Mike's commentary · The "Unknown" Reality, Session 736

The "Guide" and "Key Points" 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 blockquotes are Seth's original words (the portions Mike read aloud).

Introduction

In this session, Seth outlines the characteristics of the families of consciousness: the Sumari lean toward creativity, and their empathy, natural connections, and solitude may seem contradictory to one another and vary from member to member; the Gramada excel at organizing social structures; the Sumafi transmit knowledge and skills; the Tumold focus on healing; the Vold advance social change; the Milumet are inward-turning mystical explorers; the Zuli pursue the ultimate expression of the body. Counterparts usually belong to the same family of consciousness.

Key Points of This Chapter

• The fundamental common trait of the Sumari family is creativity, but its members express it in widely different ways, even showing contradictory qualities such as empathy and isolation.
• The Gramada excels at organization, establishing and maintaining social structures such as schools, hospitals, religions, businesses, and governments.
• The Sumafi emphasizes teaching and passing down knowledge and skills in their original form, while the Tumold tends toward various forms of healing.
• The Vold are social reformers who can unconsciously foresee future directions, while the Milumet are introverted mystics who explore spirituality and often remain unknown.
• The Zuli pursues the utmost of physical ability and beauty through bodily activities such as sports, performance, or modeling; counterparts usually belong to the same family of consciousness.

Main Text

Session 736: Characteristics of the Various Families of Consciousness

This session began on Wednesday, February 5, 1975¹, at 9:24 p.m. Rob came right in and said that recently they had been looking at houses. Their real estate agent Debbie had shown them two houses, one on Foster Road and the other on a hillside in West Elmira -- the house they later called "the hill house." He ended up buying the latter one, situated at the intersection of two dead-end streets, with trees on both sides, facing south. In the previous session Seth had just told them that this area was better not facing south, as it had something to do with their energy characteristics, but they had not really been listening to Seth's advice. Standing in the ranch-style house with its iron exterior on the west hill, one could overlook the entire city of Elmira, and the view was quite nice.

Seth said, if you want, I will give you information about this house later. That is related to the characteristics of the Sumari.

Generally speaking, the Sumari have a talent for emotional resonance and empathy with others; their empathic ability and capacity for resonance are very strong. At a certain point, this feeling for others can often be used as a driving force for creative work -- he can feel what others feel, and this empathic ability can give him a very strong impetus in creative work. In addition, many of them also have a mystical sense of connection with nature; they not only have empathy and resonance with people, but also a connection with nature.

At the same time, they may be quite isolationist, wanting to work in solitude. They are not sociable; they want to be alone, working in a solitary environment. Why is he like this? One reason is his empathic and resonant ability -- if he is too empathic with others, working in a place with many people makes him easily affected.

Varied, seemingly contradictory characteristics may also appear. One Sumari may have many satisfying personal relationships, with very harmonious interpersonal relations, so he is not lonely; while another may feel that friends are a distraction, that friends are troublesome, and just wants to be alone. A Sumari may enjoy performing before an audience, because he himself has strong artistic creativity, and some are willing to perform in front of others; at the same time, another Sumari may simply be unable to tolerate this idea, unable to bear performing before others. Since each person is unique, the varied Sumari traits will show quite different appearances, and the way they manifest in real life is completely different; they are not all cut from the same mold.

Some live in cities, bathing in emotional closeness with others, content with a few flowerpots as reminders of natural beauty -- as mentioned earlier, the Sumari love the beauty of nature and have a kind of communication with nature, but in the city there is no way, so he keeps a few pots of flowers, and through these flowers he also makes a link with nature. But for another person, a few flowerpots are not enough; he needs a large farm.

However, in most cases, their conscious tendencies are creative. No matter how their characteristics differ, they all share one common trait: a tendency toward creativity.

Seth said he would not go into detail about the other families, but would discuss them briefly and give a simple introduction, because counterparts generally belong to the same family -- generally speaking, counterparts all belong to one family of consciousness.

