Probable Realities and Atlantis

Seth's "Unknown" Reality, Volume 2, Session 742

The whole idea of probable realities seems strange or esoteric only because you are not used to following your own thought processes.

You shut them off any time they do not conform to current beliefs about the nature of the self, or about reality in general.  The deepest meanings of probabilities lie, however, precisely in their psychological import.

You have become so hypnotized by a one-level kind of thought that anything else seems impractical.  You concentrate upon those decisions that you make, and disregard the processes involved.  This has been carried to an extreme, you see:  Often you are so disconnected from those inner workings that your own decisions then appear to come from someplace else.  You may be convinced that events happen to you, and are beyond your control, simply because you are so out of touch with yourself that you never catch the moments of your own decisions.

Then you feel as if you are the pawns of fate, and the idea of probable actions seems like the sheerest nonsense.  Each event seems inevitable.  If this attitude is carried to excessive lengths, then it even appears that you have no hand at all in the making of your own reality.  You will always feel yourself a victim.

The unknown reality is your psychic, spiritual, and psychological one, and from it your physical experience springs.

That inner, all-pervasive existence becomes known to the extent that you grow more responsive to your own inner environment.  This does not mean that you become entirely self-centered, blind to the rest of the world.  It does not mean that you must meditate for hours, or study your own thought processes with such vigor that you ignore other activities.  It simply means that you are aware of your own life as clearly as possible – in touch with your thought processes, aware of them but without overdue concern or over analysis.  They are as much a part of your inner environment as trees are of your exterior world.  There are different species of selves in the same fashion.  There are different species of worlds.

When you identify with only one particular level of your thought processes, however, the others – when you sense them – appear alien.  You begin to feel threatened, determined to uphold your old ideas of selfhood.  Plants grow many leaves.  One leaf does not threaten the existence of others, and the plant is not jealous of its own foliage.  So there is no need to protect your own individuality because it may send out other shoots into probable realities.  This is simply the self growing in different directions, spreading its seeds.

Joseph and Ruburt have moved into a “new” house.  In so doing they have traveled through probabilities, as each of my readers has under similar circumstances.  They identify with the selves who moved into the new “hill house”.  In a sense they are different people now than they were when “Unknown” Reality was begun.  However, many of my readers are also different people now than they were when they began to read this work.

Let us go back approximately two months in your time.  Ruburt and Joseph were looking for a house.  They had already seen one on the inside, as mentioned earlier in “Unknown” Reality.  This manuscript, for that matter, was begun precisely at the point in time that Ruburt’s and Joseph’s latest adventure with probabilities began.  Two months ago, however, they were attracted to “the Foster Avenue house”, as they called it.  They drove past it often, and went inside.  Ruburt imagined his classes being held there.  Imaginatively both Ruburt and Joseph saw themselves living there, and a certain amount of psychic energy was projected into that house.

In a probable reality, a Ruburt and a Joseph now live there.  In the world that you recognize as official, however, they moved into the hill house.  To some extent both of them are aware of the inner processes involved in the final decision.  I do not mean that they are simply familiar with the exterior thought processes involved, such as: “The hill house is better constructed”, or “It has a fine view”.  I am speaking of deeper mechanisms of consideration, in which correlations are made between interior and exterior realities.  It is obvious that when you move from one place to another you make an alteration in space – but you alter time as well, and you set into motion a certain psychological impetus that reaches out to affect everyone you know.  When a house is vacant all of the people in the neighborhood send out their own messages.  To a certain extent any given inhabited area forms its own “entity”.  This applies to the smallest neighborhood and to the greatest nation.  Such messages are often encountered in the dream state.  Empty houses are psychic vacancies that yearn to be filled.  When you move, you move into other portions of your own selfhood.

In fact, you move into new areas of the self all of the time.  The species is now entering such a phase, a period in which it will come more into its own.  Mankind will be entering its own new house, then – but the physical changes will be the results of interior ones, and alterations in main lines of probabilities.

Christian theology sees the end of the world in certain terms, with a grand God coming to reward the good and to punish the wicked.  That system of belief allows for no other probability.  Some see the end of the world coming as a great disaster, or envision man finally ruining his planet.  Others see periods of peace and advance – and each probability will happen “somewhere”.  However, many of my readers, or their offspring, will be involved in a new dimension of selfhood in which consciousness is fully explored and the potentials of the soul uncovered, at least to some extent.

Human capabilities will be seen as what they are, and a great new period of development will occur, in which all concepts of selfhood and reality will be literally seen as “primitive superstition”.  The species will actually move into a new kind of selfhood.

Theories of probabilities will be seen as practical, workable, psychological facts, giving leeway and freedom to the individual, who will no longer feel at the mercy of external events – but will realize instead that he (or she) is their initiator.

Now, you squeeze the great fruit of your selfhood into a tiny uneasy pulp, unaware of the sweetness of its juices or the variety of its seasons.  You look at the outsides of yourselves as if a peach were aware only of its skin.  In the reality I foresee, however, people will become familiar with far greater aspects of themselves.  They will be in touch with their own decisions as they make them.

If they become ill, they will do so knowing they choose the condition in order to emphasize certain areas of development, or to minimize others.  They will be aware of their options, consciously.  The great strength and resiliency of the body will be much better understood; not because medical science makes spectacular discoveries – though it will – but because the mind’s alliance with the body will be seen more clearly.

In this probability of which I speak, the species will begin to encounter the great challenge inherent in fulfilling the vast untouched potential of the human body and mind.  In that probable reality, to which each of you can belong to some extent, each person will recognize his or her inherent power of action and decision, and feel an individual sense of belonging with the physical world that springs up in response to individual desire and belief.

