Fearless and Heroic: A Kris Session Channeled by Serge J. Grandbois
Transcribed by Marcy Singer (Arindel)
Recorded in Toronto, Canada on January 31, 2005
© Copyright 2005 Avion Rising Inc.

Roll call

In Toronto: Serge (Joseph), Mark (Philip), Myrna (Sharaleene), John (Sohars)

In Oregon: Norm (Ambrose), Reta (Leihuu)

In Castaic: Paul H. (Janaki), Joanne (Rosalie), Paul T. (Antolian), Jene (Mildor), Gail (Sofia), Ester (Benata), Drew (Onoru), Denise (Behaar), Sarah (Chiroco), Cindi (Who is new to the group)

Session begins at 7:55 pm.

KRIS: Now we thank you most graciously for your presence and taking of your time to participate in our humble evenings. We trust that wherever you are, you are indeed comfortable and full of energy.

We are beginning the presentation this evening with a question. And we trust that you hear well.

MARK: Can you guys hear?

JOANNE: Yes.

NORM: I can't hear too well.

(Mark pushes the phone closer to Kris and Kris talks louder)

KRIS: We are to begin this evening with a question. Now we will not solicit answers on the spot but then again, we might. (Laughter). The question is relevant to your curiosity and interest in the Sisters of Consciousness material with these aspects of the personality. And this is also relevant to our topic of presentation for the April event.

The question now that we put before each of you is: How much pain, sorrow, anguish and hardship do you believe the human heart contains and can hold?

And at the same time how much joy, harmony, bliss, love do you believe the same human heart can hold and carry? (Long pause)

Now what do you think of that for an opener?

(Laughter)

KRIS: What are some of your feelings on that subject?

MARK: Anybody?

JO: Well, I’ll jump in. This is Rosalie. I've often had beliefs that our anguish and our fear and our difficulties help to make room in our hearts for the positive things, so that's, I know, an assumption I’ve been making. I don't know if it's correct. But I also have the feeling that you're going to say that our amount of capacity for joy and bliss and happiness is somehow limitless.

KRIS: How did you sneak a peek in the teacher's book? (Laughter)

JO: I must have done that in my dreams.

KRIS: Indeed. And in that you are correct. However, regardless of the unlimited bounty of joy and love and fearlessness the human heart can hold, somehow or other your species, your race has determined that you are somehow or other better off holding onto grief, pain, sorrow, anguish, fear and a host of other descriptives as if there is some sort of benefit to carry these situations within the heart. And if you dare release them then somehow or other your world may fall apart and at the same time even though you yearn for some joy, some peace, and some love, you dare not make much room for it because you still believe in your unworthiness that somehow or other you are iniquitous beings.

And yet if you consider, even pretended for a moment that you approached and exercised the opposite, your lives might truly be different. And at every part of the human experience, at the very foundation of the human experience there is indeed a deep abiding desire and evocative force that drives human experience each and every time to seek out love in all of its forms. But often that desire encounters your holding patterns that keep the fears and the iniquities and the other accompanying beliefs at bay.

Human nature seeks experiences that are abundant and fruitful in joy and love and fearlessness along those very lines. But when there is a barrier in the heart that says there is little room here for you, oh joy, oh love, because my heart is afraid to let go of its pain, and therefore I do not trust you because I do not know you, oh love, oh joy, anymore. I have become wedded to my griefs and my sorrows and my pains and I fear knowing myself in another way.

Therefore, if you were to pretend for a moment or two that all of your lives long you have known joy, love and peace and the great adventures these simple words can take you upon, your perceptions might indeed be very different about what you personally perceive physical reality and physical existence, YOUR physical existence to be. And those patterns that keep your hearts under lock and key like a chastity belt of old would indeed melt the locks and free your hearts. Does that make sense to you?

MARK: All too much sense to me.

KRIS: Does that make sense to you in California and Oregon?

ALL: Yes, yes it does.

JO: You know you were saying Kris, this is Rosalie again, that there isn't room for all of that stuff in our hearts.

KRIS: Indeed. In fact we propose to you that the human heart, the human soul is not the dumping ground of your fears. It is not that cemetery for your angst and pains and worries.

MYRNA: Can you say more about that please?

JO: Sarah would like to know, what the dumping ground for those things is. She thinks it's the liver. (Laughter)

KRIS: We are suggesting that the physical body, that expression of essence and all of its components are NOT the place, the final resting place for those issues that trouble the human heart and the soul. You would not joyfully visit the morgue would you, as if you were on a shopping spree? (Laughter)

Neither would you consider visiting your own physical form and its organs with those issues that bring you pain and sorrow and fear were you to truly comprehend what this does to the cellular structures in your physical form. You have, however, a wonderful tool and indeed a most practical tool with which to truly liberate your hearts so that you can transform this psychological cemetery into a field of sunflowers. And the key to this transformation is your conscious mind. That very part of you, that same part of you that you use without giving a second thought, that same part of you that you use to usually bury those issues into your heart.

By understanding those faculties of the conscious mind you would not only benefit yourselves but you will also benefit those around you, even though that may take slightly longer. And not by preaching to them, not by insisting they follow your ways and perceptions, but by their observing your behavior, both physically and psychologically. The capacities of the conscious mind are truly astounding, and unfortunately in many esoteric religious New Age and metaphysical communities, it has become fashionable to throw out the conscious, rational, intellectual, thinking part of yourself right out with the bathwater.

You are often ascribed, enjoined to become feeling creatures. You know the kind, the feeling ones where you do not process a thought but you simply feel where the intellect, rational mind, the conscious mind which includes the ego is suddenly turned into the enemy of spirituality, therefore creating further imbalances and additional pains.

Imagine for instance that you wish to become an Olympic swimmer and your coach now tells you that to truly be an admirable Olympic swimmer and to swim faster and better you must cut off your arms and legs. (Laughter)

Now, we guarantee you will think faster than you know, unless of course you are a politician and you are filled with hot air. (Laughter)

Now, the conscious mind, the often-maligned part of your being is truly a wonderful tool, and you use it continuously day in and day out without necessarily paying attention to what you are doing. This is why in many respects Elias always suggests that you notice, that you pay attention. Do you follow?

