Seth 372
Delusions, Camouflage Systems and Discovering Happiness
Tuesday May 13, 2008
8:35 p.m.
Seth… Good evening.
All… Good evening.
Seth… Pleasure to have all of you here again this evening. I have transmitted through our friend Frank (some material from today’s session and “The Happy Memory Meditation.” was discussed. This meditation was given to us several years earlier.), we will continue on with the general category of Change and we shall deal with delusions, camouflage systems and anything else I care to bring to your attention.
Individuals as I have previously stated delude themselves out of fear, fear of not being liked, fear of a challenge, fear of accomplishing that which they feel that they must and so with these delusions in hand they proceed to attempt to cover up that which our soul feels is unnecessary or too difficult for them to accomplish.
Jasmine… I’m confused.
Seth… What are you confused about Jasmine? And here then take the microphone, please.
Jasmine… Right. You said that individuals delude themselves out of fear such as not being liked, they have fear of a challenge they may have to face and so with these delusions in hand so what’s the delusion?
Seth… The delusion is how to escape or to avoid facing the challenge, how to not follow through with things that they should.
Jasmine… That’s a delusion?
Seth… Of course.
Jasmine… Oh, they create something that makes it impossible for them to deal with what they are supposed to do.
Seth… Correct.
Jasmine… Oh, okay.
Seth… Or should do or want to do or need to do.
Jasmine… The delusion is creating something…
Seth… Delusions basically mean moving from fact into fiction, truth into falsehood.
Jasmine… (Reading and writing her notes.) The understanding that blocks them from dealing with their fear?
Seth… No, the fear is what is causing them to do something.
Jasmine… Oh, so dealing with…
Stephanie… Reality.
Jasmine… With the reality?
Frank… They don’t want to face the fear, so they create a delusion so that they don’t have to (face the fear).
Seth… An example here Jasmine…
Jasmine… So maybe I should say that.
Seth… An example here, Jasmine is quite simple. When… your… and write this down.
Jasmine… (Talking at same time.) Don’t want to… let me just write… don’t want to face fear so they create, what? What did you say, Frank?
Frank… (Laughing.) I can’t read what I say back.
Jasmine… Create a delusion? Okay, go ahead, Seth.
Seth… An example here is simple: when Isabella was late. What did you do? You were full of anxiety, fear, nervousness.
Jasmine… Right.
Seth… So, what, write this down, so what you immediately did is you conjured up places and events and ideas that caused you more anxiety. You moved from a place of truthfulness to a place of fiction. The most likely scenario of course was that Isabella was going out with a young man and at their ages they were probably engaged (Isabella begins to laugh.) in activities that need not be mentioned.
Jasmine… So, in this particular example the delusion…
Seth… The delusion was to get you…
Jasmine… made me feel worse!
Seth… Of course. Who says delusions have to make you feel better? You have a tendency to catastrophize. So, you create a system from something that is factual to something that is false. So, you catastrophize. You make things worse than what they are. Do you understand?
Jasmine… So catstrophizing is a delusion?
Seth… It is the result of fear. Do you understand so far?
Jasmine… I was interpreting the delusion as; you know people delude themselves into thinking something else like so that they don’t have to look at the real issue they create another scenario that is easier to look at.
Seth… Isn’t that exactly what you are doing?
Jasmine… No, I made it a hundred times worse.
Seth… Excuse me, when you go ahead and if your idea here and your task is partially to learn how to leave negative energies go through you. We are correct with that?
Jasmine… Right.
Seth… So now if we are correct with that idea when you catastrophize something you prevent yourself from doing it because it is difficult for you to let things pass so you make everything so difficult, such a monumental disaster, that nobody could leave it go. And then of course what you then do is you go ahead, and you then enlist help of others to get you through the disaster. Do you understand this?
Jasmine… I’m trying to.
Seth… In other words, you will turn to somebody like the man through whom I speak, to Kaetorina, all in a panic situation, an unhappy situation so that you can push off your unhappiness to somewhere else. That is part of your delusional ability. You don’t want to handle negative energies so you make them so bad that somebody else must help you with them instead of just letting it pass through.
