Always look at the bright side of life ...

The subject (above) is a line from a song from Monty Python's Life of Brian ... sung by Brian and the other guys as they're hanging from their respective crosses at the end of the movie.  It kind of sums up Seth's idea here.  It's a basic principle of manifestation. 

The universe responds to what you place your attention on (without passing judgement).  Actually, it resonates with the feeling tone that you're radiating and you're underlying intent, not the words that you may be saying. 

Physical reality is a Cosmic feedback system for beginners in the art of creation ... hence it's no surprise that if you hold feelings, beliefs, etc. focused around "bad" things, then "bad" things appear in your reality or the reality of those who you know or read about.  Again, this is easy to say, but often hard to do because our physical reality perception machine (aka the body) comes equipped with powerful chemical messages called emotions and a linear 3D brain that is wired from birth to prepare for the worst (a survival instinct). 

Luckily, we can have moments of love and joy that override the brain wiring and recalibrate us to becoming more of the "godlet" that we have potential to be!

"You form your own reality.  That reality contributes to the experience of others, but each of you possesses a unique, original stance in space and time that is yours alone in quite practical terms, regardless of time's relative existence.

"Only when you operate from your own stance can you help others to the best of your ability.  To anticipate danger, or to imaginatively take on the troubles of others robs you of the very energy with which you could help them.  I am not saying, therefore, to turn your eyes from the unfortunate conditions of the world.  Practical help is needed in all areas of the human life.  Yet it is far better, and more practical ultimately, to concentrate upon the beneficial elements of civilization - far better to organize your thoughts in areas of accomplishment than to make mental lists of man's deficiencies and lacks."

(The Nature of the Psyche, Session 800)

Be Here Now

One of my favourite authors is Ram Dass ... one of Timothy Leary's compatriots who went to India (instead of prison) to see how good acid was by offering it to gurus.  They all said the same thing .. this stuff is pretty good but you don't need it and it will get in the way.  Eventually he met a guru and the stories of this man and the profound love of his protégés was enlightening and an inspiration.  "Be Here Now" was the title of Ram Dass's best known book ... "Still Here" was pretty good too!  Anyway, I find this Seth quote reminds me of Ram Dass!

Being here now is one of the most difficult life practices.  I meditated for years and went to a Buddhist temple for several years.  What I noticed was the immense, uplifting serenity I felt in a group meditation at a temple ... and how quickly that dissipated when I went out the door.  

"Whatever your scientists think, your body and your consciousness and your universe spring constantly into actualization.  Therefore, through cultivating the clear experience of your own consciousness and being with time and with the moment as you feel it, you can draw upon the greater vitality and power that is available.

"To do this, rely upon your immediate sense data ... That primary sense data, while pinpointed in the present, providing you with the necessary stance in time, still can open up to you the timelessness from which all time emerges, can bring you intuitive intimations, hinting at the true nature of the ever-present coming-to-be of the universe.

"That kind of experience will let you glimpse the larger patterns of man's creativity, and your part in it."

(The Nature of the Psyche, Session 799)

From Apprentice to Genius

I love this Seth quote and the idea of being a creative genius in apprenticeship. 

When we kick in the human  brain and logic, things generally get bad because we seem to be wired to think of all potential difficulties, dwell on them, and then watch them manifest.  That's why we're apprentices I guess. 

We also have a very rudimentary (3D, linear time, duality, true-false logic system, etc.) manifestation playground which in itself can never ever completely work but which is like making stick figure drawings of things beyond time, space and form ... the abstract feelings and gestalts of awareness that are hints of the vastness of the real reality.

“There are those who make careers of condemning the faults and failings of others, or of the species itself, and because of that attitude man’s great energy and good intent remain invisible.  Man is in the process of becoming.  His works are flawed – but they are the flawed apprentice works of a genius artist in the making, whose failures are indeed momentous and grotesque only in the light of his sensed genius, which ever leads him and directs him onward.

“When you are considering the future in your terms, constructive achievements are as realistic as destructive ones.  In those terms, each year of man’s existence in fact justifies a more optimistic rather than pessimistic view.  You cannot place man’s good intent outside of the physical context, for outside of that context you do not have the creature that you know.  You cannot say that nature is good, but spawned man, which is a cancer upon it, for nature would have better sense.  You cannot say, either that “Nature” will destroy man if he offends her, or that “Nature” has little use for its own species, but only wants to promote “Life” for “Nature” is within each member of each species; and without each member of each species, “Nature” could be nonexistent.

“Because you are natural creatures, within you there is a natural state of being.  That state can be an ever-present reservoir of peace, vitality, and understanding.”

(The Nature of the Psyche, Session 799)

We Chose This World

Today’s Seth quote is advice to Jane Roberts and her husband Rob Butts.  Like them we didn’t chose holocaust nor did we chose Utopia (world peace).  Instead we chose the struggle of humanity dealing with individual, group, and planetary issues in a context of duality … finding the balance between dark and light, truth and lies, self and other, responsibility and rights, etc.  We found it to be way more interesting to incarnate ourselves as us in this context … rather than read about it in a history book a thousand years from now in another lifetime.  What is interesting is that there really are no logically correct answers and absolutes … instead it’s all about what I call “local optimization”.  As human beings, we try to optimize things that impact us directly in a very narrow and limited domain of time and space.  Each layer of groupings all the way up to nations tend to do the same thing … particularly the U.S. under their current president.

