The "Introduction" and "Key Points" of this chapter were summarized by an AI editor based on the main text below; they are not words spoken by Mike during the lecture. The main text comes from Mike's commentary, and the blockquotes are Seth's original words (the portions Mike read aloud).
Introduction
This session is a summative declaration before the end of the book. Seth clarifies that he has not given methods for dream interpretation or out-of-body travel, and that reading itself will naturally alter consciousness; answers are not prepackaged in dreams, nor do they require special talents, for everyone is at the center of reality. He holds that insights are available everywhere, that people should read their own thoughts, and that everyday objects touch the natural feelings of the universe. Life is a dream being remembered and created, and the physical universe spirals outward from the center of dreaming. Seth also announces that private sessions are coming, and Jane feels the book is nearing its end.
Key Points of This Chapter
- The Seth books have never given specific methods for dream interpretation or out-of-body travel; the reading itself will naturally alter consciousness and enhance such activities.
- The answers are not in prepackaged dreams; each person stands at their own threshold at the center of all realities.
- Every point in a reality is the center of that reality, and dreams and thoughts also go out and help form new worlds.
- Do not concentrate your efforts on remembering methods for perceiving other realities; insights are readily available everywhere; reading your own thoughts is more important than reading the thoughts of others.
- Life is a dream you are remembering and creating at the same time; the physical universe spirals outward from the center of dreaming.
Main Text
Good evening, I am Mike. Today I will continue sharing Session 940 of Chapter 12, Volume 2 of the Seth book Dreams, "Evolution," and Value Fulfillment. This session began on Wednesday, February 3, 19821, at 8:52 p.m.
Rob first explained some background: they had not held the previous two regularly scheduled sessions, and Jane's voice problem was actually not serious, but when she answered letters and wrote poetry, her handwriting was still not very steady. After dinner today she suggested that Rob get the notebook ready for the session, although when Rob joined her in the living room at 8:30, Jane said she did not feel that Seth was nearby. Then Jane reminded Rob: tonight when Seth used the word "you," he meant not only her and Rob, but also readers like them in general -- Seth was speaking directly to our readers.
Seth began, first clarifying an important concept:
I have not given you various methods and suggestions telling you how to interpret or resolve your own dreams, although I have often mentioned such topics in this book and in my other books.
The Seth books have not given you a set of specific methods. He continued:
I have not given you a complicated method for out-of-body travel, and yet, by changing your own attitudes, all of our books will help you bring about within yourselves those changes that will automatically enhance such activity.
There is no such method, but as long as you read the Seth books, they will automatically change your state of consciousness, expand your consciousness, and allow you to automatically enhance this activity. So:
Our books will have a natural place in your world, for otherwise no method would help you.
What does "a natural place" mean? It means using the natural magical approach, in a very natural way. In other words, what Seth uses is not that kind of deliberate, methodology-based approach with routines and exercises -- he wants people to return to the natural way.
Then he emphasized again:
Nor do I want you to think that the answers to your problems are prepackaged in the dream state... and that they are almost impossible for ordinary people to reach, except for those with unique talents, or those who possess certain esoteric knowledge of the occult world.
Do not think that the answers to the problems you encounter in life are already packaged in dreams, and that only those with supernatural abilities can obtain them -- it is not like that.
Many people learned to read nature quite proficiently long before printing or reading began, to observe the seasons, to explore the seasons of the soul, so those answers are as close as the steps of your own back door.
Because at the threshold of your existence, you automatically stand at the center of knowledge. You are never at the outer edge of events -- you are right in the middle of knowledge, you are standing right on top of the answers, it is so close to you that you do not need to go searching everywhere.
Regardless of your circumstances, your situation in life, your specialties, and your interests, at your own threshold you stand at the center of all reality.
You stand at the center of reality, and all realities intersect here in you.
In each place, you are a part of all existence.
You are a part of all existence, and all those existences are also a part of you -- you are in me and I am in you, each is a part of the other.
Every portion of the universe carries the knowledge of all other portions, and every point of a reality is the center of that reality.
Remember this: every point in reality is the center of that reality. There is no center that you imagine exists -- every point is the center. So you are self-centered in the universe, and you are that center.
Once again, even your dreams and your thoughts go out and help form new worlds.
Your dreams and thoughts also go out and create new worlds, opening up new space and time.
After a long pause, Seth continued very slowly:
Such ideas should naturally arouse within you a far vaster and yet far more varied kind of deep insight, in the light of which the vague grandiloquence of prepackaged knowledge begins to fade.
Such ideas will arouse within you a very vast insight. In the light of this insight, that prepackaged knowledge -- one set after another of theories and systems -- those grandiloquent words begin to fade. Why do these things fade? Because knowledge is alive. Any packaged knowledge cannot adapt to the universe that is centered on you in the present moment -- the answers to that universe are right there in yourself, you are the center of the universe, so who else would you go to for answers? So this kind of grandiloquent vocabulary will all fade away.
When this happens:
Then the speaker within each of you can rise to the surface of ordinary consciousness.
There is a speaker within each of you, and then it rises to the surface of your ordinary consciousness, and you can feel it.
And it will not be considered a prattler, nor will it have to distort your information merely to get your attention.
