The "Reading Guide" and "Chapter Highlights" for this chapter were summarized by an AI editor based on the main text below; they are not things Mike said during the lecture. The main text comes from Mike's commentary, and the block quotes are Seth's original words (the parts Mike read aloud).
Introduction
This session discusses dreams and value fulfillment: dreams occur in multiple layers of reality, every layer of consciousness participates, and small dreams converge into a collective greater dream; dreams touch both microcosmic and macrocosmic events, and private dreams relate to collective reality as electrons relate to the material world. Dreams accumulate wisdom and delight, preserving the intent of one species within another, with genetic knowledge stored as backup in latent form. Animals and plants also pursue emotional qualities; the pleasure principle is like a latent appreciation of beauty, and every life form exults in the wonder of its own existence while enhancing other forms.
Key Points of This Chapter
- Dreams occur in multiple layers of reality, and every level of consciousness participates in some form; small dreams converge into the collective great dream.
- Dreams touch both microscopic and macroscopic events; the importance of private dreams to collective reality is like that of electrons to the physical world, and dreams and thoughts also participate in the workings of the universe just as electrons do.
- Dreams provide an inner pathway for the accumulation of wisdom and delight; different species can communicate in dreams and preserve the intents and purposes of one species within another.
- Genetic knowledge does not actually vanish from the earth, but is preserved in latent backup form within the genetic patterns of each species.
- Animals and plants are not only concerned with survival, but also pursue emotional qualities; the pleasure principle is akin to a latent appreciation of beauty, and every life form exults in the wonder of its own existence while enhancing the existence of other forms.
Main Text
Hello everyone, I am Mike. Today I will continue sharing Session 935 of Volume 2 of the Seth book Dreams, "Evolution," and Value Fulfillment. This session began on Thursday, August 13, 1981, at 8:34 p.m.
After a brief introduction, Rob said that there had been no regular session the night before, and that the Wednesday night session had been moved to Thursday. Today, after a dinner of lamb and spaghetti, the two of us were both a bit drowsy -- the food was good, so we wanted to sleep. However, Jane also felt somewhat restless, but in the end she decided to hold the session anyway. She said, "I feel Seth is right here beside me." She said this with some surprise, at 8:33. Then Seth came through and said good evening. Rob also said good evening, and Seth got straight to the point.
Dreams Occur on Multiple Levels of Reality
Seth begins by saying:
Dreams occur on so many levels of reality.
Dreams are multi-dimensional, multi-temporal, spanning many times and spaces, multi-layered in time and space. This point must be remembered. For us humans, dreams are first of all a phenomenon that is both within our three-dimensional world and outside our three-dimensional world. At the same time, beyond spanning these two realities, they also exist simultaneously in other realities. They occur within multiple realities, within multiple dimensions, or across multiple times and spaces, any of these descriptions works.
So much so that it is quite impossible to describe their true scope -- impossible to describe, because you cannot describe them completely. We can only describe the very surface part of dreams that we can remember or perceive. The deeper content of dreams, on the deeper levels of reality, is basically impossible for us to describe, because it is multi-layered. In particular, that scope also includes levels of consciousness unknown to you, the parts that escape our consciousness, the underlying unconscious, the parts we simply cannot access. If you remember the levels of dreams, you know that dreams on deeper levels cannot be remembered.
Then he says:
For example, in important communications between various peoples and nations, dreams also serve as a subsequent backup function. And especially when concrete communications between such groups are cut off, dreams provide tributaries of information, continuously flowing from one part of this group to another.
Dreams were extremely important in ancient times, but since humans invented communication devices, the role of dreams in transmitting information has diminished. But that does not mean it is gone -- it has always existed as a backup system. When humanity's current communication facilities cannot be used, this function is activated. For example, in the current war between Russia and Ukraine, or when communications are interrupted during special periods, dreams come into play at such times. In the past, when communication was underdeveloped, although ancient people could write letters, letters traveled very slowly and were very inconvenient. At such times, dreams could make the connections between different people very close.
Why do modern people have less of this? Because now a phone call, a WeChat message, or a video call solves the problem, and dreams no longer need to do that corresponding work -- because that method is simpler, more direct, and more convenient. But this function has always been preserved.
Dreams also differ in importance; some are unimportant, some are important. He says:
There are dreams of varying importance. In other words, in that respect, dreams really do span the centuries, potentially latent within the chromosomes themselves.
