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Greetings all,
Id like to introduce a book which I re-read recently and which has struck me as one of the most profound and inspiring works I have ever come across.
The Nature of Personal Reality will be of interest to anyone wanting more detail on The Law of Attraction which has been popularised in recent years - the Seth Material discussed concepts like this way back in the 1960's!
It's similar in nature to the Abraham books - claimed to have been 'channeled' - and contains much of the same basic message. Unlike Abraham it is not at all elementary, this and the other Seth books are highly specific and detailed treatises on metaphysics.
Here is a taster of the content:
I think you have to be careful with something as unverifiable as a book of this nature, but what I find important about the Seth books is that when I first read them (perhaps 15 years ago) I did not have any suitable frame of reference and was largely bemused by the content. However I now find concepts such as (i) existence as a manifestation of Mind, (ii) the consciousness of cells and organs, (iii) the unified mind/body as a self-healing system, (iv) all physical and psychiatric disorders as energy blockage, much more salient!
Enjoy.
Andy
PS Id also recommend Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul.
Id like to introduce a book which I re-read recently and which has struck me as one of the most profound and inspiring works I have ever come across.
The Nature of Personal Reality will be of interest to anyone wanting more detail on The Law of Attraction which has been popularised in recent years - the Seth Material discussed concepts like this way back in the 1960's!
It's similar in nature to the Abraham books - claimed to have been 'channeled' - and contains much of the same basic message. Unlike Abraham it is not at all elementary, this and the other Seth books are highly specific and detailed treatises on metaphysics.
Here is a taster of the content:
Your beliefs can be like fences that surround you.
You must first recognise the existence of such barriers - you must see them or you will not even recognise you are not free, simply because you will not see beyond the fences. (Very positively: ) They will represent the boundaries of your experience.
There is one belief, however, that destroys artificial barriers to perception, an expanding belief that automatically pierces false and inhibiting ideas.
Now, separately:
The Self Is Not Limited
That statement is a statement of fact. It exists regardless of your belief or disbelief in it. Following this concept is another:
There Are No Boundaries
or Separations of The Self.
Those that you experience are the result of false beliefs. Following this is the idea that I have already mentioned:
You Make Your Own Reality.
You must first recognise the existence of such barriers - you must see them or you will not even recognise you are not free, simply because you will not see beyond the fences. (Very positively: ) They will represent the boundaries of your experience.
There is one belief, however, that destroys artificial barriers to perception, an expanding belief that automatically pierces false and inhibiting ideas.
Now, separately:
The Self Is Not Limited
That statement is a statement of fact. It exists regardless of your belief or disbelief in it. Following this concept is another:
There Are No Boundaries
or Separations of The Self.
Those that you experience are the result of false beliefs. Following this is the idea that I have already mentioned:
You Make Your Own Reality.
Now: Later we will discuss some of the reasons for your beliefs, but for now I simply want you to recognise them.
I am going to list some limiting false beliefs. If you find yourself agreeing with any of them, then recognise this as an area in which you must personally work.
1. Life is a valley of sorrows.
2. The body is inferior. As a vehicle of the soul it is automatically degraded, tinged.
You may feel that the flesh is inherently bad or evil, that its appetites are wrong. Christians may find the body deplorable, thinking the soul descended into it - "descent" automatically meaning the change from a higher or better condition to one that is worse.
Followers of Eastern religions often feel it is their duty, also, to deny their flesh, to rise above it, so to speak, into a state where nothing is desired. Using a different vocabulary, they still believe that earth experience is not desirable in itself.
3. I am helpless before circumstances that I cannot control.
4. I am helpess because my personality and character were formed in infancy, and I am at the mercy of my past.
5. I am helpless because I am at the mercy of events from past lives in other incarnations, over which I have no control. I must be punished, or I am punishing myself for unkindness done to others in past lives. I must accept the negative aspects of my life because of my karma.*
6. People are basically bad, and out to get me.
7. I have the truth and no one else has. Or, my group has the truth and no other group has.
8. I will grow frailer, sicker, and lose my powers as I grow old.
9. My existence is dependent on my experience in flesh.
When my body dies my consciousness dies with it.
I am going to list some limiting false beliefs. If you find yourself agreeing with any of them, then recognise this as an area in which you must personally work.
1. Life is a valley of sorrows.
2. The body is inferior. As a vehicle of the soul it is automatically degraded, tinged.
You may feel that the flesh is inherently bad or evil, that its appetites are wrong. Christians may find the body deplorable, thinking the soul descended into it - "descent" automatically meaning the change from a higher or better condition to one that is worse.
Followers of Eastern religions often feel it is their duty, also, to deny their flesh, to rise above it, so to speak, into a state where nothing is desired. Using a different vocabulary, they still believe that earth experience is not desirable in itself.
3. I am helpless before circumstances that I cannot control.
4. I am helpess because my personality and character were formed in infancy, and I am at the mercy of my past.
5. I am helpless because I am at the mercy of events from past lives in other incarnations, over which I have no control. I must be punished, or I am punishing myself for unkindness done to others in past lives. I must accept the negative aspects of my life because of my karma.*
6. People are basically bad, and out to get me.
7. I have the truth and no one else has. Or, my group has the truth and no other group has.
8. I will grow frailer, sicker, and lose my powers as I grow old.
9. My existence is dependent on my experience in flesh.
When my body dies my consciousness dies with it.
I think you have to be careful with something as unverifiable as a book of this nature, but what I find important about the Seth books is that when I first read them (perhaps 15 years ago) I did not have any suitable frame of reference and was largely bemused by the content. However I now find concepts such as (i) existence as a manifestation of Mind, (ii) the consciousness of cells and organs, (iii) the unified mind/body as a self-healing system, (iv) all physical and psychiatric disorders as energy blockage, much more salient!
Enjoy.
Andy
PS Id also recommend Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul.