Probable Realities
by Bob Makransky

The theory of probable realities can provide us with a good intuitive idea of how astrology works, and what its limitations are. The idea of probable realities, if not the term itself, has become a common theme in popular culture in recent years. For example, the novel The French Lieutenant’s Woman and the films The Family Man and Sliding Doors can be considered allegories for how events happen to the same protagonist in different probable realities. Gary Zukov’s book The Dancing Wu Li Masters summarizes the theory of probable realities as follows:

“The orthodox interpretation of quantum mechanics is that only one of the possibilities contained in the wave function of an observed system actualizes, and the rest vanish. The Everett-Wheeler-Graham theory says that they all actualize, but in different worlds that coexist with ours! … “According to the Everett-Wheeler-Graham theory, at the moment the wave function ‘collapses,’ the universe splits into two worlds. … There are two distinct editions of me. Each one of them is doing something different, and each one of them is unaware of the other. Nor will their (our) paths ever cross since the two worlds into which the original one split are forever separate branches of reality.”¹

It might be argued that even if probable realities do exist on a level of subatomic particles, that doesn’t necessarily imply that they exist for humans – at least not in any consciously accessible or meaningful way.² However, this is precisely what astrology is all about. Astrology doesn’t seek to examine and measure accomplished events (although sometimes it can do this) so much as tendencies and potentials.

Probable realities are not a question of the size of the particle involved. Rather, they are a question of the nature of time itself. Time is not how we perceive it to be in our normal, everyday consciousness.³ Although human perception and cognition make sense to humans, the universe itself doesn’t make sense in a way that humans believe.

Where materialistic science sees time as linear, astrology sees time as rhythmic, as an emanation consisting of birth – death – rebirth. What we see as linear time is but one way of apprehending this emanation, which is useful for certain purposes but is a terrible distortion of what time really is. We apprehend time as linear because our thinking is linear, and we are constantly thinking-thinking-thinking from the moment we wake up in the morning until the moment we go to sleep at night. Animals and human babies don’t apprehend time in this fashion, and neither did ancient human hunter-gatherers. Time is not linear, but to see this directly one has to stop thinking. Materialistic science measures points and intervals along a well-ordered continuum, whereas astrology measures cycles upon cycles. The moment of birth can be viewed as a point along a linear continuum, as it is in materialistic science; or, conversely, it can be viewed as a stage in the unfoldment of potentialities on various levels – i.e. as the intersection of many different interpenetrating cycles, as it is in astrology. Astrology can identify decisive points in which things could go – or could have gone – this way or that.

A good intuitive description of what probable realities are all about is found in the Seth books by Jane Roberts:

“In your daily life at any given moment of your time, you have a multitudinous choice of actions, some trivial and some of utmost importance. … It seems to you that reality is composed of those actions that you choose to take. Those that you choose to deny are ignored. … If you wanted to be a doctor and are now in a different profession, then in some other probable reality you are a doctor. If you have abilities that you are not using here, they are being used elsewhere. … These probable selves, however, are a portion of your identity or soul, and if you are out of contact with them it is only because you focus upon physical events and accept them as the criteria for reality.”⁴

Practically everyone has experienced bleed-throughs from other probable realities into this one at one time or another, without realizing what they were experiencing. Wistful longings; quasi-memories or presentiments; events which produce a deja-vu-like sense of connectedness to another “me” in a similar but different reality; are often feeling connections with other probable realities. Once when I was deeply in love with a certain person, I went to a party expecting and hoping that she would be there. While she never came physically, I could feel her presence there beside me the whole time. My guidance later explained this sensation to me as follows:

“What keeps you glued into one track or lifetime is the sense of familiarity. To break that track is to feel all your lifetimes and probable realities at once, just like you felt C.’s presence at that party in another probable reality. That’s an example of how you can have two different memories of the same event: going to the party with C., and going to the same party without her.” Me: “Did the same things happen at both parties?”

“Yes. Eduardo sang at both parties, but not the same songs. What do you think, stupid? Of course different things happened at both parties. That’s not the point. The point is that life consists of feelings. You can only get to those feelings directly by getting past the screen of thought forms of importance and familiarity that hide them. There was a feeling at that party. Remember when you suddenly felt that you had to return immediately, and you jumped up and raced out of the party without even saying goodbye to anyone, and when you got to the pier – by a weird turn of events – you missed the last boat back to Panajachel? And the next day you learned that it was at that precise moment that C. had left for Mexico?”

Me: “How will I ever forget it?”

“You were dreaming then, you know. That event didn’t occur in normal, waking consciousness. Or rather, it did, but didn’t. Does that explain it? You know that things like what happened to you that day don’t occur in real life. They only occur in dreams. You were dreaming that day.”