Some important dreams cross through the chromosomes, spanning tens of thousands of years, thousands of years, crossing the turning of these centuries, latent within our chromosomes. Such dreams are very important. But there are some very individual dreams, for example, you dream that you went somewhere to eat something -- those are not so important. From this perspective, what is latent within your chromosomes is all important.
Every Level of Consciousness Participates in Dreams in Some Form
He said:
No level of consciousness is without some kind of participation in the dream state.
What he means is that every level of consciousness participates in the dream state in some form. What does "every level of consciousness" mean? Levels of consciousness refer to different kinds of consciousness. For example, the consciousness of an atom is one level, the consciousness of a molecule is another, higher level, and the consciousness of a cell is an even higher level. So any given level refers to these different kinds of consciousness at different levels, and they all participate in the dream state.
For example, when a human being is dreaming—an ordinary dream—it seems as though your brain is participating. But aren't the electrons, atoms, cells, and nerves inside your brain also participating? They all participate, just to different degrees. For instance, an electron has its own little dream, and countless electrons have countless little dreams, and these little dreams ultimately form a big dream in your mind.
He uses this simple way to help us understand. In fact, it is even more complex than this. At the level of electrons and atoms, they form some small dreams; these small dreams of atoms and electrons then form larger dreams at the cellular level; the larger dreams at the cellular level then form even larger dreams between neurons; the transmission and interaction of information between neurons then forms your dream in the mind. That is to say, your dream may ultimately be formed from these atom-based or electron-based dreams into one final big dream.
As for the importance of dreams, that biggest dream is the most important to us, but within this big dream, countless levels of smaller consciousness all participate, including the consciousness of electrons, the consciousness of atoms, and the consciousness of cells. They all participate in this dream state.
He said that even electrons dream—he did not elaborate. But the dreams of electrons cannot be directly captured by humans; however, the dreams of many electrons can be captured by cells, and the dreams of cells can be captured by nerves, or brain waves, or the brain's nervous system, and so on. In the end, what you can remember is actually the dream of the last level, or of some particular level.
Dreams Touch Both Microcosmic and Macrocosmic Events
Dreams touch upon everything. It is originally a macrocosmic event, for example, you dream of traveling to an alien planet, or of some situation on an alien world. You can also dream of something very specific, you can even dream of entering the interior of a certain cell. It encompasses both the macrocosmic and the microcosmic.
Dreams are not merely a human characteristic. He says:
Dreams touch upon microcosmic and macrocosmic events... appearing uninvited within your own scope or within your own species.
The dreams of different species can also enter into your level, coming in uninvited. For example, if your cat has a dream, you may think it has nothing to do with you, but to some degree, a cat's dream can sometimes cut into your dream as well. Take another example: a certain group of cells in one part of your brain has its own dream, and the dream of this group of cells may directly enter into your mind. There are also other species, such as the plants around you, the plants in your home, or the other living beings around you, when they dream, their dreams may also enter into your dreamscape.
What is the opposite of this? Dreams are a realm of subjective experience, and it pervades every corner of the universe. He says:
Dreams are a realm of subjective experience, and it pervades every corner of the universe.
Speaking of dreams, they are certainly subjective experience. And our world itself is fundamentally a subjective world, so all things within the subjective world can dream, which is very interesting. It is not as we imagine, that only humans dream. We know that animals dream, but do plants dream? Do atoms and molecules dream? Seth has mentioned many times that animals, plants, insects, and indeed all life forms dream. He says:
All molecular constructions exhibit some kind of introspective activity... as if within some gigantic computer, operating ceaselessly, closely connected to his own program settings and the possibilities linked to them, and also possessing a deep psychological awareness of the activity of the electrons and the various visible and invisible particles that form his own material construction.
This session is very important, and also very difficult. First, all kinds of living beings dream, that is the first point. Second, all things with molecular constructions—because these living beings all have molecular structures—possess this kind of introspective mechanism, a kind of introspective activity. This introspective activity is like an awareness of the inner, like a kind of dream.
He gives an analogy: it is as if within a gigantic computer, there are programs running inside it. The most important thing about a computer is running programs, running the software we write, the programs we write. When these programs are running, these programs have numerous possibilities. Just like our brain has many thoughts. The thoughts of the brain are like computer programs, and these programs have numerous possibilities. Are programs not fixed? A program is: you give it a certain input, it produces a certain output, it is feedback-based. And our brain is something similar, but its output is infinite, it is an output of possibilities.
