On Dreams

The particle/wave duality found in Seth’s consciousness units metaphor has

some
very important implications. The fact that Seth chose to couch his CUs in
the
context of one of the most important paradigm-breaking theories of the
twentieth
century – nonlocality in quantum mechanics – is no accident. Even the
skeptic
who believes that Jane Roberts secretly read up on this topic and used her
overactive subconscious to produce the Seth books has to consider that,
regardless of the source, the integration of this metaphor into this
creation
myth is brilliant and evocative.

As we have seen earlier, when the species is in need of new ideas, like
calculus
and the wireless telegraph, they inevitably burst forth from the depths of
the
collective psyche. A group of scientists and a handful of enthusiasts are
the
only people who have ever performed the mental and mathematical gymnastics
necessary to understand the concept of nonlocality, if only in intellectual
terms.

And yet, when a housewife and aspiring writer in New York state comes up
with a
robust metaphysics that uses essentially the same idea in the mid-1970's,
is
this purely coincidental or more cynically, intentional subterfuge? Come
on! The
fact is that these ideas continually emerge in various creative guises to
facilitate helpful changes in portions of the population. No single source,
discipline, or belief system has a legitamate claim to a Complete View of
Everything. A Theory of Everything as recently formulated by Ken Wilber,
perhaps, but _not_ a Complete View.

Continuing then, the particle/wave duality of CUs also sheds important

light on
the deeper nature of the mechanics of the dream state. CUs dream and
perceive
through inner sensing, so every grouping of CUs holds these innate
characteristics. Could it be that the linear characteristics inherent in
our
waking state are simply the direct result of CU’s particle nature and the
more
amorphous, timeless nature inherent in our dreaming state is the result of
CU’s
wave nature?

The CU metaphor also maps directly onto another important concept found in
quantum mechanics – the universe as a hologram. This metaphor supports the
existence of a physical universe coupled with a hidden, source domain. In
short,
Seth’s frameworks of consciousness. We discussed the concept of
nonlocality, or
being in two or more places at the same time, in the Foreword. However, the
analogy of the physical universe as a hologram needs some further
explanation.

Increasingly capturing the imagination of scientific and religious thinkers

alike, a hologram is basically a three dimensional picture that appears on
a two
dimensional surface. It is created through a process of imprinting multiple
images onto a photosensitive chemical layer, usually on glass, from
reflected
laser light. If you break the hologram into pieces, you can still see the
_entire_image_in_each_piece_. In other words, the Whole is contained in
each-of-its-parts.

In essence Seth’s CUs are holograms, containing the Whole of All-That-Is in

each
‘‘part.’’ Though in one sense there really aren’t any distinct parts, in
purely
physical terms there _is_ the appearance of parts, thingness, and
objectivity
when CUs employ a ‘‘particle focus’’ to form myriad psychological
boundaries.
When CUs employ a ‘‘wave focus’’ the discrete nature of ‘‘parts’’ and
boundaries
melts away, revealing the Whole contained within, just as in the shard of
the
fractured hologram.

The particle/wave duality of CUs also helps to explain how there can be
simultaneous time in the context of frameworks of consciousness. It is the
CUs
‘‘particle focus’’ that creates the nine basic dimensions of time and it is
the
CUs ‘‘wave focus’’ that allows our inner selves to simultaneously perceive
all
of them:

PAST/past
PAST/present
PAST/future

PRESENT/past
PRESENT/present
PRESENT/future

FUTURE/past
FUTURE/present
FUTURE/future

Actually there is no such thing as _the_thing_ ‘‘simultaneous time.’’ This

is
just another metaphor that Seth uses to attempt to explain in plain English
the
complexities of All-That-Is in the context of the multidimensional psyche,
universe, and frameworks of consciousness. This metaphor reinforces that
physical reality (Framework 1) is much bigger than previously thought, not
a
closed system, and multidimensional in nature. Additionally, it reinforces
that
there is no beginning or end point in linear terms to our psyche and
universe,
just endless variations on the particle/wave nature of consciousness
ever-dreaming, ‘‘forgetting’’ and ‘‘remembering’’ itSelf anew.