ALL: Yes.

KRIS: This is not about airy fairy deals about specifically exploring far off galaxies and communications with aliens that live ten billion light years from here, but dealing with the cold hard reality of everyday existence as your most important spatial exercise. Physical lives! That is spirituality! That is expression of divinity! Anyone who thinks that all they have to do is ponder on spiritual thoughts and dimensions and make themselves more spiritual in the process have missed the mark and they have missed the train too. (Laughter)

Your physical lives, your physical forms are your most direct spiritual experience and from that you can launch into other explorations. On a constant continual daily basis you sort out varieties of actions and events that occur both internally and externally. You classify them. You label them. And when the going gets tough and sometimes painful, and this happens with many people who profess to having studied esoteric and metaphysical teachings for years and decades, the minute that the perceived solid ground of their experience begins to shake and rumble they fall apart because they have not been observing and noticing what they have been using their conscious mind for.

And one of the most precious functions of the conscious mind is not the specific conversations, though this plays an important part, but not specifically the conversations that you engage in day in day out but moreso the visuals that you entertain in your mind's eye and quite specifically the visuals having to do with what you typically label difficult and negative, destructive issues of life. Now you picture yourselves in those situations that end up buried deep within the human heart that contain all of these pictured experiences of pain and suffering and fear that you close the door upon because of your belief in powerlessness and inability to function at those levels.

When you venture into that realm and notice not only the conversations that you enjoin in your mind at those inner or subjective levels and look at the scenes, the film, the pictures you project from within, it becomes easier to understand that you have been using your most potent powerful resource and tool to still create your own reality but not always in a manner that is psychologically healthy for you. And that very same tool can help reverse that charge, can help turn the tide and alleviate much of your all too human suffering in that respect.

Now what is the time?

MARK: 8:24

KRIS: If you are in accord, we would suggest a small break.

(General agreement)

Break begins at 8:24

John remarked about Kris assertion that the conversations in your head are not what is important but the visuals in creating your reality.

Reta remarked about how easily our minds revert to the negatives in our lives rather than the joys.

Serge talked about how even on television people can do good things for years and years and then do one thing 'wrong' and everyone pounces on them and rips them to shreds for it and how everything else is forgotten for just one mistake and how this is reflected in real life as well.

Norm commented about how many people really love misery and there was assent that people tend to be addicted to it, addicted to the drama of the misery and how people miss the fear when it is gone and feel the need to generate it when it's gone.

Discussion about this idea of being a sinner, etc. and if there are healthy religions which allow for the idea of forgiveness of sins and beginning again. Mark commented about Maitreya, the Chinese Buddha where you rub his belly and he brings you happiness and joy.

Also mentioned 'waiting for the other shoe to drop,' i.e. if you are being 'too' happy then you are in trouble.

Myrna discussed about how easily it is to remain in the 'grip' of the old way of being, i.e. waiting for the other shoe to drop even in the face of having created benefit for oneself. She wondered about this, as to the question of 'if I live joyously, am I going to be punished?'

Paul remarked that this is the belief in 'the sinful self.'

Myrna talked about having a history of having dreams that failed and having experienced disappointment and would like to be able to 'rewire' herself to know what joy and bliss are at a cellular level.

Mark also talked about how we are influenced by others and by what is considered the 'normal' or 'proper' thing to do.

Paul T. offered that his way of dealing with what he called a 'thought spiral' was to simply say STOP.

Joanne talked about her beliefs of having to be perfect.

Session resumes at 8:36

KRIS: Truly it is of great importance to recognize the patterns, the habitual mental patterns that you unleash onto yourselves and recognize how you process both subjective and objective experiences and what it does to yourselves. What you put yourself though. And those poor selves of yours have far more patience, perseverance than you would have to put up with many of your shenanigans. (Laughter)

You are indeed most fortunate that those selves do not take off and leave you in the dust (laughter) but will stick with you through thick and thin. And indeed the idea is to recognize when you have flipped the switch that takes in those habitual mental habits that saps literally drains you of vitality because you begin to imagine all of the things that are wrong and all of the things that could go wrong and all of the things that others will imagine about you. And when you begin to stride down that path it is difficult to put on the brakes lest you are practiced. And practice is the key word.

Practice at paying attention to how you organize your own inner processes, which ones you take from the files to put upon the desk of your perceptions. Much like you select 35 mm slides to put in the carousel so that you can enjoy the slide show. When you begin paying attention and you see how you are going to project energies that are related to usually irrelevant, insignificant fears and pains and imagined wounds of the heart, you tend to use that wonderful tool of the conscious mind to focus upon nothing else. And then you amplify what you focus upon until you worry that you are not worried enough. (Laughter)

What will the Joneses does the street think if you do not worry sufficiently? Do you have a worry quota to fill? (More laughter)

MYRNA: Yes!

KRIS: This also relates to the expectations that you impose upon yourselves. You go out looking for a job. You have a successful job interview. You think that the next day you might very well get that call that says can you begin tomorrow? Then you go rifling through your filing cabinet of worries and fears and you find the perfect folder WORRY. You pull it out. You study it. You take out the magnifying glass (laughter) to make certain that you are truly focusing on all the little words.

And then you set it into motion and you begin.....'Oh, what if they did not like my lipstick or my hair or my tie? What if they did not like my accent? What if they did not like this? What if they find out that somehow or other I may pass gas?' (Everyone cracks up) And the show begins and you project upon your imagination all of these intense visuals and your blood pressure rises. You feel queasy in your stomach. You lose your appetite. Stress level goes up. You sweat. And you are convinced that you have already lost before you have gotten anywhere.

And then you have the gumption to think that you have done your job properly. You have worried properly. You are lucky that your governments do not tax your worry; both of your respective countries would eliminate their national debt. (Laughter)

Now though we make light of this, we believe you can recognize that there is room for some change, that you have within you the capacity to stop, to freeze frame as you would with the remote on your television. That is what your imagination is. There is very little different between your imagination and your television. You imagination is your living daydream as is your television. And just as your physical body reacts to events in dream state so does it react to events that you imagine and you project upon the mind.

