Events and levels of consciousness they’re experienced in "The next day, as I reread the earlier material on strands of consciousness, some new ideas came to me, it’s not so much the events of our lives that compose our mental experience, as the level of consciousness we’re in when we experience the events. I remember how everything before my eyes seemed to change in my altered state in front of the supermarket. The physical data was the same as before. The contents of the world didn’t gain or lose an inch, in physical terms. Yet qualitatively everything changed to such a degree that the world was entirely different and richer. The buildings and people were more fully dimensioned. Yet even then I knew that others about me, in the usual state of consciousness, were seeing the same world I had seen before the switch. Nothing was added to their world, and I didn’t know how much I would retain when I returned to “normal” either. "What I had retained was memory and fleeting flashes in which the experience splashed out momentarily into a day and then vanished – and the library – because in some way that I still didn’t understand, the library was born out of that altered vision. But I was becoming certain that states of consciousness help mold events and are invisibly a part of them. "Difficulties at one level of awareness disappear at other levels. Certain “negative” experiences simply dissolve, and contradictions disappear. We just haven’t been taught to vary our own experience-levels, to travel to one state of consciousness to find the answers to problems existing at another level. "From my own experiences, I also knew that these various states possess different characteristics and creative specializations. Using altered states of consciousness, we can experience events from different sides – and if we knew how to utilize them conditions, we could conceivably circumnavigate events, seeing them from the inside and outside space and time, glimpsing their greater reality. It’s quite possible that difficulties in our lives represent specific areas in which our vision is truly limited to a too-confined focus." (Psychic Politics)

Events and levels of consciousness they’re experienced in

"The next day, as I reread the earlier material on strands of consciousness, some new ideas came to me, it’s not so much the events of our lives that compose our mental experience, as the level of consciousness we’re in when we experience the events.  I remember how everything before my eyes seemed to change in my altered state in front of the supermarket.  The physical data was the same as before.  The contents of the world didn’t gain or lose an inch, in physical terms.  Yet qualitatively everything changed to such a degree that the world was entirely different and richer.  The buildings and people were more fully dimensioned.  Yet even then I knew that others about me, in the usual state of consciousness, were seeing the same world I had seen before the switch.  Nothing was added to their world, and I didn’t know how much I would retain when I returned to “normal” either.

"What I had retained was memory and fleeting flashes in which the experience splashed out momentarily into a day and then vanished – and the library – because in some way that I still didn’t understand, the library was born out of that altered vision.  But I was becoming certain that states of consciousness help mold events and are invisibly a part of them.

"Difficulties at one level of awareness disappear at other levels.  Certain “negative” experiences simply dissolve, and contradictions disappear.  We just haven’t been taught to vary our own experience-levels, to travel to one state of consciousness to find the answers to problems existing at another level.

"From my own experiences, I also knew that these various states possess different characteristics and creative specializations.  Using altered states of consciousness, we can experience events from different sides – and if we knew how to utilize them conditions, we could conceivably circumnavigate events, seeing them from the inside and outside space and time, glimpsing their greater reality.  It’s quite possible that difficulties in our lives represent specific areas in which our vision is truly limited to a too-confined focus."

(Jane Roberts: Psychic Politics)

Magic

I think it was Lazaris that defined magic as anything that happens beyond your understanding or conscious ability.  Lazaris wen on to point out that "higher magic" is what happens when we commune (communicate and have union with) our Higher Self; and, the magic of synchronicities happen when "Souls are at play".

“My definition of magic is this: Magic is nature unimpeded, or magic is life unimpeded.  It is true that your thoughts and emotions and beliefs form the reality that you experience – but it is also true that this creative construction is, in a manner of speaking, magically formed.  That is, the construction of your body and construction of a world are produced with the greatest combination of order and spontaneity – an order and spontaneity that seems hidden rather than apparent.”

(The Way Toward Health,Session March 10, 1984)

Thoughts have power

The duality that we know as physical reality has been described as a "Third-Dimensional Reality".  Actually, physical reality is a linear-time-sequenced, 3D material representation of a Third-Dimensional Reality.  The term "Third-Dimensional Reality" refers to the concept that the reality is the result of the synergy between thought and feeling ... i.e. the synergy between consciousness (thought) and energy (feeling).

In terms of the Qabalah:

• The World of Causation arises as conscious, structured energy out of the World of Emanation (the Source).  The World of Causation is the World of soul, spirit, higher self, archetypal energies ... the World of "Formless Forms" as Lazaris has described it.  
• The World of Formation is the realm in which these "Formless Forms" interact ... i.e. the World of Formation is the interaction/movement of primal, conscious-structured energy in the Mind of All That Is (this movement is the "wind" of Mind that Seth is talking about here).  
• The World of Action, in our case, is the 3D material representation that we present to ourselves as physical reality.  It is a representation of our very narrowly focused awareness of an aspect of the unknowable, infinite Mind of All That Is.  This narrowly focused awareness has been likened to lasers illuminating a hologram.  What is real, is the hologram.  The lasers can only provide incomplete representations of the hologram ... in our case, the hologram is infinite (in dimensionality, extent, etc.) so our manifested experience is even more narrowly focused and more limited.