According to the theory of probable realities, every single desire and memory that we have or have ever had creates unto itself an entire probable reality. Every feeling is an entire universe. Everything we desire creates an entire world in which that desire is realized – i.e., every desire creates its own future. We don’t desire something for the future, or in the future; but rather the future only exists as there is a desire reaching out to it and creating it. And our minds choose which possible future to go with, out of all the possible futures.

Similarly with memories. Every memory is a thought form record⁵ of an entire universe (a decision we have made). We believe that we have had a linear personal history – a series of events which began at birth and led up to where we are right now – and from here we will have a linear future. And there is one “me” who has had this personal history and who is going to have this personal future.

In fact, there are infinite number of “me’s” who had an infinite number of probable pasts, and there are an infinite number of “me’s” who will have an infinite number of possible futures. The action of mind is to select a path going backward and forward: it selects one particular set of memories going back, and one particular set of desires going forward, out of the culture and Zeitgeist (i.e., thought forms) it finds at hand.

All of the thought form material that’s left over – all of the “could have beens” and “might have beens” and “should have beens” – are the probable realities for a given lifetime (and are in fact consciously accessible via a technique similar to past life regressions).⁶ Probable realities are parallel lifetimes which branch off from this one at each point where a decision, large or small, is made. That is why we must stand by our decisions; otherwise we are draining the energy we need in this lifetime to realize our true desires off into other probable realities. Probable realities are no more nor less real than this lifetime. There are always probable realities in which we get (or got) what we want (or wanted). Mind picks which probable reality to go with from the smorgasbord of possibilities.

For example, consider a person diagnosed as having some fatal disease (e.g. AIDS). The person chooses a moment in which a doctor says to him, “You have AIDS; you’re going to die”, and he makes that thought form of fear into an overwhelming belief when he could as easily – after the initial fear – just laugh it off and refuse in his heart to believe it. But instead, he makes the thought form into an overwhelming belief by assigning tremendous importance to it, and he then carries that belief through the rest of that probable reality.

At the moment the doctor said, “You have AIDS”, another probable reality branched off in which the doctor said, “You don’t have AIDS”. These two probable realities interact on each other: in the AIDS branch, there is a wistful longing for the non-AIDS branch; and in the non-AIDS branch, a constant fear of the AIDS branch. The wistfulness of the AIDS branch may send messages to the non-AIDS branch like: “Enjoy your health! Appreciate what you have!” And the non-AIDS branch may send messages to the AIDS branch saying, “Cheer up! Life has its bright side too!”

If at any moment the AIDS patient realized that the AIDS is just a belief he could change – only a reality that he is creating by believing it every moment – then at that instant it would collapse and the person would be cured. But this becomes harder and harder to do as the person becomes “sicker and sicker”; i.e. believes more and more in his sickness, thus making it into an overwhelming reality (of course, this is a greatly oversimplified example; what is really going on out there in the universe is far more complex and infinitely ramified than anything the human mind could ever conceive of).

Which probable reality we find ourselves in at any given moment is largely a function of what conscious choices we are making for ourselves, or else what conceptual thought forms we are letting live our lives for us.

Consider, for example, a desire for joy. Suppose our mind has attached to that desire the thought form of “getting a raise”. Since most of us have thought forms working at cross purposes, there are various probable realities in which that basic “getting a raise” thought form could be physically realized. If we truly feel in our hearts that we deserve the raise because we’ve done a good job and we want our world to reflect our joy in accomplishment, then we’ll take a probable reality branch in which we receive the raise and are joyous about it. However, if in our hearts we know we don’t deserve the raise but are only desiring it for our own glory, then we can either take a probable reality branch in which we get the raise and feel false joy about it, or else we don’t get the raise and feel disappointed about it. In the latter two cases our true feelings are trying to steer us to true joy by making us feel shame (false joy or disappointment). Just because we block the natural action of the feeling with our thought forms doesn’t mean that the feeling isn’t still operative and calling all the shots; all it means is that we experience the joyous impulse as shame rather than joy.

In the above example, all three probable realities are equally real. Which one we choose for this lifetime (this personal history) is a function of which choice of the three we decide to make for this lifetime: one choice we make by going along with our true feelings, and the other two we make by going along with our glory thought forms, at the moment when the universe pops the possibility of getting a raise up before our eyes.

A child’s anger at a deceased parent for having abandoned him; a woman’s feeling of guilt for having been raped; a parent’s self-recrimination for an unavoidable accident suffered by her child; are all valid feelings because those probable realities were indeed chosen in preference to happier ones. For example, the parent whose child died in an accident, who spends weeks thereafter ruminating on “If I hadn’t done this … ” and “If I’d only done that …” is actually reviewing all her decisions (branching points into other probable realities) which led up to this reality.

