Issues Facing Mankind

Seth Early Sessions, Vol 9, Session 484

Issues Facing Mankind

Now when you think of problems such as you have been discussing here this evening, concentrate upon probable solutions, and imagine the solutions that can be worked out.  Do not project the problem as it exists, accelerated by future negative developments, for you only add to the difficulties.

Concerning the overpopulation problem, remember that more than physical mechanisms are involved.  The problem will be solved by mankind indeed; but mankind is composed of reincarnational entities.  It is quite within the probabilities that the statistics will reverse themselves and that for no reason that scientists can discover, children are born stillborn, as in a mass epidemic, and that entities simply refuse to inhabit bodies made for them.  The bodies then remaining empty to decay unused.

When you think in terms of mankind solving its own problems, remember that reincarnation is involved, and not a group of persons in existence for only a particular time.  When the personality is thoroughly ready to leave the body, nothing, including transplants, will keep it within the body.  And if personalities refuse to inhabit a new body, then no science will be able to give life to the newly formed but uninhabited body.

Now this is simply a possibility that you have overlooked.

As a matter of fact there has been such a population problem in the past, in your terms, on several occasions and involving your planet.  An earth-wide epidemic took place on one occasion.  On another occasion the number of conceptions was drastically reduced.  The women’s fear of bearing children alone made them barren when starvation loomed.  The third time artificial means were utilized to prevent birth.

(“Can you tell us when this was?”)

The third time involved Atlantis.  The first time I mentioned was the epidemic-like disaster, was 14 centuries after Atlantis … A pre-Inca type civilization.

For many reasons at various periods in your time there has been particular work to be done requiring numbers, a broad stratum, a physical pool, that would serve as a basis for future generations.  In many such instances there is a ferment of activity, a birth of new ideas, and an unstructured psychic activity, that is freewheeling and explosive.

It is a period of great activity, telepathic communication, an overcrowding physically, but forces great new developments and a new synthesis, and this is your present situation.  It is not difficult for neighbors to understand each other when they live 50 miles apart.  When you become overcrowded in severe circumstances, you must learn to understand your neighbor or lose your mind.  You are forced to relate.

And so in the present circumstance the overcrowded conditions will still be further accelerated, until a new synthesis is formed – and it will be.  The psychic activity engendered will finally form the basis for a greater understanding.  It will be quite obvious that telepathic thoughts travel quicker than good news or faster than a pestilence.  Man will be so shoved together that the impact will literally explode into a new level of consciousness, a new development in those terms.

Our friend here (John) spoke of communications, and their effect upon you.  Here you will find an almost instantaneous system of communications.  The individual will find himself surrounded by more stimuli than he knows what to do with – but using this as impetus he will learn to handle it, using portions of the brain that now lie latent.

The change will amount to a new kind of consciousness, certainly in quality.

There have been changes through your ages that have given birth to enlarged or expanded consciousness.  The oversaturation of your atmosphere that will be brought about as a result of overpopulation, the increased psychic activity, the greater communications, will have the result further of pressing inward upon the individual until he is forced to find a new way to handle stimuli, and to respond to events.

A concentration will occur.  When atoms and molecules are heated certain changes happen.  When they are artificially crowded certain changes happen, and when the psychic atmosphere is saturated there will be a metamorphosis of a kind and a release of abilities that have been latent.

Because of some of mankind’s curious characteristics, often it does not change unless his life depends upon it, unless survival is threatened.  He will be forced to recognize, use and develop his paranormal abilities simply to survive, and in so doing will release them finally for his own benefit and the benefit of his fellows.

Initially fear will be the impetus.  He will want to know what is going on in his neighbor’s head so badly that he will realize he already knows.  When the transformation is completed mankind will be operating at an entirely different level than you now know.