Inspiring Seth session from Vol III of the early class sessions

I found the last segment that I've called 'Appreciation, grace and compassion' particularly inspiring.
Enjoy!

SESSION, APRIL 27, 1971

Evolution

(Wally spoke of Darwin’s theory of evolution.)

He spent his last years proving it, and yet it has no validity.  It has a validity within very limited perspectives only, for consciousness does, indeed, evolve form and form does not evolve consciousness.  All consciousness does, indeed, exist at once and, therefore, it did not evolve in those terms. It is according to when you come into the picture, and what you chose to observe, and what part of the play you decide to observe.  It is more the other way around in that evolved consciousness forms itself into many different patterns and rains down in reality.  Consciousness did not come from atoms and molecules scattered by chance through the universe or scattered by chance through many universes.  Consciousness did not arrive because inert matter suddenly sparked into activity and song.  The  consciousness existed first and evolved the form into which it then began to manifest itself.

Now, if you had all been paying attention to what I have said for some time about the simultaneous nature of time and existence, then you would have known that the theory of evolution is as beautiful as a tale as the theory of Biblical creation.  Both are quite handy and both are methods of telling stories and both might seem to agree within their own systems, and yet, in larger respects they cannot be realities. I am addressing this to our friend over here (Arnold) and partially to our friend over here because you should understand what I am speaking of.  But, then, no one asked me about the nature of evolution before until recently when our friend, Joseph, read a book.  No - no form of matter, however potent, will be self-evolved into consciousness no matter what other bits of matter are added to it, but without the consciousness, the matter would not be there in the universe floating around waiting for another component to give it reality, consciousness, existence or song.

([Arnold:] “Every bit of matter already has consciousness?”)

Indeed and the consciousness came first.  You are quite correct.

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Selves becoming entities

That probable self can become a whole entity if it so chooses.  Now some selves do not choose to become entities.

([Ned:] “That might be a reason why there are more entities around now, more are choosing to reincarnate?”)

Only those who choose to take on the responsibility of teaching will return.

([Ned:] “That would create more entities to reincarnate?  Instead of having a hundred entities to reincarnate, that hundred can multiply.”)

Indeed, within each entity is the possibility for unlimited personalities.

([Ned:] “Also other entities, too.”)

Indeed

([Ned:] “Is it up to the probable self whether they become a new entity, or up to the person who creates the probable self?”)

Up to the probable selves for each portion of consciousness has available to it whatever potentials it is willing to seek, and there are no limitations placed upon it either by those who created it or by itself.

([Sue:] “Can one entity have two personalities at once in this system of reincarnation?”)

It can, indeed, and I was wondering when you are going to come up with that one.  All fragments have within them the potentialities to grow to whatever height of development the choose.

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Connections of selves in this and other realities

Now within your reality, as you think of it and as you understand it, the population at any given time is seeded by certain particular entities.  In your reality, as you think of it then, you are all closely connected much more closely than you realize.  You are working toward certain kinds of development that can happen, in your terms and in your terms only, only in your space and in your time.  If you understood me, you would realize then that you are highly unique, and that those problems and challenges that you have can be met by no others, and that those private elements of your personal life that seem so uncosmic are, indeed, of great importance.  Not only to you, but to other realities that you do not presently understand, and that in working out one simple challenge in this existence you work out other challenges for other selves in other realities.  And you help untold numbers of personalities in other realities.

Now, think physically again of our onion, but imagine instead, psychic realities forming its skin, each interconnected with the other.  Or imagine an orange, each atom of it connected with each other and yet each one individual and each representing a reality.  It may seem that there would be no way to get out of the reality of the orange if you were forced upon its surface, but to go round and round, and you might seem isolated, and yet that orange is in another basket of oranges, and the skin of it touches another. And so our subjective lives touch lives that you do not know, and yet each of these are unique.  In all of these realities, there are no exact duplicates.

Now some of this material is new and when you get it written down, I would like you to read it and ponder it.  You have this information, use it.  Your own subjective experience can lead you through many paths that interconnect this reality and other realities.  It is up to you as to how far you want to go, now, in your terms.  The journeys lead to an understanding of your own uniqueness and, therefore, to an understanding, not of relative unimportance in the universe, but to your absolute importance to it, and the knowledge that your each act ultimately affects the movement of the most minute molecule and the action of the most distant star that you can perceive.