Your ideas of Atlantis are partially composed of future memories.  They are psychic yearnings toward the ideal civilization – patterns within the psyche, even as each fetus has within it the picture of its own most ideal fulfillment toward which it grows.

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 is real and valid.  In your terms it is not “yet” physical fact, but in some ways it is more real than any physical fact, for it is a psychic blueprint.

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.

The species then moves into its own new houses.  Atlantis is the story of a future probability projected backward into an apparent past.

Your planet as you know it is a certain kind of focus point for consciousness.  At your level you think it is divided into areas of land and water – continents and oceans, islands and peninsulas, cities and woods – because that is all you perceive.  Your consciousness is tuned in to frequencies of perception that give you that impression.  A cat’s world, or an insect’s or a plant’s, are each far different, yet equally valid.

As simply as I can explain it, your planet is also “divided” into time and probability areas.  So many civilizations exist at once, then, and there are certain bleed-throughs.  In your terms some civilizations are real and perceivable, and some are not.

Notes:  Session 742

 

Note 1

This is a good place to insert these excerpts from the session Seth gave for ESP class on February 16, 1971, three years before starting “Unknown” Reality.  While it leads to a number of questions, his material still sums up certain important meanings that lie behind or within the overall concept of probable realities.

“Now I am going to say good evening shortly, but remember – you call this your universe and your reality, and it is indeed, for you form it.  Within you also is the knowledge of other great experiments that are being tried, just as other probable systems are aware of the experiments you are involved with.  I am speaking in your terms only, which means that to some extent I am hedging – but other civilizations have gone your route.  Some have failed, but the inhabitants of some earths have succeeded very well.

“As you think of it, your future is not set.  You can follow any road you choose, but – until you realize that as individuals you each form your own personal life, and have a part in the mass creation of reality – there is much learning ahead for you.  This is a lesson you are meant to fully understand within physical reality.

“You are meant to judge physical reality.  You are meant to realize that it is a materialization of your thoughts and feelings and images, that the inner self forms that world.  In your terms, you cannot be allowed to go into other dimensions until you have learned the great power of your thoughts and subjective feelings.  So even when you think you destroy, you destroy nothing.  And when you think you kill, you kill nothing.  When you imagine that you can annihilate a reality, you can only assault it as you know it. The reality itself will continue to exist.

“Because you cannot follow a thought, you wonder where it has gone; has it fallen off some invisible cliff in your mind?  But because you can no longer hold that thought in consciousness does not mean it no longer exists, for it does indeed.  And if a world escapes you – if you cannot follow it and think it has been destroyed – then the same thing applies to the world as to the thought.  It continues to live. …”

Note 10

… From Session 747, for May 14, 1975:

“Atlantis.  First of all, take it for granted – as you do – that your ideas about the age of the earth are erroneous.  There were intelligent human beings far earlier than is supposed; and because you assume a one-line kind of progression from an apelike creature to man, you ignore any evidence that shows to the contrary.  There were highly developed human beings with elaborate civilizations, existing simultaneously with what you might call animal kingdoms – that is, more or less organized primeval animal tribes, possessing their own kind of ‘primitive’ cultures.

“Those animal kingdoms, some of them, utilized tools.  Their senses were extremely acute, and their ‘cultures’ dealt with a kind of transmission of knowledge that made a highly complicated vocabulary unnecessary.

“Those species did not vie for domination of the earth, but simply shared the same general environment with the more sophisticated groupings beyond their own perimeters.  There were many highly technical human cultures, but in your terms not on a global scale.  The legend of Atlantis is actually based upon several such civilizations.  No particular civilization is the basis, however.  Apart from that, the legend as picked up, so to speak, by Plato was a precognition of the future probability, an image of an inner civilization of the mind, actually projected outward into the future, where it would be used as a blueprint – the lost grandeur, as, in other terms, Eden became the lost garden of paradise.

“Ruburt has implied in [his novel] The Education of Oversoul Seven that some archaeological discoveries about the past are not discovered in your present because they do not exist yet.  Now such concepts are difficult to explain in my kind of prose, and in your language.  But in certain terms, the ruins of Atlantis have not been found because they have not been placed in your past yet, from the future.

“Now the future is probable.  However, in your terms there are ruins of the civilizations that served as the ‘concrete’ basis for the one Atlantean legend.  Those civilizations were scattered.  The so-called ruins would not be found in any one place as expected, therefore.  There are some beneath the Aegean Sea, and some beneath an offshoot of the Atlantic, and some beneath the Arctic, for the world had a different shape.

“In far greater terms, at the risk of repeating myself, time is simultaneous, so those civilizations exist along with your own.  Your methods of dating the age of the earth are very misleading.

“In your terms, from your present, you ‘plant’ images, tales, legends, ‘at any given time’, that seem to come from the past, but are actually like the ghost images from the future, for you to follow or disregard as you choose.

“Atlantis and the Garden of Eden are the same in that regard.

“When you think that perhaps your species came from another planetary system, in time terms, then of course you are still dealing with old concepts.  In your usual terms of thinking, the earth does not exist at all – not if you are considering it as a chunk of matter occupying a certain position in a physical cosmos.  It is really futile to question whether the universe came from a big boom, or is constantly expanding (though in those terms I have said it continually expands, as an idea or a dream does).  I am not saying the universe does not exist – only that it does not exist in the way that it seems to you.

“The truth of the matter is far more spectacular.

