Seth on DNA and a Plan Analogy

Seth "Unknown" Reality, Volume 2 Session 731

Your present idea of identity is maintained only because you grant as valid such small aspects of your own reality.

In other words, your accepted concepts of selfhood would disappear if you ever allowed any significant subjective experience to intrude.  “The Absent Self” – the absent or unknown self – is the portion of your own existence that you do not ordinarily perceive or accept, though there is within you a longing for it.

Much of “Unknown” Reality is involved with the breaking up of theories that have been long accepted, but that prevent you from perceiving the powerful nature of those absent portions of the self.  As you focus upon certain details from a larger field of physical reality, so then you focus upon only the small portion of yourself that you consider “real”.

You carry within you, however, the deep knowledge of experience that in your terms would be prior, yet in your cells and your own deeper mind such information is current.

Selfhood overspills with great luxurious outcroppings, yet you jealously guard against such creativity.  To a certain extent you do carry the knowledge of your forefathers within your [cells’] chromosomes, which present a pattern that is not rigid but flexible – one that in codified fashion endows you with the subjective living experience of those who, in your terms, have gone before.  As Ruburt recently suspected, some very old cultures have been aware of this.  While being independent individuals their members also identified with their ancestors to some extent, accepting them as portions of their selfhoods.  This does not meant that the individual self was less, but was more aware of its own reality.  A completely different kind of focus was presented, in which the ancestors were understood to contribute to the “new” experience of the living; one in which the physically focused consciousness clearly saw itself as perceiving the world for itself, but also for all of those who had gone before – while realizing that in those terms he or she would contribute as well as the generations past.

The animals were also accepted in this natural philosophy of selfhood as the individual plainly saw the living quality of consciousness.  The characteristics of the animals were understood to continue “life”, adding their qualities to the experience of the self in a new way.

The human body would be used in earth’s great husbandry as, from it, dying and decaying new forms would arise.  This was a give-and-take in which, for instance, a jungle neighborhood was truly home, and all was a portion of the self psychically, spiritually, and physically.

Let those who will, laugh at tales of spirits turning into the trees – a simplistic theory, certainly, yet a symbolic statement in such societies: The dead were buried at home in the same close territory, to form in later times the very composition of the ground upon which religions grew.  Again, your limited concepts of selfhood make what I am saying difficult for you to perceive.

I am not saying, for example, that the living consciousness of each individual returned to the earth literally, but that the physical material permeated and stampede with that consciousness did, and does.  Again, even the cells retain knowledge of all of their affiliations.  In physical terms the consciousness that you understand is based upon this.

Selfhood is poorer when it does not at least intuitively understand this heritage.

Those intimate realizations, however, had to be counterbalanced in line with certain purposes set by your species, and even for that matter momentarily set aside so that other abilities and characteristics could emerge.  The species’ sense of curiosity would not allow it to stay in any home territory for long, and so the sense of intimacy was purposely broken.  It would become highly important again, however, when the planet was populated extensively, as it is now – only the original feeling of home area has to be extended over the face of the earth.  The “absent” portions of the self are ready to emerge.  The other, to you probable, lines of consciousness can now come into play.

These different lines of focus will each show you other aspects of your own reality, as individuals and as a species.

I said once that no knowledge exists outside of consciousness.

In those terms, neutral data are not transferred through the chromosomes.  Consciousness passes on information through “living” vehicles.  Whether physically materialized or not, knowledge is possessed by consciousness.  It is always “individualized”, though not necessarily in your terms.

The information carried by the chromosomes is not general, but highly specific.  It is codified data (itself alive) that contains within it the essence of ancestral experience – of specific ancestral experience.  Biologically you do indeed carry within you, then, the memories of your particular ancestors.  These form a partial basis for your subjective and physical existence, and provide the needed support for it.

Since one portion of your heritage is physical, in those terms, those memories can be translated again, back into emotional and psychological events, though usually they are not in your societies.

