Seth's Concept
Jane Roberts - the author
of the book "The Seth Material- was a person who in a
"trance" state spoke as a personality called Seth.
Seth calls Jane's personality Ruburt. Jane sometimes goes
into a different trance state where she speak as "Future
Seth". All of the answers and information herein are
the words of Seth or Future Seth which I have reordered and
revised to give continuity to my understanding of the material.
I think the main thing lacking in my condensation is Seth's
sense of humor. I highly recommend Seth/Jane's books!
Seth Speaking About
His Purpose
I come here, as an (humorously)
"endearing" personality, with characteristics to
which I hope you can relate. These characteristics are mine,
and I am who I say I am, and yet the Seth you know is but
a small part of my reality, the one that has been physical,
and can relate to your problems.
There exists what could almost
be compared to a psychological and psychic warp in dimensions
where Ruburt's personality is an apex point at which communication
can take place. We want to deal with the nature of reality
as it exists within your camouflage system and within other
systems, and to study the overall characteristics that pertain
to it.
We will discuss the interrelationship
that exists between all systems of reality, including certain
contact points that include them all. These various points
can be mathematically deduced, and will, in some future of
yours, serve as contact points, taking the place of space
travel in some cases.
We will be discussing the
laws of the inner universe. They are attempts to explain in
words the nature of inner reality. These single-dimensional
statements are more than are given to most, and under the
circumstances that we must work, are the best approximation
that can be made of the basic fact beneath any existence.
As words would give little hint of the reality of color or
sound to someone who did not experience these, so words can
only give insight into the nature of reality.
I have been sent to help you,
and others have been sent through the centuries of your time,
for as you develop you form new dimensions, and you will help
others. Using your free will, you have made physical reality
into something quite different than what was intended. You
have allowed the ego to become overly developed and specialized.
You were here to work out problems and challenges, but you
were always to be aware of your own inner reality, and of
your nonphysical existence. To a large extent you have lost
contact with this. You have focused so strongly upon physical
reality that it became the only reality that you know.
When you kill a man, you believe
that you kill him forever. Murder is a crime that must then
be dealt with. Death, however, does not exist in those terms.
In the dawn of physical existence, men knew that death was
merely a change of form.
There is never any justification
for violence. There is no justification for hatred. There
is no justification for murder. Those who indulge in violence
for whatever reason are themselves changed, and the purity
of their purpose adultered.
If you do not like the state
of your world, it is you yourselves that must change, individually
and en masse. This is the only way that change will be effected.
The responsibility for your life and your world is indeed
yours. It has not been forced upon you by some outside agency.
You form your own dreams and you form your own physical reality.
The world is what you are. It is the physical materialization
of the inner selves which you have formed.
It is wrong to curse a flower
and wrong to curse a man. It is wrong not to hold any man
in honor, and it is wrong to ridicule any man. You must honor
yourselves and see within yourselves the spirit of eternal
validity. You must honor all other individuals, because within
each is the spark of this validity. When you curse another,
you curse yourselves, and the curse returns to you. When you
are violent, the violence returns.
I speak to you because yours
is the opportunity to better world conditions and yours is
the time. Do not fall into the old ways that will lead you
precisely into the world that you fear.
There is no man who hates
but that hatred is reflected outward and made physical, and
there is no man who loves but that love is reflected outward
and made physical. Beyond myself there is another self and
still another, of which I am aware. And that self tells you
that there is a reality beyond human reality and experience
that cannot be made verbal or translated into human terms.
And to that self, physical reality is like a warm breath forming
in the winter air...
Future Seth Speaks
About The Nature & Purpose Of The Communications
The Seth personality is an
intermediary. The information already given to you regarding
the nature of personality gestalts should make my existence
seem a fitting one. Seth is what I am, yet I am more than
Seth is. Seth is independent, and continues to develop as
I do. In the Spacious Present we both exist.
Seth, as you know him, will
always be an element in these communications. He is the connective
between us, and he has been a part of me that I have sent
out to you. He has participated willingly. Names are arbitrary,
and we use them merely for your convenience. Seth's name or
mine isn't important. Individuality is important and continues
in ways you do not suspect.
Seth is learning as I am.
As an analogy, you could call me a future Seth, at a higher
stage of development, however both of us are fully independent
and exist simultaneously.
These communications, while
taking place in your time, are nevertheless responsible in
other dimensions for what you would call future developments
in your own personalities.
Whether or not I speak as
myself or as Seth, he is the intermediary and the connection
between us. He will appear to you as you know him because
there are necessary emotional elements that are uniquely his
own.
My personality is far different
than his but I am also a friend. In many ways I am the same
friend. Other portions of me are concerned elsewhere, for
I am aware of my existence in other dimensions and keep track
of them and direct my many selves. We are Seth and whenever
we have spoken we have been known as Seth. We are not alone
in this endeavor, for through your centuries other entities
like us have also appeared and spoken.
