Issues Facing Mankind (2)

Seth Early Sessions, Vol 9, Session 491

Issues Facing Mankind (2)

Now, remember: in one way your reality is a probable system.  In some other realities mankind has taken different roads.

In some for example he never was a meat eater.  In others the aggressive instincts, as they are called, were almost automatically channeled toward what you would call constructive areas.

The progression in that system incidentally was not swift or certain.  Individual development suffered in many ways.  The problem of how to handle energy constructively was put in far simpler terms.  There was less free will involved.  The inhabitants of the system were far more fearful – so fearful that little change was allowed for.

The problem of aggression is simply the problem of using your own energy constructively.  When you are forced to use it constructively you learn little.  It is true that in this system of which I am speaking, there was a stronger focus upon the arts, and yet there were fewer great artists.

The only way to avoid facing the problem you see was to limit the amount of free energy allotted to the individual, and available en masse.  Also safeguards were automatically built into the physical structure so that accumulations of energy could not be repressed – so no buildup could then emerge with violent overtones.  Those in this system take further steps very slowly, and it will be more difficult for them to learn to handle large amounts of energy constructively.  Those in our own system are more venturesome, more daring.  Consciousness is far too varied.  No one system could contain it or satisfy it.  Generally speaking then, individual entities choose the system which suits their personalities and general leanings.  Your system presents a rather abrupt, explosive entrance into largely organized consciousness, but on an individual basis.

Those in your system are relatively impatient, have decided to work with large amounts of energy.  Your physical system itself rapidly responds and mirrors the use of this energy.  Results are seen quickly.  Large groupings and regroupings occur within the mass psyche, huge waves of energy as the race makes important decisions.  All of this is done on an unconscious basis, but as a teaching method the results must be seen physically.

Because you respond as physical creatures you respond best of all to tangible physical results.  You do not know how far you can go in any given waves of activity until you see it objectified, or nearly so.  If you knew how to handle energy effectively, if you fully realized that your thoughts were the motivating factor, were the realities, then you would not need a physical existence, for that is the reason for the physical environment.

It is the clay which you form so that you can see the results of your mental work.  You become extremely engrossed in the activity, but you also know in deeper layers of your personality that your existence and the existence of the race will continue.

Quite frankly, your earth is expendable, for it will be created again as often as it is needed.  I use the term again, speaking in terms of time again for you.  But understand that others are forming their own clay of realities simultaneously.  If they do not like what they have created often they throw it away but always with the idea of learning from their errors, and forming another from the knowledge they have gained.

Not one portion of consciousness is lost in this process, you understand.  When you think of a possible destruction of your planet, you imagine perhaps the mutilation of nature as you know it, the species changed.  Or you imagine the race of man vanishing, or starting all over again as it were from scratch.

Each epoch that ever existed within your planet in one way you see still does exist, and any consciousness that was involved with it still exists.  Each consciousness retains memory of all its experiences, of each gestalt of which it has been part, and of the errors and of the successes in which it has been involved.

In one way all of this happens in the blinking of an eyelid.  But in terms of value fulfillment you see, you explore it thoroughly.  As you know, there is no destruction, and yet in other terms you must believe for a while that there is, if you are going to work for the good of yourselves and others, as you must.

There are many roads leading to that goal however.  Various personalities will find various ways.  You help others whether or not you realize that you do, whether or not others realize that you do, whether or not you plan to help.  You help others even when your intentions are precisely the opposite.

Many who would seem to set a very poor example for others help others for exactly that reason.  Quite simply they are examples of what not to be precisely for this reason.  In their avarice and hatred they serve a purpose.

This does not mean that they will not have to progress, that they will not have to learn, but it does mean that they will not be allowed to pass through without helping others regardless of their own intent.  In some cases such a situation may be set up by a portion of the personality itself, though this is not usual.

Some automatically soak up the hatred of others like a sponge.  They have quite hateful characteristics.  In some cases they have chosen these roles, attracting aggressions that others cannot handle.  There is so little that you do know that many situations appear meaningless or chaotic.

There is no probable solution, you see, to mankind’s difficulties, that is not being tried out in some probable system.  There are systems where no violence is allowed, but full energy is given.  The teaching process there is different.  The system, the body system, short-circuits itself at the contemplation of violent behavior.

Now you must understand that this continues throughout the entire system – animal and plant life.  Change is gradual.  In many ways it is a sleeping system, change taking place so slowly and nonviolently that the danger is in a constant status quo.  The mental associative patterns are completely different from your own.  Even abruptness of thought, you see, carries implications of violence, of abrupt change – the breaking of one pattern for another.

Incidentally, I only know of the existence of such systems – I have had no experience with them.

It is not necessary that you know what is going on in these other systems of reality.  Some are so alien that you would not recognize them, nor would I, as any indication of conscious life.

There are purposes beyond those that I can tell you.  Their meanings unfold as your own development does.  Within consciousness all things are incipient, and all creations are lovingly nurtured.  You cannot step out of existence or reality even if you try.

It goes without saying that many entities have no experience with your physical reality, and never will.  The information gained in each probable system is known, however, and correlated.  You must realize the advantages, challenges and peculiar beauties that your own system provides, and that many of your own accomplishments as a race are unique.

These accomplishments are not the ones for which you pat yourselves on the back however.  Nature as you know it is also a result of your decision to handle large amounts of energy without strong imposed restraints.  The beauties within it are often the result of violent changes, of strong energy, used to change pattern and form, and yet maintain a definite stability.  The end products – your foliage, landscapes and skies for example, are of the highest esthetic nature: as esthetic productions they are unequalled.

They are indeed art, though you would never think of them as such.

Now.  Accepting the problem of aggression and of the use of strong energy necessitates rather quick reactions, strong unconscious mass communication, quick abilities to transform energy from one kind to another.

Highly unstable explosive energy may lead you to a tragic war.  At the last minute however a transformation may occur in which the energy is used instead to form a massive earthquake; the birth of an island or new continent.

It may be used as a thrust to bring forth an invention, literally of earth-shaking proportions.  It may be also used to bring forth a gigantic constructive event of equal proportion, according to the inner abilities and intent of the race at the time.

When the race is in deepest stress and faced with great problems, it will call up someone like Christ.  It will seek out and indeed from itself produce the very personalities necessary to give it the strength it needs.  It makes little difference what circumstances are involved.  The myth will grow to a reality, and the reality is far stronger than any purely physical event could be.

There were three men whose lives became confused in history, and merged, and whose composite history became known as the life of Christ, for example.  Each of these were highly gifted psychically, know of their role, and accepted it willingly.

It made no difference to your history.  The three men were part of one entity, gaining physical existence in one time.  They were not born at the same date however.  There are reasons why the entity did not return as one person.  For one thing the full consciousness of an entity would be too strong for one physical vehicle.  For another the entity wanted a more diversified environment than could otherwise be provided.  The entity was born once as John the Baptist, and then he was born in two other forms.  One of these is a personality that most stories of Christ refer to.

I will tell you about the other personality at another time.  There was constant conscious communications between these three portions of the one entity, though they were born and buried at different dates.  Yet the race called up these personalities, so to speak, from its own psychic bank, from the pool of individualized consciousness that was available to it.