Seth Speaks, Session 565
Reincarnational Civilizations, Probabilities, and More on
the Multidimensional God (3)
I have been
speaking about the Lumanians in some detail because they are a part of your
psychic heritage. The other two
civilization were in many ways more successful, and yet the strong intent
behind the Lumanians’ experiment was extremely volatile. While they were not able to solve the problem
of violence as they understood it in your reality, their passionate desire to
do so still rings throughout your own psychic environment.
Because of the
true nature of “time” the Lumanians still exist as they were in your
terms. There are often bleed-throughs in
the psychic atmosphere. These do not
occur by chance, but when some kind of rapport causes effects to leap between
systems that otherwise appear quite separated.
And so there have been such bleed-throughs between your own civilization
and the Lumanians’.
Various old
religions picked up the idea of the Lumanians’ fierce god figure for example,
in whom they managed to project their concepts of force, power, and violence,
this god who had meant to protect them when nonviolence would not allow them to
protect themselves.
There is a
bleed-through now in the making, so to speak, in which the Lumanians’
multidimensional concepts of art and communication will be glimpsed by your own
people, but in a rudimentary form.
Because of the
nature of probabilities there is also, of course, a system of reality in which
the Lumanians succeeded in their experiment with nonviolence, and in which a
completely different type of human being emerged.
All of this may
seem very strange to you, simply because your concepts of existence are so
specific and limiting. Ideas of probable
realities and probable men and gods may strike some of you as quite absurd, and
yet as you read this book, you are but one of the probable you’s. Other probable you’s would not consider you
real, of course, and some might indignantly question your existence. Nevertheless, the probable system of reality
is not just a philosophical question. If
you are interested in the nature of your own reality, then it becomes a highly
personal and pertinent matter.
As the various
qualities of the Lumanians are still present in your psychic atmosphere, as
their cities still coexist in land areas now called your own, so other probable
identities coexist with the identities you now call your own. In the following chapter we will discuss you
and your probable selves.
Probable Systems, Men, and Gods
In your daily life
at any given moment of your time, you have a multitudinous choice of actions,
some trivial and some of utmost importance.
You may, for example, sneeze or not sneeze, cough or not cough, walk to
the window or the door, scratch your elbow, save a child from drowning, learn a
lesson, commit suicide, harm another, or turn your cheek.
It seems to you
that reality is composed of those actions that you choose to take. Those that you choose to deny are
ignored. The road not taken then seems
to be a non-act, yet every thought is actualized and every possibility
explored. Physical reality is
constructed from what seems to be a series of physical acts. Since this is the usual criterion of reality
for you, then nonphysical acts usually escape your notice, discretion, and
judgment.
Let us take an
example. You are reading this book when
the telephone rings. A friend wants you
to meet him at five o’clock. You stand
considering. In your mind you see
yourself (A) saying no and staying home, (B) saying no and going somewhere else
instead, or (C) saying yes and keeping the engagement. Now all of these possible actions have a
reality at that point. They are capable
of being actualized in physical terms.
Before you make your decision, each of these probable actions are
equally valid. You choose one of these,
and by your decision you make one event out of the three physical. This event is duly accepted as a portion of
those serial happenings that compose your normal existence.
The other probable
actions, however, are as valid as they ever were, though you have not chosen to
actualize them physically. They are
carried out as effectively as the one you chose to accept. If there was a strong emotional charge behind
one of the rejected probable actions, it may even have greater validity as an
act than the one you chose.
All actions are
initially mental acts. This is the
nature of reality. That sentence
cannot be emphasized too thoroughly. All
mental acts therefore are valid. They
exist and cannot be negated.
Because you do not
accept them all as physical events, you do not perceive their strength or
durability. Your lack of perception
cannot destroy their validity, however.
If you wanted to be a doctor and are now in a different profession, then
in some other probable reality you are a doctor. If you have abilities that you are not using
here, they are being used elsewhere.
Now, again, these
ideas may seem impossibly rich for your mental blood because of your propensity
toward serial thought and three-dimensional attitudes.