Some psychologists believe that it is infantile for a child to blame himself when his parents divorce; yet the child is absolutely correct: he chose that probable reality. This is what is meant by “taking responsibility for our already-made decisions” or “taking responsibility for the situation in which we find ourselves”; because that is what we have chosen for ourselves: that is our intent – the place we have to start from. In Viktor Frankl’s book about his experiences in Auschwitz, Man’s Search for Meaning⁷, he described the various opportunities he had to leave the concentration camp or to obtain advantages which, had he accepted any one of them, would have led to his death. And the chain of events – the miracle – which led to his ultimate survival was the decision he made at each branch point to consider the needs of his patients above his own needs.

The sum total of all the probable realities which branch off from a person’s present lifetime is what William Butler Yeats termed the “Body of Fate.”⁸ This is what the astrological horoscope shows. Attempts to use the natal horoscope to describe what Yeats termed “Will” – the precise series of events which occur and occurred in this present lifetime – often lead to incorrect predictions. The person’s birth horoscope is valid for all of his or her probable realities rather than for any particular one of them. The birth horoscope shows tendencies, propensities, possibilities; but not facts. Exact prediction is sometimes possible when there are lots of indications pointing the same way – e.g. lots of Uranus transits and directions happening about the same time, which indicates sudden and unexpected shakeups in the life. But the only way to make exact predictions in the normal course of an astrological reading is to use intuition. This is the only way to cut across all the possibilities and get down to the one that will be chosen for this present life history. And this is done by reading the client – by psychically anticipating his or her already-made subconscious decisions – not by astrology.⁹

All probable realities for a particular lifetime start from the same birth moment: they are all variations on a theme begun at the same moment in time. Astrology merely suggests; it doesn’t command. All astrology per se shows or ever can show is the wind speed and direction at a given moment, but not where the leaf will land. There is always a greater or lesser element of chance involved. Astrology doesn’t have the mechanistic surety of physics or chemistry, and it never will. All claims of exact astrological prediction that I have investigated have proven false.¹⁰ Exact prediction is only possible by using inspired intuition or psychic ability.

The existence of probable realities means that even physics and chemistry are not and can never be as mechanistic as materialistic scientists would like. We astrologers must not make the mistake of the materialists, falling for their incorrect assumptions about the nature of reality (in particular that time is linear).¹¹ We are not unitary beings who live our lives in linear sequence, but rather infinitely ramified “waves” who can only remember one single line of personal history at a time (although our memory can be expanded to include probable realities using a technique similar to past life regressions).

I am a devotee of the astrological technique of primary directions. I’ve always found these directions to be pretty accurate, particularly the conjunctions, and therefore I’ve always been puzzled about why the converse direction of Neptune to my Ascendant in the fall of 1980 produced no event whatever.

  About the only thing that was happening in my life then was that I was eleven years into an unhappy marriage which was progressively deteriorating and would end nine years later; and I had a three-year-old son.  Then an extremely attractive (Leo rising), single, hard-working and dedicated, witchy Scorpio woman, whose natal moon precisely conjoined my natal sun and who fulfilled every image I had of what I wanted in a woman, moved into town.

  Looking back it’s kind of funny:  my wife met her before I did and, being very psychic, she immediately picked up the vibe – meeting this woman really raised her hackles. Anyway, from the beginning this woman and I were super turned-on by each other.  She came onto me big-time and made little effort to conceal her feelings.  I was torn to pieces, since although I would readily have dumped my wife in a second – even if this woman hadn’t appeared – I couldn’t justify to myself abandoning my son. It got so bad that I purposely avoided this woman whenever I could because being in her presence forced me to stifle impulses that were raging out of control.  I have never had to clamp down upon myself so hard in all my life. Eventually, a few months later, she moved away and that was that.  The marriage continued downhill, two more kids were born, and in the end we split up.

So, not much of an event that I can point to happened at that time to correspond to the Neptune direction to my Ascendant. But my guidance has told me that there is another probable reality in which I did abandon my son and leave with this other woman. This present probable reality, in which I stayed with my wife and son, is no more nor less real than the probable reality in which I left with the other woman. And the birth horoscope is an indicator of all possible probable realities:  the chart of the “me” who stayed with my wife is the same as the chart of the “me” who left with the other woman. So, if this is true, then at least the Neptune conjunct Ascendant direction worked in the probable reality in which I left (if not in this one, in which I stayed).  

Then recently I was channeling to ask the question of whether I’d made the right decision in staying with my wife, since the thing fell apart in the end anyway. And this is what my guidance told me:  “It wouldn’t have mattered. That’s something you still haven’t figured out – that there’s no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’; all there are, are different decisions, different lessons to learn, none of which ultimately matter in the least. That was a great sacrifice you made for your son, which he’ll never understand or appreciate, but which definitely made you a far more selfless person – hence a better father and husband, and a more spiritual person. You lost a lot of selfishness on that one. And, if you’d left with K., it wouldn’t have been any bed of roses either. That’s what the Neptune conjunct Ascendant – which you’ve never understood – means.  In some probable realities you left with K. In this one you made a tremendous sacrifice for the sake of another person, which put you squarely on the spiritual path.  Or another way of putting it is:  splitting with K. may or may not have destroyed your chances for spiritual advancement, just as leaving the ranch (a job I hated but which I sensed was a spiritual test); or leaving during the guerrilla war (another test: a situation in which I never knew from one day to the next who would show up to kill me, but which my guidance told me to stick out) might or might not have destroyed your spiritual aspirations.  But staying in your marriage – honoring the commitment you had made to your son (and wife) – definitely moved you forward on the spiritual path. Shirking your responsibilities and taking the easy way out would have left you right where you were. And that’s what Neptune conjunct Ascendant meant.”

