Apparitions, Dreams and Root Dreams

Seth Early Sessions, Vol 7, Session 282

Apparitions

In all our sessions we have been dealing with the mobility of consciousness, with its nature and extent.

In dreams consciousness operates to some degree independently of the physical system.  In projections this independence is more pronounced.  In physical death of course the connection between consciousness and matter is broken.  It is broken and yet not entirely severed.

There is a period of which we have not previously spoken, when the personality continues to hover within the physical system, with however certain freedoms that it did not previously possess.  During such periods, as has been suggested elsewhere, the personality can merge, blend or change various aspects of his previous existences, using them as you, Joseph, use colors.

This is a private system, the personality using lessons that it has learned from the immediately previous experience.  If no lessons have been learned, then on some occasions there may be a psychic reliving of past experience for the individual involved.  This will produce, usually, no actual return to physical events, but a reenactment of them.  It is possible however for the energy being used to act as a trigger that momentarily recreates sensual data under some conditions.

Various kinds of apparitions can be explained in this manner.  There is however no one explanation that will serve, for there are many kinds of apparitions.  All are valid to some degree.

In projections, for example, you may appear as an apparition within your own system or in another system.  You may on the other hand yourself encounter apparitions.  Some may be ideas of strong import, which you encounter in physical terms.  These may belong to the past, present or future, in your terms.

You may encounter apparitions that are actual visitors from another system.  They may or may not know that they are perceived.  Very early in our sessions I spoke of primary and secondary constructions.  You can of course form secondary projections, or fragments, and rather consciously control them, as will be the case in any deliberate projections.

Dreams

Dream objects are secondary constructions, but very valid ones.  Now they do have much more than an imaginative reality, and they do posses consciousness, but a fragmentary consciousness, that can however further develop.

You are quite aware of these constructions as the inner self keeps track of them.  You act out many possibilities within dream reality, and within dreams you try out alternatives, and not necessarily short term ones.

You would have made an excellent doctor, for example.  In your terms you worked out this possibility by weaving, over a period of three years, a dream framework in which you learned exactly what your life would have been, had you gone into medicine.

Again, this was more than imagination.  In the dream state you experienced literally a future life that existed as a definite possibility.  You examined a probability, in other words, and chose another.

The physician, you see, existed in some dimension, and continues to do so.  Obviously there were financial limitations as far as education was concerned.  Subconsciously however you leaned in that direction to some fairly considerable extent.  This is all difficult to explain.  You met, for example, patients.  Some of these people you also know in the life that you chose.

This traveling in probable systems goes on constantly, with variations, in the dream state.  The individual chooses then which probabilities he desires to make actual in physical terms.

The point is that such dream episodes represent probable physical reality.

In one such episode, for example, you followed through your present course to completion.  Therefore you are aware subconsciously of your own future, since you chose it.

Now.  There are always backings off, you see, and new choices however.  You may at any point choose differently now.  The various choice possibilities were known in the dream episodes.  You foresaw then future possibilities within the main choice system.

In your present daily life the same process continues.  Most of these dreams are very disconnected from the ego, and will seldom be recalled.  The self who pursues these divergent paths is actual however.  These are legitimate projections.  They represent systems of reality of which you are not aware.

The doctor, you see, that you might have been and are not in this system, once dreamed of a probable universe in which he would be an artist.  He continues to work out his own probabilities.  Perhaps he paints as a hobby.  He exists however in fact, within another system.  You call this system an alternate system of probability but this is precisely what he would call your system.

Now you will have some experiences that are shared in the dream state.  They will be involved with episodes familiar to you both before you went your separate ways.  You are like two limbs from the same tree.  You recognize the same mother.  Some of these probable systems are based upon molecular structure, and your appearances in such systems would be similar, though not identical, you see.

Root Dreams

Now the dreams that you would have, and had, in shared experience, are root dreams.  Such root dreams serve as a method of maintaining inner identity, and of communication.  There may be flashes of realization in such dreams.  Projections may occur also from root dreams.  You may project for example into the life of that physician.

I am using you here and the physician probability as an example.  Art, you see, is also closely connected with healing.  The projections of which I spoke do happen occasionally and spontaneously on both of your parts.  Various aspects of the personality are being developed, you see.  Reincarnation is but a part of this probability system, the part that falls within your particular universe.

This all involves value fulfillment, which is at its basis.  It is obvious then that you perceive consciously only a small part of your own overall reality.  The doctor obviously has his own ego, though not within your system.

There are also some root dreams shared by the race as a whole.

Most of these are not as symbolic however as Jung thought them to be, though he used a different term, and had only a dim conception of them.  Many root dreams are literal interpretations of abilities used by the inner self.

Flying dreams you see are not symbolic of anything.  They are valid and actual experiences, though often intermixed with other dream elements.  Falling dreams are experience.  They represent downward motion in your system, or a loss of form control during projection.  They may of course be embellished with other material.