Television Metaphor from Seth's Unknown Reality Volume 2

Session 713

 

It might help here if you imagine the psyche again as some multidimensional living television set.  In what seems to be the small space of the screen many programs are going on, though you can tune in to only one at a time.

In a manner of speaking, however, all of the other programs are “latent” in the one you are watching.  There are coordinates that unite them all.  There is a give-and-take quite invisible to you between one program and another, and action within one, again, affects the action within each of the others.

Like the imaginary multidimensional television, the psyche contains within it other programs than the one in which you are acting – other plots, environments, and world situations.  Theoretically you can indeed momentarily “walk out of” your program into another as easily, when you know how, as you now move from one room to another.  You must know that the other programs exist or the possibility of such action will not occur to you.  In larger terms all of the programs are but portions of one: The various sets are real, however, and the characters quite alive.

Actors playing parts are obviously alive, as actors, but in a fictional play, for example, the characters portrayed by the actors are not alive, in your terms, in the same fashion that the actors are.  In the psyche, however, and in its greater reality, the characters have their own lives – quite as real as those of the actors.

Thinking again of the psyche in the manner mentioned, taking it for granted that the program now on the screen is a fully dimensioned reality, and that hidden somehow in its very elements are all of the other programs not showing.  These are not line up in space behind the “front” program, but in a completely different way contained within it.  The point of any image at any given time in the picture showing might represent, for example, a top hat on a table.  Everyone acting in that scene would view the hat and the table, and react accordingly with their own individual characteristics.

The hat on the table, while possessing all of the necessary paraphernalia of reality for that scene, might also, however, serve as a different kind of reference point for one of the other programs simultaneously occurring.  In that reality, say program two, the entire configuration of hat and table may be meaningless, while still being interpreted in an entirely different way from a quite different perspective.  There in program two the table might be a flat natural plain, and the hat an oddly shaped structure upon it – a natural rather than a manufactured one.  Objects in your reality have an entirely different aspect in another.  Any of the objects shown in the program you are watching, then, may be used as a different kind of reference point in another reality, in which those objects appear as something else.

We are trying to make an analogy here on two levels, so please bear with me.  In terms of your psyche, each of your own thoughts and actions exist not only in the manner with which you are familiar with them, but also in many other forms that you do not perceive: forms that may appear as natural events in a different dimension than your own, as dream images, and even as self-propelling energy.  No energy is ever lost.  The energy within your own thoughts, then, does not dissipate even when you yourself have finished with them.  Their energy has reality in other worlds.

Now imagine that the picture on the television screen shows your own universe.  Your idea of space travel would be to send a ship from one planet, earth, outward into the rest of space that you perceive on that “flat” screen.  Even with your projected technology, this would involve great elements of time.  Imagine here, now, that the screen’s picture is off-center to begin with, so that everything is distorted to some extent, and going out into space seems to be going backward into time.

If the picture were magically centered, then all “time” would be seen to flow out from the instant moment of perception, the private now; and in many ways the mass now, or mass perception, represents the overall now-point of your planet.  From that now, “time” goes out in all probable directions.  Actually it goes inward in all probable directions.

The simple picture of the universe that you see on our screen, therefore, represents a view from your own now perspective – but each star, planet, galaxy or whatever is made up of other reference points in which, to put it simply, the same patterns have different kinds of reality.  True space travel would of course be time-space travel, in which you learned how to use points in your own universe as “dimensional clues” that would serve as entry points into other worlds.  Otherwise you are simply flying like an insect around the outside of the television set, trying to light on the fruit, say, that is shown upon the screen – and wondering, like a poor bemused fly, why you cannot.  You use one main focus in your reality.  In the outside world this means that you have a “clear picture”. (Humorously:) There is no snow!  That physical program is the one you are acting in, alive in, and it is the one shown on the screen.  The screen is the part of your psyche upon which you are concentrating.  You not only tune in the picture but also create the props, the entire history of the life and times – but in living three-dimensional terms, and “you” are within that picture.

The kind of reality thus created by that portion of your consciousness forms a given kind of experience.  It is valid and real.  When you want to travel, you do so within the dimensions of the reality thus created.  If you drive or fly from one city to another, you do not consider the journey imaginary.  You are exploring the dimensions given.

Now:  If you alter that picture a little so that the images are somewhat scrambled – and you do this by altering the focus of your consciousness – then the familiar coordination is gone.  Objects may appear blurred, ordinary sounds distorted.  It seems as if you are on the outskirts of your own reality.  In such a state, however, it is easy to see that your usual orientation may be but one of many frames of reference.  If you did change the focus of your consciousness still further, you might then “bring in” another picture entirely.  On the outside this would give you another reality.  In it your “old” reality might still be somewhat perceivable as a ghost image, if you knew what to look for and remembered your former coordinates.  On the inside, however, you would be traveling not around or about, but through one portion of the psyche with its reality, into another portion of the psyche with its reality.  That kind of journey would not be any more imaginary than a trip from one city to another.

There are space-time coordinates that operate from your viewpoint – and space travel from the standpoint of your time, made along the axis of your space, will be a relatively sterile procedure. (Some reported instances of UFO’s happened in the past as far as the visitors were concerned, but appeared as images or realities in your present.  This involves craft sightings only.)

When you change your ordinary television set from one station to another you may encounter snow or distortion.  If something is wrong with the set you may simply tune in patterns that seem meaningless and carry no particular program.  You may have sound without a picture, and sometimes even a picture but sound from another program.  So when you begin to experiment with states of altered consciousness you often run into the same kind of phenomena, when nothing seems to make sense.

Currently, physicists have made some important breakthroughs, but they do not recognize their significance.  The universe that you know is full of microscopic black holes and white holes, for example.  Since your scientists have themselves given these labels, then using those terms I will say (with much gentle humor) that there are red, green, orange and purple holes – that is, the so-called black holes and white holes only represent what physicists have so far deduced about the deeper properties of your universe, and the way that certain coordinate points in one world operate, as providing feed-through into another.

Nothing exists outside the psyche, however, that does not exist within it, and there is no unknown world that does not have its psychological or psychic counterpart.  Man learned to fly as he tried to exteriorize inner experience, for in out-of-body states in dreams he had long been familiar with flight.  All excursions into outer reality come as the psyche attempts to reproduce in any given “exterior” world the inner freedom of its being.

