　　The Seth MATERIAL

　　赛斯资料

　　The Seth Material is a system of philosophy presented by Jane Roberts and her husband Robert Butts as a consequence of the trance communications of an entity named Seth. The origin of the material, however, is far less significant than its scope. It has logical consistency, and the validation it receives, as millions of people read and use its ideas in their lives, is growing daily. During our current period of worldwide stress and conflicting ideologies, it makes sense of our situation and gives hope. Between 1963 and 1984, Seth communicated through Jane discourses which have appeared in the twenty volumes that comprise the Seth Material.

　　赛斯资料是一个由简·罗布兹和她的丈夫罗布特·布兹提供的一系列在出神状态中经由一个被称为赛斯的实体传授而来的哲学体系。这些资料的来源比起它们的涉及范围而言远非重要。它具有逻辑的连贯性，并且对其有效性的证明正随着百万人的阅读并将它们在其生活中的运用而与日俱增。在我们目前全球紧张和意识形态冲突的时代，对我们的处境会有所帮助而给我们以希望。从1963年到1984年赛斯经由简传授了将近二十卷的赛斯资料

　　Seth: "I have been sent to help you, and others have been sent through the centuries of your time, for as you develop you also form new dimensions, and you will help others. I am in this room [speaking to Robert] although there is no object within which you can place me. You have a vehicle to use, a body that you call your own, and that is all. You are as disembodied as I. I come here as though I appeared through a hole in space and time. What you call emotion or feeling is the connective between us."

　　赛斯：“我被派来帮助你们，世代以来也有其他人被派来帮助你们，因为当你们发展了，你们也会形成新的维度而去帮助他人。（对罗布特）我在这间房间里，尽管你们并不能将我放置于任何东西里面。你们其实也和我一样不具形体，只不过是拥有一件你们称为自己身体的运载工具罢了。我来这儿就象从时空的一个窟隆中冒出来一样。你们所谓的感觉和情感正是联系我们的纽带。”

　　"Now, there are no limitations or divisions to the self. You can indeed depend upon seemingly unconscious portions of yourself. The seemingly unconscious portions of your body draws energy from food and molecules, from the air to form your body. All this happens because the inner portions of your being operate spontaneously, joyfully, freely; and all of this occurs because your inner self believes in you, often even while you do not believe in it. The you that you consider yourself to be is never annihilated. Your consciousness is not snuffed out, nor is it swallowed, blissfully unaware of itself, in some nirvana. You are as much a part of a nirvana now as you ever will be. You are in the process of expanding your psychic structure, of becoming a conscious participant with the soul. You are becoming what your soul is.

　　“好了，自身其实并无限制和分隔。你们确实可以依赖于你们自身那些看来无意识的部分。你们身体内那些看来无意识的部分从食物、分子、空气中汲取能量来形成你们的身体。这些之所以发生是因为你们存在的内在部分自发、快乐、自由地运作；而这所有之所以可能是因为你们内在的自我相信你们，尽管时常你们并不相信它们。你自认为是你自身的那个你永远也不会消亡。

　　"There is nothing in your exterior experience that you did not originate within yourself. Interactions with others do occur, yet none occur what you do not attract or draw to you by your thoughts, feelings, attitudes or emotions. In your terms this applies both before, during and after physical life. In a most miraculous fashion you are given the gift of creating your own experiences.

　　“你外在的经验中没有一件不是源于你自己。与别人的互动确实发生，但它们都由你的思想、感觉、态度和情感吸引而来。用你们的话来说，这适用于物质生活的以前、期间和过后。在一种最奇迹般的方式中你被赋予了创造你经验的礼物。

　　"In this physical existence you are learning how to handle the inexhaustible energy that is available to you. Some of your feelings and thoughts are translated into objects. These exist in a medium you call space. Others are translated into events that exist in a medium you call time. Both of the concepts of space and time are illusions. They exist only in the physical realm. Since you are a part of "being," then you in effect give yourself the life that is being lived through you. While physical, while you are in the flesh, you are a portion of nature therefore, not apart from it. You can not strive to be above nature, and still be yourself.

　　“在你物质的存在中你在学习如何处理你能获得的用之不竭的能量。你们的一些感情和思想被转译为物体。这些存在于你们称为空间的媒质中。另外一些则被转译为事件存在于你们称之为时间的媒质中。时间和空间的概念都是幻象。它们只存在于物质感官的领域。因为你是“存有”的一部分，所以你给自己目前生活的这一生。当你是物质，当你还是肉身的时候，你也是自然的一部分，并没有与之分离。你不能力争在自然之上，而同时又还是你自己。

　　"Beyond myself there is another self and still another, of which I am aware. And that self tells you that there is a reality beyond human reality and experience that cannot be made verbal or translated into human terms."

