Session 575

Seth Speaks, Session 575

A-4 brings you to a level that is beneath matter formations, a level in which ideas and concepts can be perceived, although their representations do not appear in the present physical reality that you know.

From this layer many of the deepest inspirations come.  These ideas and concepts, having their own electromagnetic identity, nevertheless appear as “the symbolic landscape” at this level of consciousness.  This is difficult to explain.  The thoughts do not appear as pseudoimages for example, or assume any pseudomaterialization, yet they are felt vividly, perceived and picked up by portions of the brain – those seemingly unused portions for which science has found no answer.

These ideas and concepts obviously came from consciousness.  However, they represent incipient latent developments that may or may not occur in physical reality.  They may or may not be perceived by any given individual.  The characteristic interest and abilities of the personality involved will have much to do with his recognition of the realities within this layer of consciousness.

The material available, however, represents building blocks for many probable systems.  It is an open area into which many other dimensions have access.  It often becomes available in sleep states.  Complete innovations, world-shattering inventions – these all lie waiting, so to speak, in this huge reservoir.  Strong personal “conversions” are often effected from this level.

Now any individual can pass through these levels and remain relatively untouched and unaware, can travel through them unperceiving.  The overall intentions and characteristics of the personality will determine the quality of perception and understanding.  The material mentioned is available in each of the levels of consciousness given, but it must be sought out, either through conscious desire or strong unconscious desire.  If it is not, then the gifts available and the potentials simply remain unused and unclaimed.

The states of consciousness merge also one into the other, and it is obvious that I am using terms of depth to make the discussion easier.  Starting with the ego or waking consciousness as the outer self focused toward exterior reality, these states are broad, more like plains to be explored.  Each one, therefore, opens in great adjacent areas also, and there are many “paths” to be taken according to your interest and desire.

As your ordinary waking state perceives an entire universe of physical data, so each of these other states of consciousness perceive realities as complicated, varied, and vivid.  It is for this reason that it is so difficult to explain the experiences possible within any given one.

A-5 opens up a dimension in which the vital consciousness of any personality can at least theoretically be contacted.  This involves communicating not only with past personalities in your terms, but future ones.  It is a level of consciousness very seldom reached.  It is not, for example, the layer used by most mediums.  It is a meeting ground in which personalities from any time or place or probable system can communicate with each other in clear terms understood by all.

Since past, present, and future do not exist, this is a level of crystal clear communication of consciousness.  Those involved have an excellent knowledge of their own backgrounds and histories, of course, but in this state possess also a much larger perspective, in which private and historical backgrounds are seen as a portion of a greater perceivable whole.

At this level, messages literally flash through the centuries from one great man or woman to another.  The future speaks to the past.  The great artists have always been able to communicate at this level and while living literally operated at this level of consciousness a good deal of the time.  Only the most exterior portions of their personalities bowed to the dictates of historical period.

For those who reach this state and utilize it, communication is clearest.  It must be understood that this communications works in both ways.  Leonardo da Vinci knew of Picasso, for example.  There are great men and women who go unknown.  Their contemporaries ignore them.  Their achievements may be misunderstood or physically lost, but at this level of consciousness they share in these communications, and at another level of existence their achievements are recognized.

I do not mean to imply, however, that only the great share in this communication of consciousness.  A great simplicity is necessary, and out of this, many of the most lowly in men’s terms also share in these communications.  There is an unending conversation going on throughout the universe, and a most meaningful one.  Those from both your past and your future have a hand in your present world, and at this level the problems that have been met and will be encountered are being discussed.  This is the heart of communication.  It is most usually encountered either in a protracted deep level of sleep or in a sudden spontaneous trance state.  Great energy is generated.

The information received in any of these states of consciousness must be interpreted for the normal waking consciousness, if any physical memory is to be maintained.

In many cases memory remains unconscious as far as waking self is concerned, but the experiences themselves can completely change the structure of an individual life.  Disastrous courses can be averted through such inner communications and illuminations, whether or not the ego is aware of them.

The experiences at these various levels may be interpreted symbolically.  They may appear in the form of fantasy, fiction, or art work, without the conscious self realizing their origin.  Now at any of these various stages of consciousness, other phenomena may also be perceived – thought-forms for example, energy manifestations, projections from the personal subconscious, and projections from the collective unconscious.  Any or all of these may take symbolic form, and may appear beneficial or threatening according to the attitude of the personality involved.  They should be regarded as quite natural phenomena, often neutral in intent.