Will the human race be able to save itself in the coming century, let alone prosper? Or will it self-destruct and drag the planet down with it? There are probable realities which go either way. Which one of these we find ourselves in – or place our children in – depends upon which one we choose for ourselves.

We call the outer circumstances of our lives – the situations and relationships in which we find ourselves – for some reason; and we can also change that reason if only we don’t lose sight of (feeling for) the ultimate goal. This means reaching out to probable realities in which there is joy, no matter how improbable they may seem at the moment, rather than to ones which will only reinforce our self-pity and self-hatred. Hope is the fuel that propels desire forward. This means faith not in ultimate success, but in ultimate self-worth.

(Originally published in Dell Horoscope magazine, November 2007. All rights reserved)

About the Author: Bob Makransky is a systems analyst, computer programmer, and professional astrologer. Bob lives on a farm in highland Guatemala where he is a Mayan priest and head of the local blueberry growers’ association. His website is www.dearbrutus.com. To subscribe to Bob’s free monthly astro-magical ezine, send an e-mail to: MagicalAlmanac-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Notes

• ¹ Gary Zukov, The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Bantam 1980 page 83
• ² Gary Zukov, op.cit., page 87
• ³ Our normal, everyday consciousness is a highly distorted view of how things actually are. Our sense of the passage of time, for example, is a socialized phenomenon, whose distortions become apparent when we enter altered states of consciousness. Indeed, the slowing down of time is a good definition of “altered state of consciousness.” For example, in life-threatening situations, such as while we are having an automobile accident or during a big earthquake, time slows way down. We can see everything that is happening with great clarity, in great detail, as if it were unfolding in slow motion. This slow motion perception of time is closer to the truth. It is closer to how babies experience time: more like dream time perception and less like our adult, gloss-over-things-quickly-and-superficially-and-not-pay-much-attention-to-what-is-going-on-around-us perception of time. However, we are incapable of acting in the normal way in this slow motion perception of time because we can’t think. If we are going to act or react in this frame of mind, we can only do so on intent, on our gut-level instinct, not on thought. Therefore the slow motion perception is not as useful in performing all the humdrum tasks of everyday life as is adult time perception.
• ⁴ Jane Roberts, Seth Speaks, Bantam NYC 1974 page 256
• ⁵ “Thought forms” can be defined as monads or homunculi of awareness; momentary observer / observed dualities. There are two kinds of thought forms: “sensory thought forms” which consist of sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and feelings; and “conceptual thought forms” which consist of thoughts. We are born with sensory thought forms (we are born knowing how to see, hear, smell, taste, and feel); conceptual thought forms are everything we have learned since birth from our parents and society. Conceptual thought forms are similar to what some cognitive theorists have termed “memes” (cf. Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene, Oxford NYC 1976 p 192 ff, and Daniel Dennett’s Consciousness Explained, Penguin London 1991 p 200 ff); and other theorists have termed “schema control units” (cf. Michael Gazzaniga-Richard Ivry-George Mangun, Cognitive Neuroscience, Norton NYC 1998 p 458 ff).
• ⁶ The past life regression entry technique given on www.dearbrutus.com => Past Life Regressions, and in this and next month’s editions of Magical Almanac, can be adapted to viewing probable realities as well. When you are “up in the sky”, intend (ask) to come back down into whatever probable reality you wish to examine. This technique can also be run off into the future, to view the probable result of making a decision. For example, to see what it would be like if you married a certain person, use the past life entry technique to access the probable reality in which you are married to this person. This technique is really, really easy to do.
• ⁷ Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning, Beacon Press Boston 1963
• ⁸ William Butler Yeats, A Vision, Collier NYC 1966 page 83 ff.
• ⁹ You can psychically probe a client at a distance; even one you’ve never met. But this is intuition, not astrology, although the practice of astrology sharpens intuition. See Intuition in Astrology – The Sunshine House System, posted at www.dearbrutus.com => Makransky Miscellany => Astrology Articles.
• ¹⁰ Bob Makransky, Inexact Astrology, appendix to the book Primary Directions (available as a free download from www.dearbrutus.com. This book also explains the primary directions described in this article).
• ¹¹ Time is not linear. Rather, everything that has ever happened and ever will happen, in all past and future lives and probable realities (what William Butler Yeats termed “Mask”), is all going on at once, in an eternal now moment. Linear time is an illusion, similar to the illusion of motion produced by the series of still pictures which make up a movie. Babies (and even young children, who sometimes talk about memories from other lifetimes) are not as centered in a one-track existence as adults are. Babies and young children are consciously impinged upon by influences from other lives and probable realities which most adults have learned to ignore. The same socialization process which props up a baby’s sense of being a unitary, abiding, separated individual also imprisons that individual in a furrow of inexorable linear temporality. For more information see Bob Makransky, Thought Forms, Dear Brutus Press 2000.

