Natural Impulses Lead To A State Of Grace

In reading this Seth quote, particularly the bit about the fetus and natural growth, I was thinking of what it means to live in a state of grace.  It seems to me, that one lives in the intended state of grace when one has clear communication with the Self and follows the impulses of the Greater Self.  Of course, this means clearing away a lot of the doubt, fear, and cultural/religious baggage of our times.  

I suppose, given the state of the world now, one looks in the mainstream media and the political circus portrayed therein and sees that as “proof” of the danger of following our innate impulses.  Seth, however, is talking about the innate impulses … the ones in our Nature, in our DNA … the impulses that lead to love, compassion, altruism, gratitude and elegant value fulfillment (with a dash of natural exuberance!).  

I look at those mainstream images and messages and see the chaos of our belief system and the effect of “Nurture” over “Nature”.  

“Nurture” is the programming of neural networks that happens when we experience repetitive actions with emotional charge … aka neurolinguistic programming.  If one looks at advertising - smoking ads for example - one sees the repetition and the images of bliss and being “cool” associated with smoking (in ads and in movies, particularly in the 50’s and 60’s).  This repetitive exposure is strong enough that some people override their natural fear of fire and smoke and actually hold something called a cigarette in their mouth, set it on fire and breathe in the smoke … a total triumph of neurolinguistic programming over natural impulses.  

The problem is that with modern communications technology, we have had such an ever increasing exposure to "repetitive actions with emotional charge" that it becomes difficult to manage the programming of our carbon based computer (the brain).  Advertising, of course, is dominant in this world but listening to music, watching TV (particularly in a state of near sleep) also greatly affect us.  

One of the saddest developments (my view) is that our democratic process have resorted to advertising and emotion … rather than substance and logical choices.  Oh well, apparently this is a phase humanity goes through in learning how to communicate collectively.  The Transcendors at one point had said that the long term effect of the internet will be the reawakening of our innate telepathic abilities … abilities which were shut down when we “fell” into the depths of separation and fear.

Apparently we do pull this off … enjoy the ride.

“Impulses arise in a natural, spontaneous, constructive response to the abilities, potentials, and needs of the personality.  They are meant as directing forces.  Luckily, the child usually walks before it is old enough to be taught that impulses are wrong, and luckily the child’s natural impulses toward exploration, growth, fulfillment, action and power are strong enough to give it the necessary springboard before your life systems begin to erode its confidence.  You have physical adult bodies.  The pattern for each adult body exists in the fetus – which again, “luckily”, impulsively, followed its own direction.”

(The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, Session 860)

Meditation

I started doing various approaches/techniques to meditation in the early 80’s.  I’ve seen what Seth talks about here and, of course, I’ve logged many hours “staring at a wall sitting cross legged”.  A lot of my motivation was physical (fighting allergies, hypertension, etc.) but a lot of it was trying to “fix myself” because I’d been conditioned to distrust my impulses.

I like the comment “true meditation is action”.  Here are a couple examples of what Seth is referring to:

• Losing track of time while being absorbed in action.  
• The martial arts are often used this way since in sparring there is no time to think.  The human body typically has a 0.25 second response time (the time from perception to first physical movement).  Masters of the martial arts can, for example, kick the opponent in the chin and have the foot back on the floor in that amount of time.  This means, that the more advanced the sparring partners are, the more boring and yet explosive the match.  They literally are in a state of meditation feeling the energy around them, the opponents slightest movement, etc. and responding in under a quarter second to something nobody even perceived watching the match.  Now that’s meditation followed by action … too bad it’s not very constructive!
• Using meditative techniques (e.g. Lazaris meditation techniques) to travel backwards or forwards in time is another example of "meditation is action".  Our Self lives in a spontaneous state of a “spacious present” (Seth’s term) in which all moments in this life and all other lives are being lived right now. Growth and value fulfillment is actually the “evolution” of the complete probable lifetime (and other lifetimes) simultaneously with each moment in this lifetime.  Anyway, knowing that, I had a previous lifetime that I was bothered about so I went into meditation, gathered up a personification of my Higher Self (Lazaris technique) and travelled back to the death of my probable past incarnation, calmed him down and left my Higher Self there to do it’s magic.  That’s another example of meditation as action … only this time it was in the “spacious present”.

Have fun and see/feel the beauty and love around you in each moment!

“Meditation must be followed by action – and true meditation is action.  [Some] people are afraid of making decisions, because they are afraid of their own impulses – and some of them can use meditation to dull their impulses, and actually prevent constructive action.”

(The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, Session 860)

Pixels

In some ways we’re like pixels in a cosmic image.  “Individual” pixels collectively form our perceived consensus reality at the human and cosmic level.  

What happens when a single pixel or small group changes frequency (i.e. changes colour) … the whole image changes.  On top of that, conscious creators have a “halo” effect … if you light up your personal pixel you upshift those around you (both “near” you physically and “near” you psychically).  This is because a lot of the “individual pixels” are just mindlessly reflecting what’s around them.

