Session 734

Unknown Reality, Session 734

There is a connection between counterparts and the families of consciousness.

As you and your brothers or sisters might belong to the same physical family, so generally are you and your counterparts part of the same psychic group of consciousness.  Remember, however, that these psychic groups are like natural formations into which consciousness seems to flow.  Your own interests, desires, and abilities are not predetermined by your membership in a given psychic family.

For example, you are not creatively playful because you are Sumari.  Instead, you join the Sumari grouping because you are creatively playful.  The groups of consciousness, then, are not to be equated with, say, astrological houses.

Taking the Sumari as an example, there can be overly intent, ponderous, or simply dour Sumari who have not learned to use their creativity graciously, or with joy.  Yet that joyful use of ability will be their intent.  At particular period of history, in your terms, different families may predominate.

The psychic groups, however, overlap physical and national ones.  The Sumari are extremely independent, for instance, and as a rule you will not find them born into countries with dictatorships.  When they do so appear, their work may set a spark that brings about changes, but they seldom take joint political action.  Their creativity is very threatening to such a society.

However, the Sumari are practical in that they bring creative visions into physical reality, and try to live their lives accordingly.  They are initiators, yet they make little attempt to preserve organizations, even ones they feel to be fairly beneficial.  They are not lawbreakers by design or intent.  They are not reformers in the strictest sense, yet their playful work does often end up reforming a society or culture.  They are given to art, but in its broadest sense also, trying to make an “art” of living, for example.  They have been a part of most civilizations though they appeared in the Middle Ages (A.D. 476-1450) least of all.  They often come to full strength before great social changes.  Others might build social structures from their work, for example, but the Sumari themselves, while pleased, will usually not be able to feel any intuitive sense of belonging with any structured group.

There is no correlation between the families of consciousness and bodily characteristics, however.  Many of the Sumari choose to be born in the springtime, but all those born in the spring are not Sumari, and no general rule applies there.  They also have a liking for certain races, but again no specific rules apply.  Many of the Irish, the Jews, the Spanish and lesser numbers of the French, for instance, are Sumari – though they appear in all races.

Generally speaking, America has not been a Sumari nation, nor have the Scandinavian countries or England.  Psychically speaking, the Sumari often very nicely arrange existences in which they are a minority – in a democracy, say, so that they can work at their art within a fairly stable political situation.  They are not interested in government, yet they do rely upon it to that extent.  They are apt to be self-reliant within that framework.  Their recognized artistic abilities may predominate or be fairly minimal.

Sumari is a state of mind, a slant of being.  They are not fighters, nor will they generally advocate a violent overthrow of government or mores.  They believe in the creativity of change, naturally occurring.

Nevertheless, they are often part of the cultural underground simply because they are seldom conformers.  A Sumari is very uncomfortable as a member of any large commercial venture, particularly if the work involves habitual or boring routine.  They are not happy on assembly lines.  They like to play with details – or to use them for creative purposes.  They often go from one job or profession to another for that reason.

If you begin to look into the nature of yourself, and feel intuitively that you are a Sumari, then you should look for a position in which you can use your inventiveness.  Sumari enjoy theoretical mathematics, for example, yet make miserable bookkeepers.

In the arts, Picasso was a Sumari.

Many entertainers are Sumari.  You will seldom find them in politics.  They are not usually historians.

There are few with any position within organized religions.  Because of their feelings of self-reliance, however, you can find them as farmers, working intuitively with the land.  They are equally divided between the sexes.  In your society, however, Sumari qualities in the male have until lately been frowned upon to some degree.

Note 3:  Seth is Sumari

…  We may not be able to pin Seth – as that energy personality essence calls himself – down to one physical race, but he is a Sumari: “And a very high lieutenant indeed, I will have you know”, he told us with much humor in his first session on the Sumari family of consciousness, the 598^th.  A month later he offered more insights on his own reality – the kind of information we’re always interested in acquiring.  From Session 601 then:

“As my name basically makes little difference, so does the name Sumari make little difference.  But the names signify an independent, unique kind of consciousness that makes use of certain boundaries.

“Your [Sumari] consciousness is that kind of consciousness, and so is mine, except that my boundaries are far less limited than your own, and I recognize them not as boundaries but as directions in which recognition of myself must grow.  The same applies to the Sumari as such.  In other words, this is not an undifferentiated consciousness that addresses you now, but one that understands the nature of its own identity.

“It is a personal consciousness.  The difference in degree, however, between my recognition of my identity and your recognition of your own reality is vast.

“The point is that I am not impersonal any more than you are, in those terms, and in those same terms the Sumari are also individual and to that extent personal.  You are a part of the Sumari.  You have certain characteristics, in simple terms, as a family might have certain characteristics, or the members of a nation.”