Our entity is composed of
multitudinous selves with their own identities, many of whom
have worked in this behalf. Their message will always be basically
the same, though the times and circumstances of their communications
may differ and be colored accordingly.
We adopt whatever personality
characteristics seem pertinent, for in our own reality we
have a bank of complete inner selves, and we are all Seth.
We attempt to translate realities into terms you can comprehend.
We change our face and form, but we are always the one. Many
of us have not been born in the flesh, as I have not been,
but in one way we have seeded ourselves through endless universes.
The entity had its beginning before the emergence of your
time. It was instrumental, with many other entities, in the
early formation of energy into physical form. We gave you
mental images and upon these images you learned to form the
world that you know. We gave you the patterns, intricate and
involved from which you form the reality of each physical
thing that you know. We taught man to speak before the tongue
knew syllables. The entire webwork was initiated by us.
Our basic knowledge and energy
automatically reaches out to nourish all systems that grow.
You are like children with a game, and you think that the
game is played by everyone. Physical life is not the rule.
Identity and consciousness existed long before your earth
was formed. You suppose that any personality must appear in
physical terms. Consciousness is the force behind matter,
and it forms many other realities besides the physical one.
It is, again, your own viewpoint that is presently so limited
that it seems to you that physical reality is the rule and
mode of existence.
The source and power of your
present consciousness has never been physical, and where I
am, many are not even aware that such a physical system exists.
The physical system is an illusion, but you must accept it
and from your viewpoint try to understand the realities that
exist beyond it.
You cannot objectify the inner
portions of your own identity, and therefore you do not perceive
them. So much of your energy is used in the physical productions
that you cannot afford to perceive any reality but your own.
Like children playing with
blocks, you focus your attention on the physical blocks. The
physical blocks appear very real to you when you dwell within
their perspective. Other shapes and forms that you could perceive,
you do not. Even in explaining other realities, I must use
the words "shapes" and "forms" or you
would not understand me.
Your idea of progress is building
larger blocks, and yet one day you will put aside you "children's
toys." The human race is a stage through which various
forms of consciousness travel. Yours is a training system
for emerging consciousness. Before you can be allowed into
systems of reality that are more extensive and open, you must
first learn to handle energy and see through physical materialization,
the concrete result of thought and emotion.
When you leave the physical
system after reincarnations, you have learned the lesson and
you are literally no longer a member of the human race, for
you elect to leave it. Only the conscious self dwells within
it in any case, and other portions of your identity dwell
simultaneously within other training systems. In more advanced
systems, thoughts and emotions are automatically and immediately
translated into action, into whatever approximation of matter
there exists. Therefore, the lessons must be taught and learned
well.
The responsibility for creation
must be clearly understood. To some extent you are in a soundproof
and isolated room. Hate creates destruction in that "room"
and until the lessons are learned, destruction follows destruction.
In the terms of other systems, that kind of destruction does
not exist - but you believe that it does, and the agonies
of dying are sorely felt. It is not that you must be taught
not to destroy, for destruction does not actually exist. It
is that you must be trained to create responsibly.
The weapons of destruction
are the obvious things that you see. The counterparts are
not so evident, and yet it is the counterparts that are important:
The self-discipline learned, the control, the compassion that
is finally aroused, and that final and last lesson - the positive
desire for creativity and love over destruction and hatred.
When this is learned, the cycle is finished.
The training will serve you
for existence in a variety of interrelated systems. If the
sorrows and agonies within your system were not felt as real,
the lesson would not be learned.
The teachers within your system
are those in their last reincarnation, and other personalities
who have left the system but have been assigned to help those
still within it. The system also includes some fragment personalities
what are entering for the first time, as well as those in
later reincarnations.
Humanity dreams the same dream
at once, and you have your mass world. The whole construction
is like an educational play in which you are the producers
as well as the actors. There is a play within a play within
a play. There is no end to the "within" of things.
The dreamer dreams, and the dreamer within the dream dreams.
But the dreams are not meaningless, and the actions within
them are significant. The whole self is the observer and the
participator in the roles.
In General What Is
The Purpose Of This Existence?
In the most basic sense, the
purpose of life is being - as opposed to not being.
In your system of three-dimensional
reality you are learning about mental energy (also called
thought energy or psychic energy) and how to use it.
Knowledge about mental energy
and its use is learned by constantly transforming your thoughts
and emotions into physical form (your physical reality) and
by then perceiving and dealing with the matter and events
that are formed. From doing this, you are supposed to get
a clear picture of your inner development as it is reflected
by the exterior environment.
You participate in physical
reality so that you can operate and experience within this
dimension. Here, you can develop your abilities, learn, create,
solve problems and help others.
Matter is the shape that basic
experience takes when it comes into your three-dimensional
system. Your dreams, thoughts, expectations, beliefs and emotions
are literally transformed into physical matter.
How Does This Work?
Every nerve and fiber within
the body has an unseen inner purpose. Nerve impulses travel
outward from the body, along invisible pathways, in much the
same manner that they travel within the body. These pathways
are carriers of telepathic thoughts, impulses, and desires
containing all the codified data necessary for translating
any thought or image into physical actuality, altering seemingly
objective events.
This telepathy operates constantly
at an "automatic" or subconscious level, providing
communication to back up sensory data. Telepathy is the glue
that holds the physical universe in position, so that you
can agree on the existence and properties of objects. In one
respect, your body and all physical objects go flying out
in all directions from the inner core of the whole self. The
physical environment is, therefore, as much a part of you
as your own body.
What seems to be a perception,
an objective concrete event independent from you, is instead
the materialization of your own emotions, energy and mental
environment. Events and objects are actually focal points
where highly charged psychic impulses are transformed into
something that can be physically perceived: a breakthrough
into matter.
The intensity of a thought
or image largely determines the immediacy of the physical
materialization. All such images or thoughts are not completely
materialized, in your perception, as their intensity may be
too weak.
My Intelect Doesn't
Have The Information To Control All Of This, How Is It Handled?
There is an inner ego, an
inner self which organizes "unconscious" material.
As the outer ego manipulates within the physical environment,
so the inner ego or self organizes and manipulates within
inner reality. It is this inner self, out of massive knowledge
and the unlimited scope of its consciousness, that forms the
physical world and provides the stimuli to keep the outer
ego at the job of awareness. The inner self organizes, initiates,
projects and controls the transformation of psychic energy
into matter and objects. The energy of this inner self is
used by it to form a material counterpart (you). You then
deal with the physical reality that is made and work out your
own creative role.
Tell Me More About
The Workings Of The"Inner Self"
The individual inner self,
through constant effort of great intensity, cooperates with
other entities like itself to form and maintain the physical
reality that you know. The inner self has a virtually infinite
reservoir from which to draw knowledge and experience. All
kinds of choices are available, and the diversity of physical
matter is a reflection of this deep source and variety.
Having determined upon physical
reality as a dimension in which it will express itself, the
inner self, first of all, takes care to form and maintain
the physical basis upon which all else must depend -- the
properties of the earth that can be called the natural ones.
The deepest, most basic subjective experience is translated
into the natural elements: the ample landscape that sustains
physical life. With the natural structures formed and maintained,
other secondary physical properties are projected.
Why Isn't The Nature
Of All This Clearer?
It is the daily ego's ignorance
and limited focus that makes it view so-called unconscious
activity as chaotic. The waking ego (dealing with physical
reality) cannot know all the unconscious material directly.
The daily ego is simply not conscious enough to be able to
contain the vast knowledge that belongs to the inner conscious
self from which it springs. The outer ego is spoon-fed, being
given only those feelings and emotions, only that data, that
it can handle. This data is presented in a highly specialized
manner, usually in terms of information picked up by the physical
senses.
The inner self is not only
conscious, but conscious of itself, both as an individuality
and as an individuality that is a part of all other consciousness.
It is continually aware of both this partners and unity with.
The outer ego is not continuously aware of this fact. It frequently
forgets its "whole" nature. When it becomes swept
up in a strong emotion it seems to lose itself. When it most
vigorously maintains its sense of individuality, it is no
longer aware of unity-with. If the ego were aware of the constant
barrage of telepathic communications that do impinge upon
it, it would have a most difficult time retaining a sense
of identity.
Tell Me More About
Creating Aand Manipulating My Own Reality.
You must learn to listen to
the voice of the inner self and work with it. You may also
simply ask the inner self to make the answers to problems
available on a conscious basis.
You create your reality according
to your beliefs and expectations, therefore you should examine
these carefully. If you do not like some aspect of your world,
then examine your own expectations.
Your world is formed in faithful
replica of your own thoughts. If you think positive suggestions
to yourself about a situation you send telepathic ammunition
for positive use. You must learn to erase a negative thought
or picture by replacing it with its opposite.
You should tell yourself frequently
"I will only react to constructive suggestions."
This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative
thoughts and those of others. A negative thought, if not erased,
will almost certainly result in a negative condition.
Say to yourself, "That
is in the past. Now in this new moment, this new present,
I am already beginning to change for the better."
It does not do to repress
negative thoughts, such as fears, angers, or resentment. They
should be recognized, faced and replaced. Recognize resentment
when it is felt, and then realize that resentment can be dismissed.
Initial recognition must be made. Then you must imagine removing
the resentment "by its roots" and replacing it with
a positive feeling.
You must watch the pictures
that you paint with your imagination. Your environment and
the conditions of your life at any given time are the direct
result of your own inner expectations. If you imagine dire
circumstances, ill health or desperate loneliness, these will
be "automatically" materialized, for these thought
themselves bring about the conditions that will give them
a reality in physical terms. If you would have good health
then you must imagine this as vividly as you fearfully imagine
ill health.
You create your own difficulties.
This is true for each individual. The inner psychological
state is projected outward, gaining physical reality - whatever
the psychological state may be. The rules apply to everyone.
Knowing this, you should try to realize what your psychological
state is and change your conditions for your own benefit.
