Reason and Intuition

Seth draws a useful distinction here between reason and intuition ... and makes the point that a fully functioning human consciousness makes use of both.

Lazaris has made the same point, though they suggest that thought (aka reason) and feeling are the components of our duality and that intuition is one of the bridging senses into the Inner World.  The Transcendors similarly suggest that we are experiencing a third dimensional reality (out of 9 potential dimensional realities).  Third dimensional realities are realities of thought and feeling in combination ... it gets a bit confusing at times because we're taking 3-D physical snapshots of a third dimensional reality, but they are two different things.

I like best the distinctions between thought (reason), feeling and intuition that Lazaris makes (and which is consistent with Seth's and the Transcendor's descriptions).  In each moment thoughts and feelings arise together, but we tend to think that feelings give rise to thoughts but the feelings are also framed by previous thoughts ... so we have a sort of chain: thought, feeling, thought, feeling, thought, feeling, and on it goes.  To our physical brains, thought appears to us as logic and reason while feeling appear as emotion.  They both actually arise together in our duality ... though they seem to be played out in a linear time fashion (like everything else in physical reality).  Reason is the physical representation of something like a gestalt of awareness in the inner world of mind, and emotion is the representation for the abstract feelings in the inner world of mind.

"Nor do I mean to agree with those who ask you to use your intuitions and feelings at the expense of your reason.  ...  Your reasoning as you now use it, however, deals primarily with reality by dividing it into categories, forming distinctions, following the "laws" of cause and effect - and largely its realm is the examination of events already perceived.  In other words, it deals with the concrete nature of ascertained events that are already facts in your world.

"On the other hand, your intuitions follow a different kind of organization, as does your imagination - one involved with associations, an organization that unifies diverse elements and brings even known events together in a kind of unity that is often innocent of the limitations dictated by cause and effect."

(The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, Session 825)

Continuum of Consciousness

If you were walking along a metaphorical street in the Inner World ... would you recognize an atom walking by?  This sounds a bit silly, but everything is consciousness and fundamental particles know how to create the space and time that we think we live in.  That's amazing ... we don't even know how that's done.  It's humorous to imagine that proverbial climb to the top of a mountain to ask a guru "what is life?" and, instead of seeing the number "42" there's a personification of atomic consciousness laughing at our simplicity! 

When Seth talks of oneness ... he means everything: you, me, "them", all life, all matter, all astronomical bodies, all subatomic particles, all things we can't even see or imagine!  No wonder we're on an infinite, exuberant journey of discovery in the Inner World and have to simplify things every once in a while by projecting an Outer World (including our body) to try to make some sense out of our discoveries and to pose our questions. 

The Transcendors had once said when asked about the origin of physical reality and human form that we were hanging around the metaphorical "spiritual bar" and asked the question "What if ....?".  We never got to complete the question before we plunged into a multitude of "physical", multidimensional, possible realities. This is one of them.

Be careful what you ask for!

"I would like to emphasize that to one degree or another all species of plant and animal life "dream".  The same applies to the "psychological activity" of atoms and molecules, and any "particle".

"There are intensities of behavior, then, in which the activity, the inside activity, of any being or particle is directed toward [the] physical force [that is] involved in the cooperative venture that causes your reality.  There are variances, however, when such activity is directed instead into the interior nature of reality.  You have an inner system of communication, then, in which the cells of all living things are connected.  In those terms there is a continuum of consciousness."

(The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, Session 823)

Context

Today's Seth shows that, in addition to the events of our lives, even our dream world fits in the greater context of the dreams of humanity, Gaia, other species sharing our reality, etc.

It's easy to say words like "oneness" but to get the full implications of that concept is quite revealing.

When Seth says "context" he doesn't mean a passive backdrop like a theatre production.  Context is more than that, it's both active and passive.  The passive aspect of context is that it provides a domain of experience.  The active part of context is that our very thoughts and feelings, particularly our choices and decisions, change the probability distribution of the collective reality - both in physical dimensions and in the dream state.

We are a living, breathing part of a conscious collective entity and ultimately of All That Is

"On any given day the events of your private lives fit within the larger pattern of world events, in which they have their context.  On any given night the intimate events of your dream lives also exist in the greater context of the world's dreams - in which they have their reality."

(The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, Session 823)

Our Main Myth

It's hard to imagine reality without a beginning or end and a reality without form and physical senses (and associated space and time, etc.).  We are so deep in the illusion that we're manifesting that we are conditioned to believe that only what we physically perceive is real, or in cases where physical perception is not possible (e.g. quantum mechanics or astrophysics, etc.) that what is real is what logical explanations and theories we derive that are consistent with our physical perception (often perceived with the aid of scientific instruments).  This is a tough myth to break through, since we were conditioned to believe it from birth and we need to accept it in order to drive our car and interact in our current societies.  The fact it's a necessary myth doesn't mean that it's true outside of our 3D linear time duality.

