Sunday, December 1, 2013

Seth's "Unknown" Reality, Volume 2, Appendix 12 Extracts


 

… (From Chapter 20 of Seth Speaks):  “Illness and suffering are not thrust upon you by God, or by All That Is, or by any outside agency.  They are a by-product of the learning process, created by you, in themselves quite neutral … Illness and suffering are the results of the misdirection of creative energy.  They are a part of the creative force, however.  They do not come from a different source than, say, health and vitality.  Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you how to stop suffering.  That is its purpose …”

… (From the 23rd session for February 5, 1964):  “Because I say that you actually create the typical camouflage patterns of your own physical universe yourselves, by use of the inner vitality of the universe in the same manner that you form a pattern with your breath on a glass pane, I do not necessarily mean that you are the creators of the universe.  I am merely saying that you are the creators of the physical world as you know it – and herein, my beloved friends, lies a vast tale.”

… “There are verbal difficulties having to do with the definition of life.  Because of the psychological strength of preconceived notions, I have to work around many of your concepts.  Your own kind of conscious mind is splendid and unique.  It causes you, however, to interpret all other kinds of life according to your own specifications and experiences.

“There is no such thing, in your terms, of nonliving matter.  There is simply a point that you recognize as having the characteristics that you have arbitrarily ascribed to life, or living conditions.  For there is no particular point at which life was inserted into nonliving matter.

“If we must speak in terms of continuity, which I regret, then in those terms you could say that life in the physical universe, on your planet “began” spontaneously in a given number of species at the same time.  Words do nearly forsake me, the semantic differences are so vast.  In those terms there was a point where consciousness, through intent, impressed itself into matter.  That “breakthrough” cannot be logically explained, but only compared to, say, an illumination – that is, a light occurring everywhere at once, that became a medium for life as you define it.  It had nothing to do with the propensity of certain kinds of cells to reproduce – [all cells are] imbued with the “drive” for value fulfillment – but with an overall illumination that set the conditions in which life was possible as you think of it; and at that imaginary, hypothetical point, all species became latent.  The inner pulsations of the invisible universe reached certain intensities that “impregnated” the entire physical system simultaneously.  That illumination was everywhere then at every point aware of itself, and of the conditions formed by its presence.

“At the same time, EE units (Electromagnetic Energy units) became manifest.  I have said, for example, that the universe expands as an idea does, and so the visible universe sprang into being in the same manner.  The same energy that gave birth to the universe is, in those terms, still being created.  The EE units contain within themselves the latent knowledge of all of the various species that can emerge under those conditions.  It is according to your relative position.  You can say that it took untold centuries for the EE units to “initially” combine, forming classifications of matter and various species, or you can say that this process happened at once.  In your terms, each species is aware of the condition of each other species, and of the entire environment.  In those terms the environment forms the species and the species form the environment.  There were fully developed men – that is, of full intellect, emotion, and will – living at the same time, in your terms, as those creatures supposed to be man’s evolutionary ancestors.

“[However, as] you begin to question the nature of time itself, then the “when” of the universe is beside the point.  The motion and energy of the universe still comes from within.  I certainly realize that this is hardly a scientific statement – yet the moment that All That Is conceived of a physical system it was invisibly created, endowed with creativity, and bound to emerge [into physical reality].

“There is a design and a designer, but they are so combined, the one within the other, the one within and the one without, that it is impossible to separate them.  The creator is within its creations, and the creations themselves are gifted with creativity.  The world comes to know itself, to discover itself, for the planner left room for divine surprise, and the plan was nowhere foreordained.  Nor is their anywhere within it anything that corresponds to your “survival of the fittest” theories.”

… “In your terms of history, man appeared in several different ages – not from an animal ancestor in the way generally supposed.  There were men-animals, but they were not your stock.  They did not “lead” to anything.  They were a species in their own right.

“There were animal-men.  The terms are for your convenience.  In some species the animal-like tendencies predominated, in others the manlike tendencies did so: Some were more like men, some more like animals.  The Russian steppes had a particular giant-sized species.  Some also I believe in Spain – that area.

“There is considerable confusion, for that matter, as to the geological ages as they are understood.  Such species existed in many of these ages.  Man, as you think of him, shared the earth with the other creatures just mentioned.  In those terms so-called modern man, with your skull structure and so forth, existed alongside of the creatures now supposed to be his ancestors.

“There was some rivalry among these groups, as well as some cooperation.  Several species, say, of modern man died out.  There was some mating among these groups – that is, among the groups in existence at any given time.

“The brain capacities of your particular species have always been the same … Many of the man-animal groups had their own communities.  To you they may seem to have been limited, yet they combined animal and human characteristics beautifully, and they used tools quite well.  In a manner of speaking they had the earth to themselves for many centuries, in that modern man did not compete with them.

“Both the man-animals and the animal-men were born with stronger instincts.  They did not need long periods of protection as infants, but in an animal fashion were physically more agile at younger ages than, say, the human infant.

“The earth has gone through entire cycles unsuspected by your scientists.  Modern man, then, existed with other manlike species, and appeared in many different places on the earth, and at different ages.

“There were then also animal-man and man-animal civilizations of their kinds, and there were complete civilizations of modern man, existing [long] before the ages now given for, say the birth of writing (in 3100 B.C.)”.

Notes:  Appendix 12


 

Note 11


… (From Session 681): “In your terms – the phrase is necessary – the moment point, the present, is the point of interaction between all existences and reality.  All probabilities flow through it, though one of your moment points may be experienced as centuries, or as a breath, in other probable realities of which you are a part.” …

… (From Session 683):  “All kinds of time – backward and forward – emerge from the basic unpredictable nature of consciousness, and are due to ‘series’ of significances.”

Note 13


… (From Session 803):  “You perceive your body as solid.  Again, the very senses that make such a deduction are the result of the behavior of atoms and molecules literally coming together to form the organs, filling a pattern of flesh.  All other objects that you perceive are formed in their own way in the same fashion.

“The physical world that you recognize is made up of invisible patterns.  These patterns are ‘plastic’, in that while they exist, their final form is a matter of probabilities directed by consciousness.  Your senses perceive these patterns in their own way.  The patterns themselves can be ‘activated’ in innumerable fashions.  There is something out there to observe.

“Your sense apparatus determines what form that something will take, however.  The mass world rises up before your eyes, but your eyes are part of that mass world.  You cannot see your thoughts, so you do not realize that they have shape and form, even as, say, clouds do.  There are currents of thought as there are currents of air, and the mental patterns of man’s feelings and thoughts rise up like flames from a fire, or steam from hot water, to fall like ashes or like rain.

“… these patterns of probabilities themselves are not inactive.  They are possessed by the desire to be-actualized.  Behind all realities there are mental states.  These always seek form, though again there are other forms than those you recognize.”

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