From Session 712 of Seth's Unknown Reality Vol 2

 

As per Ruburt’s notes, each system of reality is indeed surrounded by its probable realities, though any one of those “probable realities” can be used as the hub, or core reality; in which case all of the others will then be seen as probable.  In other words, relativity certainly applies here.

The rockbed reality is the one in which the perceiver is focused.  From that standpoint all others would seem peripheral.  Taking that for granted, however, any given reality system will be surrounded by its probability clusters.  These can almost be thought of as satellites.  Time and space need not be connected, however – that is, the attractions that exist between a reality and any given probability cluster may have nothing to do with time and space at all.  The closest probability satellite to any given reality may, for example, be in an entirely different universe altogether.  In that regard, you may find brethren more or less like yourselves outside of your own universe – as you think of it – rather than inside it.  You imagine your universe as extending outward in space (and backwards in time).  You think of it as an exteriorized manifestation, expanding perhaps, but in an exterior rather than an interior fashion.

Your idea of space travel, for example, is to journey over the “skin of your universe”.  You do not understand that your system is indeed expanding within itself, bringing forth new creativity and energy.

Your universe is only one of many.  Each one creates probable versions of itself.  When you journey on the earth you move around the outside of it.  So far, your ideas of space travel involve that kind of surface navigation.  Earth trips, however, are made with the recognition of their surface nature.  When you think in terms of traveling to other planets or to other galaxies, though, the same kind of surface travel is involved.  As closely as I can explain it in your terms, your concepts of space travel have you going around space rather than directly through it.

You are also viewing your solar system through your own time perspective, which is relative.  You “look backward into time”, you say, when you stare outward into the universe.  You could as well look into the future, of course.  Your own coordinates close you off from recognizing that there are indeed other intelligences alive even within your own solar system.  You will never meet them in your exterior reality, however, for you are not focused in the time period of their existence.  You may physically visit the “very same planet” on which they reside, but to you the planet will appear barren, or not able to support life.

In the same way, others can visit your planet with the same results.  There is then a whole great inner dimension even to the space that you know, that you do not perceive.  There are intelligent beings outside of your own galaxy, “adjacent” to you.  Theoretically, you can visit them with some vast improvements in your technology, but great amounts of time would be involved.  Others have visited your own planet in that particular fashion.  Yours is still a linear technology.  Some intelligent beings have visited your planet, finding not the world you know but a probable one.  There are always feedbacks between probable systems.  A dominant species in one may appear as a bizarre trace species in another.  More will be said about this and your planet later in the book.  The closest equivalent to your own kind of intelligence can actually be found not by following the outer skin of space, but by going through it, so to speak.

There are, again, inner coordinates having to do with the inner behavior of electrons.  If you understood these, then such travel could be relatively instantaneous.  The coordinates that link you with others who are more or less of your kind have to do with psychic and psychological intersections that result in a like space-time framework.

Here I would like to give a very simple example, evocative of what I mean.  The other day Ruburt received a telephone call from a woman in California who was in difficulty.  Ruburt promised to send [healing] energy.  Hanging up, he closed his eyes and imagined energy being sent out from a universal source through his own body, and directed toward the person in need.  When he did so, Ruburt mentally saw a long “heavy” beam extending straight to the west from a point between his eyes.  It reached without impediment.  He felt that this extension was composed of energy, and it seemed so strong that a person could walk upon it without difficulty.  Subjectively he felt that this beam of energy reached its destination.  And so it did.

Energy was almost instantly transmitted across the continent from one spec/”ific individual to another.  When you are dealing with that kind of energy, and particularly when you believe in it, space does not matter.  Emotional connections are set up and form their own set of coordinates.  That beam of energy is as strong and real as a beam of steel, though it moves faster than a beam of light.

If Ruburt had tried to visit the woman by plane he would have followed the curve of the earth, but in those terms the energy went through the “straightest” way.

(“But not through the earth?” I asked.  Whereupon Seth repeated his last sentence three times.  That was the answer he wanted to give.)

The psychic and emotional communication, then, cut through physical coordinates.  Ruburt was momentarily allied with the woman.

