Creation and Our Perceived Physical Environment

Seth Early Sessions, Vol 8, Session 338

The Perceived Physical Environment

The physical universe as you see it represents in all of its complicated patterns, the far more vast, unbelievably more complicated inner workings that are not physical.

The immediate physical environment of your own apartment, for example, is the result of continual inner processes with which you are not acquainted.  The existence, maintenance, and appearance of that environment depends upon inner manipulations and automatic transfers that are as natural and as necessary to your existence physically, as breath.

Each minute variation of physical matter that you perceive is caused by inner minute variations that you do not perceive.  Each insignificant shading of color, change in texture, in degree or kind, are directly caused by corresponding inner differences.

In many respects the physical body itself aids in these transformations, through chemical interactions, changes in delicate electromagnetic balances, temperature variations, and through other methods that will be discussed shortly.

The physical with its multitudinous and astonishing complexity, merely hints at the full nature of inner reality however, for all of inner reality cannot be translated in physical terms.  Your own physical environment is constantly tended by you automatically.  It constantly reflects in its own way the nature of your inner environment.  Again, this is far from symbolic.  Every least alteration of psychic and emotional existence immediately alters the nature of the physical environment through instant interaction.

If, for example, at two o’clock your apartment appears confortable, cozy and peaceful and twenty minutes later it suddenly seems crowded, uncomfortable and cluttered, then you see this is not imagination.  You have changed the relationships existing within the immediate physical environment, and you perceive the change physically.

The change itself is the direct reflection of inner psychic and psychological alterations; but you have actually altered the nature of the physical environment and the quality that pervades it.  The influence of others is also involved.

You understand now what space is, or is not, in physical terms.  In psychic terms also there is something that can be loosely explained in terms of spatial relationships, but having to do with intensities.  A strong intensity of a particular nature can give you the feeling of clutter or lack of space.  This is the nearest I can come at this moment in telling you how this particular sort of transformation can occur.

There is obviously a cooperative element here, for each living consciousness has its part to play in maintaining the environment, which in turn gives its nourishment.

Thoughts and emotions directly activate the mechanics of physical matter, alter and transform it, maintain it, and also destroy it.

The Beginning Of Our Physical Universe

The beginning of your physical universe occurred when conscious energy directed enough of its attention in what was generalized dimension, to spark the formation of physical properties.  The creation was just that.  The first explosion of psychic energy in an ungeneralized dimension sparked the birth of specifics.

Before this the generalized dimension was simply nonexistent, a vacuum, which consciousness had not yet filled.  Since consciousness or action can never fully materialize itself, there are literally infinities of such nonexistent areas from which new dimensions can spring.

Consciousness or action forms all realities.  What is not simply represents a possibility which consciousness may bring to life.  Consciousness then formed out of itself a new dimension which was the physical one.  The formation, the explosion, of energy, shattered consciousness into an infinity of parts, each with all the abilities in here within consciousness itself.

From itself, therefore, and of itself, consciousness gave birth to its new dimension of experience, and then experienced what it had created, further extending itself and in turn bringing forth further possibilities of development.

Consciousness therefore continually creates and maintains itself, and this includes the physical materialization, the properties of the dimension, and yet basically there is no difference between the creator in these terms and the created.  Nor between inner reality, which forms physical matter, and physical objects themselves, for the atoms which are manipulated to form objects are themselves a portion of consciousness, and alive in those terms.  They respond to emotional and psychic directives as the physical body responds to light.

All of this talk about consciousness and action does not mean that consciousness is without identity.

You could not appreciate nor understand, nor can I, the nature of identity as it is known in the overall.  What we know of identity represents fragments and splinters that we call ourselves.  These are part however of the prime identity.  The splinters are possessed of individuality, and such units will never be dissolved.

They are still but a portion of prime identity, and without them, prime identity could not know itself nor act upon itself nor develop its own abilities or potentials.

Our Perceived Physical Reality Is A Materialized Extension Of Our Inner Self

Now in the same way that consciousness originated the physical dimension, you as portions of consciousness continue to maintain and create it anew.  Your source of energy is that first creation, in which consciousness focused where before it had not.  You also then know and develop yourselves through your own creations, and you automatically create and maintain your physical environment in the same manner that you breathe.  Your physical image and your physical environment are both materialized extensions of your inner selves.

The physical body itself however has much more to do with the maintenance of environment than is realized, for you use it so that your environment becomes almost like a second body, extending outward from the first, through which you express your inclinations and characteristics.  There are intricate complications that arise as environmental elements merge and mix with those of others.  You can see here the formation of nationalistic characteristics on a mass level.

This is constant creation.  The initial creation provided the energy, the dimension, of possibility itself, but every particle of consciousness will always attempt to express itself within as many possibilities as possible.  The inner self therefore creates the physical body and the land upon which it moves.

…  Bear in mind also that as individuals, you are creating new dimensions through which consciousness can know itself, both in physical experience and within other systems.  As a part of consciousness other systems are not closed to you, but as physical organisms other systems are closed to you