The Creationists Are Sort Of Right

This is a really profound and illuminating quotation from Seth.

In one way, it seems really obvious that earth, in all its manifestations over all time, and the cosmos, all happened outside of time and hence "at once" in the spacious present of All That Is.  Our ingrained belief in linear time and duality means that we hop from one time-space possibility to another in the multiverse, making 3D images of these abstract moments and stringing these images in sequence like a movie.  One of the corollaries of this approach is our belief that there has to be a beginning - so we develop theories like the Big Bang and stories of evolution.  We even pretend that we physically grow over a lifetime.

It is really well worth spending time contemplating this reality described here ... by contemplating I don't mean figuring it out logically, rather I mean feeling the reality of this and allowing the insights and gestalts of awareness that arise.

“It is as if, then, the earth, with all of its species, existed in complete form as a fully dimensioned cosmic underpainting, which gradually came alive all at once.  Birds did not come from reptiles.  They were always birds.  They expressed a certain kind of consciousness that sought a certain kind of form.  Physically the species appeared – all species appeared – in the same way that you might imagine all of the elements of a highly complicated dream suddenly coming alive with physical properties.  Mental images – in those terms, now – existed that “in a flash of cosmic inspiration” were suddenly endowed with full physical manifestation.

“To that extent, the Bible’s interpretation is correct.  Life was given, was free to develop according to its characteristic conditions.  The planet was prepared, and endowed with life.  Consciousness built the forms, so life existed within consciousness for all eternity.  There was no point in which chemicals or atoms suddenly acquired life, for they always possessed consciousness, which is life’s requirement.

“In the terms that you can understand, all species that you are aware of appeared more or less at once, because the mental patterns had peaked.  Their vitality was strong enough to form differentiation and cooperation within the framework of matter.”

(The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, Session 872)