“All That Is creates its reality as it goes along.  Each world has its own impetus, yet all are ultimately connected.  The true dimensions of a divine creativity would be unendurable for any one consciousness of whatever import, and so the splendor is infinitely dimensionalized, worlds spiraling outward with each ‘moment’ of a cosmic breath; with the separation of worlds a necessity, and with individual and mass comprehension always growing at such a rate that All That Is multiplies itself at microseconds, building both pasts and futures and other time scales you do not recognize.  Each is a reality in itself, with its own potentials, and with no individual consciousness, however minute, ever lost.

“In that kind of framework, how can I explain an Atlantis?  It exists both in your past and future, a probable world that some of you will choose from a model placed in the past of your future – partially based upon fact, in your terms, but with its greatest validity lying in its possibilities.”

Probable Realities - Past and Future

Seth's Unknown Reality, Volume 2, Session 741

 

The unknown reality appears [to be] invisible only because you do not accept it in your prime series of events.

It is as if you had trained yourselves to respond to red lights and to ignore green ones, for example – or as if you read only every third or fourth line on a page of a book.

You attend to matters that seem to have practical value.  Whether or not you understand what space is, you move through it easily.  You do not calculate how many steps it takes you to cross a room, for instance.  You do not need to understand the properties of space in scientific terms, in order to use it very well.  You can see yourselves operate in space, however; to that extent it is a known quality, apparent to the senses.  Your practical locomotion is involved with it so you recognize it.  Its mysterious or less-known properties scarcely concern you.

Now, you move through probabilities in much the same way that you navigate in space.  As you do not consciously bother with all of the calculations necessary in the process of walking down the street, so you also ignore the mechanisms that involve motion through probable realities.  You manipulate through probabilities so smoothly, in fact, and with such finesse, that you seldom catch yourself in the act of changing your course from one probability to another.

Take a very simple action:  You stand at a corner, wondering which direction to take.  There are four streets involved.  You briefly consider streets One and Two, but rather quickly decide against them.  You stand for a moment longer, gazing down Street Three, taking in the visual area.  You are somewhat attracted, and imagine yourself taking that course.  Your imagination places you there momentarily.  Inner data is immediately aroused through conscious and unconscious associations.  Perhaps you are aware of a few memories that dimly come to mind.  One house might remind you of one a relative lived in years ago.  A tree might be reminiscent of one that grew by your family home.  But in that instant, inner computations occur as you consider making a fairly simple decision, and the immediate area is checked against all portions of your knowledge.

You then look at Street Four.  The same process happens again.  This area also takes your attention.  At the same time you almost equally hold in your mind the image of Street Three, for you can see them both at once from this intersection.

Let us say that you are almost equally attracted to both courses.  You teeter between probabilities, having the full power to choose once street or the other as physical experience.  If you had to stand there and write down all the thoughts and associations connected with each course of action before you made your decision, you might never cross the intersection to begin with.  You might be hit by an automobile as you stood there, lost in your musings.

In the same way, it would take you some time to even walk from a table to a chair if you had to be consciously aware of all of the nerves and muscles that must first be activated.  But while you stand almost equally attracted by streets Three and Four, then you send out mental and psychic energy in those directions.

Past associations merge with present reality and form a pattern.  Mentally, a part of you actually starts out upon each street – a projected mental image.  As you stand there, then, in this case two such projected images go out onto streets Three and Four.  To some extent these images experience “what will happen” if you yourself take one direction or the other.  That information is returned to you instantaneously, and you make your decision accordingly.  Say you choose Street Four.  Physically you begin to walk in that direction.  Street Four becomes your physical reality.  You accept that experience in your prime sequence of events.  You have, however, already sent out an energized mental image of yourself into Street Three, and you cannot withdraw that energy.

The portion of you that was attracted to that route continues to travel it.  At that point of decision this alternate self made a different conclusion: that it experience Street Three as physical reality.  The self as you think of it is literally reborn in each instant, following an infinite number of events from the one official series of events that you recognize at any given “time”.

There is something highly important here concerning your technological civilization:  As your world becomes more complicated, in those terms, you increase the number of probable actions practically available.  The number of decisions multiplies.  You can physically move from one place on the planet to another with relative ease.  Centuries ago, ordinary people did not have the opportunity to travel from one country to another with such rapidity.  As space becomes “smaller”, your probabilities grow in complexity.  Your consciousness handles far more space data now.  (I am speaking in your terms of time.)  Watching television, you are aware of events that occur on the other side of the earth, so your consciousness necessarily becomes less parochial.  As this has happened the whole matter of probabilities has begun to assume a more practical cast.  Civilizations are locked one into the other.  Politicians try to predict what other governments will do.  Ordinary people try to predict what their government might do.

More and more, you are beginning to deal with probabilities as you try to ascertain which of a number of probable events might physically occur.  When the question of probabilities is a practical one, then scientists give it more consideration.

The entire subject is very important however.  As far as a true psychology is concerned, individuals who are made aware of the existence of probable realities will no longer feel trapped by events.  You consciousness is at a point where it is beginning to understand the significance of “predictive action” – and predictive action always involves probabilities.

In certain terms, you are the recognized “result” of all of the decisions you have made up to this point in your life.  That is the official you.  You are in no way diminished because other quite-as-official selves are “offshoots” of your own experience, making the choices you did not make, and choosing then, alternate versions of reality.

You follow the prime series of events that you recognize as your own, yet all of you are connected.  These are not just esoteric statements, but valid clues about the nature of your own behavior, meant to give you a sense of your own freedom, and to emphasize the importance of your choice.

Whenever you try to predict behavior or events, then, you are dealing with probabilities.