The key is that this computer not only has to know the program thoroughly, and it mainly processes this program, which is the primary function of the computer. It also has to be familiar with all the results and all the possibilities of the program's operation, and know them thoroughly. The most amazing thing is that the computer also has to know the activity of the material parts that make up this computer—the motherboard, CPU, graphics card, memory, monitor, and so on, the hardware components that constitute the computer—and possess a deep psychological awareness of the activity among them. He calls this the introspection of molecular structures.
That is to say, as long as something has structure, it has an introspection of its own structure. It not only knows the function and purpose of this structure itself, that is, what it is for; it also knows the underlying activities that constitute this structure itself—that constitute its own existence. To put it simply using humans as an analogy, it means that humans not only have awareness of the thoughts and ideas in their own brains; humans also know the brain cells and neural activities that constitute the brain. It is just that this knowing may not be perceived by us humans. But now we humans study brain science, and what we study is precisely this. His meaning is that it is not only we humans who have this ability, all things in the world have this ability.
The Structure of Dreams
He paused for a long time, then said:
So then you must have many larger structures of dreams.
What is meant by the structure of dreams? It is like the principle of a giant computer. Inside a giant computer there are many programs running, and the results produced by those running programs have countless possibilities — that is, countless dreams. The structure of dreams can be understood in this way. What is wondrous about this structure of dreams is that it is not only aware of the dreams it produces; it is also aware of the mechanism of the dream structure itself, and of every tiny unit that forms this structure.
What is he trying to say here? Is there not a world of dreams? This world of dreams is what is called the collective dream, the social dream, the group dream. Such a collective world of dreams can be imagined as a great dream-structure machine, or as a collective dream. This dream-structure machine, this collective dream, certainly has its own internal operating programs — that is, within it there are some collective dreams and dream possibilities — numerous possibilities. This great dream is composed of many small dreams.
What he wants to emphasize here is that this great dream-structure machine, this collective dream, is also aware of the tiny units that compose that greater dream — which we call the dreams of electrons or the dreams of atoms. For society as a whole, if we say that the whole society has a collective dream, then our individual dreams are equivalent to the dream of a brain cell, or the dream of an electron, which ultimately form a greater dream. But that greater dream, at the level of our cells, at the level of our brain cells, at the level of our individual dreams — we cannot perceive something that great. But that does not mean that because you cannot perceive it, it does not exist; it is simply a different level, and it can only be called a kind of collective dream.
Your own dreams occur within it. To use an image as an analogy, the ordinary dream that we humans have is a great dream. But for us humans to have this dream, do not our brain cells, and the electrons and atoms within our brain cells, have to participate? The dreams that we humans can remember depend on the dreams of these cells or the dreams of electrons for their formation; they are certainly constructed by them. The key point is that this greater dream is able to know that it is composed of these small dreams, and is able to perceive their existence. So the dreams of these cells occur within that nightmare you remember from last night — the dreams within your cells are also within that great nightmare, or likewise within a happy dream.
And they participate in the subjective practice within it. They are all subjective, which is very interesting. They participate in that great dream, but you only understand and perceive it from your own angle; you do not see that greater dream.
He said:
You expect all the qualities of the physical world, however different they may be, to fit together to form some kind of permanence or order.
According to your expectations — you think that although the physical world has all kinds of different materials and all kinds of different qualities, they are essentially different. For example, there are metals, there are organic things, there are plastics, there are microorganisms, there are minerals. But however different they are, they will all combine into something with a certain permanence and a certain order. How does metal come into contact with human beings? Of course the human body must contain metals; the sodium, potassium, calcium, iron, and phosphorus in the human body are beyond counting. Without these metals, our human body would not function. The most basic blood production cannot do without iron; without iron, our red blood cells would have problems producing blood. Yet metals combine so perfectly with the cells of our living body.
You humans expect them to be very orderly, and to possess a certain permanence, maintaining such a state of the whole world. Even though their differences from one another are enormous.
So this same fitting together also includes subjective life. For example, it should not surprise you that your private dream is also a fragment of the reality of a greater dream. Our world is composed of these different materials, and it has formed a stable order and an overall state of permanence. If you can understand this, then you can imagine that there is a world of dreams, and that world of dreams is also stable, continuous, permanently existing, with its own inner order. And the inner order within this world of dreams is composed of completely different kinds of small dreams, and these dreams are formed by completely different qualities or different kinds of consciousness — as just mentioned, there are dreams of atoms, dreams of cells, dreams of nervous systems, and so on.