"The main myth through which you interpret your experiences, however, is the one that tells you that all perception and knowledge must come to you through the physical senses.

"This is the myth of the exteriorized consciousness - a consciousness that you are told is open-ended only so far as objective reality is concerned.  It seems to be closed "at the other end", which in those terms would represent your birth."

(The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, Session 823)

Everyone who ever was or ever will be

This Seth quote is really profound.  One of the different rules in "Framework 2" is that there is no time, everything is now ... or, as Seth calls it, "everything is in the spacious present".  To really get that everyone who has ever lived on earth, or who ever will, are all dabbling in Framework 2 at this very moment: each one creating their own individual perspectives and life dramas together, right now, in our present moment, is absolutely mind boggling!!!!

We've been conditioned to believe in linear time ... but it was actually an assumption made by Sir Isaac Newton in his tomb "Principia".  The use of an independent variable that he called time was a convenient assumption that made his equations of motion easier to solve in the calculus he'd invented.  Ever since then, we've assumed that this linear time existed and we were conditioned to believe in a time-based causality.  Even Einstein in his theory of relatively assumed there was a space-time reference frame ... but, instead of it being rigid (like Newton's), he assumed that mass could distort it giving rise to what we know as gravity.  But, again, it's still an assumption that has dogged the Western World since it's inception - an assumption that does not, in fact, represent our underlying reality!

"Your world is populated by individuals concentrating upon physical activities, dealing with events that are "finished products" - at least in usual terms.  Your inner egos populate Framework 2, and deal with the actual creation of those events that are then objectified.  Since "the rules" of Framework 2 are different, that reality is not all bound by your physical assumptions.  It contains, therefore, the inner ego of each individual who has lived or will ever live upon the earth."

(The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, Session 822)

Inner Ego

What we perceive with our physical senses is called “Framework 1” by Seth.  This is the world of classical physics, the appearance of forces, action, motion all seeming to take place in 3D space in a linear time reference frame.  

Quantum mechanics tells us that the physical world is generated each time there is an interaction and an observation.  Between interactions and observations, quantum particles disappear from physical reality.  The Outer Ego arises in each moment in Framework 1 along with the quantum particles.  The Outer Ego perceives the manifested moment that it is part of in order to provide the psyche with thoughts and feelings about each moment and to make choices.

The Inner Ego operates in the non-physical domain of quantum probable states (Framework 2) and it is the true observer which pops selected probable experiences (and an Outer Ego) into physicality.  

“As you have an ego, fully conscious, directed toward the physical world, you also have what I call an inner ego, directed toward inner reality.  You have, in other words, a portion of yourself that is fully conscious in Framework 2.  The ego in your ordinary world, which again we will call Framework 1, is uniquely equipped to deal with that environment.  It manipulates with rules of cause and effect and consecutive moments.  It deals with an objectified reality.  It can stretch its capacities, becoming far more aware of inner events than it is normally allowed to do, but its main purpose is to deal with the world of effects, to encounter events.

“The inner ego is fully conscious.  It is a portion of you, however, that deals with the formation of events, that glories in a rather rambunctious and creative activity that your specifications of time and place physically preclude.  The unconscious, so-called, is – and I have said this before – quite conscious, but in another realm of activity.”

(The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, Session 822)

The Outer Ego

The "ego" described in this Seth session is what could be called the "outer ego" - the aspect of the greater self that is focused on this physical incarnation.  This is different from the "inner ego" which is directed towards the vast inner reality.  They're both seamless aspects of the same psyche, just looking "in different directions". 

This "outer ego" is different from the unthinking ego described by Lazaris.  That unthinking ego is similar in function to the keyboard and display of a computer - it takes data and displays it to our physical senses and is the mechanism that makes our choices known to the inner self that is manifesting our physical moments.  Seth's "outer ego" is bigger than that I/O device (the unthinking ego) and includes the consciousness sitting in front of the computer that interprets the information presented by the unthinking ego and then makes choices and decisions which are communicated back through this unthinking ego.  The reason Lazaris talks quite a bit about the unthinking ego is that choices need to be made and when we're "running on auto pilot" the unthinking ego can only replay previous choices which invariably lead to problems.  This situation is much like climbing into your car and setting it on cruise control with the steering while tied down in a fixed position ... it doesn't take too long for disaster to arise!

This life is your chosen journey ... drive your car and enjoy the scenery!

"The word "ego" is much bandied about, and in many circles it has a poor reputation.  It is, however, as I use it, a term meant to express the ordinarily conscious directive portion of the self.  It is your conscious version of what you are - an excellent description, if I do say so myself.  It is directed outward into the physical world.  It is also aware, however, of some of your "unconscious" activities.  It is the "you" you identify with, so it is as aware of your dreams, for example, as you are, and it is quite conscious of the fact that its existence rests upon knowledge that it does not itself possess."

(The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, Session 822)