Often they are incipient forms given activity by the personality who encounters them.  The nature of their activity, therefore, will be projected outward from the personality onto the relatively passive materialization.  The person encountering these has only to turn his attention away to “deactivate” the phenomenon.  This does not mean that the phenomenon is not real.  It nature is simply of a different kind and degree.

It has some energy of its own, but needs additional energy from a perceiver for any interrelationship to take place.  If such a materialization appears threatening, then simply wish it peace and withdraw your attention from it.  It draws its main activating energy from your focusing, and according to the intensity and nature of your focus.  You must not take the root assumption of physical existence with you as you journey through these levels of consciousness.  Divest yourself of as many of them as possible, for they can cause you to misinterpret your experiences.

There are other layers of awareness beneath this one, but here there is a much greater tendency for one to merge into the other.  In the next level, for example, communication is possible with various kinds of consciousness that have never been physical manifested, in your terms – personalities who do not have a physical reality in either your present or future, yet who are connected with your system of reality both as guardians and custodians.

Almost all experiences from this level will be symbolically represented, for otherwise they would have no meaning to you.  The experiences will all have to do in one way or another with nonphysical life, noncorporeal consciousness from matter.  These experiences will always be supportive.  Out-of-body experiences will often be involved here, in which the projectionist finds himself in an unearthly environment or one of great beauty and grandeur.

The “stuff” of the environment will have its origin in the mind of the projectionist, being symbolic of his idea, for example, of life after death.  A Speaker or Speakers will appear in whatever guise will be most acceptable to the projectionist, whether it be the guise of a god, an angel or a disciple.  This is the most characteristic kind of experience from this level.

According to the abilities and understanding of the projectionist, however, more thorough messages can be given, and it may be quite obvious that the Speakers are indeed only symbols of greater identities.  Some will be able to understand the communications more clearly.  The true nature of the nonphysical Speakers may then be made known.

Deeper projections into that environment may then be possible.  In this state also great vistas of historic pasts and futures may be seen.  All of these levels of consciousness are filled with the tapestry of various communications that can be followed through according to the purpose of the personality involved.

Molecular structures send out their own messages, and unless you are tuned in to perceive them, they be interpreted as static or meaningless noise.  Any one of these levels of consciousness can be covered in a twinkling, and no notice take of it; at least theoretically, you could spend a lifetime exploring any given level.

You may have several quite valid experiences in level four for example, without any awareness of the first three.  The stages are there for those who know what they are and how to use them.  Many quite spontaneously find their own way.  The other adjacent levels on the horizontal line, now, involve you in various alternate realities, each one a greater distance from your own.  Many of these involve systems in which life and death as you know it does not occur, where time is felt as weight; systems in which the root assumptions are so different from your own that you would only accept any experiences as fantasy.

For this reason, you are much less apt to travel in those directions.  In some there are built-in impediments.  Even projection from your universe into a universe of antimatter is most difficult, for example.  The electromagnetic makeup even of your thoughts would be adversely affected, and yet theoretically this is possible from one of these adjacent levels of consciousness.

Often you visit such areas of consciousness in the dream state where you fall into them spontaneously, remembering in the morning a fantastic dream.  Consciousness must use all of its parts and activities, even as the body must.  When you are sleeping, therefore, your consciousness turns itself in many of these directions, often perceiving, willy-nilly, bits and pieces of reality that are available to it at its different stages.  This also happens beneath your normal physical focus to some extent, even as you go about your waking activities.  The alternate presents of which I spoke are not simply alternate methods of perceiving one objective present.  There are many alternate presents, with you focused only in one of them.

When you let your attention waver, however, you may often fall into a state in which you momentarily perceive glimpses of another alternate present.  The whole self, the soul, knows of its reality in all such systems, and you, as a part of it, are working toward the same state of self-awareness and development.

When you are proficient you will not be swept willy-nilly into other stages of consciousness as you sleep, but will be able to understand and direct these activities.  Consciousness is an attribute of the soul, a tool that can be turned in many directions.  You are not your consciousness.  It is something that belongs to you and to the soul.  You are learning to use it.  To the extent that you understand and utilize the various aspects of consciousness, you will learn to understand your own reality, and the conscious self will truly become conscious.

You will be able to perceive physical reality because you want to, knowing it to be one of many realities.  You will not be forced to perceive it alone, out of ignorance.