.
Just one.
- What is time?
- What is copper?
- What is a mountain?
With a creative, productive mind, one question can quickly turn into ten rabbit holes. This is not where we will begin, though rabbit holes are in the future. Just not right now.
The 5W1H (what, why, when, where, who, and how) are the questions of creation, the questions that open up the creative nature of anything. What IS comes first. In a certain sense, the What IS question is a beginning place: a way to see where you are between the form and the potential of whatever you ask.
The question can be personal. What is my...something works fine, because the point is one specific topic in one specific direction.
In the larger experience of research, the What IS questions never stop because asking What IS over and over is how terms get defined.
Where You Take the Question
Then there is the other choice: who to ask. Opening your own Records and asking will provide a full answer. And the aspects of the Records are all available for the same question. The same What is time? carried to the Master of the Hall of Words, to Ancient Mother, to Akasha, comes back with at least slight differences, because each aspect is a different perspective.
The practice is this:
- Choose one What IS question.
- Ask several different aspects of the Records.
- Watch for the differences, if differences come.
As a Witness
The deeper practice comes in your experience and awareness of what and how you receive.
- Where is there difference in the response?
- How do you feel about what you receive?
- Do you have a reservation or resistance?
- How do you reach for certainty?
Remember there are no right answers. Your motion as witness at this point is what helps you to move away from the need for specific forms.
The challenge is to pay attention to how you feel in receiving the response and how you feel connection.
What comes is what comes. The same question asked six months from now may come back differently because you will have changed.
Being witness to your process is part of what turns all of this from answer-collecting into research.