Thus you can use a different set of tools that are still within the toolbox of consciousness, those very same tools but with a different intent, and therefore transform the film that you project on your mind's eyes, that inner reality that becomes physical and therefore can produce a totally different physical result. Does that make sense?

NORM: Indeed.

KRIS: So this in part is one of the reasons we have brought out this material on The Sisters of Consciousness. This can be instrumental in aiding in the transformation within the field of inner events that eventually become projected onto the outer field of events, the realm of physical reality where consciousness and energy are transformed via or by the auspices of your conscious mind from an apparently psychological state into a physically projected living 3-dimensiona event in the usual terms.

Return for a moment to our funny description of the individual returning from a job interview. Now there are two ways to examine this. The individual may believe that by exerting the force of his or her will power they will get that damn job, come hell or high water because that is positive thinking. (Laughter) Is that not what you do?

(Yes)

What is positive about that attitude? It is indeed positively guaranteeing that you might not get that job either.

The other perspective on this is that you will be drawn, attracted to that job that is most suitable for you for the present and eventually lead into the long term without insisting that your will power, which is often mistaken for positive thinking, and to add to this you could take a few moments from your busy worry schedule and make an appointment with some deep inner aspects of your own personality that can help transform any situation for you.

Taking a few moments to establish a wholesome meditative mood you might cal upon any of the appropriate Sisters of Consciousness and allow any one of them to come to you. You might feel a change in energy or a presence or an impression. All of these are not absolutes. What is important is that you allow this inner experience to unfold for your benefit. And whichever sense or impression of energy comes to you, you could, for instance, allow it to fill the space that you occupy physically and psychologically, let it fill you to the brim, that you allow yourself to submerge your own energies completely within it, and that you make it understood that your expectations, your desires will not be disrupted. Your well-being will be the outcome of the situation. And that this energy that you are submerged in at that moment will assist you to obtain the maximum advantage and benefit so that your experience is one of joy and harmony.

(Pause)

And after a few moments notice where your mind, your thoughts have in store for you. Whilst you are submerged in that energy look at the pictures and even some of the accompanying inner discussions and even some of the feeling tones. And focus upon this. See a variety of positive, constructive, beneficial outcomes. And know that deep within your heart only that which is advantageous to you can come out of this exercise.

(Pause)

And after a few moments allow that sweet meditative mood to recede into the background and return your focus to your usual daily activities with the understanding that you fully expect that which is advantageous to you will make itself known, will come into your life without you messing it up with insisting that your will power will get the job done, because it will not and cannot. But that you know that a tremendous power that courses within the very bones of your body into the very atoms and molecules of your cells is now working with and for you, that you have no need to resist or to fight it. And give thanks to those deeper blessed states of being that you experience and go about your daily business.

Now this does not mean that you cannot visualize or envision positive outcomes. Indeed we encourage that you do so with the understanding that your will power, what you THINK is your strength will get the work done for you, which it does not, is second to the greater power which comes from within your being. Would you go to your potential employer and demand that you get this job? Of course not, because you know that you would forfeit any chance you might have had. Then why try to create those scenes in your mind.

Now, what is the time?

MARK: 8:59.

KRIS: Indeed. Then we will allow you to exert your collective will to take a break of a few moments. Are you in accord?

ALL: Yes

KRIS: Indeed then. Enjoy a few moments.

Break begins at 9:00

There was much appreciative discussion concerning how Kris was speaking directly to the situations that several people are dealing with at this point in their lives, particularly the imagery of pulling out the WORRY folder.

Mark especially liked the idea of allowing whatever you want to just come to you, of simply attracting it.

There were also comments about the belief that when you least expect it is when things show up for you because your attention is somewhere else and so you are allowing.

Mark talked about the process of getting the sessions transcribed and up on the website in answer to questions about that.

Reta asked about the Elias session in January and Paul gave some brief information on the session and how that session and the Kris January group session were complementary in topic.

Reta asked how long it would take for the transcript to be published and Mark told her that it would take approximately a week or less. Mark then took the time to publicly thank all the transcribers who work so hard to accurately and efficiently transcribe the Kris Chronicles, especially Marcy who has been known to accurately transcribe two sessions in a single day.

There was brief discussion about the Gallar family.

Session resumes at 9:09

KRIS: Now as we briefly spoke last week concerning the Mythos, we mentioned that there is a great heroic dimension of human existence that has become eroded and considered less and less valid in the face of modern technological, medical, scientific advancements, as if the domain of the imaginary were somehow or other less important and less needed. When in actually it is most needed, most desired because without that all of your fancy doodads and gizmos would not exist, again trying to cut the limbs off the potential Olympic swimmer.

This heroic dimension is within reach because it is part of the imaging processes of the conscious mind, and as you have become accustomed to daily living and concentrating upon the so-called negative refrains and tunes that you entertain in your mind, you have lessened the potency of the properties of the heroic dimension within self and have become unaccustomed to relishing the greatness, the fearlessness that is in the individual heart.

This fearlessness we have spoken of several times this evening is the fearlessness of expressing abundance and joy and a celebration of life. It is a fearlessness of loving and embracing the complete capacity of the human experience to truly create marvelous human conditions. But you have collectively now taken the words 'human condition' to be relatable to sorrow and suffering on a wholesale scale.

And yet the true heroic dimensions of the human condition are mythic in proportion. You have at your fingertips, at least your psychological fingertips, entire galaxies of energy at your disposal. You have forgotten how to project yourselves as the divine originators of your reality. You create selves with poor lonely creatures who must toil and work their fingers to the bone to etch a living out of existence. And you have forgotten indeed that you are heroic beings.

So we are suggesting, very strongly to stretch the inner visual field of your imagination to the larger than life size so that your creative powers and your windows of perception to the use of these creative powers are indeed cosmic in proportion. If we were to describe this in any other words, quite literally when you envision something in your mind with the narrow focus of fear, worry, dread and death to your desires, your entire inner visual screen becomes small, becomes narrow.

