Session 682

Unknown Reality, Session 682

The Nature of Personal Reality is an excellent handbook, one that will enable people to manipulate in the world they know with greater effectiveness.  It will not matter whether or not they understand deeper issues upon which the whole nature of physical reality itself depends.  The material I am giving now will attempt some explanation of those deeper issues.

Ruburt’s own development makes this possible, for it was necessary that he progress to the point that he has in Adventures in Consciousness, and reach the level of certain theories so that these could be used as springboards.

We must unfortunately often deal with analogies, because they can form bridgeworks between concepts.  There are units of consciousness, then, as there are units of matter.  I do not want you to think of these units as particles.  There is a basic unit of consciousness that, expressed, will not be broken down, as once it was thought that an atom was the smallest unit and could not be broken down.  The basic unit of consciousness obviously is not physical.  It contains within itself innately infinite properties of expansion, development, and organization; yet within itself always maintains the kernel of its own individuality.  Despite whatever organizations it becomes part of, or how it mixes with other such basic units, its own identity is not annihilated.

It is aware energy, identified within itself as itself, not “personified” but awareized.  It is therefore the source of all other kinds of consciousness, and the varieties of its activity are infinite.  It combines with others of its kind, forming then units of consciousness – as, mentioned often, atoms and molecules combine.

The basic unit is endowed with unpredictability.  That very unpredictability allows for infinite patterns and fulfillments.  The word “soul” unfortunately has been so used in regard to your species that it becomes highly difficult to unravel the conceptual difficulties.  Using usual definitions, you would call a soul the result of a certain organization of such units, which you would then recognize as a “soul”.

That leads to the old inevitable questions: Do animals have souls – or do trees, or rocks?  In line with the usual definition then, in your terms, this smallest unit would be “soul stuff”.  That viewpoint however is highly limited, for “above you”, using that scale, there are other more developed organizations of these units; and so from that “more exalted viewpoint”, you would seem to be junior souls indeed.

So I prefer, here at least, to speak of these units of consciousness instead.  Their nature is the vitalizing force behind everything in your physical universe, and others as well.  These units can indeed appear in several places at once, and without going through space, in your terms.  Literally now, these basic units of consciousness can be in all places at once.  They are in all places at once.  They will not be recognized because they will always appear as something else.

Of course they move faster than light.  There are millions of them in one atom – many millions.  Each of these units is aware of the reality of all others, and influences all others.  In your terms these units can move forward or backward in time, but they can also move into thresholds of time with which you are not familiar.

My Note on CUs

At the Planck scale, according to modern physics, all of the laws of physics break down.  That is the scale at which we see the direct effect of CUs and their ability to probe/form our space-time reality.

All probabilities are probed and experienced, and all possible universes created from these units.  Therefore, there are realities in which the endless probabilities of one given event are probed, and all experience grouped about that venture.

There are systems in which a moment, from your standpoint, is made to endure for the life of a universe.  I do not mean that a moment is simply stretched, or that time is slowed down alone, but that all the experiences possible within a moment become realities within that framework.  Such systems have little to do with you in any practical manner, nor is such information given to dwarf your idea of what your own consciousness is.  It is important, however, that you realize the fact that there is more creativity and variety in an inner reality than you ever physically perceive.

These units of consciousness do not have human characteristics, of course.  They do, however, possess their own “inclinations”, leanings, propensities – and perhaps “propensities” comes closest to the term I want.  I do not want you to think of them as miniature people.  Nevertheless, neither are they clumps of “idle” energy.  They are vitalized, aware, charged, with all the qualifications of being.

All psychological structures then are composed of such organizations, however long – or short – lived in your terms.  They are innately endowed with the desire or propensity for growth and creative organization.  They are not found alone, then, in isolation.  Since these units of consciousness exist at once, they are aware of all the organized self-structures of which they are a part.  To this extent, all probable realities are connected in that basic manner.  These units grow out of themselves.  Since I have told you that in your terms your past, present, and future exist at once, these units are constantly emerging out of your now-point from both the future and the past.

I do not want to ruin your idea of stability, and I do not want to confuse you.  The fact remains that in speaking of probabilities thus far, I have simplified the issues considerably.  (To Rob:) I said, for example, that you died as a child in one probability, and again in the (military) service, and I gave you a small sample of your parents’ probable history.  (See the last two sessions.)  In doing so I used ideas and terms quite easily grasped.  The larger picture is somewhat more difficult – by far – to express.

