Mountain and Flower Metaphors

Seth's The "Unknown" Reality, Volume Two, Session 728

 

While mountains generally maintain a more or less permanent position, in your terms, the vegetation that grows on the different levels change.  New flowers come each spring.  You may always find a patch of violets in the same general position in the foothills each year, for example; yet they are not the same violets that grew last season, or that will appear next season.

The pattern for those flowers serves to seed each new batch.  All kinds of alterations also take place in the soil beneath the mountain’s layers.  So, while different ledges may appear more or less the same, this sameness is the result of minute changes, new growths and seasonal variations.

For our analogy, now, think of the various ledges or levels of the mountain as different time periods.  It seems to you as if one reincarnational existence would be layered above the other.  You may be able to see that those existences, like the mountain, would exist at once, but you might forget that there is endless creativity and change at all levels of the mountain.  New vegetation grows at the bottom layers, for example, as well as the top ones.

Time periods are natural and creative.  They are like the levels of the mountain, bringing forth fresh life.  They do not vanish when you are finished with your growth there, but serve as a growing media for other personalities.

Time periods themselves, then, are somewhat like platforms – natural platforms – that serve ‘time and time again’ to bring forth fresh life.  Because of your viewpoint this is highly difficult [for you] to understand.  Say you were born in 1940.  It seems to you that 1940 is gone, though it was the time of your birth.  Returning to our analogy, however: You are like one violet, born in one spring on one ledge, here, 1940.  Other people are being born in 1940 now, in a different “season”.

You are only aware of your own position within time, or your own place on the “platform”, or the ledge as you understand it.  Not only do these ledges or platforms of time exist simultaneously, but each one brings forth its own batches of personalities in its own different seasons.  To that degree you are aware of your own season only, and we will call it the physical one – the particular probable reality that you accept as real.

The ledge of 1940, however, is still as immediate and now and present as it was when you were born.

Other personalities, again, are being born “there”, but their season or reality is different than yours.

Psychically you are somewhat related, in the same way for instance that the violets that grow this year in one spot are related to all violets that have grown – or will ever grow – from (or on) the same spot.  Each moment, each year, has other dimensions, therefore, that you do not comprehend as yet.  To you, other people born now in 1940 would be born in a probable reality.  Yet you share the same bed, so to speak.  When you look at an object you see its exterior, and when you experience time you perceive its exterior.

The year 1940, then, continues to exist as the mountain ledge continues to exist, and it brings forth new creativity “each season”.  The violets on our hypothetical mountainside contribute to the life of the mountain even while they have their own independent reality, and the overall cycle of the seasons regulates the growth and development of the mountain and all of its manifestations.

Time multiplies from within itself.  When you think in terms of reincarnation, you are still dealing with very simple time concepts.  You accept, if you were born in 1940, a particular historical sequence: but others born in 1940 (in a different season than your own), are born into a different historical context, a different 1940, with its own probable events.  You always think of being reincarnated in terms of being born backward into a history of which you have read.  But any given year has its own variations.

In a way you seed yourself into time.  But you could choose to be born five “times” in 1940, and each existence would be entirely separate, as you probed into the probable realities existing for you in the variations of that period.

As a physical being, your beliefs and concepts form your reality.  The psyche from which your identity springs is free of the picture of reality that you have chosen.  You choose, in other words, to accept a given picture of the world, and you use that picture as a frame within which you form a life.

If you think in conventional terms about reincarnation, then you might examine a book in which each page is a life.  You read the book from the beginning, so you think of one life or page following another.  You should be able to see that the entire book exists at once.  But in larger terms it is just one volume that you, the greater psyche, are reading, told in terms of serial time.

Instead, you are not only reading but writing many such books of living experience, that represent existences.  Creativity is endless, and the psyche is the greatest source of creativity.  Pretend that you are a writer of fiction, and you create a character.  This character is so independent, alive and real, that it in turn forms other characters – and each writes its own book, or forms its own reality.  That is a truer picture of your position.

Physically, the seeds of a plant fall onto the earth.  They may be blown to some place distant from their birth, but the psyche’s “seeds” fly into other realities also.  Within all of this, however, there is the finest balance between spontaneity and order.  Violets do not grow in wintertime.  Their characteristics appear only when certain conditions are met.  So if you were born in 1940 you have no trouble keeping track of your own time, and you fulfill your life under the same general conditions as those in which you were born.

Cells retain their shape and integrity, and their position more or less within your organs, although the atoms and molecules within them change.  The overall pattern continues, however, so that your body retains its familiarity even as, in other terms, the mountain maintains its form.  The cells serve as patterns of development on the one hand, through which atoms and molecules express their being.  Each category is dependent upon the others.  So your own consciousness follows a certain line of development that is its own, and that recognizes its own “seasons”.  Other offshoots of yourself, in your terms, operate following their own orders in times quite apart from your own.

The roots of the tiniest plant know the best conditions for their growth, and they reach spontaneously toward the most fulfilling probabilities for development.

At each moment they sense their position.  They are familiar with the most insignificant motion of the earth about them.  They grow downward even while the stem grows upward – and the flower has not yet seen the space into which it will grow.  What knowledge then resides within those roots, and what precognitive ability, that the plant itself yearns toward fulfillment that is as yet not achieved.

Is the psyche then any less miraculous?  And does not each of my readers possess the same innate capacity?  You have within yourselves the same yearning for your own greatest flowering.  You are multidimensional, however, so you grow in different kinds of realities, sending petals of yourself into other times and places, and you have the ability to mature in environments that are quite different one from the others.

In terms of your reality only, however, you seem to come to bloom through the seasons of the earth, and in your terms only, through consecutive periods.  You are like a flower bulb that each time gives birth to a different blossom, while still conforming to certain overall patterns – but each blossom is entirely new.  Because you think in terms of time sequences, it is natural for you to think of your psychic lineage in the same way.  Each flowering of the bulb, however, brings about a different expression.  You were not your past “self”, therefore, though you shared a certain relationship.

You see the flower bulb as it exists from your own perspective.  Yet, being multidimensional, you bloom in many other dimensions also.  You have to walk around a plant on a table in order to see it from all sides.  So, figuratively, walk around “time” to see yourself from all angles, and to perceive all of your own manifestations.

In certain terms, for instance, I am a future of Ruburt, but the “past is always freshly creative.  Ruburt’s life as he knows it is not in my memory – because I did different things when I was Ruburt.  And he is not bound by that reality that was mine.

I have memories of being Ruburt – but the Ruburt I was is not the Ruburt that Ruburt is in his reality.  He surprises me, and his reactions alter my past.  In his terms I am a future self, with far greater knowledge, yet he uses that knowledge to alter his present reality; and when I was Ruburt I did not have that knowledge.  You can say then that I am altering my own past, but Ruburt’s present experience also changes my present experience – and so there is an unending interchange.

The same kind of interrelationship occurs with each individual now alive, in your terms, whether or not conscious awareness is involved.  Ruburt is exploring time as he probes the reality of his own psyche, then.

You must begin any study from your own viewpoint, from your own ledge, but your personal living experience is always the main source of information.  Within you as you know yourself are all of the hints you need, if you are but willing to follow them; and these will not destroy the fabric of physical reality, but instead show you more clearly the structure of its miraculous patterns.