The intrinsic nature of CUs’ ‘‘particle focus’’ and ‘‘wave focus’’ also
forms a
baseline for understanding _all_ paranormal experience – nonordinary states
–
including astral projection, lucid dreaming, near-death experiences, and
superconsciousness. Further understanding the mechanics of the paranormal
is an
important frontier for continued scientific research as we begin a new
millennium.

As physical selves we are immersed in a camouflage universe of idea

constructions – a holographic dream – formed by the latent potentials of
electromagnetic energy units and consciousness units, those foundational
aspects
of All-That-Is. In this sense physical reality is as much a dream world as
our
dream state. However, this doesn’t mean that physical reality is not real.
That
is, it would be prudent to wear a parachute when jumping out of an
airplane,
there are dream-bills to be paid, and dream-stomachs that require
sustenance.
Nonetheless, physical reality is a unique and sacred dream, built upon a
divine
love and subjectivity imbued with a great desire and purpose to nurture
_everything_ toward the realization of its maximum potential.

On ‘‘Evolution’’

It is interesting that Seth’s creation myth bears a remarkable similarity

to
other creation myths from around the world. Though they are beyond the
scope of
this essay, one myth in particular, the Aboriginal myth of the alcheringa
or the
‘‘dreamtime’’ as English researcher Frank Gillen coined it in 1896, bears a
closer look. It maps closely to the essential nature of what Seth describes
in
the opening chapters of Dreams, ‘‘Evolution,’’ and Value Fulfillment.

According to this Aboriginal creation myth, time emerged from a timeless

realm,
supernatural beings created the world and then fell into an exhausted
‘‘slumber’
’ becoming the very parts of the earth itSelf – oceans, forests, lakes,
mountains, and sky. These supernatural beings seem remarkably similar to
Seth’s
sleepwalkers – those early entities ‘‘in trance’’ who formed the planet,
its
geography, and ecosystem.

In the Aboriginal myth, the action of dreaming plays a central role in the
creation. According to physicist Fred Alan Wolf:

‘‘As new as the Dreamtime concept of this reality may appear to us,
Australian
Aborigines claim to have ‘memory’ of this realm dating back nearly 150,000
years. From this realm, a long time ago, the world of mind, matter, and
energy
arose as a dream of the ‘Great Spirit.’ Thus Aboriginal thinking suggests
that
the universe or God is itself dreaming into existence all of what we
experience.
’’ (14)
‘‘The dreamtime came to an end when the supernatural beings left the
surface of
the earth. But the mythical past was not lost forever; on the contrary, it
is
periodically recovered through the tribal rituals.

‘‘When all these earth-born supernatural beings had accomplished their

labors
and completed their wanderings, overpowering weariness fell upon them. The
work
that they had performed had taxed their strength to the utmost, thus they
sank
back into their original slumbering state and their bodies either vanished
into
the ground – often at the site where they had first emerged – or turned
into
rocks, trees, or sacred objects.’’ (15)

Sounds similar doesn’t it?

The belief system of evolution, of the linear development from ‘‘lower’’ to

‘‘higher’’ life forms based upon a random, mindless principle called
natural
selection, is an inadequate model to explain the dreaming nature of the
multidimensional psyche and universe as represented in Seth’s creation
myth. And
this is not to discredit or disrespect the brilliant creativity of Charles
Darwin, only to say that an expanded view is required to achieve a deeper
understanding of the multidimensional nature of ourselves and our universe.

Let’s take a brief look back in time, to cosmologies in Western history

that
have been overshadowed due to a variety of political, scientific, and
religious
reasons to get a sense of where the belief system of evolution came from.
Up
until the sixteenth century, the consensus view dating back to Aristotle in
the
fourth century B.C. had the earth at the epicenter of God’s divine domain.
Then,
Polish astronomer Nicolas Copernicus came along and scandalized the
religious
ruling class by showing that the earth was not the center of the universe,
that
it actually revolved around the sun. And later that century:

‘‘A generation after Copernicus, Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) dealt a

potentially
fatal blow to the crumbling Aristotelian cosmology by declaring that not
even
the Sun was at the center of the universe – there is _no_center_, he said.
The
universe is acentric – infinite in space and in time. In Bruno's cosmology,
there was no creation – mythological, theological, or scientific. The
universe
was eternal; matter was co-eternal with god. In fact, the universe of
matter
_was_ god because matter itself was intelligent. Whereas Copernicus
survived the
Holy Inquisition by keeping quiet about his ideas until the year of his
death,
Bruno, much more audacious and provocative, paid for his ‘sins’ [of
questioning
and challenging the authority of Aristotle and the Church] by being burned
alive
at the stake in 1600.’’ (16)

It wasn’t long after that Isaac Newton (1642-1727), a mathematician and

scientist, formulated his theories based upon the belief that the universe
was a
vast machine whose underlying laws could be known once the component
building
blocks were discerned. In essence, Newton believed that there was a single
objective reality that could be understood given enough time and resource
via
scientific inquiry and reason. Many others contributed and expanded this
new
view of the universe for several centuries leading up to Charles Darwin
(1809-1882) and his theories on evolution, first published The Origin of
Species
by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the
Struggle for Life in 1859.

Though Darwin did not believe that all matter and energy was conscious in
some
form, there were other thinkers, notably mathematician and philosopher
Alfred
North Whitehead (1861-1947) who came to understand that the universe was
indeed
conscious in multiple orders of scale but struggled to define an accurate
‘‘map.
’’ In his later years he proposed a philosophy called Process Theology,
albeit
mostly ignored by the mainstream, that embraced the belief that everything,
all
matter and energy, was conscious in multiple, nested orders. He recognized
that,
contrary to the popular Newtonian view the universe is one big machine, the
Whole was always greater than the sum of its parts.

In the twentieth century, the work of physicist David Bohm (1917-1991), a

student of Einstein’s, expressed in the language of quantum mechanics
something
similar to Seth’s frameworks of consciousness. What Seth terms Framework 1
Bohm
terms the Explicate Order, Framework 2 is the Implicate Order. The attempt
by
scientific thinkers to integrate the knowledge of this hidden, source
domain
into evolutionary theory has never born any serious fruits. It remains an
unproven theory to this day. In fact, the seeming paradox of time and no-
time
domains has opened a can of worms that still vexes evolutionists. Treated
by the
mainstream as though it were a fact, evolution, natural selection, genetic
mutation are metaphors that have turned into the calcified dogma of
scientism,
not science.

In his book Mind into Matter: A New Alchemy of Science and Spirit, Fred
Alan
Wolf proposes what he terms the new alchemy which is consonant with Seth’s
dream-art science introduced in The ‘‘Unknown’’ Reality, Vol. 1.
Essentially,
these are models that propose the integration of the conscious use of the
inner
sensing, natural time, and deep intuitions into the objective rigor of
scientific method. In other words, combining subjective and objective
experience, the key ingredient missing from Darwin’s model and theory.

Ken Wilber, a preeminent contemporary transpersonal philosopher, has

offered a
simple map that he calls the four quadrants that attempts to show the
holistic
relationship between subjective and objective experience in the context of
four
key elements of perception:

1. Outer (objective) / singular (individual) / It / behavioral in relation

to…

2. Inner (subjective) / singular (individual) / I / intentional in relation

to…

3. Inner (subjective) / plural (collective) / We / cultural in relation to…

4. Outer (objective) / plural (collective) / Its / social

Together, these four quadrants form a matrix in which to imagine how human
perception (reality creation) works together in the holistic context of
All-That-Is or what Wilber refers to as the ‘‘Great Chain of Being’’ or
Kosmos.

Each quadrant, then, has an axis from relatively ‘‘lower’’ to ‘‘higher’’

development that bear superficial similarities to Darwin’s theory, for
example,
the reptilian brain stem is still seen as a ‘‘lower’’ form of the mammalian
brain. Still, Wilber manages to expand upon problematic areas like the
complete
exclusion of subjective experience and its holistic relationship to
objective
experience. This is another important frontier of research and speculation
that
takes us beyond Darwin’s evolutionary model.

