Session 711

Unknown Reality, Session 711

Your world, again, is the result of a certain focus of consciousness, without which that world cannot be perceived.  The range of consciousness involved is obviously physically oriented, yet within it there are great varieties of consciousness, each experiencing that seemingly objective world from a private perspective.  The physical environment is real in different terms to an animal, a fish, a man, or a rock, for example, and different portions of that environment are correspondingly unreal [to each of those forms].  This is highly important.

If an inhabitant from another reality outside of your own physical system entirely were to visit it, and if “his” intelligence was roughly of the same degree as your own, he would still have to learn to focus his consciousness in the same way that you do, more or less, in order to perceive your world.  He would have to alter his native focus and turn it in a direction that was foreign to him.  In this way he could “pick up your station”.  There would be distortions, because even though he managed such manipulations he might not have the same kind of native physical structure as your own, of course, through which to receive and interpret those data his altered consciousness perceived.

Your visitor would then be forced to translate that information as best he could through his own native structure, if it were to make any sense to his consciousness in its usual orientation.  All realities are the result of certain unique focuses taken by consciousness, therefore.  In those terms, there is no outside.  The effects of objectivity are caused as the psyche projects its experience into inner dimensions that it has itself created.

Within, those frameworks are ever expanding, so that in your terms at least it seems that greater and greater distances are involved.  Travel to any other land of physical reality must then involve alterations of consciousness.

While all of your own thoughts and feelings are “somewhere” materialized, only some of them become physical in your terms.  They are then accepted as physical reality.  They provide the basis for the physical events, objects, and phenomena upon which you all agree.  Therefore, your world has a stability that you accept, a certain order and predictability that works well enough for daily concerns.  At that point you are tuned in precisely on your “home station”.  You ignore the ghost symbols or voices, the probable actions that also occur, but that are muffled in the clear tones of your accepted reality.  When you begin to travel away from that home station, you become more aware of the other frequencies that are buried within it.  You move through other frequencies, but to do this you must alter your own consciousness.

The probable realities connected with your own system are like the suburbs, say, surrounding a main city.  If for simplicity’s sake you think of other realities as different cities, then after you leave your own you would pass through the suburbs, then into the country, then after a time into other suburbs until you reached another metropolis.  Here each metropolis would represent a conglomeration of consciousnesses operating within an overall general frequency of clearest focus, a high point of psychic communication and exquisite focus in the given kind of reality.  Unless you are tuned in to those particular frequencies, however, you could not pick up that reality.  You might instead perceive the equivalent of jumbled sound or meaningless static, or jigsaw images.  You might simply realize that some kind of activity was there, but without being able to pinpoint it.

Certain particular focuses then bring in different worlds, but unless your consciousness is tuned in with exquisite precision you will not be able to perceive clearly.  You will instead pick up at best the ghost images, probabilities, and private data that are not officially recognized as part of the main reality’s official structure of events.

Basically, however, consciousness is freewheeling.  Such realities therefore always exist – in your own psyche – outside of your “home station”, and some portion of your own consciousness is always involved in them.  There are bleed-throughs, so to speak, in the form of unofficial perceptions that often occur, or “impossible” events that are seemingly beyond explanation.  For now, think of your own psyche, which is a consciousized identity, as a kind of “supernatural radio”.  All of the stations exist at once within the psyche.  These do not come through with sound alone, but with all the living paraphernalia of the world.  The “you” that you recognize is but one signal on one such station, tuned it to a certain frequency, experiencing that station’s overall reality from your own viewpoint – one that is unique and like no other, and yet contributing to the whole life of the station.

The supernatural radio that is your entire psyche contains many such stations, however.  These are all playing at the same time.  It would be highly confusing in this analogy to experience or hear all of these at once, however, so different portions of the psyche tune in to different stations, concentrate upon them, and tune out the others for immediate practical purposes.  Because these stations all operate within the same psyche or supernatural radio, the overall quality of the programs will have much to do with the nature of the psyche itself.  Radios are wired and contain transformers and transistors.  The overall reception is dependent upon the wiring and the inner workings of the radio – and those workings exist apart from the stations they are meant to pick up.  In the same way, the “supernatural psyche” exists apart from the stations of consciousness that it contains.  In this case indeed the psyche itself makes the radio, adding ever-new connections and stations.

Pretend that you have a radio with which you can clearly pick up 10 stations.  First imagine that during the daily programming there are three soap operas, four news programs, and several excellent dramas, a few operas, some popular music, several religious sermons, and some sports programs.  Each of these has its own commercials or messages, which may or may not have anything to do with the programs given.

First of all, it would be nearly impossible for you to sample all of these programs with any effectiveness while going about your own affairs.  To make matters more complicated, again, these programs do not involve only sound.  Each one has its own dimensional realities.  Besides that, there is a give-and-take between programs.

