{"id":2233,"date":"2017-03-12T11:54:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T17:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/believeit.us\/?page_id=2233"},"modified":"2017-03-26T07:43:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T13:43:39","slug":"study-the-nature-of-personal-reality-chapter-01","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/believeit.us\/?page_id=2233","title":{"rendered":"Study: NPR &#8211; Chapter 01"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Audio Link\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/believeit.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Seth-PR-Ch01-TheLivingPictureOfTheWorld.mp3\">Seth-PR-Ch01 The Living Picture Of The World<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ch01 &#8211; I would say: Chapter 01 is the keystone for understanding Seth and the Seth Material<\/strong>.<br \/>\nCh01 is NOT a high level Introduction or Overview that can be breezed over. Right from the first paragraph, Seth reveals the revolutionary foundations and context required for understanding everything that will follow in subsequent chapters.<\/p>\n<p>It is VERY IMPORTANT that the Seth Student takes the time to understand and accept the founding concepts of chapter one.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Reality is a <strong><em>personal creation<\/em><\/strong>, created from your ideas, attitudes, feelings and beliefs.\n<ol>\n<li>It is <strong><em>personal;\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>individually and uniquely different from the\u00a0physical realities perceived by others, yet created from the insights and cooperation of each and every other conscious creator that creates their own personal realities.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>PERSONAL <strong>Reality is a projection<\/strong> of\u00a0YOUR soul.\n<ol>\n<li>It is <strong>NOT\u00a0<\/strong>a reality <strong>external<\/strong> to your conscious knowing.\u00a0Your being does NOT exist within\u00a0a\u00a0\u00a0physical reality created before you existed or independently by others.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>NOT\u00a0<\/strong>a <strong>separate<\/strong> external creation of your soul\/mind either. Ie;\u00a0physical reality is NOT a <em>stand alone from your being<\/em>\u00a0creation<em>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Physical <strong>reality is the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>essence<\/em><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em> of your being<\/em><\/span> and\u00a0soul <strong><em>expressed<\/em> <\/strong>in physical terms. It is you. It is the <strong><em>unique you<\/em><\/strong> expressed in physical terms. Physical reality\u00a0is\u00a0the\u00a0expression of\u00a0<em><strong>YOUR\u00a0<\/strong>thoughts, feelings, and expectations <\/em>perceived as <em><strong>physical characteristics<\/strong><\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Major Concepts in Ch01<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The living picture of <strong>the world grows within the mind<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>There is <strong>no effect<\/strong> in the exterior world <strong>that does not spring from an inner source<\/strong>. There is <strong>no motion<\/strong> that does not <strong>first occur within the mind<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The living world consists of a <strong>spontaneous cooperation.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nIt does not belong to mankind alone, however. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Each living being possesses it<\/span>, and the living world consists of <strong>a spontaneous cooperation<\/strong> that exists between the smallest and the highest, the greatest and the lowly, between the atoms and the molecules and the conscious, reasoning mind.<br \/>\n<strong>All<\/strong> manner of <strong>insects, birds and beasts cooperate<\/strong> in this venture, <strong>producing<\/strong> the<strong><em> natural environment<\/em><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Part of <strong>each individual\u2019s soul<\/strong>, then, is intimately <strong>connected<\/strong> with what we will call the world\u2019s soul, or the <strong>soul of the earth.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>World as you see it is a <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>reflection<\/em> of <strong>what you are<\/strong><\/span>, a reflection not in glass but in <strong>three dimensional reality<\/strong>. You project <em><strong>YOUR\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">thoughts, feelings, and expectations<\/span><\/em> outward, then you <strong><em>perceive them as the outside reality<\/em><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>When it seems to you that others are observing you, <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em><strong>you are observing yourself<\/strong><\/em><\/span> from the standpoint of your own projections.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">This is a very important concept. It is purposefully included here with the personal reality concept to get you to think more deeply on the subtleties of how a\u00a0<strong><em>personal creation<\/em> <\/strong>can also be a\u00a0<strong><em>cooperative creation<\/em><\/strong>. These should at first <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">seem to be contradictions<\/span>. In actuality, the discovery of seeming contradictions always indicates <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>greater insight needs to be sought<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">I believe Seth, Right from the start, is setting you up to begin wondering what he means. Seth\u2019s Ideas are presented in a manner that make you ask questions of yourself. I believe Seth expects and knows we\u2019ll find those insights are attracted when we are\u00a0emotionally charged with intense interests in understanding and reconciling the seeming differences; the puzzles meant to develop our inner insights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Literally, when I contemplate you reading,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">\u201cWhen it seems to you that others are observing you,<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> <em><strong>you are observing yourself<\/strong><\/em><\/span> from the standpoint of your own projections\u201d, Session 610 NPR Pg4<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">In actuality, I see myself NOT as writing to you, but writing to myself. Because, from the context of my personal perspective; I see you are me, giving back to me what I expect of