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Can someone put here resource of turqoise view on creativity and productivity 

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TITLE: Adyashanti: Complete Interview

 

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This is so beautiful. 

 

[Raze]

TITLE: The Art of Effortless Living (Taoist Documentary)

This documentary retells stage turquoise taoist teachings.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ4-O0n_NZc

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Teal Swan

 

 

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*redacted*

Edited October 22, 2021 by AdroseAkise

[Loba]

Seth Speaks notes and examples for chapter one:

I do not have a physical body, yet I am writing this book:

You have heard of ghost hunters,  I can quite literally be called a ghost writer, though I do not approve of the term "ghost".  Names are not important.  I am quite independent of a physical image, and so are you.  Consciousness creates form.  It is not the other way around.  All personalities are not physical.  It is only because you are so busily concerned with daily matters that you do not realize that there is a portion of you who knows that its own powers are far superior to those shown by the ordinary self.

You have each lives other existences, and that knowledge is within you though you are not consciously aware of it.  You would be much better off in reading this book if you asked yourself who you are rather than asked who I am, for you cannot understand what I am unless you understand the nature of personality and the characteristics of consciousness.

If you believe firmly that your consciousness is locked up somewhere inside your skull and is powerless to escape it, if you feel that your consciousness ends at the boundary of your body, then you sell yourself short, and you will think that I am a delusion.  I am no more a delusion than you are, and that may be a loaded sentence.  

I am an energy personality essence, no longer focused in physical matter.

You are not stuck in time like a fly in a closed bottle, whose wings are therefore useless.  You cannot trust your physical senses to give you a true picture of reality.  They are lovely liars, which such a fantastic tale to tell that you believe it without question.  You are sometimes wiser, more creative, and far more knowledgeable when you are dreaming than when you are awake.

What I will tell you has been told before throughout the centuries, and given again when it was forgotten.  I hope to clarify many points that have been distorted through the years.  And I offer my original interpretation of others, for no knowledge exists in a vacuum, and all information must be coloured by the personality who holds it and passes it on.  Therefore I describe reality as I know it, and my experience in many layers and dimensions.
This is not to say that other realities do not exist.

I adopt from my own bank of past personalities those characteristics that seem appropriate.  There are many of us, personalities like myself, unfocused in the physical matter or time.  Our existence seems strange to you only because you do not realize the true potentials of personality, and you are hypnotized by your own limited concepts.

You create the world that you know.  You have been given perhaps the most awesome gift of all: the ability to project your thoughts outwards into physical form.  The fact is that each of you create your own physical reality, and en masse, you create both the glories and the terrors that exist within your earthly experience.  Until you realize that you are the creators, you will refuse to accept this responsibility.  You have grown "ego-bound" instead, held in a spiritual rigidity, with the intuitive portions of the self either denied or distorted beyond any recognition.

Since we have mentioned animals, let me say here that they do possess a kind of consciousness that does not allow them as many freedoms as your own.  Yet at the same time, they are not hampered in its use by certain characteristics that often impede the practical potential of human consciousness.

Consciousness is a way of perceiving the various dimensions of reality.  Consciousness as you know it is highly specialized.  The physical senses allow you to perceive the three-dimensional world, and yet by their very nature they inhibit the perception of other equally valid dimensions.  Most of you identify with your daily physically oriented self.  You would not think of identifying with one portion of your body and ignoring all other parts, and yet you are doing the same thing when you imagine that the egotistical self carries the burden of your identity.

I am telling you that you are not a cosmic bag of bones and flesh, thrown together through some mixture of chemicals and elements.  I am telling you that your consciousness is not some fiery products formed merely accidentally through the interworkings of chemical components.

You form the physical body that you know at a deeply unconscious level with great discrimination, miraculous clarity and intimate unconscious knowledge of each minute cell that composes it.  This is not meant symbolically.
Now because of your conscious mind, as you think it, is not aware of these activities, you do not identify with this inner portion of yourselves.  But this seemingly unconscious portion of yourself is far more knowledgeable, and upon its smooth functioning your entire physical existence depends.  This portion is conscious, aware, alert.  It is you, who do not listen to it's voice.

I call this seemingly unconscious the "inner ego", for it directs inner activities.  It correlates information that is perceived not through the physical senses, but through other inner channels.  It is the inner perceiver  of reality that exists beyond the three-dimensional.  It carries with it the memory of each of your past existences.  It looks into subjective dimensions that are literally infinite, and from those subjective realities all objective realities flow.

This portion of your identity is quite natively clairvoyant and telepathic.

The "outer ego" and the inner ego operate together, the one to enable you to manipulate in the world that you know, the other to bring you those delicate inner perceptions without physical existence could not be maintained.
There is however a portion of you, the deeper identity who forms both the inner ego and the outer ego, who decided that you would be a physical being in this place and in this time.  This is the core of your identity, the psychic seed from which you sprang, the multidimensional personality of which you are a part.  Where I place the subconscious, imagine it as a meeting place between the outer and inner egos, there are no real divisions to the self, however, so we speak of carious portions only to make the basic idea clear.

You cannot understand yourselves until you rid yourself of the notion that personality is a "here and now" attribute of consciousness.

The self that you know is but one fragment of your entire identity.  These fragment selves are not strung together, however like beads of a string.  They are more like the various skins of an onion or segments of an orange, all connected through the one vitality and growing out into various realities while springing from the same source.  I want to emphasize that as these things grow from within outward, so does each fragment of the entire self.  You observe the outside aspect of objects.  You physical senses permit you to perceive the exterior forms to which you then react, but your physical senses to come extend force you to perceive reality in this manner, and the inside vitality within matter and form is not so apparent.

Nothing exists, neither rock, mineral, plant, animal or air, that is not filled with consciousness of its own kind.  There is no such thing as dead matter.  There is no object that was not formed by consciousness, and each consciousness, regardless of its degree, rejoices in sensation and creativity.  You cannot understand what you are unless you understand such matters.

There are no limitations to the self.  There are no limitations to its potentials.  You can adopt artificial limitations through your own ignorance, however.  You can identify, for example, with your outer ego alone, and cut yourself off from abilities that are a part of you.  The personality is multidimensional.

Now at times I will be using the term "camouflage", referring to the physical world to which the outer ego relates, for physical form is one of the camouflages that reality adopts.  The camouflage is real, and yet there is a much greater reality within it - the vitality that gave it form.  Your physical senses then allow you to perceive this camouflage, for they are attuned to it in a highly specialized manner.  But to sense the reality within the form requires a different sort of attention, and the more delicate manipulations than the physical senses provide.  The ego is a jealous god, and it wants its interests served.  It does not want to admit the reality of any dimensions except those within which is feels comfortable and can understand.

It is not natively as rigid as it seems.  Its curiosity can be of great value.  If you have a limited conception of the nature of reality, then your ego will do its  best to keep you in the small enclosed area of your accepted reality.  If, on the other hand, your intuitions and creative instincts are allowed freedom, then they communicate some knowledge of greater dimensions to this most physically oriented portion of your personality.

Personality is a gestalt of ever-changing perception.  It is the part of the identity which perceives.  I do not force my perceptions upon the woman through whom I speak, nor is her consciousness blotted out during our communications.  Instead there is an expansion of her consciousness and a projection of energy that is directed away from three-dimensional reality.
This concentration away from the physical system may make it appear as if her consciousness is blotted out.  Instead, more is added to it.  Now from my own field of reality I focus my attention toward the woman, but the words she speaks, these words upon the pages, are not initially verbal at all. 
In the first place, language as you know it is a slow affair: letter by letter strung out to make a word, and words to make a sentence, that result of linear thought pattern.  Language as you know it is partially and grammatically the end product of your physical time, and your language structure is not given to the communication of intricate, simultaneous experience.

I am aware of a different kind of experience, not linear, and can focus upon and react to an infinite variety of simultaneous events.  This ability to perceive and to react to unlimited simultaneous events is a basic characteristic of each whole self or entity.  Each reader, being presently ensconced within a physical form knows only a small portion of himself.  The entity is the overall identity of which his personality is one manifestation.  All knowledge or information bears the stamp of the personality who holds it or passes it on.

There is within this personality a rather unique facility that makes our communications possible.  I will put this as simply as possible: There is within this psyche what amounts to a transparent dimensional warp that serves almost like an open window through which other realities can be perceived, a multidimensional opening that has to some extend escaped being clouded over by the shade of physical focus.

The physical senses usually blind you to these open channels, for they perceive reality only in their own image.  To some extent, then, I enter your reality through a psychological warp in your space and time.  In a manner of speaking, such an open channel serves much as a pathway between the author's personality and my own, so that communication is possible between.  Such psychological and psychic warps between dimensions of existence are not infrequent.  They are merely recognized as such infrequently, and utilized even less so.

Edited November 11, 2021 by Loba

[Loba]

Seth Speaks notes - chapter 2

My present environment, work and activities:

While my environment differs in rather important respects from that of my readers, I can assure you, with ironic understatement, that it is as vivid, varied, and vital as physical existence.  It is more pleasurable, though my ideas of pleasure have changed some since I was a physical being, being more rewarding and offering far greater opportunities for creative achievement.  

My present existence is the most challenging one that I have known, and I have known many, both physical and nonphysical.  There is not just one dimension in which nonphysical consciousness resides.

My environment, now, is not like the one in which you will find yourself immediately after death.  I cannot help speaking humorously, but you must die many times before you enter this particular plane of existence.  (Birth is more of a shock than death.  Sometimes when you die you do not realize it, but birth almost always implies a sharp and sudden recognition.  So there is no need to fear death.

My work in this environment provides far more challenge than any of you know, and it also necessitates the manipulation of creative materials that are nearly beyond your present comprehension.  I will say more of this shortly.  First of all, you must understand that no objective reality exists but that which is created by consciousness.  Consciousness always creates form, and not the other way around.  So my environment is a reality of existence created by myself and others like me, and it represents the manifestation of our development.

We do not use permanent structures.  There is not a city or a town, for example, in which I swell.  I do not mean to imply that we are off in empty space.  For one thing we do not think of space as you do, and we form whatever particular images we want to surround us.  They are created by our mental patterns, just as your own physical reality is created in perfect replica of your inner desires and thoughts.  You think that objects exist independently of you, not realizing that they are instead the manifestations of your own psychological and physic selves.  We realize that we form our own reality, and therefore we do so with considerable joy and creative abandon.  In my environment you would be highly disoriented, for it would seem to you as if it lacked coherency.

We are aware if the inner laws that govern all materializations, however.  I can have it night or day, in your terms, as I prefer, or any period of say, your history.  These changing forms would in no way bother my associates for they would take them as immediate clues as to my mood, feelings, and ideas.

Permanency and stability basically have nothing to do with form; but with the integration of pleasure, purpose, accomplishment, and identity.  I travel to many other levels of existence in order to fulfill my duties, which are primarily those of a teacher and educator, and I use whatever aids and techniques serve me best within those systems.  In other words, I may teach the same lesson in many different ways, according to the abilities and assumptions that are inherent in any given system in which I must operate.  I use one portion of myself from many personalities that are available to my identity in these communications.  In other systems of reality, this particular Seth personality that I, the larger Seth identity adopt here, would not be understood.

All systems of reality are not physically oriented, you see, and some are entirely unacquainted with physical form.  Nor is sex, as you understand it, natural to them,  Therefore I would not communicate as a male personality who has lived many physical existences, though this is a legitimate and valid portion of my identity.

Now: In my home environment I assume whatever shape I please and it may vary, and done, with the nature of my thoughts.  You, however, form your own physical image at an unconscious level in more or less the same manner, but with some important differences.  You usually do not realize that your physical body is created by you at each moment as a direct result of your inner conception of what you are, or that it changes in important chemical and electromagnetic ways with the ever-moving pace of your own thought.

Having long ago recognized the dependence of form upon consciousness, we have simply been able to change our forms entirely so that they more faithfully follow each nuance of our inner experience.  This ability to change form is an inherent characteristic of any consciousness.  Only the degree of proficiency and actualization varies.  You can see this in your own system, in a slowed-down version, when you observe the changing forms taken by living matter through its evolutionary history.

Now, we can also take several forms at one time, so to speak, but you can also do this although you do not generally realize it.  Your physical form can lie sleeping and inert upon the bed while your consciousness travels in a dream form to places quite distant.  Simultaneously you may create a thought form of yourself, identical in every respect, and this pay appear in the room of a friend quite without your conscious awareness.  So consciousness is not limited as to the forms it can create at any given time.

We are rather more advanced along these lines than you, and when we create such forms we do so with complete awareness.  I share my field of existence with others who have more or less the same challenges to meet, the same overall pattern of development.  Some I have known and others I have not.  We communicate telepathically, but then again, telepathy is the basis for your languages, without which their symbolism would be meaningless.
Because we do communicate in this manner, this does not necessarily mean that we use mental words, for we do not.  We communicate instead through what I can only call thermal electromagnetic images that are capable of supporting much more meaning in one sequence.  The intensity of the communication is dependent upon the emotional intensity behind it, although the phrase emotional intensity may be misleading.

We do feel an equivalent of what you call emotions, though these are not the love or hate or anger that you know.  Your feelings can best be described as the three-dimensional materializations of far greater psychological events and experienced that are related to the inner senses.

Suffice it here to say that we have strong emotional experience, although it differs in a large measure from your own.  It is far less limited and far more expansive in that we are also aware and responsive to the emotional climate as a whole.  We are much freer to feel and experience, because we are not afraid of being swept up by feeling.
Our identities do not feel threatened, for example, by the strong emotions of another.  We are able to travel through emotions in a wat that is not now natural to you, and to translate them into other facets of creativity than those with which you are familiar.  We do not feel the need to conceal emotions, for we know it is basically impossible and undesirable.  Within your system they can appear troublesome because you have not yet learned how to use them.  We are only now learning their full potential, and the powers of creativity with which they are connected.

Since we realize that our identity is not dependent upon form, therefore, of course, we do not fear changing it, knowing that we can adopt any form we desire.  We do not know death in your terms.  Our existence takes us into many other environments, and we blend into these.  We follow what rules of form exist within these environments.  All of us here are teachers, and we therefore adapt our methods, also, so that they will make sense to personalities with varying ideas of reality.  Consciousness is not dependent upon form.  It always seeks to create form.

There are no real barriers to separate the systems of which I speak.  The only separation is brought about by the varying abilities of personalities to perceive and manipulate.  You exist in the midst of many other systems of reality, for example, but you do not perceive them.  And even when some event intrudes from these systems into your own three dimensional existence, you are not able to interpret it, for it is distorted by the very fact of entry.

I told you that we do not experience you time sequence.  We travel through various intensities.  Our work, development, and experience all takes place within what I term the moment point.  Here within the moment point, the smallest thought is brought to fruition, the slightest possibility explored, the probabilities thoroughly examined, the least or the most forceful feeling entertained.  It is difficult to explain this clearly, and yet the moment point is the framework within which we have our psychological experience.  Within it, simultaneous actions follow freely through associative patterns.  For example, pretend that I think of you.  In so doing I immediately experience - and fully - your past, present and future in your terms, and all of those strong or determining emotions and motivations that have ruled you.  I can travel through those experiences with you, if I choose.  We can follow a consciousness through all of its forms, for example, and in your terms, within the flicker of an eye.

Now it takes study, development, and experience before an identity can learn to hold its own stability in the face of such constant stimuli; and many of us have gotten lost, even forgetting who we were until we once more awakened to ourselves.  Much of this is quite automatic to us now.  In the infinite varieties of consciousness, we are still aware of a small percentage of the entire banks of personalities that exist.  For our vacations we visit amid quite simple life forms, and blend with them.

To this extend we indulge in relaxation and sleep, for we can spend a century as a tree or an an uncomplicated life form in another reality.  We delight our consciousness with the enjoyment of simple existence.  We may create, you see, the forest in which we grow.  Usually however, we are highly active, our full energies focused in our work and in new challenges.

We can form from ourselves, from our own psychological entireties, other personalities whenever we wish.  These, however, must then develop according to their own merit, using the creative abilities inherent in them.  They are free to go their own way.  We do not do this lightly, however.

Each reader is a portion of his or her own entity, and is developing toward the same kind of existence that I know.  In childhood and in the dream state, each personality is aware to some extend of the true freedom that belongs to its own inner consciousness.  These abilities of which I speak, therefore, are inherent characteristics of consciousness as a whole and of each personality.

My environment changes constantly, so does your own.  If a room suddenly appears small and cramped to you, and you take it for granted that this change of dimension is imaginative.  The fact is that the room under such conditions will have changed quite definitely, and in very major respects, even though the physical measurements will still measure the same.  The entire psychological impact of the room will have altered.  Its effect will be felt my others besides yourself.  It will attract certain kinds of events rather than others, and it will alter your own psychological structure and hormonal output.  You will react to the altered state of the room even in quite physical ways, though its width or length, in inches or feet, may not seem to vary.

You are constantly changing the form, the shape, the contour, and the meaning of your physical body and most intimate environment, although you do your best to ignore these constant alterations.  On the other hand, we allow them full rein, knowing that we are motivated by an inner stability that can well afford spontaneity and creation, and realizing that spiritual and psychological identity are dependent upon creative change.
Our environment therefor is composed of exquisite imbalances where change is allowed full play.  You own time structure misleads you into your ideas of the relative permanency of physical matter, and you close your eyes to the constant alterations within it.  Your physical senses confine you as best they can to the perception of a highly formalized reality.  Only through the use of the intuitions and in sleep and dream states, as a rule, can you perceive the joyfully changing nature of your own, and any, consciousness.

There is no end to our environment.  In your terms there would be no lack of space or time in which to operate.  Now this would put tremendous pressure on any consciousness without proper background and development.  We do not have one simple, cozy universe in which to hide.  We are alert to other quite alien systems of reality that flash on the very outskirts of consciousness as we know it.  There are far more various kinds of consciousness than there are physical forms, each with its own patterns of perception, dwelling within its own camouflage system.  Yet all of these have inner knowledge of the reality that exists within all camouflage and that composes any reality, by whatever name it is called.

Now many of these freedoms are quite natural to you in the dream state, and you form dream environments often to exercise such potentials.
You can learn to change your physical environment, therefore, by learning to change and manipulate your dream environment.  You can also suggest specific dreams in which a desired change is seen, and under certain conditions these will then appear in your physical reality.  Now often you do this without realizing it.

Whole consciousness adopts various forms.  It need not always be within a form.  All forms are not physical ones.  Some personalities, therefore, have never been physical.  They have evolved along different lines, and their psychological structures would be alien to your own.

To some extent I also travel through such environments.  Consciousness must show itself, however.  It cannot unbe.  It is not physical, it must therefore show its activation in other ways.  In some systems for example, it forms highly integrated mathematical and musical patterns that are themselves stimuli for other universal systems.

The senses that you use, in a very real manner, create the environment that you perceive.  Your physical senses necessitate the perception of a three-dimensional reality.  Consciousness is equipped with inner perceptors, however.  These are inherent within all consciousness, regardless of its development.  These perceptors operate quite independently from those that might be assumed when a given consciousness adopts a specialized form, such as a physical body, in order to operate in a particular system.

Each reader, therefore, had inner senses, and to some extent uses them constantly, though he is not aware of doing so at an egotistical level.  Now, we use the inner senses quite freely and consciously.  If you were to do so, then you would perceive the same kind of environment in which I have my existence.  You would see an uncamouflaged situation, in which events form and were free and not stuck in a jellylike mold of time.

You could see, for example, you present livingroom not only as a conglomeration of permanent-appearing furniture, but switch your focus and see the immense and constant dance of molecules and other particles that compose the various objects.  You could see a phosphorescent-like glow, the aura of electromagnetic structures that compose the molecules themselves.  You could, if you wished, condense your consciousness until it was small enough to travel through a single molecule, and from the molecule's own world look out and survey the universe of the room and the gigantic galaxy of interrelated, ever-moving star-like shapes.  Now all of these possibilities represent a legitimate reality.  Yours is no more legitimate than any other, but it is the only one that you perceive.  

Using the inner senses we become conscious creators, cocreators.  But you are unconscious cocreators whether you know it or not.  If our environment seems unstructured to you, it is only because you do not understand the true nature of order, which has nothing to do with permanent form, but only appears to have form from your perspective.
There is no four o'clock in the afternoon or nine o'clock in the evening in my environment.  By this I mean that I am not restricted to a time sequence.  There is nothing preventing me from experiencing such sequences if I choose.  We experience time, or what you would call its equivalent nature, in terms of intensities of experience, a psychological time with its own peaks and valleys.

This is somewhat similar to your own emotional feelings when time seems speeded up or slowed down, but it is vastly different in important ways.  Our psychological time could be compared in terms of environment to the walls of a room, but in our case the walls would be constantly changing in colour, size, height, depth and width.

Our psychological structures are different, practically speaking, in that we utilize a multidimensional psychological reality that you inherently possess , but are unfamiliar with at an egotistical level.  It is natural, then, that our environment would have multidimensional qualities that the physical senses would never perceive. 
Now I project a portion of my reality as I dictate this book to an undifferentiated level between systems that is relatively clear of camouflage.  It is an inactive area, comparatively speaking.  If you were thinking it terms of physical reality, then this area could be likened to one immediately above the atmosphere of your earth.  However, I am speaking of psychological and psychic atmospheres.

It is also in a way distance from my own environment, for in my own environment I would have some difficulties in relating the information in psychically oriented terms.  You must understand that by distance I do not refer to space.

Creation and perception are far more intimately connected than any of your scientists realize.
It is quite true that your physical senses create the reality that they perceive.  A tree is something far different to a microbe, a bird, an insect, and a man who stand beneath it.  I am not saying that the tree only appears to be different.  It is different.  You perceive its reality through one highly specialized set of senses.  This does not mean that its reality exists in that form in any more basic way than it exists in the form perceived by the microbe, insect or bird.  You cannot perceive the quite valid reality of that tree in any context but your own.  This applies to anything within the physical system that you know.

It is not that physical reality is false.  It is that the physical picture is simply one of an infinite number of ways of perceiving the various guises through which consciousness expresses itself.  The physical senses force you to translate experience into physical perceptions.  The inner senses open your range of perception, allow you to interpret experience in a far freer manner and to create new forms and new channels through with you, or any consciousness, can know itself.

Consciousness is among other things, a spontaneous exercise in creativity.  You are learning now, in a three-dimensional context, the wats in which your emotional and psychic existence can create varieties of physical form.  You manipulate within the psychic environment, and these manipulations are then automatically impressed upon the physical mold.  Now our environment is itself creative in a different manner than yours.  Your environment is creative in that trees bear fruit, that there is a self-sustaining principle, that the earth feeds its own, for example.  The naturally creative aspects are the materializations of the deepest psychic, spiritual, and physical inclinations of the species, set up in your terms eons ago, and a part of the racial bank of psychic knowledge. 

