Altruistic by Nature

Oh to live a life where the genuine impulses from the Inner Self were easy to discern from the chatter of the Negative Ego!!!!

“Psychologically, your impulses are as vital to your being as your physical organs are.  They are as altruistic, or unselfish, as your physical organs are, and I would like that sentence read several times.  And yet each impulse is suited and tailored directly to the individual who feels it.  Ideally, by following your impulses you would feel the shape, the impulsive shape of your life.  You would not spend time wondering what your purpose was, for it would make itself known to you, as you perceived the direction in which your natural impulses led, and felt yourself exert power in the world through such actions.  Again, impulses are doorways to action, satisfaction, the exertion of natural mental and physical power, the avenue for your private expression – the avenue where your private expression intersects the physical world and impresses it.”

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

Exuberant Creative Tension

Richard Feynman received a Nobel Prize in physics by creating what have been known as Feynman Integrals.  These integrals summed up all possible events (quantum states, virtual particles and trajectories) multiplied by a probability function which took account of the wave equation phase differences along each path and for each quantum state transition or possible virtual particle interaction.  These integrals were done over all time and space - i.e. over the entire universe and its probable pasts and futures!  

Luckily for physicists, the huge number of unlikely trajectories tend to cancel out so results can be approximated with quite a bit of accuracy, though sometimes infinities were subtracted to arrive at subatomic masses … something that drove the mathematicians nuts.  These calculations in effect described the “probable choices” of sub atomic particles among the vast number of probable events (possible quantum states, trajectories, etc.).

Using the concepts of the Qabalah, the World of Formation would be the Cosmic World of probable events while the World of Action represents the probable choices of souls, personalities, etc.  Within the World of Action, the Causal Plane would be the collection of possible events for the individual in a shared, world context; while the Astral Plane is the subset of these that are probable choices from which we “pop” our moments of 3D physical experience.

“The motive power of the universe and of each particle or wave or person within it is the magnificent thrust toward creative probabilities, and the tension that exists, the exuberant tension, that exists “between” probable choices and probable events.  This applies to men and molecules, and to all of those hypothetically theorized smaller divisions with which scientists like to amaze themselves.  Divisions or units.”

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

Impulses and the Informational Nature of Reality

It is interesting, when you read this, to note that modern physics is starting to realize the informational nature of reality!  Now if they can only come to grips with the notion of consciousness underlying this informational reality then science could start to make progress!

”Impulses, therefore, provide impetus toward motion, coaxing the physical body and the mental person toward utilization of physical and mental power.

“They help the individual impress the world – that is, to act upon it and within it effectively.  Impulses also open up choices that may not have been consciously available before.  I have often said that the cells precognate, and that at that level the body is aware of vast information, information not consciously known or apprehended.  The universe and everything within it is composed of “information” – information concerning the entire universe is always latent within each and any part of it.”

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

Meaning

Perceiving meaning in our world and in what we do is a natural step in the evolution of human expression in an individual, a step enroute to becoming a fully functioning human being.

Lazaris describes the process something like this.  

We experience a duality, which implies that there are masculine and feminine aspects to the psychic energies that we work with … these energies have nothing to do with gender - gender constraints arise due to the society’s cultural beliefs.  

The two “lowest” energy pairs are the pair Doing-Being, and the pair Will-Imagination.  Doing and Will are the masculine aspect (think football player) while Being and Imagination are the feminine aspect (think cheerleader).  When we are born we start with these two energies.  The problem is that in some cultures (like the one I was raised in) boys are encouraged to express masculine energies and girls are encouraged to express feminine energies; when in fact, a balanced person needs to find both those energies in themselves.  Many failed marriages arose because each person was trying to find the missing energies vicariously through their partner … when in fact, we are meant to awaken them in ourselves.

Once we awaken the “lower" two energy pairs in ourselves, then the sequence of awakening of the “upper” two energy pairs occurs as follows:

(1) meaning (masculine); 

(2) perception (feminine); 

(3) understanding (masculine); and finally, 

(4) conception (feminine).  

With these four energy pairs awakened and balanced within ourselves, then we can function in a state of wisdom and we can fulfill our potential to contribute productively to the fulfillment of the Self, Humanity, Gaia, and on up to All That Is.

”As you learn to trust your natural impulses, they introduce you to your individual sense of power, so that you realize that your own actions do have meaning, that you do affect events, and that you can see some definite signs that you are achieving good ends.  The idealized goal isn’t as remote, then, because it is being expressed.  Even if that expression is by means of steps, you can point toward it as an accomplishment.  Previously we distrusted our own impulses to such an extent that they often appeared in very distorted form.”