This is your reality, accept it or hide within all concepts.  It is up to you.  Make this information personal, emotional and a part of your lives.  These secrets, as our friend here told Ruburt, that you have told in class, that have had such weight to some of you, how dare any of you hold these secrets up between yourselves and All That Is and the experience that is waiting for you and available?  That you think these secrets are that important, that they can stop the energy of the universe from working its way through you when that energy gives you your vitality and strength.  For all of these issues are related, and the movement of your thought is as lively as the movement of any molecule and far more powerful.

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Seth II

Now, you are acquainted with those portions of self that you are ready to accept at any given time and he [Seth] knows when you are ready to accept certain concepts, and when you are ready to accept certain experiences.  And so your own development follows your inner dictates, both when you are alone, and when you are in class.

The trouble was that you wanted to hide in concepts, and so he [Seth] brought you out of them so that you could acknowledge the self that deals in concepts, and then give you some relief and release.  He [Seth] leads you back into concepts again.  There is nothing wrong with concepts at all as long as you do not use them as hiding places or as steps of security from which you will not leap, one into the other.  Or unless you use them to hide your own emotional reality.  Within you, concepts and actions are one, and you recognize this, and your inner lives are based upon it, but your mental lives are often based upon ideas, until recently, have been considered very modern and very in, such as the idea of evolution.  And yet, if you had listened to what I have been saying, again, you would have know the theory to be a pretty tale.  Life bursts apart in all directions as consciousness does and explodes in all probable directions.  there is not one steady stream of progress.

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Multidimensional communication

You are getting your first very small lesson in, what I will humbly call, multidimensional communication.  It is the first time we have used the phrase here, but it will not be the last, for when I speak to you I address you mentally, psychically, spiritually, and even biologically for there is a strange spirituality that exists within your own atoms and molecules that accepts what I say.  And eventually that message gets through to you also, and I speak often to each of you separately while I seem to address you as a group, and yet I do address you as a group also.

Now, I have adopted this measure simply because it is impossible to speak to each of you individually with any depth or meaning, but (to Valerie), I want you to realize that you are not alone, and that isolation is a manufactured thing.  You manufacture it in your mind.  It has no meaning in any terms.  You will learn to feel it and not simply accept it intellectually, but you must begin to tell yourself emotionally that you are not isolated, and you must divorce yourself from self-pity.

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Appreciation, grace and compassion

There are human beings on the face of this earth who do not know what love means, or companionship.  Who do not have parents, who do not have sisters or brothers who understand an isolation that is bleak and cold even if it is of their own making.  Each of you in this room who has the opportunity to share with another then know that is grace and be thankful for that which you experience.  And do not underestimate what you have.  There are personalities who have traveled through the centuries, literally, without an understanding, and if this was their reality and if it was their own making, still be glad that it is not yours and accept those relationships that you now have and realize their potential and do not close yourselves off to stupid pride and through barriers of your own making.

Now the atoms and molecules that compose you are glorious impermanent things, and through the leadership of your consciousness have you led them to consciousness and song and through you do they experience what you experience.  And through your organization do they understand realities that would otherwise be denied them.  And when each of you come together in a personal relationship are you then glorifying and adding to the reality of the consciousness that is within those atoms and molecules.  You know each other in each life a brief time.  What joy and comfort you can give, then give.  What support you can render, render.  Do you not realize that by doing this you become more than you think you are?  And I am not speaking to any of you in terms of self-sacrifice for there is no such thing, and there is no such road, and I do not advocate it.  But, if you demand the best that is within you then you become more than you realize that you are, and you must also demand more from the other persons within your relationship.  All of you, therefore, that are married and have such relationships must inspire each other regardless of what you all know of the nature of reality.

The bones that you call your own will lie a long time in the grave.  The physical beings of those that you know change even as I speak.  What joy and creativity you can speak, speak.  This life is as important as any other life, and none of you attempt to deny the abilities of another for in doing this you speak against creativity.  Therefore, it behooves all of you, on a part of all that you are, to expect the best of yourselves and the best of those with whom you are in contact.  But the moment is intimate and the voice that speaks beside you in the night, in your terms, will not speak for long, therefore, comfort it when you can.  And remember, all of you, again, I am not speaking in terms of self-sacrifice. It is impossible to sacrifice the self, and when you try to do this, it is a betrayal.  This is not divorced from the material I have been giving you in terms of evolution or the nature of reality but highly intertwined.  You live and breathe these concepts.