“At one time I waded through the river and at one time crossed the mountain. You may think that that mountain and that river are things of the past, that I have left them behind and am now living in this palatial building – they are as separate from me as heaven is from earth.

“However, the truth has another side. When I climbed the mountain and crossed the river, I was time. …. I have always been; time cannot leave me. When time is not regarded as a phenomenon which ebbs and flows, the time I climbed the mountain is the present moment of being-time. When time is not thought of as coming and going, this moment is absolute time for me. …

“Do not regard time as merely flying away; do not think that flying away is its sole function. For time to fly away there would have to be a separation between it and things. Because you imagine that time only passes, you do not learn the truth of being-time. In a word, every being in the entire world is a separate time in one continuum. And since being is time, I am my being-time. Time has the quality of passing, so to speak, from today to tomorrow, from today to yesterday, from yesterday to today, from today to today, from tomorrow to tomorrow. Because this passing is a characteristic of time, present time and past time do not overlap or impinge upon one another.” – Dogen-zenji, from Three Pillars of Zen by Philip Kapleau, Beacon Press Boston 1967

Lunar Comfort
by Chuck Aaron

At thirty-thousand feet I saw the light,
and as I watched something in me shifted.
Past memories came flooding through the night:
Hazy recollections to be sifted.

I stared in awe and sat there paralyzed,
enraptured by the sight of it so full
With lunar energy that hypnotized
and drew me into her magnetic pull.

And suddenly I stood upon the sand
in Roman armor ready for the fight.
I'd battled far from home into this land
and calmed myself with this familiar sight.

And then I was again upon the plane,
still focused from my window to the East.
I’m now a serf who harvests moonlit grain
preparing for the end-of-summer feast.

I've grown to love the moon when she appears,
renewed with fullness to her boldest phase.
She’s given steady comfort through the years
when heavenward I redirect my gaze.

Sweet Blob of Mine
by Tom Chez

In a cold dark corner, deep in my mind
Lies a blob of energy planted in time
Which came first, who's to say
Its just one part of an eternal play

Just by chance, I happen to find
A similar feeling cross my mind
Within its grip I began to sway
In a moment of weakness I joined the fray

Calling to me from a place so deep
My anger engaged, I began to weep
Coloring my perceptions in a peculiar way
With a weight so heavy it gloomed my day

Even my logic, so prized within
Wasn't immune to its terrible grin
First came a thought, then a voice of doubt
I couldn't be silent I began to shout

"I know better, way down inside
My life has truth that I can't hide"
But these feelings were stronger then I seemed to be
So I had to run, I had to flee

A voice so strong a voice so sweet
Came to me in my retreat
"You think you're stranded" it did say
"You feel helpless in your own way"

As I pondered, these words within
The fog shifted, it began to thin
Such a beautiful sight to see it shown
The problem's secret to me was known

That blob of energy, it was my own
Dancing at one time to my feeling tone
But issues so young, issues so old
Thrown in the corner it began to mold

Words so harsh and actions untold
Dampened my spirit so I was not bold
A sense of trust I could not find
My self-worth I had left behind

What happens next, I cannot say
Will my actions see the light of day?
And to rest, this issue I will set
Honoring myself, my challenge now met

The Contrary Self Part 1: Wonderful, Wondering Ways… and Wolves!

Excerpted from Session #112, August 3, 2007 (click here for PDF version)

The contrary self will indeed interest many, as we suggest your contrary selves are who you are when you’re not trying to be anyone. We will explain.

The contrary self wants nothing more than to allow you to thrive in ways that you hadn’t discovered before, for your contrary self wants only to trust you with yourself. We suggest your contrary self is indeed a most trustworthy friend who wants nothing but your happiness, for your contrary self will always be there to provide you what you need, and not always what you will want.

Wants and desires

Take into consideration your way of always wanting things. We suggest you need things as well, and you want the things you need, so you don’t need to fear your wanting of things, for your needs are met in this manner. You want things, also, that you wouldn’t need in any sense of your word, and you want them just because you want them. You want what you can’t get, always, and that’s never a bad thing in itself, for you simply can’t have everything, nor would you really want to have everything. We suggest you would indeed never have it all, nor do you expect to have it all, so you want things knowing you’ll never have all of them. This would indeed be a healthy expression, for you will always want things, and there would indeed be nothing wrong with that.