(The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, Session 855)

Impulses and Choice

Thanks to the culture I was raised in, the religions I was subjected too, and the whole idea of good and evil … I (like most people) have been taught to not trust my impulses.  Rather, there are cultural overlays, psychological baggage we call “The Shadow” that is a vestige of our childhood, cultural norms, etc. that block the “still small voice of the soul”.  That voice is the carrier of the “impulses” that Seth is talking about.

I think the key to life is to find that “still small voice” and to recognize the (negative) ego, shadow, and cultural overlays that blind us to our Inner Communication.  

I think the most transformative experience in my “spiritual journey” was working with the Lazaris material called “The Sacred Journey: You and Your Higher Self”.  The Lazaris process consisted of a small book and three 45 minute meditations which took over a month for me to do, but it was an eye-watering experience that opened the door to my “Inner Self” (as Seth would call it).  The “goal” in the process was to awaken “communion with the Higher Self” (communion is communication and union combined) - i.e. to put oneself back in balance (i.e. to balance the outer, physical sensations, thoughts, etc. with the inner sensations, feelings, gestalts, etc.).  

I believe that when we collectively (aka humanity) chose to jump into duality like this (with physical bodies) we thought that we’d have a balanced awareness and that we wouldn’t be blinded by our physical perceptions and our brain.  The metaphor I like to use is the following: the body is like a space suit that allows us to physically live in an alien (aka physical) world.  The problem was that the radio wasn’t as loud as the local perceptions so we rapidly lost communication with the “mother ship” and have been swept up in a raw survival situation on Earth.  This reminds me of the beginning of the movie “The Martian” where Mark Watney is stranded on Mars, fighting for his life, and feels the extreme urgency of communicating with Earth. 

I guess we all have a bit of Mark Watney in us!

“Through your mundane conscious choices, you affect all of the events of your world, so that the mass world is the result of multitudinous individual choices.  You could not make choices at all if you did not feel impulses to do this or that, so that choices usually involve you in making decisions between various impulses.  Impulses are urges toward action.  Some are conscious and some are not.  Each cell of your body feels the impulse toward action, response, and communication.  You have been taught not to trust your impulses.  Now impulses, however, help you to develop events of natural power.  Impulses in children teach them to develop their muscles and minds [each] in their own unique manner.  And as you will see, those impulses of a private nature are nevertheless also based upon the greater situation of the species and the planet, so that “ideally” the fulfillment of the individual would automatically lead to the better good of the species.”

(The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, Session 855)

Probabilities Imply Free Will

After doing graduate studies in relativistic quantum field theory in the early 70’s, I spent the next half dozen years wondering if we really had free will and choice.  In true naive budding physicist fashion, I was wondering if the only reason that we didn’t have an equation describing everything in the universe (including human behaviour) was because it was too long and too big to write … after all the universe was only 14.5 billion years old!  This bothered me quite a lot.  

I remember reading “The Dancing Wu Li Masters” and other books of that genre in the late 70’s and this, eventually, got me into metaphysics and the discovery of channeled sources like Seth, Lazaris, Cayce, Metatron … and the list goes on.  

Even now I struggle a bit with this because if all probabilities exist … then what choice is there for me other than the choice of which probability to manifest in this moment with this physical body?  

My conundrum is that for every choice and decision that I make, there is a complete spectrum of probabilities created ranging from “Good Al” to “Evil Al” choices and they all exist no matter which one I manifest!

The bottom line:  I’m still in a quandary, but that is the fun of the journey!

“Both men and molecules dwell in a field of probabilities, and their paths are not determined.  The vast reality of probabilities makes the existence of free will possible.  If probabilities did not exist, and if you were not to some degree aware of probable actions and events, not only could you not choose between them, but you would not of course have any feelings of choice.  You would be unaware of the entire issue.”

(The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, Session 855)

The Real Questions Science Should Be Asking

Each of these questions is so profound …. yet “science” plays in a sandbox of beliefs of its own creation.

“It is not to say that you cannot understand the nature of the universe to some extent, but the answers lie in the natures of your own minds, in the processes of individual creativity, in studies that ask questions like: “Where did this thought come from?  Where does it go?  What effect does it have upon myself or others?  How do I know how to dream, when I have never been taught to do so?  How do I speak without understanding the mechanisms?  Why do I feel that I have an eternal reality, when it is obvious that I was physically born and will physically die?””

(The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, Session 855)