In the same way you can be allied and in tune with other probabilities that do not coincide with your space-time axis.  The exterior universe with its galaxies – as you understand it, and on that level of activity – can be encountered on certain rigid space-time coordinates.  You can visit other planets only in your present.  Your present may be the past or the future as far as inhabitants of a given planet are concerned.  Your physical senses will only operate in their and your present.

“Effective” space travel, creative space travel on your part, will not occur until you learn that your space-time system is one focus.  Otherwise you will seem to visit one dead world after another, blind to civilizations that may exist on any of them.  Some of these difficulties could be transcended if you learned to understand the miraculous multidimensionality of even your own physical structure, and allowed your consciousness some of its greater freedom.

To some extent you have neurologically blinded yourselves.  You accept only a certain range of neurological impulses as “reality”.  You have biologically prejudiced yourselves.  The physical structure is innately aware of many more valid versions of reality than you allow it to be.

Theoretically, a thoroughly educated space traveler in your time, landing upon a strange planet, would be able to adjust his own consciousness so that he would perceive the planet in various “sequences” of time.  If you land upon a planet in a spaceship and find volcanoes, you would, perhaps, realize that other portions of that planet might show different faces.  You have confidence in your ability to move through space, so you might then explore the terrain that you could not see from your original landing point.  If you did not understand the change in qualities of space, you might imagine that the whole planet was a giant volcano.

You do not understand as yet, however, that in a way you can move through time as you move through space – and until you understand that, you will not know the meaning of a true journey, or be able to thoroughly explore any planet – or any reality, including your own.

You imagine that your own earth is mapped out, and all frontiers known, but the linear aspects of your planet’s life represent a most minute portion of its reality.

The portions of the psyche reflect and create the portions of the universe from its most minute to its greatest part.  You identify with one small section of your psyche, and so you name as reality only one small aspect of the universe.

In class last evening Ruburt “picked up” messages that seemed to be too slow for his neurological structure.  He was convinced that it would take many hours of your time in order to translate perhaps a simple clear paragraph of what he was receiving.  He experienced some strain, feeling that each vowel and syllable was so drawn out, in your terms of time, that he must either slow down his own neurological workings or try to make some suitable adjustments.  He chose the latter.  Messages, therefore, perceptions, “came through” at one speed, so to speak, and he managed to receive them while translating them into a more comfortable, neurologically familiar speed.

One part of Ruburt accepted the “slow” [or “long”] perceptions, while another part quickened them into something like normal speech patterns.  Some communication did result.

What he was sensing, however, was an entirely different kind of reality.  He was beginning to recognize another synapse [neuronal] pattern not “native”; he was familiarizing himself with perceptions at a different set of coordinate points.  Such activity automatically alters the nature of time in your experience, and is indicative of intersections of your consciousness with another kind of consciousness.  That particular type of consciousness operates “at different speeds” than your own.  Biologically, your own physical structures are quite able to operate at those same speeds, though as a species you have disciplined yourselves to a different kind of neurological reaction.  By altering such neurological prejudice, however, you can indeed learn to become aware of other realities that coincide with yours.

Electrons themselves operate at different “speeds”.  The structure of the atom that you recognize, and its activity, is in larger terms one probable version of an atom.  Your consciousness, as it is allied with the flesh, follows the activity of atoms as far as it is reflected in your system of reality.

Ruburt is learning to minutely alter his experience with the probable atomic correlations that exist quite as validly as does the particular kind of atomic integrity that you generally recognize.  When he does so, in your terms, he alters atomic receptivity.  This automatically brings probabilities to the forefront.  To perceive other realities you alter your own coordinates, tuning them in to other systems and attracting those into your focus.

To some extent or another there are counterparts of all realities within your psyche.  When you slow down, or quicken your thoughts or your perceptions, you automatically begin to alter your focus, to step aside from your officially recognized existence.  This is highly important, for in certain terms you are indeed transcending the time framework that you imagine to be so real.

In other terms, certain portions of your own reality have long since “vanished” in the unrecognized death that your own sense of continuity has so nicely straddled.  Your personal cluster of probable realities surrounds you, again, on a cellular basis, and biologically your physical body steers its own line, finding its balance operating in a cluster of probabilities while maintaining the focus that is your own.  You can even learn to tune in to the cellular comprehension.  It will help you realize that your consciousness is not as limited as you suppose.  All realities emerge from the psyche, and from the CU’s (the units of consciousness) that compose it.

