Seth: You have been so obsessed with exterior differences, especially of color and nationality...

 THE UNKNOWN REALITY

 Volume One

 Section Two

 PARALLEL MAN, ALTERNATE MAN, AND PROBABLE MAN.

THE REFLECTION OF THESE IN THE PRESENT, PRIVATE PSYCHE.

 YOUR MULTIDIMENSIONAL REALITY

IN THE NOW OF YOUR BEING.

Session 692 

"(To me:) You are, in a rudimentary fashion, beginning to open up those unused areas of the brain, or you would not have even been aware of the fact of two simultaneous dreams. Language and your verbal thought patterns make such translations highly difficult, however, even in the best of circumstances. A multilingual individual, in that regard at least, might have some idea of how concepts are structured through verbal pattern, and hence possess some additional freedom in such translations - provided of course that he or she was aware of the possibilities to begin with.

 

"Now: One experience was a dream of your own, in usual terms. The other "dream" experienced simultaneously was, instead, your muddled interpretation of vital experienced reality on the part of another portion of yourself, in another reality entirely; a dimensional bleed-through. Once you are aware of such experience, most likely you will also have others in "your" dream state.

"Now: In the waking state you would find such an experience, highly threatening without some suitable preparation -- and I must be very cautious in my treatment of your concepts of the self and your ideas of one-personhood.

 

"I am not speaking of you personally, Joseph, so much as I am emphasizing that the race at present identifies its individual being with highly limited concepts of the self. Those ideas are vigorously protected, and indeed must be understood and given honor even while attempts are made to expand them. Period. Certainly the quality of consciousness has changed through the centuries in many different ways, and sometimes in what would appear to be contradictory ones; but in your present you have nothing against which to compare your current consciousness of experience.

 "To a very limited extent, the different civilizations and cultures with which you are historically familiar represent a dim glimmering of the various qualities of consciousness and the varieties of experience. But as there are physical species, so there are what you may call species of consciousness also.

 

"There are even now in your species a number of different kinds of consciousness different in that the physical life-situation is qualitatively experienced in ways that are not native to you in culture; different in that the entire fabric of meaning, interpretation, experience, and life itself is "alien" to the kind of experience with which you are familiar. This does not mean that such difference occur as the result of cultural backgrounds or situations, for some such individuals exist within your own culture, and some with your kind of consciousness exist in cultures where they are a minority. I am simply saying that on your earth now there are species of consciousness, though that is probably not the best term. You have been so obsessed with exterior differences, especially of color and nationality, that you have completely ignored these other far more important variations in the form that consciousness takes in relation to physical life within your race -- the race of man.

"In terms of your personal experience, the Sumari is a case in point. The members of each "species" -- and you had better put that in quotes -- of consciousness relate to physical experience in their characteristic ways, even viewing time, space and action differently. They orient to their bodies in their own particular manners. Each group does possess a different relationship with the body, with nature, and with the world in general.

 

"Give us a moment... Your stratified concepts of one-personhood overlook all such inherent differences, however, and you have a tendency to transpose your own concepts whenever you come in contact with those whose ideas you cannot understand. Even now in some "tribal societies," for example, the self is experienced far differently; so that, while so-called individuality as you understand it is maintained, each self is also experienced as a part of others in the tribe, and the natural environment. To some, this seems to mean that individuality is stillborn or undeveloped. You protect your ideas of selfhood at all costs -- even against the evidence of nature, which shows you that all are related.

 

"Uniqueness, private experience, and individuality attain then dimensions of being and their true grandeur only when the inherent relationships among all elements of being are understood. You fight against your own greater individuality, and the spacious dimensions of your own being, when you overprotect your ideas of selfhood by limiting the experience of the self.

 

"Now: That is the end of the session. My heartiest regards to you both."

 

("Okay. Good night, Seth.")