You cannot escape your own
attitudes, for they will form the nature of what you see.
If changes are to occur, they must be mental and psychic changes.
These will be reflected in your environment. Negative, distrustful,
fearful, or degrading attitudes toward anyone work against
the self.
If an individual sees only
evil and desolation in the physical world it is because he
is obsessed with evil and desolation and projects them outward,
closing his eyes to other aspects of reality.
If you want to know what you
think of yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others
and you will find the answer. True self-knowledge is indispensable
for health and vitality. The recognition of the truth about
the self simply means that you must first find out what you
think about yourself subconsciously. If it is a good image,
build upon it. If it is a poor one, recognize it as only the
opinion you have held of yourself and not an "absolute
state."
You are not your emotions.
They flow through you, you feel then and then they disappear.
When you try to hold them back they build up. You are independent
of your thoughts and emotions. You have emotions. You use
your thoughts and emotions in your mental composition. You
must learn to trust your own spontaneous nature. Your nervous
system knows how to react. It reacts spontaneously when you
allow it to. It is only when you try to deny your emotions
that they become a problem.
In spontaneity there is a
discipline that utterly escapes you, and an order beyond any
that you know. Spontaneity knows its own order. All of nature
is spontaneous. Our bodies will be healthy automatically if
we do not project false ideas upon them.
Action accepts all stimuli
in an affirmative manner. This is why an illness is accepted
by a personality structure, and once this occurs, a conflict
develops. The self does not want to give up a portion of itself
even while that portion may be painful or disadvantageous.
Physical symptoms are communications
from the inner self, indications that we are making mental
errors of one kind or another. Do not forget that you are
a part of the inner self. IT IS NOT USING YOU! What you are
supposed to do, then, is change your mental attitude, search
yourself for the inner problem represented by the symptoms,
and measure your progress as the symptoms subside.
You sell yourself short if
you believe that you are only a physical organism living within
the boundaries cast upon you by time and space. You must accept
life on its terms, and not demand that it behave in certain
ways. You must accept life gladly, as its own reason and cause
within you. Life is abundant, vigorous, and strong. Each of
us has our own defense against negative suggestions and we
should trust in our own immunity.
You are a unique individual.
You form your physical environment. YOU MAKE AND CHANGE YOUR
WORLD. You are part of all that is. T here is no place within
you that creativity does not exist. You must live in faith
that your purpose is, and will be fulfilled. The uniqueness
of your own personality is to be cherished.
The particular purpose of
your present personality can only be met in the present circumstances
in the way that is best overall. The people that you can help
now and the particular good that you can do, can never be
done in precisely the same way.
Throughout the ages, some
have recognized the fact that there is self-consciousness
and purpose in dream and sleep states, and have maintained,
even in waking life, the sense of continuity of the inner
self. To such people it is no longer possible to completely
identify with the ego consciousness. They are too aware of
themselves as more. When such knowledge is gained, the ego
can accept it, for it finds to its surprise that is not less
conscious, but more, and that its limitations are dissipated.
What Is The Nature
And Purpose Of Dreams?
A man's thoughts and dreams
are more far reaching than he knows.They exist in more dimensions;
they affect worlds of which he is unaware. They are as concrete,
in effect, as any building. They appear in many guises within
many systems, and once created cannot be withdrawn.
The dream world is constructed
within a field that you cannot physically perceive, but it
has more continuity than the world you know. The same sort
of psychic agreement holds the dream system together as holds
the physical system together.There is one self and it focuses
its attention in various dimensions. In the waking state it
focuses in physical reality. In the dream state it is focused
within a different dimension.
This does not mean that we
do not sometimes leave our bodies and travel in our dream
to other physical locations. When you are manipulating within
physical reality, you have a fairly simple set of rules to
serve you. Within dream reality there is greater freedom.
The dreamer creates his dreams for his own purposes, selecting
only those symbols which have meaning to him.
Each dream begins with psychic
energy which the individual transforms into a reality which
is just as functional and real as physical reality. There
is form within dream reality, but the potential form exists,
within psychic energy, long before its materialization.
Through our dreams we change
physical reality, and our physical daily experience alters
our dream experience. There is constant interaction. Our consciousness
is simply directed in a different kind of reality when we
dream, a reality as vivid as waking life. On one level the
personality attempts to solve problems through dream construction
and often this gives freedom to actions that cannot be expressed
within the confines of waking life.
Dream action CAN be turned
toward fulfilling constructive expectations, which will effect
a change for the better! Dreams can be utilized creatively
to improve health, gain inspiration, restore vitality, solve
problems and enrich family relationships. You can have a pleasant
and joyful dream that will completely restore your good spirits
and vitality. In our dream life we also visit other levels
of existence, and gain needed skills.
The ego is not present in
dream reality. The waking consciousness is not the ego. The
ego is only that portion of waking consciousness that deals
with physical manipulation. Waking consciousness can be taken
into the dream state, but the ego cannot, as it would falter
and cause failure there. When you take your consciousness
into the dream state, you will meet with various conditions,
some you can manipulate, some you cannot. Some dream locations
will be of your own making, and others will be strange to
you because they belong to other dimensions of reality.