“You cannot see the wind directly – you see only its effects.  The same applies to your thoughts.  They possess power as the wind does, but you only see the effects of their actions.”

(The Way Toward Health,Session February 22, 1984)

Our health and weather interact

I guess today’s Seth draws out the oneness of all that we perceive.  If we recall that we manifest a 3D snapshot of All That Is, moment by moment, it would then seem obvious that everything we perceive in that snapshot is interrelated and symbolic of the great unknowable All That Is.

“Your health and the daily weather interact with each other.  This happens on a personal and mass basis.  I admit that some of this material quite contradicts your usual ideas, but the health of your body is intimately related not only to the state of world health, but to the physical climate as well.

“You do not “catch” a drought.  You do not catch a cold, either.  In a fashion a drought is partially caused by the emotional states of the people who experience it – yet a drought is not a disease.  It is part of a process.  It is a necessary portion of the larger process of the world’s physical stability. As unfortunate as a drought might seem, it is in its way responsible for the balanced portion of moisture of the entire planet’s surface.  In the same way, diseases in their fashion are also often parts of larger processes whose greater purpose is the body’s overall balance and strength.”

(The Way Toward Health,Session February 22, 1984)

We turn empty space into our living body

I was struck by Deepak Chopra's first book "Quantum Healing" because he realized that 'mind' interacts with material cells of the body through the quantum potential.  He also realized that we continuously create the body (including it's ailments) ... much like Seth describes here.

“Do not think of the mind as a purely mental entity, and of the body as a purely physical one.  Instead, think of both mind and body as continuing, interweaving processes that are mental and physical at once.  Your thoughts actually are quite as physical as your body is, and your body is quite as nonphysical as it seems to you your thoughts are.  You are actually a vital force, existing as a part of your environment, and yet apart from your environment at the same time.

“It is obvious that you impress a room with your characteristics as you furnish it, but you also mark what seems to be empty space in the same fashion – that is, you turn empty space into the living matter of your body without ever realizing that you do so.”

(The Way Toward Health,Session February 22, 1984)

The body is a living book

This Seth quote is directed to Jane (referred to as 'him') and is written in terms that Jane would understand, being the highly creative author that she was.  

It goes for all of us too.  

Note the line "the body is a living book, being produced in each moment".  We manifest our 3D view of this life on earth (body and all) in each moment ... from 'nothing' but conscious energy.

Unfortunately, we hold so strong a belief in linear time and continuity that we stifle the innate magic within us.  According to Lazaris, we use that time-based limitation so we can become conscious of how we create/manifest our reality and to see the symbolic implications of our beliefs.  This is necessary for us to become the "conscious creators" that we need to become before we can cruise the Cosmos in less constrained realities.

“When an idea for a book or a poem comes to him, he “tunes into it” immediately. It never occurs to him to wonder how many vowels or syllables, words and sentences, paragraphs or pages might be involved.  He takes it for granted that his intent will be executed.

“That is the natural, creative way to function, and it has provided him with many excellent books and poetry.  When he is writing, he does not think in terms of impediments.  What impediments there may be, he brushes aside.

“Now his health can be handled in the same fashion, without wondering how many nerves or muscles or stages must be activated, without worrying about how much time will be involved.  In a fashion, the body is a living book, being produced in every moment.

“Again, it may seem too simple – but by applying the same methods to the body, the body’s health will be written with health and vitality, using blood and corpuscles, joints and ligaments and so forth instead of syllables, consonants, words and sentences.”

(The Way Toward Health,Session February 17, 1984)

Seth Paradigm Shift

Seth (and Cayce, Lazaris, Elias, Metatron, etc.) are all engaged in starting a paradigm shift to usher in the “next era”.  Obviously we needed an update after the “Jesus Intervention”!

“With creative people, however, there are always intrusions, hints or clues from ways of thinking that certainly appear foreign, and creative people use those hints and clues to construct an art, a musical composition or whatever.  They sense a surge of power beneath.

“You and Ruburt have had the feelings many times – but what we are trying to do is change over completely from one mode of operation to another, and to construct, say, new inner blocks of meaning that will give rise to the next era.

“What you are involved in then is really, of course, a completely new educational procedure, so that you are at least able to distinguish one style of thought from another, and therefore be freer to make choices.”

(The Way Toward Health,Session February 15, 1984)

Styles of thinking

Today’s Seth almost sounds like programming or imprinting.  Bruce Lipton draws a distinction between “nature” (our DNA) and “nurture” (our neuronal wiring).  The imprinting known as “nurture” happens continuously throughout our life.  For example, repetitive thoughts/actions with emotional charge wire the brain (called near-linguisitc programming (NLP)) … a favourite process used by advertising agencies.  As Seth points out, we are normally not aware of the way we think. Zen Buddhist practice is one way to become aware of thoughts arising … but even in that case, there is imprinting of a belief system and style of thinking.  Thus it is virtually impossible to “know” how an atom, molecule, cell, other life form “thinks” … hence we simply ignore that possibility and party on in a materialist paradigm!