Jasmine… Well, that is a whole other slant on my thinking about delusions because I never thought of it in those terms.
Seth… You’re thinking of delusions in something such as if somebody for example has fear of flying in an airplane they will make up scenarios for themselves…
Jasmine… So, they don’t have to go on a plane.
Seth… So, they don’t have to go on to a plane.
Jasmine… Right or somebody who wants to convince themselves that they have actually, you know, worked through an issue when they haven’t. It’s a delusion.
Seth… Yes, and very commonly individuals do this. Whether it is the not working through the, I am going to not catastrophize syndrome as you are capable of doing or you are going to go ahead and learn to define yourself… (Isabella was talking to Stephanie.) Are we finished? Are we going to define ourselves in terms of how we are with other people? In other words, if you define yourself as being a good steady strong person if I have a man in my life then what happens if I don’t? So therefore, I will delude myself into accepting any attention from a male. All theses type of delusions are just habits that individuals pick up along the way. Now they do this so that they can camouflage that which they need to study.
Jasmine… Say that again please, people do this to camouflage?
Isabella… So, they make up delusions…
Seth… that which they need to study.
Jasmine… Right, that which they need to study…. (Jasmine is reading/mumbling to herself.) to create the delusion so that…
Stephanie… So, they don’t have to look at it.
Jasmine… Oh.
Stephanie… They look and go “AAAAh”. (Laughter.)
Seth… Now, so you have a system that you fool yourself so that you do not have to look, that is the camouflage system. You put things to the side, not that they ever disappear, they do not for they are covered over and made invisible if you will so that our individual does not have to learn from or deal with those perceptions. Now, individuals carry on with these delusional properties and camouflage systems and they become more complicated and grander if you will the longer that camouflage system is allowed to remain in place. It is far more difficult to accept reality the longer our individuals allow the transparency of the delusion to go on. Now I use the term here “transparency” because all delusions may be seen through by first others and then of course by the self. How many times do individuals say, “What are you saying? What are you doing?” And then our soul makes up large excuses for their actions. The woman who is battered will have a myriad of reasons for going back to this type of a person. The individual who is an alcoholic clearly states, “I don’t have a problem.”
Jasmine… You mean they say when confronted by others who speak to them…
Seth… No, they say it to themselves.
Jasmine… Oh, so the self can see through the transparency?
Seth… “I don’t have a problem. I don’t have to worry about this; I can stop drinking whenever I want to.” and that is the delusion in and of itself. So, it gets camouflaged by the idea of since I can stop whenever I want to, but I don’t choose to stop now. So, the camouflage system prevents the dealing with the difficulty. The type of individual that you are determines what type of camouflage system you use whether it be denial, whether it be anger. All these systems matter not; it is the actions that matter. When one then learns to redefine themselves and to strip away that which is bothering them then the true belief systems can be focused upon, and the questions asked why do I believe this to be factual.
Jasmine… Okay, hold it, when one learns to redefine self, strip away what is bothering them then the true belief systems can be looked at?
Seth… Correct. For example here, if you, Jasmine were going to look at the belief system of why is it necessary for me to enlist help and catastrophize things, first the behavior itself obviously stems from your parents but second of all and more importantly when you created for yourself a disaster out of anything and it doesn’t matter the specific instance it became apparent to you that when you did this as a young child people came to your assistance and love and kindness were given then. So, what did you learn? You learned to not to allow negative energies to pass through you but to use them to obtain love.
Jasmine… Em hmm.
Seth… Because if you were in trouble, people were kind, they loved you but as you developed this system it became more and more evident to you that you required larger and larger and more complicated systems of disaster and soon it became apparent to you that no matter what was going on you required a disaster to have individuals assist you. And you do this so that you do not have to deal with the negative aspects of common day events. The typical answer here is, “Could you do this for me? Would you do me a favor? Would you get me this? I can’t do that.” So, you make your day-to-day existence revolve around things that you are not instead of things that you are and most individuals in general will do this if they require or believe that they create a system of need which is in reality a want system.