Gramada: The Founders of Organization

The first family of consciousness is the Gramada, most skilled at organization. Sometimes its members arrive immediately after a revolutionary social change -- when a great social transformation has occurred and new organization is needed, the members of the Gramada suddenly appear in society. However, their organizational tendency is expressed in any field of life, not only in great social changes.

For example, they are the backbone behind art schools, although they themselves are not artists. They may have established academies, although they may or may not be scholars. They will establish these schools, academies, and organizations, but they are often not experts in those fields -- though it is also possible that they are experts; this is not fixed. But their organizational ability is very strong; they are the organizers, the preparers, the founders. The founders of large enterprises often belong to this family, because they are extremely good at organizing. Certain politicians and statesmen are the same, especially skilled at organizing their political parties and social organizations.

They are active, energetic, and possess creative aggressiveness -- meaning their creativity carries a certain aggressiveness; it wants to create a new organization, very active and energetic. They know how to synthesize and organize the ideas of others, to bring together the ideas of others and form a new, effective organization. They often synthesize conflicting systems of thought into a more or less unified structure -- when you want to establish an organization, not every member necessarily has the same ideas, so as an organizer you must have this ability to bring people with different opinions together into an organization.

They are the founders of social systems, often creating various organizations. For example, in most cases, your hospitals, schools, and religions as organizations were initiated by this group and are often maintained by them -- simply put, the hospitals, educational institutions, and religions in your social organizations are mostly maintained by these people of the consciousness family skilled at organizing. They have an outstanding ability to bring together individual ideas that would otherwise be cast aside by the wayside. They are organizers of energy, directing it into effective social structures -- gathering together individual opinions, gathering together everyone's energy, gathering together each person's scattered energy to form a social structure.

They often establish fairly stable and fairly reasonable governments, because they listen to the opinions of others and form stable social organizations. Although they do not initiate the concepts behind those structures -- they do not create the concepts themselves, such as schools, governments, or society -- they organize these social forms.

Sumafi: The Transmitters of Knowledge

The second group, the Sumafi, deal mainly with teaching. Generally speaking, they are primarily teachers, and their relationships with others are very good. They may be quite gifted in any field, but their main interest is passing on their knowledge or the knowledge of others. Therefore they are usually traditionalists; although they may be extremely intelligent, they are relatively traditional -- they want to pass on their own and others' knowledge in its original form.

They have an equal relationship with the Sumari and the Gramada, standing in a role between organizational systems and creative art. The Gramada are skilled at organizing, forming schools, institutions, hospitals, and social organizations; the Sumari are often independent and unconventional, with very strong artistic creativity; and the Sumafi are in between, hoping to pass on others' knowledge and their own knowledge in its original form. However, they do this through social structures -- they also take up teaching work in schools or other institutions, and what they transmit is originality without altering it.

Seth said, although any interpretation of an event changes that event, generally speaking, they teach those subjects without creatively altering their content. Any knowledge is more or less changed in the process of transmission; it cannot remain unchanged, but they insist on preserving the original form, although in the process they also add a certain creativity of their own, but this creativity is always kept on top of the original form.

For example, as historians, they pass down the dates on which wars occurred, and those dates are regarded as almost ironclad facts. Within the scope of their learning, they feel there is no reason to question the reliability of this information -- they feel that what happened in history is fact, and there is no need to question it. They may make new interpretations and readings, but they insist on the complete originality and integrity of the material. In the Middle Ages, they faithfully copied manuscripts² -- in the Middle Ages there were no typewriters or anything like that, so copying was a major occupation; until the appearance of the typewriter, copying was a job. In a manner of speaking, they are guardians, guarding our knowledge, ensuring humanity's documents; they are guardians of antiquities and manuscripts.

Again, there are infinite variations. Many music or painting teachers belong to this family, because they want to pass on ancient skills and ancient techniques. They teach with a love of excellence and an emphasis on technique -- they love excellent things and love technique. And that technique is often the tool through which a Sumari artist can give play to his creativity, but often it is not.