Session Notes

1. Jane delivered this material for Seth in the 42^nd session for April 8, 1964:  “The universe is continually being created … as all universes are … and the appearance of expansion seen by your scientists is distortive for many reasons.

“Their time measurements, based on camouflage [physical information] to begin with, are almost riotously inadequate and bound to give distortive data, since the universe simply cannot be measured in those terms.  The universe was not created at any particular time, but neither is it expanding into nowhere like an inflated balloon that grows forever larger – at least not along the lines now being considered.  The expansion is an illusion, based among other things upon inadequate time measurements, and cause-and-effect theories; and yet in some manners the universe could be said to be expanding, but with entirely different connotations than are usually used.”

From the 43^rd session:  “The universe is expanding in the way that a dream does … this in a most basic manner is more like the growth of an idea.”

At the beginning of Appendix 12, see the longer presentation from the 44^th session for Seth’s discussion of the “value climate of psychological reality” – the “medium” that spontaneously contains within it all of our camouflage constructions of space, time, growth, and durability.  Note 2 for Appendix 12 also fits in here, especially Seth’s references within it to our endless questions about the beginning and ending of the physical universe.

From the 250^th session for April 11, 1966:  “The atom you ‘see’ does not grow larger in mass, or expand outward in your space, and neither does your universe.”

Seth’s material in those early sessions, given well over a decade ago for the most part, reflected of course his reactions to current astronomical theory about the state – and fate – of our physical (camouflage) universe.  The idea of an infinitely expanding universe, with all of its stars ultimately burned out and all life extinct, is still the view largely accepted today; it’s based on the red shift measurements of some of the supposedly receding galaxies, their apparent brightness, the “missing mass” of the universe, and other very technical data. Yet I find it most interesting to note that now some astrophysicists and mathematicians believe our universe may be destined to contract – indeed, to collapse in upon itself – after all.  But again, these ideas aren’t based on the kind of thinking Seth espouses (that consciousness comes first, that its creations are continuous), but upon other quite complicated camouflage observations and measurements.  One of these is the discovery of at least some of the missing mass, thus indicating that gravitational fields may exist among the galaxies, and galactic clusters, strong enough not only to halt the expansion of the universe but to pull all matter back together again.

In scientific terms, it doesn’t seem likely that the conflict between the two views will ever be resolved, or any decision reached that our universe may be an oscillating one, forever contracting and expanding.  There are too many variables in measurement and interpretation, including the difficulties the human mind encounters when it attempts to grasp the enormous spans of time and space involved.

I hasten to add that it’s only of academic interest to us, though, whether the universe disperses itself through an eternity of frozen expansion or compresses itself into a cosmic fireball of unbelievable proportions.  Our scientists have projected either ending many billions of years into the future, although in the meantime “only” an estimated five billion years from now, our own aging, exploding sun will have consumed the inner planets of the solar system – including the earth.

2.  Just as he talks here about the surface nature of our travel, in Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality Seth had a similar observation to make about our ideas of time:  see the 688^th session after 10:26:  “Again, you live on the surface of the moments, with no understanding of the unrecognized and unofficial realities that lie beneath.”

3.  Seth began discussing coordinate points in Chapter 5 of Seth Speaks.  See the 524^th session:  “Other kinds of consciousness coexist within the same ‘space’ that your world inhabits. They do not perceive your physical objects, for their reality is composed of a different camouflage structure.  This is a general statement, however, for various points of your realities can and do coincide … points of what you would call double reality, containing great energy potential … where realities merge.”

4.  For one instance when Seth discussed our coming attempts at space travel, see Note 4 for Session 702, in Volume 1.  Here’s part of the material I quoted from the 40^th session:  “It is very possible that you might end up in what you intend as a space venture only to discover that you have ‘traveled’ to another plane [probability].  But at first you will not know the difference.”

Then in the Appendix of Seth Speaks, see the transcript of the ESP class session for January 12, 1971.  Certain sightings of UFO’s (unidentified flying objects), Seth told class members, represented the appearance of visitors from other realities, rather than from elsewhere in our own universe.