Seth II from class session April 20, 1971

SESSION, APRIL 20, 1971

(Seth II:) (Words lost)...observed then realize that we are highly interested in such experiments as Seth is conducting, and that as we observe you, so do you, though unconsciously, observe other realities in your sleep state. If our reality seems strange to you then yours seems strange to us. We move through systems such as yours faster than the speed of light, and so what I am saying is already a translation and, in your terms, a message left in the past of your time. Your own consciousness also travels faster than the speed of light, and big portions of you does understand, to some degree, the nature of our reality. At least it has an innate comprehension of the probabilities in which you exist. There are portions of your own identity, in other terms, that dwell in these probable systems that have not known physical reality and that come to observe those portions of itself that have so developed in that fashion. And so do we observe and does yourself serve as a translator in our behalf. Unfortunately, we do not communicate easily with the portion of you that can understand. You are not in communication with that portion of yourselves that is not physical, that was never physical and that will not know physical existence at all, and since you identify with the physical self then, indeed, we come to you in the guise of ghosts that you do not understand our forms that you cannot see. And yet, since we seeded the universe in which you have your present existence then do we observe, and do we watch, and do we have concern.

Extracts from two Seth class sessions (Vol III)

SESSION, APRIL 6, 1971

Until you know what your feelings are, you do not know where you stand, and you cannot know where you want to go or how to make changes.  And if you lie to yourselves about your feelings or gloss them over, then you cannot begin to understand the spiritual reality, for you will use it instead as an aspirin to cover up the symptoms of disease both mental, spiritual and psychic.

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Listen to the silence between words and feel the feelings that are between your own thoughts and recognize the difference between what you feel and what you tell yourselves you feel and then you can proceed.  You cannot even operate well in Alpha I consciousness unless you are free enough to recognize your own feelings.  You will spend far too much energy inhibiting them.  Instead they should propel you into new dimensions.

SESSION, APRIL 13, 1971

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… you are interwoven spiritually with every atom and molecule that exists within those of your children and your wife.

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([question to Seth:] … What is the meaning of your existence in your reality, the one goal of everything you do?”)

Now, the one goal not only of my existence, and I feel this personally, but of all existence is creativity.  I do not speak to you, in your terms, because you find it so difficult to understand or experience the reality of creativity and so all personalities, in whatever their sphere of activity, are involved in the nature of creativity.  And this involves the creation of further value fulfillment, of consciousness that is not a burden, as sometimes your consciousness seems to be to you, but joy upon which other universes can also rest.  The consciousness and creativity of one, while seeming alone, is not alone but is a threshold upon which others may rest, and a framework from which others may grow.

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Now, you all want to do fine and mighty spiritual things and many of you, as much as possible, want to do these things without facing the self that you know.  And in order to have a good framework, you must begin with the self that you know, and you must not ignore feelings or emotions, and you must not decide which feelings or emotions you will accept and which you will reject.  You will understand them all as legitimate experience and go on from there.  You will not hide in concepts …

([Ron:] “In your reality do you feel love?”)

Now, what makes you ask the question or doubt that any reality could be without it, for it is the basis for any reality that any consciousness knows.  If it would not be love, then I would not be here, and if it were not for love, you would not have the planet that you know.  Your negative emotions appear to you quite obviously as ill health and wars and desolation, and when something is wrong you recognize them.  But the innate love within you, that you are often too embarrassed to express, forms the planet that you know, the physical bodies that you inhabit, the seasons and the reality in which you presently have your existence.  Hopefully, those in my sphere of existence realize that all ends are creative.

([Ron:] “What do you mean, all ends are creative?”)

That even when you are using energy in what seems to you to be a destructive manner, you are being creative and cannot avoid it.  Now, does that answer your question?

([Ron:] “Yes.  Do you, yourself, feel love?”)

I do, indeed, and all consciousness of whatever extent feels love though it may not know the verbal designation for that is the basis of all existence.  And there is no existence when you try to separate feeling from reality or consciousness from its experiences.

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… spirituality is not a thin-blooded intellectual concept divorced from the emotions that you know.

Two questions from Seth

Here’s the next Seth class extract in which Seth poses two simple, but profound questions for the students to experience … not intellectually … but by feeling (like the Alpha meditations from the previous sessions).  It’s surprising what comes up when one turns off the brain!  

SESSION, MARCH 30, 1971

… Now, you have been running away from emotional realities this evening.  I have a slight suggestion, this means that I have a question for you.  Now, I do not expect the question to be answered in a general manner, that is far too safe, and we are not dealing with philosophies.  We are dealing with realities from which you may weave whatever philosophies suit your fancy.  And the question you can thank a member of this group for.  The question comes in two parts and so I shall expect it to be answered in two parts.  The first may seem general, but it will be highly personal, and I do not ask you to dispense with any great personal secret this evening.  No sacrifices need be offered as a proof of (words lost).  You can save them for later.