Men have also visited other worlds through the ages.  Others have visited your world.  In dreams, and in altered states through history as you accept it, men have been taken upon such journeys.  On their return they almost always interpreted their experiences in terms of their home programs, intertwining what happened into what ended up as great myths and stories – real but not real.

While all of this may sound quite esoteric, it is highly practical, and we are dealing with the nature of creativity itself.

Your thoughts, for example, and your intents, have their own validity and force.  You set them into motion, but then they follow their own laws and realities.  All creativity comes from the psyche.  I [recently] suggested a project to Ruburt’s class – one that will ultimately illuminate many of the points I am making in “Unknown” Reality.  I suggested that Ruburt’s students create a “city” at another level of reality.  This is not to be a pie-in-the sky sort of thing, or some “heaven” hanging suspended above, but a very valid meeting place between worlds.  A psychic marketplace, for example, where ideas are exchanged, a place of psychic commerce, a pleasant environment with quite definite coordinates, established as an “orbiting satellite” on the outskirts of your world.

Initially, all worlds are created in just that fashion.

In certain terms, then, this involves in a very small way the creation and colonization of a different kind of reality – consciously accepted, however, from your perspective.  On an unconscious level, the world as you know it expands in just such a fashion.  Several students have had dreams involving their participation in such a project.  Ruburt found himself in an out-of-body state, looking at a jacket.  It had four rectangular pockets.  It was giant-sized.  As he looked at it the front flap was open.  In the dream he flew through this flap literally into another dimension, where the point of the flap was a hill upon which he landed.  From that second perspective, the pockets of the jacket in the first perspective became the windows of a building that existed in a still-further, third dimension beyond the hill.  Standing on the hill, he knew that in Perspective One the windows of the building in Perspective Three were jacket pockets, but he could no longer perceive them as such.  Looking out from the hill in Perspective Two, Perspective One was invisibly behind him, and Perspective Three was still “ahead” of him, separated from him by a gulf he did not understand.

He knew, however, that if the shades were pulled in the windows in Perspective Three, then the jacket-pocket flaps would appear to be closed in Perspective One.  He also realized he had been directing the erection of the building in Perspective Three by making the jacket [in Perspective One].

When he approached the hill in Perspective Two, he spoke to the contractor who was there before him.  Ruburt said that he wanted to change the design.  The contractor agreed, and shouted orders to people who were working in Perspective Three, where the building stood.

Now:  Ruburt was validly involved in the erection of that building, and he did indeed travel through various dimensions in which the objects in one represented something entirely different in another.  He used the particular symbols, however, simply to bring the theory home to him, but it represented the fact that any given object in one dimension has its own reality in another.  You cannot move through time and space without altering the focus of your psyche.  When you so alter that focus, however, you also change the exterior reality that you then experience.

… Later you will realize the startling nature of what has been given this evening.

Session Notes

3. The 453^rd session, for December 4, 1968, is printed in its entirety in the Appendix of The Seth Material.  In that session, I think, Seth came through with one of his most evocative conceptions:  “You do not understand the dimensions into which your own thoughts drop, for they continue their own existences, and others look up to them and view them like stars.  I am telling you that your own dreams and thoughts and mental actions appear to the inhabitants of other systems like the stars and planets within our own; and those inhabitants do not perceive what lies within and behind the stars in their own heavens.”

From Session 712 of Seth's Unknown Reality Vol 2

 

As per Ruburt’s notes, each system of reality is indeed surrounded by its probable realities, though any one of those “probable realities” can be used as the hub, or core reality; in which case all of the others will then be seen as probable.  In other words, relativity certainly applies here.

The rockbed reality is the one in which the perceiver is focused.  From that standpoint all others would seem peripheral.  Taking that for granted, however, any given reality system will be surrounded by its probability clusters.  These can almost be thought of as satellites.  Time and space need not be connected, however – that is, the attractions that exist between a reality and any given probability cluster may have nothing to do with time and space at all.  The closest probability satellite to any given reality may, for example, be in an entirely different universe altogether.  In that regard, you may find brethren more or less like yourselves outside of your own universe – as you think of it – rather than inside it.  You imagine your universe as extending outward in space (and backwards in time).  You think of it as an exteriorized manifestation, expanding perhaps, but in an exterior rather than an interior fashion.

Your idea of space travel, for example, is to journey over the “skin of your universe”.  You do not understand that your system is indeed expanding within itself, bringing forth new creativity and energy.

Your universe is only one of many.  Each one creates probable versions of itself.  When you journey on the earth you move around the outside of it.  So far, your ideas of space travel involve that kind of surface navigation.  Earth trips, however, are made with the recognition of their surface nature.  When you think in terms of traveling to other planets or to other galaxies, though, the same kind of surface travel is involved.  As closely as I can explain it in your terms, your concepts of space travel have you going around space rather than directly through it.

You are also viewing your solar system through your own time perspective, which is relative.  You “look backward into time”, you say, when you stare outward into the universe.  You could as well look into the future, of course.  Your own coordinates close you off from recognizing that there are indeed other intelligences alive even within your own solar system.  You will never meet them in your exterior reality, however, for you are not focused in the time period of their existence.  You may physically visit the “very same planet” on which they reside, but to you the planet will appear barren, or not able to support life.

In the same way, others can visit your planet with the same results.  There is then a whole great inner dimension even to the space that you know, that you do not perceive.  There are intelligent beings outside of your own galaxy, “adjacent” to you.  Theoretically, you can visit them with some vast improvements in your technology, but great amounts of time would be involved.  Others have visited your own planet in that particular fashion.  Yours is still a linear technology.  Some intelligent beings have visited your planet, finding not the world you know but a probable one.  There are always feedbacks between probable systems.  A dominant species in one may appear as a bizarre trace species in another.  More will be said about this and your planet later in the book.  The closest equivalent to your own kind of intelligence can actually be found not by following the outer skin of space, but by going through it, so to speak.

There are, again, inner coordinates having to do with the inner behavior of electrons.  If you understood these, then such travel could be relatively instantaneous.  The coordinates that link you with others who are more or less of your kind have to do with psychic and psychological intersections that result in a like space-time framework.