He tells you not to find it strange: when he speaks of the dreams of cells and the dreams of electrons, you may feel how could they possibly be related to human dreams? They are so different. He will tell you, do not be surprised by their differences — your natural world is also this different. The physical world has more than a hundred elements, whose properties are utterly distinct from one another, yet through such combinations they can form this world of yours that appears permanent and stable. Your world dreams, your collective dreams, are the same: there are the completely different dreams of each individual, of each person, which ultimately form a stable collective dream.
He said:
The private dream is as important to the workings of that reality as the electron is to your physical world.
Your individual dream is as important to the whole collective dream as the electron is to our physical world.
Dreams Provide a Pathway for the Accumulation of Wisdom and Enjoyment
He paused for a long while, then said:
Inner pathways are provided for the accumulation of wisdom and enjoyment.
What does this mean? Our collective human dreams, the collective dreams of us as a species, need to accumulate wisdom, and they also need to accumulate enjoyment. Whether it is the accumulation of wisdom or of enjoyment, both depend on the inner determinants of each individual's personal dreams. Personal dreams determine the wisdom and enjoyment of the entire human dream. Your small enjoyment is the great enjoyment, and your small wisdom gathered together becomes great wisdom.
He said:
There are certain dreams, then, in which various species communicate with each other, and in which the environment and the energy of its inhabitants are coordinated.
There is a kind of dream -- there are many kinds of dreams -- what is this kind of dream like? In the course of this dream, various different species communicate with one another. For example, there are trees, stones, cats, dogs, people, fish in the sea, birds flying in the sky, and they are all communicating with one another. Moreover, within the environment in which they live, the species living in the environment and their environment have coordinated energies, fused together, all things as one.
He said:
These involve a kind of horizontal psychological extension.
What this kind of dream tells you is a horizontal psychological extension. What is meant by psychological extension? It is the transfer of information from one system to another.
In which the symbols themselves become alive.
How do these species communicate with one another? In this kind of dream, it is hinted that communication between species is possible. Dreams actually play the key role. In the world of dreams, communication between species can be likened to transferring from one system to another. For example, communication between animals and plants is transferring from the animal system to the plant system; for example, your communication with the surrounding environment, your communication with the natural world, is communication between the two systems of the organic and the inorganic. But in this kind of communication, how do they go from one system to another?
Just as in our dreams, symbols play the key role. In communication across species, symbols likewise play such a decisive role, so he says the symbols themselves become alive, and they take on a deeper meaning.
Personal Dreams and Genetic Backup
He says:
I can only hope to arouse some feelings in your hearts.
I have said so much, and I only hope to give you some different feelings and experiences. That will remind you, in the actual behavior of those hidden levels of dream activity, of the relationship between this personal dream and the collective dream, the big dream and the small dream. Just like the dreams you have and the dreams brain cells have. Our personal dreams, from the perspective of the big dream, seem hidden—so sometimes we overlook personal dreams from the standpoint of the big dream. And this kind of personal dream, though it seems hidden, is indeed important.
What he says here is to remind us, to let us know that each person's dream has a weighty role in the dreams of the whole universe, the dreams of all of nature, the dreams of all of humanity—just like the importance of electrons to our physical world. Although it is tiny, insignificant, without it there would be no entire physical world. He is reminding you of this relationship.
He says:
But they have always been very much related to the development of all species within the environment. They are interconnected, keeping the intents and purposes of one species vividly preserved within another species.
What kind of relationship? Among different species, you can take the consciousness and purpose of one species—whether toward value fulfillment as a whole, or toward the environment and the natural world—and preserve it within another species. For example, if this species goes extinct, its consciousness will, through a certain means, shift or transfer into another species; it is not annihilated, and it can even be passed between different species.
He says:
I have told you that actually no genetic knowledge ever disappears from the earth.
What he means is that no specific species' genes have ever disappeared from the earth; they have not disappeared, they have not vanished. Seth has said before that they are preserved in latent form within a backup system.
Therefore, in terms of that possibility, each species, within its own genetic patterns, carries the blueprints and specializations of each other's genetic sequences.