However, it seems to you that all action in the past is fixed and done, while behavior in the future alone is open to change – so the word “prediction” assumes future action.  Basically, the past is as open to change as the future is.  When you are dealing with historic events you believe that no prediction is involved.  Personally and as a species, you are convinced that there is a one-line series of finished events behind you.

In The Nature of Personal Reality I stated that the point of action occurs in the present moment.  In Adventures in Consciousness Ruburt said, quite properly, that time experience actually splashed out from the present to form an apparent past and future.

When you seemingly look backward into time, and construct a history, you do so by projecting your own prime series of events into the past as it is understood.  Obviously you read the past from the present, but you also create it from the present as well.  You accept certain data – your present recognized series of events – then use that series as a measuring stick, so to speak: It automatically rejects what does not fit.  At certain levels of experience this makes little difference.  All data agree.  No rough spots show.

You build smooth structures of beliefs, then look at reality using the beliefs like glasses – tinted ones.  Opposing information will literally be invisible to you.  It will be ignored or cast aside.

It has been fashionable to think in terms of straight-line evolution, for example.  As mentioned earlier in this book, the accepted theory of evolution is highly simplistic.  Your species did not come from one particular source.  You have many cousins, so to speak.  Some traces of that lineage remain in your time.  However, when you look “backward” at the planet you actually try to predict past behavior from the standpoint of the present.

You do this personally in your intimate lives to some degree also, as you view your earlier days.  You blot out events that do not fit your present concept of yourself.  They literally become nonexistent as far as you are concerned.  In such fashion you block out aspects of your own reality – and consciously, at least, cut down on your choices.

The species as you know it has within it, intrinsically, many abilities and characteristics that go unrecognized because you do not accept them as a part of your biological or spiritual heritage.  Therefore they become latent and invisible, practically speaking.  The same applies individually, when you deny yourselves the rich mixture of consciousness and experience that is available through a recognition of the manipulation of probable realities.

You alter your experience in each instant, quite drastically.  Each individual possess far vaster opportunities for choice than are realized.  You are denied tomorrow’s wisdom only because you believe time is a closed system.  It is true that you are subject to birth and death, yet within that framework far greater dimensions of experience are possible than are usually experienced.

You are all counterparts of each other who are alive at any given earth time.  By really understanding this you could come to terms with the ideas of brotherhood that religions have taught for so long.

Seth Session 740

Seth's "Unknown" Reality, Volume 2, Session 740

Ruburt saw the images in a particular fashion so that he could understand certain information about the nature of the psyche.

The giant image of myself, never clearly glimpsed by Ruburt, represents my own greater reality.  In a particular fashion, the identity cannot be fully expressed within the confines of any one form, any more than yours can.  Ruburt saw many miniature versions of me.  In his inner vision these appeared as identical, simply so that he would identify them as portions of myself.  They are actually quite different, one from the others.

Each one is involved in its own context of reality, each one pursuing its own directions for its own purposes.  One of those “Seths” was born in your space and time.  That Seth then seeded himself, so to speak, in the space-time environment you recognize – appearing through the centuries, sending out offshoots of “himself”, exploring earthly experience and developing as well as he could those potentials of his own greater identity that could best be brought to fruition within a creature context.

That one Seth was endowed with his own inner blueprint.  The blueprint gave him an idea of his potentials, and how they could be best fulfilled in earthly terms.

The self, as I have said before, is not limited.  It can therefore split off from itself without being less.  This Seth might be “born” two or three times in one century – or more – and then in your terms not appear for five or ten centuries.  Each Seth would be completely independent, however, and each appearance would signify the creation of a new personality – not simply a new version of an old one.

Each would be inherently aware of its own potentials and “background”, but each would tune in to a particular point of that so-called background.

What I am saying here applies to the greater identity of each reader.  Because you are usually so worried about preserving what you think of as your identity, we use terms like reincarnational selves or counterparts.  If you truly understood the nature of your individuality, however, you would clearly see that there is no contradiction if I say that you are uniquely yourself, that your individuality has an indestructible validity that is never assailed, and when I also say that you are at the same time connected with other identities, each as sacredly inviolate as your own.

You are used to thinking of exterior organizational patterns.  You might live in a city and a state and a country at one time, yet you do not think that your presence in one of these categories contradicts either of the other two.  So you live amid psychic organizations, each having its own characteristics.  You may consider yourself Indian though you live in America, or American though you live in Africa, or Chinese though you live in France, and you are quite able to retain your sense of individuality.

So the psychic families, or the families of consciousness, can be thought of as natives of inner countries or the mind, sharing heritages, purposes, and intents that may have little to do with the physical countries in which you live your surface lives.  People are born in any month of the year in any country.  All those in Norway are not born in January or August.  In the same way, all the members of any given psychic family are spread across the earth, following inner patterns that may or may not relate to other issues as they are currently understood.

Certain families have a liking for certain months of birth, but no specific rules apply.  There is indeed an inner kind of order that unites all of these issues; yet that inner order is not the result of laws, but of spontaneous creation, which flows into its own kinds of patterns.  You see the patterns at any given time and try to make laws of them.

I am trying to stretch your imaginations, and to help you throw aside rigid concepts that literally blind you to the dimensions of your own reality.  Again – you are biologically equipped to perceive far more of that reality than you do.

You are not a miniature self, an adjunct to some superbeing, never to share fully in its reality.  In those terms you are that superself – looking out of only one eye, or using just one finger.