Here I would like to give a very simple example, evocative of what I mean.  The other day Ruburt received a telephone call from a woman in California who was in difficulty.  Ruburt promised to send [healing] energy.  Hanging up, he closed his eyes and imagined energy being sent out from a universal source through his own body, and directed toward the person in need.  When he did so, Ruburt mentally saw a long “heavy” beam extending straight to the west from a point between his eyes.  It reached without impediment.  He felt that this extension was composed of energy, and it seemed so strong that a person could walk upon it without difficulty.  Subjectively he felt that this beam of energy reached its destination.  And so it did.

Energy was almost instantly transmitted across the continent from one spec/”ific individual to another.  When you are dealing with that kind of energy, and particularly when you believe in it, space does not matter.  Emotional connections are set up and form their own set of coordinates.  That beam of energy is as strong and real as a beam of steel, though it moves faster than a beam of light.

If Ruburt had tried to visit the woman by plane he would have followed the curve of the earth, but in those terms the energy went through the “straightest” way.

(“But not through the earth?” I asked.  Whereupon Seth repeated his last sentence three times.  That was the answer he wanted to give.)

The psychic and emotional communication, then, cut through physical coordinates.  Ruburt was momentarily allied with the woman.

In the same way you can be allied and in tune with other probabilities that do not coincide with your space-time axis.  The exterior universe with its galaxies – as you understand it, and on that level of activity – can be encountered on certain rigid space-time coordinates.  You can visit other planets only in your present.  Your present may be the past or the future as far as inhabitants of a given planet are concerned.  Your physical senses will only operate in their and your present.

“Effective” space travel, creative space travel on your part, will not occur until you learn that your space-time system is one focus.  Otherwise you will seem to visit one dead world after another, blind to civilizations that may exist on any of them.  Some of these difficulties could be transcended if you learned to understand the miraculous multidimensionality of even your own physical structure, and allowed your consciousness some of its greater freedom.

To some extent you have neurologically blinded yourselves.  You accept only a certain range of neurological impulses as “reality”.  You have biologically prejudiced yourselves.  The physical structure is innately aware of many more valid versions of reality than you allow it to be.

Theoretically, a thoroughly educated space traveler in your time, landing upon a strange planet, would be able to adjust his own consciousness so that he would perceive the planet in various “sequences” of time.  If you land upon a planet in a spaceship and find volcanoes, you would, perhaps, realize that other portions of that planet might show different faces.  You have confidence in your ability to move through space, so you might then explore the terrain that you could not see from your original landing point.  If you did not understand the change in qualities of space, you might imagine that the whole planet was a giant volcano.

You do not understand as yet, however, that in a way you can move through time as you move through space – and until you understand that, you will not know the meaning of a true journey, or be able to thoroughly explore any planet – or any reality, including your own.

You imagine that your own earth is mapped out, and all frontiers known, but the linear aspects of your planet’s life represent a most minute portion of its reality.

The portions of the psyche reflect and create the portions of the universe from its most minute to its greatest part.  You identify with one small section of your psyche, and so you name as reality only one small aspect of the universe.

In class last evening Ruburt “picked up” messages that seemed to be too slow for his neurological structure.  He was convinced that it would take many hours of your time in order to translate perhaps a simple clear paragraph of what he was receiving.  He experienced some strain, feeling that each vowel and syllable was so drawn out, in your terms of time, that he must either slow down his own neurological workings or try to make some suitable adjustments.  He chose the latter.  Messages, therefore, perceptions, “came through” at one speed, so to speak, and he managed to receive them while translating them into a more comfortable, neurologically familiar speed.

One part of Ruburt accepted the “slow” [or “long”] perceptions, while another part quickened them into something like normal speech patterns.  Some communication did result.

What he was sensing, however, was an entirely different kind of reality.  He was beginning to recognize another synapse [neuronal] pattern not “native”; he was familiarizing himself with perceptions at a different set of coordinate points.  Such activity automatically alters the nature of time in your experience, and is indicative of intersections of your consciousness with another kind of consciousness.  That particular type of consciousness operates “at different speeds” than your own.  Biologically, your own physical structures are quite able to operate at those same speeds, though as a species you have disciplined yourselves to a different kind of neurological reaction.  By altering such neurological prejudice, however, you can indeed learn to become aware of other realities that coincide with yours.

Electrons themselves operate at different “speeds”.  The structure of the atom that you recognize, and its activity, is in larger terms one probable version of an atom.  Your consciousness, as it is allied with the flesh, follows the activity of atoms as far as it is reflected in your system of reality.

Ruburt is learning to minutely alter his experience with the probable atomic correlations that exist quite as validly as does the particular kind of atomic integrity that you generally recognize.  When he does so, in your terms, he alters atomic receptivity.  This automatically brings probabilities to the forefront.  To perceive other realities you alter your own coordinates, tuning them in to other systems and attracting those into your focus.

To some extent or another there are counterparts of all realities within your psyche.  When you slow down, or quicken your thoughts or your perceptions, you automatically begin to alter your focus, to step aside from your officially recognized existence.  This is highly important, for in certain terms you are indeed transcending the time framework that you imagine to be so real.

In other terms, certain portions of your own reality have long since “vanished” in the unrecognized death that your own sense of continuity has so nicely straddled.  Your personal cluster of probable realities surrounds you, again, on a cellular basis, and biologically your physical body steers its own line, finding its balance operating in a cluster of probabilities while maintaining the focus that is your own.  You can even learn to tune in to the cellular comprehension.  It will help you realize that your consciousness is not as limited as you suppose.  All realities emerge from the psyche, and from the CU’s (the units of consciousness) that compose it.

Session Notes

1. Jane delivered this material for Seth in the 42^nd session for April 8, 1964:  “The universe is continually being created … as all universes are … and the appearance of expansion seen by your scientists is distortive for many reasons.

“Their time measurements, based on camouflage [physical information] to begin with, are almost riotously inadequate and bound to give distortive data, since the universe simply cannot be measured in those terms.  The universe was not created at any particular time, but neither is it expanding into nowhere like an inflated balloon that grows forever larger – at least not along the lines now being considered.  The expansion is an illusion, based among other things upon inadequate time measurements, and cause-and-effect theories; and yet in some manners the universe could be said to be expanding, but with entirely different connotations than are usually used.”