Individual consciousness can
be sent through systems of reality. This involves the transfer
of conscious energy from a home system to an alien one, and
certain automatic changes are made from system to system,
involving the use of brain waves, certain patterns being normal
in different systems.
As the personality is changed
by any experience, it is changed by dreams. We may forget
our dreams, but they are always part of us.The dreams experience
is felt directly by the inner self. Dreams have their own
actuality, they not only exist independent of the dreamer,
but they also have tangible form, though not in the form of
matter as you are familiar with it. They are forever contained
as electrically coded data within the cells of the physical
organism.
The dream universe possesses
concepts which will someday completely transform the physical
world, but the denial of such concepts as possibilities delays
their emergence.
There are also shared or "mass"
dreams. In these mankind deals with problems of his political
and social structure. In these man dreams individually and
collectively of ways in which change abouts could occur. These
dreams actually help bring about the resulting change. The
very energy and direction of these dreams will help change
the situation. The solutions reached are not always the same
as those he accepts in the physical world.
The energy behind a "bad
dream" is the energy of hidden fears, which could be
formed by anyone, since there are fears in anyone. Evil does
not exist separate from the dreamer, and even illness or fear
should not be seen as enemies, but rather as aids to understanding
and means to a greater end.
In larger terms there is no
evil, only your own lack of perception. Fear directs your
conscious energy into the realm of reality of that fear, and
you then must deal at that level. The words "May peace
be with you." will get you through any difficulty in
other layers of reality.
Identity, Personality,
Ego And Their Multidimensional Aspects
Consciousness is not a "thing"
in itself, rather, it is a dimension of action made possible
by a series of creative dilemmas.
There are three dilemmas which
represent the areas of reality within which the inner vitality
of the universe can express and experience itself.
The first dilemma is inner
vitality's desire and impetus to completely materialize itself,
and its inability to do so. This results in action, which
is a part of all structure. Identity may be termed as action
which is conscious of itself. An identity is also a dimension
of existence, action within action, an unfolding of action
upon itself -- and through this interweaving of action with
itself, through this re-action, an identity is formed.
Identity and action cannot
be separated. Without identity, action would be meaningless,
for there would be nothing upon which action could act. Action
then must, by its very nature, create identities. Identity,
because of its characteristics, will continually seek stability,
while stability is impossible. Action would seem to destroy
identity, since action must involve change, and any change
seems to threaten identity, however, identities are never
constant, for consciousness without action would cease to
be conscious.
Identity must seek stability
while action must seek change; yet identity could not exist
without change, for it is the result of action and a part
of it. This is the second dilemma. Identity is not the same
as individual personality. Personality represents only those
aspects of identity which are able to be actualized within
three-dimensional existence.
The ego at any give time in
this life is simply the part of the inner self that surfaces
in physical reality; a group of characteristics that the inner
self uses to solve various problems. Even the ego as we think
of it changes constantly. Ego consciousness is a state resulting
from the third creative dilemma, which happens when consciousness
of self attempts to separate itself from action. This involves
a state in which consciousness of self attempts to perceive
action as an object--and to perceive action, which is initiated
by the ego as a result rather than as a part of ego's own
existence. This is impossible since no consciousness or identity
can exist without action.
Each of you exists in other
realities and other dimensions, and the self that you call
yourself is but a small portion of your entire identity. Within
the self that you know is the prime identity, the whole self.
This whole self has lived many lives and adopted many personalities.
Personality may be somewhat molded by the circumstances that
are created for it by the whole self but the prime identity
uses the resulting experience.
Personality and identity are
not dependent upon physical form. Your prime identity is an
energy essence personality which is composed of energy gestalts.
As each individual consciousness grows, out of its experience
it forms other "personalities" or fragments of itself.
These fragments are entirely independent as to action and
decision,while constantly in communication with the whole
self of which they are a part.
These "fragments"
themselves grow, develop, and may form their own entities
or "personality gestalts". You have constant contact
with the other parts of your whole self, but your ego is so
focused upon physical reality and survival within it that
you do not hear the inner voices.
No individuality is ever lost.
It is always in existence. Consciousness is the direction
in which the self focuses. Action implies infinite possibilities
of focus. What you call death is rather your choice to focus
in other dimensions and realities.
You do not acquire a "spirit"
at death. You are one, now! You adopt a body as a space traveler
wears a space suit, and for much the same reason.
Each individual from birth
forms his own counterpart from built-up, individual, continuous
electrical signals that include his dreams, thought, desires
and experiences. This counterpart of complete experience is
a pattern which is then independent of physical reality. At
physical death his personality then exists detached from its
physical form.
Probable Systems Of
Reality
For its own purpose, and because
of its limitations, the ego chooses a single event from all
the probable ones. Until the ego experiences the event it
is only one of all the other probable ones. It becomes actual
in your reality only when it is experienced by the physical
self.