He said, the painting techniques, performance techniques, and singing techniques that the Sumafi transmit are of great interest to them in terms of artistic creation; they are very interested in ultimate skill and technique, in excellent performance, and want to pass them on. But from the perspective of the Sumari, these original artists, these techniques are merely a tool they use in creation, a tool of expression; what they emphasize more is the originality of the creative content itself. The Sumafi, on the other hand, want to preserve and pass on the skills and techniques of what others have created as original works; their work is different.

Tumold: The Practitioners of Healing

The next family is the Tumold, mainly devoted to healing. This does not mean that these people lack creativity, or that they are not organizers or teachers -- not necessarily; all of these are possible. They are involved in and devoted to healing, but that does not mean they cannot create, nor does it mean they lack organizational ability. The main tendency of this consciousness family is directed toward healing.

You may find them as doctors or nurses, although they are not often hospital administrators -- they generally do not become hospital administrators, because they want to heal. However, they may be psychics, social workers, volunteers, psychologists, artists, or be found in religious circles; all are possible. Their healing is experienced in all aspects -- they may work in a flower shop, using flowers to heal others and bring healing to others; for that matter, they may work on a production line, but even so, they will still be a healer. Healing is an attribute of this consciousness family, but their work may be expressed in all walks of life.

Seth said he mentioned various different careers and occupations to give some clear examples, but a worker in an auto repair shop may belong to the Tumold or any other group. The occupations he cited are not a definite classification -- it does not mean that a doctor is necessarily a Tumold. He only gave you a guide, a direction. For example, a mechanic in an auto repair shop may very well be a Tumold with healing attributes, because in that repair shop, the mechanic has a healing effect on customers -- what he heals is not the person, but simply fixing the car; the healing attribute is transferred onto the car. But that healer may also manifest as a politician, healing the wounds of the nation in a spiritual way -- solving social problems through politics. Any kind of artist whose main work is helping others also belongs to this category, such as healing others through music, painting, dance, or various bodily means. You will find that some heads of state, especially members of aristocratic families in the past, also belong to this group.

Vold: The Reformers of Society

The next consciousness group is the Vold, whose main characteristic is that of reformers. They have excellent precognitive ability -- of course, that means they at least unconsciously understand the workings of probabilities; they unconsciously acquire some precognitive ability, and they have access to Framework 2, understanding the workings of probabilities. They can work in any field. In your terms, they seem able to perceive the dynamics of the future or a concept -- from the human perspective, they seem able to foresee a future idea or the direction of a structure; they have this ability to foresee future concepts and structural directions, and then they bring that probability into physical reality in a completely new way.

In traditional terms, they may appear to be great activists and revolutionaries, restless people -- because they have precognitive and foreseeing ability, able to foresee the development and direction of society; or they may appear to be impractical dreamers, indeed not very practical, because what they see are all things of the future. They will be fascinated by a concept of reform, change, or alteration, loving these things of reform and change; in society they are often those reformers, changers, or promoters of social change, at least feeling compelled to use that concept and make it realized -- because they are very obsessed with the concept of reform, they often devote themselves and struggle for it.

Generally speaking, they provide a very creative service, because social and governmental organizations often become stagnant -- after society has been stable for a period of time, it becomes rigid, and this rigidified society and governmental organization needs these people to open it up, providing new vitality and new variations; otherwise it will become rigid and no longer satisfy the purposes of the large group of people involved. Of course, organizations were originally created for the welfare of these people, but after they become rigid, their nature changes, and at that time the social reformers, the Vold, are needed. Of course, members of this family may also initiate religious revolutions. However, generally speaking, they hold only one purpose in their hearts: to change the status quo in whatever field their main interest lies. Because their fields differ and the specialties they come into contact with differ, they all like to change the status quo within their own field or specialty.

It is already easy to see how the purposes of these various families can fit together, complement each other, and also conflict with each other. As a whole, they operate almost as a creative system of checks and balances -- why are there families of consciousness? They are a system of mutual checks and balances, maintaining a relatively balanced and even development of human society.

