Seth on “The Origins of the Universe and of the Species” (7)

Prologue: The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression, Session 796, March 07, 1977:

“There is no such thing, in your terms, as nonliving matter. There is simply a point that you recognize as having the characteristics that you have ascribed to life, or living conditions – a point that meets the requirements that you have arbitrarily set.

“This makes it highly difficult in a discussion, however, for there is no particular point at which life was inserted into nonliving matter. There is no point at which consciousness emerged. Consciousness is within the tiniest particle, whatever its life conditions seem to be, or however it might seem to lack those conditions you call living.

“...Words do nearly forsake me, the semantic differences are so vast. If I say to you: ‘Life came from a dream,’ such a statement sounds meaningless. Yet as your physical reality personally is largely dependent upon your dreaming state, and impossible without it, so in the same way the first cell was physically materialized and actual only because of its own inner reality of consciousness.

“In those terms there was a point where consciousness impressed itself into matter through intent, or formed itself into matter. That ‘breakthrough’ cannot be logically explained, but only compared to, say, an illumination – that is, a light everywhere occurring at once, that became a medium for life in your terms. It had nothing to do with the propensity of certain kinds of cells to reproduce, but with an overall illumination that set the conditions in which life as you think of it was possible – and at that imaginary hypothetical point, all species became latent.

“There was no point at which consciousness was introduced because consciousness was the illumination from which the first cells emerged. That illumination was everywhere then, at every point aware of itself and of the conditions formed by its presence. In your terms each species is aware of the conditions of each other species, and of the entire environment. In those terms the environment forms the species and the species forms the environment.

“... To those who want easy answers, this is no answer, I admit. There is, I know, in heroic terms a love, a knowledge, a compassion, a creativity that can be assigned to All-That-Is, which is within each creature. I know that each smallest ‘particle’ of consciousness can never be broken down, and that each contains an infinite capacity for creativity and development – and that each is innately blessed.

“There is a design and a designer, but they are so combined, the one within and the one without, that it is impossible to separate them. The Creator is also within its creations and the creations themselves are gifted with creativity.”

Session 797, March 14, 1977.

“... When you ask about the beginning of a universe, you are speaking of a visible universe.

“There is consciousness with each conceivable hypothetical point within the universe. There is therefore ‘an invisible universe’ out of which the visible or objective universe springs.

“I do not mean to overemphasize the point that this particular material is most difficult to explain, yet I can hardly stress the issue too strongly.

“... Your universe did not emerge at any one point, therefore, or with any one initial cell – but everywhere it began to exist at once, as the inner pulsations of the invisible universe reached certain intensities that ‘impregnated’ the entire physical system simultaneously.

“In this case, first of all light appeared. At the same time EE (electromagnetic energy) units became manifest, impinging from the invisible universe into definition. Again, because of the psychological strength of preconceived notions, I have to work my way around many of your concepts. Yet in much of my material I have definitely implied what I am saying now, but the implications must have passed you by.

“I have said, for example, that the universe expands as an idea does, and so the visible universe sprang into being in the same manner. The whole affair is quite complicated since – again as I have intimated – the world freshly springs into new creativity at each moment. No matter what your version of creativity, or the creation of the world, you are stuck with questions of where such energy came from, for it seems that unimaginable energy was released more or less at one time, and that this energy must then run out.

“The same energy, however, still gives birth anew to the universe. In those terms, it is still being created. The EE units, impressing a probable physical field, contain within them the latent knowledge of all of the various species that can emerge under those conditions. The groupings ‘begin’ in the invisible universe. You can say that it took untold centuries for the EE units ‘initially’ to combine, form classifications of matter and various species; or you can say that this process happened at once. It is according to your relative position, but the physical universe was everywhere seeded, impregnated, simultaneously. On the other hand, this still happens, and there is no real ‘coming-in’ point.

“... You distinguish between consciousness and your own version, which you consider consciousness of self. When I speak of atoms and molecules having consciousness, I mean that they possess a consciousness of themselves as identities. I do not mean that they love or hate, in your terms, but that they are aware of the own separateness, and aware of the ways in which that separateness cooperates to form other organizations.

“They are innately aware, in fact, of all such probable cooperative ventures, and imbued with the ‘drive’ for value fulfillment. Every known species was inherently ‘present’ with the overall impregnation of the visible universe, then.

“If the universe were a painting, for example, the painter would not have first painted darkness, then an explosion, then a cell, then the joining together of groups of cells into a simple organism, then that organism’s multiplication into others like it, or traced a pattern from an amoeba or a paramecium on upward – but he or she would have instead begun with a panel of light, an underpainting, in which all of the world’s organisms were included, though not in detail. Then in a creativity that came from the painting itself the colors would grow rich, the species attain their delineations, the winds blow and the seas move with the tides.

“The motion and energy of the universe still come from within. I certainly realize that this is hardly a scientific statement – yet the moment that All-That-Is conceived of a physical universe it was invisibly created, endowed with creativity, and bound to emerge.