"Prattler" means someone who talks a lot of nonsense, or a madman, a fool, a simpleton. When you have this kind of insight, the speaker within you will emerge, and at that time it will not be regarded as some crazy person, nor will it exaggerate or make things sound mystical just to get your attention -- none of that will happen. In other words, the speaker within you will present itself in the most plain, most natural, most direct way.
Then he explained the origin of the speakers:
The speakers were the first inner voices that taught you physical language... You call them the voices of the electrons, or the voices of the gods, and both are equally correct.
Both statements are correct, because each is a representative of All That Is. Whether electrons or gods, they all overflow with knowledge and love like a fountain -- those speakers within each of you will all overflow with knowledge and love.
At 9:22, Seth paused for a long time, then said with focus but humor:
When you stand at the doorway of your physical body, you look inward at an incredible, splendid psychological adventure.
You look inward at the psyche, the mind within the physical body, and you see an incredible, splendid psychological adventure -- that is your inner world.
In such statements I am not using symbols that conceal the important intimate clues within them.
It is not symbolism, it is real, it is truly a splendid psychological adventure.
Every spoon you touch, every flower you rearrange, every syllable you utter, every room you tend, automatically brings you in touch with the natural emotion of the universe, for every object, no matter how intimate and commonplace, is alive with change and comprehension.
Look at Seth's language here -- basically in every book, as it nears the end, his language becomes as beautiful as poetry. This passage needs no interpretation; the meaning is very clear: the natural emotion of the universe is in every little detail of your life, in every single thing. As long as you can truly observe and experience with your heart, you can feel it.
Then he clarified again:
So I do not want you to concentrate your efforts on remembering methods for perceiving other realities.
He is not asking you to remember what methods to use to explore other realities, but rather to understand:
Such insight is everywhere readily available.
There is no need to go into some other reality and use some mystical method -- it is available everywhere in your life.
If you understand that point, then you will quite automatically rearrange the organization of your own thoughts.
When you understand this, you will reconsider how your thoughts should be used -- how to use your thinking, rather than going outward to explore and search for so-called truth. You should reorganize your thoughts and begin to explore inward.
Then you will begin to read your own thoughts as easily as you now read a book.
At that point, you will be able to read your own thoughts as easily as you read a book. You will know what your thoughts are about, your thoughts will become clearer and clearer, and they can be read by you.
To read your own thoughts is far more important than learning to read the thoughts of others.
Learning other people's things, studying this material and that material, is not as good as reading your own thoughts -- seeing what your own mind is thinking, what it is thinking about, how it is thinking. This is very interesting.
For when you yourself feel the feelings that are known to you, you easily see that all other feelings are also reflected within yourself.
This sentence is very profound. When you can feel your own feelings, at the same time you can see that other feelings are also reflected within yourself. You are not only feeling your own feelings -- while feeling your own feelings, you are actually also feeling all the feelings around you. As long as you can read your thoughts, read your mind, you will gradually discover this.
When you turn your gaze away from this world, when you no longer focus on this physical world, you are actually looking at it more closely.
When you are not looking at it, it seems as if you are leaving it -- but actually you are looking at it more closely.
When you read sentences like the one above, you somewhat release your own mind and open up a larger organization.
When you read sentences like this, you liberate your mind.
Your life is a dream that you are remembering.
Why say "your life is a dream that you are remembering"? It is "are remembering" -- you are simultaneously remembering this dream, and at the same time still creating this dream.
You watch it grow out of the attention of your own love and knowledge, and it is as if you stand at its center.
It is being remembered by you on one hand, and created by you on the other. The dream is created by you -- very interesting. And it grows out of the attention of your love and knowledge. Remember these two points: love and wisdom are the core.
So you stand at the center of all your dreams.
You are also the center of all your dreams, and you are also the center of the reality you are in.
That dream then seems to spin itself outward.
You stand in the middle, and that dream keeps spinning outward around you -- one dream after another spins outward.
So once again, your physical world, your physical universe, spirals outward from a dreaming center... from this dream center.
This is how the universe came to be. So in this session, we return once again to the theme of this book: the birth of the universe, and what dreams are all about.
The dictation ended, and Seth said good night, then added:
Of course, although you can also expect some intimate sessions, they are coming soon.
The so-called "intimate sessions" were their private sessions. What Seth had been talking about recently was all very grand content closely related to this book, and this session was the same. He said not to worry -- the sessions concerning the personal issues of the two of them would be back soon.
Then, at 9:45, even though Jane had many long pauses, Rob also felt that Seth's sudden ending of the session was unexpected. Then Jane said she was almost finished -- she meant with this book. She said: "I always know, or I think I know, that for me, it is beginning to feel close to the end." Jane's intuition said the book was about to end. And indeed it was -- in the next session, Session 941, this book came to a complete end.
This session is very short, but it is very grand. It is a summary of this book, more like a declaration, or a speech to all of us, a final general address. The language in it is like poetry; you can read it repeatedly, or listen to Helen's reading of it, both are very beautiful.
注释与核实
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Source: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, San Diego, "1982 Day-of-Year Calendar" (https://igppweb.ucsd.edu/~agnew/Cals/cal2.doy.1982.pdf) ↩