057 Your Thoughts Are Psychic Guided Missiles -- Seth on the Boundless Self and Reality Construction

Briefing Doc: The Seth Material, Session 57

This document provides key insights from Session 57 of The Early Sessions Book 2 of the Seth Material, recorded on the evening of May 27, 1964. The session delivers a detailed discourse on the nature of the self, its relationship to the "notself" or environment, and its boundless influence across physical and non-physical realities.

The True Nature of the Self

The central theme is the refutation of the limited, physically-bound self. Seth argues that the self is not contained by the body and its influence is theoretically endless, reaching beyond space and time.

• Permeable Boundaries: The physical body, particularly the skin, is not a solid barrier but a porous framework. It is an arbitrary boundary erected through habit. Seth states, "In actuality the outer layer of skin is a flimsy boundary indeed. It is more open than closed." Chemicals, elements, and energies constantly pass through it, meaning the self is not physically self-contained.
• Thoughts and Intent are Not Private: Qualities considered most intimate to the self—thoughts, dreams, purposes, and intents—are not confined within the skull. They are forms of energy that speed outward, unimpeded by physical matter. A person’s basic intent is subconsciously sensed by everyone they contact.
• The Self as Creator: Each individual subconsciously and continually helps construct the physical universe. Objects in the environment are, in a sense, projections of the self. "In a shorthand you could say that the self is the object which he contemplates, since indeed he constructed the object to begin with from the self."
• Secondary Personalities & The Dream World: Our present personality is just one focused-upon "quality-personality gestalt." Other less-developed "possibilities of personality selves" also exist within our psychic framework. These secondary personalities find fulfillment in the dream world, which Seth describes as a valid and effective reality operating outside of the space-time continuum.
• An Unlimited Identity: Physical identity is constantly changing as the body's atoms and molecules are replaced. The true stability is the "inner self behind all physical constructions." Using the analogy of a cell within a body, Seth explains the self is an individual consciousness within a larger, open system. It is simultaneously individual and unlimited, partaking in value fulfillment through the larger gestalt of the universe.

Closing Counsel

Seth concluded the session early, explaining the need to respect the natural cycles of psychic energy in the participants, Jane Roberts (Ruburt) and Robert Butts (Joseph). He affirmed the value of their ongoing experiments with psychological time and provided brief personal counsel to Ruburt regarding upcoming events at an art gallery.

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