The first question is, “How relevant is life?”  And the second question is, “How relevant do you think you are?”  And I do not expect beautiful sounding generalizations.  Not only do I not expect them, but I will not stand for them.  The nature of reality is now.  It is within the reality that you know, and the reality that you know is a part of these other realities.  Illusion is also a part of reality.

([Mark Disbrow:] “That first question, ‘How relevant is life?’ You mean physical life?”)

You answer the question as you understand it, and that is part of the game and also a part of the illumination that I hope you discover as you find yourself facing both parts of that question.

… I expect feeling to predominate.  I will give you a hint to show you the extent of my great goodwill.  Every breath that you take is relevant, and every thought is relevant, and what seems to you to be waste is not waste.

… I expect you to encounter the question in both of its parts quite honestly.  “How relevant is life?  How relevant is your life?” and I will add a third portion: “Are you more relevant than an ant?”  Than an ant.

… (During the break everyone answered the questions.)

Now I will tell you that many of you (the class), in Ruburt’s terms, and quite unwittingly, copped out.  You were giving intellectual answers.  You were thinking in terms of themes and compositions and all of your answers did, indeed, sound fine, spiritual, highly edifying, but very few of you felt.

Now during the week here is a little assignment for you.  I want you to consider the same questions, but from a feeling level.  What does life mean to you?  Then listen and feel the life within you.  Sit quietly and listen to the tumult within you.  To the vitality within your atoms and molecules.  To the alternate periods of peace and tumult that flash through your being.  To the activity that courses through your body.

Imagine if you can, the reality that exists within and beneath and supporting your most single thought.  What is that thought that flashed so momentarily and clearly and then to drop away, upon what is it dependent.  Come into contact with the life that is within you now, not with words.  I am not asking you to relate to the word life, but to life itself and to do this you must experience the life within yourself and feel it.

Do not simply say that the ant has a right to existence as you do.  Either feel it and understand the reality of the ant or understand that you do not understand the reality of the ant.  Do not play around with the concepts.  Experience as directly as you can within yourselves your own living reality, then go from that, if you can, to other realities.  To life as it shows itself in many forms, not to the word life.

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To answer the questions you need to feel your reality at any given moment, to follow your own thoughts, but not only your thoughts, but your physical sensations, the sensations of physical life.  And when you cut off as many of these physical sensations as you can then what remains?  What physical sensations do you think that you feel that an ant does not?  What can he feel that you cannot?  You evaded the questions.  Now I knew you would evade the questions, so that is all right and it was part of the lesson but you must encounter your own vitality.

(To Ned) And you must encounter your own vitality and honour it.

The physical sound that I make, the energy that you sense now is, indeed, a part of the energy that sings within the vitality of any atom and molecule.  Within you is so much unrealized and unrecognized and unreleased energy.  Now, trying to answer the questions such as those I gave this evening on a surface will not help you.  You are afraid of the energy that resides within you and you often avoid the encounters with yourselves.

Now, I would like you, in the following week, to think of these questions again but answer them from a feeling level, from an experience level and then answer them as simply as you can verbally.  But in finding the answers for yourselves you should have experiences that you may not be able to verbalize.  And you should sense within yourselves the energy that resides within your own identity and sense to some extent the unique vitality of every living organism.

If the ant spoke, what would he say?  Would he step on you if he were as large as you are?  Let yourselves go in feeling with these questions.  You sit here feeling isolated within your skins and for no reason for you, yourselves, enclose yourselves.

This sort of question, if you work at it, will give you great freedom.  And so, in Ruburt’s terms, do not cop out and I will be interested to see what you come up with.

([Janice:] “Was I feeling vitality when I tried to express it in relaxation?”)

You were simply learning to let your ego relax.  Now the ego itself is a poor term, for individually each individual uses his ego differently.  You use yours very restrictively, often, and you are learning to relax it.  You experienced a point of consciousness where, momentarily, that barrier was released.  Feelings of energy from the inner self were then allowed to bubble up and give you a sense of energy and a release from normal pressures.

([Ron Labadee:] “Is there relevance to Oriental forms of meditation?”)

There are to all forms of meditation as there are to all forms of activity.

([Ron:] “Is there any hierarchy in terms of the way you look at it the most important?”)

The most important is that which is before you most intimately and it is the nature of spontaneity.  It is this force within you that gives you your life and vitality that keeps you alive and that allows you all to think these fine and weighty thoughts.  The spontaneous self, left to itself, ideally is the answer.