　　“我知道在我自己后面还有一个又一个自我。而那自我告诉你们在人类的实在和经验后面有一个不能用语言道出，或者转译为人类的表述的实在。”

　　"Now, reality has no beginning and no end. Hopefully?hopefully? hopefully, in your terms of time, you may get a glimpse of what I mean. There is indeed an expanding universe, and it is formed in the eternal present. In my book I will go as far as I can into those precepts, yet some [of you] will not follow. You create your own reality. That works, and is true, whether or not you follow, or care to follow, into these other realms.

　　实在没有开始和结束。希望，非常希望你们用你们对时间的理解对我所说的意思有所瞥见。确实有个正在扩展中的宇宙，而它是在永恒的现在被形成。在我的书中我将尽我所能地说明那些教导，然而你们有些人还是不能理解。你形成了你们自己的实在。那的确在运作，并且是真实的，无论你是否能理解，或者在乎去理解，去进入这些其他的领域。

　　"For those of you who do accompany me, I promise you an adventure, a creative alteration of consciousness, and experiences beyond those that you have known in your terms. You look at the world around you and are amazed at its richness and variety. Do you think that the inner world is not as rich, even more rich, more valid? Do you think there is but one kind of consciousness?

　　对你们那些确实愿意陪伴我的人，我保证你们有一个历险，一个意识创造性的改变以及用你们的话说来超越于你们目前所知的经验。你是否认为内在的世界并不和外在的世界一样丰富，甚至更丰富、更有效？你是否认为只有一种意识？

　　"Your world is formed out of the vast unpredictability of consciousness. From it you form your own ideas of significance and of yourself... You must stop thinking in terms of ordinary progression. It is bad enough when you worry about keeping up with the Joneses. It is something else, however, when you start worrying ahout which kind of self [Or consciousness] is superior to another kind."

　　你们的世界是由大量的不可预测的意识所形成。从中你们形成了自己对什么是重要的以及你们是什么的想法……你必须停止以通常的眼光来看待发展。生怕落后于你的周遭相识是非常有害的，而当你开始担心怎样一种自我(或意识)比其他的类型更高级时情况就不同了。

　　What's in a Name?

　　名字包含什么？

　　From the ESP class session for April 17, 1973

　　摘录自1973年4月1日的超感官知觉课程

　　"So I ask you: 'What is your name, each of you?' My name is nameless. I have no name. I give you the name of Seth because it is a name and you want names. You give yourselves names..., because you believe they are important.

　　“所以我问你：‘你们每个人的名字是什么？’我的名字是无名。我没有名字。我向你们给出赛斯这个名字是因为它是一个名字而你们需要名字。你们给你们自己以名字……，因为你们相信它们是重要的。

　　"Your existence is nameless. It is not voiceless, but it is nameless. The names you take are structures upon which you hang your images . . . What you are cannot be uttered, and no letter or alphabet can contain it. Yet, now you need words and letters, and names and objects. You want magic that will tell you what you are.

　　“你们的存在是无名的。它并不是无声，但它确实是无名。你们所携带的名字是你们向其附着形象的结构……你们是什么并不能被表达，没有任何字母能包容它。然而你们现在需要字词、名称和对象。你们需要能歌手你们你们是什么的魔法。

　　"You believe that you cannot speak to me unless I have a name, so I am Seth.... I told Ruburt from our earliest sessions that he could call me Seth. I never said, 'My name is Seth,' (but 'I call myself Seth'梞y emphasis), for I am nameless. I have had too many identities to cling to one name!"

　　“你们相信除非我有名字否则你们就无法向我说话，所以我是赛斯……从我们最早的课时起我就告诉鲁勃特他可以叫我赛斯。我从来没有说过‘我的名字是赛斯’(而是‘我叫自己是赛斯’--我强调)，因为我是无名的。我有太多的身份而不能被附着于一个名字上。！”

　　Seth Quotes Chapter 2 赛斯名言 第二章

　　你形成了你自己的实在

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　　A. According to Seth we create our own reality--literally--through beliefs we hold. This life is only one of many that we live in a variety of times and places. The experiences--both pleasant and distressful--which we encounter are no more real than a dream and appear within our lives as educational devices to demonstrate the consequences of our actions. Because the essence of the universe is love, we are safe and taken care of now and through eternity. We have on-going access to information about the nature of reality and our personal lives, but we must use our conscious minds to evaluate this information and to make decisions. Finally and perhaps most important, there is no authority superior to each person's essential self; Seth's words are merely an attempt to present us with knowledge that we ignore when it comes from our own inner beings.