Simply put, our human genes carry the genes of kittens, the genes of plants, the genes of fish—we all carry each other's. The genes of those species also carry some of our human genes, so we all preserve a backup system for one another. This mechanism is not like the kind of dominant genetic backup we see—it is preserved through the mechanism behind the genes. It is not the kind of ordinary genes we see—you can find certain connections and patterns in ordinary genes—what he is talking about is a genetic connection one level deeper than that.
So the dinosaurs went extinct, but the genes of dinosaurs are preserved in some form within the genes of all things. Perhaps this segment is preserved here, that segment there—they are always preserved, and when needed they will emerge. This is somewhat like a disk array system in a computer. If you set up a RAID 5 with four disks in a disk array, when one disk fails, the data is not lost. You buy a new hard drive, plug it in directly, and it automatically restores. The information exists in every hard drive, but not every hard drive is a backup of the others—that is RAID 0, which is the dumbest method. RAID 5 is not like that; through an algorithm and encryption, each one keeps a portion of the data to preserve the data of the other disks. When any hard drive is damaged, as long as you replace it, the data will automatically come back. It is not four identical hard drives; it just serves such a function. And our genetic system is similar.
We preserve each other's genes. He says:
Those genetic sequences follow the pursuit of value fulfillment so smoothly.
You might ask, how is it deliberate? It does not need to be deliberate. He says it is smooth; without deliberately pursuing value fulfillment, it forms automatically. This way of preserving each other's genes is so natural that whenever conditions are suitable, they will be reactivated. It follows value fulfillment; when value fulfillment needs it to be reactivated, it will restart; when it is not needed, when the value fulfillment of the current species does not want to reactivate it, it lies dormant there.
The Quality of Emotion
He says:
Because even animals are not merely concerned with survival, and neither are plants.
Why do some species appear at certain times and not at others? What is the reason? Scientists today would explain it by saying the natural environment is no longer suitable for its survival, so it ceases to exist. But what Seth means is not that. It is not simply a matter of the environment being unsuitable for its survival. Animals and plants alike do not merely live for the sake of being alive. Beyond being alive, they also seek something in the quality of emotion.
Remember the quality of emotion. He paused for a long time -- he found a word, and he did not quite know how to describe it. He wanted something that humans could understand, yet would not lead to misunderstanding, so he searched for such a term.
So now you understand why a person, even when he has food and drink, even when his living conditions are completely unrestricted, may still choose suicide. Looking at it in reverse, it is because he has not found the quality of emotion he himself wanted. To put it bluntly, "life is meaningless" -- food and drink are no problem, but life is meaningless. Why it is meaningless, he himself cannot quite say. So Seth gave it a name: the quality of emotion.
He says:
For those conditions of consciousness, the full appreciation of the conditions of consciousness, and the creative extension of them.
The pursuit of those qualities is actually an extension and a creative stretching of the conditions of consciousness -- an expansion, an expansion of the conditions of consciousness. When you pursue the quality of emotion, you are actually expanding the conditions of your consciousness -- a natural expansion, automatic and natural, not deliberate. It is not that I am being overly sensitive, that I am some artsy young person who insists on pursuing certain emotional qualities, always thinking of poetry and distant horizons. No. This is natural. Every species will naturally, under its own genetic conditions, pursue that kind of quality of emotion. It is not something that emerges only when one deliberately makes a fuss over it.
He says:
These conditions of consciousness both mark each species as its own, and unite it with all other species.
What is meant by the conditions of consciousness? These "conditions of consciousness" mark whether you are human, or whether you are a cat, or a dog -- whether you are human consciousness, or cat consciousness, or dog consciousness, or the consciousness of a flower; they mark your species. And then, they also unite your consciousness with the consciousness of other species. He calls this the conditions of consciousness.
Let me put it in order for you again: the reason your consciousness is called your consciousness, and yet can merge with the consciousness of other species, is that this is the basic attribute of your consciousness. And this attribute automatically brings with it your pursuit of the quality of emotion, and your pursuit of the quality of emotion goes beyond your requirement of merely being alive or surviving. Being alive is only the minimum requirement, but it cannot satisfy you; you also pursue the quality of emotion. Your pursuit of the quality of emotion does not mean you have become enlightened, that you have awareness, that you are an artsy young person -- no. Every species, every living thing, has this drive to pursue its own quality of emotion, this inner motivation.
You will find that some plants do not die only when they lack fertilizer, sunlight, or water. No. Some plants are very strange: you raise them and raise them and then they die, while others can be raised very well. In many cases this is determined by the pursuit of the quality of emotion.