For example: Say that you have a certain Wilford Jones, who is a character in one of the soap operas.  This Wilford, while carrying on within his own drama as, say, a sickly grocer in Iowa, with a mistress he cannot support, and a wife that he must support – the poor, besieged man on station KYU is also aware of all the other programs going on at the other stations.  All of the other characters in all of the other plays are also aware of our grocer.  There is a constant, creative give-and-take between the day’s various programs.

When our Wilford dramatically cries out to his mistress: “I am afraid my wife will learn of our affair”, then the symphony playing on another stations becomes melodramatic, and the sports program shows that a hero fumbles the football.  Yet each character has its own free will.  The football player, unconsciously picking up the grocer’s problem, for example, may use it as a challenge and say: “No, I will not fumble the ball”.  The crowds then cheer, and our grocer in his soap opera may smile and say: “But it will all work out after all”.

In other words, there is in the psyche constant interaction between all of the stations, and marvelous, literally unlimited creativity – in which, in your terms, all actions in one station affect all others in the other stations.

Still using the same analogy.  As he falls asleep some night our grocer, Wilford, might suddenly hear the full strains of a symphony in his head, or instead catch a quick glimpse of a football player; or on the other hand one of the musicians in the symphony orchestra may suddenly find himself thinking about how difficult it would be to have a mistress and a wife at the same time.

From the point of view of the perceiver these would be unofficial events, and yet they could serve as important clues to the nature of reality.  The separate programs existing at once each have their own schedules, and from your reality you could not play them all at once.  It seems to you that you are outside of the psyche, so you think of someone as yourself operating this radio from that external position.  From your point of view, you could not pick up the grocer’s escapades and the symphony, for instance, if both came through at 8 o’clock in the evening, without switching from one to the other: You would have to choose which program you wanted.

It is very easy of course to expand our analogy, changing the radio to a television set.  In this case the projections on the screen would be fully dimensional, aware of each viewer in each living room.  Not only this, but the screen people would understand the relationship between you the viewer, and, say, the other viewers in the same town.  Behind the scenes not only would the performers, as performers in all of the programs, all know each other, but the characters portrayed by them would know each other and be aware of each other’s roles in the programs, and even now and then stray into one another’s dramas.

At levels beyond the comprehension of the viewer, all of the dramas and programs would be related.  Again, because of the specific poise of your consciousness, it seems to you that you are outside of all these programs.  You tune in to them, making choices, for example, if more than one favorite plays at the same hour.

In greater terms you are a part of the same “set” and at another level someone sees you as a character in a living room turning on a television set.  Intrinsically the psyche, the private psyche, contains all such programs and realities.  Certain portions of it, however, choose to take different focuses in order to bring those aspects in more clearly.

To some extent, signals from all of the other stations are always in the background of any given program, and by momentarily altering the direction of your own attention you can learn how to bring other stations into focus.  Psychically and psychologically, those other stations upon which you do not concentrate form the structure of the psyche as you understand it, from which your earthly experience springs into focus.  Studying yourself and the nature of your own consciousness, then, will automatically lead you to some extent to an understanding of the “unknown” reality.  The unknown reality is composed of those blocked-out portions of your own psyche, and the corresponding frameworks of experience they form.

For the sake of imagery, you can imagine your normal consciousness as your connection with this home planet – the familiar station that you tune in to every day.  When your project your consciousness away from it, then you will encounter various kinds of atmospheric conditions.  Once you understand what these are, and what effects can be expected, such journeys can be undertaken consciously, with the conscious mind that you know acting as the astronaut, for example, and the rest of your consciousness acting as the vehicle.  Such journeys lead to quite valid realities, but as an astronaut must know the best landing conditions, so you must learn how to “come in” at the most auspicious time and under the best conditions.

Such journeys take you through the nature of the psyche itself, as well as to those other realities that exist as the result of the psyche’s concentration within particular frequencies.

Projecting your consciousness out of your body, therefore, provides at the same time an inner probing of consciousness itself, as well as experience of its manifestations.  There are then inner lands of the mind, and other worlds quite as legitimate as your own.  They are intimately connected, however, with mental states which are then materialized, and so your own mental processes are highly involved.

First of all, I have been speaking of the psyche as if it were a competed thing, with definite boundaries.  The private psyche is ever creative, actually – expansive and literally without beginning or end.