you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">In creating you in my reality, I create you as I understand and believe you would best present yourself for my valued purposes. I create you in conformity to what you have cooperatively communicated to me within the soul\/mind realm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Likewise I, from the context of your perspective; am you giving back to you what you expect of me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">In the context of your reality, \u00a0we\u2019ve cooperated in your creation of me within your creation. In the larger non-physical realm, we cooperate by communicating telepathically and your primary constructions use my cooperative input known as a secondary constructions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">In essence, in my reality creation, you only appear as I would have you appear being consistent with my interpretation of your cooperative contributions being formed according to my beliefs, thoughts, feeling tones and expectations. It is in this manner, we cooperate while yet it is only I that form my own personal reality.<br \/>\nSee\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/believeit.us\/?p=2020\">earlier sessions for additional study of this fascinating concept<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Pg4<\/strong> \u2013 You are the living picture of yourself. You project what you think you are outward into flesh. Your<strong> feelings, your conscious and unconscious thoughts, all alter and form your physical image<\/strong>.<br \/>\nIt is not as easy, however, to realize that your<strong> feelings and thoughts form your exterior experience in the same way<\/strong>, or that the <strong><em>events<\/em> that appear to happen<\/strong> to you <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">are initiated by you<\/span><\/strong> within your mental or psychic <strong><em>inner<\/em> <\/strong>environment.<\/li>\n<li><b>Pg 5 \u2013 Psychological structures form<\/b> to which various names are given. [They]\u00a0also retain their identity, their pattern of uniqueness, even while they change constantly, die and are reborn.\n<ul>\n<li>The psyche brings forth the ego that perceives psychologically as the eye perceives physically. The <strong>psyche brings forth the ego<\/strong> that <strong>perceives psychologically<\/strong> as the eye perceives physically.\n<ul>\n<li>P4-5 What is the psyche? How is it different than the mind or soul? \u00a0See also Seth\u2019s book:\u00a0<em>Nature of the Psyche<\/em> Pg5-16<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pg 9<\/strong> \u2013 Your <strong>experience<\/strong> in the world of physical matter <strong>flows outward<\/strong> from the center of your inner psyche. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Then you perceive<\/em><\/span> this experience.\n<ul>\n<li>Which comes first, the psychic event or the perception of physically experiencing the event? How is the perception of an event recognized as a physical feedback experience different from the originating psychic event projected into physical matter and sensed by physical senses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pg 10<\/strong> \u2013 <strong>Altering the state of the psyche<\/strong> automatically alters the physical circumstances.\n<ul>\n<li>How do we alter the state of the psyche?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>There is no other valid way of <strong><em>changing physical events<\/em><\/strong>. It might help if you <em>imagine<\/em> an<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">inner living dimension<\/span><\/strong><\/span> within yourself in which you create, in miniature psychic form, all the exterior conditions that you know. Simply put, you do exactly this. Your <em><strong>thoughts, feelings and mental pictures<\/strong><\/em> can be called incipient exterior events, for in one way or another <em><strong>each of these is materialized<\/strong><\/em> into physical reality.\n<ul>\n<li>Of what within an inner living dimension of ourselves do we create, in miniature psychic form, what becomes our exterior conditions? Can we manipulate these in our waking consciousness?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>You change even the most permanent-seeming conditions of your life constantly through the<strong> varying attitudes<\/strong> you have toward them.<strong> There is <span style=\"color: #800080;\">nothing<\/span> in your exterior experience that did <span style=\"color: #800080;\">not originate<\/span> within you.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>What are permanent-seeming conditions in life? Attitudes toward what changes those permanent-seeming conditions?<\/li>\n<li>If we cooperate with all of mass consciousness in changing and creating physical reality, how is it that there is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">nothing that does not originate within you<\/span>?<\/li>\n<li>If all exterior experience originates from within, can I complain about a boss, co-worker or spouse? How is it we experience unwanted relationships? What psychic attitudes formed within the inner living dimensions of ourselves become the exterior conditions we dislike in some relationships? <em>Is it the attitude of disliking that causes the disliked relationship<\/em>? Or, is it some belief that we should have such an attitude? If a belief, Is it a belief that something in the\u00a0relationship is threatening to a more valued <em>precious<\/em> of which we have previously discerned a valued preference? It is hard to have an appreciative loving attitude toward something we perceive a threat. What came <strong><em>first<\/em><\/strong>?<\/li>\n<li>Can anything threaten us if,\u00a0<strong>There is nothing in your exterior experience that did not originate within you?<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0What is the real threat, <a href=\"https:\/\/believeit.us\/?p=167\">a devil, a destroyer<\/a>\u00a0capable of destroying the\u00a0reality within which we have or find our being?<br \/>\nOr can we trust <a href=\"https:\/\/believeit.us\/?page_id=2089\">we live in a safe universe<\/a>?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Interactions with others do occur, of course, yet<strong><em> there are none that you do not accept or draw to you by your thoughts, attitudes, or emotions<\/em><\/strong>.Your feelings have electromagnetic realities that rise outward, affecting the atmosphere itself. They <strong>group through <em>attraction,<\/em><\/strong> building up areas of events and circumstances that finally coalesce, so to speak, either <strong><em>in matter<\/em><\/strong> as objects-<em><strong>or as events<\/strong><\/em> in \u201ctime.