Now we are suggesting that you stretch the very frame around that visual screen. Make it one, two, ten, twenty stories tall. Make it wider than wide screen. Show Steven Spielberg what you are made of. (Laughter)

You like to think that there are others directing your life, but indeed the truth is the opposite. You are the directors plus the performers. So direct your lives onto bigger screens. Make the events of your inner experiences heroic in proportion. Enlarge the capacity of your heart to accommodate love, to invite joy, to enjoin balance and harmony, to take part of your existence and to become woven into the very fabric of your habitual mental patterns.

(In this next segment, Kris uses a voice that Mark and Serge call “Rolling Thunder”. It starts out loud and gets louder.)

You like to think that you are God selves, that you are divine beings, that you are expressions of essence itself and expressions of All That Is, then we enjoin you in those terms, to become proactive in those very terms. If you refer to yourselves as the children of God, then it is high time that you start imagining what you will be when you grow up. (Everyone cracks up.)

Therefore, we beseech you all to become heroic individuals, not foolhardy, heroic in your perceptions of your dear most spiritually human experience. And get that cosmic lead out. (Laughter)

And with that we direct to each and every one of you a heroic helping of energy to fill your beings, fill your hearts, fill to your tops with joy and all of the potential to express that joy. And we send you on to your lovely and blessed selves.

Session ends at 9:19.

Serge Joseph Grandbois is the exceptional channel for Kris, a compassionate and intelligent entity, or Energy Personality Gestalt, as he describes himself. Serge is one of the clearest vessels for non-physical communication in the world today. He has given voice to Kris for for than 25 years, helping many people from all walks of life. He is fascinating!" ~ The Colorado Seth Conference

To learn more about Serge and Kris, visit The Kris Chronicles.

Steal a Kiss
by Anu

as I was sitting in my rick
I felt someone rush towards me
in full speed

I could feel his warm breath
on my soft cheeks
so very close to me
that I was shocked
I turned my face around
and stared at him

he suddenly stopped in mid-air
and turned his proud head
pretending like he never meant any mischief
and sneaked away in the opposite direction

I swear, I have this surest
feeling in me
that this naughty orange butterfly
with bright polka dots on his wings
almost stole a kiss from me!

Love
anu

Jacko
by Donald R. Johnson

Jack grew up in a field along with many others of his kind. Life was good; there was plenty of sunshine, an abundance of water and the soil was just right. He felt a sense of security and peace in the field with his siblings.

The long months passed and Jack grew larger, as did all of the others. Gradually, the days seemed to grow a bit cooler. He wondered at the change and he also noticed other changes. Other types of beings had shared the field with Jack and his family. They had competed for nourishment in a good natured way so far but now these beings were starting to dry up and pass on. Jack could sense their good wishes as they departed.

He also noticed that his connection with the Earth was not as strong as it had been. Nourishment barely flowed along the conduit and then one day it stopped altogether. Jack could sense that the others of his kind were having the same problem but they were all puzzled as well. Jack felt as if strange things were about to occur.

On a bright autumn day mobile beings entered the field and caused a disturbance. Jack could sense gasps of shock throughout the field. Suddenly he felt that his connection with the Earth, shriveled though it had become, had been severed completely. Then there was a dizzying feeling of movement, which went on and on until Jack lost his senses.

When Jack became conscious again, he discovered himself in a different place. He had known that other fields existed but could only sense them dimly. Now he was in another field but had no physical connection to it; he was just resting on the ground and he could sense his siblings all around him in a similar state. Jack pondered his changed existence.

A few days passed. Jack had sensed the strange mobile beings rushing about from time to time. One of them came closer and Jack felt physical contact with it. Then there was the dizziness again and he knew that he was moving.

Waking again, Jack sensed a hard surface beneath him and warm air surrounding him. Several mobile beings were very close and they were in physical contact; they were caressing him.

Then there was pain! Something was attacking the top of his body, tearing it! His bodily shell had been breached and there was a hole in it! As bad as that was, things got worse. He felt something pulling the insides out of his body, bit by bit. This was not as painful, but Jack could feel his consciousness diminish rapidly as the sad process continued. At some point during the violation, Jack the Pumpkin died.

The creature awoke and wondered what he was. He saw Jack’s life as a story lived by someone else but he knew that he had been Jack. Now he was something else. Jack scanned his body and found that it was different than it had been. He had eyes! He could sense the world in a different way. He saw objects and was able to align them with objects sensed with his other senses and the visions now made sense to him.

Jack also discovered that he had a mouth and a nose. He could not move his mouth or use it to communicate or do anything with it but he liked the jagged shape. He felt that it suited him.

After the surgery, Jack felt a great hatred in himself. He hated everyone and everything and he wanted to revenge himself upon the whole world. He wanted to rip and tear and slash. He glared at the world with a wicked, evil grin and glowing, burning eyes. He made plans to destroy all of the mobile beings that he could now see with his new eyes.

Jack sat on a porch in front of a house. He could see others like him sitting on other porches and he glared at them, sneering because he was the best of them all! He also saw many of the mobile beings and he glared at them too, waiting for the day, his day, when he would destroy them all!

A night came, his night at last. He could sense the imminence of a great change in the air. He saw the beings rushing about in the night as if they sensed their doom. There was a flame inside of his body and he burned with the desire to destroy the world!

Finally, he sensed that the time was right. Now, at last he would begin the killing and the fluids would flow, buildings would burn and the mobile beings would run shrieking in terror as he hunted them down!

That one there, now approaching, would be the first! “Prepare to die!” thought Jack and he tried to kill the being. But, just then, Jack discovered that he had no hands with which he could shred the being, no feet either to help him chase them all down.

Jack raged in helplessness until he passed out. When he woke up he found that his candle had gone out and he was cold. Later that night, someone picked him up and threw him on the ground, breaking him into pieces. This ended the life of Jack de Lantern and the world can rest easier now.

Seth - "An Integral Conscious Creation Myth" Part 15 of 15
by Paul Helfrich

So What!?

“If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?” ~ Dogen

At some point we are bound to ask, so what? What practical application does something as abstract and esoteric as Seth’s creation myth and integral theory have to our everyday lives?