When you create a system that you believe favors you it is necessary for you to examine routine actions. When you apply yourself to change you will immediately note your own actions and reactions to what you believe hurts you so you will tend not to heal your wounds but to change you will not heal your wounds, you tend to recreate events to reopen the wound so that you may have another opportunity to heal this. That is why individuals will seek out others who will bother them or hurt them or inflict themselves upon them. For example, if you are an individual who needs to be taken care of, you will find individuals who in the beginning will enjoy taking care of you and you will do this routinely. You may even play it from the other way; you will find individuals who are so needy it forces you to take care of them. They are the same idea. So, in doing this what do you get? You get a situation where you delude yourself into believing that you are making progress where in reality you are not. (And all of that may be underlined, you delude yourself into believing you are making progress but in reality, you are not.) And you are not making progress because you have not changed that which you require. In that instance if you are an individual who requires aid the question arises, what do you do to strengthen you? How do you make yourself stronger, more capable? What type of individuals do you attract towards yourself? These are the type of questions that one must look at and again the camouflage system that you set up here is the delusion. So, it comes to be that what you see with physical plane eyes is a departure from the truth and reality as the individuals around you will see and testify to. Commonly these individuals will hear, “What do you see in this person? How do they help you? What are you getting from them?” And then the answer always comes, “I know what I am doing. We are just friends. We are going ahead and enjoying each other’s company.” So that may actually be truthful, however it is not profitable because you are still maintaining the “I will take care of you, or you will take care of me syndrome.” So how do you go ahead and define yourself in that situation? You define yourself by being needy.
There are other individuals who will go ahead and change how they are and what they define themselves to be when different relationships arise. Yet, the overriding factor is still one in this instance of need. The person who defines himself one way with friends commonly needs to be called by the friend, looks to the friend to provide them with entertainment and sustenance. By sustenance I mean the feeling of being fed and you are being fed love and devotion by the friend but in reality, you are demanding it and still in need.
Jasmine… So, it is all about need so they are not really giving two different things?
Seth… They define themselves differently but in reality, the underlying cause is need.
Stephanie… What are they demanding?
Seth… They are demanding sustenance, feed me.
Stephanie… Right, by the friend and you are demanding which you have already said (Stephanie reading notes.) providing entertainment and sustenance, you get the feeling of being fed by the friend and you are demanding…
Seth… You are demanding that they give to you. Do you understand?
Stephanie… Oh, yeah.
Frank… But the being needy is want?
Seth… The being needy is of course want, it is not need. Need is in reality on the physical plane that which sustains you, that which you grow from, that which makes you more profitable whether it be in a spiritual sense, in a physical sense, that which you require for your health and well-being. But to be needy or wanting is a lack and those lacks of course are creating voids. So, what you do with that is you create a delusion that the void is not as large as everyone else sees it is; you cover it up. It is for example, if you had a large hole in your backyard and you have two choices. You may fill it in, pack it down, plant grass and allow the area to re-grow or you take grass cloth and cover it over, yet the hole or void is still there and all of sudden as points of reference change you walk on the grass cloth and fall in. And then you pick yourself up and put the grass cloth back (Seth pounded table with pointer finger indicating to Stephanie to write it down.) and then some time later when you are least aware of it walk over and fall in again until you recover the void with another delusion and you put more grass cloth over it and you walk back again and again and each time you constantly say this the delusion and the void becomes larger so you are covering it over each time without getting rid of it. Do you understand, Frank?
Frank… Yeah, my idea of when I am lost in the forest and I find the latest method, its just throwing a grass cloth over…
Seth… Absolutely.
Frank… and then I don’t have to pay attention and five minutes later…
Seth… and you do your self no good.
Isabella… I don’t even have a question. I’m just feeling very disheartened by this lecture so…
Seth… Congratulations. Maybe you can learn something.
Isabella… Obviously, but I mean… I don’t know, I’m just really having a hard time. I feel like…
Seth… What you are saying is so I am sorry for myself because I recognize my own failings.