So … enjoy your journey and light up your “pixel” and those who share your reality!

“The mass world is formed as the result of individual impulses.  They meet and merge, and form platforms for action.”

(The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, Session 859)

We're No Accident

Seth makes this sound so obvious, yet there are still intellectuals who deny the obvious.  The problem is that materialist, reductionist science will likely never be able to conclusively prove what Seth says here.  

It is interesting that the Wingmakers material speaks of an event in our future where we do conclusively prove the existence of the soul.  Once that is done, humanity then opens up the whole science of time travel, etc. and we start to see the “big picture” and become awakened players in the Cosmic order.   

Before that can happen, humanity has to collectively grow up and quit murdering each other over money, ideas, or whatever excuse that we find convenient!

“To me, it is almost inconceivable that, from your position, any of you seriously consider that the existence of your exquisite consciousness can possibly be the result of a conglomeration of chemicals and elements thrown together by a universe accidentally formed, and soon to vanish.  So much more evidence is available to you: the order of nature; the creative drama of your dreams, that project your consciousness into other times and places; the very precision with which you spontaneously grow, without knowing how, from a fetus into an adult; the existence of heroic themes and quests and ideals that pervade the life of even the worst scoundrel – these all give evidence of the greater context in which you have your being.”

(The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, Session 859)

All Consciousness Has Impulses

I often imagine what it must be like for atoms and what we think of as physical objects to be conscious and loving.  The “forces” postulated in physics are mathematical ways to describe the “feelings” between various components of what we call physical matter.  Quantum Mechanics has been successful in predicting the likelihood of certain states of matter but it is ultimately the “impulses” of the individual subatomic particles which determines where, when and in what state they appear to our instruments.  

I also love the idea of an innate impulse for growth and value fulfillment.  In our linear time, 3D manifestation we pretend to represent growth by physical growth … when in fact we arise “brand new” in each moment.  It is our belief in continuous time that causes us to represent growth in this way.  

Even more interesting is the recognition that we actually “live” in a multiverse on an “omni Earth” … a sea of possibilities, probabilities and multiple dimensions that we take snap shots of and call moments of physical reality.  In that multidimensional context, fulfillment transcends this moment, this 3D world, this lifetime.  There are components of our psyche in all of these dimensions and possibilities and collectively the greater Self is ever seeking fulfillment and “growth”.  This could imply that something appearing to us in this physical representation as regressive or stagnant may, in fact, be essential for the fulfillment of the greater whole that is our greater Self and the whole of humanity, Gaia, etc.  

Enjoy the journey!

“I am using the term “impulses” for the understanding of the general public, and in those terms molecules and protons have impulses.  No consciousness simply reacts to stimuli, but has its own impulse toward growth and value fulfillment.”

(The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, Session 857) 

A "Call to Action"

Here is a stirring “Call to Action” from Seth!  

Individual action for collective good was always the dream of Democracy; however, Seth's concept of Democracy goes beyond the narrow political definition and is expansive enough to include the well-being of all species and of the planet!

“I always want to emphasize the importance of individual action, for only the individual can help form organizations that become physical vehicles for the effective expression of ideals.  Only people who trust their spontaneous beings and the altruistic nature of their impulses can be consciously wise enough to choose from a myriad of probable futures the most promising events – for again, impulses take not only [people’s] best interest into consideration, but those of all other species.”

(The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, Session 857)

Spontaneity

I think that the mistrust we seem to have in spontaneity, both individually and collectively, arises because often we’re listening to the “shadow” or to the “tape loops” that the negative ego runs to simulate thinking.  The key to peeling this “noise” away in order to perceive the true impulses of the your complete being is what Lazaris refers to as “processing”.

Processing involves clearing the “garbage” from our raw materials of manifestations (attitudes, beliefs, thoughts, feelings, choices and decisions) and sharpening our tools of manifestation (desire, imagination and expectation).  In that vein, I think that awakening the communion (communication and union) with the Higher Self is vital too.  Both of these activities are required in order to express our true, innate, spontaneous nature.  

Note that processing and communion with the Higher Self is ongoing, never completed and never perfect … it’s much like breathing, important for life and automatic once you start!

“In more mundane terms, impulses often come from unconscious knowledge, then.  This knowledge is spontaneously and automatically received by the energy that composes your body, and then it is processed so that pertinent information applying to you can be taken advantage of.  Ideally, your impulses are always in response to your best interests – and, again, to the best interests of your world as well.  Obviously there is a deep damaging distrust of impulses in the contemporary world, as in your terms there has been throughout the history that you follow.  Impulses are spontaneous, and you have been taught not to trust the spontaneous portions of your being, but to rely upon your reason and your intellect – which both operate, incidentally, quite spontaneously, by the way.”

(The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, Session 857)