Dreams Operate Like Electrons
At 9:30, it paused again for a long while, then he said the following passage with great earnestness:
This is science. In a way, your own dreams operate in the manner of electrons, or appear in other realities.
In a way, your dreams appear in other realities just like electrons do—appearing in other physical realities, or nonphysical realities. Mainly speaking, they are all physical realities, since electrons are spoken of as belonging to physical reality.
So then they change their form, their subjective force or direction, and become part of the mechanics of how the universe operates.
What does this mean? He gave an analogy. If we compare each person's dream to an electron, and the physical world we now live in is composed of electrons, then the physical world we now live in is, from a certain angle, composed of each and every dream of each and every one of us. This is an analogy—an analogy made in a certain form, but it is real, something we ordinarily do not discover, do not think of: this physical world is actually formed by our dreams. Each of our dreams, just like electrons, constructs our physical world.
The same also applies to your own thoughts.
The same also applies to your own thoughts.
Our thoughts are like this too. Our thoughts are not wasted. He said with humor, it is not that after you deeply ponder a question, once the thought is finished it is wasted, gone once it passes. No.
Your thoughts are discarded as you suppose, replaced by new ideas.
No. Your thoughts do not perish; they continue to play other roles in the universe—roles you cannot presently perceive—they play a very great role in other dimensions, but that role is one you cannot perceive.
He continued slowly:
This all involves a rich and manifold creativity.
All of this involves a rich and manifold creativity—this is a creativity.
The Principle of Pleasure
He continued:
The principle of pleasure... can perhaps best be compared to a latent appreciation of beauty.
You have to remember that in the previous session he talked about this principle of pleasure. Pleasure is the root; pleasure is a phenomenon, an expression that value fulfillment pursues. What value fulfillment expresses is this pleasure.
He says, how do you make an analogy for this principle of pleasure? It is not like the simple pleasures we think of humans pursuing. What he means is that this principle of pleasure belongs to value fulfillment, and it is not only effective for humans; it is effective for all things in the world. All things in the world pursue this.
What is the best analogy? It is a latent appreciation of beauty. We all have an appreciation of beauty; we like beautiful things. This is something latent, something we do not need to deliberately cultivate. You do not need to teach others—when we were little, no one had to say, "Let me tell you what a beautiful woman is and what an ugly woman is," nor did anyone have to say, "Let me tell you what kind of flower is beautiful and what kind of flower is ugly." There is no need to teach it. Perhaps the appreciation of some special works of art requires learning, but for basic beauty, people are born with an appreciation.
You can feel this pleasure when you see a beautiful woman, the pleasure when you see a handsome man, the beauty you see in your own child—like an angel, like a little princess, like an adorable little baby. All kinds of beauty: the elderly have their beauty, the middle-aged have their beauty, nature has its beauty. When you see this beauty, the appreciation that arises from within you is this principle of pleasure. If you want to know what the principle of pleasure is, it is this inner appreciation of beauty.
Some people will say, "But I do not like ugly things; I only like beautiful things. Does that mean I am caught in duality?" This is determined by your consciousness or the level of your consciousness. When you have duality, then you are in duality, and you like the beautiful. When you reach a certain level, there is nothing ugly in your eyes anymore, and at that point you are in pleasure at every moment. When your world still has a very strong distinction between beauty and ugliness—and this beauty does not only refer to physical appearance; all kinds of beauty are included—when you still say of the world, "I feel only a small part is beautiful, and most of it is not beautiful," then the pleasure in your life is a little less. When one day you realize that there is nothing that is not beautiful, then is your pleasure not boundless? You are in pleasure at every moment. So you can understand where the root of this principle of pleasure lies.
This beauty is obviously everywhere. Beauty is everywhere—it is not that only beautiful women are beautiful and ugly women are ugly; that is your judgment. If you reach a certain level of cognition, you can see through the outer appearance to the inner beauty, if you look for it. Beauty is everywhere; it is not that only this flower is beautiful and that flower is not. Only this person is beautiful and that person is not—no. Here he reveals the truth of the matter: as long as you truly look for it, beauty is everywhere.
He said:
It is each life form's exultation in the wonder of its own existence.
What is beauty? Beauty is each life form's exultation in the wonder of its own existence. That state of exultation in the wonder of its own existence—what it expresses is beauty. When you ask what beauty is, this sentence is a rather apt spiritual definition of beauty—the state in which every existence, every living thing, exults in the wonder of its own existence; what it expresses is beauty. All things in the world are like this. When you look for it, you can see their beauty.
