Physical Death (3)

Seth Early Sessions, Vol 8, Session 398

Death (3)

(Miss Callahan, with whom some of the early sessions were concerned, died this past week.  In Volume 1, see sessions 28 and 29, February ’64.)

Now.  Consciousness can never fully express itself in physical terms as you know.  Through various reincarnations the entity attempts to express itself more and more competently within the framework of physical reality.

In a situation such as your father’s or Miss Callahan’s, the overall consciousness is not less, but less of it expresses itself in physical terms.  It either has less and less control over the organism because it has not solved its problems well enough, because it has already largely decided to leave the system, but does so gradually; or because in some instances there is a psychic block, which prevents full utilization of energy in this important regard.

The personality is less and less apparent within the physical organism.  The personality itself has not disintegrated.  Its control over the organism, for various reasons, has lessened.  In these cases the personality gradually makes inroads into the next reality.  It gathers its energy within the next system.

Now there is a comparable situation occurring on some occasions in a completely different direction, and for completely different reasons.  At birth the past reincarnated self may in some cases refuse or be unable to let go control over physical matter.  When this happens there is awareness on the part of the new personality of the old life, but more, a clinging over, a tenacious holding onto, on the part of the previous self.

The consciousness of the personality has not left too soon, or unusually soon, as in your father’s case, but stubbornly persists.  It is as if an artist found the last painting showing up over and over in the next one.  In such cases there is a lack of understanding.  The inner identity does not understand that it is simply taking a different guise, fulfilling different obligations, or using unfulfilled energies.

The ego is so strong that it clings even to the new materialization.  There are two faces of the same problem, you see.  As I am sure you know, your father is not unhappy.  You never knew your father.  The man who was to have been your father left.  This does not mean that you were an orphan in that respect, nor did he leave out of cruelty to you.

He left you and he left your brothers something you hold in high regard.  Lingering within the man you call your father there was always the sense of the unfinished.  There was a feeling of the searcher.  There was the need from which creativity springs.  In some measure this became your impetus.  You sensed it intuitively.

He left you things to do in your own way.  He worked with photography because he could not paint.  He could not create himself.  He could not see himself in physical surroundings.  As the photographer he was often out of the picture.  He did not leave you empty-handed.

He could not materialize.  In a sense he was more your passive mother than your father.  He could not communicate.  His love of machinery was his attempt, his strongest attempt, to make his being physical.  The man you call your father is happier now than he has ever been.

The whole personality has for a long time been waiting in another system of reality.  There is no law that says that a personality must fully materialize within a given system, though it is usually wiser to do so.

Your father and two brothers were originally part of the same entity.  Your two brothers and Ruth Butts are part of the same entity.  Now hear me.  This is difficult.  The main energy of the man you call your father left long ago, as I told you.  He gathered his energies together and is waiting, but part of his energies were given to the son of Ruth (my first cousin).

This is a voluntary arrangement.  The boy needs the additional vitality.  I do not believe the boy will live to old age.  The father loaned this vitality and helps the boy, knowing beforehand the boy’s difficulty.  The boy is unable to relate fully to physical reality.  When the man called your father dies his energy will return to the self who is waiting.  That self will then call back the energy which it has loaned to Ruth’s son.

If the boy has learned to relate by then he will call for reinforcement from his entity and receive it.  There may be a temporary illness for example while transitions take place.  If not he will die or be largely incapacitated.

Your father has therefore helped the boy.  He has also served to you as an example, and he knows this; for you did not want to relate fully.

All of this is not as complicated as it sounds.  If you have time left over you help others.  If a personality is between systems it loans its energy to others.

Your mother is facing realities she would not face in the past, and seeing in physical terms the results of her own inner actions.  There was no other way for her to learn.  What my seem a disaster to you in your scrutiny of her life, is a well-learned lesson in reality, and a victory.

There was a particular time when your father said goodbye to you.  You were two.

You were playing.  You were on your mother’s lap, in their bedroom, and he said simply “goodbye”, to you both.  And you both knew that he meant it.  It had followed a quarrel with your mother.  He went out of the house and when he returned he was not the same man.  Yet you understood subconsciously, and he left in you that moment the desire to create.

Personalities are not static things.  Entities are eternal.  They are not as nicely nor as neatly packaged out, one to a body, as your psychologists believe.  They constantly change.  They grow.  They make decisions.  They use the physical body fully, or they partially depart according to their own inner needs and development.

When psychic gestalts are made and formed they are not static.  They make different alliances until they find their place in a whole identity that serves their purposes, or are strong enough to become indestructible.  They are always becoming, they are not closed units.

Your father was not simply your father.  That identity that is his has grown, developed, changed its circumstances and its physical components many times, searching for the psychic soil that will best develop his own potentials.

This is not simple to explain, yet I would do poorly by you if I left you with a simple explanation.  Emotional feelings are vital.  Emotional identities are indestructible.  Personalities that you have known in past lives will know you after transition.  This does not mean that for their own purposes they have not joined in psychic mergers that you cannot presently understand.  As I am joined in a psychic merger with you now, and am still myself, and you yourself.

There are spiritual bridges but they are formed by individual personalities.  Your father is forming a spiritual bridge.  He is one rung of the ladder, yet he is also part of the rung above him, and the rung below.  Because you cannot put your finger upon him does not mean that he does not exist, and that he has not helped you fulfill yourself, and that he has not helped teach the woman you know as your mother.

Now I hope that you will understand me intuitively, for what I have said confounds the intellect to some considerable degree.  But I speak through Ruburt, and Ruburt is himself and I am myself, yet without your support of Ruburt I could not speak.  This in no way minimized my reality, or Ruburt’s.  So your father’s use of his own energies does not minimize what he is, nor his overall sense of direction.

He did not leave you with no thought.  He left you what he thought was the best he had to give you, a need for creativity that he could not express in physical terms.  He left for your young brother a sense of sweetness, an innocent, untouched quality that will always sustain him.

He left your middle brother a stubborn persistence that will help him if he uses it correctly.  He left for your mother the questions she needed – what had she done that she should not have done; for that question was important for her development.

Now all of this pertains to our main discussion, for the implications are plain.  He, in the old-man body, enjoys the solitude that he always wanted.  Your mother was originally the spark that made him relate at all to physical reality, and that is why he resented her, why he fought her, and why she could not respect him.  He enjoys the luxury now of not reacting, in his terms.

There will be a joyous gathering together of his identity when the body dies.  These are like the weaving together of mosaics, the weavings of the personality in and out, and no effect is meaningless nor without benefit.  In this life you were meant to create, and teach.  All creation is teaching.  Your entity is older than your father’s.  You and Ruburt and I have been connected many times.  The gestalt, the conditions, have in the past been beneficial for us all.

You have already traveled the way individuals like your present mother and father have traveled.  All is a process of development therefore.

Now, I am here in this room.  I am also in another place in another time.  Your father is in several dimensions at once.  All of this is value fulfillment.  It is growth.

We are doing well with Ruburt.  We are coming through so clearly in fact that he is now in the process of learning how to disentangle himself from me.  I leave willingly, but my energy is so strong that he does not know how to let me go.  He is fully relaxed.  He is not used to feeling my presence however so strongly.

I suggest you speak his name, his present name, three times, and touch him.  This is only a temporary procedure, and a mark of our progress.  He will quickly learn the procedure, and then there will be no need.