Therefore, your wants are nothing to hide from or fear, as they are natural parts of your lives. The wants only become unruly when they dominate your needs, and the way you would know wants are unruly, in this respect, is that you would indeed be fearful and unhappy. We trust you know what we mean, and we will only add that if you don’t know if you’re fearful or unhappy, then you probably are, and you would know why. You would only need to ask yourself, and let yourself know why, for the way of spirit would indeed assist you in finding your happiness, as is your right.

The contrary self, therefore, allows you trust in yourself to discover your wants and whether or not they are unnecessary. We suggest that your contrary self will let you in on his or her secrets in a number of ways. There are many secrets the contrary self employs to find your fears and your wants that result from fear. He or she will make you see them in a very big way. We would like to point you towards an example that you will find most helpful, that you have perhaps experienced on a daily basis.

Imagine yourself in a store full everything you would ever want, with fine things such as foods, articles of apparel, anything you can imagine. It is a most beautiful store. Your desires would all participate in stocking your shelves with things that you want the most, as these are the things that will point towards your way of spirit. We suggest you allow yourself to interest yourself in stocking the shelves with things that are very specific. We will wait.

Now, we suggest trust yourself to choose the things that you truly desire. We will distinguish these as articles of apparel, many protective beliefs, a stock in trade, a many splendored relationship, a very nice home; we trust you know what we mean. Some things will point themselves out as those that you want only because you fear. And in this, trust that you’ll find ways to identify these and connect intentionally with true desires. In this, the way you would choose what is wanted and what is not wanted because it is a fear-based decision, not an intentional one, is in trusting self.

The trust you have in yourself would indeed be a many-pronged device for choosing the items you would desire, and your desires would be the important thing, for your desires are aligned with your intent. We suggest you would know immediately which things would be aligned most of all with your intent and which aren’t. We suggest you trust yourself to know through your intuition, through your body signals, through your imagining what you would do with your item. We suggest there are many ways to know what things you truly desire by merely trusting your inner senses.

The way you would know what things would not be trustworthy, desired things would be to trust your contrary self. We will explain.

The contrary self will help you understand the difference between wants and desires

The contrary self, when you allow yourself to trust her—and we are using the feminine pronoun to make a point—directs you towards your desires and nothing more. We suggest that your contrary self makes itself known like a lonely she-wolf who finds you and wants to keep you alive. Your contrary she-wolf self would indeed respond to you like a she-bitch protecting her cubs, for that’s exactly what her purpose would be. We suggest your mother wolf would make herself known to you in your most intimate way, for she would indeed be your protector in which you would trust to point your way to your desires by making a racket when you don’t heed your intent.

You would know when your contrary self is making a racket, for she would make such a fuss that you wouldn’t be able to ignore her. We suggest you trust your contrary self rather than block her, for she will know what you want out of fear, as opposed to what you desire in the most intentional way. We would like to point you towards your contrary self in order to gain each others’ trust again, for you have lost your protector, she has lost her master, and you would both indeed make a very good couple again and need a wonderful reunion.

The contrary self would indeed find a home in your store and she would make a racket in any way she could in order to point out your wants versus your desires. We suggest your wants may need sontering [see Breathe in Your Essence (Sontering)], indeed, as you would need to know what you were choosing. We suggest that for our purposes we will use the term “wants” to mean your things that you do not include in your intent, and those that you do include in your intent would be your truest desires.

The way you would allow your contrary self to relate your fears and wants would be to pay attention. We suggest you may want an item and your contrary self would make a racket in ways that you would find most interesting. We suggest she would make your car break down, make you find ways to limit your choices, make wonderful looks for you such as a pimple appear on your face in time for a meeting, make a wonderful prospective relationship go up in flames by making a wonderful mess of a date, and other ways such as pronounced hiccups, imaginary flights of fancy that you need to find reasons to not do something, and a myriad ways to allow you to question your actions.

We suggest your way of knowing would be to imagine yourself stranded on a desert island with your wolf contrary self, whiling away your days with her. We suggest she would be the one that would alert you to your island spiders, your finding of your water, your ways of acquiring food, your wonderful raft-building materials, and so on. We suggest you would indeed want your wolf with you at all times in order to while away your days as well, for your contrary self will indeed be your most fun companion. We will explain.

The contrary self is the best friend you could want

The way your trickster contrary self incorporates your understanding in some ways can seem cruel, but the point is that you would indeed do well to take yourselves less seriously. We suggest that you would indeed thrive in many ways would you only laugh at yourselves more. We suggest your trickster contrary self will help you do this. We would like to point you towards your trickster self in order to help you sonter your world in ways that would be most joyous, and would like to make a few introductions in order to do so.