([Ron:] “So you are saying that this type of involvement, because it is the most spontaneously structured, is the most valuable?”)

Ideally, it is indeed.  Unfortunately, when you bottle up repressions and feelings then often a structured procedure is necessary to help you release them.  But all of you sit here very nicely, very spontaneously, very alive, very conscious and none of you know, egotistically, how you do so or what makes your thoughts work.  When you begin to question how your heart beats or why, then you can encounter difficulties if you lose the faith that they work spontaneously and that your conscious knowledge is not necessary for the fine mechanisms that keep you alive.  The ego is a great king.  It sits in splendour upon a great throne and it usually does not want to know that power resides beneath.

([Ron:] “All forms of activity or all forms of meditation?”)

Your spontaneous selves is the answer.  Not control, but spontaneity.  Now, I did not say this, but spontaneity knows its own control, that is an entirely different sort.  December does not bring flowers and yet December does not know your means of control.  I just wanted to be sure that you understood.

Experiential pause

Hi there!

Since the Early Seth Class Sessions happened only twice a week, and since the last post and the next one involve experiential exercises, I'll only post sessions once or twice a week ... to give you (and me!) time to work with the material.  

Seth has often said that this is not about concepts but about experience ... concepts only provide a framework/understanding to enable expanded experience.  Similarly, Lazaris has defined Wisdom as "Living the Understanding" ... which is what I'm currently 'working on'.  

So, I hope you enjoy the pauses and have beautiful experiences.

Enjoy!
Al

Seth meditation technique from the Early Class Sessions Vol III

SESSION, MARCH 23, 1971

Now, you are beginning here an exploration, and it will be an individual exploration.  And even some of you who have not before entered in will now do so.  The exploration of consciousness cannot be done from the outside.  It cannot be done from the safe but distant framework of concepts.  You have to enter into the reality, and this is what you will be doing.

ALPHA I

Now, Alpha 1 simply involves one small step sidewards.  You all enter this state frequently, but in the past you have been blind to the reality that is open within it.  You have been given the package, in other words, but you have not opened it, so now we are going to tell you how to open it and use it.

Now, there are some physical mechanisms that will help.  For example, when you are beginning, unfocus your eyes, let them go.  What you are going to see need not be the physical room in which you sit.  Unhinge your mind.  Think of your mind as a door.  Usually it is closed.  One portion of it faces physical reality, ordinary working consciousness, and usually it is here that you focus.  Unhinge it, let it sag on its hinges and glimpse what is on the other side.  Let your muscles go, no one is going to attack you.  Be open and receptive.  The visual contact, however, is particularly important so that you let the eyes relax.  The brain patterns automatically change, let them go.  You do not need the electroencephalograph to let you know when you are in Alpha I.  If you want, you may imagine a particular kind of pattern as being your waking consciousness as in a graph with the very quick motions representing delta and then slowing out gently for the Alpha patterns, if you prefer.

Alpha I is a state of preparation.  It is a threshold.  It will help all of you if you imagine it as a platform and see yourselves throwing all of your fears off one by one, and it would help if you do this before you begin working on anyone else.  Otherwise your own fears can hamper you.

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Now, beside Alpha I there are many other states that you will learn and hopefully learn to master and use.  And do it joyfully.  You do not need necessarily to set up projects, give yourself some freedom with the state.  You may be amazed at what you learn when you do not program yourself.

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… You will not progress individually or as a race until you realize that you form your own physical reality from your thoughts and feelings and that you can manipulate matter through your mind because your mind creates it.  Alpha I is a very simple method of learning to control physical matter through realizing that you do yourselves make it and can direct its flow and direct the energy available to it.

You direct, not only your own individual energy, but en masse, the energy of the world that you know.  In your dreams you try out probable solutions to world problems.  The leaders that will appear to you tomorrow are known to you beforehand in your dreams, and when you recognize them in physical reality there should, indeed, be a great sense of familiarity for already you know them well.

You are beginning with Alpha I, but there are many other kinds of consciousness and there is no reason why you cannot experiment with them and learn to handle them.

What you do in Alpha I, in healing, is already what you do unconsciously without realizing that you do so.  You manipulate your own inner organs constantly.  Your thoughts form their reality, cause their illness or their health, and in Alpha I you do this at a level of awareness that you can recognize.  Until you learn to manipulate the world that you know, and constructively and creatively, you will not be able to manipulate the inner realities in which you already live but instead will be swept merely within them.