A portion of the whole self
can and does experience events in an entirely different fashion
than the ego does and is aware of all other probable events
that could have been experienced by the ego. This other portion
of the self delves into these alternative events in the same
amount of physical time that it takes the ego to experience
its chosen event.
These other probable events
become just as "real" within other dimensions. There
are an infinite number of systems or universes between matter
and antimatter. Using the physical senses you can never perceive
these other systems, but, probable events are events whether
or not you perceive them.
In dreams, often portions
of probable events are experienced in as semiconscious manner.
Advanced training in the use of the Inner Senses can also
lead to exploration of these systems. These systems of probabilities
are quite as real as your physical system, you are simply
not focused within them.
In these other systems of
reality, each of us has "other selves" not an identical
self or twin, but other parts of our whole entity, developing
abilities in a different way than we are here. Each of these
selves experiences time in its own manner according to the
nature of its perceptions. Their various realities merge in
the overall perceptions of the whole self.
There is a constant subconscious
interchange of information between all these layers of the
whole self. Ultimately the inner ego tries to bring about
comprehension by each of these selves about the other simultaneous
selves. Until the whole self is able to perceive its own parts
simultaneously, these seemingly separate selves appear, to
themselves, isolated and alone.
What Is The Nature
Of Time?
Time as you experience it
is an illusion caused by your own physical senses. They force
you to perceive action in certain terms, but this is not the
nature of action.
The apparent boundaries between
past, present and future are only illusions caused by the
amount of action you can physically perceive, and so it seems
to you that one moment exists and is gone forever, and the
next moment comes and like the one before also disappears.
Everything in the universe exists at one time simultaneously.
The first words ever spoken
still ring through the universe, and in your terms, the last
words ever spoken have already been said. The past, present
and future only appear to those who exist within three-dimensional
reality.
The past exists as a series
of electromagnetic connections held in the physical brain
and in the nonphysical mind. These electromagnetic connections
can be changed. The future consists of a series of electromagnetic
connections in the mind and brain also. In other words, the
past and present are real to the same extent.
You take it for granted that
present action can change the future, but present actions
can also change the past. The past is no more objective or
independent from the perceiver than is the present. The electromagnetic
connections were largely made by the individual perceiver.
The connection can be changed, and such changes are far from
uncommon. These changes happen spontaneously on a subconscious
basis.
The past is seldom what you
remember it to be, for you have already rearranged it from
the instant of any given event. The past is being constantly
re-created by each individual as attitudes and associations
change. This is an actual recreation, not a symbolic one.
The child is indeed still within the man, but he is not the
child that "was", for even the child within the
man constantly change. Difficulties arise when such alterations
do not occur automatically. Severe neurosis is often caused
precisely because an individual has not changed his past.
A change of attitude, a new
association, or any of innumerable other actions will automatically
set up new electromagnetic connections and break others. Every
action changes every other action. Therefore, every action
in your present affects actions you call past. It is possible
to react in the past to an event that has not occurred, and
to be influenced by your own future.
It is also possible for an
individual to react in the past to an event in the future,
which in your terms, may never occur. Because past, present
and future exist simultaneously, there is no reason why you
cannot react to an event whether or not it happens to fall
within the small field of reality in which you usually observe
and participate.
On a subconscious level, you
react to many events that have not yet occurred as far as
your ego's awareness is concerned. Such reactions are carefully
screened out and not admitted to consciousness. The ego finds
such instances distracting and annoying, and when forced to
admit their validity, will resort to the most far fetched
rationalizations to explain them.
No event is predestined. Any
given event can be changed not only before and during but
after its occurrence. The individual is hardly at the mercy
of past events, for he changes them constantly. He is hardly
at the mercy of future events, for he changes these not only
before but after their happening. An individuals future actions
are not dependent upon a concrete finished past, for such
a past never existed.
The past is as real as the
future, no more or less. There is a part of you that is not
locked within physical reality, and that part of you knows
that there is only an Eternal Now. The part of you that knows
is the whole self, your inner and outer ego (all that you
are).
From within this framework
you will see that see that physical time is as dreamlike as
you once thought inner time was. You will discover your whole
self, peeping inward and outward at the same "time",
and find that all time is one time, and all divisions, illusions.
Seth's Concept Of
God
Note: Seth uses the word "God"
sparingly, usually he speaks of All That Is or the Primary
Energy Gestalt.
If you prefer, you can call
the supreme psychic gestalt God, but you should not attempt
to objectify him. What you call God is the sum of all consciousness,
and yet the whole is more than the sum of Its parts. He is
not one individual, but an energy gestalt. He is a psychic
pyramid of interrelated, ever expanding consciousness, that
creates simultaneous and instantaneously, universes and individuals
that are given duration, psychic comprehension, intelligence
and eternal validity.
Its energy is so unbelievable
that is does indeed form all universes; and because Its energy
is within and behind all universes, fields and systems, it
is indeed aware of each sparrow that falls, for it is each
sparrow that falls.