Much of this is very difficult to verbalize.  You are not subordinate to some giant consciousness.  While you think in such terms, however, I must speak of reincarnational selves and counterparts, because you are afraid that if you climb out of what you think your identity is, then you will lose it.

Now:  We will see if we can express some concepts about the self in a new way.  In his own Psychic Politics Ruburt presented from his [psychic] library some information concerning official and unofficial numbers.

Between each official number in a given series he envisions literally infinite space.  The infinitesimal becomes the infinite.

Now:  In the same way the most infinitesimal self is infinite, and the most finite self, carried to the extremes of itself, is infinite.  Each of you is part of an infinite self.  That infinite self appears as a series of finite selves in your reality.

Beneath that perceived reality, however, each finite self, carried to its degree, is itself infinite.  Now here is one for the books:  but there are different kinds of infinities.  There are different varieties of psychological infinities that do not meet – that is, that go off in their own infinite directions.

As long as you believe that as individuals you belong in any given series, you appear to yourselves as finite.

You think in terms of linear time, and the best you can do to imagine your deeper reality is to consider reincarnation in time.  It is a matter of focus.  You usually identify with the outside of yourself, and with the outside of the world.  You do not, for example, usually identify with the inside of your body, with its organs, much less its cells or atoms – yet in that direction lies a certain kind of infinity.

If you would identify with your own psychological reality, following the inward structure of thoughts and feelings, you would discover an inward psychological infinity.  These “infinities” would reach of course into both an infinite past and future.  Yet true infinity reaches far beyond past or future, and into all probabilities – not simply straightforward into time, or backward.

There is literally an infinity in each moment you recognize, as numerically there is an “infinity” behind or within any prime number (e, 97, 863, et cetera) that you recognize.

There are infinite versions of yourself, but no one negates the others, and each is connected with the others, and aids and supports them.  There are other kinds of psychological organizations also.  In those terms Ruburt has learned, or rather Ruburt is learning, to alternate a series – to bring information from one [neurological series] to another, so to speak.

However, none of this is apart from normal living. … both Ruburt and Joseph have learned to correlate data so that some of the implications involved in a simple move from one house to another become apparent.  They are not mathematicians.  They will not statistically analyze the results.  Yet I tell you that the moves that you make in daily life have indeed infinite effects – and I am not using the word loosely.

Imagine a string of different-colored Christmas tree lights, all glowing on a given tree.  In this series of lights, any one light can go out while the others continue to shine.  You are familiar with that arrangement.

However, in our imaginary assortment there are many such strings, and when a light goes out on one string “it” almost automatically appears on another string.  Now generally speaking the lights are all lit at once on any given string, except for those that now and then go out.

Pretend that you are very tiny, and moving slowly about the tree so that you see only one light at a time.  It appears that one light exists before the other, then, and each one is so brilliant to our focus that it blots out the lights before and after it.  You may have a dim memory of the light you “saw” before, however, and so you think:  “Aha, the bulb I see is my life, but I’m sure that long ago I had a different life – and perhaps another one lies ahead of me”.  But unless you step back from the tree you will not realize that the entire string of lights exists at once.  Nor will you understand that when one light goes out in a strand it appears somewhere else on the tree in another strand.

If you were still tinier, then any given bulb itself might seem to emit not a steady light at all, but a series of waves, and you might identify your life with any given wave, so that great distance might be perceived between one wave and the next.

Experiencing that kind of series could lead to entirely different kinds of perception, in which infinities existed within a scale of its own. (The series would have its own kind of infinities.)

A tree could be wired with lights, with each one having its own particular series [of waves].  The people who put up the tree might experience one Christmas Eve, while other consciousnesses, tuned in to the different series, could experience endless generations – and their perceptions would be quite as legitimate as those of the light-watchers who had erected the tree.

This is not necessarily the best analogy, but I wanted to make the point that various scales of awareness contain their own infinities, no matter how finite they may appear to be.

The soul, so-called, is not related to size or duration in space and time, except insofar as it is wedded to experience within those contexts.

Notes:  Session 740

 

Note 3

Seth discussed his “blueprints for reality” a number of times in Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality.  See the 696^th session, for instance: “Each probability system has its own set of ‘blueprints’ … These are not ‘inner images of perfection’, and to some extend the blueprints themselves change … As an individual you carry within you such a blueprint, then; it contains all the information you require to bring about the most favorable version of yourself in the probable system you know … In the same fashion the species en masse holds within its vast inner mind such working plans or blueprints”.

Note 5

In the 685^th session for Volume 1, Seth stated that the consciousnesses of our cells are eternal, and that biologically we’re equipped to explore many more probable realities than we know.  In the 686^th session he discussed our cells’ comprehension of the past, present, and future, as well as our cellular responses to a variety of neurological pulses besides that certain range we’re egotistically focused upon.  See his first delivery for that session.

A Wonderful Practice from "Anna, Voice of the Magdalenes"

Extract from Anna, Voice of the Magdalenes

He has been practicing the powerful connection between conscious breathing and mindfulness of the present moment.  He is looking deeply into his mind; his stream of thoughts and feelings and how there is no difference between his mind and how he experiences his outer world – how it is all a dream and he is the dreamer of the dream.  He is consciously entering his sleeping dreams and his daytime dream as a more awake and compassionate witness; a conscious human being capable of changing his dream of life to be more joyful, thus assisting the collective dream to be more harmonious and happy.

