Each life influences each other life

In the realm of our Higher Self or greater self or The Guys Upstairs (using Frank DeMarco's terminology) there is no linear time, just the "spacious present" (Seth's terminology).  From that perspective it's easy to see that choices and decisions, etc., that we make in this life propagate energetically in all directions ... past, future, other realities.  These waves of potential create new possibilities in all directions.  They don't drive the other lifetimes, rather they may appear symbolically or as new opportunities.  It's hard to picture this, but even possibilities that we have never materialized have influence in all directions.

These ideas are best taken with a glass of wine!

“Each life influences each other life, and some portion of the personality retains memory not only of past lives, but of future lives also.

“When reincarnational studies are embarked upon, on occasion people remember some instances of past-life experience, but conventional ideas of time are so strong that so-called future memory is blacked out.”

(The Way Toward Health,Session June 17, 1984)

Divergent genetic behaviour

Today’s Seth continues the discussion on the amazing and little understood flexibility and curiosity we each express as part of the evolution of humanity.  We tend to focus on differences … differences  between people and differences between an individual and the “average”.  If only we could get past that and think like humans sharing a planet and celebrate the amazing story of humanity and recognize our individual contribution to the flowering of life in the universe on Gaia!

“There are individuals who do choose ahead of time – in one lifetime or another – to accept such a divergent genetic heritage for their own reasons – often to experience life from one of its most unique aspects, and sometimes in order to encourage the growth of other abilities that might not otherwise occur.

“Human consciousness normally experiences wide sweeps of rhythms, varying states of awareness, and its amazing flexibility is partially dependent upon its lack of rigidity, its own spontaneous inclinations, and its capacity for curiosity, wonder, discovery, and emotion.

“It is not too frequently noticed, but many so-called mentally deficient people possess their own unique learning abilities – that is, often they learn what they do learn in a different manner than most other people.  Many possess abilities that are not discovered by others, that are most difficult to explain.  They may utilize chemicals in a different way than other people do in the learning process itself.  Some may even have superior understanding of physical and psychological space.  Their qualifications emotionally are also quite advanced, and it is quite possible that they are gifted in terms of mathematics and music, though these gifts may never come to fruition, since they are unsuspected.

“Many deficient individuals in their way are as vital to the development of humanity as geniuses are, for both preserve the elastic nature of human consciousness, and promote its coping qualifications.

“Each person makes his or her own reality, again, but each family member also shares the reality of the others.  Often, therefore, instances of unusual genetic differences may also serve to bring out qualities of understanding, sympathy, and empathy on the part of family members – and those qualities also are vital to human development. Because the reasons for any such conditions can be so diverse, then life should be encouraged even in the face of deformities.  If the consciousness involved has its own reasons for living, then it will make the most of even the most dire conditions.  If instead the consciousness has been kept alive despite its own intents through medical procedures, it will terminate its own physical life in one way or another.”

(The Way Toward Health, Session June 16, 1984)

Elasticity of the genetic system

“In actuality, all of the seemingly erratic genetic variances that often crop up in human development are vital to the elasticity of the entire genetic system.

“It would not be beneficial, for example, to try to “breed out” those seemingly unfortunate, divergent genetic traits.  The physical system would become too rigid, lose the power of its natural diversity, and eventually bring a dead-end to human survival.”

(The Way Toward Health,Session June 16, 1984)

Freedom of choice for a fetus

The “pro-life” advocates would have real problems with this … fortunately, reality is not as simple as they want it to be.  It always struck me odd that we expected the Creator of All That Is to be limited by our beliefs and understandings.  Now that is the ultimate in human egoism!

“I do not want to generalize, for each living situation is too unique for that. I do want to point out that all fetuses do not necessarily intend to develop into normal babies, and that if medical science, through its techniques, ends up in directing a normal birth, the consciousness of the child may never feel normally allied with physical experience.

“The child may go from one illness to another, or simply display an odd disinclination for life – a lack of enthusiasm, until finally in some cases the child dies at an early age.  Another individual, under the same circumstances, might change its mind and decide to go along with the experience of normal life.”

(The Way Toward Health,Session June 15, 1984)

Experience of being a fetus

“It also seems that each fetus must naturally desire to grow, emerge whole from its mother’s womb, and develop into a natural childhood and adulthood. However, in those terms, just as many fetuses want the experience of being fetuses without following through on other stages. They have no intention of growing into complete human development.  In fact, many fetuses explore that element of existence numberless times before deciding to go on still further, and emerge normally from the womb.

“Those fetuses that do not develop still contribute to the body’s overall experience, and they feel themselves successful in their own existences.  An understanding of these issues can greatly help throw light on the question of early deaths and diseases, and spontaneous abortions.”

(The Way Toward Health,Session June 15, 1984)

Reincarnational curiosity

“The species is filled with a powerful sense of curiosity and wonder, and the need for exploration and discovery, so that even a man born as a king through several lives would find himself bored and determined to seek out a different or opposite experience.

“In some lives, then, you are born in fortunate circumstances, and in others you may find an environment of poverty and want.  You may be born in excellent health in one life, with a high intelligence and great wit, while in still another existence you may be born ill or crippled or mentally deficient.”

(The Way Toward Health,Session June 15, 1984)

Reincarnational Expansiveness

It's hard for us to really understand the freedom that we have innately to experiment with different life contexts and experiences - individually and collectively - because we have an infinite (and every expanding) set of possibilities to explore, in this and other realities.  We finish every lifetime with more questions than answers ... that propel our exploration of the infinite Cosmos of possibilities.

The problem we have with our cultural imprinting is that we seem to think we only have one lifetime in which to do it all … and to do it perfectly!  It is a belief system that enables central governments and religions to exert a degree of control over the populace.  In our concept of duality, this type of control appears to be essential for humanity to grow and function collectively, but there are countless other possibilities out there.

In truth, we choose puddles of time/space/reality (epochs) to explore with our soul buddies … ever growing in love and awareness … like children playing make-believe.  There are literally an unlimited number of potential epochs, buddies, dramas, etc. so we’re not short on material to explore in any lifetime that peaks our interest.


It’s nice to know that …

“It certainly seems to you, or to many of you, that most people would always choose to be born healthy and whole, in an excellent environment, of parents with loving natures and genetic excellence – and in other words to grow up healthy, wealthy, and wise.

“Life, however, is far too profound and multitudinous, and requires great depths of emotional response and action that could never be satisfied adequately by any given set of circumstances, however favorable.”

(The Way Toward Health,Session June 15, 1984)