Session 672

Personal Reality, Session 672

Currently, mankind has little knowledge of the interior dream world, his place in it, or its effects upon his daily conscious life.

Many of the most powerful aspects of consciousness are at work precisely when it seems to you that you are relatively unconscious and asleep to physical reality.  It would be impossible for you to handle the vast amount of material available, in the context of time as you presently experience it.  To operate adequately in your highly specific field, an almost infinite amount of information must be instantly assimilated, probabilities calculated, and certain balances maintained of which you are not even aware.

Latently, your consciousness is capable of performing these feats, but the work cannot be done with the part of your consciousness that is strongly attached to the space-time relationship.  What you think of as your conscious mind is given the task of assessing the “facts” of daily living.  It then forms beliefs about reality, and these are used in the dream state as one of the main yardsticks, so to speak, that activate the emergence of certain probable events rather than others.

You use your beliefs like searchlights in the dream state, looking for other events that fit in with your ideas about reality.  Your convictions help you sift out probable actions appearing as dreams, of course – from others that do not concern you.

Since you are not only a physically focused creature, however, other issues also operate.  You have within yourself the condensed knowledge of your entire being.  This information cannot appear in any complete fashion within a consciousness connected with a physical brain.  The multidimensional reality simply cannot be expressed.  In the dreaming state, when consciousness relates opaquely to physical concerns, glimpses of the multidimensional self can appear in dream imagery and fantasies that will symbolically express your greater existence.

If your conscious beliefs are causing you great distress, countering beneficial beliefs may be received from this source.  Your being, the greater consciousness that is yourself, intersects with space and time; it is born in flesh simultaneously at many [moment] “points”.  (See the 668^th session in Chapter Nineteen.)  You would call each of these immersions into three-dimensional existence a life, with its own self.  And you are one of these.

Each self must experience itself in temporal terms.  But every self is also a part of its own greater being, a part of the energy from which it continually comes.  In dreams your energy pulsates back towards the being that you are.

In a manner of speaking, you travel back and forth each night through the atmospheres and entry points of which you are not aware.  In your sleep you do indeed travel, again, those vast distances between birth and death.  Your consciousness as you think of it transcends these leaps and holds its own sense of continuity.  All of this has to do with pulsations of energy and consciousness, and in one way what you think of as your life is the apparent “length” of a light ray seen from another perspective.

Beneath the dreams that you recall are experiences of consciousness that appear only now and then, and in distorted form.  These express in nonphysical terms your relationship with your own being.  Here you are regenerated, and you are quite free of any conscious beliefs.  From this level individual and mass ideals are formed.

The activity often goes on beneath ordinary dreaming.  To a far lesser extent it goes on all the time, for it represents the basis upon which your present consciousness rides.

The physical reality into which you are born is not nearly as solid or predetermined or definite as it appears to be.  Instead there is a field of rich interaction.  Your consciousness must be focused at one particular range of frequencies before it can even perceive matter, much less solidity.  In sleep your consciousness fluctuates between ranges of intensities, literally flowing into and out of physical-matter grouping, and forming from more plastic “pre-matter” stages, the final shape that matter will take in your world.  The same applies to events where some will be crystallized in physical terms and others will not.  The deep portions of your own being are aware of those purposes and intents that are uniquely yours.  Unconsciously, then you have within you what you might think of as a set of blueprints for the particular kind of physical reality you want to materialize.  You are the architect.

A system of checks and balances exists, however, so that in certain dreams you are made aware of these blueprints.  They may appear throughout your lifetime as recurring dreams of a certain nature – dreams of illumination; and even if you do not remember them you will awaken with your purposes strengthened or suddenly clear.

When you ae working with your beliefs, find out what you really think about the dream condition, for if you trust it it can become an even more important ally because of your conscious cooperation.

If you want to clear up an argument, tell yourself that you will do so in the dream state.  There you can speak freely to those who may avoid you otherwise.  Many reconciliations take place at that level.  Request the answer to any problem and it will be given, but you must trust yourself and learn to interpret your own dreams.  There is no other way to do this except by beginning yourself and working with your own dreams, for this will awaken your intuitive abilities and give you the knowledge that you need.

