[...] Consciousness knows all of the probabilities of fulfillment open to it. Each species carries in its individual and mass psyche the blueprints of such probable actualities. [...]

Such leeway left room for many probabilities and for many “errors,” but the developing consciousness had to be free to make its own judgments. [...] His consciousness — his psyche — is projecting greater images of his own probable fulfillment, and these are seen in his changing concepts of God.

[...] Physical species that existed and flourished in those epochs then became probable to you, for they did not develop in your system but became extinct. [...]

[...] (With my probable self and Dr. Pietra in another more advanced reality.) What happened was a very momentary merging on deeper-than-conscious levels.

[...] This happened as you picked up on a deep level the presence of your probable self.

[...] He is actually between various probable systems, in which however each of you have an interest. [...]

[...] This particular probable system, generally speaking, exists within the same space framework as your own. [...]

(To Sue after stating she had a headache.) You are simply upset over the implications of the probable selves and that caused the headache. [...] You do not need to feel guilty of the creation of any probable selves. [...]

He was a probable self of your grandfather’s and he kept in touch with you, and you were able to see him because of your own abilities. He noticed you, even as you noticed him, and in his probability he wondered who you were, but he liked you. [...]

(To Ned.) I was in your last experience as a probable self of my own and you did not recognize me, but that is all right and I will not hold it against you. [...]

Many personalities do, but when you came into this existence, you came into it with problems and challenges you gave yourself and these probable selves exist in the same manner. [...]

PROBABILITIES, THE NATURE OF GOOD AND
EVIL, AND RELIGIOUS SYMBOLISM

The chapter heading: “Probabilities, the Nature of Good and Evil, and Religious Symbolism.”

[...] The probable system of reality opens up the nature of the soul to you. [...]

[...] Some of these are physically materialized, others are actualized in probable systems. [...]

[...] It’s impossible to speak of time and precognition without considering probabilities. The following two chapters on probabilities and dreams contain some of the most intriguing material Seth has given us — and precognition must be seen against this larger perspective. [...]

[...] In some cases, this is because a different probable event has been chosen by the self for physical materialization. I have access to the field of probabilities, and, egotistically at least, you do not. [...]

(The term “probable universe” was fairly new to us then, so Rob asked, “Will you tell us more about the probable system and its connections here?” Seth replied,)

[...] From this field of probabilities you choose patterns of thought which you will weave into the physical matter of your universe. [...] It should be realized that the probable self also has its own dreams.

Now, probabilities exist in the same manner. [...] In the same manner you do not perceive or experience physically the actuality of probable events.

The system of probabilities is not as easily perceived even as those events that exist within the dream state, for with these you are familiar, while you are in the dream state. [...] Now the self that is the I of your dreams can quite legitimately be compared to the self that experiences probable events.

[...] The portion that deals with probabilities is as much a part of you as any cell within your physical body. [...]

[...] This system of probabilities is quite as real and actual as the system with which you are familiar, and you exist in it whether or not you realize it.

The more extensive your knowledge, the more aware you are of probable actions, and of the conglomeration of choices that then become available. [...]

It should probably be noted here also that this suspicion of knowledge is intensified when the female sex is involved, for the legends quite erroneously give the impression that knowledge is twice as disastrous if possessed by a woman. [...]

[...] Remind yourselves constantly that the most favorable solution to a problem is at least as probable as the most unfortunate “solution.” [...]

[...] Children do already possess character at birth, and the entire probable intent of their lives exists then as surely as does the probable plan for the adult body they will later possess.

[...] Those plans are communicated one to the other, and probabilities instantly are set into motion in Framework 2. To some degree or another calculations are made so that, for instance, individual A will meet individual B at a marketplace 30 years later — if this fits in with the intents of both parties. There will be certain cornerstone encounters in each person’s life that are set up as strong probabilities, or as plans to be grown into.

[...] Before he [or she] is old enough to begin any kind of training, he will know on other levels the probable direction that music will take during his lifetime. [...] Again, probabilities will be set into motion, so that each child’s intent reaches out. [...]

[...] Put very simplistically, this “quantum approach” allows for the theme that each of us inhabits but one of innumerable probable or parallel worlds. [...] Yet there is no answer within quantum mechanics as to how or why one’s personal identity chooses to follow a certain probable pathway, and consciousness per se is not considered. (Some physicists, however, have implied that subatomic particles—photons—communicate with each other as they take their separate but “sympathetic” paths.) Pardon my irony here, but Seth has always dealt with the ramifications of consciousness and maintained also that we do not inhabit just one probable world, but constantly move among them by choice—and by the microsecond, if one chooses.

A moment ago, I referred to the way all involved with my wife could agree upon a course of probable activity. There are as many possibilities—and probabilities—as one can think of. [...]

To me, consciousness or All That Is is an omnipresent, really indescribable awareness that to us human beings has no limits, “one” containing not only the attributes of time and space and of all feeling, thought, and objectivity, but numberless other properties, manifestations, and probabilities that lie outside our very limited interior and exterior perceptions. [...]

[...] This, to me, is an example of the way a course of probable activity can be agreed upon by all involved.

In your terms, practically speaking, probable events seem to make more sense when you think of them as latent future ones.