The answer is really quite simple. If there is only one thing to take away from this tale, it’s the postmodern view that the universe is conscious on all levels, Consciousness creates all, and matter has always been conscious. As such, there is an intrinsic meaning and purpose to the universe, nature, and thus our lives. In physical terms, we are inherently in the midst of an evolutionary unfolding toward increasing complexity. In spiritual terms, we are inherently imbued as Consciousness to create and experience via value fulfillment and other natural laws. While humans are the most complex lifeform to date, there are still unlimited possibilities for further development or regression. Therefore, the future is a matter of personal and collective choice, not chance.

Seth states repeatedly that our dream state is the bridge between “unknown” reality of the causal and subtle fields and the physical field. Thus, it is much more important than we have been led to believe by incomplete premodern religious and modern scientific models. The modern model simply denies the reality of the dream state, and the premodern models have yet to integrate the insights and methods of modern science. As such, Seth’s postmodern model outlines a way in which to better understand who and what actually “creates 100% of our reality” through better understanding the dreaming self in relation to the waking self.

Toward what other end could Seth have invested so much energy to discuss the multidimensional nature of the psyche and universe in relation to dream states in all of his books? Therefore, it’s important to “face up to the abilities of consciousness” and do the transformative practices recommended by Seth to develop our inner senses, intellects, and emotions. This inevitably leads toward more skilled use of the waking and dream states that form the psychological connective tissue between the causal, subtle, and physical fields. Practically speaking, then, since dreaming is universal to humans, it is crucial area to further explore the how – the mechanics – of conscious creation.

Seth also provided dozens of exercises that provide a means to directly experience the concepts we’ve explored throughout this essay. Like any practice, it takes time, commitment, and persistence. But this is what makes the Seth material so vital: it’s not just talk and metaphysical speculation, but a robust roadmap of the psyche and a yoga or praxis in which to check out the accuracy of the map for ourselves. Though a detailed review is beyond our scope, there is more information available. (87)

Finally, it is important to keep in mind that this essay covers only the first five chapters of Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment, and there is much more that follows. Seth goes on to explore concepts like genetic heritage and reincarnational relationships, imagination and reason, master events and reality overlays, group dreaming, the magical approach, life clouds, and more. As such, it is Seth’s final and most ambitious theoretical work. So it is highly recommended that you obtain and read them firsthand to draw your own conclusions. This essay is only an initial foray to explore Seth’s cosmology and roadmaps from an integrally informed perspective. I hope to have laid a foundation on which to continue to build. If you can improve on it, do so with my blessings.

The Power of Premodern, Modern, and Postmodern Myths

As we have seen, myth plays a central role in every cultural worldview. Myth, then, doesn’t mean “unreal” or “less real than” the hard facts provable by scientific observation, measurement, and verification. In Seth’s sense, it actually means something “more real” and more fundamental than the rational mind and its grasping of factual knowledge can comprehend alone. It focuses on the intuitive, inner knowing that we all possess – not childish prerational magic, but mature, adult transrational magic, as in Seth’s the magical approach and high intellect. These complement and enhance our rational knowledge in important ways that offer a more complete picture of the nature of conscious creation.

Therefore, the power of myth will continue to influence our postmodern lives, but on a much broader scale that requires an objective understanding of causal, subtle, and physical fields. According to Seth:

“The world’s ideas, fantasies, or myths may seem far divorced from current experience – yet all that you know or experience has its [involutionary] origin in that creative dimension of existence that I am terming Framework 2 [subtle field]. In a manner of speaking your factual world rises on a bed of fantasy, myth, and imagination, from which all of your detailed paraphernalia emerge. What then is myth, and what do I mean by the term?

“Myth is not a distortion of fact, but the womb through which fact must come. Myth involves an intrinsic understanding of the nature of reality, couched in imaginative terms, carrying a power as strong as nature itself. Myth-making is a natural psychic characteristic, a psychic element that combines with other such elements to form a mythical representation of inner reality. That representation is then used as [a] model upon which your civilizations are organized, and also as a perceptual tool through whose lens you interpret the private events of your life in their historical context.

“When you accept myths you call them facts, of course, for they become so a part of your lives, of societies and your professions, that their basis seems self-apparent. Myths are vast psychic dramas, more truthful than facts. They provide an ever-enduring theater of reality. It must be clearly understood, then, that when I speak of myths I mean to imply the nature of psychic events whose enduring [involutionary] reality exists in Framework 2 [subtle field], and forms the patterns that are then interpreted in your world.” (88)

Thus, there is a constant involutionary influence from Framework 2 on evolutionary emergence in Framework 1. Involution is not something that occurs only before the Big Bang, but is a process that occurs all along within the causal and subtle fields in relation to the physical. This is one reason why Seth can make the seemingly irrational statement that there is no such thing as physical cause and effect, because he takes into consideration the nested nature of causal, subtle, and physical field interactions. It is in fact a transrational concept that is only disclosed by those with adequate access to the causal, subtle, and physical fields.

Therefore, there will always be some kind of Central Myth used by the collective to explain what we can only intuit while in the physical field, namely, an explanation of where we come from, why we are here, and where we go after death. Seth’s definition of myth implies that every succeeding evolutionary stage in the physical field will contain some kind of mythos to explain what it can never fully understand or translate into physical terms alone. The Adams axiom promotes the same idea, namely, that as soon as we discover a new explanation for All-That-Is, it will be instantly replaced by something “bizarrely inexplicable.” In this light, then, while postmodern worldviews are collectively creating a new Central Myth, one that is more comprehensive – more true, less partial – than premodern and modern Central Myths, it won’t be final or static. It will for the first time be self-aware enough to realize that yet another Central Myth will unfold in some future time as Consciousness inexorably seeks its fullest expression in the physical field.

“... Myths are natural phenomena, rising from the psyche of man as surely as giant mountain ranges emerge from the physical planet. Their deeper reality exists, however, in Framework 2 [subtle field] as [involutionary] source material for the world that you know.

“In those terms, the great religions of your civilizations rise from myths that change their characters through the centuries, even as mountain ranges rise and fall. You can see mountain ranges. It would be ridiculous to ignore their reality. You see your myths somewhat less directly, yet they are apparent within all of your activities, and they form the inner structures of all of your civilizations with their multitudinous parts.