From the 43^rd session:  “The universe is expanding in the way that a dream does … this in a most basic manner is more like the growth of an idea.”

At the beginning of Appendix 12, see the longer presentation from the 44^th session for Seth’s discussion of the “value climate of psychological reality” – the “medium” that spontaneously contains within it all of our camouflage constructions of space, time, growth, and durability.  Note 2 for Appendix 12 also fits in here, especially Seth’s references within it to our endless questions about the beginning and ending of the physical universe.

From the 250^th session for April 11, 1966:  “The atom you ‘see’ does not grow larger in mass, or expand outward in your space, and neither does your universe.”

Seth’s material in those early sessions, given well over a decade ago for the most part, reflected of course his reactions to current astronomical theory about the state – and fate – of our physical (camouflage) universe.  The idea of an infinitely expanding universe, with all of its stars ultimately burned out and all life extinct, is still the view largely accepted today; it’s based on the red shift measurements of some of the supposedly receding galaxies, their apparent brightness, the “missing mass” of the universe, and other very technical data. Yet I find it most interesting to note that now some astrophysicists and mathematicians believe our universe may be destined to contract – indeed, to collapse in upon itself – after all.  But again, these ideas aren’t based on the kind of thinking Seth espouses (that consciousness comes first, that its creations are continuous), but upon other quite complicated camouflage observations and measurements.  One of these is the discovery of at least some of the missing mass, thus indicating that gravitational fields may exist among the galaxies, and galactic clusters, strong enough not only to halt the expansion of the universe but to pull all matter back together again.

In scientific terms, it doesn’t seem likely that the conflict between the two views will ever be resolved, or any decision reached that our universe may be an oscillating one, forever contracting and expanding.  There are too many variables in measurement and interpretation, including the difficulties the human mind encounters when it attempts to grasp the enormous spans of time and space involved.

I hasten to add that it’s only of academic interest to us, though, whether the universe disperses itself through an eternity of frozen expansion or compresses itself into a cosmic fireball of unbelievable proportions.  Our scientists have projected either ending many billions of years into the future, although in the meantime “only” an estimated five billion years from now, our own aging, exploding sun will have consumed the inner planets of the solar system – including the earth.

2.  Just as he talks here about the surface nature of our travel, in Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality Seth had a similar observation to make about our ideas of time:  see the 688^th session after 10:26:  “Again, you live on the surface of the moments, with no understanding of the unrecognized and unofficial realities that lie beneath.”

3.  Seth began discussing coordinate points in Chapter 5 of Seth Speaks.  See the 524^th session:  “Other kinds of consciousness coexist within the same ‘space’ that your world inhabits. They do not perceive your physical objects, for their reality is composed of a different camouflage structure.  This is a general statement, however, for various points of your realities can and do coincide … points of what you would call double reality, containing great energy potential … where realities merge.”

4.  For one instance when Seth discussed our coming attempts at space travel, see Note 4 for Session 702, in Volume 1.  Here’s part of the material I quoted from the 40^th session:  “It is very possible that you might end up in what you intend as a space venture only to discover that you have ‘traveled’ to another plane [probability].  But at first you will not know the difference.”

Then in the Appendix of Seth Speaks, see the transcript of the ESP class session for January 12, 1971.  Certain sightings of UFO’s (unidentified flying objects), Seth told class members, represented the appearance of visitors from other realities, rather than from elsewhere in our own universe.

From Unknown Reality Vol 2, Session 708

Consciousness operates with what you may call code systems.  These are beyond count.  Consciousness differentiates itself, therefore, by operating within certain code systems that help direct particular kinds of focus, bringing in certain kinds of significances while blocking out other data.

These other data, of course, might well be significant in different code systems.  In their way, however, these systems are interrelated, so that at other levels there is communication between them – secondary data, you might say, that is supportive but not primarily concentrated upon.

These code systems involve molecular constructions and light values, and in certain ways the light values are as precisely and effectively used as your alphabet is.  For example, certain kinds of life obviously respond to spectrums with which you are not familiar – but beyond that there are electromagnetic ranges, or rather extensions of electromagnetic ranges, completely unknown to you, to which other life forms respond.

Again, all of these code systems are interrelated.  In the same way, the private psyche contains within it hints and glimpses of other alternate realities.  These operate as secondary codes, so to speak, beneath the existence that you officially recognize.  Such secondary systems can tell you much about the potentials of human reality, those that are latent but can at any time be “raised” to primary importance.  Such secondary systems also point toward the probable developments possible for individuals or species.

All of the probabilities practically possible in human development are therefore present to some extent or another in each individual.  Any biological or spiritual advancement that you might imagine will of course not come from any outside agency, but from within the heritage of consciousness made flesh.  Generally, those alive in this century chose a particular kind of orientation.  The species chose to specialize in certain kinds of physical manipulation, to devote its energies in certain directions.  Those directions have brought forth a reality unique in its own fashion.  Man has not driven himself down a blind alley, in other words.  He has been studying the nature of his consciousness – using it as if it were apart from the rest of nature, and therefore seeing nature and the world in a particular light.  That light has finally made him feel isolated, alone, and to some extent powerless.

He is learning how to use the light of his own consciousness, and discovering how far one particular method of using it can be counted on.  He is now discovering that he needs other lights also, in other words – that he has been relying upon only a small portion of an entire inner searchlight that can be used in many directions.  Let us look at some of those other directions that are native to man’s consciousness, still waiting to be used effectively.

I am speaking in your historical terms because before the historical system that you recognize, man had indeed experimented with these other directions and with some success.  This does not mean that man in the present has fallen from some higher spiritual achievement to his current state.

There are cycles in which consciousness forms earthly experience, and maps out historical sequences.  So there have been other species of mankind beside your own, each handling physical data in its own way.  Some have taken other directions, therefore, than the one that you have chosen.  Even those paths are latent or secondary, however, within your own private and mass experience.  They reside within you, presenting you with alternate realities that you may or may not choose privately or en masse, as you prefer.

