Seth’s Nonphysical Environment (4)

Seth Speaks, Session 518

Seth’s Nonphysical Environment (4)

My environment includes, of course, those other personalities with whom I come in contact.  Communication, perception, and environment can hardly be separated.  Therefore the kind of communication that is carried on by myself and my associates is extremely important in any discussion of our environment.

In the following chapter I hope to give you an idea, quite simply, of our existence, the work in which we are involved, the dimension in which we exist, the purposes that we hold dear; and most of all, of those concerns that make up our experience.

Now I have friends even as you do, though my friends may be of longer standing.  You must understand that we experience our own reality in quite a different manner than you do.  We are aware of what you would call our past selves, those personalities we have adopted in various other existences.

Because we use telepathy we can hide little from each other, even if we wished to.  This I am sure, seems an invasion of privacy to you, and yet I assure you that even now none of your thoughts are hidden, but are known quite clearly to your family and friends – and I may add, unfortunately, to those you consider enemies as well.  You are simply not aware of this fact.

This does not mean that each of us is like an open book to the other.  Quite the contrary.  There is such a thing as mental etiquette, mental manners.  We are much more aware of our own thoughts than you are.  We realize our freedom to choose our thoughts, and we choose them with some discrimination and finesse.

The power of our thoughts has been made clear to us, through trial and error in other existences.  We have discovered that no one can escape the vast creativity of the mental image, or of emotion.  This does not meant that we are not spontaneous, or that we must deliberate between one thought or another, in anxious concern that one might be negative or destructive.  That, in your terms, is behind us.

Our psychological structure does mean that we can communicate in far more various forms than those with which you are familiar, however.  Pretend, for example, that you meet a childhood friend whom you have long forgotten.  Now you may have little in common.  Yet you may have a fine afternoon’s discussion centered about old teachers and classmates, and establish a certain rapport.

So, when I “meet” another, I may be able to relate to him much better on the basis of a particular past life experience, even though in my “now” we have little in common.  We may have known each other, for example, as entirely different people in the fourteenth century, and we may communicate very nicely by discussing those experiences, much as your hypothetical childhood friend established rapport by remembering your past.

We will be quite aware that we are ourselves, however – the multidimensional personalities who shared a more or less common environment at one level of our existence.  As you will see, this analogy is a rather simple one that will do only for now, because past, present, and future do not really exist in those terms.

Our experience, however, does not include the time divisions with which you are familiar.  We have far more friends and associates than you do, simply because we are aware of varying connections in what we call for now “past” incarnations.

We have of course therefore more knowledge at our fingertips, so to speak.  There is no period of time, in your terms, that you can mention, but some of us have been from there, and carry within our memories the indelible experience that was gained in that particular context.

We do not feel the need to hide our emotions or thoughts from others, because all of us by now well recognize the cooperative nature of all consciousness and reality, and our part in it.  We are highly motivated.  Could spirits be anything else?

Simply because we have at our command the full use of our energy, it is not diverted into conflicts.  We do not fritter it away, but utilize it for those unique and individual purposes that are a basic part of our psychological experience.

Seth’s Work

Now, each whole self, or multidimensional personality, has its own purposes, missions, and creative endeavors that are initial and basic parts of itself and that determine those qualities that make it eternally valid and eternally seeking.  We are finally free to utilize our energy in those directions.  We face many challenges of quite momentous nature, and we realize that our purposes are not only important in themselves, but for the surprising offshoots that develop in our efforts to pursue them.  In working for our purposes, we realize we are blazing trails that can also be used by others.

We also suspect – certainly I do – that the purposes themselves will have surprising results, astounding consequences that we have never realized, and that they will merely lead to new avenues.  Realizing this helps us keep a sense of humor.

When one has been born and has died many times, expecting extinction with each death, and when this experience is followed by the realization that existence still continues, then a sense of the divine comedy enters in.

We are beginning to learn the creative joy of play.  I believe, for example, that all creativity and consciousness is born in the quality of play, as opposed to work, in the quickened intuitional spontaneity that I see as a constant through all my own existences, and in the experience of those I know.

I communicate with your dimension, for example, not by willing myself to your level of reality, but by imagining myself there.  All of my deaths would have been adventures had I realized what I know now.  On the one hand you take life too seriously, and on the other, you do not take playful existence seriously enough.

We enjoy a sense of play that is highly spontaneous, and yet I suppose you would call it responsible play.  Certainly it is creative play.  We play, for example, with the mobility of our consciousness, seeing how “far” once can send it.  We are constantly surprised at the products of our own consciousness, of the dimensions of reality through which we can hopscotch.  It might seem that we use our consciousness idly in such play, and yet again, the pathways we make continue to exist and can by used by others.  We leave messages to any who come by, mental signposts.

We can be highly motivated therefore, and yet use and understand the creative use of play, both as a method of attaining our goals and purposes and as a surprising and creative endeavor in itself.

Now, in my work as a teacher I travel into many dimensions of existence, even as a traveling professor might give lectures in various states or countries.  Here, however, the resemblance ends, largely, since before I can begin to work I must set up preliminary psychological structures and learn to know my pupils before teaching can even begin.

I must have thorough knowledge of the particular system of reality in which my pupil operates, of his or her system of thought, of the symbols that are meaningful.  The stability of the pupil’s personality must be correctly gauged by me.  The needs of that personality cannot be ignored but must be taken into consideration.

The pupil must be encouraged, but not overly extended while development continues.  My material must be presented in such a way that it makes sense in the context in which the pupil understands reality, particularly in the early stages.  Great care must be utilized, even before serious learning can begin, that all levels of the personality develop at a more or less constant rate.

Often the material I present will initially be given without any sign of my presence, seemingly as a startling revelation.  For no matter how carefully I present the material, it is still bound to change past ideas that are strongly a part of the pupil’s personality.  What I say is one thing, but the pupil of course is thrust into psychological and psychic behavior and experience that may seem quite alien to him on a conscious level.

The problems vary according to the system in which my pupil has his or her existence.  In your system, for example, and in connection with the woman through whom I now write this book, initial contact on my part was made long before our sessions began.

The personality was never consciously aware of the initial meeting.  She simply experienced sudden new thoughts, and since she is a poet, these appeared as poetic inspirations.  At one time some years ago, at a writer’s conference, she became involved in circumstances that could have led to her psychic development before she was ready.  The psychological climate at that time, of those involved, initiated the conditions, and without realizing what she was about our friend [Jane} went into trance.

I had known of her psychic gifts since her childhood, but the insights necessary were channeled through the poetry until the personality attained the necessary background that was needed in this particular case.  In the affair just mentioned, therefore, I was informed and saw to it that the episode ended and was not pursued.

It was hardly an accidental performance, however.  Quite without knowing it, the personality decided to try its wings, figuratively speaking.  As a part of my work, therefore, I have been coaching the young woman in one way or another since her childhood – and all of this as a preliminary to the serious work that began with our sessions.

This is a normal part of my activity in many levels of existence.  It is highly diversified work, for the personality structures vary.  While within the systems in which I work there are certain basic similarities, in some dimensions I would not be equipped to be a teacher simply because the basic concepts of experience would be alien to my nature, and the learning processes themselves outside of my own experience.