At 10:12, while we were chatting, Jane interrupted herself. She said, I can get in an instant the main activities and dominant conscious tendencies of the next three families of consciousness on Seth's list that he has not yet spoken of. She said she could instantly obtain the three that Seth had not yet mentioned, yet when she tried to describe their attributes, she found it difficult -- she could understand, but could not say it. She said the information was strangely easy to dissipate. Seth said, then let me continue.

Milumet: The Mystical Inner Explorers

The next family is the Milumet, composed of mystics. Almost all of their experiences are inward-oriented, directed inward. They do not care whether inner experience is translated into ordinary terms; they are immersed in their own inner world.

Their manifestations are those of recluses, hermits, or people who only focus on the inner world. For example, these people may be completely unknown -- they are those who live in seclusion, hidden in the world, so ordinary people generally do not know them, and usually this is the case, because they have no intention of explaining their inner activities to others or even to themselves. They do not want to tell others what inner explorations and activities they have undertaken, and they are even too lazy to explain to themselves; they are content simply to be absorbed in inner exploration. They are truly innocent and spiritual, with very high spirituality, but generally not very willing to deal with worldly people.

By the standards of ordinary cognition, they are intellectually undeveloped -- by human cognitive standards, their cognition has not been developed; they experience entirely through their intuition and inner feelings. But this is only because they have not directed their intelligence toward material focus; the reason you think they are not intelligent or not civilized is because they have not put their energy into that aspect.

Generally speaking, people belonging to this family do not hold any position of authority; they do not want to be authorities and are not interested, because they do not focus on specific physical information long enough. Yet in your country, in America, you may find them in the places where you would least expect them to appear, such as on production lines requiring simple, repetitive activity. But indeed in factories that do not require speed -- you might think these people should be hidden deep in the mountains and forests, but no, they are very likely hidden among the most inconspicuous people among you, often perhaps a worker on an assembly line, or an ordinary worker in a factory. But the assembly line and factory work must not be too fast; if it is too fast, they cannot adapt, because they prefer a slower, more leisurely pace. Therefore, on assembly lines that require simple work and a relatively slow pace, you can often find them.

They often choose less industrialized countries with a slow pace of life; in countries with a slower pace of life, there will be more of them. They have simple, direct, childlike speech and behavior, speaking very directly, like children, because they are innocent, and they may appear very foolish, very dull -- by the standards of our normal society, their IQ and EQ are not particularly high. They simply do not care about ordinary customs, that is, our worldly ways; they are not interested at all and do not care at all how you see them.

Yet strangely enough, they may be excellent parents, especially in societies less complex than your country. Outside of these societies in America, they are often very excellent parents. And in your terms, wherever they appear, they are primitive people -- you feel they are like primitive people because they have a deep sense of identification with nature and a cognitive sense of the oneness of all existence. From that perspective, they are far more in harmony with the psyche than most other people -- they are extremely attuned to the psyche and spirituality, so their spiritual essence is very strong; outwardly they look just like a child, pure, ignorant of worldly affairs, and not interested.

Their private experiences are often adventurous, very adventurous in everyday experience. And on that level, they help nourish the human psyche, because they do not care about external opinions and recognition, so in many behaviors they are very adventurous, often doing things that are unimaginable, because they simply do not care about the perspective of worldly people; they live in the inner world.

Zuli: The Artists of the Body

The next group is called the Zuli, mainly involved in the expression of physical activity. These people are athletes and sportsmen, and no matter what field they are in, they devote themselves to perfecting the body's abilities -- ordinary people do not have such extreme demands on the body, but these people demand the utmost from the body. For example, many young men want to develop eight-pack or six-pack abs, and many young women insist on achieving an ant waist or a peach-shaped hip; it is all like this -- they demand that the body reach the ultimate state it can attain.

