Unknown Reality, Session 697
These idealizations are certain kinds of
psychic patterns, then, occurring at different levels. In certain terms they become the cell’s
private “idea” of its own growth and development, a picture alive within
the cell in terms of physical information, a part of its structure. Such idealizations provide their own impetus;
that is, they will grow toward their own greatest fulfillment.
The idealizations themselves are
made of “conscious” stuff. These are not
inert data, then. The nature of
probabilities determines the framework in which these fulfillments can take
place, and “frames” living developments.
The structure of probabilities provides on the one hand a system of
barriers, in which practical growth is not chosen or significant; and on the
other hand it insures a safe, creative, rich environment – a reality – in which
the idealization can choose from an almost infinite variety of possible actions
those best suited to its own fulfillment.
In any system the idealization has already
accepted certain kinds of events as significant, and has rejected other
(quite-as-probable events) as nonsignificant.
This simply provides a workable focus in which achievement and
experience can happen.
In simple terms, you will not try to
achieve something that you believe impossible within your concepts of
reality. The conscious mind, with its
normally considered intellect, is meant to assess the practicality of action
within your world. You will literally
see only what you want to see. If
the race believed that space travel was impossible, you would not have it. That is one thing; but if an individual
believes that it is literally impossible for him to travel from one end of the
continent to another, or to change his job, or perform any act, then the act
becomes practically impossible.
The idealization of motion, however, in that person’s mind, or of
change, may be denied expression at any given time – but it will nevertheless
seek expression through experience. This
applies in terms of the species as well as individuals. Because you are now a conscious
species, in your terms, there are racial idealizations that you can accept or
deny. Often at your particular stage of
development as a race, these appear first in your world as fiction, art, or
so-called pure theory.
Thoughts have their own kind of structure,
as cells do, and they seek their own fulfillment. They move toward like thoughts, and you have
as a species an inner mass body of thought. Privately your thoughts are expressions of
your idealizations; and while expressing those inner patterns they also
modify and creatively change them. Each
cell in your body is to some extent altered with each thought that you
think. Each reaction of the cells alters
your environment. The brain then
responds to the alteration. There is a
constant give-and-take. As the cells
respond at certain levels to ever-changing streams of probabilities, so do your
thoughts. Your body responds as you think
it should, however, and so your conscious beliefs about reality have much to do
with those probable experiences that you accept as a part of your intimate
living.
The private blueprint, yours at birth, is
in certain terms far greater than any one physical materialization of it that
could occur in your space and time. This
provides you with areas of choice, gives you manipulability and allows for the
myriad of probable activities “possible”.
You are the judge and the final word in that regard, so that as your
ideas change, as you move toward one probable self and decide upon that as your
official self, you will always have a rich bank of probable actions to choose
from. If only one were provided you
would have no choice. The same applies
to the species.
Your current decisions to accept one
specific line of consciousness as real, and to ignore others, makes such
concepts difficult to understand. You
train yourselves – biologically, even – to inhibit certain stimuli, yet often
the body itself responds to the very stimuli that you consciously
ignore. By opening up your minds to new
kinds of significances, however, you can begin to glimpse other orders of
events with which you are quite intimately concerned.
Often, for instance, you handle
probabilities very well, while remaining consciously blind to them because of
your concepts. Even then,
however, on other levels your unconscious reaction will follow your own
conscious intents. You may make a
move in physical life, for example, seemingly for one reason. You may also be unconsciously reacting to
quite pertinent data regarding the probable actions of others. Because you do not really fully accept the
fact that you can so react, you may block this unofficial information on the
one hand, even while on the other you take it into consideration. You are far more aware than you realize of
the probable future in areas with which you are concerned. This is true on all levels. If your purposes do not involve illness, for
instance, and yet if you believe in contagion, you will automatically
avoid circumstances that can lead to epidemics.
In terms of probabilities that particular kind will not enter your
experience.
All of this applies en masse in terms of diseases, for example, that run rampant
through a species.
Consciousness, by its nature, continually
expands. The nature of consciousness as
you understand it as a species will, in one way or another, lead you beyond
your limited ideas of reality, for your experience will set challenges that
cannot be solved within your current framework.
