Dig how the fire started!

[Mark M]

Prefatory quotes from elsewhere:

"You [Jane and Rob] did not realize that you were being presented, not merely with an alternate view of reality but with the closest approximation you could get of what reality was and how it worked and what it meant."

--Seth, The Magical Approach, Sess 14

"The waking state as you think of it is a specialized extension of the dream state..."

—Seth, Dreams, "Evolution," and Value Fulfillment, Vol 1, Session 898, January 30, 1980



[Machine translation from the German:]

SESSION 832, 29 JANUARY 1979

[Not included in The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events]



We want to look at the inner workings of experiences, so let's briefly look at one such example.

A man I call "Professor Y" wrote to Ruburt. He works at a university in this country even though he is originally from another country. In his letter he told the story of his misfortune. He had gone on vacation and returned to find that a fire in his apartment had destroyed 20 years of research work. Although the apartment was damaged, it was habitable. ...

He wondered why this was all happening to him. He also mentioned that he had made contact with a "being" through the Ouija board and asked if Ruburt thought he should continue with this.

Our Ruburt was touched by the man's story and imagined how the professor must be in a very desperate mood, as could also be seen from the letter. ... Ruburt called him and first expressed his regret at the man's misfortune. "You need to examine your beliefs," Ruburt said, "and find out the reason for the fire, because I believe that we create our own reality, as difficult as that may seem at a time like this."

Ruburt was very worried. He cautiously questioned the professor, but the professor said that he had no particular beliefs or thoughts regarding fire and that there was certainly no reason in the world why he would want to burn his papers. At that moment, Ruburt noticed that the professor was impatiently trying to change the subject.

"What else is on your mind?" Ruburt asked -- and immediately the professor said with great enthusiasm and in a voice full of hope and enthusiasm:

"I wanted to speak to you myself to ask you about 'Demetrious' -- because that's not the real name."

Completely confused, Ruburt asked: "Was that your son? [who died]"

"No, no, no," the professor replied, as if wondering how Ruburt could have forgotten such an important name. "That's the name of the spirit I'm talking to about the Ouija board. Is he an entity Or not? Should I do what he says?"

It took a moment for Ruburt to adjust to the man's behavior. He could not understand how a person who had just lost the results of 20 years of work could be so concerned about what Ruburt considered to be a fairly simple example of a person communicating with his psyche. So Ruburt tried to explain:

"Of course the entity is psychologically valid ... but in any case, at least make contact with other parts of your psyche."

...

Ruburt asked the professor to read the books ...

The man could not be convinced that he had anything to do with the fire that had destroyed his work. Ruburt left it at that -- and yet he was impressed by the man's steadfastness and by his obvious euphoria that the man expressed when he spoke of his Ouija board being.

That's what had happened.

Professor Y believes in respect and finds his job satisfying in this respect. However, his research led nowhere. He had told everyone that he would publish them one day. On the other hand, he recognized very well that the research was in vain and only served as a façade. In some respects he did not feel comfortable in this country. He used the concept of research to distinguish himself from others in a superior way. He himself had grown tired of his position at the university and found himself in a dilemma because one day the university would expect him to present or publish his research results.

The solution, of course, was to have the papers destroyed -- but not in such a way that he or others could be held responsible for them.

...so the following year, during his vacation (this year), he burned the bridges behind him, so to speak, with a feeling for the perfect drama.

(10:04 p.m.) The fire was caused by defective wiring. Of course, the professor was not aware that he had [subconsciously] sabotaged the electrical systems in his apartment, but that was exactly his intention. Man can and does change matter also. Although our professor could write about his "catastrophic circumstances," his voice betrayed his state of relief, and he could not hide his euphoria and sense of freedom.

Previously he had lived his life so rigorously that he lacked the drama and momentum that is so important. The experiments with the Ouija board, which seemed so contradictory, enabled him to release and express long-repressed emotions and needs. He could not tell himself that his life had meaning, but the psyche that personified itself for him could tell him the truth: that his existence -- his existence -- was important and necessary in the system of the universe.

...

Symbolically, our professor wanted to "carry the torch" to his papers.

He was sometimes fully aware of such thoughts, but pushed them out of his consciousness and "underground," so to speak. His intent built up (long pause) and began to cause a vulnerability in a particular cable, ultimately culminating in a fire. This conveniently happened in his absence, and such unexpected, poltergeist-like activity occurs frequently.

You forget that cars, wires, airplanes and ships are technical achievements, but they are still part of the natural world. So they are part of nature and exist in it. I have tried elsewhere to explain what part Adensch [thought?] plays, for example, in the formation of the weather; and in the same way, his feelings and intentions influence the cars he drives, the planes he flies, and the buildings in which he lives.

For example, some people seem to have bad luck with cars that always break down in one way or another. This is far more than a question of chance or poorly designed vehicles, because other people with the same models have no problems at all. You influence all aspects of your world, and your top gear Genes[?], for example about machines, have a lot to do with their efficiency or inefficiency.

When I say again and again: "You create the events of your life", I am talking about an inner functioning that is so far-reaching that it of course also includes telepathy and clairvoyance and also the power of the mind, physical mechanisms to change, assumes as given.

The professor now allows himself to rediscover the meaning of his life using completely unorthodox methods. This is an important therapeutic process. If he had given his destructive thoughts more freedom and dealt with them, he could have simply thrown his papers into the ash bucket and burned them, but he didn't believe in the importance of his feelings. He felt powerless.

The fire enabled him to save face and at the same time expressed his passionate need to free himself from a job that he found restrictive and thankless. So he has an impeccable excuse for not publishing his material -- for who would ever believe that his own intention would have caused the wires to be defective?

The feelings he had about his research clouded his mood and undermined his innate inclination to explore the natural world. The man was therefore responsible, even if he is not aware of it, that he set fire to his apartment in order to find the meaning of his life again.

What kind of events can people trigger when they feel powerless, when their life seems empty of meaning -- and what mechanisms are behind these events?

End of dictation.

[inavalan]

It makes sense. Creating reality isn't magic. You create a cauze to justify the efect, from the present (aka point of power).