Isabella… Yeah, but I don’t see light (Isabella is tearful) at the end of the tunnel. I feel like…
Seth… Of course, there is light at the end of the tunnel.
Isabella… No, I feel like I am stuck. I feel like I can’t move forward, and I have been in this place for so long and I…
Seth… That is the problem with delusions when you finally see the delusion change can be instantaneous. Let me give you an example of what I mean. When for example you decided that you did not like your body or your appearance, you made an instantaneous change that is still following through with. Now, if you would then let us take the last ten years point of reference, the last ten years, so you are now twenty-nine so we are going to look at the time period from nineteen to twenty-nine and would you casually say that there was innumerable numbers of times in that ten year span that you did not like your body, you were overweight, you were underweight, you were promising yourself all sorts of things. How often did you keep up with doing what you were doing as compared to now?
Isabella… I didn’t.
Seth… So, change can be instantaneous. It is not a question of a light at the end of the tunnel, it is a question of choosing a different point of reference and you may do that whenever you choose to do that whether it be in this lifetime or the next or the next or the next and change works that quickly. You may change when you choose to do so. Do you understand?
Now, one of the aspects of change that most individuals look at are the times, write this Isabella, are the times when they are unhappy. They examine their unhappiness, they pick it apart, they walk into trees, they fool themselves, they fool others and so with all this they gain something, not much but they gain something. So, I strongly suggest that if change is going to become profitable you must learn to examine something else and what you must learn to examine and study, underline that what you must learn to examine, and study is in capital letters HAPPINESS! Let us ask a simple question within the past week by a simple show of hands, yes or no it matters not, how many of you have studied your own happiness?
Isabella… I have.
Seth… Really, how?
Isabella… I have thought about the situation I am in is not making me happy and how I was happier prior to the situation.
Seth…. That is not studying your happiness. That’s one down, (to Frank) go.
Frank… I played great tennis.
Seth… And you hurt your elbow and you complained about it. You’re out, next.
Frank… I want a rematch. (Frank laughed.)
Jasmine… I thought about the fun times I had with my grandsonand how delightful it was.
Seth… But that was not your happiness; that is something, no that is something that you did (Jasmine was arguing in the background.) Studying your own happiness is not studying an event, it is studying self.
Kaetorina?
Stephanie… I was realizing that something I was doing was continuing to make me upset so I kind of stopped doing that.
Seth… That’s not studying your happiness that is studying your unhappiness. (Group laughter.)
Frank… Can I try again?
Seth… No. (Laughter)
Frank… Damn.
Seth… So, what I am giving you here is a methodology if you will, for each of you to bring into your self that which you enjoy. I have previously given you an exercise in meditation on something that is pleasant. Our Friend Frank will call it a “Happy Memory Meditation”. (See the instructions for “The Happy Memory Meditation” at the end of this session.)
Frank… You all just got it in an e-mail, today.
Seth… Notice, I do read. Now, but it is more than the idea of a happy memory.
Jasmine… Meditating on a happy memory?
Seth… It is more than that and yes, I agree that each one of you should do this. But to examine happiness means to examine the feelings and the emotions that give you what you require and that dear students is something that not one of you, no one here does routinely. Therefore, if change is to occur which is more profitable, looking at what makes you unhappy and trying to get rid of it or moving towards something that you enjoy that makes you happy, that you enjoy that makes you happy from the inside out and then just discarding that which is not suitable?
Jasmine… What’s the other? The thing that makes you unhappy?
Seth… Things plural, that are not profitable that you are unhappy about. For example, if Jasmine, you decided to change at this point of reference and Isabella came in at 4:00 in the morning, well, you instead of being worried where she is, “Is she alive? Is something going on?” You may be very happy to yourself and say, “I hope that she has had a good time with… I hope it was fabulous for her.”
Do you understand? That is an instantaneous change, and it takes you away from fear into a place of comfort and that is what each of you must learn to do. So, you are getting rid of the uncomfortable feeling, (Seth was tapping the table to indicate to take notes.) you are getting rid of the uncomfortable feeling replacing it with a comfortable feeling, a joyous one at that and this allows you to discard the negative aspect of any situation!