Those problems set by one level of consciousness will
automatically cause breakthroughs into other areas of conscious activity, where
solutions can be found.
Many of your global dilemmas seem so
desperate only because in those areas you have gone as far as you can go –
without going further. The problems act
as stimuli in that regard. This doesn’t
mean that you have to experience disasters. They are not preordained. It does mean that you have chosen certain
experiences, but that these will automatically lead to further creative
development if you allow them to. The
idealization is one of brotherhood, in terms of your species. Biologically, in your terms, such
“brotherhood” operates instinctively in the cooperation of the body’s cells, as
they function together to form the private corporal structure. At your viewpoint you lose appreciation for
the great individuality of each cell.
You take it for granted that because the cells work so well together,
they have no private uniqueness.
In other terms, however – social terms –
you have yet to achieve the same kind of spiritual brotherhood possessed by
your cells; and so you do not understand that experience of your world is
intimately connected with your own private experience. If you burn your finger it hurts
immediately. Your body instantly begins
a cooperative venture, in which adjustments are made so that the wound begins
to heal. If a portion of the race
is hurt it may take a while before “you” feel the pain, but the entire
unconscious mechanism of the species will try to heal the wound. Consciously you can facilitate that
development, and admit your brotherhood with all other living beings. The healing will take place far quicker if
you do. A biological brotherhood exists,
an inner empathy on cellular levels, connecting all individuals of the species
with one another. This is the result of
a biological idealization. It exists in
all species, and connects all species.
The race suffers when any of its members
die of starvation or disease, even as a whole plant suffers if a group of its
leaves are “unhappy”. In the same way
all members of the species are benefited by the happiness, health, and
fulfillment of any of those individuals who compose it. Man can be aware of the vast medium of
probabilities in which he exists, and therefore consciously choose those best
suited to those idealizations that point toward his greatest fulfillment. One of the species cannot grow or develop at the
expense of the other portions for very long.
A photograph is to some extent a
materialization of an idealization carried to a certain degree. At another level, your body and your
experience is a far richer fulfillment, a living, presently experienced
materialization. The picture of your world
is still another.
Practice Element 7
If you can, find a photograph of yourself
as a member of a class – a graduation picture, perhaps, or a photograph of club
members. Examine what you see
there. Then contemplate what is not
seen. Imagine the emotional reality of
each person present, in the time that the photograph was taken. Then try to feel the emotional interactions
that existed between the various individuals.
Take your time. When you are
finished, try to get a glimpse of those intimate relationships that each person
had with other persons not present in the picture, but contemporary. Let your mind, after that, follow through by
imagining contacts involving family interactions reaching back through time prior
to the taking of the photograph. Then
think of all of the probable actions that were either accepted or discarded, so
that in time terms these people assembled (for
the photograph).
Biologically, there were illnesses avoided,
deaths that could have occurred but did not.
In space there were endless varieties of probabilities and
decisions. People could have moved and
did not, or others did move, and so came into that particular space area. There were an infinite number of ideas behind
all of those decisions. You form your
own experience. In greater terms,
therefore, those people decided to be at that particular time and place, so
that the photograph is the result of multitudinous decisions, and represent a
focus of experience, rising from myriad probabilities. The picture of the world represents in a
greater dimensional fashion the same kind of focus. Your most intimate decision affects the
species. You are the creator of yourself
in space and time. You also have your
hand in the larger creativity of mankind’s experience.
Note 1: Living Information
Jane referred to the concept of living
information from another angle in her quoted material at the beginning of the
694th session, in Section 2.
Also see Seth’s material on units of consciousness in the 682nd
session in Section 1.
In Personal
Reality, too, Seth tells us: “Information does not exist by itself. Connected with it is the consciousness of all
those who understand it, perceive it, or originate it. So there are not records in terms of
objective, forever-available banks of information into which you tune. Instead the consciousness that held, or
holds, or will hold the information attracts it like a magnet … The information
itself wants to move toward consciousness.
It is not dead or inert. It is
not something you grab for, it is also something that wants to be grabbed, and
so it gravitates to those who seek it.
Your consciousness attracts the consciousness that is already connected
with the material”. See the notes
following the 618th session in Chapter 3 of Personal Reality.
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