More and more, scientists are beginning to realize that there is no such
thing
as one hundred percent objectivity. Every consciousness colors the results
of
his or her scientific observations. To observe anything is to change it,
even if
only in an individual psychological way. This means that we live in a
universe
that features both subjective and objective characteristics. Imagine the
potential breakthroughs possible when scientists and clergy alike combine
the
best practices of a Buddha and Einstein. The possibilities are exciting and
hint
at what is to come in this new millennium as science and spirit merge
toward a
new paradigm, a new dream-science. The net result is that Darwin’s theory
of
evolution is being expanded and refined by postmodern scientists,
philosophers,
and theologians to include the multidimensional psyche and universe. And
these
leading edge ideas are anything but mainstream at this point.

On Value Fulfillment

The inner law of value fulfillment is the divine principle in which All-
That-Is
lovingly creates, develops, and nurtures every atom, ocean, and galaxy with
the
best intent of _every_aspect_ in mind. As we have seen, value fulfillment
is
another innate characteristic of CUs that works on a variety of levels
fueling
every action within All-That-Is. Value fulfillment, like all the inner
laws, may
appear as esoteric and hard to conceptualize at first glance. Just as the
wind
is invisible to the naked eye, so too are these inner laws. However, just
as we
can see the effects of wind on the surface of a lake or blowing through
trees,
so too, we can understand the affects of value fulfillment in several
qualitative contexts.

Earlier, we mentioned the inherent quality of unconditional love within

All-That-Is and CUs. There is another quality which I call the
tension-resolution principle, a principle constantly observable in the
basic
workings of our mind/body relationship – hunger-ingestion, digestion-
evacuation,
waking-sleeping, love making-orgasm, emotional and hormonal cycles. In
other
words, there is a constant cycling in the build up and release of
‘‘tension’’ in
human terms of hunger, digestion, going to the bathroom, sleep
requirements,
sexual and emotional needs that are all reflections of value fulfillment at
work
physically.

When these cycles occur in harmonious fashion, the results are health,
abundance, and synergy. When they occur in dissonant fashion the results
are
conflict, poverty, dysfunction, and dis-ease. In the context of Seth’s
creation
myth there was a build up of divine tension, all in the context of value
fulfillment, that resulted in an ‘‘explosive emergence’’ of the inner
aspects of
our physical universe. But again, all of this ‘‘occurred’’ _before_ the
beginning during the dreamtime.

Another question we should ask, is why did Seth exclude the other eight
laws of
the inner universe in his musings in Dreams, ‘‘Evolution,’’ and Value
Fulfillment? (Recall that he briefly mentioned spontaneity.) One answer is
that
this tale of the creation is not complete and finished. It never can be! It
is
not offered as a revelation from God in concrete, discrete terms, only in
the
sense that we each must create our own interpretations, meanings, and
understandings. The myth of the creation is
_being_created_right-now_by_you_and_me_.
A second answer is that to include all ten laws of the inner universe in
the
context of this linear narrative would likely result in a hopelessly
entangled
knot of paradoxes that might overwhelm the rational mind. And that is
clearly
not Seth’s intent in offering his ideas as he masterfully walks that fine
line
between intellect and intuition in his writing and teaching styles. As the
aphorism goes, ‘‘the journey of a thousand miles begins with a step.’’ So
Seth
provides little bits at a time; puzzle pieces that hint at the deeper
nature and
mystery of the Puzzle.

Just to be thorough, the following is a list of the laws of the inner

universe
according to Seth from The Early Sessions: Book 2 of the Seth Material. In
hindsight, we can see that Seth uses some of these words in his creation
myth
but doesn’t relate to them as inner laws. Perhaps our intellects are
challenged
enough as we take our first steps in the proverbial journey toward new
understandings?

- Value Fulfillment
- Energy Transformation
- Spontaneity
- Durability
- Creation
- Consciousness
- Capacity For Infinite Mobility
- Changeability & Transmutation
- Cooperation
- Quality Depth

Dealing with All-That-Is as Absolute Truth in the context of Seth’s laws of

the
inner universe is a tricky business. It’s easy to quickly get lost in
semantics
and belief systems. This is to serve as a reminder that these laws are
offered
by Seth as a set of orienting generalizations and not absolutes in terms of
the
words used to introduce them. They are an attempt to describe attributes of
All-That-Is that fuel Its every action and eternal becoming, including
‘‘evolution’’ or change-in-time.

Though I have listed ten laws, one could argue that there are eleven or
twelve
in the Seth material but this is not the point! These laws are qualitative
aspects of All-That-Is, and to imagine that they could be locked into the
distinct chains of English, or any spoken or mathematical language, is the
path
to distortion and inevitable delusion. As the Taoist saying goes, ‘‘The Tao
which is written or spoken is not the true Tao.’’ [For more detail on these
inner laws follow this link to Seth’s Laws of the Inner Universe.
http://www.cafemuse.com/sethnet/Inner_Laws.html]

At this point, let’s briefly revisit Seth’s sleepwalkers and ‘‘families’’

of
consciousness to recap some important connections we may have missed
earlier.
Perhaps in the same way that Seth did not elaborate on the rest of his laws
of
the inner universe, he also did not make any connection between the
sleepwalkers
and the ‘‘families.’’ Even though Seth uses the sleepwalker metaphor to
describe
‘‘all species,’’ the sleepwalkers, as they relate to human consciousness,
also
belong to the ‘‘families’’ of consciousness that Seth talks about in The
‘‘Unknown’’ Reality, Vol. 2. In this context, the sleepwalkers represent
our
early, newly forming focus personalities in linear terms only. In nonlinear
or
simulaneous terms, they are eternal aspects of All-That-Is.

The ‘‘families’’ of consciousness metaphor, then, represents the innate

_intention_ of the entities (or nonphysical source selves) that support and
nurture our collective psyche. The sleepwalkers are those aspects of our
entities who now ‘‘slumber’’ in the psychological support roles that
maintain
our universe, in similar fashion to the Aboriginal mythos. As such our
waking
memories of them have long since faded from conscious awareness into
sub-conscious and inner-conscious awareness.

And just as musical scales form the foundational blueprints of a

masterpiece
like Beethoven’s ninth symphony, so too do the ‘‘families’’ of
consciousness
form the foundational blueprints for the underlying spectrum of human
intention,
all guided by the inner law of value fulfillment. The sleepwalkers, then,
represent our ancient dreaming selves and the ‘‘families’’ of consciousness
represent our innate intents. These still serve today as psychic filters
that
color the impulse streams that constantly emerge from our inner selves.

In larger terms, value fulfillment, like all of the inner laws of the
universe,
forms a Source Principle that transcends our beliefs systems of good and
bad.
Every thing, every action that occurs in our universe is fueled by the
underlying action of value fulfillment. This includes illness, poverty,
dis-ease, death and all the things we consider to be ‘‘bad,’’ as well as
abundance, wellness, beauty, peace, and all the things we consider
‘‘good.’’

When we ask questions like, ‘‘Why did God create a universe in which bad
can
occur?’’ or ‘‘Isn’t death a dis-ease that needs a cure?’’ or ‘‘If the
universe
of good intent why do bad things happen?’’ we still don’t understand the
workings of value fulfillment. These inner laws are neutral in one sense,
neutral to our belief systems, acting only as the fuel for continued action
in
which we have the free will to make choices that affect our beliefs of good
and
bad, pleasant and unpleasant. We create our own perception, we create our
own
sense of good and bad in terms of Framework 1 cognition. The inner laws are
transcendent by definition and apply to _all_ frameworks of consciousness
within
All-That-Is.

So value fulfillment affects us in many different ways, from inner to

subconscious to outer layers of our psyche, a psyche simultaneously
immersed in
multiple frameworks of consciousness. And this hints at the magnificent,
multidimensional design, intent, and purpose that our universe is naturally
imbued with that guides us toward fulfilling experiences that include but
are
certainly not limited to the local effects of good and bad in Framework 1.

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Endnotes:

(14) Fred Alan Wolf, Mind into Matter: A New Alchemy of Science and Spirit,
Moment Point Press, Portsmouth, NH, 2001, p. 82.

(15) Fred Alan Wolf, The Dreaming Universe, Simon and Shuster, NY, NY,
1994, p.
145-6.

(16) Christian de Quincey, The Big Bang: A Modern Myth Without Meaning?,
http://www.mightywords.com/browse/details_bc05.jsp?sku=MWSK6Z&privateLabel=
false
2000, December 05, 2000, p. 6.