We endow the elements of our environment with an even greater creativity that is difficult to explain.  We do not have flowers that grow, for example.  But the intensity, the condensed psychic strength in our psychological natures forms new dimensions of activity.  If you paint a picture within three-dimensional existence, then the painting must be on a flat surface, merely hinting at the complete three dimensional experience that you cannot insert into it.  In our environment, however, we could actually create whatever dimensional effects we desired.  All of these abilities are not ours alone.  They are your heritage.  As you will see later in this book, you exercise your own inner senses, and multidimensional abilities, more frequently than it might seem, in other states of consciousness that the normal, waking one.

Since my own environment does not have easily defined physical elements, you will be able to understand its nature by inference, as I explain some related topics throughout this book.
Your own physical environment appears as it does to you because of your own psychological structure.  If you gained your sense of personal continuity through associative processes primarily, rather than as a result of the familiarity of self moving through time, then you would experience physical reality in an entirely different fashion.  Objects from past and present could be perceived at once, their presence justified through associative connections.  Say that your father throughout his lifetime has eight favorite chairs.  If your perceptive mechanisms were primarily set up as a result of intuitive associate rather than time sequence, then you would perceive all of these chairs at one time; or seeing one, you would be aware of the others.  So environment is not a separate thing in itself, but the result of perceptive patterns, and these are determined by psychological structure.

So if you want to know what my environment is like, you will have to understand what I am.  In order to explain, I shall have to speak about the nature of consciousness in general.  In doing so I shall end up telling you much about yourself.  The inner portions of your identity are already aware of much that I will tell you.  Part of my purpose is to acquaint your egotistical self with knowledge that is already known to a larger portion of your own consciousness, that you have long ignored.

All of your attention is focused in a highly specialized way upon one shining, bright point that you call reality.  There are other realities all about you, but you ignore their existence, and you blot out all stimuli that come from them.  There is a reason for such a trance, as you will discover, but little by little you must wake up.

My environment includes, or course, those other personalities with whom I come in contact.  Communication, perception and environment can hardly be separated.  Therefore the kind of communication that is carried on by myself and my associates is extremely important in any discussion of our environment.  I hope to give you an idea, quite simply, of our existence, the world in which we are involved, the dimension in which we exist, the purposes that we hold dear; and most of all, those concerns that make up our experience.

Edited November 11, 2021 by Loba

[Loba]

Seth Speaks notes and examples - chapter 3 

My work and those dimensions of reality into which it takes me:

We are aware of what you would call our past selves, those personalities we have adopted in various other existences.  Because we use telepathy, we can hide little from each other, even if we wished to.  I assure you that even now none of your thoughts are hidden, but are known quite clearly to your family and friends.  You are simply not aware of this fact.

This does not mean that each of us is like an open book to the other.  There is such a thing as mental etiquette.  We are much more aware of our own thoughts than you are.  We realize our freedom to choose our thoughts, and we choose them with some discrimination and finesse.

The power of thoughts has been made clear to us, through trial and error in other existences.  We have discovered that no one can escape the vast creativity of the mental image, or of emotion.  This does not mean that we are not spontaneous, or that we must deliberate between one thought or another, in anxious concern that one might be negative or destructive.  That, in your terms, is behind us.

Our psychological structure does mean that we can communicate in far more various forms than those which you are familiar, however.  Pretend, for example that you meet a childhood friend whom you have long forgotten.  Now you may have little in common.  Yet you may have a fine afternoon's discussion centered about old teachers and classmates, and establish a certain rapport.
So when I meet another, I may be able to relate to him much better on the basis of a particular past life experience, even though in my now we have little in common.

We will be quite aware that we are ourselves, however - the multidimensional personalities who shared a more or less common environment at one level of our existence.  As you will see, this analogy is a rather simple one that will do only for now, because past, present and future do not really exist in those terms.

Our experience does not include the time divisions with which you are familiar.  We have far more friends and associates than you do, simply because we are aware of varying connections in what we call for now past incarnations.

We have of course therefore more knowledge at our fingertips.  There is no period of time, in your terms, that you can mention, but some of us have been from there, and carry within our memories the indelible experience that was gained in that particular context.  We do not feel the need to hide our emotions or thoughts from others, because all of us by now well recognize the cooperative nature of all consciousness and reality, and our part in it.  We are highly motivated.  Simply because we have at out command the full use of our energy, it is not diverted into conflicts.

Now each whole self, or multidimensional personality, has its own purposes, missions, and creative endeavors that are initial and basic parts of itself and that determine those qualities that make it eternally valid and eternally seeking.  We are finally free to utilize our energy in those directions.  We face many challenges of quite momentous nature, and we realize that our purposes are not only important in themselves, but for the surprising offshoots that develop in our efforts to pursue them.  In working for our purposes, we realize that we are blazing trails that can also be used by others.  We also suspect that the purposes themselves will have surprising results, astounding consequences that we have never realized, and that they will merely lead to new avenues.

When one has been born and has died many times, expecting extinction with each death, and when this experience is followed by the realization that existence still continues, then a sense of the divine comedy enters in.

We are beginning to learn the creative joy of play and that all creativity and consciousness is born in the quality of play, as opposed to work, in the quickened intuitional spontaneity that I see as a constant through all my own existences, and in the experience of those I know.  I communicate with your dimension, for example, not by willing myself to your level of reality, but by imagining myself there.  All of my deaths would have been adventures had I realized what I know now.  On the one hand you take life too seriously, and on the other, you do not take playful existence seriously enough. 

We enjoy a sense of play that is highly spontaneous, and yet I suppose you would call it responsible play.  Certainly it is creative play.  We play, for example, with the mobility of our consciousness, seeing how far one can send it.

The pathways we make continue to exist and can be used by others.  We leave messages to any who come by, mental signposts.  We can be highly motivated therefore, and yet use and understand the creative use of play, both as a method of attaining our goals and purposes and as a uprising and creative endeavor in itself.

Often the material I present will initially be given without any sign of my presence, seemingly as a startling revelation.

In your system, for example, and in connection with the woman through whom I now write this book, initial contact on my part was made long before our session began.  The personality was never consciously aware of the initial meeting.  She simply experienced sudden new thoughts, and since she is a poet, these appeared as poetic inspirations.  I had known of her psychic gifts since her childhood, but the insights necessary were channeled through the poetry until the personality attainted the necessary background that was needed in this particular case.
As a part of my work, therefore, I have been coaching the young woman in one way or another, all of this as a preliminary to the serious world that began with our sessions.

 

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Won't you be my dictionary
Won't you translate fun
Into something necessary
Inter uni sun

Won't you be my dictionary
Can't I be very necessary
Inter uni fun
Comes back

Satellites they mix you up
And hypnotize you with the sound
Reproducing would fuck you up
And make you forget what you found

Won't you be my dictionary
Can't I be very necessary
Inter uni fun
Comes back

Space as you perceive it simply does not exist.  Not only is the illusion of space caused by your own physical perceptive mechanisms, but it is also caused by mental patterns that you have accepted - patterns that are adopted by consciousness when it reaches a certain stage of evolution within your system.

When you arrive, or emerge, into physical life, not only is your mind not a blank slate, waiting for the scrolls that experience will write upon it, but you are already equipped with a memory bank far surpassing that of any computer.  You face your first day upon the planet with skills and abilities already built in, thought they may or may not be used; and they are not merely the result of heredity as you think of it.

You may think of your soul or entity as some conscious and living, divinely inspired computer who programs its own existences and lifetimes.  But this computer is so highly endowed with creativity that each of the various personalities it programs spring into consciousness and song, and in turn create realities that may have been undreamed of by the computer itself.

Within the personality, however, comes with a built-in idea of the reality in which it will operate, and its mental equipment is highly tailored to meet very specialized environments.  It has full freedom, but it must operate within the context of existence to which it has been programmed.  Within the personality, however, in the most secret recesses, is the condensed knowledge that resides in the computer as a whole.  I must emphasize that I am not sating that the soul or entity is a computer, but only asking you to look at the matter in this light in order to make several points clear.

Each such personality has within it the ability to not only gain a new type of existence in the environment - in your case physical reality - but to add creatively to the very quality of its own consciousness, and in doing so to work its way through the specialized system, breaking the barriers of reality as it knows it.

Your environment is not real in the terms that you imagine it to be.  When you are born, then, you are already conditioned to perceive reality in a certain manner, and to interpret experience in a very limited but intense range.
I must explain this before I can clearly give you an idea of my environment, or of those other systems of reality in which I operate.  There is no space between my environment and yours, for example no physical boundaries that separate us.  In a very real way of speaking, you concept of reality as seen through your physical senses, scientific instruments, or arrived at through deduction, bears little resemblance to the facts - and the facts are difficult to explain.

Your planetary systems exist and once, simultaneously, both in time and in space.  The universe that you seem to perceive, either visually or through instruments, appears to be composed of galaxies, stars and planets, at various distances from you.  Basically, however, this is an illusion.  You senses and your very existence as physical creatures program you to perceive the universe in such a way.  The universe as you know it is your interpretation of evens as the intrude upon your three-dimensional reality.  The events are mental.  This does not meat that you cannot travel to other planets for example, within that physical universe, any more than it means that you cannot use tables to hold books, glasses and oranges, although the table has no solid qualities of its own.
When I enter your system, I move through a series of mental and psychic events.  You would interpret these events as space and time.
Root assumptions are those built-in ideas of reality of which I spoke - those agreements upon which you base your ideas of existence.  Space and time, for example, are root assumptions.  Each system of reality has its own set of such agreements.

The entity, or the soul has a far more creative and complicated nature than even your religions have ever granted it.  It utilized numberless methods of perception, and it has at its command many other kinds of consciousness.  Your idea of the soul is indeed limited by your three dimensional concepts.  The soul can change to focus of its consciousness, and uses consciousness as you use the eyes in your head.  Now in my level of existence I am simply aware of the fact, strange as it may seem, that I am not y consciousness.  My consciousness is an attribute to be used by me.  Soul, or entity, then, is more than consciousness.
When I enter your environment, I turn my consciousness in your direction, therefore.  In one way, I translate what I am into an event that you can understand to some extent.  In a much more limited manner, any artist does the same thing when he translates what he is, or a portion of it, into a painting.

When I enter your system, I intrude into three-dimensional reality, and you must interpret what happens in the light of your own root assumptions.  Now whether or not you realize it, each of you intrudes into other systems of reality in your dream states without the full participation of your normally conscious self.  In subjective experience you leave behind physical existence and act, at times, with strong purpose and creative validity within dream that you forget the instant you awaken.

When you think of the purpose of your existence, you think in terms of daily waking life, but you also work at your purpose in these other dream dimensions, and you are then in communication with other portions of your own entity, at work at endeavors quite as valid as those you are about in waking life. 

When I contact your reality, therefore, it is as if I were entering one of your dreams.  I can be aware of myself as I dictate this book, and yet also be aware of myself in my own environment; for I send only a portion of myself here, as you perhaps send out a portion of your consciousness as you write a letter to a friend, and yet are aware of the room in which you sit.  My environment, as I mentioned earlier, is not one of a personality decently dead in your terms.  One large difference between your environment and mine is that you must physically materialize mental acts as physical matter.

Remember also that is physical reality is in a larger sense an illusion, it is an illusion caused by a greater reality.  The illusion itself has a purpose and a meaning.  Perhaps it is better to say that physical reality is one form that reality takes.  In your system, however, you are focused much more intensely upon one relatively small aspect of existence.
We can travel freely through such varying numbers of such realities.  I do not mean to minimize the importance of your present personalities, nor of physical existence.  To the contrary.
Three-dimensional experience is an invaluable place of training.  Your personality as you now know it will indeed persevere, and with its memories, but it is only a part of your entire identity.  You will continue to grow and develop, and you will become aware of other environments.  But environments are not objective things, conglomerations of objects that exist independently of you.  Instead you form them and they are quite literally extensions of yourself; materialized mental acts that extend outward from your consciousness.  
I will tell you exactly now you form your environment.  I form mine following the same rules, though you end up with physical objects and I do not.  The mind can influence matter.  Mind creates and forms matter.