To make friends with your contrary self, we suggest that you would need first to imagine yourself on your desert island. We suggest that you would only need your contrary self along for company. What would you discuss with her? Would you allow her to hear your greatest fears? We expect you would, for you are alone with her on a desert island, so you would only have her to confide in. Do so, for your contrary self already knows your deepest fears, so why would you not allow yourself to come clean with them? We suggest that you would indeed trust your contrary self with your fears and your desires as well.

We suggest she would interest you in your fears as well, for while she would indeed be a great listener, she’s already a part of you, so why would she not share your fears with you? We suggest that she would indeed interest you in ways that you wouldn’t necessarily appreciate, in your terms, for you would indeed not want to know about your fears. But the way of spirit includes your fears, and you must know your fears in order to acknowledge them and make your way past them. We suggest your contrary self knows your deepest fears and would be happy to share them with you in ways that you would find painful at times, but would point the way towards your fulfillment. We suggest that your contrary self would howl at your moon for many lazy nights, and would stalk your moon in order to lay your fears before it and upon your universe so as to allow you to find a way to accept them.

Does the thought of a wolf laying your fears before your moon make your skin crawl just a bit? We expect that your way of fearing yourself would indeed be interesting you in your Halloween spooks, for your fears are indeed celebrated at your Midfall feasts. We would indeed trust you to consider your contrary selves every spooky and scary version of yourself, and you would indeed be well to trust your spooks and scary parts of yourself to thrive, for you would indeed benefit. We will continue.

The contrary self is at the service of your beautiful selves in the way of spirit

We trust you would indeed find a variety of useful purposes for your contrary self. We suggest your scary contrary self isn’t so scary—your fears are—and she would indeed help you past them if you let her. Trust that when you find yourself in fear, your contrary self will be there to calm you by making you remember your truly wonderful, flawed, human self…who indeed would only be perfect if you let them… indeed not! For the contrary self would indeed love and trust you no matter how you look, how you act, how you interest yourself, how your very bones would love to at times crawl under the ground and die. For your fear of death, indeed, would be a most important fear that you would interest yourself in allowing, and you would be wise to trust your wonderful contrary self to help you. We will explain.

We suggest that your biggest fear is, in many ways, your fear of death. The way of spirit does not include death, and all the same, you still fear that you will leave your physical bodies incompletely having fulfilled your agenda. You are incorrect in this fear, and you could allow yourself to trust yourself, but you don’t. We suggest that your contrary self will indeed allow you to confront your fear of death in many ways: by allowing your reactions to death to unfold in ways you wouldn’t notice if you didn’t know your contrary self. Your horrors on television are a good way to confront your fear of death, and your many movies of horrific images, and you would do well to confront your fears in the way you watch them. We suggest that, rather than squeamishly holding your hands to your eyes, that you open them so as to sonter your horrible ways in life and learn to accept them. We suggest your contrary self allows your images to intrude upon your fairy tale lives in ways that help you, in spite of your ways of thinking, to confront your fears. The way you would do that is, in spite of your fears, to look at your fears in ways that you would find accepting.

The way you would trust yourself to confront your fears would be with your contrary selves’ assistance. We suggest you would have a most resourceful wolf weaning you of your fears. We would indeed trust you to know what her tricks are. We suggest that whenever you sense your world is falling apart, you would indeed have your wolf of contrariness winningly making your events happen, and we suggest you allow her a very wide berth, for your interest in your ways of spirit will be a sometimes treacherous path.

We suggest you would benefit from accepting your lives as they are, and not allowing yourselves to fear your lives because they’re not perfectly suited to your wants. We suggest your lives, while you interest yourself in desires that would indeed suit your intent, would indeed benefit from your acceptance of your fears, and your contrary self would indeed trust you in your precious attention to her. We suggest you laugh with her in whatever way you can. By interesting yourself in your contrary self, you make yourself a very happy individual.

We suggest you wake up and smell the dog fur.

We love you,
Rose

The Garden of Life
Barbara Ziegler

The moonlight dances upon my skin
Reaching a place I have never been
My toes clinging to the damp felt grass
The tunnel of memories ceases to pass.

All time is now…and so life is but still
Connected to all…hear the joyful trill
With quiet peace and soft tranquility
Hums a song charged with electricity.

The world forever endlessly changing
Many sown seeds found newly germinating
Enter the passage of life’s fullest blooming
Ending their cycles with a contented withering.

While others still find they can only hide
Not far from those fallen by the wayside
A place of fertile ground they sadly bide
Awaiting the wash of a more bountiful tide.

Their promise of potential they never do meet
Never flowering…placing their roots as defeat
Basking in countless worries of dread and lament
Remaining unable to be happy…content.

We must help to replant those who never did sprout
How to be a flower in the sun with no doubt
Nor worrying when the rain will fall from above
Watering their spirits with kindness and love.

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What is reincarnation? To begin with, reincarnation does not take place within a matrix of linear time. It’s not as if e.g. you had a life in ancient Greece and then you died; then you had a life in ancient Rome and then you died; then you had a life in the Middle Ages and then you died; etc. Rather, all of your past and future lives are going on at once, in an eternal NOW moment.