Though somewhat challenging, he is already developing a keen awareness that everything that appears to be solid is actually without substance and cannot be independently separate from the web of Oneness.  Everything is energy vibrating – coalescing and dissolving according to how he is focusing and aligning his consciousness – either expressing its infinite potential as harmony, wholeness and balance or as myriad kinds of suffering.  He knows to ask himself, “Am I resting my awareness in the essential emptiness out of which the All rises, while retaining an awareness of pure, fresh Beingness – an abiding sense of peace and freedom – or am I yielding to my old, conditioned mind’s grasping to make my transitory experiences real and permanent?”  Either way is all right, but the choice of loving-kindness and calm abiding in the present moment feel better.  One choice brings harm and isolation, the other nurtures the heart of life rather than creating an arid wasteland.  In these ways, I am assisting him to take what he already knows intuitively to deeper levels of awareness.

In the days we have been together he is becoming more aware of his energy bodies, which has grandly assisted his healing process.  It won’t be long before he’ll actually be able to travel beyond the confines of his physical body.

Extract from Session 735

Extract From Session 735 of Seth's "Unknown" Reality, vol 2

… To some extent you can actualize portions of your own unknown reality, and draw them into the experienced area of your life.  There is an obvious relationship between one note and another in a musical composition.  Now in terms of physical families and in larger terms countries, there is a relationship between realities, which constantly change as the notes do.  To some extent your reality is picked up by your contemporaries.  They accept it or not according to the particular theme or focus of their lives.

In those terms, you are not a part of any reality that is not your own.  If you share it with others, it is because others are concerned with variations of the same theme.  This applies in terms of world goals “at any given time”.

For example: In certain terms, you are working with the challenge of how best to use the world’s resources.  Some countries will overproduce.  Others will underproduce.  Contradictions seem to occur.  Some people will be overfed while others starve; some sated with material conveniences, others relatively ignorant of them.  These are variations of the same theme, you see.  In overall terms contemporaries are working on the same group challenges, though either oversupply or great lack might show itself at any particular place.  Perhaps, however, the challenges could not be clearly delineated without those extravagances of degree.

As contemporaries, counterparts choose a particular time framework.  The time format alone makes certain focuses clear, that in your terms could not be made in another context.  What you learn in your present about industry – “progress” – and the equitable sharing of earth’s products, could only be learned in a context in which industrialism was experienced as going too far, where technology was seen and known as a growing jeopardy.

In terms that I admit are difficult to describe, the creative solutions will change the course of history in the past, so that variations are taken, and technology does not progress in the same way that it “has” in your experience.

I have said before that personally you can change the past from the present.  The same applies to civilizations.

Seth "Unknown" Reality Vol 2 Session 733

 

When you are in an airplane looking down upon the planet, then you see the mountain ranges and the valleys, the rivers, plateaus, cities, fields and villages.  To some extent you realize that the world has physical contents, existing at one time yet varying in their characteristics.  In those terms, the world is composed of its physical ingredients.  That “package” is the only part of the picture that you see, however.

Psychically, your world is composed of the contents of its consciousness.  You have maps of continents and oceans, and in the entire view of each portion is like a piece of a jigsaw puzzle, all fitting together perfectly, smoothly flowing into the natural structure of the world.  So at any given time there is a world consciousness, a perfect jigsaw of awareness in which each identity, however large or small, has its part.

There are earthquakes that erupt physically, and tracings are made of them.  There are also inner earthquakes of consciousness from which the physical ones emerge – storms of mind or being, eruptions in which one segment of the world consciousness, repressed in one area, explodes in another.

If you could orbit your planet in a different kind of craft, you could view the psychic contents of the world, seeing the world consciousness shining far more brilliantly than any lighted city.  You could spot the point of intense activity, see the birth of new myths and the death of old ones as certainly as you might be able to see a mountain slide or a tidal wave.  The physical portions of earth are all related.  So does consciousness form its own kind of inner structures from which, again, the physical ones emerge.  You are indeed counterparts, then, each of the other.  Yet as there is great variety to physical form, so counterparts follow a still more expansive inner freedom that finds an even greater diversity of characteristics.

As I have certainly hinted, the body is a miraculous organism, and you have barely learned the most simple of its structures.  You do not understand the properties of soul or body, yet the body was given to you so that you could learn from it.  The properties of the earth are meant to lead you into the nature of the soul.  You create physical reality, yet without knowing how you do so, so that the wondrous structure of the earth itself is meant to lead you to question your own source.  Nature as you understand it is meant to be your teacher.  You are not its master.

The creator is not the master of his creations.  He is simply their creator, and he creates because he does not attempt to control.  Period.

When you try to control power or people, you always copy.  To some extent the world copies itself, in that there are patterns.  But those patterns are always changed to one extent or another, so that no object is ever a copy of another – though it may appear to be the same.

In your terms, the world is intensely different from one moment to another, with each smallest portion of consciousness choosing its reality from a field of infinite probabilities.  Immense calculations, far beyond your conscious decisions as you think of them, are possible only because of the unutterable freedom that resides within minute worlds inside your skull – patterns of interrelationships, counterparts so cunningly woven that each is unique, freewheeling, and involved in an infinite cooperative venture so powerful that the atoms stay in certain forms, and the same stars shine in the sky.

The familiar and strange are intimately connected in your most obvious, your simplest utterance.  You are surrounded by miracles.  Why, then, does the world so often seem dour and cruel?  Why do your fellow beings sometimes seem like unfeeling monsters – Frankensteins not of body but of mind, spiritual idiots, ignorant of any heritage of love or truth or even graceful beasthood?  Why does it seem to many of you that the race, the species is doomed?  Why do some of you feel in your quiet moments, such a sentence just?

You make your own reality.