Your experience of yourself marks the seeming boundaries of yourself.  In a manner of speaking, I am one personality and one program or station.  Ruburt is another.  We have learned to be aware of each other to communicate between stations, to affect each other’s programs and to change each other’s worlds.  I do not speak alone to Ruburt and Joseph, for example, but my words go out to the world that you know.  Still within your framework, Ruburt tunes in to another station, translates it and broadcasts the information.  To do this, however, he has to alter his own consciousness, withdraw momentarily from the official station to bring in this one.  That means tuning in to other portions of the psyche, as well as another kind of reality.  The final translation of my material has to come through his organism, however, or it would be meaningless to you.

Through him I am aware of the nature and condition of your world, and offer from my viewpoint comments meant to help you.  Through Ruburt, then, I am permitted to view the earth “again” in your terms.  I exist apart from him, as he exists apart from me, yet we are together a part of the same entity – and that simply carries the idea of the psyche further.

The other [Saturday] evening while he was in bed Ruburt had a somewhat surprising experience.  He was not dreaming.  His body was asleep but his consciousness was drifting.  He clearly heard my voice.  It seemed to come literally from out of the sky, down into another room outside of the one in which his body slept.  For a moment the power frightened him, for it sounded like a radio turned up to an incredible degree – louder than thunder.  At the time words were clearly distinguishable, though later he forgot what they said.  For an instant he was tempted to interpret the power as anger, for in your world when someone is shouting they are usually angry.  He realized, however, that something else was involved.  He did not sense my presence, but only heard the thunder of the voice.  It shocked him because he is used to hearing my words from within his head – he had never before been aware of my voice as existing apart from him.  In the dream state he has heard me giving him information.  In these instances, however, he was the channel through which my voice came.  He has often wondered about the nature of my own independence, and the kind of reality in which I exist.

He was also aware at the time that while the voice literally boomed out, no one else would have heard it.  Yet the voice definitely came from outside of himself, and he certainly seemed to hear it with his physical ears.

Ruburt acts as a receiver when I speak, and so I must make certain adjustments so that my message can be channeled under conditions that involve, among other things, his nervous system and physical apparatus.  That evening, through using what I call interior sound, I let Ruburt become acquainted with the power at my disposal so that he could realize that it did, basically now, come from beyond his personality as he understands it.

In regular sessions, as now, he and I again both make adjustments, and so in sessions I am what I call a bridge personality, composed of a composite self – Ruburt and I meeting and merging to form a personality that is not truly either of us, but a new one that exists between dimensions.  Beyond that is my real identity.

Ruburt does extremely well with interior sound, and so I use that method rather than, say, an image to make my independent existence known.  Now Ruburt called me originally (last Saturday night) at unconscious levels because he was upset with “earth programming”.  He thought that you needed some help from the outside, so to speak.  That intent set up certain signals that reached into other realities or stations, and I answered.  I was not speaking to Ruburt personally when he heard me, but addressing myself to the world at large in a program that was indeed picked up by others.

This program spread out and was translated by others in dream states.  In physical terms, however, the message given that evening is still to be presented through these books.

In your local programming you have hosts of familiar characters, and at different times, in your terms, you have them play different roles.  They take different roles.  These often represent strong idealizations alive in the private and mass psyche.  Let me give you a brief example that will show you how well I have learned your culture.

(Seth proceeded to name three currently famous television detectives.)

In their own ways, these are heroes representing the detective who is out to protect good against evil, to set things right.  Now these characters exist more vividly in the minds of television viewers than the actors do who play those roles.  The viewers, however, identify with the characters.  They may even dream about the characters.  These have their own kind of superlife because they so clearly represent certain living aspects within each psyche.

The aspects are personified in the character.  Through the centuries, in your terms, there have been different personalities, some physical and some not, with whom the species identified.  Christ is one of these: in some respects, the most ideal detective – in a different context, however – out to save the good and to protect the world from harm.  In certain ways man also projected outward the idea of a devil or devils, and for somewhat the same reasons, so that he could identify with what he thought of as the unsavory portions of the psyche as he understood them at any given time.  In between there are a multitude of such personalities, all vividly portraying parts of the psyche.

These characters become portions of the inner literature of the mind.  Suppose an inhabitant from another reality saw [one of those three programs] and realized that people were watching it.  Pretend he wanted to add more depth to the show.  He might then come on himself in the guise of [the hero detective], but enlarging upon the characterization, adding more dimension to the plot.  So, often when some personality from another station wants to help change the programming, he comes on in the form of a personality already known in fact or fiction.  However, you must realize that that personality is larger than fact or fiction.  “It” is independent at its own level, yet it is also a part of the portion of the private and mass psyche that is so represented.

I am Seth in those terms.

There are many myths connected with my name.  They all represent portions of the psyche as they were understood at various times in man’s history.  Those portions were originally projected out of the psyche as it began to understand itself, and personified its abilities and characteristics, forming superheroic characters of one kind or another, to which the psyche could then correspond and relate.