A friend of mine doesn’t believe in anything that can’t be proved to be real. He thinks we must have a testable paradigm that has been confirmed for anything that we might want to believe.
His is not a viewpoint that I share. Although anything that can be proved real may have technical and scientific merit, in my personal life that is trivial. This is because I have given up asking if something is true and I have begun asking if it is useful, amusing or entertaining.
One of the ideas that I find entertaining is that somehow you can change reality by changing how you think about it. The idea is that you can work with your beliefs and take action that facilitates that change. I dream of wealth, for example, having previously been unworthy (and abysmally poor); I change my belief about my worthiness and that is the one change that cascades into everything else and makes my world a nicer and perhaps wealthier place.
It's really more complicated than that; but you get the idea. It is part of a larger concept that your beliefs and ideas about the world are part of an organic system that is both selecting and creating what you experience. Change your beliefs and ideas and you change the world you live in, and your personal part in it. This is not a solipsistic exercise; because you live in a world of other creatures like yourself, it is a communicative exercise with a far greater breadth than what you would think.
The author of this idea about beliefs was a woman named Jane Roberts; and she created the Seth material. I find it fascinating that she simply came out with this in trance. And her husband just took notes and they published the stuff. Consistent, well thought out, with examples just straight off the note pad with no rewriting. Volume after volume in small print.
If you believe that Seth is a real person or entity as he described himself as he spoke through this woman, then he is a brilliant master of metaphysics; if you think she’s the author then she is imaginatively brilliant.
Whenever anyone says: “You create your own reality” they are repeating something very likely first seen in the Seth books. It was a radical idea at the time. Scads of people who had never read Seth went around repeating it like some new mantra. It has gone on to become part of the language and people say it without thinking in every day discourse.
Seth went on to say that all creation was a translation of something he called feeling-tone into material reality; and that we were in reality each within our own universe. As individuals we are each a component of an entity; what we see is in fact an electrical field upon which reality is materialized so that our multiple lives occur at the same time. They're just intermeshed as the images flash through the field. And the entity puts it together and experiences all it's separate "realities" simultaneously. This would be tantamount to being able to watch a dozen or so movies by seeing a frame from each flash upon the the same screen in repeating sequence. First a frame from this film, then a frame from that, a frame from the third and so forth. At the same time being able to mentally separate the movies and see each as though it were showing in it's own theater. Mental gymnastics that we do without even thinking about it.
On the face of things I would guess that it’s not easy to fit all that into a mechanistic testable paradigm. So I shall have to simply be entertained.
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