To that extent the so-called past experience of your ancestors and of your species is concurrent with your own, biologically speaking.  That is but one line, however, covered by the chromosomes.  You have “another line” of existence that also serves as a support for the one that you presently recognize.  It includes other interweaving physical relationships that bind you with all others upon your planet at the same adjacent level of time.  That is, to some extent or another you are related to all of those alive upon the planet.  You are time contemporaries.  You will have a far closer relationship with some than with others.  Some will be your counterparts.

These may or may not be closer to you than family relationships, but psychically speaking they will share a certain kind of history with you.  You will also be connected through the physical framework of the earth in the large give-and-take of its space-time scheme.

A third line supporting your selfhood as you think of it is the reincarnational one.  This is somewhat like the ancestral line and there are also reflections in the genes and chromosomes undetected by your scientists.  The ancestral and reincarnational lines merge to some extent to form what you think of as your genetic patterns ahead of time, so to speak.  Before this life you chose what you wished from those two main areas.

Reincarnational experience is also transmitted, then, and can be retranslated from a biological code-imprint into emotional awareness.  Again, however, as you are not your parents or your ancestors, you are not your “reincarnational selves”.

Here also ideas of time hamper you, for I must explain all of this in temporal terms.  Since time is simultaneous, at other levels your ancestors knew of your birth though they died centuries ago in recognized continuity.  The same applies to reincarnational existences that you think of as occurring in the past.

You cannot say that your ancestors, like some strange plants, were growing toward what you are, or that you are the sum of their experiences.  They were, they are, themselves.  You cannot say that you are the sum of your past reincarnational lives either, and for the same reasons.  You cut off the knowledge of yourself, and so divisions seem to occur.  You are somewhat like a plant that recognizes only one of its leaves at a time.  A leaf feels its deeper reality as a part of the plant, and adds to its own sense of continuity, and even to its own sense of individuality.  But you often pretend that you are some old dangling leaf, with no roots, growing without a plant to support you.

All of the leaves now growing on this plant could be thought of as counterparts of each other, each alive and individual in one time, each contributing yet facing in different directions.  As one leaf falls another takes its place, until next year the whole plant, still living, will have a completely new set of leaves – future reincarnational selves of this batch.

You are not plants, but the analogy is a simple one.  And if you will forgive me – overall it holds water.

There is a constant interaction in the plant, between its parts, that you do not perceive.  The leaves now present are biologically valid, interrelating in your terms.  Yet in time terms each leaf is also aware of the past history of the plant, and biologically they spring up from that “past”. 

Each leaf seeks to express its leafhood as fully as possible.  Leaves take in sun, which helps the plant itself to grow.  The development of the leaves, then, is very important to the plant’s own existence.  The cells of the plant are kept in contact with the environment through the leaves’ experiences, and future probabilities are always taken into consideration.  The smallest calculations involving light and dark are known.  The life of the plant and its leaves cannot be separated.

The plant has its own “idea” of itself, in which each of its leaves has its part.  Yet each leaf has the latent capacities of the whole plant.  Root one, for instance, and a new plant will grow.

Selves have far greater freedom than leaves, but they can also root themselves if they choose – and they do.  Reincarnational selves are like leaves that have left the plant, choosing a new medium of existence.  In this analogy, the dropped leaves of the physical plant have fulfilled their own purposes to themselves as leaves, and to the plant.  These selves, however, dropping from one branch of time, root themselves in another time and become new selves from which others will sprout.

The larger self, then, seeds itself in time.  In this process no identity is lost and no identity is the same, yet all are interrelated.  So you can theoretically expand your consciousness to include the knowledge of your past lives, though these lives were yours and not yours.  They have a common root, as next year’s leaves have a common root with the leaves now of this plant.

Such knowledge, however, would automatically affect those past lives.  Ideas automatically affect those past lives.  Ideas of cause and effect can hold you back here, because it seems to you that the leaves of next year come as an effect cause by this year’s leaves.  To the plant and its innate creative pattern, however, all of its manifestations are one – an expression of itself, each portion different.  The knowledge of its “future” leaves, as potential pattern, exists now.  The same applies to the psyche.  In that greater realm of reality there is creative interplay, and interrelationships between all aspects of selfhood.