Generally speaking, most of you live in your own world, with others of your kind.  Those of you who do not believe in war have not experienced it.  It may have surrounded you, but you did not experience it.  Those of you who do not believe in greed have not suffered its “consequences”.  If you still see it, it is because it is a part of your reality.  If you are honestly not greedy, yet you see greed, then perhaps you are serving as an example to others – but you form your own reality.

There are more worlds than you suppose, and in your own private experience each of you contributes to the world that you know.  You and your counterparts together form it.  Your physical body alone is equipped to perceive far more than you presently allow it to.  Physically you are a part of every other person upon the earth, and you have a connection with each leaf and frog and nail.

You choose the city or state or country in which you live.  No one forces you to stay there unless you are looking for an excuse to remain.  So you choose your psychic land as well.  You can travel from one psychic land to another as you can journey into other parts of the physical world.  Some great travelers never left the country of their birth.

Michelangelo roamed the centuries, picking up visions and ideas as others might buy postcards, journeying from one country to a foreign land.  His genius shows you what you are, and yet it is but a hint of the potential with which your species is endowed.

In the light of such ideals, surely you seem wanting – yet your reality is one in which the greatest freedoms have been allowed.  This means that you have given yourselves full range so that all probabilities could be explored, and none left out that were physically feasible.

This species gave itself no “preordained” taboos.

The infinite ranges possible to human capabilities would be explored – and those who chose the route said, quote: “We will trust that our creativity will find its own way, and if there are nightmares we will waken from them.  We will even learn from them.  We will dare to push aside the dimensions of being into those realms in which only the gods have gone before – and through our utter vulnerability to experience, discover the divinity that gives our humanity its meaning.  And through the compassion that we have learned, will we be able to understand the divine errors that gave us the gift of our birth.  Souls and molecules each are learning, each are forming realities, each are a part of a divinity in which each counterpart has a part to play.”

I dwell, in a way, in a realm that is more direct than yours.  That is one image.  I allow myself greater acknowledgement of my being.  I speak with the wisdom, for example, that your cells would utter if they had speech.

I am more aware of my reality than you are of yours, but the terms of being are the same in every place and every time.  They bring forth the greater comprehension of each self, of itself.  Ruburt experiences now what he calls a massive quality, a physical and psychic expansion of consciousness in which the dear familiar world seems small – yet twice precious.  So does it appear to my consciousness.

The petty wars, even those still to be fought, are but dim memories, once vital but lost as nightmares in greater awakenings.  So even in this moment Ruburt faintly feels a nostalgic memory for lives come and gone, as you might for fond dreams barely recalled.

They represent a present unique beyond telling, alive in each consciousness, more important than you recognize.  There are no real rules to be followed that will bring you into such an encounter with the present moment of reality – only a trust in the nature of your being.  And that trust is within you whether or not you recognize it, for it gives you your present experience; and no matter how your mind questions, it rides securely in the great creativity of the soul.

That soul constantly creates the body, and each individual on the face of the earth at any given time places his or her trust in that reality.  That feeling of certainty is the same that any plant knows.  Any idea, creative insight, or dream, rides upon the same sure thrust.

Seth on DNA and a Plan Analogy

Seth "Unknown" Reality, Volume 2 Session 731

Your present idea of identity is maintained only because you grant as valid such small aspects of your own reality.

In other words, your accepted concepts of selfhood would disappear if you ever allowed any significant subjective experience to intrude.  “The Absent Self” – the absent or unknown self – is the portion of your own existence that you do not ordinarily perceive or accept, though there is within you a longing for it.

Much of “Unknown” Reality is involved with the breaking up of theories that have been long accepted, but that prevent you from perceiving the powerful nature of those absent portions of the self.  As you focus upon certain details from a larger field of physical reality, so then you focus upon only the small portion of yourself that you consider “real”.

You carry within you, however, the deep knowledge of experience that in your terms would be prior, yet in your cells and your own deeper mind such information is current.

Selfhood overspills with great luxurious outcroppings, yet you jealously guard against such creativity.  To a certain extent you do carry the knowledge of your forefathers within your [cells’] chromosomes, which present a pattern that is not rigid but flexible – one that in codified fashion endows you with the subjective living experience of those who, in your terms, have gone before.  As Ruburt recently suspected, some very old cultures have been aware of this.  While being independent individuals their members also identified with their ancestors to some extent, accepting them as portions of their selfhoods.  This does not meant that the individual self was less, but was more aware of its own reality.  A completely different kind of focus was presented, in which the ancestors were understood to contribute to the “new” experience of the living; one in which the physically focused consciousness clearly saw itself as perceiving the world for itself, but also for all of those who had gone before – while realizing that in those terms he or she would contribute as well as the generations past.

The animals were also accepted in this natural philosophy of selfhood as the individual plainly saw the living quality of consciousness.  The characteristics of the animals were understood to continue “life”, adding their qualities to the experience of the self in a new way.

The human body would be used in earth’s great husbandry as, from it, dying and decaying new forms would arise.  This was a give-and-take in which, for instance, a jungle neighborhood was truly home, and all was a portion of the self psychically, spiritually, and physically.

Let those who will, laugh at tales of spirits turning into the trees – a simplistic theory, certainly, yet a symbolic statement in such societies: The dead were buried at home in the same close territory, to form in later times the very composition of the ground upon which religions grew.  Again, your limited concepts of selfhood make what I am saying difficult for you to perceive.

I am not saying, for example, that the living consciousness of each individual returned to the earth literally, but that the physical material permeated and stampede with that consciousness did, and does.  Again, even the cells retain knowledge of all of their affiliations.  In physical terms the consciousness that you understand is based upon this.