Jasmine… Say that last part again.
Seth… And this allows you to discard the negative aspect of any situation! All underlined exclamation point.
Jasmine… Negative aspects of any situation?
Seth… Correct.
Jasmine… Isn’t that like the person looking at the cup half full or half empty? In a way?
Seth… In a way it is like looking at a cup half full or half empty.
Stephanie… But this feels like a camouflage to me. (Stephanie giggled and Frank laughed.)
Seth… It is not a camouflage system because what you are doing in reality saying, “This is something that is going on, my daughter is late.”
Stephanie… Right but you are covering over…
Seth… No, I’m not.
Frank… You have to understand it.
Seth… I am saying, where do I go with that? There is a physical fact, my daughter is late. There is a physical fact my daughter has difficulty with math.
Stephanie… Right.
Seth… Now you have two choices if my daughter Natalie has a problem with mathematics I can become overwhelmingly concerned, fearful that she can’t add properly, or I may look at the idea of she is making progress.
Stephanie… Em hmm.
Seth… Show me how that is a camouflage system?
Stephanie… No, that I do and I understand that but if Jasmine…
Seth… It is the same principle.
Stephanie… is anxious.
Seth… If you are anxious about something…
Stephanie… First you are anxious and then she is going to all of a sudden say, “I hope she is having a good time.”?
Seth… I hope she is having a good time. I am going to go ahead and not proceed along the way in which I normally do. I’m not covering over the hole; I am going to fill it in with something that is more profitable. I am dealing with and understanding that which went on.
Stephanie… Right but that is not her true feeling on the subject.
Seth… Her true feeling will then be different the next time and the next time and the next time. I am not stating that somebody will say, “Oh, she’s late who cares!” I’m stating that the next time Isabella is late, or something happens, “Hmm, nothing happened that was difficult for me therefore I will assume that things may not be as tragic or catastrophe is not lurking around every corner.” So, the more practice you give yourself into being content, happy, the less problems you create for yourself because you are not walking down that road and that is not a camouflage system. That is something that you do to eliminate the grass cloth covering the hole in the ground. Do you understand?
Stephanie… Okay, but it doesn’t mean that what was the precipitous for the unhappiness goes away.
Seth… Of course not. You can’t change her play…
Stephanie… Right so you are just not focusing.
Seth… You don’t become embroiled in it, you let it go.
Frank… You focus on it in a different way.
Stephanie… No, you are not focusing on it at all.
Seth… You are focusing on it but in a positive manner,
Isabella… Can I ask a question? Or do you want to wait for break?
Seth… No, I will pause us now and have the man through whom I speak, pick this up and turn the tape over and then you may ask your question. Is that suitable for you?
Isabella… I can wait for break.
Seth… No, this is perfectly suitable.
Isabella… I just feel… I don’t know what I am feeling. I am feeling a little lost in the forest. No, I’m not, I’m not feeling lost in the forest. I’m just feeling… off and…
Seth… If you are not at center point something is dragging you to the side and therefore you are not at your greatest point of power. What should you do to bring yourself back into focus?
Isabella… Realize what it is.
Seth… Sometimes it may not become apparent for a while.
Isabella… That’s unacceptable.
Seth… No, it is perfectly acceptable. Do you have to deal with something that you are not aware of?
Isabella… No but I don’t like being off.
Seth… I’m not saying that you do. I’m saying that since you do not or cannot put a finger on it.
Isabella… So, my question is this: so, my camouflage system that I set up is to cover up this fear of being alone, obviously.
Seth… One of them, yes.
Isabella… So, and the fact of needing to be taken care of. So…
Seth… It’s all part of the same thing, you do realize that?
Isabella… Yes, and I understand that about myself now, obviously more than I ever have because it’s just comes to the forefront but my question is, why do I attract those kind of men that are so…
Seth… Needy.
Isabella… Yeah, the men are needy! Every single one is needy. Why? Every single one.