Each system, of course, brings forth its own culture “technology”, art, and science.  The physical body is basically equipped to maintain itself as a healthy long-living organism far beyond your present understanding, medically speaking.  The cellular comprehension provides all kinds of inner therapeutics that operate quite naturally.  There is a physical give-and-take between the body and environment beyond that which you recognize; an inner dynamics here that escapes you, that unites the health of plants, animals, and men.  In the most simple and mundane of examples, if you are living in a fairly well-balanced, healthy environment, your houseplants and your animals will also be well.  You form your environment and you are a part of it.  You react to it, often forgetting that relationship.  Ideally, the body has the capacity to keep itself in excellent health – but beyond that, to maintain itself at the highest levels of physical achievement.  The exploits of your greatest athletes give you a hint of the body’s true capacity.  In your system of beliefs, however, those athletes must train and focus all of their attention in that direction, often at the expense of other portions of their own experience.  But their performances show you what the body is capable of.

The body is equipped, ideally again now, to rid itself of any diseases, and to maintain its stability into what you would call advanced old age, with only a gradual overall change.  At its best, however, the change would bring about spiritual alterations.  When you leave for a vacation, for example, you close down your house.  In these ideal terms, death would involve a closing down of your [physical] house; it would not be crumbling about you.

Now, certain individuals glimpse this great natural healing ability of the body, and use it.  Doctors sometimes encounter it when a patient with a so-called incurable disease suddenly recovers.  “Miraculous” healings are simply instances of nature unhampered.  Complete physicians, as mentioned earlier, would be persons who understood the true nature of the body and its own potentials – persons who would therefore transmit such ideas to others and encourage them to trust the validity of the body.  Some of the body’s abilities will seem impossible to you, for you have no evidence to support them.  Many organs can completely replace themselves; diseased portions can be replaced by new tissue.

Many people, without knowing it, have developed cancer and rid themselves of it.  Appendixes removed by operations have grown back.  These powers of the body are biologically quite achievable in practical terms, but only by a complete change of focus and belief.  Your insistence upon separating yourselves from nature, automatically prevented you from trusting the biological aspects of the body, and your religious concepts further alienated you from the body’s spirituality.

In your reality, your consciousness is usually identified with the body, on the other hand – that is, you think of your consciousness as being always within your flesh.  Yet many individuals have found themselves outside of the body, fully conscious and aware.

Under certain conditions, therefore, the body can maintain itself while the “main consciousness” is away from it.  The body consciousness is quite able, then, to provide the overall equilibrium.  At certain levels of the sleep state this does in fact happen.  In sleepwalking the body is active, but the main consciousness is not “awake”.  It is not manipulating the body.  The main consciousness is elsewhere.  Under such conditions the body can perform tasks and often maneuver with an amazing sense of balance.  This finesse, again, hints at physical abilities not ordinarily used.  The main consciousness, because of its beliefs, often hampers such manipulability in normal waking life.

Let us look for a moment at the body of consciousness.

It is equipped, as an animal is, to perform beautifully in its environment.  You would call it mindless, since it would seem not to reason.  For the purpose of this discussion alone, imagine a body with a fully operating body consciousness, not diseased for any reason or defective by birth, but one without the overriding ego-directed consciousness that you have.  There have been species of such a nature.  In your terms they would seem to be like sleepwalkers, yet their physical abilities surpassed yours.  They were indeed as agile as animals – nor were they unconscious.  They simply dealt with a different kind of awareness.

In your terms they did not have [an overall] purpose, yet their purpose was simply to be.  Their main points of consciousness were elsewhere, in another kind of reality, while their physical manifestations were separate.  Their primary focuses of consciousness were scarcely aware of the bodies they had created.  Yet even those bodies learned “through experience”, and began to “awaken”, to become aware of themselves, to discover time, or to create it.

The sleepwalkers, as we will call them, were not asleep to themselves, and would seem so only from your viewpoint.  There were several such races of human beings.  Their [overall] primary experience was outside of the body.  The physical corporal existence was a secondary effect.  To them the real was the dream life, which contained the highest stimuli, the most focused experience, the most maintained purpose, the most meaningful activity, and the most organized social and cultural behavior.  Now this is the other side of your own experience, so to speak.  Such races left the physical earth much as they found it.  The main activity, then, involved consciousness apart from the body.  In your terms, physical culture was rudimentary.

Now the physical organism as such is capable of that kind of reality system.  It is not better or worse than your own.  It is simply alternate behavior, biologically and spiritually possible.  No complicated physical transportation systems were set up.  In the physical state, in what you would call the waking state, these individuals slept.  To you, comparatively speaking, their waking activities would seem dreamlike, and yet they behaved with great natural physical grace, allowing the body to function to capacity.  They did not saddle it with negative beliefs of disease or limitation.  Such bodies did not age to the extent now, that yours do, and enjoyed the greatest ease and sense of belonging with the environment.

Consciousness connected with the flesh, then, has great leeway spiritually and biologically, and can focus itself in many ways with and through the flesh, beside your own particular orientation.  There have been highly sophisticated, developed civilizations that would not be apparent to you because the main orientation was mental or psychic, while the physical race itself would seem to be highly undeveloped.

In some of their own private dreams, many of my readers will have discovered a reality quite as vivid as the normal one, and sometimes more so.  These experiences can give you some vague hint of the kind of existence I am speaking of. There are also physical apparatuses connected with the hibernation abilities of some animals that can give further clues as to the possible relationships of consciousness to the body.  Under certain conditions, for example, consciousness can leave the corporal mechanism while it remains intact – functioning, but at a maintenance level.  When optimum conditions return, then the consciousness reactivates the body.  Such behavior is possible not only with the animals.  In systems different from your own, there are realities in which physical organisms are activated after what would seem to you to be centuries of inactivity – again, when the conditions are right.  To some extent your own life-and-death cycles are simply another aspect of the hibernation principle as you understand it.  Your own consciousness leaves the body almost in the same way that messages leap the nerve ends.  The consciousness is not destroyed in the meantime.