To a certain degree, they are regarded as physical models, and are often willing to be models -- whether as fashion models, or models for painters, or models for photographers; they are willing to become such physical exemplars. Biological vitality is expressed through the beauty, speed, nobility, and performance of the body itself -- it is expressed through the beauty, speed, strength, nobility of the body itself, as well as through performance and dance. To a certain degree, these people are perfectionists, demanding ultimate perfection of the body. And in their activities, there is always this hint of super-achievement -- they always want to become some kind of super someone, such as a famous actor, a supermodel, and so on, because they have perfectionist tendencies. It is as if, even in terms of the body, this species tries to surpass itself, such as going to the Olympics to win championships; these are all people of this kind of family.

The members of this family are actually used to point to the unrealized abilities of the body. For example, the great Sumari artists may provide clues to the innate, unused artistic talents of humanity as a whole -- the Sumari express those undiscovered things in human artistic creation, letting us humans see that our creativity is actually this strong. And the characteristic of the Zuli is to let us humans see how far we can go in physical development -- the coordinated beauty, sense of strength, explosive power, speed, ability, and overall balance of the body -- reaching a state of amazement and admiration for the biological perfection of the human body, providing a model and demonstration for humanity's physical development.

Members of this family can often serve as models for painters or writers, because they themselves transmit their energy through the art and performance of the body -- they can often participate in competitions, sports events, or artistic performances and stage performances, expressing the art of the body through such art and performance.

In your terms, and historically speaking, they often appear at the beginnings of civilizations -- because what they display is the most basic biological beauty, the external beauty of the body, so at the very beginning of civilizations they are often quite prominent. You see a great number of such sculptures and paintings in the Renaissance³, all of these very handsome and beautiful figures, whether male or female. So from the current perspective, when we humans still pursue this external beauty, does it prove that we humans are also at the beginning of civilization? Yes -- what Seth did not explicitly say is that you humans are also only at the beginning of civilization right now, because you are still in the extreme pursuit of this external beauty.

In the environment, direct physical manipulation of the body is extremely important, which is why there are the Olympic Games, and why every four years all of humanity celebrates⁴ this great event -- the Olympics are a display of the beauty of the body, higher, faster, stronger; this is a typical example. But we rarely organize activities on the scale of the Olympics in other areas, such as spirituality, artistic creation, cultivation, or inner exploration, to show the world humanity's achievements in those fields of exploration; instead we are enthusiastic about displaying these external physical achievements. From this one can see that we are actually still at the beginning of the development of human civilization.

Seth said, at that time normal bodily reactions were simply faster than they are now, even though at that time normal bodily relaxation was deeper and more complete. He said that during that time of direct physical manipulation, at the beginning of civilization, humanity's manipulation of the body was faster, and at that time normal bodily relaxation was deeper and more complete -- there was a deeper relaxation and more complete relaxation of the body, and practices similar to yoga can also achieve the same effect. So many women are willing to practice yoga for the same reason; it can achieve a sense of beauty in balance, and also achieve ultimate relaxation. Whether physically or in artistic creation, people can reach a very deep state of relaxation.

Seth said the dictation was over. Then he gave two pages of information about the house on Foster Road that they had looked at two days earlier -- he explained Jane's and Rob's feelings about that house and the sixth-sense attraction, though he did not mention the hill house; however, they later still chose the hill house. In addition, Seth declared that the current owner of the house on Foster Road, as well as the previous owner who had already passed away, were both Sumari, but even so, they did not choose that house.

Supplementary Interpretation on the Sumari

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注释与核实

1. Source: Wikidata "February 5, 1975" (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q69292164) ↩

2. Source: Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge "Errata" (https://www.cai.cam.ac.uk/discover/library/online-exhibitions/print-and-material-book/errata) ↩

3. This claim could not be verified. ↩

4. Source: International Olympic Committee "From Coast to Coast" (https://library.olympics.com/digitalCollection/DigitalCollectionAttachmentDownloadHandler.ashx?documentId=186544&parentDocumentId=186542&skipCopyright=true&skipWatermark=true) ↩