Thought and Physical Environment

Seth Early Session, Vol 8, Session 341

Thought

Creation is constant.  Due to the nature of action, creation cannot be anything but simultaneous.  Each act of creation brings forth another, and opens up further dimensions of activity.  Within your own system, thought becomes materialized, and there is literally no end to the activity of thoughts.  Thoughts however are connected with language and with highly organized ego development.  They are translations and symbols for inner activity.  As a rule they are highly physically oriented, their function being to acquaint the physically adapted ego with some inner data.

The thoughts may rather faithfully, though never completely, translate such data, or they my considerably distort it.  Behind thoughts are images, which are more basic but still physically oriented.  Because they are more basic, they have a stronger effect.  They are more emotionally charged, more concise than thoughts, and they are directly connected with the mechanics involved in translating inner data to physical reality.

Behind these, so to speak, exist what you may term temperature pictures, in which delicate gradations of heat form ever-shifting emotional patterns that do have a semiphysical outline.  From these, you see, normal images are built up, and from the images thoughts are formed.

Consciousness itself perceives directly, and these various methods of perception have been adopted to meet varying physical circumstances.  Such thermal pictures are found in what is called the old brain, and to these, the body responds with changes of temperature that sparks various chemical reactions.

In for example the worm, the process ends here.  In so-called higher forms, the chemical process itself allows for the creation of an ordinary image.  This brings about further thermal responses and chemical alterations, that allow the thought processes to proceed.

All of these procedures are unnecessary to consciousness itself, however.  They are necessary to develop communication between nonphysical consciousness and the physical form which it has adopted.  Consciousness, in forming an image, or creating it, then responds to it creatively, setting up frameworks for further creative actions.  Consciousness experiences reality directly, but having formed physical matter into a personal image, it must then creatively translate data to that physical brain.  It must keep it informed.

The brain looks out upon the physical universe, and consciousness then reacts, again creatively, to that environment.  Information is now carried in reverse fashion back to the inner self, in an instantaneous and automatic procedure.  Thus thought becomes an inner image which is translated into a thermal image, and then into intuitional form, into highly condensed and codified data, and then into a pure and direct sort of experience which you cannot understand as physical creatures.

All of the information of the inner self is highly condensed and codified, and exists in electromagnetic purity.

The automatic procedure works both ways, then, constantly.  Various portions of the self retain memory of the information, still in the form in which they have interpreted it.  The thoughts and images, while being condensed, are nevertheless then retained in their particular levels of the personality in their own form.

The Physical Environment Is An Extension Of The Self

Now, the process does not cease at the physical boundaries of the self however.  The data thus far has been seen as traveling from the inner self outward, as being translated from pure knowledge into thermal pictures, inner images and thoughts.  Obviously words and action follow.

The actions result in concrete physical materializations.  These are all highly colored and charged, however, and the stuff of physical materialization is in itself conscious and alive.  There are hidden but very definite connections between the self and the objects of which it has created in its environment.  The environment is simply an extension of the self, and those objects within it are a part of the physical or the physically materialized personality.  Hence your idea of ownership.

Objects carry a strong emotional and psychic charge.  The personality exists inward in ways that are not at once apparent, but it also exists outward in ways that you do not see.  There are, of course, mergings where selves quite literally merge with other selves, forming a corporate self.  But the unit selves retain their identity, as in a nation the citizens retain theirs, even though the nation at times may act as a unit, and share particular mass characteristic drives and desires, and work toward various goals.

All of it involves constant creativity, not only maintenance but entirely original and new creation.

I have been speaking of your present system only, yet there is always progression to other systems.  The growth of each seed requires a separate act of creation.  There is no mass creative act, for all portions of consciousness have their part to play in creativity.  This is the meaning of action, of consciousness and of individuality:  the freedom to create.

Without this there would be only a sham creativity, without involvement and without the involvement of action.  Every dream is a creative act, that could be initiated in no other way, highly individual.

Now, you arbitrarily decide on the personal physical image as the exterior boundary of the self.  As you know, in actuality, no such physical boundary exists.  It is the result of perception.  Even physically, you see, no such boundary exists.  You can see this for example in epidemics.

The physical self extends outward, literally, to the ends of your universe, but the physical brain could not handle this amount of manipulation, and it has become subconscious.  Early man recognized his relationships more clearly.  Specialized man, physically, cannot afford to.

Physically you are a part of your environment, and you form it as you form your image.  There is much more to be said here, and we shall go into it more deeply soon.  For this is not a symbolic relationship but a practical one.

Jung was correct in postulating a collective unconscious.  But with his limited knowledge he did not see that this unconscious would exist outside of your three-dimensional system entirely, holding future as well as past, nor that it has such a cohesive effect upon humanity as a whole.  It is the one self with its origins within your system, but its existence outside.

The collective unconscious is not static however, and itself interacts and constantly changes.  These are all phases of constant creativity within your system.  You constantly add to the collective unconscious, and constantly receive from it.  You change what you receive however.  Each physical object has a psychic effect on all other objects, and a psychic existence that is independent of its physical existence.

There is constant interaction between all objects, and several will create a pervading psychic climate that affects those who come in contact with it.