When Jane Roberts and her husband Robert began experimenting with a Ouija board in 1963 in upstate New York, little did they know the fascinating journey it would take them on. Early results and messages from the other side piqued their curiosity, and they continued exploring and accessing spirit messages. They also created and hosted ESP (extra sensory perception) classes out of their living room, which became a popular activity in the community.
But their big breakthrough came one day when Jane suddenly started channeling a powerful booming male voice with lots to say about the true nature of reality. Who was this spirit energy speaking through her? It was Seth.
Jane and Rob began publishing Seth’s message from the other side in the early 1970s with the popular books Seth Speaks, The Ultimate Nature of Reality, and The Seth Material. In fact, the Seth books have sold over 8 million copies and have been translated into a dozen languages.
The Seth Books Became A Sensation In The 1970s
The message from Seth resonated with many, and the Seth books became a sensation in the 1970s. The message helped usher in a new way of viewing the world during an incredible time of transformation in America, which included women’s liberation, race equality, environmentalism, the peace movement, and the sexual revolution.
Seth has been attributed as being the first to observe and assert the now-popular mantra, “You Create Your Own Reality.”
Another theme that has been discussed throughout the Seth books is the concept of multidimensionality. We hear that term used often in metaphysical circles, but what does it really mean?
It means that we are all living multiple lifetimes, in multiple dimensions, in multiple realities, all at the same time.
Many of us have come to believe in reincarnation, and that we have multiple lives and lifetimes that give us opportunities to heal, learn and grow from lifetime to lifetime in a natural linear progression. This gives us an opportunity to improve with each lifetime, and eventually get off the Wheel of Karma. We feel better knowing that we are trying to become a better person, grow personally, and forgive others.
But Seth takes this concept a step further. He tells us very clearly that these lifetimes are happening all at once, in the now, all at the same time. It is not a linear progression.
Seth Explains Multidimensionality
Here are some selected quotes from Seth to further explain his teachings, the nature of our world, and concepts in the ultimate nature of personal reality.
Seth first starts off with the physical body. He reminds us that our cells vibrate with an on and off status. He proclaims, “You are not here [in your current physical form] as often as you are.”1
So, if we are not always here, in our present moment and in our bodies, where are we? We are experiencing other dimensions, simultaneously.
Seth offers a logical example: “Many writers of historical pieces, for example, are writing out of direct experience with those times. Such instances represent an excellent working rapport between the present self and the unconscious, which brings these memories to the surface and in such a way that current life is enriched. More often than not, true awareness of the situation often becomes almost conscious, and just beneath awareness the individual knows the source of his authentic material.”2
Seth further suggests that creative endeavors also involve accessing our other lifetimes to draw upon. “Any creative work involves you in a cooperative process in which you learn to dip into these other streams of consciousness, and come up with a perception that has far more dimensions than one arising from the one narrow, usual stream of consciousness that you know…Its [great creativity] origin is not from one reality, but from many. Great creativity is then multidimensional for this reason.”3
We Are Constantly Drawing From Our Multidimensional Experiences
The interplay of our current present lifetime with our other dimensional selves and lifetimes offers a myriad of bleed throughs, memories, and experiences from which we can and do benefit from. This is not an optional thing that happens once in a while. It happens constantly.
Seth continues, “You are active in these other layers whether or not you are aware of it…You are formed not only by your past but by your future and alternate existences. You can, therefore, change present reality as you understand it from any of these other layers of consciousness.”4
If we achieved a certain mastery in one lifetime, such as in art, music, or leadership, that capability is available to us now. We can remember it, even if unconsciously, and access it.
Past life clues come up often. We can see them everywhere. For example, you visit a foreign country and immediately feel like you’ve come home. Or perhaps you meet someone new and yet you feel instantly comfortable in their presence, like you’ve known them before. Perhaps you recognize and are drawn to certain symbols, images, or themes in art, literature, or history, as though they are reminders of something you’ve known before.
For those of us who enjoy reading or movies, you may feel an unexplained attraction to (or fear of) a particular historical period or theme. Others may report solving a difficult problem after waking from a dream, with the answer appearing effortlessly. These experiences can be attributed to accessing your alternate realities.
How To Access Your Probable Realities
In the Seth book The Nature of Personal Reality, Seth continues to explain how we can access and interact with our probable realities. “You, as a personality, regardless of your health, wealth or circumstances, have a rich variety of probable experience from which to choose…There are deep veins of probable actions ever available to you at any given time. Your imagination can be of great value, allowing you to open yourself to such courses; you can then use it to help you bring these into being.”5
Seth describes the fascinating two-way interaction between realities. We view our other lifetimes as being from the past or future, and we judge them to be positive, negative, or perhaps a time for learning. But surprisingly, Seth also suggests that these other realities are also looking at our current incarnation, and making judgements of us in this lifetime too! We are not just observing and drawing from ourselves in our past, our multidimensional selves in our other realities are observing us, judging us, and learning from us as well!
So, we may not only inherit strengths and capabilities from other simultaneous lives, we may also be contributing back to them simultaneously. Imagine that another version of yourself in another reality is struggling with courage. Your willingness to face a challenging situation today with confidence may help strengthen that aspect of your multidimensional self. Or perhaps your decision to choose forgiveness in a different interaction offers an alternative way to heal and grow in all dimensions.
Viewed this way, every act of kindness, every lesson learned, every challenge overcome, and every creative breakthrough becomes more than a personal accomplishment. It becomes a contribution to the growth of your greater soul across all of its simultaneous expressions.
Our human experience includes multitudes of realities which comprise our wholeness. We are not just the sum of this lifetime, or a lifetime of sequential lifetimes. Our lives are multidimensional simultaneous lifetimes which allow us to view and interact with our essential nature in order to heal, learn and grow from these experiences.
Notes
1.Roberts, Jane, Seth Speaks The Eternal Validity of the Soul, June 1972
2. Roberts, Jane, Seth Speaks The Eternal Validity of the Soul, June 1972
3. Roberts, Jane, Seth Speaks The Eternal Validity of the Soul, June 1972
4. Roberts, Jane, Seth Speaks The Eternal Validity of the Soul, June 1972
5. Roberts, Jane, The Nature of Personal Reality: A Seth Book, 1974
Andrew Lutts is a metaphysician, truth student, and student of A Course in Miracles. He has published articles in The Sedona Journal of Emergence and Connecting Link. He is author of two books on manifestation and higher dimensional living. Visit www.AndrewLutts.com.
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