Seth… Because what… Need has two faces, someone else needs you…
Isabella… Right.
Seth… they become dependent upon you so that you are not alone.
Isabella… Okay.
Seth… Yet that becomes wearisome.
Isabella… Right.
Seth… So therefore, you become needy, and you depend upon them to take care of you…
Isabella… Okay.
Seth… because this is what you believe is a woman’s role and how you are defining yourself here in terms of roles men to women. Women are taken care of by men.
Isabella… Right.
Seth… If they are taken care of by men therefore, they must be needy because a woman can define herself by whether or not she has a man in her existence instead of (being) dependent upon herself.
Isabella… Okay.
Seth… So therefore, the need works in both directions.
Isabella… Right.
Seth… When you decide and one of the reasons why I have stated to you that learning to live in a community will make you far stronger than living alone.
Isabella… Right.
Seth… When you decide not to be needy you will attract a different class of individuals because that idea is finished. I’m not saying that you shouldn’t depend upon someone for something whatever that thing is.
Isabella… So, what’s the difference because I feel…
Seth… For example, let me give you an example. If for example you were in a relationship whether married, not married it does not matter but that person for example needed for you to pick up their dry-cleaning, that’s not being needy.
Isabella… I understand that.
Seth… Becoming needy is having them do all the housework, becoming needy is having them do all the cooking.
Isabella… I get that.
Seth… It is learning to share without feeling displaced by the sharer.
Isabella… I understand that I have gained from living in the community. I understand that. My question is and I understand that aspect of it and I am just using the Peter situation because it is at the forefront. With him, okay, obviously he is needy; there is no doubt about that even though he will deny that, completely. So, his neediness is then attracting my neediness?
Seth… No, his neediness attracts your needing to care for. Remember there is a spectrum.
Isabella… Yet, in a way I’m still looking for him to care for me too.
Seth… Of course, the more you do for him the more you want him to do for you.
Isabella… Okay.
Seth… And the more he would do for you the less you would have to do for him.
Isabella… Right, but even though he’ll say flat out that he can’t be in a relationship and all this kind of stuff or whatever.
Seth… It’s for your camouflage system that you create; I know I can make him need me. The more I do for him I know he will need me.
Isabella… Okay, but he acts like he needs me in the sense of…
Seth… That is his response. The fact that he is a needy individual, but he will deny that; that’s his camouflage system. (Here we see how camouflage systems can link from one individual to another. FN)
Isabella… Right, he will deny up and down but yet he’ll still want me as the best friend and call me all the time.
Seth… And he will introduce you to his friends, to his family, to his workers.
Isabella… But it is confusing for me.
Seth… It is not confusing to you if you will look at it with a different set of eyes.
Isabella… So how should I look at it with a different set of eyes because I’m looking at it as this idea that…
Seth… Let me ask you the simplest question I can.
Isabella… Em hmm.
Seth… What do you give him?
Isabella… What do I give him?
Seth… Yes, what do you give him?
Isabella… I give him a… reality check! I think I give him a way, a perspective to look at himself unlike anybody…
Seth… Oh, that’s need; you’re fulfilling his need to look at him correctly?
Isabella… Of course, I am, there is no doubt. I’m forcing him to look at himself.
Seth… How wearisome will that become soon?
Isabella… Quite wearisome, same thing with George.
Seth… Why do you continue it?
Isabella… Umm…
Seth… Why do you continue it? … Fear of being alone…
Isabella… (Crying) I know that!
Seth… and not being appreciated.
Isabella… (Crying) I understand that! I know exactly what it is!
Seth… Now you have a choice, do you change or not?
Isabella… So, do I abandon these people?
Seth… No.
Isabella… Like, that’s my question, like so what do I do? I understand he is in a pivotal time in his life, and I understand I can’t be with him romantically and it is inappropriate right now for us to be together and I get all that. So, what do I do? Do I walk away as a friend?
Seth… If you feel that you are giving more than you can receive and at this instance you probably are than you must cut away. If you feel that it is fifty-fifty…
Isabella… Right.