Your belief in the value of dreams can, therefore, increase their practical effectiveness.

(Those who are interested in material on the fluctuations of consciousness can refer to the following sessions in Seth Speaks: the 567^th session in Chapter Sixteen, on the phasing of atoms in and out of our system; the 576^th session in Chapter Nineteen, on alternate presents; and the ESP class session for June 23, 1970, in the Appendix, on organization in your present reality.  Seth states therein: “But the fact is that physical matter is not solid except when you believe that it is … “)

(In the 582^nd session in Chapter Twenty of Seth Speaks: “What you perceive of time is a portion of other events intruding into your own system, often interpreted as movement in space … “  That session, as well as the 581^st, also contains some applicable data on Seth’s electromagnetic energy (EE) units, their various speeds, and our interpretations of them as events, dream events, movement-through-time, and so forth.)

Chapter 21: Affirmation, Love, Acceptance, and Denial

Affirmation means saying “yes” to yourself and to the life you lead, and to accepting your own personhood.

The affirmation means that you declare your individuality.  Affirmation means that you embrace the life that is yours and flows through you.  Your affirmation of yourself is one of your greatest strengths.  You can at times quite properly deny certain portions of experience, while still confirming your own vitality.  You do not have to say “yes” to people, issues, or to events with which you are deeply disturbed.  Affirmations does not mean a bland wishy-washy acceptance of anything that comes your way, regardless of your feelings about it.  Biologically, affirmation means health.  You go along with your life, understanding that you form your experience, emphasizing your ability to do so.

Affirmation does not mean sitting back and saying “I can do nothing.  It is all Fate’s hands, therefore whatever happens, happens.”  Affirmation is based upon the realization that no other consciousness is the same as your own, that your abilities are uniquely yours and like no other’s.  It is the acceptance of your individuality in flesh.  Basically it is a spiritual appreciation of your singular integrity.

An atom can take care of itself, but atoms themselves are somewhat like domesticated animals; joining in the biological family of the body, to some extent they become like friendly cats or dogs under your domain.

Animals pick up the characteristics of their owners.  Cells are highly influenced by your behavior and beliefs.  If you affirm the rightness of your physical being, then you help the cells and organs in your body, and without knowing it treat them kindly.  If you do not trust your physical nature you radiate this feeling also, regardless of what health procedures you may take.  The cells and organs know that you do not trust them, even as animals do.   In a way you set up antibodies against yourself, simply because you do not confirm the rightness of your physical being as it exists in space and time.

You can affirm your uniqueness quite properly at times by saying “no”.

Individuality grants you the right to make decisions.  In your terms this means “yes” or “no”.  By implication, to always acquiesce may very well mean that you are denying your own personhood.

“I hate”.  A person who says “I hate” is at least stating that he has an “I” capable of hating.  The one who says “I have no right to hate”, is not facing his own individuality.

A man or woman who knows hate also understands the difference between that emotion and love.  The ambiguities, the contrasts, the similarities, the affirmation of the creature self, allows for the free flow of emotion.  Many disavow the experience of feelings they consider negative.  They do not permit themselves the dimensions of their creaturehood, and by pretending not to feel what they feel, they deny the integrity of their own experience.

The emotions follow beliefs.  They are natural ever-changing states of feeling, each leading into another in a free flow of energy and activity – colorful, rich, glowing tints that bring variety to the quality of consciousness.  Such states of personality can be compared to colors alone, bright and dark, the strong patterns of energy that always represent motion, life and variety.

To refuse them is futile.  They are one of the means by which physically attuned consciousness knows itself.  They are not destructive.  One emotion is not good and another evil.

Emotions simply are.  They are elements of the power of consciousness, filled with energy.  They merge into a powerful sea of being when left alone.  You cannot affirm one emotions and deny another without setting up barriers.  You try to hide what you think of as negative feelings in the closet of your mind, as in the past they closeted insane relatives.  All of this because you do not trust the aspects of your individuality in flesh.

Affirmation means accepting your soul as it appears in your creaturehood.  I said this earlier (in chapters Seven, Nine, etc.), but you cannot deny your creaturehood without denying your soul, and you cannot deny your soul without denying your creaturehood.