“In those terms, then, Christianity and your other [premodern] religions are myths, rising in response to an inner knowledge that is too vast to be clothed by facts alone. In those terms also, your [modern] science is also quite mythical in nature. This may be more difficult for some of you to perceive, since it appears to work so well. Others will be willing enough to see [modern] science in its mythical characteristics, but will be most reluctant to see [premodern] religion as you know it in the same light.

“... When myths become standardized, and too literal, when you begin to tie them too tightly to the world of facts, then you misread them entirely. When myths become most factual they are already becoming less real. Their power becomes constrained.

“... Most people interpret the realities of their lives, their triumphs and failures, their health or illness, their fortune or misfortune, then, in the light of a mythical reality that is not understood as such. What is behind these myths, and what is their source of power?

“Facts are a very handy but weak brew of reality. They immediately consign certain kinds of experiences as real and others as not. The psyche, however, will not be so limited. It exists in a medium of reality, a realm of [causal, subtle, and physical] being in which all possibilities exist. It creates myths the way the ocean creates spray. Myths are originally psychic fabrications of such power and strength that whole civilizations can rise from their [involutionary] source. They involve symbols and know emotional validities that are then connected to the physical world, so that that world is never the same again.

“They cast their light over historical events because they are responsible for those events. They mix and merge the inner, unseen but felt, eternal psychic experience of man with the temporal events of his physical days, and form a combination that structures thoughts and beliefs from civilization to civilization. In Framework 2 [subtle field] the interior power of nature is ever-changing. The dreams, hopes, aspirations and fears of man interact in a constant [involutionary] motion that then forms the events of your world. That interaction includes not only man, of course, but the emotional reality of all earthly consciousnesses as well, from a microbe to a scholar, from a frog to a star. You interpret the phenomena of your world according to the mythic characteristics that you have accepted.” (89)

“If you could orbit your planet in a different kind of craft, you could view the psychic contents of the world, seeing the world consciousness shining far more brilliantly than any lighted city. You could spot the point of intense activity, see the birth of new myths and the death of old ones as certainly as you might be able to see a mountain slide or a tidal wave. The physical portions of earth are all related. So does consciousness form its own kind of inner structures from which, again, the physical ones emerge.” (90)

We have seen that premodern creation myths contain gems of truth, namely, that there was Causal Consciousness that preceded creation through involution, and that the modern creation myth also contains gems of truth, namely, that there was an explosive beginning and subsequent evolution. Fred Alan Wolf (b.1934) takes a postmodern approach that seeks to reconcile all these gems. For instance, in:

“... one myth called Science, the void exploded into the Big Bang. Following another myth called the Bible, in the beginning there was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. These seemingly very different points of view – these myths called the Big Bang and the Word – appear entirely unreconcilable: one deals with the physical universe of matter and energy and the other with the mental universe of mind and information. But, could these two views actually be saying the same thing? Could it be that in some way what we describe about the universe – how we exploit it to derive meaning from it, how we determine what it is, and what it is doing – establishes the very universe we speak and write about? Does the act of learning something, turning our experiences into meaningful symbols of discourse create both the physical thing being observed and the laws of order it seems to obey?” (91)

Thus, increasing numbers of postmodern scientists, psychologists, philosophers, and theologians are slowly building bridges between modern scientific and premodern religious models of the psyche and universe. Key elements include the incorporation of first person, subjective perspectives – the power of mythos, imagination, emotion, intellect, and deep intuitions – along with third person, objective perspectives – facts, measurements, things, objects, and processes. As postmodern thoughts fly around, new dialogues occur, and bridges are built.

Seen in this light, then, the premodern religious myths still believed in by 40% of the world, and modern scientific myths still believed in by 30% of the world will not remain dominant, though their conflict will continue to underlie global worldview dynamics for decades to come. And again, since we all start at stage one, every newborn first develops through prerational stages currently owned by the world’s religions, and then into rational stages owned by scientific institutions. Only then is it possible to widen into the postrational stages currently birthing the postmodern Central Myth.

As such, it’s crucial to realize that there will always be people subscribing to premodern and modern worldviews, because they are inherent in the developmental stages unique to humans. It’s just that they may become a minority by 2075, some seventy years from now. That is the date presented in Seth Speaks as the time when a major social and spiritual reformation will be accomplished in certain lines of probabilities. But again, it is not set in stone and is a matter of collective choice, not chance. Thus, involution and evolution won’t crash to a halt, they will simply surpass the tipping point in which postmodern worldviews become dominant and a postmodern Central Myth crystallizes. I believe it will be fully consonant with the core concepts of the Seth material, and include the revival of Casual Consciousness to its rightful place, alongside an enhanced form of reason that heads toward Seth’s high intellect, Gebser’s integral-aperspectival stage, and Wilber’s vision-logic and centaur stages on a global scale.

In summary, here is an overview of the emerging postmodern Creation Myth found in the first five chapters of Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment. Seth used CUs and EEs to explain how involution preceded the Big Bang in what he calls “before the beginning.” CUs are the causal “force” of All-That-Is within the causal field that formed the subtle field, EEs are the causal “force” within the subtle field that formed the physical field, and quantum fields are the form taken by CUs and EEs in what Seth calls Framework 1. Thus, All-That-Is creates all Its reality simultaneously through interpenetrated causal, subtle, and physical fields via CUs/EEs/quantum fields. These three nested fields are accessible through waking, dreaming, and deep dreamless states because CUs dream and have inner senses.

Further, as evolution proceeded after the Big Bang, Seth is clear that there is an order of play which maps to Teilhard de Chardin’s three basic stages of physical (geosphere), biological (biosphere), and self-reflexive mental (noosphere) outlined in The Phenomenon of Man (1959). Also, the noosphere evolved, generally speaking, to include premodern, modern, and emergent postmodern worldviews.

In the meantime, it’s possible that IF the world’s religions are inherited by postmoderns, then they can become what Wilber calls a “conveyor belt” (in What is Integral Spirituality?, 2005). That is, if Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, etc., learn how to offer stratified interpretations of their Central Myths and practices, they may be able to accelerate large numbers of people’s growth via authentic transformation from premodern to modern toward postmodern worldviews, because they still own the prerational stages, the same ones rejected by modern science. So they get first crack at everyone! However, this also requires that the postmoderns in those lineages are integrally science-educated and have the political and financial power to implement stratified programs. No small task, just the basic requirements for any premodern religion to successfully navigate the rocky transition into the postmodern age.