Dimly remembered through what
you would call history, there was a state of agony in which
the powers of creativity and existence were known, but the
ways to produce them were not known. All That Is existed in
a state of being, but without the means to find expression
for Its being. All That Is had to learn this lesson, and could
not be taught. From this agony, creativity was originally
drawn, and its reflection is still seen. All That Is retains
the memory of that state, and it serves as a constant impetus
toward renewed creativity. Desire, wish and expectation, therefore,
rule all actions and are the basis for all realities. Within
the dreams of All That Is, potential beings had consciousness
before any beginning as you know it.
In Its massive imagination,
It understood that the cosmic multiplication of consciousness
could not occur within that framework. Actuality was necessary
if these probabilities were to be given birth. All That Is
saw an infinity of probable, conscious individuals. These
probable individual selves found themselves alive within a
God's dream and they clamored to be released into actuality.
All That Is yearned to release them and sought within itself
for the means to do so.
Finally, with love and longing
It let go of that portion of itself, and they were free. The
psychic energy exploded in a flash of creation. All That Is
loves all that It has created down to the least, for It realizes
the dearness and uniqueness of each consciousness which has
been wrest from such a state of agony. It is triumphant and
joyful at each development taken by each consciousness, and
It revels and takes joy in the slightest creative act of each
of Its issues.
All individuals remember their
source, and now dream of All That Is as It once dreamed of
them. And they yearn toward that immense source and yearn
to give it actuality through their own creations.
Now in the same way do you
give freedom to the personality fragments within your own
dreams and for the same reason. And you create for the same
reason, and within each of you is the memory of primal agony--that
urge to create and free all probable consciousness into actuality.
The connections between you
and All That Is can never be severed, and Its awareness is
so delicate and focused that its attention is indeed directed
with a prime creator's love to each consciousness.
All That Is knows no other.
It does not know whether or not other psychic gestalts like
Itself may exist. It is constantly searching.
All portions of All That Is
are constantly changing. All That Is is constantly seeking
to know Itself, for seeking itself is a creative activity
and the core of all action. You, as a consciousness, seek
to know yourself and become aware of yourself as a distinct
individual portion of All That Is. You automatically draw
on the overall energy of All That Is, since your existence
is dependent upon it.
The portion of All That Is
that is aware of itself as you, that is focused within your
existence, can be called upon for help when necessary. This
portion of All That Is looks out for your interests and may
be called upon in a personal manner. A psychic gestalt may
seem impersonal to you, but its energy forms your person.
Seth On The Inner
Senses
I do not harp about to you
about theory simply because I want to spout theory. These
are not just fine words that mean nothing, I want you to put
these ideas to practice.
You must try to understand
the nature of reality. To some small extent I have begun to
explain this, and the ideas, in themselves, will make you
think. To perceive other realities, we have to use the Inner
Senses -- methods of perception that belong to the inner self
and operate whether or not we have a physical form.
The Inner Senses expand normal
consciousness and allow us to become aware of our own multidimensional
existence. Undistorted and yours for the asking, is the knowledge
inherent in the inner self, pertaining to reality as a whole,
its laws, principles and composition.
In the inner self you will
find the innate knowledge concerning the creation of the camouflage
universe as you know it. You will find the ways and means
by which the inner self, existing in the climate of psychological
reality, helps create the various planes of existence, constructs
outer senses to project and perceive these, and the ways by
which reincarnations take place within various systems. Here,
also, you will find your own answers as to how the inner self
transforms energy for it purpose, changes its form, and adopts
other realities, and the mechanics involved.
These will enable you to perceive
reality as it exists independent of the physical world. You
must learn to recognize, develop, and use them. The methods
are given in the material, but you cannot utilize the material
until you understand it.
You must, first of all, cease
identifying yourself completely with your ego, and realize
that you can perceive more than your ego perceives. You must
demand more of yourself than you ever have before. The material
is not for those who would deceive themselves with packaged,
ribboned truths that are parceled out and cut apart so you
can digest them. The material demands that you intellectually
and intuitively expand
Consciousness can be turned
in many directions, but you are in the habit of directing
it along one certain path, and you have forgotten that there
are other paths.
If you consider the conscious
mind that you usually use as one door, then you stand at the
threshold of this mind and look out into physical reality.
But there are other doors. It is true that when you close
one door there may be a moment of distortion before you open
another, and you may need to learn the methods by which you
can perceive other realities, other conscious portions of
yourself. But these portions are as valid and as real as the
consciousness with which you are ordinarily familiar.
There is only one way to learn
what consciousness is: by studying and exploring your own
awareness, by changing the focus of your attention and using
your own consciousness in as many ways as possible.
When you look into yourself,
the very effort involved extends the limitations of your consciousness,
expands it, and allows the egotistical self to use its abilities
that it often does not realize it possesses.
The Inner Senses reveal to
us our own independence from physical matter, and let us recognize
our unique, individual multidimensional identity. Properly
utilized, they also show us the miracle of physical existence
and our place in it. We can live a wiser, more productive,
happier physical life because we understand why we are here,
individually and as a people.