Now, it may seem quite strange to our Lady of Florence (one of the students) to find herself within her body and working at such intimate terms with the physical matter of which she is composed, and yet you do this constantly.  You are only now becoming aware of what you do at an unconscious level.  When you work in such a manner, you are still using physical symbols.  Because you feel you are in the body and manipulating organs you feel that you are being quite practical.  You can see what you are doing.  You are manipulating in physical terms, but it should occur to you that you do not need the physical images.  These are only methods to educate you to the importance of thought for you can perform the same without the images.  Even in the body it seems to you that you need physical hands to manipulate reels, to change what you see when a thought would suffice.  And so later on you will not need the journeys, but now the journeys act as educational television.  Later you will not need them.

You still do not believe in the reality of thought, and so you use your images in this state of Alpha I consciousness, but in some stages beneath you will find you can dispense with it.  And in later classes, when you feel quite familiar with where you are, we will lead you all further …

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… As long as you believe you are physical creatures, then you will deal with physical images.  When you realize that the physical creature is a hallucination, then you will not need the images.  I am not telling you that reality is a hallucination.  I am telling you that each hallucination is a face that reality takes and that within them all the nature of reality resides.

Now using your scientific interments, to some extent, you can probe into physical reality.  But using these alone you will never come to terms with the nature of your own existence.  You will not be able, even in your terms, to feel it or to know it intimately, and as long as you are focused completely in physical reality and cut yourself off from your source, you will never understand the day to day existence that is within you that is independent of days and hours.

Now in Alpha I, to some extent, you step aside from the physical moments that you know and in so doing you also relieve your physical system of the pressure of the hours.  You take away from your physical system the conscious pressures that you force upon it, and you allow it to rest.  You allow the spontaneous self within you some peace and freedom.  The part of you that is released in Alpha I can, therefore, be free enough to direct the energies of the physical self that you know.

Now as you sit before me, and I have said this before, you imagine yourselves to be particular people upon this earth at this particular time and at this particular address and cut off from any deeper reality that you have and yet, in your inner awareness, you realize that you are more than you know.

Now in Alpha I you can step aside from your daily self and let the knowledge of your deeper identity rise up where it can be recognized and accepted and acknowledged and its abilities used.  You can, with training, feel the miraculous knowledge and heritage that is within your atoms and molecules, be aware of the capsule consciousness within them for they have a knowledge of all the other life forms of which they have been part, and this you can admit to your consciousness.

Do you think you sprung out of the earth without even the heritage of a tree or a seed?  You spring into this place and this time from other dimensions, and your grow through and beyond this space and this time. You have only to unfocus your consciousness, to step aside from the particular consciousness that you use so expertly and so well, and to let yourselves go in awareness and flexibility.  Even the atoms and molecules within your skull realize that they have greater heritage than you know.

Now, … under certain drug experiments, and experiences, the memories within the selves rise up and shout.  The structure within the neurons is no longer a dead thing but the structure is a reality that speaks;  and the reality speaks quite loudly in terms of heritage, of experiences encountered long before your physical form knew itself.  You perceive realities of which the physical form is aware, but the ego is unaware.  Now these realities can become a part of your awareness without drugs.  You do not need them.  You need merely to admit the vitality of your own consciousness.  It is your own.

No one, Ruburt or myself, can have the experiences that you can have with your own consciousness.  No one can learn to manipulate physical reality in the way that you can or understand the nature of their own consciousness in the way that you can.  You have a unique experience ahead of you that is yours and can exist for no other consciousness in the universe.  This is your gift, and this is your responsibility, for if you let it fall by the wayside, no one can pick it up for you and it can never be replaced.  No one can ever have it for you.  The visions of reality that are your own can be seen by no other.  The journey into consciousness and reality that can be perceived you you can be perceived by no other.  The particular vision of truth that can be received by you can be perceived by no other.

There is no mass truth.  There is only individually recognized and acknowledged and experienced truth.  Ruburt once said in a poem that truth was not a great bread to be broken among many.  It is a bread created by each, perceived by each.  Your thoughts and feelings created not only this reality, but all reality.  Then do not hide yourselves from yourselves.

ALPHA II

Now, I would not force you into any state of awareness, far be it from me.  You (the class) are all in Alpha I, and I did not force you into it.  Now, bear with me for a few moments, realizing as you do so that there is in reality no distinction between the atoms and molecules within your precious bodies and the atoms and molecules that fly about the room quite innocently and free;  realizing also that there is great space between the atoms and molecules within your body, and that if some very small person were flying through they would find your bodies as large as a galaxy; realizing also that the skin that seems so solid to you is very open, indeed, and does not separate you so much from the universe, as it connects you with the universe; and that there is little division between the atoms and molecules in those knees and those legs and the atoms and molecules that from the floor upon which the legs and knees seem to rest.