　　A。按照赛斯所说我们创造了我们自己的实在－实实在在地－通过我们所怀着的信念。这一生只是我们在不同的时间和地点所生活的种种不同的人生的其中之一。这些我们所面临的经验－不论是快乐还是悲伤－都不比一个梦更加真实，它们出现在我们生活中的目的是作为教育的手段来验证我们行动所会带来的后果。因为宇宙的本质是爱，所以我们是安全的，并在现在和将来永远都会得到爱护。我们不停地得到关于实在和我们个人生活本质的信息，但我们必须用我们的意识心去评价这些信息而后作决定。最后，可能也是最重要的就是没有什么权威是凌驾于每个人的基本自我之上的；赛斯的话只是试图在我们忽略了来自内在的信息时向我们提供知识。

　　B. We are multidimensional beings who inhabit many realms and who exist throughout eternity; developing continually into more creative and fulfilled individuals.

　　B。我们是居住在许多领域永远生存的多维存在；不断发展成为更加富有创造性和更完满的个体。

　　C. The universe is of good intent; evil and destruction do not exist except as a scenario. Evidence of evil in the world appears to our senses in order to let us know the consequences of the beliefs we hold, but mankind will awaken from that sadness as from a bad dream.

　　C。宇宙是具有善良意图的；罪恶和破坏并不存在除非是作为剧情的特意安排。在我们感官世界所展现的恶的迹象是为了让我们知道我们所持的信念的后果，但人类会从那种悲惨的境遇中觉醒就象是从一个恶梦中一样。

　　D. By acknowledging and, whenever possible, following our impulses, we can discover the purpose of our lives and learn how to act in such a way as to benefit both ourselves and the world.

　　D。通过承认和认同，在可能的时候，跟随我们的冲动，我们会发现我们生活的目标并学会如何采取行动才能使我们自己和整个世界都受益。

　　E. There is no authority superior to the guidance of a person's inner self. Seth's words are merely an attempt to present us with the knowledge that we ignore when it comes to our psyches. The entity is the basic self, immortal, nonphysical and the individual is the portion of the whole self that you manage to express physically. Desire, wish, and expectation rule all actions and are the basis for all realities. You create your own reality, there are no exceptions!

　　E。在一个人内在自我的引领之上不存在更高的权威。赛斯的话只是试图向我们提供当我们面对我们心灵时所忽略的知识。实体才是基本的自我，它永不消亡、无有感官的形体而个人是整个自我中设法用物质的形式去表现的部分。欲念、希望和期待控制了所有的行动，它们是全部实在的基础。你创造了你自己的实在，无一例外。

　　Seth: "You create your reality according to your beliefs and expectations, therefore you should examine these carefully. If you do not like some aspect of your world, then examine your own expectations."

　　赛斯：“你按照你的信念和期待去创造自己的实在，所以你得小心仔细地检查它们。如果你对你世界的某些方面不满意，那就检查一下你的期待吧。

　　"Realize that your physical experience and environment is the materialization of your beliefs. If you find great exuberance, health, effective work, abundance, smiles on the faces of those who you meet, then take it for granted that your beliefs are beneficial. If you see a world that is good, people like you, take it for granted again, that your beliefs are beneficial. But if you find poor health, a lack of meaningful work, a lack of abundance, a world of sorrow and evil, then assume your beliefs are faulty and begin examining them."

　　“要意识到你感官的经验和环境是你信念的物质具体化。如果你在你所碰到的人的身上发现健康的生气和活力、有效的工作、富足、脸上充满笑容，那你可以当然地认为你的信念是有益的。如果你看到一个美好的世界、人们喜欢你，再次告诉你自己你的信念是有益的。但如果你发现自己的健康很糟糕、缺乏有意义的工作、缺乏富足、世界充满不幸和罪恶，那你可以假定你的信念有所缺陷而开始检验它们。

　　"Your world is formed in faithful replica of your own thoughts...If you think positive suggestions to yourself about a situation you send telepathic ammunition for positive use. You must learn to erase a negative thought or picture by replacing it with its opposite."

　　“你的世界忠实地按照你的思想而形成……如果你对一件事情给自己想积极的建议，那你就给自己捎去了积极用途的弹药。你必须学会将负面的思想和景象用正面的来替代的方式来抹去它。

　　"You form your own reality. But in forming that reality, you change other realities of which you do not know. The joy, the challenge, the responsibility, the creativity is yours. There is no other message that I can ever give you, or that you can give yourself. You are, each of you, All-That-Is experienced through your own individuality, and the transubstantiation of your flesh."