Now your closest environment, physically speaking, is your body.  It is not like some manikin-shape in which you are imprisoned, that exists apart from you like a casing.  Your body is not beautiful or ugly, healthy or deformed, swift or slow simply because this is the kind of body that was thrust upon you indiscriminately at birth.  Instead your physical form, your corporeal personal environment, is the physical materialization of your own thoughts, emotions and interpretations.

Quite literally, the inner self forms the body by magically transforming thoughts and emotions into physical counterparts.  You grow the body.  Its condition perfectly mirrors your subjective state at any given time.  Using atoms and molecules, you build your body, forming basic elements into a form that you call your own.

You are intuitively aware that you form your image, and that you are independent of it.  You do not realize that you create your larger environment and the physical world as you know it by propelling your thoughts and emotions into matter - a breakthrough into three-dimensional life.  The inner self, therefore, individually and en masse, sends its psychic energy out, forming tentacles that coalesce into form.

Each emotion and thought has its own electromagnetic reality, completely unique.  It is highly equipped to combine with certain others, according to the various ranges of intensity that you may include.  In a manner of speaking, three-dimensional objects are formed in somewhat the same way that you see on your television screen are formed, but with a large difference.  And if you are not tuned into that particular frequency, you will not perceive the physical objects at all.

Each of you acts as transformers, unconsciously, automatically transforming highly sophisticated electromagnetic units into physical objects.  You are in the middle of a matter-concentrated system, surrounded, so to speak, by weaker areas in what you would call a pseudo-matter persists.  Each thought and emotion spontaneously exists as a simple or complex electromagnetic unit - unperceived, incidentally, as yet by your scientists.

The intensity determines both the strength and the permanency of the physical image into which the thought or emotion will be materialized.  In my own material I am explaining this in depth.  Here, I merely want you to understand that the world that you know is the reflection of an inner reality.

You are made basically of the some ingredients as a chair, a stone, a head of lettuce, a bird.  In a gigantic cooperative endeavor, all consciousness joins together to make the forms that you perceive.  How because this is known to us, we can change our environments and our own physical forms as we wish, and without confusions, for we perceive the reality that lies underneath.  

We also realize that permanency of form is an illusion, since all consciousness must be in a state of change.  We can be, in your terms, in several places at once because we realize the true mobility of consciousness.  Now whenever you think emotionally of another person, you send out a counterpart of yourself, beneath the intensity of matter, but a definite form.  This form, projecting outward from your own consciousness completely escapes your egotistical attention.  When I think emotionally of someone else, I do the same thing, except that a portion of my consciousness is within the image, and can communicate.

Environments are primarily mental creations of consciousness trust out into many forms.  Now you do the same thing when you sit in your livingroom, but you do not realize what you are doing; and presently you are somewhat restricted.  When my associates and I meet, we often translate each other's thoughts into various shapes and forms out of pure enjoyment in the practice.  We have what you might call a game, demanding some expertise, where for our own amusement we see which of us can translate any given thought into the most numerous forms.

There are such subtle qualities affecting the nature of all thought, such emotion gradations, that no one is ever identical, and incidentally no physical object in your system is an exact duplicate of any other.  The atoms and molecules that compose it - any object - have their own identities that colour and qualify any object that they form.  You accept and perceive and focus upon continuities and similarities as you perceive physical objects of any kind, and in a very important manner you shut out and ignore dissimilarities out of a given field of actuality.  Therefore you are very highly discriminating, accepting certain qualities and ignoring others.  Your bodies not only change completely every seven years, for example.  They change constantly with each breath.

Within the flesh, atoms and molecules constantly die and are replaced.  The hormones are in a constant state of motion and alteration.  Electromagnetic properties of skin and cell continually leap and change, and even reverse themselves.  The physical matter that composed your body is different in important ways from the matter that forms your body in this instant.
If you perceived the constant change within your body which as much persistence as you attend to its seemingly permanent nature, then you would be amazed that you ever considered the body as one more or less constant, more or less cohesive, entity.  Even subjectively you focus upon and indeed manufacture the idea of a relatively stable, relatively permanent conscious self.  You stress those ideas and thoughts and attitudes that you recall from past experience as your own, completely ignoring those that were once characteristic and now are vanished - ignoring the fact also that you cannot hold thought.  The thought of a moment before, in your terms, vanishes away.

You try to maintain a constant, relatively permanent physical and subjective self in order to maintain a relatively constant, relatively permanent environment.  So you are always in a position of ignoring such change.  Those that you refuse to acknowledge are precisely those that would give you a much better understanding of the true nature of reality, individual subjectivity, and the physical environment that seems to surround you.

What happens to a thought when it leaves your conscious mind?  It does not simply disappear.  You can learn to follow it, but you are usually frightened of turning your attention away from its intense focus in three-dimensional existence.  Therefore, it seems that the thought disappears.  It seems also that your subjectivity has a mysterious unknown quality about it, and that even your mental life has a sort of insidious dropping-off point, a subjective cliff over which thoughts and memories fall, to disappear into nothingness.  Therefore to protect yourself, to protect your subjectivity from drifting, you erect various psychological barriers at what you suppose to be the danger points.  Instead, you see, you can follow these thoughts and emotions simply by realizing that your own reality continues in another direction, beside the one with which you mainly identify.  For these thoughts and emotions that have left your conscious mind will lead you into other environments.

These subjective openings through which thoughts seem to disappear are in fact like psychic warps, connecting the self that you know with other universes of experience - realities where symbols come to life and thoughts are not denied their potential. 

There is communication between these other realities and your own dream states, and a constant interaction between both systems.  If there is any point where your own consciousness seems to elude you or escape you, or if there is any point where your consciousness seems to end, then these are points where you have yourselves set up psychological barriers, and these are precisely those areas that you should explore.  Otherwise you feel as if your consciousness is enclosed within your skull, immobile and constricted, and every lost thought or forgotten memory at least symbolically seems like a small death.  And such is not the case.

Edited November 11, 2021 by Loba

[Loba]

Seth Speaks notes - chapter 4:

Reincarnational dramas:

Your own environment includes far more than you may have supposed.  Earlier I referred to your environment in terms of the daily physical existence and surroundings with which you are currently connected.  In actuality, you are aware of very little of your larger, more extensive environment.  Consider your present self as an actor in a play; hardly a new analogy, but a suitable one.  The scene is set in the twentieth century.  You create the props, the settings, the themes; in fact you write, produce, and act in the entire production - you and every other individual who takes part.

You are so focused in your roles, however; so intrigued by the reality that you have created, so entranced by the problems, challenges, hopes, and sorrows of your particular roles that you have forgotten they are of your own creation.  This intensely moving drama, with all its joys and tragedies, can be compared with your present life, your present environment, both individually and en masse.

But there are other plays going on simultaneously, in which you also have a part to play.  These have their own scenery, their own props.  They take place in different periods of time.  One may be called "Life in the twelfth century A.D." or "in A.D. 3000".  You also create these plays and act in them.  These settling also represent your environment, the environment that surrounds your entire personality.

I am speaking of the portion of you who is taking part in this particular period piece, however; and that particular portion of your entire personality is so focused within this drama that you are not aware of the others in which you also play a role.  You do not understand your own multidimensional reality; therefore it seems strange or unbelievable when I tell you that you live many existences at one time.  It is difficult for you to imagine being in two places at once, much less in two or more times, or centuries.

Time is not a series of moments.  The words that you speak, the acts that you perform, appear to take place in time, as a chair or table appears to take up space.  These appearances, however are a part of the complicated props that you have set up beforehand, and within the play you must accept these as real.
Four o'clock in the afternoon is a handy reference.  You can say to a friend, "I will meet you at four o'clock at the corner," or at a restaurant, for a drink or a chat or a meal, and your friend will know precisely where and when he will find you.  This will happen despite the fact that four o'clock in the afternoon has no basic meaning, but is an agreed-upon designation.  If you attend the theatre at none o'clock in the evening, but the actions of the play take place within the morning hours, and the actors are shown eating breakfast, you accept the time as given within the theatre's play.  You also pretend that it is morning.

Each of you are now involved in a much larger production, in which you all agree on certain basic assumptions that serve as a framework within which the play can occur.  The assumptions are that time is a series of moments one after another; that an objective world exists quite independently of your own creation and perception of it; that you are bound within the physical bodies that you have donned; and that you are limited by time and space.

Other assumptions accepted for the same reason include the idea that all perception comes through your physical senses; in other words, that all information comes from without, and that no information can come from within.  You therefore are forced to focus intensely upon the actions of the play.  Now these various plays, these creative period pieces represent what you would call reincarnational lives.

They all exist basically at one time.  Those who are still involved in these highly complicated passion-play seminars called reincarnational existences, find it difficult to see beyond them.  Some, resting between productions, as it were, try to communicate with those who are still taking part; but they themselves are merely in the wings, so to speak, and can only see so far.

The plays seem to be taking place one before the other, and so these communications seem to intensify the false idea that time is a series of moments, passing in a single line from some inconceivable beginning, to some equally inconceivable end.

This leads you to think it terms of a very limited progress, both in individual terms and in terms of your species as a whole.  You think, those of you who have even considered reincarnation, "Well, certainly the race must have progressed from the time of the Middle Ages," although you greatly fear it has not; or you turn to technological progress and say, "At least we have come a long way in that direction."
You may smile and think to yourself that it is quite difficult to imagine a Roman senator addressing the multitudes through a microphone for example; his children, watching his performance on television.  But all of this is highly misleading.  Progress does not exist in the terms that you consider it to, any more than time does.

In each play, both individually and en masse, different problems are set up.  Progress can be measured in terms of the particular ways in which those problems were solved or not solved.  Great advances have been made in certain periods.  For example, great offshoots appeared that from your viewpoint you might not consider progress at all.

In some plays, generally speaking, the actors are each working on a seemingly minute portion of a larger problem that the play itself is to resolve.
Though I use the analogy 'drama', these plays are highly spontaneous affairs in which the actors have full freedom within the play's framework.  And granting these assumptions that have been stated, there are no rehearsals.  There are observers.  As in any good theatre production, there is an overall theme within each play.  The great artists, for example, did not emerge out of a particular time simply because they were born into it, or because the conditions were favorable. 

The play itself was concerned with the actualization of intuitive truth into what you would call artistic form, with a creativity of such vast and sweeping results that is would serve to awaken latent abilities within each actor and to serve as a model of behaviour.

Periods of renaissance - spiritual, artistic, or psychic - occur because the intense inner focus of those involved in the drama are directed towards those ends.  The challenge may be different in each play, but the great themes are beacons to all consciousness.  They serve as models.

Progress has nothing to do with time, you see, but with psychic and spiritual focus.  Each play is entirely different from any other.  It is not correct, therefore, to suppose that your actions in this life are caused by a previous existence, or that you are being punished in this life for crimes in a past one.  The lives are simultaneous.  

Your own multidimensional personality is so endowed that it can have these experiences and still retain it's identity.  It is, of course, affected, by the various plays in which it takes part.  There is an instant communication and an instant feedback system.