Selfhood is poorer when it does not at least intuitively understand this heritage.

Those intimate realizations, however, had to be counterbalanced in line with certain purposes set by your species, and even for that matter momentarily set aside so that other abilities and characteristics could emerge.  The species’ sense of curiosity would not allow it to stay in any home territory for long, and so the sense of intimacy was purposely broken.  It would become highly important again, however, when the planet was populated extensively, as it is now – only the original feeling of home area has to be extended over the face of the earth.  The “absent” portions of the self are ready to emerge.  The other, to you probable, lines of consciousness can now come into play.

These different lines of focus will each show you other aspects of your own reality, as individuals and as a species.

I said once that no knowledge exists outside of consciousness.

In those terms, neutral data are not transferred through the chromosomes.  Consciousness passes on information through “living” vehicles.  Whether physically materialized or not, knowledge is possessed by consciousness.  It is always “individualized”, though not necessarily in your terms.

The information carried by the chromosomes is not general, but highly specific.  It is codified data (itself alive) that contains within it the essence of ancestral experience – of specific ancestral experience.  Biologically you do indeed carry within you, then, the memories of your particular ancestors.  These form a partial basis for your subjective and physical existence, and provide the needed support for it.

Since one portion of your heritage is physical, in those terms, those memories can be translated again, back into emotional and psychological events, though usually they are not in your societies.

To that extent the so-called past experience of your ancestors and of your species is concurrent with your own, biologically speaking.  That is but one line, however, covered by the chromosomes.  You have “another line” of existence that also serves as a support for the one that you presently recognize.  It includes other interweaving physical relationships that bind you with all others upon your planet at the same adjacent level of time.  That is, to some extent or another you are related to all of those alive upon the planet.  You are time contemporaries.  You will have a far closer relationship with some than with others.  Some will be your counterparts.

These may or may not be closer to you than family relationships, but psychically speaking they will share a certain kind of history with you.  You will also be connected through the physical framework of the earth in the large give-and-take of its space-time scheme.

A third line supporting your selfhood as you think of it is the reincarnational one.  This is somewhat like the ancestral line and there are also reflections in the genes and chromosomes undetected by your scientists.  The ancestral and reincarnational lines merge to some extent to form what you think of as your genetic patterns ahead of time, so to speak.  Before this life you chose what you wished from those two main areas.

Reincarnational experience is also transmitted, then, and can be retranslated from a biological code-imprint into emotional awareness.  Again, however, as you are not your parents or your ancestors, you are not your “reincarnational selves”.

Here also ideas of time hamper you, for I must explain all of this in temporal terms.  Since time is simultaneous, at other levels your ancestors knew of your birth though they died centuries ago in recognized continuity.  The same applies to reincarnational existences that you think of as occurring in the past.

You cannot say that your ancestors, like some strange plants, were growing toward what you are, or that you are the sum of their experiences.  They were, they are, themselves.  You cannot say that you are the sum of your past reincarnational lives either, and for the same reasons.  You cut off the knowledge of yourself, and so divisions seem to occur.  You are somewhat like a plant that recognizes only one of its leaves at a time.  A leaf feels its deeper reality as a part of the plant, and adds to its own sense of continuity, and even to its own sense of individuality.  But you often pretend that you are some old dangling leaf, with no roots, growing without a plant to support you.

All of the leaves now growing on this plant could be thought of as counterparts of each other, each alive and individual in one time, each contributing yet facing in different directions.  As one leaf falls another takes its place, until next year the whole plant, still living, will have a completely new set of leaves – future reincarnational selves of this batch.

You are not plants, but the analogy is a simple one.  And if you will forgive me – overall it holds water.

There is a constant interaction in the plant, between its parts, that you do not perceive.  The leaves now present are biologically valid, interrelating in your terms.  Yet in time terms each leaf is also aware of the past history of the plant, and biologically they spring up from that “past”. 

Each leaf seeks to express its leafhood as fully as possible.  Leaves take in sun, which helps the plant itself to grow.  The development of the leaves, then, is very important to the plant’s own existence.  The cells of the plant are kept in contact with the environment through the leaves’ experiences, and future probabilities are always taken into consideration.  The smallest calculations involving light and dark are known.  The life of the plant and its leaves cannot be separated.

The plant has its own “idea” of itself, in which each of its leaves has its part.  Yet each leaf has the latent capacities of the whole plant.  Root one, for instance, and a new plant will grow.

Selves have far greater freedom than leaves, but they can also root themselves if they choose – and they do.  Reincarnational selves are like leaves that have left the plant, choosing a new medium of existence.  In this analogy, the dropped leaves of the physical plant have fulfilled their own purposes to themselves as leaves, and to the plant.  These selves, however, dropping from one branch of time, root themselves in another time and become new selves from which others will sprout.

The larger self, then, seeds itself in time.  In this process no identity is lost and no identity is the same, yet all are interrelated.  So you can theoretically expand your consciousness to include the knowledge of your past lives, though these lives were yours and not yours.  They have a common root, as next year’s leaves have a common root with the leaves now of this plant.

Such knowledge, however, would automatically affect those past lives.  Ideas automatically affect those past lives.  Ideas of cause and effect can hold you back here, because it seems to you that the leaves of next year come as an effect cause by this year’s leaves.  To the plant and its innate creative pattern, however, all of its manifestations are one – an expression of itself, each portion different.  The knowledge of its “future” leaves, as potential pattern, exists now.  The same applies to the psyche.  In that greater realm of reality there is creative interplay, and interrelationships between all aspects of selfhood.