Speaker 1 00:00:09 Welcome to Lessons from The Helpful Dead, where you'll learn the world is not what it seems. And you are much more than you think you are. Here. You'll learn about positive and reassuring messages from supposedly dead people whose main purpose is to help us find out what happens after we die, why we're here, how we got here, where we're going, and discover that you are really a powerful, eternal spirit. I'm Dan McEnany. Today I'm going to do something unusual and that is devote most of the session to reading what Seth says. The reason I'm doing that is that while 99% of what Seth has to say is positive and uplifting, there are certain passages that, uh, include a kind of a, uh, a warning or a possible negative development. And the one that, uh, Seth talks about here is something I have trouble frankly in, uh, envisioning, uh, for the future.
Speaker 1 00:01:12 I'm not sure really what he means specifically about what might develop. And after I read these passages, if any of you have some ideas, I'd welcome your emailing me at dan t McKay, d a n tmca, at gmail.com. These comments, mind you, were made at 50 years ago in terms of our Earth years. I also have no idea of what kind of timeframe that, uh, Seth quote had in mind. Was it decades? Centuries? I don't know. So I'll start, uh, by reading a page where he introduces the subject where he talks about our concepts of God. So here, here it is, the concepts of God that you have have gone hand in hand with the development of your consciousness. The ego emerging needed to feel its dominance and control. And so it imagined a dominant God. Apart from nature. Often nations acted as group egos each with its own God picturing its own concepts of power.
Speaker 1 00:02:17 Whenever a tribe or a group or a nation decided to imm, embark upon a war, it always used the concept of its God to lead it on. And of course, here in other episodes, I've discussed how the, uh, God concept that the Jews used, uh, Yahweh, how that became our God over the centuries. Here's more of Seth. The God concept then was an aid and an important one to man's emerging ego to develop its sense of specialization. The ego forgot the great cooperative venture of the earth. If a hunter literally knows his relationship with an animal, he cannot kill it on deeper levels. Both animal and man understand the connections biologically, the man knows he has come from the earth. Some of his cells have been the cells of animals, and the animal knows he will look out through a man's eyes. The earth venture is cooperative.
Speaker 1 00:03:13 The slain beast is tomorrow's hunter in terms of ego consciousness. However, there were stages of growth and the God concepts that spoke of oneness with nature were not those that served the ego's purposes and the line of development as you understand it, that of course implies that there were other lines of development lines where one with uh, one with one the swift nature would serve our purposes. Uh, anyway, here we go more. Seth. For a while such techniques worked always. However, there was the undeniable inner self in the background man's dreams, his biological and spiritual integrity, and these in one way or another were always before him. In your probability, you did allow the inner self some freedom. Therefore, the so-called egotistical consciousness was not given complete sway. It remained flexible enough so that even hidden in its God concepts that were symbols of greater reality.
Speaker 1 00:04:15 Your system deals with physical manipulability again, and the translation of creativity into physical form and exterior separation had to occur for a while in which consciousness forgot egotistically speaking, that it was a part of nature and pretended to be a part. It was known however and unconsciously written in the cells and mind and heart that this procedure would only go so far. When man's consciousness was sure of itself, it would not need to be so narrowly focused. Then the true flowering of humanity's consciousness could begin. Then the ego could expand and become aware of realities. It had quote earlier ignored. Alright, so that's the introduction to the material. I'm now going to read the material that, uh, concerns me and which I'm having trouble, uh, visualizing and understanding again now, it was 50 of our earth years ago that he was sharing this information. It is.
Speaker 1 00:05:23 Here it goes. You have put yourselves in a position where your consciousness must now become aware of the probable pasts and probable futures in order to form for yourselves a sane, fulfilling, and creative present. Ego consciousness must now be familiarized with its roots or it will turn into something else. You are in a position where your private experience of yourself does not correlate with what you were told by your societies, churches, sciences, archeology, or other disciplines. Man's quote, unconscious knowledge is becoming more and more consciously apparent. This will be done either it's an either or thing. This will done either under and with the direction of an enlightened and expanding egotistical awareness that can organize the hereto for neglected knowledge, or it will be done at the expense of the reasoning intellect leading to a rebirth of superstition, chaos, and the unnecessary war between reason and intuitive behavior.