The Inner Senses can help
us to use telepathic abilities. This means that in family,
business, or social contacts, we will intuitively be aware
of what another person is saying to us: we will know what
is beneath their words. You will also use words better yourself
to communicate your inner feelings since you will better know
what those feelings are. You will not be afraid of them or
feel the need to cover them up. Using the Inner Senses, we
simply increase our entire range of perception.
The point of learning how
to use the Inner Senses is that you will learn what reality
is. This self-investigation initiates states of consciousness
with which you are not usually familiar, and these senses
can be used as investigative tools. Books cannot tell you
this. Even if you use psychoanalysis, you are still only exploring
the topmost levels of your personality, and you do not have
the benefit of those altered states of consciousness that
occur when you look into yourself.
In this sort of exploration,
the personality attempts to go within itself, to find its
way through the veils of adopted characteristics of its own
inner identity. The inner core of the self has telepathic
and clairvoyant abilities that greatly affect family relationships
- and your civilization. Now you are not using these abilities
effectively. These are precisely the abilities that are needed
now. If there is to be any hope of world communication, then
each of you must understand where your potentials are.
The Inner Senses Are
...
(These are my interpretation
of them -- andy)
Inner Vibrational Touch -
consciousness expands to contain other living things, like
empathy but perceived as an overall impression like hot or
cold.
Psych Time - relax, turn of
physical, tune in inner focus inward.
Perception of Past, Present,
Future - time expanded Inner Vibrational Touch
The Conceptual Sense - complete
understanding of concept on all levels
Cognition of Knowledgeable
Essence - stronger instantaneous cognition of the essence
Innate Knowledge of Basic
Reality - particular data to make manipulation possible -
instinct
Expansion or Contraction of
the Tissue Capsule - "tissue" surrounding consciousness
in any system - astral
Disentanglement from Camouflage
- change of frequency
Diffusion by the Energy Personality
- birth - projection into systems
Some Unsorted Information
You are not the creators of
the universe, but are the creators of the physical world as
you know it. YOU create your own reality. Thought is energy.
When you are in a state that
is not the usual waking one (asleep or "daydreaming")
you are conscious and alert. You merely block out the memory
of this experience from the waking ego. Electromagnetic energy
units are the forms that basic experience takes when directed
by the inner self. These then form physical matter and objects.
When a person dies (having
chosen their own death, although not "consciously"),
you must tell the person that they are free to leave, and
that you joyfully give them their freedom. Let them know that
they need not stay close, because you realize that you will
be reunited.
Your expectations send telepathic
suggestions. Telepathic conditions called root assumptions
exist, of which each individual is subconsciously aware.
The conscious ego rises out
of the "unconscious" ego, but the "unconscious"
being the creator of the ego is necessarily far more conscious
than its offspring. Those who know existence on a physical
level now, have, because of certain cycles, lived before at
approximately the same historical periods. They possess an
inner familiarity, a cohesiveness that belongs with the same
sort of reality.
Energy projected into any
kind of construction, psychic or physical, cannot be recalled,
and must follow the laws of the particular form into which
it has been molded.
Dreams can give clues to all
kinds of behavior. When you dream of others, they know it.
When they dream of you know it. There would be nothing gained,
however in conscious awareness of these conditions at this
time.
The self has no boundaries
except those it accepts out of ignorance.
Later, in your time, you will
look into the physical system at others in a position like
yours now. Within your physical atoms the origins of all consciousness
still sing.
Your idea of space and time
is determined by your neurological structure. The camouflage
is so craftily executed and created by the inner self that
you must, by necessity, focus your attention on the physical
reality which has been created.
The single line of physical
experience is merely the surface thread along which you seem
to travel. In actuality, following this analogy, there would
be an infinite number of threads both above and below your
own, all part of one inconceivably miraculous webwork.
The purpose of existence is,
quite simply, being as opposed to nonbeing. I am telling you
what I know, and there is much I do not know.
I KNOW THAT HELP MUST BE GIVEN
ONE TO THE OTHER, AND THAT EXTENSIONS AND EXPANSIONS ARE AIDS
TO BEING.
Each self, as part of All
That Is, retains the memory of the state of agony before their
release into actuality, and so each consciousness is driven
toward survival, change, development and creativity.
There are answers to some
questions that I cannot give you about the origin of All That
Is, for they are not known anywhere in the system in which
we have our existence.
Entities, being action, always
shift and change. There is nothing arbitrary about their boundaries.
Any personality can become an entity on its own. This involves
a highly developed knowledge of the use of energy and its
intensities.
When a race is in deepest
stress and faced with great problems, it will call forth someone
like Christ. It will seek out and indeed from itself produce
the very personalities necessary to give it strength.
When every young man refuses
to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea
with violence. As long as you fight for greed and gain, there
will be no peace.
| Authors Details: Written by Andy Hughes
(andy@ecn.purdue.edu) |
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