The fact remains that there are probable past events that “can still happen” within your personal previous experience. [...]

In such instances there is, as easily as I can explain it, a reaching into deep biological structures as they existed at one time; at that point the probabilities are altered, and the condition erased in your present — but also in your past.

[...] This does not mean that the future cannot be predicted sometimes, for in practical terms you will often continue with certain lines of probability which can be seen “ahead of time.”

[...] In some cases this is because a different probable event has been chosen by a self for physical materialization. I have access to the field of probabilities and you do not—egotistically, you do not. [...]

This probable field seeds many other systems beside the one physical system with which you are familiar. The probable field is strongly composed of thought images, not physically materialized, but extremely vivid and actual storehouses of energy. [...]

[...] Back to our probabilities.

The field of probable events exists as a reality. [...]

[...] The probabilities of an event escape you in practical terms.

In the predream state you directly encounter a reality in which those probabilities exist all at once to your perception. [...]

In order to become physical, probable events must meet certain conditions, as it were. [...]

[...] This is a psychological organization, consisting of a selection of chosen probable events. [...]

[...] The environment itself is conscious (forcefully). Atoms and molecules themselves operate in their own fields of probabilities. In their own ways, they “yearn” toward all probable developments. [...]

[...] In your system of probabilities there are no reptilian men or women, yet in other probabilities they do indeed exist. [...]

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[...] In your terms, they fade into a probable series of events that do not physically affect you.

([Ned:] “Is it up to the probable self whether they become a new entity, or up to the person who creates the probable      self ?”)

That probable self can become a whole entity if it so chooses. [...]

Up to the probable selves for each portion of consciousness has available to it whatever potentials it is willing to seek, and there are no limitations placed upon it either by those who created it or by itself. [...]

([Nadine.) “Would it be possible, like, to have a husband and wife that were, when they were gotten together, you would have a great person with opposite personalities, could they possibly be two probable selves?”)

The probable system, therefore, is as complicated as the reincarnational one. [...] Another portion focuses in probabilities and handles developments there.

In parentheses: (There is also a probable system, of course, in which no reincarnational cycles exist, and a cycle of reincarnations in which no probabilities exist.) The openness and flexibility of the personality is highly important. [...]

Entering the field of probabilities can be compared to entering the reincarnational cycle. [...]

[...] The self that decides upon reincarnational existence is the same self who chooses experience within the probable system. [...]

Now: All of the probable events of your life exist at once, at certain levels that are connected to the dream state. Since your activities physically must be fitted into a space-time framework, only a minimum of those probable events will physically occur.

Those that do are chosen with great discrimination, dreams serving as one of the methods by which you ascertain the desirability of any given probable act. [...]

To that extent the dream also serves as a drama of interweaving probabilities, a springboard from which events emerge in all directions. [...]

[...] This proper placement is quite dependent upon an inner knowledge of probable future events, and your present time would be an impossible achievement were it not for this unconscious knowledge of the “future.”

For myself, I think of reincarnational selves as having their roots in the physical reality we know (whether in simultaneous or linear terms of time), but of probable selves as having much wider and more complicated ranges of existence: I believe that even though we create them on an individual basis, our probable selves can reach into a multitude of other realities, both physical and nonphysical. I don’t remember Seth discussing such “probable” possibilities in just that way, especially, and they would be much too involved to go into here, but I’ve often felt that some of our probable selves move into realms of being that are literally incomprehensible to us, so different — alien — are they and their environments from our usual conceptions of “solid” physical existence.

[...] So in this work I am presenting you not only with probabilities as conjecture, but, often, showing you how such probabilities affect your daily lives, and giving examples of the ways in which Ruburt’s and Joseph’s lives have been so touched.

After my first Roman, I speculated about whether I might have touched upon a reincarnational self or a probable one. See, therefore, Seth’s material on reincarnation in Chapter 4 (among others) of Seth Speaks; then see his material on probable selves in Chapter 16 of that book, and in Session 680 for Volume 1 of “Unknown” Reality.

[...] The focus of each of their consciousnesses therefore was made up of a certain kind of mixture that made such probabilities, in your terms, possible as prime incentives.

[...] All particles will try to combine with each other in as many different probable ways as possible. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Such probable currents ride beneath all relationships. [...]

[...] I was pleased to have tuned in to a probable reality, even if so briefly. [...]

There is in the world of probabilities a good chance that you will very seriously consider marriage toward the end of a two-year period. [...] Again, this is in the probability range.

I have explained how at certain times a definite future may be seen, and how at other times a probable future. On some occasions the totality of probabilities all point in one main direction. [...]

[...] This is a probability and not a frozen future, however. [...]

At other times the probabilities point in many or several directions.

From this viewpoint you can sense the other probabilities that reach outward from yourself like rays of light. The other probabilities that you have brought into existence and creation and song automatically, joyfully and creatively. [...]

Now I want those of you who can to follow still further, for we will travel beyond these fields of probabilities in which all times are born. [...] In which all probabilities exist, in your terms, as yet unborn; and yet in greater terms already being accomplished and coming into new existence. [...]

[...] A reality that is involved with probabilities; and, as you glimpse that reality, you see that it is far vaster, and that it opens up into still other areas and fields and rooms. [...]