Speaker 1 00:06:37 When at this point now of mankind's development, his emerging unconscious knowledge is denied by his institutions, then it will rise up. That means it being the unconscious, it will rise up despite those institutions and annihilate them. That's strong language. Cults after cult will emerge each unrestrained by the use of reason, because reason will have denied the existence of rampant unconscious knowledge, disorganized and feeling only its own ancient force. Now, as I say, I have difficulty here envisioning just what kind of cults might arise today. It seems we have a climate cult where people say, unless you obey what what we command and do what we say and change your ways, uh, the earth will end. So give us power or we will punish you. That seems to me to be a cult of sorts. But, uh, I really don't think that's what Seth had in mind.
Speaker 1 00:07:40 There's also the cult of the World Economic Forum. A, uh, small group of sophisticated, wealthy elite people who who who presume to be able to direct the rest of us in terms of what we should do, say and think. But again, that's more political and power related and I don't think it relates that much to the unconscious. Uh, what's your best guess there? So Seth continues, if this happens, all kinds of old and new religious denominations will war. So now you've got a war between religions and all kinds of ideologies surface. Well, perhaps in Iran, the, uh, ayatollah that that might be something. Anyway, uh, he says this need not take place for the conscious mind. Basically. Now having learned to focus in physical terms is meant to expand, to accept unconscious intuitions and knowledge and to organize these deeply creative principles into cultural patterns.
Speaker 1 00:08:50 The great emotion of love has thus far been poorly used. Yet it represents even the biological empath impetus of your being. Your religions in large measure have taught you to hate yourselves and physical existence. They've told you to love God, but rarely taught you to experience the gods in yourselves. Now, in one way or another, religions have always followed again the development of your consciousness. And so they have served its purposes and yours, and they have always reflected, though distorted those greater inner realities of your being in historic terms as you understand them, the progression of religion gives you a perfect picture of the development of human consciousness, the differentiation of peoples and nations, and the growth of the ideas of the individual. Now, in the next paragraph, he emphasizes the importance of the freedom and development of the individual. Here he says, there's nothing wrong with the concept of an egotistically based individual being.
Speaker 1 00:09:55 I'm not suggesting, therefore that your individuality is something to be lost, thrown, aside, or superseded. Nor am I saying it should be buried, submerged, or dissolved in a super self self. I am not suggesting that its edges be blurred by a powerful unconscious. Now it's here in this, uh, closing, uh, paragraphs that he touches on, uh, potentially negative development. Here it is, I am saying that the individual self must become consciously aware of far more reality, that it must allow its recognition of identity to expand so that it includes previously unconscious knowledge. To do this, you must understand again that men must move beyond the concepts of one God oneself, one body, one world. As these ideas are currently understood, you are now poised in your terms upon a threshold from which the race can go many ways. There are species of consciousness. Your species is in a time of change.
Speaker 1 00:11:15 There are potentials within the body's mechanisms and your terms not as yet used, developed. They can immeasurably enrich the race and bring it to levels of spiritual and psychic and physical fulfillment. If some changes are not made, the race as such will not endure. This does not mean that you will not endure or that in another probability the race will not. But that in your terms of historical sequence, that's your terms of historical sequence, the race will not endure. Now, as you know from previous discussions, we are all powerful eternal spirits and we are not dependent for our existence or identity upon form. Although by choosing to enter the human time space illusion, we do accept its rules and do identify to one extent or another with physical form. So my problem here is I'm having trouble envisioning with greater recognition of the unconscious or the inner self with greater, uh, recognition of that. Um, what, on the negative side, what would be the, um, religious denominations that that might war one against the other? What would their be their beliefs? I, I don't really have any idea. Uh, so if anyone else has ideas they think would be helpful or pertinent, I'd like to hear them again. Uh, you could email me at, uh, dan t McKay, d a n t,
[email protected]. Once again, I'm Dan McEnany bringing you lessons from the helpful Dead.