Seth… then it doesn’t matter what you do. If you feel that you are getting much more than you are giving, you better run away.
Isabella… Okay, well that’s definitely (Laughs) not…
Seth… No, do you understand why I make that statement?
Isabella… Yeah, because then I am being taken care of and that is my old pattern.
Seth… Correct. A proper relationship whether it be with a friend meaning male or female, younger or older should be approximately fifty percent, within a reasonable facsimile there of.
(Break. No time was given.)
Seth… Let us continue, are there any questions?
Isabella… Yeah, I have a question so how do you change? You talked about changing instantaneously and I am not saying that is the right move for me but if I wanted to do that because I am so sick…
Seth… Where is your greatest point of power?
Isabella… Right now. Right now.
Seth… On center.
Isabella… Right.
Seth… You’re not being pulled to this idea or that idea, your greatest point of power is centerfold- now! And so, when you move yourself back to where your greatest point of power is and when you see instances like this that you have been describing you don’t go there, you observe it, simple.
Isabella… What do you mean by that?
Seth… For example, the individual who decides to stop smoking because they know it is bad for their health, they don’t like the way they smell, people who criticize them. Well, the greatest success rate they have is the individuals say I am not going to smoke and that is the end of it.
Isabella… Okay, so they cut themselves off cold turkey.
Seth… So, they bring themselves back to center, this is what I know, this is how I am going to do it and that’s ending it. That’s an instantaneous change.
Isabella… Okay, so saying to myself, I am finished with these needy people…
Seth… I will not deal with them; if they approach me, they’re gone.
Isabella… Which is kind of what I did with this guy last night… right? How is that any different?
Seth… I’m not saying it is different, but I am saying the idea is that when you make a break with an individual, you say this does not suit me and that is the end of it.
Seth… Are there any other questions?
Frank… Yeah, I have a question. When you use the term camouflage pattern to mean information or energy that goes from one system to another and how it translates into that system, how is that similar to this idea? Where is the connection, these are different concepts, you are just using different terms? (Actually, the same term for what Frank perceives as two different concepts.)
Seth… I am using as many different terms as I can to force you to think. (The important point is “to force you to think.”)
Frank… Okay, so the fact that I just even thought about that is enough?
Seth… Correct. Anything else?
Frank… It’s just confusing.
Seth… I am.
Are there any other questions?
Frank… Can you give an example of the examination of the happy feeling from the inside out?
Seth… When you determine happiness, you look at something that expresses joy that expresses a feeling of contentment. In other words, the idea of looking at a beautiful sunset fills one inside with the beauty of The All There Is and what he/she created. So that is looking from then inside out. Do you understand?
Frank… Yeah.
Seth… Are there any other questions?
Let me leave you with the following then, first to our friend Frank, you will type up the last two sessions, this one and last week’s.
Frank… Ah gee, I was only going to volunteer for this one. (Laughter.)
Seth… So, you now have two.
Frank… Okay.
Seth… Change itself is the process of discovering your delusions, uncovering your camouflage systems so that your core perceptions become visible. You will then be able to fulfill your needs and let your wants disappear. Choose to discover happiness, examine it. Heal your own wounds that are old and tiresome. Change that which you dislike and let yourself become part of that which you desire.
A hardy good evening to all.
(Session ended at 10:01 P.M.)
Happy Memory Meditation
Before beginning the meditation, recall and choose a happy or pleasant memory. It could be as simple as an ice cream cone you enjoyed or a pleasurable childhood memory. Do not pick a memory that has complications for you. For example, you might not want to choose a memory of meeting a boyfriend when you have just broken up!
Find a comfortable sitting position, close your eyes, and observe your breath. Notice how this is relaxing and meditative in and of itself.
Now remember the happy memory and play it back to yourself like a movie. See the scenes, hear the sounds, even smell the smells if this fits. Bring this memory into the now and feel all the pleasant and happy feeling tones associated with it. Observe and enjoy this.
Now, step away from this for a moment by simply observing your breath.
Return to the pleasant feelings, re-generating them but without the memory.
Enjoy this for a while. What else comes up for you?