Now in the case of an animal who hibernates, the body is in the same state.  But in the greater hibernation of your own experience, the body as a whole becomes inoperable.  The cells within you obviously die constantly.  The body that you have now is not the one that you had 10 years ago; its physical composition has died completely many times since your birth, but, again, your consciousness bridges those gaps.  They could be accepted instead, in which case it would seem to you that you were, say, a reincarnated self at age 7, or 14 or 21.  The particular sequence of your own awareness follows through, however.  In basic terms the body dies often, and as surely as you think it dies but once in the death you recognize.  On numerous occasions it physically breaks apart, but your consciousness rides beyond those “deaths”.  You do not perceive them.  The stuff of your body literally falls into the earth many times, as you think it does only at the “end of your life”.

Again, your own consciousness triumphantly rides above those deaths that you do not recognize as such.  In your chosen three-dimensional existence, however, and in those terms, your consciousness finally recognizes a death.  From the outside it is nearly impossible to pinpoint that intersection of consciousness and the seeming separation from the body.  There is a time when you, as a consciousness, decide that death will happen, when in your terms you no longer bridge the gap of minute deaths not accepted.

Here consciousness decides to leave the flesh, to accept an official death.  You have already chosen a context however, and it seems that that context is inevitable.  It appears, then, that the body will last so long and no longer.  The fact remains that you have chosen the kind of consciousness that identifies with the flesh for a certain period of time.  Other species of consciousness – of a different order entirely, and with a different rhythm of experience – would think of a life in your terms as a day, and have no trouble bridging that gap between apparent life, death, and new life.

Some individuals find themselves with memories of other lives, which are other days to the soul.  Such persons then become aware of a greater consciousness reaching over those gaps, and realize that earthly experience can contain [among other things] a knowledge of existence in more than one body.  Inherently then consciousness, affiliated with the flesh, can indeed carry such comprehensions.  The mind of man as you know it shows at least the potential ability for handling a kind of memory with which you are usually not acquainted.  This means that even biologically the species is equipped to deal with different sequences of time, while still manipulating within one particular time scheme.  This also implies a far greater psychological richness – quite possible, again, within corporeal reality – in which many levels of relationships can be handled.  Such inner knowledge is inherent in the cells, and in ordinary terms of evolution is quite possible as a “future” development.

Knowledge is usually passed down through the ages in your reality, through books and historic writings, yet each individual contains within himself or herself a vast repository: direct knowledge of the past, in your terms, through unconscious comprehension.

The unknown reality:  Much of that reality is unknown simply because your beliefs close you off from your own knowledge.  The reaches of your own consciousness are not limited.  Because you accept the idea of a straight-line movement of time, you cannot see before or after what you think of as your birth or death, yet your greater consciousness is quite aware of such experience.  Ideally it is possible not only to remember “past” lives, but to plan future ones now.  In greater terms, all such lives happen at once.  Your present neurological structure makes this seem impossible, yet your inner consciousness is not so impeded.

Seth on Science and Physics 2 (blueprints)

Session 703

The multidimensional aspects of the electron cannot be perceived within your three-dimensional system, using instruments that are already predisposed or prefocused to measure only certain kinds of effects.

While this may sound quite sacrilegious scientifically, it is possible to understand the electron’s nature and greater reality by using certain focuses of consciousness: by probing the electron, for example, with a “laser” [beam] of consciousness finely focused and attuned – and more will be said about this later in the book.  So far in any of your investigations, you have been probing exterior conditions, searching for their interior nature.

To make this clear:  When you dissect an animal, for instance, you are still dealing only with the “inside” of exterior reality, or with another level of outsideness.  In a manner of speaking, when you probe the heavens with your instruments you are doing the same thing.  There is a difference between this and the “withinness” out of which all matter springs.  It is there that the blueprints for reality are found. Let us take a very simple example.

Suppose a scientist found a first orange, and used every instrument available to examine it, but refused to feel it, taste it, smell it, or otherwise to become personally involved with it for fear of losing scientific objectivity.

In sense terms he would learn a little about an orange, though he might be able to isolate its elements, predict where others might be found, theorize about its environment – but the greater “withinness” of the orange is not found any place inside of its skin either.  The seeds are the physical carriers of future oranges, but the blueprints for that reality are what formed the seeds.  In such dilemmas you are always brought back to the question of which came first, and begin another merry chase.  Because you think in terms of consecutive time, it seems that there must have been a first egg, or seed.  The blueprints for reality exist, however, in dimensions without such a time sequence.

Your closest point to the withinness of which I speak is your own consciousness, though you use it as a tool to examine the exterior universe.  But it is basically free of that reality, not confined to the life-and-death saga, and at other levels deals with the blueprints for its own physical existence.

In the entire gestalt from cellular to “self” consciousness, there is a vast field of knowledge – much of it now “unconsciously” available – used to maintain the body’s integrity in space and time.  With the conscious mind as director, there is no reason why much of this knowledge cannot become normally and naturally available.  There is, therefore, a quite valid, vital, real and vastly creative inner reality, and an inward sequence of events from which your present universe and life emerges.  Any true scientist will ultimately have to learn to enter that realm of reality.  So-called objective effects – and your physicists are learning that even in that framework many “facts” are facts only within certain frequencies, or under certain conditions.  You are left with “workable facts” that help you manipulate in your own backyard, but such facts become prejudice when you try to venture beyond your own cosmic neighborhood and find that your preconceived, native ideas do not apply outside of their context.

Because of your attitudes, ideas do not seem as real to you as objects, or as practical.  Thoughts are not given the same validity as rocks or trees or beer cans or automobiles.  In your terms an automobile gets you somewhere.  You do not understand the greater mobility of thought, nor grasp its practical nature.  You make your world, and in an important manner your thoughts are indeed the immediate personal blueprints for it.  When you manipulate objects you feel efficient.  The manipulation of thoughts is far more practical.  Here is a brief example.

Your medical technology may help you “conquer” one disease after another – some in fact caused by that same technology – and you will feel very efficient as you do heart transplants, as you fight one virus after another.  But all of this will do nothing except to allow people to die, perhaps, of other diseases still “unconquered”.  People will die when they are ready to, following inner dictates and dynamics.  A person ready to die will, despite any medication.  A person who wants to live will seize upon the tiniest hope, and respond.  The dynamics of health have nothing to do with inoculations.  They reside in the consciousness of each being.  In your terms they are regulated by emotions, desires, and thoughts.  A true doctor cannot be scientifically objective.  He cannot divorce himself from the reality of his patient.  Instead, usually, the doctor’s words and very methods literally separate the patient from himself or herself.  The malady is seen almost as a thing apart from the patient’s person – but thrust upon it – over which the patient has little control.