“Because each hypothetical, conceivable portion of the universe is conscious, the Planner is within the plan itself in the greatest of terms – perhaps basically inconceivable to you. There is of course no ‘outside’ into which the invisible universe materialized, since all does indeed exist in a mental, psychic, or spiritual realm quite impossible to describe. To you your universe seems, now, objective and real, and it seems to you that at one time at least this was not the case, so you ask about its creation and the evolution of the species. My answer has been couched in the terms in which the question is generally asked.

“While you believe in and experience the passage of time, then such questions will naturally occur to you, and in that fashion. Within that framework they make sense. When you begin to question the nature of time itself, then the ‘when’ of the universe is beside the point.”

Session 798, March 21, 1977:

“... Your next question is easy to anticipate, of course, for you will want to know the origin of that ‘interior’ universe from which I have said the exterior one ever emerges – and here we must part company with treasured objectivity, and enter instead a mental domain, in which it is seen that contradictions are not errors; an inner domain large enough to contain contradictions at one level, for at another level they are seen to be no contradictions at all.

“... The answers to the origins of the universe and of the species lie, I’m afraid, in realms that you have largely ignored – precisely in those domains that you have considered least scientific, and in those that it appeared would yield the least practical results.

“Your methods will simply bring you pat, manufactured results and answers. They will satisfy neither the intellect nor the soul. Since your universe springs from an inner one, and since that inner one pervades each nook and cranny of your own existence you must look where you have not before – into the reality of your own minds and emotions. You must look to the natural universe that you know. You must look with your intuitions and creative instincts at the creatures about you, seeing them not as other species with certain habits, not as inferior properties of the earth, to be dissected, but as living examples of the nature of the universe, in constant being and transformation.

“You must study the quality of life, dare to follow the patterns of your own thoughts and emotions, and to ride that mobility, for in that mobility there are hints of the origin of the universe and of the psyche. The poet’s view of the universe and of nature is more scientific, then, than the scientists’, for more of nature is comprehended.

“The child, laughing with joy and awe at the sight of the first violet understands far more in the deepest terms than a botanist who has long since forgotten the experience of perceiving one violet, though he has at his mental fingertips the names and classification of all the world’s flowers. Information is not necessarily knowledge or comprehension.

“... In a larger level of actuality, then, there is no beginning or end to the universe, and at that level there are no contradictions. There is no beginning or end to the psyche either. You may say: ‘Granted,’ yet persist, saying: ‘In our terms, however, when did the world begin, and in what manner?’ Yet the very attempt to place such an origin in time makes almost any answer distorted.

“The truth is that the answers lie in your own experience. They are implied in your own spontaneous behavior – that is, in the wondrous activity of your bodies and minds.”

© Robert F. Butts, All Rights Reserved.

Summary of Concepts:

– Any attempt to discuss the emergence of physical consciousness begins with an exploration of Seth’s cosmology – All-That-Is as a “Great Chain of Being” that extends from Causal Spirit to soul to body. The fields of Spirit and soul are nonphysical. If “God is a verb,” as Buckminster Fuller said, then All-That-is is an eternal action of becoming, not just a thing. Seth’s god concept is genderless and timeless – Causal Consciousness that is both transcendent (nonphysical) and immanent (physical).

– All-That-Is consists of spiritual, psychic, mental, and physical fields permeated by Consciousness. Time frameworks are only the thin outer crust of a conscious multiverse.

– Aspects of All-That-Is exist in a pre-material, subtle energy form called EE units (electromagnetic energy). EEs are faster than light and “ear-marked” for physical manifestation, but not yet physical.

(Later, we’ll see that EE units consist of “groups” of causal energy called consciousness units [CUs]. For now, imagine EEs as groupings of individual CUs, similar to the way molecules are made of atoms.)

– All-That-Is has no beginning or end, so the answers to the origins of the universe, the psyche, and all species lie in understanding how Consciousness is eternal and omnipresent in Its Many Forms (to be elaborated on later, hey, this is just a Prologue :-).

Comments:

– In Seth’s theology, God is not a giant old white man with a big belly, gray beard, and occasionally nasty temperament that lives in the sky where he rules over His dominion. Nor is God a wise elder woman dressed in flowing robes communing with Nature. Both are premodern projections of anthropomorphized God-As-Human-Beings. The former was an often dysfunctional paternal authority figure, the latter often demanded human sacrifice to insure fertility, good crops, and sun/moon cycles.

We cannot fully understand the origins and nature of the All-That-Is, the psyche, and universe from the limited picture of reality presented by our five senses, third person perspectives, and intellect alone. We also need to incorporate our deep intuitions, first person perspectives, and our emotions to gain deeper conceptual understanding (can you say, “inner senses” or “psy-time?”).

– Finally, here is a list of Seth’s nine inner senses first published in The Seth Material (1970):

• inner vibrational touch
• psychological time
• perception of past, present, and future
• the conceptual sense
• cognition of knowledgeable essence
• innate working knowledge of the basic vitality of the universe
• expansion or contraction of the tissue capsule
• disentanglement from camouflage
• diffusion by the energy personality [essence]

Though a detailed review is beyond the scope of this essay there is more information available. [Follow this link to The Inner Senses – An Introduction & Overview.]

Seth has also provided a rich set of exercises that allow anyone to explore and practice using their inner senses. [Follow this link for a Summary of Seth/Jane Roberts Exercises.]

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