He said:
In which love's values exceed their own.
The value of love exceeds the life form itself. The life form is about being alive, maintaining its survival. At this point the value of love is higher than the existence of the life form itself. That is to say, every living existence does not exist merely for the sake of staying alive; it wants to pursue and manifest this exultation in the wonder of its existence; it wants to experience love.
Here it is mentioned again that every life form wants to experience this love. What kind of love is this love? It is not the narrowed love of us humans; it is a cosmic love, a natural love, coming from the love that All That Is, from heaven and earth and all things, has for everything he created. All life forms are embodying the value of his love. In other words, beauty is what is expressed through the exultation in the wonder of existence, and then it is an expression of the value of love. When you have love, you are beautiful; when you let love flow through you, when you can display the value of love, that is beauty.
He said:
And in which each species and life form "realizes" that its own accomplishment infinitely adds to the existence of all other forms.
This "realizes" is in quotation marks; it is not the kind of realization humans have, but it is similar to human realization. It thinks it is very beautiful, very wondrous, and very happy, very exultant, and there is also a value of love overflowing above its own life existence. And it also understands a principle in all of this: while it is being itself well, while it is overflowing with itself, while it is exulting for itself, while it is appreciating its own beauty, it is also appreciating the beauty of others. And it also knows that because of its existence, the beauty of all other species is also made better, increased, and added to. This is the core point this passage wants to make—it adds to the beauty of all species.
End of Dictation
Then Seth said:
End of dictation. We really did manage at least to hint at material that exists almost at the edge of any rational understanding. My heartfelt blessings, and good evening.
He said these words, and although they were not long and did not contain much, they at least hinted at an edge almost at the very edge of what your rationality can express -- right at a limit of your rationality, at the outermost limit of our human thinking and intellect. He said he tried to say that thing to you.
This session ended, so this session is also very important. Try to understand this session again -- actually it approached value fulfillment from another angle. Through dreams -- collective dreams, overall dreams -- and then through all those things mentioned earlier, he kept hinting, kept telling you, kept using different ways to tell you, what value fulfillment really is. He was afraid you would not understand it thoroughly.
At 9:32, it ended. Then Jane came out. As soon as Jane came out, she immediately said:
"Wow, that was really a bit weird. Because when I began, I didn't feel that deeply involved, but after I became really involved, I was very close to some kind of important knowledge, and at the same time I could speak it."
She said: "I could feel that I was approaching some very important core knowledge. The key was that while I was together with that knowledge, I could still speak it." She was also very happy and very satisfied with her performance. Because many times, when you are together with this kind of core knowledge, the hardest part is that it is very difficult to express it in words. And Jane said she actually managed it -- she could express even the edge of the edge of human understanding in words. Although it was Seth expressing it through her, she said she could say it in human language, and that was amazing. She said, you know, it was almost like speaking that which cannot be spoken.
She said: "Do you know how I felt? My feeling was that I was saying things that cannot be said, things that cannot be spoken." The Buddha said "unspeakable, unspeakable," and she said she felt that what she was speaking about was that thing. She said: "It was quite wild, very exciting, too exciting. Or you stretch yourself as far as possible." This wildness was her describing her own feeling -- like the feeling after you stretch yourself infinitely, the feeling of expanding your consciousness infinitely into all things. She said it was wild, exciting, and exhilarating.
She was describing: "When I was speaking for Seth, what I tried to pull down was a different kind of knowing, and the feeling was simply wonderful." When she brought through the Seth material, pulled it down -- that is, transferred it from a higher dimension of consciousness into our human language -- she said what she hoped to bring was a different kind of knowledge, a different kind of knowing. What she hoped to bring was a new kind of knowing different from our human cognition. She said that feeling was simply wonderful.
Then Rob said, he told her that she had indeed given an excellent session, and "I hope this important Seth material should become common knowledge for humanity." This is also my hope -- the common hope of all who have read the Seth material. When we read these wondrous parts, when we read to the point of slapping our thighs, how we wish this material could become a consensus for humanity, become a required course that human students should study in our ordinary education, in the textbooks of elementary school, junior high school, senior high school, and university. Then the civilization of humanity would inevitably rise to a new level.
Although this session was short, its content was extremely wonderful.