“There are styles of thinking, just as there are various styles of dress.

“The official line of consciousness is a certain mental stance, a kind of convention.  When you were a child you thought in a freer fashion, but little by little you were educated to use words in a certain way.  You discovered that your needs were met more quickly, and you received approval more often, when you thought and spoke in that particular manner.  Finally, it seemed to be the only natural mode of operation.  Your entire civilization is built around that kind of inner framework.  The way of thinking becomes so automatic as to be mentally invisible.”

(The Way Toward Health,Session February 15, 1984)

Basic Good Intent

“I am mentioning this only to stress the fact that self-delight and self-approval are natural characteristics – characteristics that actually make your entire physical world, and world of experience possible.

“… All creatures are basically of good intent; even when they commit the most dubious of acts, these are usually caused by misdirected good intent.”

(The Way Toward Health,Session February 7, 1984)

Ubiquitous self approval

“All creatures are also born, then, with a keen sense of self-approval.

“Each creature is born proud of itself, and loving itself.  That same self-approval is also experienced in varying ways not only by creatures as you think of them, but also by atoms and molecules, and by all orders of matter.”

(The Way Toward Health,Session February 7, 1984)

Self-Approval is necessary

This is a real challenge for the "Type-A" people among us.  As I understand it (I think Lazaris said this) Type-A behaviour results from experiencing conditional love as a child.  As a child, we're totally dependent upon our parents for survival ... so the easiest way for parents to control the terrible two's etc. is to withdraw love ... often through a glance.  Unfortunately, the long term implication is the feeling that we are unworthy or never good enough ... so life becomes an unending treadmill with little to celebrate!

There is also a negative-ego game which tells us to lower our expectations because we're unworthy of "big" success and the "fall" won't be as hard when we fail to achieve our dreams.

Both of these conditions need to be released for a true sense of well being:

“A feeling of self-approval is absolutely necessary for any true sense of well-being; it is not virtuous in any way to put yourself down, or to punish yourself, because you do not feel you have lived up to your best behaviour at any given time.”

(The Way Toward Health,Session February 6, 1984)

Live each day fully and joyfully

“In a basic way, it is against nature’s purposes to contemplate a dire future, for all of nature operates on the premise that the future is assured.  Nature is everywhere filled with promise – not only the promise of mere survival, but the promise of beauty and fulfillment.  Once again, that keen sense of promise is innate within each portion of the body.  It triggers the genes and chromosomes into their proper activity, and it promotes feelings of optimism, exuberance, and strength.

“… live each day as fully and joyfully as possible.  Imagine the best possible results of any plans or projects. Above all, do not concentrate upon past unfavorable events, or imagine future ones.”

(The Way Toward Health,Session February 1, 1984)

The way toward health is simple

“The way toward health is simplicity itself. …

“All of nature demonstrates this almost miraculous seeming simplicity. Plants and animals and all of life’s aspects take it quite for granted that the sun will shine and the rains will fall in the way best conducive to all creatures.  Animals certainly do not worry about tomorrow’s weather conditions. It may be true that animals do not need to know tomorrow’s weather, since they do not plant seeds or collect the harvest.  It is perfectly fine to make plans for the future, yet each individual should live day by day, without worrying about the outcome of those plans.”

(The Way Toward Health,Session February 1, 1984)

Biological optimism

“All elements of life are optimistic.

“… there is an inbred biological faith, that courage and vitality, that biological optimism.  It acts the same in people, triggering the necessary bodily responses.  Only when that optimism is severely tampered with do the physical mechanisms falter.  Even then, however, all creatures are sustained by that innate gift, that inner sense of security that not only propels creatures toward life, but safely conducts them past physical life and past death’s doorway.”

(The Way Toward Health,Session January 29 & 31, 1984)

"Diseases" perform a service

When we really get it, we understand that what we think of as diseases are really processes which perform a service in response to the belief system that we hold.  What we know as physical experience is all an illusion representing (in simplified 3d linear time form) the implications of our beliefs, etc. and symbolic representations of the fulfilling approach/solution to the issues we’re exploring.  This happens at the individual level and every other group level even up to the level of humanity and beyond.  It’s really pretty cool!  We force ourselves to focus so tightly on single space-time moments of experience that we never see the big picture.  The upside is that we get to experience the depth of the moments … particularly when we love.

“You will discover that so-called diseases perform certain services.  They fulfill purposes for you that you may believe you can achieve in no other way.  The reasons for such illnesses are not deeply buried in the subconscious, as you may think.  They are much closer to the conscious mind, and usually consist of a series of seemingly innocuous decisions that you have made through the years. Other illnesses, of course, may be caused by sudden decisions that are a response to a particular event in your life.

“People have been taught that their bodies are a kind of battleground, and that they must be in a constant state of readiness lest they be attacked or invaded by alien germs or viruses or diseases that can strike without warning.”

(The Way Toward Health,Session January 28, 1984)