It's been 35 years since I discovered Seth. It's closing in on 50 since Jane and Rob started the whole thing. I don't know about you, but I figured to be living in a more "Sethic" world by now. What happened? I imagine the answer to that is anything but simple. Here are a couple of things I've been thinking about lately.
The idea that we create our own realities is radical. No question. Still, I don't think we ever realized just how radical Seth's ideas were and how much they went against the grain of ordinary common sense. Take our legal system for instance. A wholesale adoption of Seth's ideas would put it out of business. How could we try anyone for a bad act when the "victim" agreed to participate? If the legal system went away would that mean brutal chaos, a society where the thugs and bullies were the winners? Our assumptions and beliefs about human nature run awfully deep.
Then there's the idea of probabilities. Among other things, I'm an investor. The market came a cropper in 2008 (we were mostly in cash then rode oil and gold back up in 2009 so no harm done). But wait, that's the probability I experienced. There are, surely, others in which Lehman didn't fail, folks didn't go crazy with over-leveraged CDOs. In fact, there must be other probabilities which other versions of me experience that are not marked by the worldwide cultural circumstances I'm experiencing - an increasingly polarized world, the ongoing Middle East powder keg, the deadening aspects of statistics, etc.
So, it seems the deepest question must be something like, "Why am I experiencing this particular reality?"
Just discovered your blog (and rediscovered Seth).
ReplyDeleteI'm not so sure this is completely not a Sethic world. The whole 'Law of Attraction' seems to be at least related.
What's odd though is that while The Secret and all that is on Oprah and very popular, it still feels like this stuff lives in the counterculture or New Age, or whatever it is called nowadays. You're right, the whole criminal justice system would fall apart (as would a lot of institutions) if people really took to hear the idea that 'my reality', or better, just plain unqualified 'reality' is a production or projection.
Nice to meet you.
Seth lives in a kind of time-warp. For me, discovering the material last summer for the first time, reminded me of being a kid in the 70s and early 80s, when my mom was interested in these topics. Indeed, the people are older, the books are older, maybe they had reprints in the 1990s. Very strange, for such powerful and amazing material. Then again, he didn't want to create a "school."
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