Physical Death (2)

Seth Early Sessions, Vol 8, Session 397

Physical Death (2)

Now.  We will continue from our last session.

In the case of the apparitions and ghosts mentioned in that session, there was one main difficulty behind their situation.  Even though the physical image as such had been left behind, the individuals were not able to change their focus of attention away from the physical system.

At times they were able to be perceived as pseudoimages.  They are doing subconsciously what came naturally, attempting to form, as always, their own physical construction.  However it is impossible for them to create a consistent solid image in your terms, for while they are still focused within your system the inner self knows well that the individual is finished with a given life situation, is out of alignment so to speak, and is therefore denied full use of its own energy.

The focus of attention cannot be so strong as it was in physical life, hence the inability to deal with energy in those terms.  The personality insists on behaving as if it were in the physical condition however, and out of habit attempts to construct a physical form.  He is not imprisoned within this pseudoimage, since he forms it, but the energy used is misdirected and largely futile.

The image can be perceived at times.  Contact can be made by those who are psychically aware.  Now.  It is obviously beneficial to learn now to change your own direction of attention away from your physical system.  When this is accomplished then legitimate firsthand experience can be gained, that is not physical in your terms.

You can glimpse other realities, and this knowledge and confidence will automatically be of benefit to you when the transition takes place.  You can indeed then leave your body while still conscious, and arrive so to speak with your senses about you.

Otherwise you may have consciousness drugged or in a disintegrating state, because of the body’s condition.  Under those circumstances the transition is not as easy.

The full personality consciousness indeed places an additional strain upon what you may call the overall body consciousness, and prolongs the sense of pain connected with that body consciousness.  Each cell, as I told you, is aware.  In a terminal illness, the personality consciousness, the ‘I’ as you know it, bears down in panic upon the body consciousness when it does not understand the state of affairs.

It is like Ruburt keeping the bird alive, you see.  (Last summer, Jane found an injured bird, and for several days tried to make it live.)  When the personality understands, it can indeed then will itself to leave the body in an aware state, and as it goes bless the body consciousness who has served it so well, release the tiny birdlike awareness within each cell, and go on to its own transition.

There is release also, you see, for the body consciousness, which as you know then changes to other forms.  The exercises which Ruburt is barely beginning will be of great help in our work, and in the development of his abilities.  They are also however excellent exercises that will result in the training so advantageous at the point of transition.

If you know now that you exist independently of the body, if you have experiences within other realities and messages from them, then you need not fear leaving the body, for you can already begin to make inroads.

I will tell you this: Neither of you realize as yet the full extent of Ruburt’s inner change of mind, his commitment now to our work, the commitment of his abilities to these matters for this lifetime.

He does not as yet consciously know the extent of his changed attitude.  His body knows.  You and Ruburt both know subconsciously, and you have begun to sense the implications on a conscious level, but barely.  All of this directly affects your own personal and joint – I have to use the term for you – future, experience; both in this life and later.

This change will also attract more energy, bring it forth from you Joseph …  And for you.  You will use more energy in helping to sustain Ruburt, but you will because of his new affirmation have more available.  Enough in fact to show itself considerably in new impetus in your own work.

One point: Ruburt’s whole personality did indeed protect itself, for unless it were integrated and fully committed it would not have the energy to sustain the activities with which it will now be involved.

Now.  You read a theory to the effect that cells ejected signals as they died.

Consciousness ejects signals, the consciousness within the cell, not the cell, you see.  Now the consciousness is within the cell, all through the cell, not localized within it, and yet it is not the matter of the cell.

Basically speaking of course the matter of the cell does not exist.  You were correct in the assumption that upon death the personality sends out signals; but the personality constantly sends out signals, in any condition of existence.

In one of our earliest sessions I told you that trees have consciousness, and that consciousness resided within all things, as the plants within this room to some extent are aware of you, and the happenings here, can sense strangers, and can strongly sense emotional and psychic atmospheres, to which they do indeed react.  (In Volume 1, see sessions 9 of 12/18/63 and 18 of 1/22/64.)

Ruburt was correct in his assumptions about your cat.  All of this has to do with the nature of existence and personality, for your personality directly affects your plants.  Personality can have a corrosive or soothing effect upon such unlikely things as the paint upon your walls.  So smoothly and yet so constantly do these effects change as personalities come and go that your universe as it seems to you, seems to continue to exist.

I will comment here for all of this fits into our discussion.  Existence is not a game in the terms spoken of by our Mr. Watts, though he is often on the right track.  We do not have a static god, recreating himself as he is in various guises.  Using those terms, we have a god constantly in the process of creation, action acting upon itself, always with new possibilities, each existence bringing forth new varieties.  Legitimately, each personality is a co-creator, and part of All That Is, but this All That Is constantly develops, and develops in terms of growth fulfillment.

There is a turning inward upon itself, but the inwardness is not a static condition.  It is difficult to put this into language. 

Evil, so termed, is a lack of knowledge, a lack of fulfillment, a lack of growth, measured against that which has felt inward enough to understand more of its nature.  Evil is therefore less desirable.  The whole process however is toward understanding in which the evil is doubled and erased, but the growth must come from something that is not yet grown, and you cannot call a seed evil because it is not yet the flower.

We will in the future deal with its problem of evil, and hint of some of its implications in our life after death material.

Disease is not evil, for example.  The murderer kills no one, yet if his intent is to do so then he must face the consequences of his intent.  Crime after death is not punished.  There is no crime to be punished, but between those last two statements lies a world of understanding, and knowledge that must be attained.  And punishment enters in between those two statements as the individual takes the consequence for the action and the intent.

By the time he realizes the truth of the second statement, neither crime nor punishment affect him.

There is no final judgment, for nothing is final.  There is no judgment because all is in transition toward greater knowledge and understanding.  Between those statements again lies worlds that must be deciphered.

The child is not evil because he is not a man, and cannot be judged for his childishness.  Value fulfillment is always working, yet there is between those two statements – you realize the ones to which I refer – the idea of judgment as an impetus and spur against the inner self’s knowledge of the growth that must come.

There are several subtle points here; I want to make sure that you have them.

…  We will continue with this material, the main material of the session, at our next session.  …