All matter is based upon the units mentioned, with their unpredictability and their propensity for exploring all probabilities.  Even your atomic structure, then, is poised between probabilities.  If this is true, then obviously “you” are aware of only one small probable portion of yourself – and this portion you protect as your identity.  If you think of it as simply a focus taken by “your” greater identity, then you will be able to follow what I am saying without feeling puny by contrast, or lost.  The focus that you have is indeed inviolate.

I have often said that even in your lifetimes, all probable variations of any one event occur, but I never went much further.  With your focus, it seems that you have a line of identity from birth to death.  Looking back at any point, you are sure that the “self” of ten years ago is the self of today, though perhaps changed in certain respects.

There is, of course, no single-line kind of development at all.  In the first place, as you know, your life is at once, though you experience, practically, a life-to-death sequence – Ruburt’s living area in Adventures in Consciousness.  Every probable event that could happen to you, happens.  I gave you one or two small examples of your mother’s probable existences.  Think in physical terms of the generations going out from one seed into the ages.

Your self-reality in any given moment is like that seed, following probable generations that appear in other dimensions as well as this one.  In each now-moment, you draw from the vast bank of unpredictable actions certain ones that are “significant” to you; and your private idea of significance will result in what then seems to be predictable action.

Propensity is a selection of significance, an inclination toward the formation of selected experience.  This applies on all levels – atomic and psychological – and to biological stimulus and mental intent.

These basic units move toward organizations then of a selective nature.  Having an unpredictable field to draw from, they select activity according to those significances.  Various kinds of significance are the result of the unit’s individual natures.  The body that you have is a probable body.  It is the result of one line of “development” that could be taken by your particular earth personality in flesh.  All of the other possible lines of development also occur, however.  They occur at once, but each one simultaneously affects every other.  There is actually far greater interaction here than you realize, because you are not used to looking for it.  The harder you work to maintain the official accepted idea of the self in conventional terms, the more of course you block out any kind of unpredictability.

Because of the great organizing nature of these basic units, there are also psychological structures that are quite capable of holding their own identities while being aware of any given number of probable selves.  Life after death has great meaning in your reality, because death is a part of it.  Your greater reality obviously transcends both your births and your deaths.  The idea of one universe alone is basically nonsensical.  Your reality must be seen in its relationship to others.  Otherwise you are always caught in questions like “How did the universe begin?” or “When will it end?”  All the systems are constantly being created.

Only in a context of probabilities can immortality make any sense.  Heredity springs from the great inherent unpredictability that is then broken down to specifications inside the chromosomes, no two of which are alike.  What you think of as daily life is then a focus upon certain probable events above others, a choosing of significance, a selection of patterns.  Other portions of the self follow different selections.

Because your greater identity is aware of its probable existences, you are in matter and out of it at the same time – in time and out of it.

You have a greater identity outside of your context, yet a part of it is inside your context, as you.  Your youness is your significance, a focus of awareness, conscious of itself, that seeks out and views experience with its own unique propensities.  The existence of probable realities and probable selves in no way denies the validity of your own experience or individuality.  That rides secure, choosing from unpredictable fields of actuality those that suit its own particular nature.

That selfhood jumps in leapfrog fashion over events it does not want to actualize, and does not admit such experience into its selfhood.  Other portions of your greater identity, however, do accept those same events rejected by you, and form their own selfhoods.

Now some of you might choose some of the same events, and there probabilities will merge.  Such points of intersection are highly charged and creative.  These intersections can happen in individual and mass terms.  One historical event may be simultaneously accepted in several probable realities, for example, while others may occur in one and not in an alternate history.

While words are difficult to use here, again, what I am saying applies, in different ways perhaps, to the behavior of worlds, atoms, and psychological structures.  In the life that you know, as given in Personal Reality, your beliefs act to specify the particular probable events that will become “real”.  Because you are a probable self, an understanding of your own nature will show you some of the abilities, not used here, but present, that you can indeed choose to actualize.  You can draw then from your own bank of probable abilities, for there will be traces of them in you.  They are being developed in another reality; therefore, in this one they can be utilized far easier than you might suppose.  When you exercise your right arm, your left arm benefits.  When you develop abilities in one system, to some extent they are easier to develop in another.  (To Rob:) In deciding to do some writing (for the Seth books, as an example), you are also drawing upon abilities that you have worked on in another system, and through your intent you are to a certain extent blending probabilities.

Even a simple understanding of this would help people realize that no existence is dead-ended.