　　“你形成了自己的实在。但在形成你实在的同时你改变了其他你并不知道的实在。这喜悦、挑战、责任和创造性是属于你的。我没有其他的讯息能给你，你也一样。你们每个人都是经由你们自己的个性而经历的一切全有，你们的肉体是它的变形。

　　"You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others."

　　“你必须时常告诉自己：我只对建设性的建议作出反应。这给你积极的弹药来抵制你自己和他人的负面的思想。

　　"A negative thought, if not erased, will almost certainly result in a negative condition. Say to yourself, 'That is in the past. Now in this new moment, this new present, I am already beginning to change for the better.'"

　　“一个负面的思想，如果没有被根除，基本上无疑会导致一个负面的情境。对你自己说：那已经过去。现在在这崭新的时刻，在当下，我已准备好开始向好的方面转变。

　　"It does not do to repress negative thoughts, such as fears, angers, or resentment. They should be recognized, faced and replaced. Recognize resentment when it is felt, and then realize that resentment can be dismissed. Initial recognition must be made. Then you must imagine removing the resentment 'by its roots' and replacing it with a positive feeling."

　　“压制负面的思想，比如恐惧、愤怒或仇恨是没有用的。它们应当被认出、面对和替代。当感到仇恨时认出它，并意识到仇恨可以被去除。原初的认出是必需的。然后你必需想象自己从根上去除仇恨并用一个积极的感情取代它。

　　"You must watch the pictures that you paint with your imagination. Your environment and the conditions of your life at any given time are the direct result of your own inner expectations. If you imagine dire circumstances, ill health or desperate loneliness, these will be "automatically" materialized, for these thoughts themselves bring about the conditions that will give them a reality in physical terms. If you would have good health then you must imagine this as vividly as you fearfully imagine ill health."

　　“你必须观察用你想象所描绘出的画面。在任何指定时刻你生活的环境和处境都是你自己内在期待的直接结果。如果你想象悲惨的境况、生病的健康状况、极度的孤独，这些会自动地物质化，因为这些思想自己会导致给它们物质实在的境况。如果你愿意拥有良好的健康状况，你就必须和你恐惧地想象疾病一样想象生动地想象它。

　　"You create your own difficulties. This is true for each individual. The inner psychological state is projected outward, gaining physical reality -whatever the psychological state may be....You cannot escape your own attitudes, for they will form the nature of what you see. If changes are to occur, they must be mental and psychic changes. These will be reflected in your environment. Negative, distrustful, fearful, or degrading attitudes toward anyone work against the self."

　　“你创造了你自己的困难。这对每一个人来说都是真切的。内在的心理状态被向外投射，获得物质的实在－而不论是什么心理状态……你不能超越你的态度，因为它们会形成你所看见的世界的本质。如果要有所改变，它们必须是心智或心灵上的。这些会在你的环境中反映出来。负面、不信任、恐惧或卑劣的态度对任何人来说都会伤害自身。

　　"Using your free will, you have made physical reality into something quite different than what was intended. You have allowed the ego to become overly developed and specialized. You were here to work out problems and challenges, but you were always to be aware of your own inner reality, and of your nonphysical existence. To a large extent you have lost contact with this. You have focused so strongly upon physical reality that it become the only reality that you know."

　　“运用自由意志，你已把物质世界变得与它本来应有的大相径庭。你让自我过分发展和专业化。你们在此要解决困难和挑战，但你一直都清楚你自己内在的实在，和你非物质的存在。从大的范围来讲你们已与此失去了联系。你们那么集中关注于你物质的实在以致它成为你所知的唯一的实在。

　　During one ESP Class session, there was a discussion of "possible use of animals to predict earthquakes, and whether people should feel they need to run away from earthquakes".

　　在一堂ESP课上有一个关于“运用动物来预测地震的可能性以及人们是否会感到他们应当从地震中逃离”的讨论。

　　Seth: "The animals leave! That sounds like good sense to me. Think about it!... Amid the mad scramble, you DO make your own reality. I admit that sounds too simple, but you will not be caught in an earthquake if you do not want to be, and no one dies who has not decided to do so. You make your own reality, or you do not. And if you do not, then you are everywhere a victim, and the universe must be an accidental mechanism appearing with no reason. So that the miraculous picture you have seen of your body came accidentally into creation, and out of some cosmic accident attained its miraculous complexity. And that body was formed so beautifully for no reason except to be a victim. That is the only other alternative to forming your own reality. You cannot have a universe in between. You have a universe formed WITH a reason, or a universe formed WITHOUT a reason. And in a universe of reason, there are no victims. Everything has a reason or nothing has a reason. So, choose your side!"