A stratified or integral approach is not a cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all approach. It simultaneously promotes personal growth and authentic transformation across various stages of development, for instance, egocentric, ethnocentric, worldcentric, and Kosmocentric. People can and will stop their development for their own purposes, and that’s fine, too. But those who are ready to make the momentous leap into postmodern worldviews will be given the means and support to do so without recrimination and restrictive cultural mores.

Finally, it seems fitting to end this discussion on the emerging postmodern Creation Myth with a passage taken from Oversoul Seven’s Little Book, found at the end of The Further Education of Oversoul Seven (1979) by Jane Roberts. It is a short chapter from a children’s book within the book meant to guide a new personality of Seven’s, named Tweety, through her infant and toddler years. It captures the essence, in simple terms, of everything discussed in this essay.

“It’s deceptive to say that thus and so ‘happened in the beginning,’ or that ‘in the beginning was the word,’ or whatever, because there was no official Beginning when God suddenly came parading out of nothingness, bearing the ingredients of mountains, oceans, and land, and trailing sky banners proclaiming the opening of the universe, or the creation of life from a sea of gasses.

“There are multitudinous beginnings. ‘The Beginning’ is only the one you came in on, so to speak, which is rather like coming into a dream in the middle and wondering what happened earlier. In dreams, everything really happens at once, even though there seems to be a beginning and ending ... the past and present and future merge ... and the universe is like that in a way. You’re bound to wonder what went on or how long it’s been going on, not realizing that in a matter of speaking, it just started when you got there. And in another way, it really isn’t there at all.

“If you dream that you’re in a jungle, for instance, no vines or tangled undergrowth climb up the bedpost, and no exotic animals prowl between the window and the floor. Yet the jungle certainly seems real. Where did it come from, or when did it begin? The universe is like the dream jungle. It exists quite properly, yet in the most profound way it makes no sense to ask when it began. It begins each day, each moment, at each point of our contact with it. The gods exist in the same manner, like a giant species [families] of consciousness, striding psychological paths of vast proportions that never really physically appear in the world at all.

“The gods and the universe really begin everyplace and everywhere at once, at every point. Our psychological reality rises from an inner inconceivable divine mind that’s invisible to us, since we are It, earthized, individualized. We’re the [involutionary] gods in [evolutionary] camouflage.” (92)

Endnotes

(87) Follow this link to The Inner Senses – An Introduction & Overview and this link for a Summary of Seth/Jane Roberts Exercises.

(88) Jane Roberts, Ibid, p. 83.

(89) Jane Roberts, Ibid., p. 84.

(90) Roberts, The “Unknown” Reality, Vol. 2, p. 555.

(91) Wolf, Op. cit., p. 29-30.

(92) Jane Roberts, The Oversoul Seven Trilogy: The Further Education of Oversoul Seven, Oversoul Seven’s Little Book, Amber-Allen, San Rafael, CA, 1995, p. 423-4.

A Nurturing Face
by Michaela Sefler

A nurturing face

in light of the moon

a mother; illuminating

the mysteries of the unknown.

Uplifting and guiding

our hopes and prayers;

lighting the paths

of the unattainable.

Light from a star;

as though an angel

carrying the night

balances the forces.

Temperance and sobriety

holding the night;

striving to rule

so their anger is subdued.

Bravely she stands

balancing

all

sides.

Michaela Sefler, is an inspirational poet, living in Montreal, Canada. She has two self-published compilations of poetry: Still True and A Fortress in My Heart and two published compilations, The Sun Is Hot, and Through the Ages. She enjoys learning ancient mysticism and spirituality through reading and meditation, as well as exercise and staying fit. She has a BSC in psychology. She has been featured in various journals and anthologies such as Prism Quarterly,Poetry Vibes, Best Poets and Prominent Voices in Poetry.She has been featured on various websites and e-zines and online journals. For more details or to purchase any of her books please visit her website.

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"When that point of awareness strikes you fully...a new kind of consciousness is born in you...You feel the birth of intellect and intuition together, in a high intellect, in which you recognize your own superior functioning." --Seth

."Such realizations have their own biological effects,. propelling the mind toward "higher" organizations, in which all of life's seeming inadequacies are understood to be redeemed. --Seth

" Now you may call this a spiritual or psychological or psychic exploration as you prefer. ...There are far more wonders to be achieved through this inward exploration than you can possibly believe. -- Seth

This 2 day workshop will focus on Seth's teachings on the importance and methods of achieving "higher" states of consciousness, "spiritual" exploration, and communication with our own greater being. It will also address the connection between these higher states of consciousness and the art of creating your own reality, including the elimination of any limiting beliefs that interfere with our energy, growth or fulfillment.

Throughout the body of the Seth Material, Seth discusses a major step in our growth which involves moving out of the "official line of consciousness," the conventional framework of viewing reality. Again and again, Seth encourages us to take the steps that will lead to a new birth of consciousness, a new far more effective and far more expansive mode of operation, that he has alternately described as the "higher intellect," the "spacious mind," an expansion of identity," the "magical approach," and "spiritualized creaturehood."

Using a variety of "consciousness expansion" and "inner sense" exercises, discussion, belief work, and interaction with people of like mind, this workshop will provide a concentrated and experiential presentation of key areas of the Seth material. Select Audiotape excerpts of Seth speaking on these topics during Jane Robert's classes, including some never before published, will be integrated into the workshop. Topics covered will include:

• a.. How to trigger the "higher intellect" and "accelerated states of consciousness."
• b.. Using direct links to the wisdom of the inner self.
• c.. Letting Go - Joining with the spontaneous self.
• d.. The "inner senses" and our capacity for "Direct Comprehension."
• e.. Conscious creation - The art of using your unlimited energy and power to create your ideal life. . .
• f.. Reconnecting with your non-physical "entity."
• g.. Expanding your concept of identity and becoming a "new, larger" you.
• h.. The "magical" approach and the pitfalls of the conventional "rational" approach.
• i.. Moving out of the "official line of consciousness" - How to break free from stubborn cultural limiting belief systems.

