{"id":1517,"date":"2014-03-16T12:11:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T18:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/believeit.us\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2014-03-16T21:43:09","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T03:43:09","slug":"which-self-self-actualization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/believeit.us\/?p=1517","title":{"rendered":"Which Self, Self Actualization"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>As series of Acts<\/h2>\n<div>Life is a series of acts and mini-plays in the theater of a larger production in which we all agree on certain assumptions; the props and scenes are real and all perception comes through the physical senses. We are therefore highly focused upon the actions of the play.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1;\">In the play different problems are setup for both each\u00a0individual and collectively all individuals en masse. We&#8217;re:<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;concerned with the actualization of intuitive truth into what you would call artistic form, with a creativity of such vast and sweeping results that it would serve to awaken latent abilities within each actor [our selves] and serve as a model of behavior.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Periods of renaissance &#8211; spiritual, artistic, or psychic &#8211; occur because of the intense inner focus of those involved in the drama are directed toward those ends. The challenge may be different in each play, but the great themes are beacons to all consciousness. They serve as models.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Seth Speaks Ch04\u00a0Pg 49 (SS-04 pg49).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>My focus this week seems to <strong>center on the <em>self<\/em><\/strong> or more precisely: <strong>which <em>&#8220;self&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> are we referring to when we hear such commonly accepted ideas among Seth readers.<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><em>You<\/em> <\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">create <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><em>your<\/em><\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"> own reality.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">&#8220;The [plays] lives are simultaneous. <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><em>Your own multidimensional personality<\/em><\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"> is so endowed that it can have these experiences and still retain its identity.&#8221; SS pg 50<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">&#8220;<\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><em>You<\/em><\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"> therefore\u00a0create far more environments [plays] than you realize. Now, each actor, going about the role, focused within the play, has <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><em>an inner guide<\/em><\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"> line. &#8230; <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><em>He<\/em><\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"> has knowledge and information that comes to <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><em>him<\/em><\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"> through what I call the inner senses&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>SS-04 pg 50<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">&#8220;In these he is informed through the inner senses of <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><em>his<\/em><\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"> other roles, and he realizes that he is far more than the <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><em>self <\/em><\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">appearing in any given play.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">&#8220;Each actor must of himself realize, however, the nature of the production and his part in it. he must actualize <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><em>himself<\/em><\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem; text-decoration: underline;\">out<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"> of the three dimensional confines of the play&#8217;s setting.&#8221; SS-04 Pg 51<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">&#8220;each actor first actualizes <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><em>himself<\/em><\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"> with<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem; text-decoration: underline;\">in<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"> three-dimensional reality. The multidimensional <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><em>self<\/em><\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"> cannot act with<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem; text-decoration: underline;\">in<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"> three-dimensional reality until it materializes a <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><em>portion of itself <\/em><\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem; text-decoration: underline;\">within<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"> it.&#8221; SS-04 Pg 51<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Within this reality, it then brings about all kinds of creativity and development that <\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem; text-decoration: underline;\">could not appear otherwise<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">. It must then propel <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><em>itself<\/em><\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem; text-decoration: underline;\">from<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"> this system however, through another act, <\/span><em style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">another<\/em><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"> actualization on the part of <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><em>itself<\/em><\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"> that <\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem; text-decoration: underline;\">is<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"> three-dimensional.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">&#8220;Now: The meaning of the play is within <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><em>you,<\/em> <\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">therefore. It is only the conscious portion of you that acts so well, and that is focused so securely \u00a0within the props of the production.