　　赛斯：“动物们撤离了！在我听来那就象良知一般。好好去悟吧！…在疯狂的混乱中你确实制造了你自己的实在。我承认那听起来太简单了，但你如果不想赶上地震你就不会赶上，一个人如果没有决定要死他就不会死。要么你制造了你自己的实在，要么就不是。而如果你不是，那么你到处都是一个受害者，而这宇宙看来一定是个没有理由的机械结构。以致你所看到的你身体的神奇画面也来自偶然的创造，出自某些宇宙的偶然性它才获得如此不可思议的复杂性。而如此形成的美丽的身体除了是作为牺牲品之外毫无理由。这是形成你自己实在的二择其一的另外一个选择。你不能在两者之间有什么折衷。要么你有一个有理由的宇宙，要么就没有理由。在一个有理由的宇宙中不存在受害者。要么每一件事都有理由，要么没有一件事有理由，所以，你选一边吧！”

　　Seth Quotes Chapter 3 赛斯名言 第三章

　　心灵

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　　Seth: "Your soul was not born yesterday, but before the annals of time as you think of time. In your terms, you are its most latest addition. You are apart of the whole soul, but not yet aware of the greater portions of yourself. The characteristics that were yours at birth were yours for a reason. The inner self chose them. The inner self can even now alter many of them. You did not arrive at birth without a history. Your individuality was always latent within your soul.

　　赛斯：“你的心灵并不是在昨天诞生的，而是在你们所有的计量时间的开始之前。用你们的话来说，你是它最近的添加。你与整个的心灵分离，而不知道你更广大的部分。你拥有你与生俱来的个性特征是有理由的。你内在的自我选择了他们。内在的自我甚至现在也能对它们中的许多加以改变。你的出生并不是没有来历的。你的个体性始终潜藏在你的心灵里。

　　"The pattern that is you is written first of all in the psyche, and is then faithfully decoded in your genes and chromosomes. Your you is expressed in flesh, but came first from the psyche which is beyond or outside of flesh. You are awake, alert and participating in many more realities than you know, as your soul expresses itself through you. You are a living picture in flesh of yourself or soul. You project what you think you are outward into flesh.

　　“你之所以为你的模式首先被写在你的心灵里，然后再忠实地被解码到你的基因和染色体中。你的你以肉体的形式表现出来，但它首先来自肉体之外、超越肉体的心灵。在你所知的实在之外你还对其他的实在觉醒和参与，就象你的心灵通过你来表现它自己一样。你是你自己和你灵魂的一个肉体的生动画面。你将你所认为的你是什么用肉体的形式向外投射出来。

　　"It is more correct to think of the soul not as something you have rather, what you are. You frequently consider the soul as a finished thing that belongs to you but is not you. In truth your soul is the most intimate, powerful part of your inner self and is forever changing and growing. Your soul is alive, responsive, curious and in a constant state of becoming. The soul portion of you resides in other dimensions beyond the physical level. The soul portion of you is the most highly motivated, most highly energized, most potent consciousness unit know in any universe. Your soul, the soul that you are, that you are a part of, that soul is a far more creative, miraculous phenomenon that you can possibly imagine. Your soul possesses more wisdom, knowledge, information and strength than you can ever be consciously aware of.

　　“与其把你的心灵想作是你所拥有的某样东西，还不如把它想作你所是的。你时常认为心灵是某件属于你的已经完成的东西而不是你。事实上心灵是你内在自我中最亲密、有力的部分，它一直在变化和成长。你的心灵是生动、敏感、好奇并在一种演化的状态中。你心灵的那部分居住于超越物质层面的另外的维度。你心灵的那部分是在任何宇宙中所知的具有最高动机、最高能量、最具潜能的意识单位。你的心灵，你所是的心灵，你身为其一部分的心灵比你所能想象的任何现象还要远具创造性和神奇性。你心灵所具有的智慧、知识、信息和力量比你所能有意识知道的还要多。

　　"The soul is not something waiting for you at death, nor is it something you must save or redeem. You cannot lose it. It is indestructible. The fulfillment of the soul is not dependent upon arrivals at any points, spiritual or otherwise. Your own personality as you know it, that portion of you that you consider most precious, most uniquely you, will never be destroyed or lost. If you maintain a limited concept of the soul, then you cannot take advantage of its many abilities that are your own, and to some extent you cut yourself off from the source of your own being and creativity. The soul's abilities will continue to operate, but often in spite of what you believe rather than with your conscious cooperation.

　　“心灵并不是什么在死亡之前等待你的什么事，它也不是什么你必须拯救和赎回的什么东西。你不能失去它。它是不可毁灭的。心灵的完善并不依赖于它所到达的任何环节，无论是精神性的还是其它。你所自知的人格，你自认的你最宝贵、最独特的那部分，永远不会被破坏和失去。如果你对你的心灵持有一种受到局限的观念，那你就不能利用你所具有的它的许多能力，并在某种程度上切断了你自己存在和创造性的源泉。心灵的能力会继续运作，但经常是不顾你的信念而不与你的有意识合作。

　　"Your inner self knows its relationship with the soul. You think you perceive exclusively through your five physical senses, and yet you have only to extend your ego idea of reality, and you will find yourself accepting quite readily the existence of non-physical information coming from the soul portions of yourself.

　　“你内在的自我知道它与心灵的关系。你认为你主要通过五官来觉察，然而只要你放宽一点你对实在的我性理念，你就会发现自己正在相当乐意地接收来自你心灵部分的非物质形式存在的信息。

　　"Having become aware of the true nature of the soul you can consciously begin to draw upon its greater energy, strength and understanding. In so doing your ideas concerning your own nature will change and expand, for you will have removed limitations to your growth. The wonderful results will be felt down to the smallest cells of your body and will effect the most seemingly mundane events of your life.

　　“一旦你真正明白了你心灵的本质，你就能开始有意识地汲取它伟大的能量、力量和见地。这样你对于你本性的理念就会改变和扩展，因为你会去除你成长的局限。美妙的结果将被小到你体内最小的细胞感觉到而这会影响你生活中看来最凡俗的事件。

　　"You were born into a state of grace. It is impossible for you to leave it. You will die in a state of grace whether or not special words are spoken for you, or water or oil is poured upon your head. You share this blessing with the animals and all other living things. You cannot fall out of grace, nor can it be taken from you. You can ignore it. You can hold beliefs that blind you to its existence. You will still be graced but unable to perceive your own uniqueness and integrity, and blind also to other attributes with which you are automatically gifted."

　　“你诞生在一种高贵的状态中。你不可能离开它。你会在一种高贵的状态中死去无论有没有一些特殊的词句向你诉说，或者水或油洒在你的头上。你和动物以及其他的生物一样享有这种祝福。你不能从高贵中遁去，也不能被剥夺。你能忽略它。你能报有使你对它的存在盲目的信念。但你仍然是高贵的，只是不能觉察你自身的独特和完整，并使你对你被自动赋予的其他品质盲目。

　　"You sell yourself short if you believe that you are only a physical organism living within the boundaries cast upon you by time and space....You are a unique individual. You form your physical environment. You are part of all that is. There is no place within you that creativity does not exist."

　　“如果你相信自己只是一个生活在时空界限内的有形的生物，那你就低估自己了……你是一个独特的个体。你形成你物质的环境。你是一切全有的一部分。你无处不存在着创造性。

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　　Seth: "Identity and consciousness existed long before your earth was formed....Consciousness is the force behind matter, and it forms many other realities besides the physical one....So much of your energy is used in the physical productions that you cannot afford to perceive any reality but your own."

　　赛斯：“身份和意识远较你们地球形成为先……意识是物质背后的动力，它除了形成物质的实在外还形成其他许多实在……你们用太多的能量在物质的生产制造上以致你们除了觉察自己的实在之外无力去觉察其他实在。

　　"Matter is the shape that basic experience takes when it comes into your three-dimensional system. Your dreams, thoughts, expectations, beliefs and emotions are literally transformed into physical matter."

　　“物质事件是当基本经验来到你们三维系统中时所采用的形状。你的梦、思想、期望、信念和情感确实被转化为物质事件。

　　"Every nerve and fiber within the body has an unseen inner purpose. Nerve impulses travel outward from the body, along invisible pathways, in much the same manner that they travel within the body."

　　“你体内的每一根神经和纤维都具有一个看不见的意图。神经冲动着想旅行到体外，沿着不可见的通道，就象它们在体内旅行的样子差不多。

　　"These pathways are carriers of telepathic thoughts, impulses, and desires containing all the codified data necessary for translating any thought or image into physical actuality, altering seemingly objective events."