Now these facts do
not deny the validity of the soul, but instead add to it immeasurably.
The soul can be
described for that matter, as a multidimensional, infinite act, each minute
probability being brought somewhere into actuality and existence; an infinite
creative act that creates for itself infinite dimensions in which fulfillment
is possible.
The tapestry of
your own existence is simply such that the three-dimensional intellect cannot
behold it. These probable selves,
however, are a portion of your identity or soul, and if you are out of contact
with them it is only because you focus upon physical events and accept them as
the criteria for reality.
From any given
point of your existence, however, you can glimpse other probable realities, and
sense the reverberations of probable actions beneath those physical decisions
that you make. Some people have done
this spontaneously, often in the dream state.
Here the rigid assumptions of normal waking consciousness often fade,
and you can find yourself performing those physically rejected activities,
never realizing that you have peered into a probable existence of your own.
If there are
individual probable selves, then of course there are probable earths, all
taking roads that you have not adopted.
Beginning with an act of imagination in the waking state, you can
sometimes follow for a short way into the “road not taken”.
Go back to our man
at the telephone, mentioned earlier. Let
us say that he tells his friend he will not go.
At the same time, if he imagines that he took another alternative and
agreed on the engagement, then he might experience a sudden rift of
dimensions. If he is lucky and the
circumstances are good, he might suddenly feel the full validity of his
acceptance as strongly as if he had chosen it physically. Before he realizes what is happening, he
might actually feel himself leave his home and embark upon those probable
actions that physically he has chosen not to perform.
For the moment,
however, the full experience will rush upon him. Imagination will have opened the door and
given him the freedom to perceive, but hallucination will not be involved. This is a simple exercise that can be tried
in almost any circumstance, although solitude is important.
Such an experiment
will not carry you too far, however, and the probable self who has chosen
the action that you denied, is in important respects quite different from the
self that you know. Each mental act
opens up a new dimension of actuality.
In a manner of speaking, your slightest thought gives birth to worlds.
This is not a dry
metaphysical statement. It should arouse
within you the strongest feelings of creativity and speculation. It is impossible for any being to be sterile,
for any idea to die, or any ability to go unfulfilled.
Each probable
system of reality of course then creates other such systems, and any one act,
realized, brings forth an infinite number of “unrealized” acts that will also
find their actualizations. Now all
systems of reality are open. The
divisions between them are arbitrarily decided upon as a matter of convenience,
but all exist simultaneously, and each one supports and adds to the other. So what you do is also reflected to some
degree in the experience of your probable selves, and vice versa.
To the extent that
you are open and receptive, you can benefit greatly by the various experiences of
your probable selves, and can gain from their knowledge and abilities. Quite spontaneously, again, you often do this in
the dream state, and often what seems to you to be an inspiration is a thought experienced
but not actualized on the part of another self. You tune in and actualize it instead, you see.
Ideas that you have
entertained and not used may be picked up in this same manner by other probable
you’s. Each of these probable selves consider
themselves the real you, of course, and to any one of them you would be the probable
self; but through the inner senses all of you are aware of your part in the gestalt.
The soul is not a finished
product.
In fact it is not a
product in those terms at all, but a process of becoming. All That Is is not a product, finished or otherwise,
either. There are probable gods as there
are probable men; but these probable gods are all a part of what you may call the
soul of, or the identity of, All That Is; even as your probable selves are all a
portion of your soul or entity.
The dimensions of actuality
possible to All That Is of course far exceed those presently available to you. In a manner of speaking, you have created many
probable gods through your own thoughts and desires. They become quite independent psychic entities,
validities in other levels of existence. The one All That Is is aware not only of its own
nature and of the nature of all consciousness, but is also aware of its infinite
probable selves. We go here toward subjects
in which words become meaningless.
The nature of All That
Is can only be sensed directly through the inner senses, or, in a weaker communication,
through inspiration or intuition. The miraculous
complexity of such reality cannot be translated verbally.
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