The fundamental issue is that we are not separate but we cannot understand that in our dualistic logic system of true or false, black and white.  Imagine if the cells of our body, which are individuals having a very personal life experience in a collective called the human body … imagine if the cells of our body functioned like we do internationally.  That condition is known as cancer!

“(To Rob Butts:) Since your birth a probability has occurred that you could have followed in which your wars did not happen.  There is another probability in which the Second World War ended in nuclear destruction, and you did not enter that one either.  You chose “this” probable reality in order to ask certain questions about the nature of man – seeing him where he wavered equally between creativity and destruction, knowledge and ignorance; but a point that contained potentials for the most auspicious kinds of development, in your eyes.  The same applies to Ruburt.

“In a way, man is trans-species at this point in probability.  It is a time and a probability in which every bit of help is needed, and your talents, abilities, and prejudices made you both uniquely fitted for such a drama.  At the same time, do not dwell too much upon that world situation, for a concentration upon your own nature and upon the physical nature of your world – the seasons, and so forth – allows you to refresh your own energy, and frees you to take advantage of that clear vision that is so necessary.”

(The Nature of the Psyche, Session 797)

Each Moment Is Brand New

If you ever read the third book in the Oversoul Seven trilogy, you's see a story really built around this idea. 

Sometimes I get up in the morning purposefully looking for clues as to whether I'm on a different "world line" than when I went to bed.  As Seth points out, you can't tell because these jumps are literally invisible physically.  My only clues are how people behave differently from moment to moment. 

When you remember that our universe blinks in and out of physicality so that, to us, it looks like we sense things about 50 times a second (that's what the brain is tuned to) then it's no surprise that we can "blink" back to a slightly different reality. Since we hold such a strong belief in continuity of space and continuity of linear time, then there is usually no major change from blink to blink. 

What is even more interesting, each new moment comes with a completely consistent set of past "memories" and future probabilities ... so memory doesn't work to spot the change. 

What a neat reality we live in!  Enjoy!

"It seems also that the future must be built upon that one known species or world past.  Often it may simply sound like a figure of speech when I talk about probabilities.  In many ways it may indeed appear to be almost outrageous to consider the possibility that "there is more than one earth", or that there are many earths, each similar enough to be recognizable, yet each different in the most vital respects.

"This particular house exists.  Yet you may open the door on any given day to a probable world from your immediate standpoint, and never know the difference.  This happens all the time, and I mean all the time.

"You move through probabilities without knowing it.  The transitions are literally invisible to you, though they may appear as trace elements in your dreams.  As a diamond has many facets, so does your reality in that regard."

(The Nature of the Psyche, Session 797)

A Living Love-In

Seth's message today highlights the fundamental cooperation (at all levels of physical reality) required to create us and the world.  Atoms form molecules out of love and value fulfillment (expanding experience).  Similarly, living cells and material objects are formed by the loving cooperation and sheer joy of molecular attraction.  This goes all the way up to bodies, species, the planet, the solar system, the universe, the Cosmos, All That Is ... everything is a living love-in at greater and greater scope and scale.  This is a way better (and more accurate) understanding of life on earth than Darwin could ever have dreamed of.

Enjoy the experience!

"In other terms, the world comes to know itself, to discover itself, for the Planner left room for divine surprise, and the plan was nowhere foreordained; nor is there anywhere, within it anything that corresponds to your survival-of-the-fittest theories.

"These are creative distortions on your part, directly related to specializations of consciousness that cut you off from the greater concourse existing at other levels between the species and the land.  Again, consciousness everywhere pervades the universe, and is aware of all conditions.  The balance of nature upon your planet is no chance occurrence, but the result of constant, instant computations on the part of each most minute consciousness, whether it forms part of a rock, a person, an animal, a plant.  Each invisibly "holds space together", whatever its station.  This is a cooperative venture."

(The Nature of the Psyche, Session 797)

Where is space, when is time

An underlying theme of the Life of Al has been a quest to understand where space is and when time is and how we put all this stuff together (by the way, this has been an ongoing quest over many lifetimes ... and it likely will never end because it's basically unknowable! ... that makes for a great bucket list!).  That is why I studied theoretical physics and why that morphed into metaphysics for me.  Meditation has helped a lot to get a feel (gestalt of awareness) of how we do all this and to cruise the Cosmos in time and space, but the quest is really unending .. as is All That Is.

"The motion and energy of the universe still come from within.  ...

"Because each hypothetical, conceivable portion of the universe is conscious, the Planner is within the plan itself in the greatest of terms - perhaps basically inconceivable to you.  There is of course no "outside" into which the invisible universe materialized, since all does indeed exist in a mental, or psychic, or spiritual realm quite impossible to describe.  To you your universe seems, now, objective and real, and it seems to you that at one time at least this was not the case, so you ask about its creation and the evolution of the species.  My answer has been couched in the terms in which the question is generally asked.

"While you believe in and experience the passage of time, then such questions will naturally occur to you, and in that fashion.  Within that framework they make sense.  When you begin to question the nature of time itself, then the "when" of the universe is beside the point."

(The Nature of the Psyche, Session 797)