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">&#8230; &#8220;The portion of any given life is available to <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><em>you<\/em><\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">, the knowledge beneath the surface of the <\/span><em style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><strong>self you know<\/strong><\/em><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">. All kinds of hints and clues are available. You have the knowledge of your entire multidimensional personality at your fingertips.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><em style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">&#8230; &#8220;Your multidimensional personality, your true identity, <strong>the real you, <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">is conscious of<\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"> <\/strong><em style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><strong>itself<\/strong><\/em><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">, as <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><em>itself<\/em><\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">, in any of these roles.&#8221; \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">&#8220;These &#8216;period pieces,&#8217; overall, have a particular purpose. By the very nature of consciousness, it seeks to materialize itself in as many dimensions as possible &#8211; to create from itself new levels of awareness, new offshoots. In doing so it <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">creates all reality<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">. Reality therefore, is always in a state of becoming.&#8221; &#8230; Consciousness can never be still, but seeks further creativity.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li>&#8230;\u00a0&#8220;It is not restricted to one three-dimensional lifetime, nor is it restricted to three-dimensional existence alone.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">&#8230; &#8220;the <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><em>soul<\/em> <\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">or entity has complete freedom of expression. it changes its form to suit its expression, and it forms environments like stage settings, and worlds to suit its purposes.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">&#8230;&#8221; endows three-dimensional reality, and the <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><em>three-dimensional self<\/em><\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"> with its own properties. The abilities of the entity lie within the three-dimensional self. The three-dimensional <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><em>self, the actor<\/em><\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">, has access to this information and to these potentials.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">&#8220;You are learning to be cocreators. <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><em>You<\/em><\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"> are learning to be gods as you now understand the term. You are learning responsibility &#8211; the responsibility of any individualized consciousness. You are learning to handle the <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><em>energy that is yourself<\/em><\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">, for creative purposes.&#8221; SS-04 Pg54<\/span><\/li>\n<li>&#8230; &#8220;Consciousness forms the other actors, or that realities that you cannot see exist over and beyond the physical matter that is so apparent.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0 \u00a0You can, however, using your inner senses, perceive reality as it exists apart from the play and your role in it. In order to do this you must, of course, momentarily at least turn your attention away from the constant activity that is taking place &#8211; turn off the physical senses, as it were &#8211; and switch your attention to those events that have escaped you earlier.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">&#8220;The soul or entity, then, is not the <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"><em>self<\/em><\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\"> that reads this book. Your environment is not simply the world about you as you know it, but also consists of past-life environments upon which you are not now focusing. Your real environment is composed of your thoughts and emotions, for from these you form not only this reality but each reality in which you take part.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Your soul, the soul that you are a part of possesses the wisdom of all portions of the soul of all the conscious selves &#8211; the knowledge of one is available to the many so that full self and even the conscious self, with which you identify, is more than the sum of it&#8217;s parts. Audio Quote:\u00a0Intuitive understanding; <a href=\"https:\/\/believeit.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snips\/FullerNatureOfYourReality.mp3\">Fuller Nature Of Your Reality.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0SS-06 75-76<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; &#8220;in many ways intuitive knowledge is superior to any other kind. One prerequisite for such an intuitive understanding of the soul is the desire to achieve it. If the desire is strong enough, then you will be automatically led to experiences that will result in vivid, unmistakable subjective knowledge.&#8221; SS-06 Pg76-77<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; &#8220;The fact is that while you hold limited concepts of your reality, then you cannot practically take advantage of many abilities that are your own; and while you have a limited concept of the soul, then to some extent you cut yourself off from the source of your own being and creativity.&#8221; SS-06 Pg 77<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>IN actuality, our fuller soul selves actualize inner events into our three-dimensional reality so that these can be more closely observed with greater insights realized or actualized by our soul. \u00a0 Our soul&#8217;s events are physically actualized <strong>for our ego selves\u00a0<\/strong>into three dimensional reality so that, under the ego&#8217;s scrutiny, recognition of further distinctions are actualized back to our inner selves as greater\u00a0<em>depths of insight.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>All depths of insight, regardless of the three dimensional consciousness first to realize it, are available to be shared with all portions of our soul or other <strong><em>selves<\/em><\/strong>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Here, we need just <em><strong>understand our potential<\/strong><\/em> and have a <em>desire<\/em> to understand and we find <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">natural intentions bring us to obtaining understanding<\/span>. (SSPg 77) \u00a0 With intentions to receive we find, as with all thinking, we attract or perceive the new depths of insight appearing to our conscious minds as if magically provided. We seek and intuitively find, ask and it is received.