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>In the most miraculous fashion are <strong>you <em>given the gift of creating your experience<\/em><\/strong>.In this existence <strong>you are learning<\/strong> <strong>to handle<\/strong> the <em>inexhaustible energy<\/em> that is available to you.<\/li>\n<li>Some <strong>feelings and thoughts are translated<\/strong> into <strong>structures that you call objects;<\/strong> these exist, in your terms, in a medium you call space. Others are translated instead <strong>into psychological structures called events,<\/strong> that seem to exist in a medium you call time. \u2026 So your <em><strong>inner experience is translated in those terms.<\/strong><\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>What inner experience is translated into physicality? The inner experience of our thoughts, attitudes or emotions toward our exterior physical objects and events? Or, if something else, what else is there that is within the control of our conscious mind that could alter the state of our psyche?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Beliefs and Feeling Tones<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Pg11<\/em><strong><em> \u2013 Basically you create your experience through your beliefs<\/em><\/strong> about yourself and the nature of reality. Another way to understand this is to realize that you create your experiences <em><strong>through your expectations<\/strong><\/em>. Your <em>feeling-tones<\/em> are your <strong>emotional attitudes<\/strong> toward <strong>yourself and life<\/strong> in general, and these generally govern the large areas of experience.<br \/>\n(Pause.) They give the overall <strong>emotional coloration<\/strong> that <strong>characterizes<\/strong> what happens to <strong>you.<\/strong> Period. <strong>You are what happens to you.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0They represent the most inner portion of your experience. This does not mean that they are hidden from you, or are meant to be. It simply means that <strong><em>they represent the core from which you form your experience<\/em><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Pg12 \u2013 But it [emotions] represents your deepest, most creative impulses; to fight against it is like trying to swim upstream against a strong current.<\/li>\n<li>These feeling-tones, then, pervade your being. They are the form your spirit takes when combined with flesh. <strong>From them<\/strong>, from their core, your flesh arises.\n<ul>\n<li>What are feeling-tones? Can they be manipulated or handled consciously so as to affect a more favorable physical experience?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Pg13 While your <strong>feeling-tone is uniquely yours<\/strong>, still it is expressed in a certain fashion that is <strong>shared by all consciousnesses<\/strong> focused in physical reality.<br \/>\n\u2026 cells and organs have their own awarenesses, and a gestalt one. So the race of man also has individual consciousness and a gestalt or mass consciousness.<br \/>\n\u2026 The mass race consciousness, in its terms, possesses an identity. You are a portion of that identity while still being unique, individual and independent.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How does this help us reconcile: \u00a0while we individually create our own realities, that creation is a cooperative creation?<\/li>\n<li>Is this how we can create\u00a0unique individual personal realities? Are our\u00a0organs and other body member gestalts the <strong>building blocks of \u00a0our\u00a0<\/strong><em><strong>natural environment<\/strong>. <\/em>Are these\u00a0<strong><em>cooperative gestalts <\/em><\/strong>what<strong><em> produce the initial psychic events <\/em><\/strong>required to change the psyche and flow outward from the inner psyche to affect the physical circumstances preceding the feedback we call experience.\u00a0Are these gestalts what form the psyche expressed in physicality?<br \/>\nIf so, how do we influence these inner gestalts to affect the change in our psyche that produces the different physical circumstance and experience?<\/li>\n<li>Can we get any help understanding how we influence our member gestalts by recognizing we too are member gestalts of yet larger individual gestalt consciousnesses that have unique personalities and prefered circumstances desired for\u00a0experience?<\/li>\n<li>If we are unique individual members within a\u00a0mass humanity consciousness gestalt , how does that gestalt consciously direct our cooperation?<br \/>\nMight this question find some clue to the mechanism and power we know of suggestion and\u00a0hypnotic suggestion? Is suggestion received as a call for cooperation to\u00a0our personal and inner gestalts? If so, the necessity for suggestion to have the correct feeling tones might explain why simply suggesting words that are not believed are not acted upon by the hypnosis subject. It also explains why the use of affirmations are largely ineffective until believable or a person feels like he believes them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>You are confined only to the extent that you have chosen physical reality, and so placed yourself within its context of experience. While physical, you follow physical laws, or assumptions. These form the framework for corporeal expression.\n<ul>\n<li>How is this related to the concepts of our being an individual member of a larger mass consciousness gestalt and that our that individual member is itself made up of lessor gestalts?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audio Link\u00a0Seth-PR-Ch01 The Living Picture Of The World Ch01 &#8211; I would say: Chapter 01 is the keystone for understanding Seth and the Seth Material. Ch01 is NOT a high level Introduction or Overview that can be breezed over. Right from the first paragraph, Seth reveals the revolutionary foundations and context required for understanding everything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2233","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/believeit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/believeit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/believeit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/believeit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/believeit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2233"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/believeit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2291,"href":"https:\/\/believeit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2233\/revisions\/2291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/believeit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}