And now you (the class) are all in Alpha II.  Now I would like you all to sense the feeling of your consciousness, realizing as you do so, that there is within your tissues, and within the atoms and molecules that compose you, a great acquiescence.  Now for those of you who may not follow the word acquiescent, let me say there is then a great acceptance.  Within each of your atoms and molecules is, indeed, a blessed and joyful acceptance of their own reality beyond questioning.

ALPHA III

And for those of you who are following me, you are at the threshold of Alpha III. Now the acquiescence that dwells within your atoms and molecules is an acquiescence that has to do with creativity that knows no negation, that realizes, instead, only the benefits and the joys and the reality of That Which Is, and within this acquiescence there is no denial and no negation for all things are experienced, recognized, and accepted as a part of All That Is.

And for all of you who are able to follow me now, you can follow to the threshold of Alpha IV.  Beyond this, at this stage, you (the class) cannot go; but recognize that you have touched your toes there, at least, and feel the acquiescence that is its basis, for that acquiescence is the foundation of all life as you know it, and all reality in whatever terms you will ever know it.  And within that reality there is no negation, and all questions are answered.

In order to do what we have just done we needed to manipulate Ruburt’s consciousness, to some extent, and so, in your terms, though these terms are meaningless, he was, say, four levels below those levels of which we spoke, and he is not used to it so we need to give him a boost up the rest of the way.

You are hypnotized, and you hypnotize yourselves daily, to believe there is only one reality, the physical one that you know and so I would call it, you see, a state of being - hypnotization, where you are freed from a compulsive demanding focus upon physical reality, and where your consciousness is allowed some freedom to pursue its own nature.  Where you are to some extent, if only momentarily, released from the compulsion to experience your own reality in terms of time and matter and physical form.

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([Question]: I wondered if it was a way of everyone’s relaxing or to concentrate more into …?)

It was, indeed.  It was a way of getting you to become familiar with your own consciousness and states of consciousness that you adapt, all without knowing, into which you fall and rise without conscious knowledge.  If you were aware of yourselves, you would not need me to tell you what these stages of consciousness are.  But they are a part of your heritage, a part of your inner knowledge, and we want you to use them consciously and with egotistical awareness now, for your ego is not to be treated as a stepchild, as a poor relative.  It is to be taken along on the trip.  It is to be educated.  It is far more flexible than you imagine.

Now, I can lead you as far as you want to go and as far as you are willing to go and no further.  But each of you in your dream and sleep states know your own identity.  Each of you know what you are more than the here-and-now self that you recognize, and to the extent that you liberate this knowledge, you progress.

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… And to see that we have a grand finale, let me say again, that the energy that is available here is available to each of you.  You all have reservoirs of energy that you do not use, sources of strength that you do not admit, so use them.  It should not take anyone dead as long as I to bring you this message.  The vitality that rings, however distorted, through this voice rings through your own molecules and through the tip of your ear and through your (word lost).  This energy is a part of you that you have denied.  Free it, liberate it.

In your terms, spring is coming and all those idiot flowers are ready to bloom. And they have not said, “Whyfore there, am I about to bloom, and how is it I am now a seed and soon will be a flower? And what makes the world go round, and why is it that this darkness in which I am enclosed will soon open, and I can shoot like a rocket toward the sun?”  But they know their acquiescence and their affirmation and so listen to your own for it speaks in a silent voice, and yet it speaks in terms of energy that only here is translated into sound.

Extracts From Two Seth Class Sessions

SESSION, FEBRUARY 9, 1971

… You do not need to write or preach to justify your existence.  Being is its own justification.

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Now if you would each, for ten minutes a day, open yourselves to your own reality there would be no question of self-justification for you would realize the miraculous nature of your own identity.

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The problems you set for yourself for this life you set in the hope that you will solve them. You do not set them for yourselves like millstones about your neck hoping ahead of time that you will drown. All you have to do is realize your own freedom. To cease being afraid of the fear of water, it is not water that you fear, but the fear, so face the fear and conquer it. 

You form the reality that you know, not esoterically, not symbolically, not philosophically; some great oversoul does not form it for you, you cannot put the burden there either. And though I stare at our friend here, who asked the question, this applies to each of you and to our friend, Ruburt. You form your reality and until you understand this completely you cannot change it, nor can you use your freedoms. 

You have in the past, collectively or individually, to blame a God or a fate for the nature of your personal realities, those aspects, indeed, that you did not like. Avoid the temptation to use, instead, the word, whole-self, for the personality is given, again and this is not new material either, the greatest gift of all. You get exactly what you want to get. You create from nothing the experience that is your own, and if you do not like your experience then look within yourself and then you can change your experience, but realize also, that you are responsible for your joys and triumphs. And realize also, that the energy to create any of these realities comes from the inner self. The energy, but what you do with it is up to the individual personality.

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You are not programmed. Nothing happens because it must happen. Every thought that you have now changes reality. Not only reality as you know it, but all reality. In your terms you alter the past and the future.

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Consciousness is not made up of balances so much as it is made up of exquisite imbalance, and the focus of awareness is to some degree the result of these exquisite imbalances. This state of excitability, and in this state of excitability, all elements are never known because new elements are always being created. And I am not speaking of physical elements but of psychological elements of those characteristics of consciousness for even those themselves continually change and merge. You are not now what you were ten minutes earlier. You are not the same being physically, psychologically, spiritually or psychically, and ten minutes later you will be different. To deny this is to try to force consciousness into some rigid form which it cannot be ever freed and to apply rules to it that make a very neat psychological landscape.

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… The ego is merely the tiny pinhead that sticks up and pierces physical reality.

SESSION, FEBRUARY 16, 1971

([Kyle:} “Then the learning experience is no more valid for having spent more time in a depression. There is not more gained because more time has been spent.”) 

Indeed, if, however, one portion of your personality has not learned from the experience, other portions may well, indeed, learn. And while one portion of your personality is in a period of deep depression, other portions may be highly creative of which you may not be aware in the present, in your terms.

… your present thoughts, feelings and emotions not only affect you but affect your probable selves and yet ….

(To Sue.) For this one over here, no probable self is at the mercy of negative thoughts of yours.

Each consciousness has its own responsibility for those thoughts and emotions that it accepts and originates.  The personality in its entirety includes, therefore, probable selves of which you are currently unaware.  This does nothing to negate the validity and integrity of the self that you know.  The divisions are illusions and when you wake up to yourself, to your true self, then you are aware of these other portions of your personality.

Now, in terms of growth and development and speaking now simply to get the idea across theoretically, you are working toward a time when the you that you now know will be aware of the entire personality and accept it as your identity.  The whole personality is not like some super self in which you are lost, in which the identity that you know is gone.  You must simply accept the fact for now until your own experience begins to prove it more and more.  That the inner identity, that you, is far more than you presently realize, and the best way to work toward such realization is to accept the self that you are now, as you are.  To feel the movement of the spontaneous self.

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You are presently within one system of reality, one probable reality, the reality that you now know and form physically.  Now within that one reality you have reincarnational selves, they belong within the concept of that existence.  All probable systems do not have reincarnational existences.  Some do and some do not, so that these exist only here, as far as you are concerned for the moment.

And I know I am only going to confuse you, but if you have probable selves then you know there are probable universes and probable earths and probable histories of your earth and you see what this is going to do to your concept of reincarnation as you now hold it.  So, within the system that you know, you also have probable reincarnational selves within those probable historical earths.  Now, this does nothing to deny the basic integrity nor validity of what you may prefer to call the soul.  It simply means that the inner self also is far more creative, far richer, and far varied and much different than you originally supposed.

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… remember you call this your universe and your reality and it is indeed, for you form it and yet within you is also the knowledge of other great experiments that are being tried.  And other probable systems are aware of the experiments that you are trying, and in your terms and I am speaking now in your terms only which to some extent means that I am hedging the fence, other civilizations have gone your route, some have failed.  In your terms, the inhabitants of some earths, however, have succeeded very well and your future, in your terms, is not set.

You can follow any road that you chose, but until each individual realizes that he practically forms his own personal life, and has a part in the mass formation of reality that you know it, then there is much learning ahead for this is a lesson you are meant to learn within physical reality.

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

You think a thought and because you cannot follow it you think it disappears and you wonder where it has gone; has it fallen off some invisible cliff within your mind? But, because you cannot follow the thought, and no longer perceive it, because you can no longer hold it in consciousness, does not mean that that thought no longer exists and does not have a reality of its own, for it does indeed.  And if a world escapes you and you cannot follow it and you think it has been destroyed, then the same thing applies to the world as to the thought.  It continues to exist.