Perception And Reality Construction

Seth Early Sessions, Vol 6, Session 253

Perception and Reality Construction

All systems of reality are created, or constructed, by those who perceive the system.  Those who do not construct a system cannot perceive it.  Now.  There is nothing at all unusual in precognitive experiences.  They occur constantly beneath the level of your awareness.  However there are certain conditions necessary before precognitions can arise to conscious levels, and there are definite conditions that must exist before what you call apparitions can be perceived.

So-called apparitions, again, are not unusual.  They are more or less constant.  Many of these apparitions exist in their own system whether or not you perceive them.  Some apparitions are constructed by the perceiver and are basically caused by a telepathic communication.  But all apparitions are not of this nature.  All apparitions however, to appear as or within the physical system, must be constructed by the perceiver in the same manner that all physical objects are constructed.

This does not meant that apparitions are only the result of such construction on the part of the perceiver.  The perceiver constructs the pseudomaterial apparition as he constructs the physical image of his contemporaries, but in, or rather and in line with telepathic data that is received by or from the consciousness whose material image is being constructed.

You recall we spoke of primary and secondary physical constructions.  These classifications apply regardless of the basic nature of the consciousness that is to be materially formed.  An apparition constructed as a result of telepathic data, picked up by the perceiver in message form, will be constructed by him in precisely the same manner that an apparition will be constructed that is a reflection of a survival personality.

The difference is not in construction, for the methods of construction are the same.  For example, Mr. A in his bedroom telepathically picks up the thought of his brother many miles distant.  Now.  If he merely picks up his brother’s thought, and the thought is, quote: “I am dying.  I wish I could say goodbye to my brother,” then the receiver of the message could form the apparition of the dying brother, and then perceive it in his bedroom

This would be a secondary construction.  If however the dying brother made an out-of-body journey before or after death, for a last visit, then the receiver would still have to construct the apparition himself in order to perceive it.  But in this case we would have a primary construction.

Nothing is seen directly.  You are always forming such constructions, and the methods by which this is accomplished are the same regardless of the nature of the consciousness which is to be perceived in physical terms.  In all cases, if the ego consciousness is to be reached, some sense imagery is necessary.

Sense images are built up, you see, in the same manner whether or not you are trying to perceive an apple, a star, or a human being.  They are built up in the same manner whether or not you want to perceive a thought that must be made physical, or the image of a consciousness that must be made physical.

You have noticed in our own work that oftentimes information will be perceived by Ruburt in terms of visual images.  I do not give Ruburt the information in this manner.  The images are formed from my ideas.  Usually they are formed by his ideas.  I try to direct his image making, but in both instances the same process of image making is involved.  You can understand in fact the way in which sense images are organized much more clearly by studying instances where sense images exist without an actual object representing them in the physical universe.  This shows the sense impressions are independent, you see, of objects.

Now I have told you time and time again, my friends, that you construct your physical universe and your private environment in line with your inner expectations, for they mirror perfectly the deepest areas of your own inner reality.

This is perhaps the closest I can come in handing you anything that approaches a basic truth.  All of our material follows from this, and any other information contained in the material follows and flows out of this primary statement.

I do not speak symbolically, but quite literally.

When you find yourselves therefore noticing more and more the inequalities, the disasters and shames that come within your sphere of perception, you add to their existence.  This may confound what common sense may tell you.  However, concentration reinforces the quality which is concentrated upon.

I will not go more deeply into this, for we have mentioned it often, and I address myself now to you both.  When you are concentrating upon destructive elements, you lose on two points.  You reinforce the destructive qualities by the very act of concentrating upon them, and you rob yourselves of the constructive qualities that you could be concentrating upon, and therefore that you could be reinforcing.

For an example, we will take your friend and her tumor.  The tumor was formed by inner concentration.  She feared a tumor so strongly that subconsciously she focused her energies in those directions.  It existed in her mind long before it was physically constructed.

Had she concentrated upon constructive elements, not only would the tumor itself be nonexistent, but she would have constructed a positive element in its stead.  A spiritual growth, for example.

All of these matters, you see, and many more, from the considerations of health and the formation of destructive ulcers and tumors, to the construction of any simple physical object, to the construction of an apparition – all of these are in one way or another connected with inner focus and concentration.

You will in all cases attempt to construct as physical reality your inner conception of what reality is.  Your physical environment and conditions are a mirror of your own basic conceptions of reality.  If the environment changes it is because your inner conceptions have changed, and no smallest alteration is made within physical reality, that has not first been made within the inner self.

Mass Or Shared Dreams

I wanted to mention here a subject that is at least allied.  We have not touched upon it often, if at all, and it has to do with something Ruburt wondered about:  Mass, or shared dreams.

Now, your physical universe is obviously composed of shared perceptions, and mass dreams would of course be of the same nature.  Mass dreams are indeed a reality.  They exist mainly at one particular level, and they have to do with what you may call for now, world pictures.

These help form the reality of human conditions upon your planet at any given time.  Those conditions are at least partially the result of such mass dreams.

… We will then discus briefly, very briefly, mass or shared dreams.

There are actually several varieties.  For now we will be concerned with mass dreams that have an almost universal nature.  That is, dreams that are shared at one time or another by the majority of living persons on your planet.

These are dreams shared by various groups for example also.

This particular kind of dream is concerned with working out certain problems concerning your physical reality, and they are usually not precognitive.  They might appear precognitive if you perceived them, because many of the events contained therein will later occur in fact.  They are not precognitive however, for in a large measure they bring about, or cause, physical events.

They occur, comparatively speaking, just above the layer which Jung refers to as the collective unconscious.  If you could perceive these dreams then you would have a good idea of the main physical events of the future, because you would see them being born.

These are as a rule connected with significant events that affect many countries.  They represent in the main deep intents, wishes and purposes.  At times they have immense power to bring about shaking world changes of either beneficial or destructive nature.

One individual however is more important than you have ever dreamed, for the intensity and emotion and intent is important here.  One man, passionately willing, good or evil, can overbalance, literally, a hundred men.  In the dream state too, you see, leaders can be born and make themselves known.  The people already know them in these mass dreams, before they are known in physical reality.