… (From Chapter 20 of Seth Speaks): “Illness and suffering are not thrust upon
you by God, or by All That Is, or by any outside agency. They are a by-product of the learning
process, created by you, in themselves quite neutral … Illness and suffering
are the results of the misdirection of creative energy. They are a part of the creative force,
however. They do not come from a
different source than, say, health and vitality. Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it
teaches you how to stop suffering. That
is its purpose …”
… (From the 23rd
session for February 5, 1964): “Because
I say that you actually create the typical camouflage patterns of your own
physical universe yourselves, by use of the inner vitality of the universe in
the same manner that you form a pattern with your breath on a glass pane, I do
not necessarily mean that you are the creators of the universe. I am merely saying that you are the creators
of the physical world as you know it – and herein, my beloved friends, lies a
vast tale.”
… “There are verbal difficulties
having to do with the definition of life.
Because of the psychological strength of preconceived notions, I have to
work around many of your concepts. Your
own kind of conscious mind is splendid and unique. It causes you, however, to interpret all
other kinds of life according to your own specifications and experiences.
“There is no such thing, in your
terms, of nonliving matter. There is
simply a point that you recognize as having the characteristics that you have
arbitrarily ascribed to life, or living conditions. For there is no particular point at which
life was inserted into nonliving matter.
“If we must speak in terms of
continuity, which I regret, then in those terms you could say that life
in the physical universe, on your planet “began” spontaneously in a given
number of species at the same time.
Words do nearly forsake me, the semantic differences are so vast. In those terms there was a point where
consciousness, through intent, impressed itself into matter. That “breakthrough” cannot be logically explained,
but only compared to, say, an illumination – that is, a light occurring
everywhere at once, that became a medium for life as you define it. It had nothing to do with the propensity of
certain kinds of cells to reproduce – [all cells are] imbued with the “drive”
for value fulfillment – but with an overall illumination that set the conditions
in which life was possible as you think of it; and at that imaginary, hypothetical
point, all species became latent. The
inner pulsations of the invisible universe reached certain intensities that “impregnated”
the entire physical system simultaneously.
That illumination was everywhere then at every point aware of itself,
and of the conditions formed by its presence.
“At the same time, EE units
(Electromagnetic Energy units) became manifest.
I have said, for example, that the universe expands as an idea does, and
so the visible universe sprang into being in the same manner. The same energy that gave birth to the universe
is, in those terms, still being created.
The EE units contain within themselves the latent knowledge of all of
the various species that can emerge under those conditions. It is according to your relative
position. You can say that it took
untold centuries for the EE units to “initially” combine, forming
classifications of matter and various species, or you can say that this process
happened at once. In your terms, each
species is aware of the condition of each other species, and of the entire
environment. In those terms the environment
forms the species and the species form the environment. There were fully developed men – that is, of
full intellect, emotion, and will – living at the same time, in your
terms, as those creatures supposed to be man’s evolutionary ancestors.
“[However, as] you begin to
question the nature of time itself, then the “when” of the universe is beside
the point. The motion and energy of the
universe still comes from within. I
certainly realize that this is hardly a scientific statement – yet the moment
that All That Is conceived of a physical system it was invisibly created,
endowed with creativity, and bound to emerge [into physical reality].
“There is a design and a
designer, but they are so combined, the one within the other, the one within
and the one without, that it is impossible to separate them. The creator is within its creations, and the
creations themselves are gifted with creativity. The world comes to know itself, to discover
itself, for the planner left room for divine surprise, and the plan was nowhere
foreordained. Nor is their anywhere
within it anything that corresponds to your “survival of the fittest” theories.”
… “In your terms of history, man
appeared in several different ages – not from an animal ancestor in the way
generally supposed. There were
men-animals, but they were not your stock.
They did not “lead” to anything.
They were a species in their own right.
“There were animal-men. The terms are for your convenience. In some species the animal-like tendencies
predominated, in others the manlike tendencies did so: Some were more like men,
some more like animals. The Russian
steppes had a particular giant-sized species.
Some also I believe in Spain – that area.
“There is considerable confusion,
for that matter, as to the geological ages as they are understood. Such species existed in many of these
ages. Man, as you think of him, shared
the earth with the other creatures just mentioned. In those terms so-called modern man, with
your skull structure and so forth, existed alongside of the creatures now
supposed to be his ancestors.
“There was some rivalry among
these groups, as well as some cooperation.
Several species, say, of modern man died out. There was some mating among these groups –
that is, among the groups in existence at any given time.
“The brain capacities of your
particular species have always been the same … Many of the man-animal groups
had their own communities. To you they
may seem to have been limited, yet they combined animal and human
characteristics beautifully, and they used tools quite well. In a manner of speaking they had the earth to
themselves for many centuries, in that modern man did not compete with them.
“Both the man-animals and the
animal-men were born with stronger instincts.
They did not need long periods of protection as infants, but in an
animal fashion were physically more agile at younger ages than, say, the human
infant.
“The earth has gone through
entire cycles unsuspected by your scientists.
Modern man, then, existed with other manlike species, and
appeared in many different places on the earth, and at different ages.
“There were then also animal-man
and man-animal civilizations of their kinds, and there were complete
civilizations of modern man, existing [long] before the ages now given for, say
the birth of writing (in 3100 B.C.)”.
Notes: Appendix 12
Note 11
… (From Session 681): “In your
terms – the phrase is necessary – the moment point, the present, is the point
of interaction between all existences and reality. All probabilities flow through it, though one
of your moment points may be experienced as centuries, or as a breath,
in other probable realities of which you are a part.” …
… (From Session 683): “All kinds of time – backward and forward –
emerge from the basic unpredictable nature of consciousness, and are due to ‘series’
of significances.”
Note 13
… (From Session 803): “You perceive your body as solid. Again, the very senses that make such a
deduction are the result of the behavior of atoms and molecules literally
coming together to form the organs, filling a pattern of flesh. All other objects that you perceive are
formed in their own way in the same fashion.
“The physical world that you
recognize is made up of invisible patterns.
These patterns are ‘plastic’, in that while they exist, their final form
is a matter of probabilities directed by consciousness. Your senses perceive these patterns in their own
way. The patterns themselves can be ‘activated’
in innumerable fashions. There is something
out there to observe.
“Your sense apparatus determines
what form that something will take, however.
The mass world rises up before your eyes, but your eyes are part of that
mass world. You cannot see your
thoughts, so you do not realize that they have shape and form, even as, say,
clouds do. There are currents of thought
as there are currents of air, and the mental patterns of man’s feelings and
thoughts rise up like flames from a fire, or steam from hot water, to fall like
ashes or like rain.
“… these patterns of
probabilities themselves are not inactive.
They are possessed by the desire to be-actualized. Behind all realities there are mental
states. These always seek form, though again
there are other forms than those you recognize.”
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