Spiritual Forum

“Even if the race as you know it distorts itself beyond belief, or even destroys itself, the many will not forget.  The knowledge, hard won, would be instinct when the race began again.  The losers then would become stern teachers, having learned through experience.

Each experiment is a success, regardless of whether it succeeds or fails in your terms, and each experiment also brings with it new elements of creativity, new innovations having appeared.  These are retained.

There are various levels all operating, various levels of consciousness and identity.  They cannot be forcibly restrained for they would learn nothing.  What they do learn, however, is always retained.  This does not mean that each succeeding earth experiment will be made up of selves who have been through these cycles. 

They may be personalities new to the system, new for that matter to any ideas, completely unused to conceptual thought or vision, beings only now emerging into strong individuality.  Consciousness at your level is at a crisis point for many reasons.

Within your system, for the “first time” individualized consciousness is strongly-enough organized to do “good or evil.”  Before that it was protected, somewhat coddled with instinctual behavior holding it in bounds.  It is not able to utilize enough energy to maintain a system on its own, but operates an adjunct to other stronger systems.

Now some of those within your reality are having their first experience with an ego as you think of it.  Others are returning to it, the system, in an effort to learn more.  There are guardians, so to speak, within you system, reincarnating for the last time to help keep it in some kind of order while the others mature.  There are also some, not physical, who keep an eye out over the whole proceedings.  …

There is a system of checks and balances that do operate.  These exist within the inner selves.  …There are alarm signals that trigger warnings through the entire physical reality.  Disaster indeed shows itself within the dream state before it appears as physical fact.  …

The race also realizes well the advantages and disadvantages of the physical reality it has adopted.  It knows, for example, that there is a tendency to go to extremes.  I mentioned earlier that the rewards, the challenges and the dangers exist precisely because so much freedom is allowed.

Now.  Those within your system know this.  Regardless of what you may think of their present performance at any given “time,” it is from this system that the greatest potentials emerge; for having dealt with it, consciousness undergoes one of the severest tests in learning to handle its own energy. 

The horror and results of mismanagement  and the vulnerability are the teaching methods that each consciousness has accepted before entering your system.  There is no way out but to learn or to ruin the entire system.  In no other field of reality are the terms so drastic.  For this reason, the inner self withholds much of its knowledge.  There must be no leaning upon the very basic fact that behind and within the system there is relief.  You must believe in the physical reality and accept the vulnerability.

Now, from your system spring some of the most advanced of all identities.  They go on and learn from other realities, granted, but yours is the hardest to manage, and those who accept it go off into a certain line of development where the potentials are beyond anything of which you can presently conceive. 

… quite simply, there are many who do not see those failings and shortcomings and trends of which you spoke earlier.  They cannot be told; they learn.  Now alone they would not be permitted to destroy an entire reality.  The mixture of consciousness within your system gives some control.  … A beginning school for those who are trying out for particular kinds of experience.  Some simply will not succeed.  They will continue instead along other lines of development. 

Now, you have quite literally put in your time, for centuries.  This is one of the reasons that you find yourself very impatient with the development of your fellows who have not had that advantage as yet.  You have learned.  You cannot understand why they have not.  …

The consciousnesses that have made up your race gain valuable experience.  You must not forget that the analogy between your physical reality and the dream state does have a basic truth.  Even the physical planet, having vanished, basically would continue to exist.  Those responsible for such destruction would have destroyed only reality as they knew it in the probable system.  Other probably earths and other probable races of mankind coexist, and you are a part of these also.  You would be dispensing with an experiment you were not able to handle.

At the same time, again, the experiences would be used.  From a larger viewpoint, you would know that nothing has been destroyed.

Any event that you would consider disastrous to your race, brought about by the race itself, would be used in another probably system to avoid the same sort of error.  There are disasters and dead end roads that your race has avoided completely because in other systems of reality the lessons were learned and learned well.   …

When the lessons are learned, there is no need for physical reality.  …

Now.  I told you that knowledge gained would be retained.  Not only this, but it is retained not only by the individual selves as you think of them,  it becomes part of the knowledge of all the probable selves in other realities also. 

There would indeed be a mass transference of consciousness but not necessarily at all to one particular reality.  The individual consciousness involved would not, for example, necessarily choose to start anew, in the same kind of reality, agreeing to form more or less identical conditions. 

They would however definitely go where their experience could be best utilized, and where their intimate knowledge of destruction be best used as a tool.  To some degree such destruction would be felt in all realities.  Some probable selves would have shattering dreams of disaster.  Other worlds would quake with the psychic reflections.

I am speaking theoretically, but those in the probable system, according to their own knowledge and capabilities, could also help your own system to avert disaster under certain conditions.  This is rather an involved subject; and it would also be highly dependent upon your willingness to be helped.  The race has called out before for help and received it. 

It can only accept certain kinds of help, and the help in one way or another must be initiated at least from its own pool of energy and its own bank of personality gestalts.”

Seth – “The Early Sessions – Book 9”