York Beach Apparitions

Seth Early Sessions, Vol 9 Session 422

York Beach Apparitions

(…  tonight Jane said Seth was going to talk about the York Beach apparitions we created at that resort in the summer of 1963, while on vacation there, in Maine.  Jane had been writing about the incident this afternoon and I had wondered aloud if Seth could give more data on this.  He had also discussed it in the early sessions to some degree.)

…  Now, as to your York Beach images.  Here aggressive and destructive energies were unconsciously projected outward, given a pseudoreality and a temporary physical validity.  There was a protein loss on your own parts.

Such images are constructed of emotional energy, but they also are partially formed from the chemical structure of the individual or individuals behind such productions.  The physical body then must work overtime.  The impetus is emotional, and the pseudoframework is formed of emotional energy, but the image itself must be built up in part of physical components, and these must come from somewhere.

Now even in the case of hallucinations, the originator uses projections from his own physical structure, which he then perceives.  Though the mind, or brain rather, may be seemingly passive in the case of the perceiver, the metabolism is quickened, for the body is using energy at a quickened rate.

The emotional charge provides the pattern, and the impetus for creation, and in the York Beach affair and like situations, it provides for the actual projection or externalization itself.  According to the physical validity or the extent of physical reality to be achieved, the physical body of the originator then lends, or transposes or transfers, portions of its own chemical structure.  Proteins are used, and there is a high carbohydrate loss on the part of the originator.

Unconsciously, the physical methods at hand are used, then, in such endeavors.  It is highly unusual, but possible, according to the strength of the psychic discontent, that the consciousness could then split itself up, some residing in the new image.

Now.  Physical illness is not a natural condition.  It also necessitates additional work of this same sort, hence often the physical vitamin deficiencies that occur.  In many cases they do not cause a disease, but are the result of it.  In the same way that the body’s proteins and chemical structures can be used to form various kinds of images, they may also be utilized in a lesser fashion to, say, form an ulcer, a goiter, or to affect other changes.

Again, the body is overworking.  Here particular emotions are dissociated, denied.  The individual does not want to accept them as a portion of himself.  Instead of projecting them outward, as you did into such images they are directed to a specific area in the body; or in other cases allowed to wander, so to speak, traveling troublemakers, through the entire physical system.

Definite energy is needed to sustain them.  We will not go into an entire discussion, yet you should be able to see the connection between some kinds of images and ulcers, or other growths.

When the offending emotion is recognized as a part of the self it can then be rather harmlessly dispensed with.  It takes its place along with other personality traits.  It gains its power and strength only when it is forcibly isolated, for it then cannot merge with the normal ebb and flow of subjective activity.

Good events cannot help it, then, for the personality does not admit it is a portion of itself.

The images you saw were of older, weary selves, the lines of frustration and bitterness clearly written in the features, and apparent in the bodies’ bearings.

You used your own bodily reserves to produce the images.  You faced the bitterness head on, and saw it objectified.  You then for the first time, completely accepted it as a portion of yourself.  At this point it returned to you, and lost its explosive, isolated importance.  It became merely an emotion among others.

It was the beginning in your case, of recovery.  Telepathic communications between you and Ruburt was also involved.  Ruburt realized that as you changed, so would he.  Now, this same sort of deterioration over a longer period of time can occur in the original physical image, when the energy is not projected into more or less independent structure.

Now.  Ruburt was correct.  He did not want to admit his own strong spontaneous nature.  It has not gone anywhere.  He need only strongly desire that it return, on his terms, and he will find it.

In his case he made alterations that severely prevented expression of spontaneity, in physical movement.  To some extent this was meant to reassure him.  When he realizes, and you can help him, that he is indeed safe, only when he trusts his spontaneity, then he will be free.

He is in the process of freeing himself, but the assurances from you can quicken the process considerably.  The working schedule will help also, for as he sees the product of his spontaneity, he knows he can trust it.  The body worked overtime in quelling spontaneity, and used needed reserves to maintain the symptoms.  The same reserves, you see, can be used to construct images.  When images of survival personalities appear, they must also utilize such properties.

Always trust motion and change over permanency or rigidity.

(“How much is Jane contributing now, physically, to your presence?”)

I am not here in a physical materialization of myself.  If I were, additional protein and chemical properties would be needed from Ruburt.  In our sessions I usually bring additional energy with me, and Ruburt knows how to handle it.  If you recall such earlier statements I made concerning the nature of his energy pattern, he is geared to handle high amounts of energy, and to use them.

That is why it took so much out of him to restrain his own energy.  To force a lid on that pot was a job.

Now.  The reason for his unrest yesterday and today is simple.  A reaction.  He was afraid that his spontaneous self had been swallowed in our sessions.  The emotional reaction was rather natural, since our last session touched on some deep points.

The poem was the resolution of the fear however, and a good sign.  He does not need to fear the sudden release of the spontaneous self.  He knows it is being released.  He knows he is releasing it.  But he has been afraid of releasing it suddenly, for fear it would engulf him.  This is of course a symptom of the entire problem.  It is the main reason he still has symptoms.  It is why the few sudden releases, as with the Prentice letter, have in the past been followed by poorer days for a while.

Now we have hit something here, of importance.  Free arms, to him, represent abandonment, in the terms of giving into, freely and openly.  He has been afraid of letting down completely.  Now, he has not been aware of his fear of being suddenly released completely.  The conscious knowledge will be of great help.

In all relaxation exercises he should imagine himself as fluid, as wind or water, and not as a statue.  Regularity of sessions, our sessions, will help now also.  Tonight’s material should have a definite and observable beneficial effect upon him.

You can also help by reminding him that his safety does lie in spontaneity, and that joy will result from any complete and sudden release.  In the past he did not want to accept his spontaneous nature because he felt he was not sufficiently disciplined or strong enough to control it, and he did not want to accept responsibility for it.

It is not something to be controlled.  It is something that will take its place with the other elements of his personality, merge with it, add its strength, and set up its own system of balances with other groupings of characteristics.  These groupings balance themselves.  Tell him this.  There is no need to treat one characteristic as a stepchild.

…  (“While Jane and I were contending with those pseudoimages we had created at York Beach, in that crowded dancing establishment – did others in the room know what was going on?”)

They were observed by others.  They were hysterical productions born of your own desperation and given instant physical validity.  Your unconscious awareness was within them.  They had no independent personality consciousness of their own.

…  One point: the spontaneous self is the healer.  Tell Ruburt that.