Think of it like this: survivors of near-death experiences often report seeing all the events that ever happened to them flash by them in no time at all. Thus it would seem that we experience the thought forms of our lives twice – once in linear fashion over a lifetime, and the second time around in timeless fashion at the moment of death.

In an analogous manner, while there is indeed an evolution going on in the universe, this evolution is not taking place in linear time: it’s all happening at once. Space and time have no objective existence. They are merely cognitive tools which evolved as sentient beings evolved, to enable them to focus upon one thing at a time instead of everything at once. The linearity of time is an illusion, a falsehood, which Eastern philosophers have termed maya or samsara. It is this false appearance that there is such a thing as an objective reality out there unfolding in linear time, which animates the striving of all sentient beings and keeps the wheel of reincarnation – of life and death and rebirth – turning.

Babies (and even young children, who sometimes talk about memories from other lifetimes) are not as centered in a one-track existence as adults are. Babies and young children are consciously impinged upon by influences from other lives and probable realities which most adults have learned to ignore. The same socialization process which props up a baby’s sense of being a unitary, abiding, separated individual also imprisons that individual in a furrow of inexorable linear temporality.

For most people, 99.9% of decisions are made on the basis of socially-conditioned actions and reactions – what they were taught by their parents and society. But every now and then everyone has poignant moments – moments of consciousness or conscientiousness or conscience – when they sense that probable realities are branching off this way or that; or they feel echoes from other lifetimes and realities; or they hear voices from deep inside them. When this happens people feel connected to something more profound than their customary hustle and bustle; and that something is their true purpose in this lifetime – the reason they were born.

Nobel laureate William Butler Yeats’ masterpiece A Vision (channeled by his wife) explains the true nature of reincarnation – what it really is and how it really works. Starting this coming month Magical Almanac, Bob Makransky’s free monthly ezine of astrology and magic, will be presenting a six-article series which explains the theory of reincarnation as described in A Vision. This series includes complete instructions for safe and easy techniques you can use on your own to run past life regressions and probable reality progressions; and to recapitulate memories from your present lifetime (thereby releasing the pent-up emotions which you have invested in your memories).

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“We all to some extent meet again and again the same people and certainly in some cases form a kind of family of two or three or more persons who come together life after life until all passionate relations are exhausted, the child of one life the husband, wife, brother, sister of the next. Sometimes, however, a single relationship will repeat itself, turning its revolving wheel again and again.” – William Butler Yeats, A Vision

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WHAT A COINCIDENCE Understanding Synchronicity In Everyday Life
by Susan M Watkins

Overview:

What if all those seemingly insignificant little What a coincidence! moments you've experienced were actually connected, were part of a larger, more complex coincidence story?

What if they were hinting at something very personal and important about yourself—and about the workings of human consciousness?

Would you listen?

Susan Watkins does. For more than 35 years she's been documenting and studying the coincidences that have happened in her life. What she's discovered is that seemingly simple coincidences—thinking of an old friend and their calling seconds later, for example—are often pieces of larger, more complex and meaningful "coincidence clusters."

A former newspaper reporter and the author of five books, Watkins has always been intrigued by coincidences—what they mean in our everyday lives, and in the grander scheme of things. What, she asks, do these coincidence clusters say about human consciousness and human connection? In What a Coincidence! she presents coincidence clusters that are utterly astounding. What they reveal is life- altering.

What a Coincidence! is an exciting, groundbreaking journey. Along the way Watkins offers profound insights as well as practical pointers on how to become aware of the coincidence clusters in our own lives. She also shows us how to document coincidences so that we, too, can reap their valuable rewards. We'll never brush off those What a Coincidence! moments again.

Conscious Creation Links – Conscious Creation Publishers, Book Stores, Websites, Journals, Newsletters, Mailing Lists, Message Boards, and more.

The Elias forum - website by Paul & Joanne Helfrich contains an expansion of many of the conscious creation concepts introduced by Seth/Jane Roberts, channeled by Mary Ennis.

What if the Seth material was a foundation to be expanded later by other channeled sources? Can any perennial source ever be considered complete AND infallible?

Seth readers will want to check out:
Introduction & Overview
A Seth, Elias Comparative Overview (Updated!)
Digest: Seth, Jane Roberts

In The Rose Garden - a blog by Joanne Helfrich who channels the essence of Rose as mentioned in the Elias forum.

The Kris Chronicles - an expansion of many of the conscious creation concepts introduced by Seth/Jane Roberts, channeled by Serge Grandbois.

A Kris, Seth, Elias Comparative Overview (Updated!) - a preliminary comparison of core concepts in the Seth material, information offered by Elias, and Kris Chronicles

Otherfocus.com the personal website of Donald R. Johnson

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John and Kristen's new Green blog: It Should Be Easy Being Green
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