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h2>Fragments or not fragments &#8211; Identities<\/h2>\n<div>In actuality, we are <em>NOT fragmented. <\/em>The named portions we use for objective identification are but different intentionally directed <em>focuses of\u00a0attention<\/em>,\u00a0focuses of <em>awareness,<\/em> focuses of <em>consciousness. <\/em>Only\u00a0because we<em>\u00a0<\/em>are able to <strong><em>multi-task<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<strong><em>consciousness<\/em> <\/strong>does it appear like we&#8217;re fragmented.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Yet, In another sense, each conscious task or actively directed consciousness is undoubtedly a uniquely discrete channel of expression that is uniquely identifiable &#8211; the very definition of <strong><em>identity<\/em><\/strong>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Consciousness is just the direction that the self focuses. Our <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">innerly directed consciousness<\/span>\u00a0we call our <strong><em>inner self<\/em><\/strong>. \u00a0Our <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">outerly directed consciousness<\/span> we call our <strong><em>ego self<\/em><\/strong> or more simply, but ambiguously, our &#8220;<strong><em>conscious self<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Together, these non-existent but identifiable separate parts of self form a gestalt of identities we we call our &#8220;<strong><em>true selves&#8221;. <\/em><\/strong>Our<em> <\/em><strong><em>true\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>se<\/em><\/strong><em><strong>lf<\/strong> <\/em>only finds its<em>\u00a0<strong>identity <\/strong><\/em>or<em> identification <\/em>within the<em> context of the fuller reality that encompasses the fuller gestalt. <\/em>At this level of reality and for the sake of objective communication we identify the<em><strong> gestalt of individual selves<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>as the<em><strong> Soul<\/strong>.<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Holograms of information, fully conscious intelligence<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Today physicists are finding our universe is best described as a hologram of information.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Within holographic creation there is completeness of information within each portion. It matters not how \u00a0many times you divide a hologram, the full information persists. Each division while it can beheld as an expression of \u00a0uniqueness when looking at the whole. Look only at any divided part and find the fullness is still within.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1;\">Our fuller Self is truly NOT a combination of separate disconnected selves, but each self identity is one and the same inner self merely beholding different perspectives of consciousness. The unique discrete identity you commonly know of as &#8220;<strong><em>yourself<\/em><\/strong>&#8221; could no better be described than analogous to the hologram of modern physics.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1;\">All the creativity and insight we possess is \u00a0possessed by the self regardless of how you define or identify the self. \u00a0Regardless of which Self you choose to identify with in the current moment, you possess all the fulness and informational \u00a0intelligence of your complete Soul and if I dare venture beyond; you possess the fullness of <strong>&#8220;<em>all that is&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1;\">We have only to RealizeIt to BelieveIt, to ExperienceIt!\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Study Materials:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/believeit.us\/?page_id=1493\">Seth-SS-Ch04 &#8211; Reincarnational dramas<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/believeit.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/SS\/Seth-SS-Ch06.mp3\">Seth-SS-Ch06 &#8211; The soul and the nature of its perceptions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other metaphysical references<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bible:\u00a0<b>John 1:16 (AMP) <\/b><br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">16 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0For out <strong>of His fullness (abundance) we have all received<\/strong> [all had a share and we were all supplied with] one grace after another <i>and<\/i> spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing <i>and<\/i> even favor upon favor <i>and<\/i> gift [heaped] upon gift.<\/li>\n<li><b>Ephesians 1:23 (AMP) <\/b><br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">23 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Which is His body, the fullness of Him Who <strong>fills all in all<\/strong> [for in that body lives the full measure of Him Who makes everything complete, and Who <strong>fills everything everywhere with Himself<\/strong>].<\/li>\n<li><b>Ephesians 3:19 (AMP) <\/b><br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">19 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0[That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be <strong>filled [through all your being]<\/strong> unto all the <strong>fullness of God<\/strong> [may have the <strong>richest measure of the divine Presence<\/strong>, and become <strong>a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself<\/strong>]!<br \/>\n<b>Ephesians 4:13 (AMP) <\/b><br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">13 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0[That it might develop] until we all attain oneness in the faith and in the comprehension of the [full and accurate] knowledge of the Son of God, that [we might arrive] at really mature manhood (the <strong>completeness of personality<\/strong> which is nothing less than the standard height of Christ&#8217;s own perfection), the measure of the stature of the fullness of the Christ <i>and<\/i> the <strong>completeness found in Him<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><b>John 17:20-23 (NASB) <\/b><br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">20 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0&#8220;I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word;<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">21 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0that they may <strong>all be one;<\/strong> even as <strong>You, Father, <i>are<\/i> in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us<\/strong>, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">22 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0&#8220;The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one;<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\">23 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0<strong>I in them and You in Me<\/strong>, that they may be <strong>perfected in unity<\/strong>, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As series of Acts Life is a series of acts and mini-plays in the theater of a larger production in which we all agree on certain assumptions; the props and scenes are real and all perception comes through the physical senses. 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