These plays are hardly without purpose.  In them the multidimensional personality learns through its own actions.  It tries out an endless variety of poses, behavior patterns, attitudes, and changes others as a result.
The word result automatically infers cause and effect - the cause happening before the effect, and this is simply one small example of the strength of such distortions, and of the inherent difficulties involved with verbal thought, for it always implies a single-line delineation. 

You are the multidimensional self who has these existences, who creates and takes part in these cosmic passion plays, so to speak.  It is only because you focus in this particular role now that you identify your entire being with it.  You have set these rules for yourself for a reason.  And consciousness is in a state of becoming, and so this multidimensional self of which I speak is not a psychological structure completed and done with.  It is also in a state of becoming.

It is learning the art of actualization.  It has within it infinite sources of creativity, unlimited possibilities of development.  But it has yet to learn the means of actualization, and must find within itself ways to bring into existence those untold creations that are within it.  Therefore it creates varieties of conditions in which to operate, and sets itself challenged, some doomed to failure in your terms, at least initially, because it must first create the conditions which will bring new creations about.  And all of this is done with great spontaneity and unbounded joy.

You therefore create far more environments than you realize.  Now each actor, going about the role, focused within the play, has an inner guide line.  He is not left, therefore, abandoned within a play that he has forgotten in his own creation.  He has knowledge and information that comes to him through what I call the inner senses.

He has other sources of information, therefore, than those strictly given within the confines of the production.  Each actor knows this instinctively, and there are periods set and allowed for within the play itself in which each actor retires in order to refresh himself.  In these he is informed through the inner senses of his other roles, and he realizes that he is far more than the self appearing in any given play.

In these periods he understands that he had his hand in the writing of the play, and he is freed from those assumptions that bind him while he is actively concerned with the drama's activities.  These periods, of course, coincide with your sleep states and dreaming conditions; but there are also other times when each actor sees quite clearly that he is surrounded by props, and when his vision suddenly pieces the seeming reality of the productions.

This does not mean that the play is not real, or that it should not be taken seriously.  It does mean playing a role - an important one.  Each actor must of himself realize, however, the nature of the production and his part in it.  He must actualize himself out of the three-dimensional confines of the play's setting.

There is great cooperation behind such momentous productions, and in playing his role, each actor first actualizes himself within three-dimensional reality.  This multidimensional self cannot act within three dimensional reality until it materializes a portion of itself within it.  
Within this reality, it them brings about all kinds of creativity and development that could not appear otherwise.  It must then propel itself from this system through another act, another actualization on the part of itself that is three-dimensional.  During its three-dimensional existence it has helped others in ways that they could not otherwise be helped, and it has been itself benefited and developed in ways that would be impossible otherwise.

The meaning of the play is within you, therefore.  It is only the conscious portion of you that acts so well, and that is focused so securely within the props of the production.  The purpose of any given life is available to you, the knowledge beneath the surface of the conscious self you know.  All kinds of hints and clues are also available.  You have the knowledge of your entire multidimensional personality at your fingertips.  When you realize that you do, this knowledge allows you to solve the problems or meet the challenges you have set, quicker, in your terms; and also opens further areas of creativity by which the entire play or production can be enriched.

To the extend that you allow the intuitions and knowledge of the multidimensional self to flow through the conscious self, to that extent not only do you perform your role in the paly more effectively, but you add new insights, creativity and energy to the entire dimension.

Now it seems to you, of course, that you are the only conscious part of yourself, for you are identifying with the actor in this particular production.  The other portions of your multidimensional personality, in these other reincarnational plays, are also conscious, however.  And because you are a multidimensional consciousness, "you" are also conscious in other realities beside these.

Your multidimensional personality, your true identity, the real you, is conscious of itself, as itself, in any of these roles.
These "period pieces" overall, have a particular purpose.  By the very nature of consciousness, it seeks to materialize itself in as many dimensions as possible - to create from itself new levels of awareness, new offshoots.  In doing so it creates all reality.  Reality, therefore, is always in a state of becoming.  The thoughts you think, for example, in your actor's roles, are still completely unique and lead to new creativity.  Certain aspects of your own consciousness could be fulfilled in no other way.

When you think of reincarnation, you suppose a series of progressions.  Instead the various lives grow out of what your inner self is.  They are not thrust upon you by some outside agency.  They are a material development, as your consciousness opens up and expresses itself in as many ways as possible.  It is not restricted to one three-dimensional existence alone.
Your consciousness then takes many forms, and these forms need not be alike any more, say, than a caterpillar is like a butterfly.  The soul or entity has complete freedom of expression.  It changes its form to suit its expression, and it forms environments like stage settings, and worlds to suit its purposes.  Each setting brings form new developments.

The soul or entity is highly individualized spiritual energy.  It forms whatever body you now wear, and is the motive power behind your physical survival, for from it you derive your vitality.  Consciousness can never be still, but seeks further creativity.
The soul, or entity, endows three-dimensional reality, and the three-dimensional self with its own properties.  The abilities of the entity lie within the three-dimensional self.  The three-dimensional self, the actor, has access to this information and to these potentials.  In learning to use these potentials, in learning to rediscover its relationship with the entity, the three-dimensional self raises still further the level of achievement, comprehension, and creativity.  The three-dimensional self becomes more than it knows.

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Twice I turn my back on you
I fell flat on my face but didn't lose
Tell me where would I go
Tell me what led you on I'd love to know

Was it the blue night
Gone fragile?
Was it both men
In wonder steady gone under?
Was it the light ways
So frightening?
Was it two wills?
One mirror holding us dearer now

I thought I had an answer once
But your random ways swept me along
Colossal signs so I got lost
With so many lovers singing soft

Now only is the entity strengthened, but portions of it, having been actualized in three-dimensional existence, now add to the very quality and nature of that existence.  Without this creativity, planetary life in your terms would always be sterile.  The soul or entity then gives breath to the body, and to the three-dimensional self within it.  The three-dimensional self then goes about its purpose of opening up new areas of creativity.
Entities, or souls in other words, send out portions of themselves to open up avenues of reality that would not exist otherwise.

The three-dimensional selves, in existing within these realities must focus their attention there completely.  An inner awareness gives them a source of energy and strength.  They must, however, comes to understand their roles as actors, "finally" from their roles, and through another act of comprehension, return to the entity.

There are those who appear within these plays fully away.  These personalities willingly take roles, knowing that they are roles, in order to lead the others toward the necessary realization and development.  They lead the actors to see beyond themselves and settings they have created.  These personalities from other levels of existence oversee the play, so to speak, and appear among the actors.  Their purpose is the open up within the three-dimensional selves those psychological doorways that will release the three-dimensional self for further development in another system of reality.

 

You are learning to be co-creators.  You are learning to be Gods as you now understand the term.  You are learning responsibility - the responsibility of any individualized consciousness.  You are learning to handle the energy that is yourself, for creative purposes.

You will be bound to those you love and those you hate, though you will learn to release and lose and dissipate the hatred.  You will learn to use even hatred creatively and to turn it to the higher ends, to transform it finally into love.

The settings in your physical environment, the sometimes lovely paraphernalia, the physical aspects of life as you know it, are all camouflages are composed of the vitality of the universe.  The rocks and stones and mountains and earth are living camouflage, interlocking psychic webs formed by minute consciousnesses that you cannot perceive as such.  The atoms and molecules within them have their own consciousness, as do the atoms and molecules with your body.  Since you all have a hand in forming the physical setting, and since you are ensconced yourself in a physical form, then using the physical senses you will only perceive this fantastic setting.  The reality that exists both within it and beyond it will elude you.  Even the actor is not entirely three-dimensional, however.  He is part of a multidimensional self.

Within him there are methods of perception that allow him to see through the camouflage settings, to see beyond the stage.  He uses these inner senses constantly, through the actor part of himself is so intent upon the play that this escapes him.  In a large manner, the physical senses actually form the physical reality they seem to only perceive.  They are themselves part of the camouflage, but they are like lenses over your natural inner perceptions that force you to see an available field of activity as physical matter; and so they can be relied upon only to tell you what is happening in a superficial manner.  You can tell the position of other actors, for example, or time, by clock, but these physical senses will not tell you that time is itself a camouflage, or that consciousness forms the other actors, or that realities that you cannot see exist over and beyond the physical matter that is so apparent.

You can, however, using your inner senses, perceive reality as it exists apart from the play and your role in it.  In order to do this you must momentarily turn your attention away from the constant activity that is taking place - turn off the physical senses, as it were - and switch you attention to those events that have escaped you earlier.

The effect would be something like changing one set of glasses for another, for the physical senses are as artificial, basically speaking, to the inner self, as a set of glasses or hearing aids is to the physical self.  The inner senses are but rarely used completely consciously.

You would be more than disoriented, for example, but quite terrified, if between one moment and the next your familiar environment was you knew it disappeared to be replaced by other sets of data that you were not yet ready to understand, so much information from the inner senses must be translated in terms that you can comprehend.  Such information must somehow make sense to you as three-dimensional selves, in other words.

Your particular set of camouflages is not the only set, you see.  Other realities have entirely different systems, but all personalities have inner senses that are attributes of consciousness, and through these inner senses communications are maintained about which the normally conscious self knows very little.  Part of my purpose is to make some of these communications known.

The soul or entity, then, is not the self that reads this book.  You environment is not simply the world about you as you know it, but also consists of past-life environments upon which you are not now focusing.  Your real environment is innocent of space and time as you know them.  In your real environment you have no need for words, for communication is instantaneous.  In your real environment you form the physical world that you know.

The inner senses will allow you to perceive the reality that is independent of physical form.  I will ask you all to momentarily forsake your roles therefore, and to try this simple exercise:

Pretend that you are on a lighted stage, the stage being the room in which you now sit.  Close your eyes and pretend that the lights have gone out, the setting has disappeared and you are alone.  Everything is dark.  Be quiet.  Imagine as vividly as you can the existence of inner senses.  For now pretend that they correspond to your physical ones.  Clear from your mind all thoughts and worries.  Be receptive.  Very gently listen, not to physical sounds but to sounds that come through the inner senses.

Images may begin to appear.  Accept them as sights quite as valid as those you see physically.  Pretend that there is an inner world, and that it will be revealed to you as you learn to perceive it with these inner senses.
Images may begin to appear.  Accept them as sights quite valid as those you see physically.  Pretend that there is an inner world, and that it will be revealed to you as you learn to perceive it with these inner senses.

Pretend that you have been blind to this world all your life, and are now slowly gaining sight within it.  Do not judge the whole inner world by the disjointed images that you may at first perceive, or by the sounds that you may first hear, for you will still be using your inner senses quite imperfectly.

Do this simple exercise for a few moments before sleep or in the resting state.  It may also be done even in the midst of an ordinary task that does not take all of your attention.
You will simply be learning to focus in a new dimension of awareness, taking quick snapshots, as it were, in a strange environment.  Remember that you will only be perceiving snatches.  Simply accept them, but do not attempt to make any overall judgements or interpretations at this stage.

Ten minutes a day to begin with is quite sufficient.  Now the information in this book is being directed to some extent through the inner senses of the woman who is in trance as I write it.  Such endeavor is the result of highly organized inner precision, and of training.  The inner senses are channels that provide communication between various dimensions of existence.  Yet even here the information must be distorted to some extent as it is translated into physical terms.  Otherwise it would not be perceived at all.

I have spent some time emphasizing the fact that each of us forms our own environment, because I want you to realize that the responsibility for your life and your environment is your own.
If you believe otherwise, then you are limited; your environment then represents the sum total of knowledge and experience.  As long as you believe your environment to be objective and independent of yourself, then to a large extent you feel powerless to change it, to see beyond it, or to imagine other alternatives that may be less apparent.

I have also discussed reincarnation in terms of environment because many schools of thought over-emphasize the effects of reincarnational existences, so that often they explain present-life circumstances as a result of rigid and uncompromising patterns determined in a past life.  You will feel relatively incompetent to handle present physical reality, to alter your environment, to affect and change your world, if you feel that you are at the mercy of conditions over which you have no control.

The reasons given for such subjugations matter little in the long run, for the reasons change with the times and with your culture.  You are not under a sentence placed upon you for original sin, by any childhood events,  or by past-life experience.  Your life, for example, may be far less fulfilling than you think you would prefer.  You may be less when you would be more, but you are not under a pall placed upon your psyche, either by original sin, Freud's infancy syndromes, or past-life influences.  I will try to explain the last life influences a bit more clearly here.  The affect you as any experience does.  Time is not closed, however - it is open.  One life is not buries in the past, disconnected from the present self and any future self as well.

As I explained earlier, the loves or the plays are happening at once.  Creativity and consciousness are never linear achievements.  In each life you choose and create your own settings or environments; and in this one you chose your parents and whatever childhood incidents that came within your experience.  You wrote the script.

Like a true absent-minded professor, the conscious self forgets all this, so when tragedy appears in the script, difficulty or challenges, the conscious self looks for someone or something to blame.  Before this book is done I hope to show you precisely how you create each minute of your experience so that you can begin to exert your true creative responsibility on a conscious level - or nearly so.

As you read this book, now and then look about you at the room in which you sit.  Chairs and tables, the ceilings and the floors, may seem very real and solid - quite permanent - while you by contrast may feel yourself to be highly vulnerable, caught in a moment between birth and extinction.  You may even feel jealous when you think of it, imagining that the physical universe will continue to exist long after you are gone.  By the end of our book, however, I hope you will realize the eternal validity of your own consciousness, and the impermanence of those physical aspects of your environment, and of your universe, that now seem so secure.

[Loba]

Seth Speaks chapter 5 notes and examples:

How thoughts form matter - coordination points

As you read the words upon this page, you realize that the information that you are receiving is not an attribute of the letter of the words themselves.  The printed line does not contain information.  It transmits information.  Where is the information that is being transmitted then, if it is not on the page.
The same question of course applies when you read a newspaper and when you speak to another person.  Your actual words convey information, thoughts and feelings.  Obviously the thoughts or the feelings and the words, are not the same thing.  The letters upon the page are symbols, and you have agreed upon various meanings connected with them.  You take it for granted without even thinking of it that the symbols, the letters, are not the reality, the information or thoughts, which they attempt to convey.

Now in the same way, I am telling you that objects are also symbols that stand for a reality whose meaning the objects, like the letters, transmit.  The true information is not in the objects any more than the thought is in the letters or in words.  Words are methods of expression.  So are physical objects in a different kind of medium.  You are used to the idea that you express yourselves directly through words.  You can hear yourself speak them.  You can feel the muscles in your throat move, and if you are aware, you can perceive multitudinous reactions within your own body - actions that all accompany your speech.

Physical objects are the result of another kind of expression.  You create them as surely as you create words.  I do not mean that you create them with your hands alone, or through manufacture.  I mean that objects are natural by-products of the evolution of your species, even as words are.  Examine for a moment your knowledge of your own speech, however.  Though you hear the words and recognize their appropriateness, and though they may more or less approximate an expression of your feeling, they are not your feeling, and there must be a gap between your thought and your expression of it.

The familiarity of speech begins to vanish when you realize that you, yourself, when you begin a sentence do not know precisely how you will end it, or even how you form the words.  You do not consciously know how you manipulate a staggering pyramid of symbols, pick from them precisely those you need to express a given thought.  For that matter, you do not know how you think.

You do not know how you translate these symbols upon this page into thoughts, and then store them, or make them your own.  Since the mechanisms of normal speech are so little known to you on a conscious level, then it is not surprising that you are equally unaware of more complicated tasks that you also perform, such as the constant creation of your physical environment as a method of communication and expression.  It is only from this viewpoint that the true nature of physical matter can be understood.  It is only by comprehending the nature of this constant translation of thoughts and desires, not into words now, but into physical object, that you can realize your true independence from circumstance, time, and environment.

Now, it is easy to see that you translate feelings into words or bodily expressions and gestures, but not quite as easy to realize that you form your physical body as effortlessly and unselfconsciously as you translate feelings into symbols that become words.

You have heard the expression before, I am sure, that the environment expresses a particular individual's personality.  I am telling you that this is a literal and not symbolic truth.  The letters upon the page have the reality only of ink and paper.  The information they convey is invisible.  As an object, this book itself is only paper and ink.  It is a carrier of information.

You may perhaps argue that the book was manufactured physically, and did not suddenly erupt through the author's skull, already printed and bound.  You in turn had to borrow or purchase the book, so you may think, "Surely, I did not create the book, as I created my words."  But before we are finished we will see that basically speaking, each of you create the book you hold in your hands, and that you entire physical environment comes as naturally out of your inner mind as words come out of your mouths, and that man forms physical objects as unselfconsciously and as automatically as he forms his own breath.

The peculiar, particular aspects of your physical world and dependent upon you existence and focus within it.  The physical universe does not contain physical objects of solidity, width and depth, for example, to those whose existence is not within it.

Other kinds of consciousness coexist within the same space that your world inhabits.  They do not perceive your physical objects, for their reality is composed of a different camouflage structure.  You do not perceive them, and generally speaking they do not perceive you.  This is a general statement, however, for various points of your realities can and do coincide, so to speak.

These points are not recognized as such, but they are points of what you could call double reality, containing great energy potential; coordinate points, indeed, where realities merge.  There are main coordinate points, pure mathematically, sources of fantastic energy, and subordinate coordinate points, vast in number.

There are four absolute coordinate points that intersect all realities.  These coordinate points also act as channels through which energy flows, and as warps or invisible paths from one reality to another.  They also act as transformers, and provide much of the generating energy that makes creation continuous in your terms.

Your space is filled with these subordinate points, and as you will see later, these are important in allowing you to transform thoughts and emotions into physical matter.  When a thought or emotion attains a certain intensity, it automatically attracts the power of one of these subordinate points, and is therefore highly charged, and in one way magnified, though not in size.

These points impinge upon what you call time, as well as space.  There are certain points in time and space, therefore, that are more conducive than others, where both ideas and matter will be more highly charged.  Practically speaking, this means that buildings will last longer, in your context, that ideas wedded to form will be relatively eternal.  The pyramids, for example, are a case in point.

These coordinate points - absolute, main or subordinate - represent accumulations or traces of pure energy, minute to an extreme if you are thinking in terms of size - smaller than any particle of which your scientists know for example, but composed of pure energy.  And yet this energy must be activated.  It is dormant until then - and it cannot be activated physically.

A few clues here that might help you, or mathematicians.  There is an ever-so minute alteration of gravity forces in the neighborhood of all these points, even of the subordinate ones, and all other so-called physical laws to some extent or another will be found to have a wavering effect in these neighborhoods.  The subordinate points also serve in a way as supports, as structural intensifications within the unseen fabric of energy that forms all realities and manifestations.  While they are traces or accumulations of pure energy, there is a great difference between the amount of energy available in the various subordinate points, between the main and absolute points.

These are points, therefore, of concentrated energy.  The subordinate points are far more common, and practically speaking, affect your daily concerns.  There are better places than others to build houses or structures - points where health and vitality and strengthened, where other things being equal, plants will grow and flourish and where all beneficial conditions seem to meet.  
Some people can sense such neighborhoods instinctively.  They occur within certain angles made by coordinate points.  The points obviously are not themselves physical - that is, they are not visible, though they may be mathematically deduced.  They are felt, however, as intensified energy.

In a given room, plants will grow more effectively in a particular area than in other areas, providing that both areas contain such necessary requirements as light.  All of your space is permeated by these coordination points, so that certain invisible angles are formed.

This is highly simplified, but some angles will be more on the outskirts than others, and will be less favorable for all conditions of growth and activity.  In speaking of the angles we will treat them as three-dimensional, though they are of course multidimensional.  Since the nature of these angles is not the main topic of my book, it is not possible to explain them thoroughly here.  They will seem to be stronger during certain times than other times, though these differences have nothing to do with either the nature of the coordinate points or with the nature of time.  Other elements affect them, but we need not be concerned with these now.

The concentrated energy points are activated by emotional intensities that are well within your normal range.  Your own emotions or feelings will activate these coordinates whether you know of them or not.  Greater energy will therefore be added to the original thought or feeling, and its projection into physical matter accelerated.  Now this applies regardless of the nature of the feeling; only its intensity is involved here.

These points are like invisible power plants, in other words, activated when any emotional feeling or thought of sufficient intensity comes into contact.  The points themselves intensify whatever activated them in quite a neutral manner.

This is highly simplified, but the subjective experience of any consciousness is automatically expressed as electromagnetic energy units.  These exist beneath the range of physical matter.  They are, if you prefer, incipient particles that have not yet emerged into matter.
These units are natural emanations from all kinds of consciousness.

They are the invisible formations resulting from reaction to any kind of stimuli.  They very seldom exist in isolation, but unite under certain laws.  They change both their form and their pulsation.  Their relative duration depends upon the original intensity behind them - that is, behind the original thought, emotion, stimuli, or reaction that brought them into being.

Again, highly simplified here, under certain conditions the coagulate into matter.  Those electromagnetic units of high enough intensity automatically activate in the subordinate coordinate points of which I have spoken.  They are, therefore, accelerated and propelled into matter far more quickly than units of lesser intensity.  Molecules would appear as large as planets to these units.  Atoms and molecules and planets and these electromagnetic energy units are simple different manifestations of the same principles that bring the units themselves into being.  It is only your relative position, you focus within an apparent space and time, that makes this seem so unlikely.

Each thought or emotion therefore exists as an electromagnetic energy unit or as a combination of these under certain conditions, and often with the help of coordinate points, they emerge into the building blocks of physical matter.  This emergence into matter occurs as a neutral result regardless of the nature of any given thought or emotion.  Mental images, accompanied by strong emotion, and blueprints therefore upon which a corresponding physical object, or condition or event, will in your terms appear.

The intensity of a feeling or thought or mental image is, therefore, the important element in determining its subsequent physical materialization.  The intensity is the core about which the electromagnetic energy units form.  In your terms, the more intense the core, the sooner the physical materialization.  This would apply whether the mental image was a fearful one or a joyful one.  Now these is a very important problem here:  If your turn of mind is highly intense and you think in vivid mental emotional images, these will be swiftly formed into physical events.  If you are also of a highly pessimistic nature, given to thoughts and feelings of potential disaster, then these thoughts will be quite faithfully reproduced in experience.
The more intense your imagination and inner experience, therefore, the more important it is that you realize the methods by which this inner experience becomes physically real.  Your thoughts and emotions begin their journey into physical actualization at the moment of conception.  If you happen to live in an area where the coordinate environment is strong, one of those areas I have spoken of as unusually conducive, then it will seem that you are deluged by illnesses or disasters, if these are the nature of your thoughts, because all thought is so fertile in this environment.  If, on the other hand, your feelings and subjective experience are fairly well balanced, fairly optimistic and creative in a constructive manner, then it will seem to you that you have been blessed with unusual luck, for your pleasant suppositions will come to pass so quickly.

Briefly, in your own country, the West Coast, portions of the East Coast, Utah, the Great Lakes, the Chicago area, the Minneapolis area, and some other southwestern areas, are in those neighborhoods of excellent coordinate activity, for the reasons given.  Materialization will quickly appear, and potential therefore for both constructive and destructive elements are high.