The condition is analyzed, the blood is sampled.  It becomes a “blood sample” to the doctor.  The patient may silently shout out, “That is not just a blood sample – it is my blood you are taking.”  But he [or she] is discouraged from identifying with the blood of his physical being, so that even his own blood seems alien.

The blueprints for reality:  In greater terms they reside within you.  In private terms they are part of your being.

To some extent I am suggesting in this book a different approach.  So far the blueprints for reality have been largely unknown.  Your methods make them invisible, so here I am suggesting ways in which the unknown reality can become a known one.  I have mentioned the dream-art scientist and the [true] mental physicist.  I would like to add here the “complete physician”.

The complete physician would be a person who learned to understand the dynamics of being, the soul-body relationship – one who was healthy in his or her own body.  Unhappy people cannot teach you to be happy.  Sick ones cannot teach you to be well.  Psychiatrists have a high suicide rate.  Why do you think they can help you live happily, or add to your vitality?  Physicians are not the healthiest of men by far.  Why do you think they can cure you?

Now in your framework of beliefs the psychiatrists and the doctors are helpful.  They know more than you do about the techniques upon which you all agree.  While the society accepts these techniques, then you are to some extent dependent upon them, and you had better think twice before you let them go.  But in greater, more vital issues, the sick doctor does not know as much about health as an “uneducated, untrained”, but healthy person – and I am speaking in quite practical terms.  The person who is healthy understands the dynamics of health.  In your framework it seems that his or her understanding can be of little practical value to you if you are, for instance, unhealthy.  But a true medical profession would be, literally, a health profession.  It would seek out people who were healthy and learn from them how to promote health, and not how to diagram disease.

This is on the most surface level, however.  A true healing, or health profession, would deal intimately with the powers of the psyche in healing the body, and with the interrelationship among the desires, beliefs, and activities of the conscious mind and its effects upon the cellular behavior.

The “unknown” reality.  Unknown or not, it is what you are working with.

Seth on Science and Physics

Unknown Reality Volume 1

Session 702

Ultimately your use of instruments and your preoccupation with them as tools to study the greater nature of reality, will teach you one important lesson:  The instruments are useful only in measuring the level of reality in which they themselves exist.

They help you interpret the universe in horizontal terms, so to speak.  In studying the deeper realities within and “behind” that universe, the instruments are not only useless but misleading.  I am not suggesting that their use is futile, however – merely pointing out the limitations inherently involved.

So-called objective science gives you a picture, a model, that has served well enough in its own fashion, enabling you to travel to the moon, for example, and to advance in a technology that for a time you set your hearts upon.  In the framework of objective science as it now exists, however, even the technology will come up against a stone wall.  Even as a means, objective science is only helpful for a while, because it will constantly run up against deeper inner realities that are necessarily shunted aside and ignored simply because of its method and attitude.  No objective science or splendid technology alone will keep even one man or woman alive, for example, if that individual has decided to leave the flesh, or finds no joy in daily life.

A loving technology, again, would always add to the qualitative and spiritual deepening of experience.  The inner order of existence and true science go together.  The true scientist is not afraid of identifying with the reality he chooses to study.  He knows that only then can he dare to begin to understand nature.  There are many unofficial scientists, true ones in that regard, unknown in this age.  Many are quite ordinary people in exterior terms, with other professions.  Yet it is no accident that greater discoveries are often made by “amateurs” – those who are relatively free from official dogmas, released from the pressure to get ahead in a given field – those whose creativity flows freely and naturally in those areas of their natural interest.

Without an identification with the land, the planet and the seasons, all of your technology will not help you understand the earth, or even use it effectively, much less fully.  Without an identification with the race as a whole, no technology can save the race.  Unless man also identifies himself with the other kinds of life with which he shares the world, no technology will ever help him understand his experience.  I am speaking in very practical terms.  Gadgets will, ultimately, teach you nothing about the dimensions of your own consciousness.  When you use them even to attain alterations of consciousness, you are programming yourselves, stepping apart from yourselves.

Such gadgets can be useful only if they show you that such alterations are naturally possible.  Otherwise, with your ideas of applied science and technology, the gadgets will be the pivoting point, and the ideas of manipulation will be stressed.  In other words, unless the ideas behind objective science are altered, then gadget-produced altered states will almost certainly be used to manipulate, rather than free, consciousness.

I am not making a prediction here.  I am simply pointing out one probability that exists.  There have indeed been civilizations upon your planet that understood as well as you, and without your kind of technology, the workings of the planets, the positioning of stars – people who even foresaw “later” global changes.  They used mental physics.  There were men before you who journeyed to the moon, and who brought back data quite as “scientific” and pertinent.  There were those who understood the “origin” of your solar system far better than you.  Some of these civilizations did not need spaceships.  Instead, highly trained men combining the abilities of dream-art scientists and mental physicists cooperated in journeys not only through time but through space.  There are ancient maps drawn from a 200-mile-or-more vantage point – these meticulously completed on return from such journeys.

There were sketches of atoms and molecules, also drawn after trained men and women learned the art of identifying with such phenomena.  There are significances hidden in the archives of many archaeological stores that are not recognized by you because you have not made the proper connections – and in some cases you have not advanced sufficiently to understand the information.

The particular thrust and direction of your own science have been directly opposed to the development of such inner sciences, however, so that to some extent each step in the one direction has thus far taken you further from the other.  Yet all sciences are based on the desire for knowledge, and so there are intersections that occur even in the most diverse of paths; and you are at such an intersection.

Your own science has led you to its logical conclusion.  It is not enough, and some suspect that its methods and attitudes have a built-in disadvantage.  Physicists are going beyond themselves, so to speak, where even their own instruments cannot follow and where all rules do not apply.  Even the prophet Einstein did not lead them far enough.  You cannot stand apart from a reality and do any more than present diagrams of it.  You will not understand its living heart or its nature.

The behavior of electrons, for example, will elude your technological knowledge – for in deepest terms what you will “perceive” will be a façade, an appearance or illusion.  So far, within the rules of the game, you have been able to make your “facts” about electrons work.  To follow their multidimensional activity however is another matter – a pun – and you need, if you will forgive me, a speedier means.