INSTRUCTOR: Rick Stack, M.S. Ed., is the President of New Awareness Network Inc. and publisher/editor of The Seth Audio Collection, The Early Sessions (Books 1-9 of the Seth Material), The Personal Sessions (Book 1-7 of The Deleted Seth Material), and other books by Jane Roberts. He was a friend and student of Jane Roberts and personally attended over 100 Seth sessions given in Jane Roberts' classes in Elmira, NY. Author of "Out Of Body Adventures" (Contemporary Books 1988), he has been teaching workshops on the Seth Material, Dreams, Out of Body Experiences and metaphysics throughout the United States and abroad for over 25 years. He is currently continuing work with Robert Butts on the publication of the remaining unpublished Seth material.

Two Workshops currently scheduled- New York City (Oct 21 & 22, 2006) & Los Angeles (Nov 18 & 19, 2006)

Location: New York City-Manhattan- SLC Conference Center, 352 7th Ave (16th Floor) (between 29th and 30th St.)

Dates and Times: (2 Day workshop) Sat October 21 and Sunday October 22th - 10:AM- 5:00 PM (1/2 hour lunch break)

Location: Los Angeles- LA Radisson Hotel, 6161 West Centinela Avenue, CA- 10:AM- 5:00 PM (1/2 hour lunch break)

Dates and Times: (2 Day workshop)Sat November 18 and Sunday November 19 - 10:AM- 5:00 PM (1/2 hour lunch break)

Workshop Fee: $225

(Early Registration Fee - $200 for registration at least one month prior to workshop)

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Yale Manuscripts: A Guide to the Jane Roberts Papers

A complete listing of all Jane Roberts' writings that have been stored in the Yale archives are now online. The listing includes Seth sessions as well as Jane's journals and book manuscripts.

Sethworld - A board game based on the Seth Material

Explore your beliefs! Stretch your imagination! Delve into your dreams! Challenge your creativity!

Seven years in the making, I am so pleased to be able to offer you SethWorld - The Game of All That Is! SethWorld is a totally unique game, the first metaphysical board game based on the Seth material - maybe the first metaphysical board game, ever! It is designed to explore and uncover beliefs while having fun. There are no winners, no losers, and NO RULES! A 24-page pamphlet included with the game gives a probable framework for play, 6 sample "moves," and a glossary of 61 concepts.

SethWorld -- You've never played anything like it!

Marion the Magnet’s First Mission
By Sharon Hackleman
Illustrated by John Blair Moore

Marion the Magnet is chosen to travel to the planet Earth with his wise grandfather to teach the children about their own magnetic powers…the magnetic power of thought!

In the book Marion helps a young girl, Katie, understand the importance of thinking and daydreaming about what she wants to attract with her magnetic powers of thought. When the other children are using their magnetic powers to attract fun things such as skateboards and new video games Katie is trying to use her magnetic powers to help her family through a challenging situation. Her father has been out of work for sometime and they are close to the point of becoming homeless.

WHAT A COINCIDENCE Understanding Synchronicity In Everyday Life
by Susan M Watkins

Overview:

What if all those seemingly insignificant little What a coincidence! moments you've experienced were actually connected, were part of a larger, more complex coincidence story?

What if they were hinting at something very personal and important about yourself—and about the workings of human consciousness?

Would you listen?

Susan Watkins does. For more than 35 years she's been documenting and studying the coincidences that have happened in her life. What she's discovered is that seemingly simple coincidences—thinking of an old friend and their calling seconds later, for example—are often pieces of larger, more complex and meaningful "coincidence clusters."

A former newspaper reporter and the author of five books, Watkins has always been intrigued by coincidences—what they mean in our everyday lives, and in the grander scheme of things. What, she asks, do these coincidence clusters say about human consciousness and human connection? In What a Coincidence! she presents coincidence clusters that are utterly astounding. What they reveal is life- altering.

What a Coincidence! is an exciting, groundbreaking journey. Along the way Watkins offers profound insights as well as practical pointers on how to become aware of the coincidence clusters in our own lives. She also shows us how to document coincidences so that we, too, can reap their valuable rewards. We'll never brush off those What a Coincidence! moments again.

SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW

Seth Sessions Listing – compiled by Mary Dillman.

See what we look like. Add your own picture! – John M. set up a webpage where we can add our photos. It also features a global map that shows where folks are located.

The Personal Sessions, Vol. 7 – The series deleted sessions dealing with personal material are now available. Vol. 7, now in process, will complete publication of ALL the Seth Material! By Rick Stack and New Awareness Network.

Sethnet Speaks, January 2006 – compiled by Paul Helfrich.

The Classic Seth Portrait by Rob Butts This is a low resolution scan for those interested.

Check out the Mindscapes Music CD - Listen online to 22 tracks of music from Paul Helfrich. Also available for purchase.

Conscious Creation Links – Conscious Creation Publishers, Book Stores, Websites, Journals, Newsletters, Mailing Lists, Message Boards, and more.

The Elias forum - website by Paul & Joanne Helfrich contains an expansion of many of the conscious creation concepts introduced by Seth/Jane Roberts, channeled by Mary Ennis.

What if the Seth material was a foundation to be expanded later by other channeled sources? Can any perennial source ever be considered complete AND infallible?

Seth readers will want to check out:
Introduction & Overview
A Seth, Elias Comparative Overview (Updated!)
Digest: Seth, Jane Roberts

The Kris Chronicles - an expansion of many of the conscious creation concepts introduced by Seth/Jane Roberts, channeled by Serge Grandbois.

A Kris, Seth, Elias Comparative Overview (Updated!) - a preliminary comparison of core concepts in the Seth material, information offered by Elias, and Kris Chronicles

Otherfocus.com the personal website of Donald R. Johnson

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John's weblog: Parabolic Mirror
Intuitive Astrology site: Psychic Weather
Writing: Mind Altering Fiction
Photography: Telepathicfrog
Cooking: Food Follies
Shop: Telepathic Frog Designs
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