　　“这些通道是心灵感应的思想、冲动和欲望的载体，包含了将任何思想或想像转译为物质现实，改变似乎是客观事件所需的所有密码。

　　"This telepathy operates constantly at an "automatic" or subconscious level, providing communication to back up sensory data. Telepathy is the glue that holds the physical universe in position, so that you can agree on the existence and properties of objects."

　　“这种心灵感应不断在一种自动或下意识的层面上运作，提供对备份知觉数据的沟通。心灵感应是使物质宇宙保持位置的黏合剂，那样你才能够对物体的存在和属性达成共同的看法。

　　"The conscious mind was therefore expected to perform alone, so to speak, ignoring the highly intuitive inner information that is also available to it. It was not supposed to be aware of such data. Yet any individual knows quite well that intuitive hunches, inspiration, precognitive information or clairvoyant material has often risen to conscious knowledge. Usually it is shoved away and disregarded because you have been taught that the conscious mind should not hold with such nonsense. However, your conscious mind is meant to look into the exterior world and into the interior one. The conscious mind is a vehicle for the expression of the soul in corporeal terms.

　　“意识心于是便被期待着去单独表现，就是说去忽略它也能够获得的高度直觉的内在信息。它被假定并不知道这种资料。然而任何个人都非常明白直觉的预感、灵感、预知的信息或千里眼般获得的材料经常会上升为有意识的知识。通常它会被忽略而放在一边因为你被教导意识心不应把这些无意义的事当真。然而无论怎样你的意识心意欲洞察外在的世界和内在的世界。意识心是心灵表达为有形物质的媒介。

　　"You must give up any ideas that you have as to the unsavory nature of unconscious activity. You must learn to believe in the goodness of your being. Otherwise you will not explore these other states of your own reality.

　　“你必须放弃你所有的关于你无意识活动所有令人讨厌性质的想法。你必须学会相信你的存有的善良。否则你就不会去探索你自己存在的这些其他状态。

　　"When you trust yourself then you will trust your own dream interpretations -and these will lead you to greater self-understanding. Your beliefs of good and evil will become much more clear to you, and you will no longer need to project repressed out upon others in exaggerated fashion."

　　“当你相信自己，你就会相信你自己梦的解释－所有这些会导致你更大的自我了解。你就会更加清楚你对善和恶的信念，你也就不再需要将你被压抑的东西用夸张的样式投射到别人身上。

　　"Many people do not need to listen to my voice because they listen to the voices of the oak trees and the birds, and to the voices of their own being. I am a poor imitation of the voices of your own psyches to which you do not listen. I will be unneeded, and gladly so, when you realize that the vitality and reinforcement and joy are your own, and rise from the fountain of your own beings; when you realize that you do not need me for protection, for there is nothing you need protect yourself against.

　　“很多人并不需要听我这些话，因为他们聆听橡树的声音和小鸟的鸣叫，他们聆听他们自己存有的声音。因为你们不去聆听自己心灵的声音所以我才在这儿拙劣地模仿。当你意识到那些生命力、坚强和快乐是你自己的，它们是从你自己的存有源泉中涌出；当你意识到并不需要我来保护你们，因为并没有任何东西你需要防卫。那时我也就不再需要了，我也乐于这样。

　　"You can become involved now in a new exploration, one in which man's civilizations and organizations change their course, reflecting his good intents and his ideals. You can do this by seeing to it that each step you personally take is 'ideally suited' to the ends you hope to achieve. You will see to it that your methods are ideal. If you do this, your life will automatically be provided with excitement, natural zest and creativity, and those characteristics will be reflected outward into the social, political, economic, and scientific worlds. This is a challenge more than worth the effort...I bid each of you success in that endeavor.

　　“现在你能参与到一种新的探索中来，在其中人类的文明和组织将改变他们的进程，反映出它美好的意图和理想。你能这样做只要你个人所采取的每一步骤都和你希望完成的目标完美相合。你将负责采用最理想的方法。如果你这样做，你的生活就会自动被赋予欣喜、自然的风味和创造性，而那些特性将会在社会、政治、经济和科学领域反映出来。比起这种努力本身的价值，这更是一个挑战……我祝你们每个人在那投入中成功。”

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　　Seth: "You were born with a built-in recognition of your own goodness. You were born with an inner recognition of your rightness in the universe....You are a cooperative species and a loving one. Your misunderstandings, your crimes, and your atrocities, real as they are, are seldom committed out of any intent to be evil, but because of severe misinterpretations about the nature of good, and the means that can be taken towards its actualization.