These coordinate points themselves activate the behaviour of atoms and molecules as, say for example, the sun aids the growth of plants.  The coordinates activate the generating behaviour of atoms and molecules, and greatly encourage their cooperative abilities, their tendency to swarm, so to speak, into organizations and structural groupings.

The coordinate points magnify or intensify the behaviour, the latent spontaneity inherent within the properties of physical matter.  They act as psychic generators, propelling what is not yet physical into physical form.

Let me remind you that these emanations in varying degrees rise from all consciousness, not simply your own.  This includes cellular consciousness as well, so that an invisible network of electromagnetic units pervades your entire atmosphere, and upon this webwork and from it, the particles of physical matter are then formed.  A whole book could easily be written upon this subject.  Information regarding the locations of main and absolute coordinate points could be highly advantageous, for example.  You pride yourselves on your technology, and the production of durable good, buildings and roads, yet many of these are insignificant when compared to other structures within the past.

A true understanding of the way in which an idea becomes physical matter would result in a complete revamping of your so-called modern technology, and in buildings, roads, and other structures that would far outlast those you now have.  While psychic reality behind physical matter is ignored, then you cannot use those methods effectively that do exist, nor can you take advantage of them.  You cannot understand the psychic reality that is the true impetus for your physical existence unless you first realize your own psychic reality, and independence from physical laws.  My first purpose, therefore, is to make you aware of the inner identity of which you are a part, and to clear away some of the intellectual and superstitious debris that prevents you from recognizing your own potentialities and freedom.  Then perhaps you can begin to learn the many wat in which that freedom can be used.

 

[Loba]

Seth Speaks notes and examples chapter 6:

The soul and the nature of its perception

With the little background given so far, we can at least begin to discuss the subject of this book: The eternal validity of the soul.  Even when we are exploring other issues, we will be trying to illustrate the multidimensional aspect of this inner self.  There are many misconceptions connected with it, and first of all we shall try to dismiss these.

First of all, a soul is not something that you have.  It is what you are.  I usually use the term "entity" in preference to the term "soul", simply because those particular misconceptions are not so connected with the word "entity", and its connotations are less religious in an organizational sense.

The trouble is that you frequently consider the soul or entity as a finished, static thing that belongs to you but is not you.  The soul or entity - in other words, your most intimate powerful inner identity - is and must be forever changing.  It is not, therefore, something like a cherished heirloom.  It is alive, responsive, curious.  It forms the flesh and the world that you know, and is in a state of becoming.

Now, in the three-dimensional reality in which your ego has its main focus, becoming presupposes arrival, or a destination - an ending to that which has been in a state of becoming.  But the soul or entity has its existence basically in other dimensions, and in these, fulfilment is not dependent upon arrivals at any points, spiritual or otherwise.

The soul or entity is always in a state of flux, or learning, and of developments that have to do with subjective experience rather than with time or space.  This is not nearly as mysterious as it might sound.  Each of my readers plays a game in which the egotistical conscious self pretends not to know what the whole self definitely does know.  Since the ego is definitely a part of the whole self, then it must necessarily be basically aware of such knowledge.  In its intense focus in physical reality, however, it pretends not to know, until it feels able to utilize the information in physical terms.

You do have access to the inner self therefore.  You are hardly cut off from your own soul or entity.  The ego prefers to consider itself the captain at the helm, so to speak, since it is the ego who most directly dreams with the sometimes tumultuous seas of physical reality, and it does not want to be distracted from this task.

Channels, psychological and psychic, always exist, sending communications back and forth through the various levels of the self, and the ego accepts necessary information and data from inner portions of the personality without question.  Its position in fact depends in a large manner upon this unquestioning acceptance of inner data.  The ego, in other words, the exterior self that you think of as your self - that portion of you maintains its safety and it seeming command precisely because inner layers of your own personality constantly uphold it, keep the physical body operating, and maintain communications with the multitudinous stimuli that come both from outside conditions and inside conditions.  The soul or entity is not diminished but expanded through reincarnations, through existence and experience in probably realities.

It is only because you have a highly limited conception of your own entity that you insist upon its being almost sterile in its singularity.  There are millions of cells within your body, but you call the body a unit, and consider it your own.  You do form it, from the inside out, and yet you form it from living substance, and each smallest particle has its own living consciousness, each individual, with their own destiny and abilities and potentials.  There are no limitations to your own entity, therefore, how can your entity or soul have boundaries, for boundaries would enclose it and deny it freedom.

Often it seems that the soul is thought of as a precious stone, to be finally presented as a gift to God, or considered as some women used to consider their virginity - something highly prized that must be lost; the losing of it being signified as a fine gift to the receiver.

In many philosophies this sort of idea is retained - the soul being returned to a primal giver, or being dissolved in a nebulous state somewhere between being and nonbeing.  The soul is, however, first of all creative.  It can be discussed from many viewpoints.  Its characteristics can be given to some degree, and indeed most of my readers could find out these characteristics for themselves if they were highly enough motivated, and if this was their main concern.  The soul or entity is itself the most highly motivated, most highly energized, and most potent consciousness-unit known in any universe.

It is energy concentrated to a degree quite unbelievable to you.  It contains potentials unlimited, but it must work out its own identity and form its own worlds.  It carries within it the burden of all being.  Within it are personality potentials beyond your comprehension.  Remember this is your own soul or entity I am speaking of, as well as soul or entity in general.  You are one manifestation of your own soul.  How many of you would want to limit your reality, you entire reality, to the experience you now know?  You do this when you imagine that your present self is your entire personality, or insist that your identity be maintained unchanged through an endless eternity.

Such an eternity would be dead indeed.  In many ways the soul is an incipient god, and later in this book we will discuss the "god concept".  For now, however, we will simply be concerned with the entity or soul, the larger self that whispers even now in the hidden recesses of each reader's experience.  I hope in this book not only to assure you of the eternal validity of your soul or entity, but to help you sense its vital reality within yourself.  First of all, however, you must have some idea of your own phycological and psychic structure.  When you understand to some extent who and what you are, then I can explain more clearly who and what I am.  I hope to acquaint you with those deeply creative aspects of your own being, so that you can use these to extend and expand your entire experience.

Many individuals imagine the soul to be an immortalized ego, forgetting that the ego as you know it is only a small portion of the self; so this section of the personality is simply projected onward, ad infinitum so to speak.  Because the dimensions of your reality are so little understood, your concepts are bound to be limited.  In considering immortality, mankind seems to hope for further egotistical development, and yet he objects to the idea that such development might involve change.  He says through his religions that he has a soul indeed, without even asking what a soul is, and often he seems to regard it again, as an object in his possession.

 

Now personality, even as you know it, constantly changes, and not always in ways that are anticipated - most often, in fact, in unpredictable ways.  You insist upon focusing your own attention upon the similarities that are woven through your own behaviour; and upon these you build a theory that the self follows a pattern that you, instead, have transposed upon it.  And the transposed pattern prevents you from seeing the self as it really is.  Therefore, you also project this distorted viewpoint upon your conception of the reality of the soul.  You think of the soul, therefore, in the light of erroneous conceptions that you hold regarding even the nature of your mortal selves.

Even the mortal self, you see, is far more miraculous and wondrous than you perceive, and possesses far more abilities than you ascribe to it.  You do not understand as yet the true nature of perception, even as far as the mortal self is concerned, and therefore you can hardly understand the perceptions of the soul.  For the soul, above all, perceives and creates.  Remember again that you are a soul now.  The soul within you, therefore, is now perceiving.  Its methods of perception are the same now as they were before your physical birth, and as they will be after your physical death.

You can find out what the soul is now, therefore.  It is not something waiting for you at your death, nor is it something you must same or redeem, and it is also something that you cannot lose.  The term, "to lose or save your soul", has been grossly misinterpreted and distorted, for it is the part of you that is indeed indestructible.  We will go into this particular matter in a portion of the book dealing with religion and the god concept.

Your own personality as you know it, that portion of you that you consider most precious, most uniquely you, will also never be destroyed or lost.  It is a portion of the soul.  It will not be gobbled by the soul, nor erased by it, nor subjugated by it, nor on the other hand can it ever be separated.  It is, nevertheless, only one aspect of your soul.  Your individuality, in whatever way you want to think of it, continues to exist in your terms.

It continues to grow and develop, but its growth and development is highly dependent upon its realization that while it is distinct and individual, it is also but one manifestation of the soul.  To the extent that it realizes this, it learns to unfold in creativity, and to use those abilities that lie inherent within it.

Now unfortunately, it would be much easier simply to tell you that you individuality continues to exist, and let it go at that.  While this would make a fairly reasonable parable, it has been told that particular way before, and there are dangers in the very simplicity of the tale.  The truth is that the personality you are now and the personality that you have been and will be - in the terms in which you understand time - all of these personalities are manifestations of the soul, of your soul.

Your soul therefore - the soul that you are - the soul that you are a part of - that soul is a far more creative and miraculous phenomenon than you previously supposed.  And when this is not clearly understood, and when the concept is watered down for simplicity's sake, as mentioned earlier, then the intense vitality of the soul can never be understood.  Your soul, therefore, possesses the wisdom, information, and knowledge that is part of the experience of all these other personalities; and you have within yourselves access to this information, but only if you realize the true nature of your reality.  Let me emphasize again that these personalities exist independently within and are a part of the soul, and each of them are free to create and develop.

There is however an inner communication, and the knowledge of one is available to any - not after physical death, but now in your present moment.  Now the soul itself, as mentioned earlier, is not static.  It grows and develops even through the experience of those personalities that compose it, and it is, to put it as simply as possible, more than the sum of its parts.

Now, there are no closed systems in reality.  In your physical system the nature of your perception limits you idea of reality to some extent, because you purposely decide to focus within a given locale.  But basically speaking, consciousness can never be a closed system, and all barriers of such a nature are illusion.  Therefore the soul itself is not a closed system.  When you consider the soul, however, you usually think of it in such a light - unchanging, a psychic or spiritual citadel.  But citadels not only keep out invaders, they also prevent expansion and development.

There are many matters here very difficult to express in words, for you are so afraid for your sense of identity that you resists the idea that the soul, for example, is an open spiritual system, a powerhouse of creativity that shoots out in all directions - and yet this is indeed the case.

I tell you this, and at the same time remind you that your present personality is never lost.  Now another word for the soul is entity.  You see it is not a simple matter of giving you a definition of a soul or entity, for even to have a glimpse in logical terms you would have to understand it in a spiritual, psychic, and electromagnetic terms, and understand the basic nature of consciousness and action as well.  But you can intuitively discover the nature of the soul or entity, and in manty ways intuitive knowledge is superior to any other kind.

One prerequisite for such an intuitive understanding of the soul is the desire to achieve it.  If the desire is strong enough, then you will be automatically led to experiences that will result in vivid, unmistakable subjective knowledge.  There are methods that will enable you to do this and I will give you some toward the end of this book.

For now, here is one quite effective but simple exercise.  Close your eyes after having read this chapter to this point, and try to sense within yourself the source of power from which your own breathing and life forces come.  Some of you will do this successfully at your first try.  Other may take longer.  When you feel within yourself this source, then try to sense this power flow outward through your entire physical being, through the fingertips and toes, through the pores of your body, all directions, with yourself as center.  Imagine the rays undiminished, reaching then through the foliage and clouds above, through the center of the earth below, extending even to the farthest reaches of the universe.

Now I do not mean this to be a merely symbolic exercise, for though it may begin with imagination, it is based upon fact, and emanations  from your consciousness and the creativity of your soul do indeed reach outward in that manner.  The exercise will give you some idea of the true nature, creativity, and vitality of the soul from which you can draw your own energy and of which you are an individual and unique portion.

