Playing the Game (continued)

Seth Early Sessions, Vol 7, Session 304

Playing the Game (continued)

There were topics discussed at our last session which have not been discussed in those terms earlier.

Let us in our own way consider some of them.  The physical universe is real and not real, as you know.  You create physical matter and then perceive it.  If there were no purpose in the creation of physical matter, it would not exist and you would not perceive it.  That is, it would not exist even as an illusion.

There are some fine points here.  We shall try to tackle some of them.  For those who may seem like gods to you, killings is no crime, for there is no such thing as even the illusion of death.  On one level then it is true that death, like life as you know it, is an illusion.  You cannot rid yourselves completely of the illusion while you are within physical bodies.

Therefore, within this context you trust, treat your living things gently.  They are actualities within your system.  Philosophical tenets at your level must be carefully filled in by constructive emotions.  There is strong value fulfillment to be gained where you are.  It is good to know where you are, and the nature of your reality.  You must still operate within its framework, however.

The self, the whole self, the entity, that is your true self, does indeed exist now.  You are even in contact with it now.  It is true that in one sense you have never left this self.  It is also true in another sense that you have indeed.  You have purposefully explored other systems as you explore this one.

The exploration is also a creation, and a continuing creation.  There is no finality or completion.  There is indeed no place to go, as your friend is fond of saying.  But the very word is brings forth a multiplicity of existences.  They are quite real psychologically and psychically.

Philosophy should allow you to deal with them and not to avoid them.  In one case of course there is nothing to avoid.  Moment points, as I have discussed them, will clear up many of these points for you.  There is every reason to explore inner reality, but this exploration should lead you to understand the nature of physical reality also.  Perhaps your physical existence could be compared with an excellent book, given to you by a teacher.

You are completely immersed in it.  Because you realize that you are reading such a book and acting out the part of the main character, and plunged into a three-dimensional existence, this does not mean that you can afford to throw the book away nor that you should refuse to read it.

You may of course realize its nature, and this is a step forward.  The teacher who gives you the book is reading another book, and acting another part.  There are some shortcomings in Zen philosophies that we shall discuss at another time.  The system is basically a good one but the flaw, one in particular, is a tragic one.  And within your system such flaws can lead many astray.

I do not like the word joke indeed, relevant or irrelevant, for that matter. It can lead to unfeeling.

When you have out-of-body experiences, you can become aware of the nature of inner reality more directly.

This knowledge helps you use and direct physical laws, not ignore them.  You use them more efficiently, and for the purposes of the inner self.  You begin to create physical matter so that it does indeed reflect the inner self, and in so doing, you effect changes that are noticed by others and serve as an example.

Through exploring inner reality you are indeed in contact with All That Is.  The experience must be primarily a solitary one however on your part.  You are both correct in assuming that you maintain your relative isolation.  Specifically you should not now join a community of the sort that is being planned.

Ruburt’s abilities, and your own, will develop as they will.  They follow their own inner nature.  There will be spontaneous expansions, but the work must be private.  This does not mean you cannot join in experiments.

Now this is indeed a personal seminar that you attend, and in the terms used by Bernard.  I am speaking to you from a particular point of my personality, the part which you can easily understand.  I believe my way of teaching to be the best one for our purposes.  Ruburt’s abilities are very strong.  They must be nurtured in such a way that stability is maintained.

You hear me now.  You recognize my personality as it is presented to you.  Other aspects of it will become apparent as you are ready.  I protect you both in psychic matters, if you ever wondered, and of course in other affairs when I think protection necessary.

It is better, as I have said often, that the ego not be shunted aside.

It is true the division is arbitrary.  Nevertheless the ego is a part of the self.  We are acquainting it with other portions of the self.  It is still the director of physical activities.  Properly trained and intuitively governed this portion of the self can be of benefit in survival circumstances.