The blueprints for reality lie even beneath the electron’s activity.  As long as you think in terms of [subatomic] particles, you are basically off the track – or even when you think in terms of waves.  The idea of interrelated fields comes closer, of course, yet even here you are simply changing one kind of term for one like it, only slightly different.  In all of these cases you are ignoring the reality of consciousness, and its gestalt formations and manifestations.  Until you perceive the innate consciousness behind any “visible” or “invisible” manifestations, then, you put a definite barrier to your own knowledge.

… In as simple a language as possible, and to some extent in your terms, the electron’s spin determines time “sequences” from your viewpoint.  In those terms, then, a reversed spin is a reversed time motion.  There is much you cannot observe.  There is much that is extremely difficult to explain, simply because your verbal structure alone presupposes certain assumptions.  Electrons, however, spin in many directions at once, an effect impossible for you to perceive.  You can only theorize about it.  There are “electromagnetic momentums thus achieved and maintained”, certain stabilities that operate and maintain their own integrity, though these may not be “equal” at all portions of the spin.  There are equalities set up “between” the inequalities.

Time, in your terms then, is spinning newly backward as surely as it is spinning newly into the future.  And it is spinning outward and inward into all probabilities simultaneously.

There are, nevertheless, unequal thrusts in all directions, though “equalities” can be ascertained by concentrating only upon certain portions of the spin.

Session Notes

1. … Seth from the 45^th session:  “Any investigation of the basic inner universe, which is the only real universe, must be done as much as possible from a point outside your own distortions … To get outside your own universe, you must travel inward … Your so-called scientific, so-called objective experiments can continue for an eternity, but they will only probe further and further with camouflage [physical] instruments into a camouflage universe … The subconscious, it is true has elements of its own distortions, but these are easier to escape than the tons of distortive camouflage atmosphere that weigh your scientific experiments down”.

3. Four little notes, the last two of which are added later from Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality:

See Chapter 15 of Seth Speaks for Seth’s material on the art and technology of the ancient civilization of Lumina (as well as his references to those that came before and after it).  Even now, he tells us, the Lumanians’ attributes are incorporated in our own heritage.

Seth discusses some “species of consciousness” starting at 11:08 in Session 692, Volume 1.

From the 715^th session in Section 4 of Volume 2: “There are civilizations of the psyche, and only by learning about these will you discover the truth about the ‘lost’ civilizations of your planet – for each such physical culture coincided with and emerged from a corresponding portion of the psyche that you even now possess.”

From the 742^nd session in Section 6: “Atlantis is a land that you want to inhabit, appearing in your literature, your dreams, and your fantasies, serving as an impetus for development … It carries also, however, the imprint of your fears, for the tales say that Atlantis was destroyed.  You place it in your past while it exists in your future.  Not the destruction alone, but the entire pattern seen through the framework of your beliefs.  Beside this, however, many civilizations have come and gone in somewhat the same manner, and the “myth” [of Atlantis] is based somewhat then on physical fact in your terms.”

4. In the 40^th session for April 1, 1964, Seth had something to say about the challenges space travel will present to our own civilization: “… you are severely hampered as far as space travel is concerned, by the time elements involved … In your terms it will simply take you too long to get where you want to go.  Scientists will begin to look for easier methods.  They are even now being forced to consider the possibilities of telepathy as a means of communication, and they will be forced further and further along these lines.

“It is very possible that you might end up in what you intend as a space venture only to discover that you have ‘travelled’ to another plane [probability].  But at first you will not know the difference.”

And from the 45^th session, 20 days later: “… your present theory of the expanding universe is in error.  Space travel will be dumped when your scientists discover that space as you know it is a distortion, and that journeying from one so-called galaxy to another is done through divesting the physical body of camouflage [matter].  The vehicle of so-called space travel is mental and psychic mobility, in terms of psychic transformations of energy …”

6. Seth, in the 681^st session: “Atoms can move in more directions than one at once.” In Note 7 for that session I wrote that as an artist my intuitional reaction to that statement was to associate the multidirectional ability of the atom with Seth’s notions of simultaneous time and probabilities.  Since electrons are the particles or processes moving about the nucleus of the atom, I now make the same association for them.  Thus, according to Seth, we have a most complicated and profound dance of units or essences – behavior not really amenable to translation in words.

 

Remarkable Nature of Universal Creativity

The following quote is taken from:  The Way Toward Perfect Health: A Seth Book

“The nature of universal creativity is so remarkable that its true reaches are literally beyond most understanding.  The implications are staggering – so that the affair is almost impossible to explain.

“The past, and every moment of the past, are being constantly changed from the operation point of the present.  In your terms, the present becomes the past, which is again changed at every considerable point from the latest-present – you may put a hyphen between the last two words, so that the meaning is clear.  Yet through all of this immense, continuous creation, there is always a personal sense of continuity: You never really lose your way in the distance between one moment and the next.

“In somewhat of the same fashion the objects about you are constantly in motion, as you know.  The atoms and molecules are forever moving, and in a way, the electrons are the directors of that motion.

“Your own focus is so precisely and finely tuned that despite all of that activity, objects appear solid.  Now objects are also events, and perhaps that is the easiest way to understand them.  They are highly dependent upon your own subjective focus.  Let that focus falter for a briefest amount of time, and the whole house of cards would come tumbling down, so to speak.

“Remember that you are also objects, and also events, and as physical bodies your organs are also composed of atoms and molecules whose motion, again, is directed by electrons.

“The electrons themselves have their own subjective lives.  They are also subjective events, therefore, so there is always a correlation between those electrons in your bodies and those in the objects you see about you.  Nevertheless again, subjective continuity itself never falters, in that it is always a part of the world that it perceives, so that you and the world create each other in these terms.

“When you change the past from each point of the latest-present, you are also changing events at the most microscopic levels.  Your intent has also an electronic reality, therefore.  It is almost as if your thoughts punched the keys of some massive computer, for your thoughts do indeed have a force.  Even as sentences are composed of words, there is no end to the number of sentences that can be spoken – so “time” is composed of an endless variety of electronic languages that can “speak” a million worlds instead of words.”