This discussion is not meant to be an esoteric presentation with little practical meaning in your daily lives.  The fact is that while you hold limited concepts of your own reality, then you cannot practically take advantage of many abilities that are your own; and while you have a limited concept of the soul, then to some extent you cut yourself off from the source of your own being and creativity.

Now these abilities operate whether you know it or not, but often they operate in spite of you rather than with your conscious cooperation; and often when you do find yourself using them, you become frightened, disoriented, or confused.  No matter what you have been taught, you must understand, for example, that basically speaking, perceptions are not physical in the way the term is usually used.  If you catch yourself perceiving information through other than your physical senses, then you must accept the fact that this is the way perception works.

What often happens is that your conception of reality is so limited that you take fright whenever you perceive any experience that does not fit into your conception.  Now I am not speaking merely of abilities loosely called extrasensory perception.  These experiences seem extra-ordinary to you only because you have for so long denied the existence of any perception that did not come through the physical senses.

So-called extrasensory perception gives you but a crude and distorted idea of the basic ways in which the inner self receives information, but the concepts built around extrasensory perception are at least nearer the truth, and as such represent an improvement over the idea that all perception is basically physical.

Now it is nearly impossible to separate a discussion of the nature of the soul from a discussion of the nature of perception.  Very briefly let us review a few points:  You form physical matter and the physical world you know.  The physical senses actually can be said to create the physical world, in that they force you to perceive an available field of energy in physical terms, and impose a highly specialized pattern upon this field of reality.  Using the physical senses, you can perceive reality in no other way.

This physical perception in no way alters the native, basic, unfettered perception that is characteristic of the inner self, the inner self being the portion of the soul that is within you.  The inner self knows its relationship with the soul.  It is a portion of the self that acts, you might say, as a messenger between the soul and the present personality.  You must also realize that while I use terms like soul or entity, inner self and present personality, I do so only for the sake of convenience, for one is a part of the other, there is no point where one begins and another ends.

You can see this easily for yourself if you consider the way in which psychologists use the terms ego, subconscious and even unconscious.  What seems subconscious in one instant may be conscious the next.  An unconscious motive may also be conscious at one point.  even in these terms your experience should tell you that the words themselves make divisions that do not exist in your own experience.

You seem to perceive exclusively through your physical senses, and yet you have only to extend your egotistical idea of reality, and you will find even your egotistical self accepting quite readily the existence of nonphysical information.

As it does, so its own ideas of its own nature will automatically change and expand, for you will have removed limitations to its growth.  Now any act of perception changes the perceiver, and so the soul, considered as a perceiver, must also change.  There are no real divisions between the perceiver and the thing seemingly perceived.  In many ways the thing perceived is an extension of the perceiver.  This pay seem strange, but all acts are mental, or if you prefer, psychic acts.  This is an extremely simple explanation; but the thought creates the reality.  Then the creator of the thought perceives the object., and he does not understand the connection between him and this seemingly separate thing.

This characteristic of materializing thoughts and emotions into physical realities is an attribute of the soul.  Now in your reality, these thoughts are made physical.  In other realities, they may be constructed entirely in a different fashion.  So your soul, that which you are, constructs your physical daily reality for you from the nature of your thoughts and expectations.

You can readily see, therefore, how important your subjective feelings really are.  This knowledge, that your universe is idea construction, can immediately give you clues that enable you to change your environment and circumstances beneficially.  When you do not understand the nature of the soul, and do not realize that your thoughts and feelings form reality, then you feel powerless to change it.  In later chapters of this book, I hope to give you some practical information that will enable you to alter practically the very nature and structure of daily life.

The soul perceives all experience directly.  Most experiences of which you are aware come packaged in physical wrapping, and you take the wrapping for the experience itself, and do not think of looking inside.  The world that you know is one of the infinite materializations taken by consciousness, and as such it is valid.

The soul, however, does not need to follow the laws and principles that are a part of the physical reality, and it does not depend upon physical perception.  The soul's perceptions are of acts and events that are mental, that lie, so to speak, beneath physical events as you know them.  The soul's perceptions are not dependent upon time, because time is a physical camouflage and does not apply to nonphysical reality.

Now it is difficult to explain to you how direct experience actually works, for it exists - a total field of perceptions, innocent of the physical clues such as colour, size, weight, and sense, with which your physical perceptions are clothed.

Words are used to tell of an experience, but they obviously are not the experience that they attempt to describe.  Your physical subjective experience is so involved with word thinking, however, that it is almost impossible for you to conceive of an experience that is not thought-word oriented.

Now, each event of which you are aware is already a translation of an inner event, a psychic or mental event that is perceived by the soul directly, but translated by the physically oriented portions of the self into physical sense terms.

It goes without saying then that the soul does not require a physical body for purposes of perception; that perception is not dependent upon physical senses; that experience continues whether or not you are in this life or another; and that the soul's basic methods of perceptions are also operating within you now even as you read this book.  It also follow that some hints of the soul's direct experience can be gained by momentarily switching the physical senses off - by refusing to use them as perceptors, and falling back upon other methods.  Now you do this to some extent in the dream state, but even then in many dreams you still tend to translate experience into hallucinatory physical terms.  Most of the dreams you recall are of this nature.

At certain depths of sleep, however, the soul's perception operates relatively unhampered.  You drink, so to speak, from the pure well of perception.  You communicate with the depths of your own being, and the source of your creativity.  These experiences, not being translated physically, do not remain in the morning.  You do not remember them as dreams.  Dreams, however, may later the same evening be formed from the information gained during what I will call the depth experience.  These will not be exact or near translations of the experience, but rather of the nature of dream parables - an entirely different thing, you see.

Now this particular level of consciousness, occurring in the sleep state, has not been pinpointed by your scientists.  During it, energy is generated that makes the dream state itself possible.  It is true that dreams allow the physically oriented self to digest current experience, but it is also true that the experience is them returned to its initial components.  It breaks apart, so to speak.  Portions of it are retained as past physical sense data, but the whole experience returns to its initial direct state.

It exists ten, eternally, separated from the physical clothing that you need in order to understand it.  Physical existence is one way in which the soul chooses to experience its own actuality.  The soul, in other words, has created a world for you to inhabit, to change - a complete sphere of activity in which new developments and indeed new forms of consciousness can emerge.

In a manner of speaking, you continually create your soul as it continually creates you.

Now the soul is never diminished, nor basically are any portions of the self.

The soul can be considered as an electromagnetic energy field, of which you are a part.  It is a field of concentrated action when you consider it in this light - a powerhouse of probabilities or probable actions seeking to be expressed; a grouping of nonphysical consciousnesses that nevertheless knows itself as an identity.  Look at it this way:  The young woman whom I speak once stated in a poem, and I quote "These atoms speak, and call themselves my name."

Now your physical body is a field of energy with a certain form, however, and when someone asks you your name, your lips speak it - and yet the name does not belong to the atoms and molecules in the lips that utter the syllables.  The name has meaning only to you.  Within your body you cannot put your finger on your own identity.  If you could travel within your body, you could not find where your identity resides, yet you say, "This is my body." and "This is my name."

You cannot be found, even by yourself, within your body then where is this identity of yours that claims to hold the cells and organs as its own?  Your identity obviously has some connection with your body, since you have no trouble distinguishing between your body and the chair, say, upon which you may sit.

In a larger manner, the identity of the soul can be seen from the same viewpoint.  It knows who it is and is far more certain of its identity, indeed, than your physical self is of its identity.  And yet now where in this electromagnetic energy field can the identity of the soul as such be found?

It regenerates all other portions of itself, and gives you the identity that is your own.  And when it should be asked, "Who are you?" it would simply answer, "I am I" and be answering for you also.

Now in terms of psychology as you understand it, the soul could be considered as a prime identity that is in itself a gestalt of many other individual consciousnesses - an unlimited self that is yet able to express itself in many ways and forms and yet maintain its own identity, its own, "I am-ness", even while it is aware that its I am-ness may be part of another I am-ness.  Now I am sure it may seem inconceivable to you, but the fact is I am-ness is retained even though it may, figuratively speaking, now merge with and travel through other such energy fields.  There is, in other words, a give and take between souls or entities, and no end of possibilities, both of development and expansion.  Again, the soul is not a closed system.

It is only because your present existence is so highly focused on one narrow area that you put such stern limits upon your definitions and the self, and the project these upon your concepts of the soul.  You worry for your physical identity and limit the extend of your perceptions for fear you cannot handle more and retain your selfhood.

The soul is not frightened for its identity.  It is sure of itself.  It ever seeks.  It is not afraid of being overwhelmed by experience or perception.  If you had a more thorough understanding of the nature of identity you would not, for example, fear telepathy, for behind this concern is the worry that your identity will be swept away by the suggestions or thoughts of others.

No psychological system is closed, no consciousness is closed, regardless of any appearances to the contrary within your own system.  The soul is a traveler, as has been said so often; bit it is also the creator of all experience, and of all destinations in your terms.  It creates worlds as it goes, so to speak.

Now is the true nature of the psychological being of which you are a part.  As mentioned earlier, later in the book I will give you some practical suggestions that will allow you to recognize some of your own deeper abilities and utilize them for your own development, pleasure, and education.

Consciousness is not basically built upon those precepts of good and evil that is so presently concern you.  By inference, neither is a soul.  This does not mean that in your system, and in some others, these problems do not exist and that good is not preferable to the evil.  It simply means that the soul knows that good and evil are but different manifestations of a far greater reality.

I want to emphasize again that while all this sounds difficult in the telling, it becomes much more clear intuitively when you learn to experience what you are, for if you cannot travel inside your psychological body to find your identity, you can travel through your psychological self.

There are far more wonders to perceive through this inward exploration that you can possibly believe until you begin such a journey for yourself.  You are a soul; you are a particular manifestation of a soul, and it is sheer nonsense to think that you must remain ignorant of the nature of your own being.  You may not be able to put your knowledge clearly into words, but this will in no way negate the value or the validity of the experience that will be yours one you begin to look inward.

Now you may call this a spiritual or psychological or psychic exploration, as you prefer.  You will not be trying to find your soul.  In that respect there is nothing to find.  It is not lost, and you are not lost.  The words you use may make no difference, but your intent does indeed.

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All of my flaws make me out to perfection
Only hearts never fear flying in the masses
I can't even lie on my fight to the death, yeah
If it feels like heaven

[Zeroguy]

Yeah ,Yeah Seth is BS.

I am above every stage ,it is relative .Theoretical knowledge without any practical implication.Turquoise is BS.

[Carl-Richard]

@Loba Jesus Christ don't do that again. A link will suffice.

[Loba]

@Carl-Richard I'm making these so that I can send links in the future for people who have questions about reincarnation, the soul and whatnot.

Did you even bother to read it?  Or go through it?  Or try to understand it at all or was it just a "too long, me no likey, make turquoise simple plzzzz"

Well I hate to say it but to get there is a long process for most, and long processes require good explanations for people. If you took the time to read, my examples are fantastic.  At least one or two people will get quite a lot from this.

You guys just want it packaged like a fast food...

The examples here for turquoise are mostly terrible....

My work... actually... isn't.  It is right where it should be.

Edited November 13, 2021 by Loba

[Carl-Richard]

@Loba It's about maintaining the continuity of the format of the thread, which is about having easy access to many examples. Share links, videos, images or quotes. For example, if you're recommending a book, don't paste all the 300 pages in here. Drop a link and maybe a quote – make it easy for people to access.