　　赛斯：“你生来就有一种内建的对自己善良的认知。你生来就有一种对你在宇宙中的正确性的内在认知……你们是个合作和充满爱心的物种。你们的误解、犯罪、你们的暴行，尽管是那么真切，却很少是出于恶的意图去犯的，而是由于对善的本质以及如何将它们变为现实的方式的误解造成的。

　　"....there are certain tendencies, mental stances that you will take about yourself, your body and your life to one degree or another. Many of these will be directly or indirectly connected with old myths and beliefs of your forefathers. Your ideas of good and evil are highly important for instance. (Pause.) Few can escape putting value judgments in these areas. If you consider illness as a kind of moral stigma, then you will simply add an unneeded quality to any condition of ill health."

　　“你在对待你自己、你的身体和生活时存在着某些倾向，一些心智上的定势。其中许多直接或间接地与古老的神化和你们先父的信仰有关。举例来说你们对善和恶的理念是非常重要的。（停顿。）你们很少有人能够逃避将价值判断放在在这些领域中。如果你认为疾病是一种道德上的缺陷，那你就轻易地将一种并不需要的品质加在任何疾病的状态中。

　　"Such judgments are simplistic, and ignore the great range of human motivation and experience. If you are bound and determined that "GOD" creates only good, then any physical deficiency, or illness or deformity becomes an affront to your belief, threatens it and makes you angry or resentful."

　　“这种判断是简单化的，忽略了人类动机和经验的巨大范围。如果你固执地认为上帝只创造善，那么任何物质上的缺陷和不足、疾病或畸形就变得与你的信念冲突，威胁它并使你愤怒和怨恨。

　　"Your scientific beliefs tell you that your entire world happened accidentally. Your religions tell you that man is sinful....A generalized fear and suspicion is generated, and life too often becomes stripped of any heroic qualities.

　　“那么科学的信念告诉你们你们整个的世界是偶然地发生的。你们整个的信仰告诉你们人是有罪的……一种总体的恐惧和怀疑于是便产生了，生活也太频繁地被剥夺了它英雄般的品质。

　　"As long as you believe in the basic evil of man, then you must project upon yourself great punishment. You must see your world destroyed, as so will you have prophets to tell you so, and so they will speak the truth, for they will speak from your own beliefs in the idea of your own evil.

　　“只要你还相信人的基本的罪恶，你就必然向自己投射巨大的惩罚。你也就必然会看到你的世界被毁灭，就象你让先知们告诉你的那样，他们确实这样告诉你，因为他们是从你们对自己罪恶理念的信仰出发来诉说的。

　　"Now, there will be no holocaust unless you believe that you are so evil that you, as a race must punish yourselves. But there will always be benign old spirits like me that tell you that, although you are bad, you are perfectly bad, and utterly beautiful, and nothing will destroy you unless you are convinced you are, as a race so evil you must be destroyed. And even then, only those who so believe will partake in that probability!

　　“注意，并不存在什么大劫难除非你们相信你们是如此罪恶以致作为一个种族你们必须惩罚你们自己。但总有一些象我这样仁慈的老精灵会告诉你们，尽管你们很坏，但你们坏得是那么完善，绝对地美妙，并没有什么会来摧毁你们除非你们确信如此。但即便那样，也只有那些如此相信的人才会参与到那种可能性中！

　　"The prophets speak truly, that speak of doom. They speak truly when they speak from a framework that believes in doom. But that framework is a mere probability that gains its strength only from a belief in evil. So, the prophets felt that belief, and are themselves terrible driven by that belief; and paint dire pictures that reside within the psyche of those who themselves feel damned.

　　“当先知们宣告不幸时他们说的是真的。当他们从一种信仰不幸的框架中来宣告是事情就是这样。但那种框架只是从对邪恶的信仰中获得力量的可能性中的一种。而先知们感到了那种信仰，并害怕地为那种信仰所驱使，绘制了驻存在那些认为自己该下地狱的人的心灵里的可悲画面。

　　"There are other directions that your race can take, and I'm trying to point out those directions to you. And if you take those directions, then indeed-in your terms-there will be a birth of a new species-a species that understands its blessed creaturehood, that understands its spirituality, that does not despoil its planet, that purposefully creates the kind of world a sane god would create, a god who has no need for a heaven or a hell!

　　“你们的族类有其他可以采取的方向，我将试图我你们指明。如果你们采取了那种方向，那么用你们的话来说将会诞生一种新的物种，一种明白它所受到祝福的生物身份、明白它的精神性、不会掠夺它的星球、有目的地创造一个明智的的上帝所愿意创造的世界、这个上帝并不需要天堂或地狱！

　　"Quite simply, a belief in the good without a belief in the evil, may seem highly unrealistic to you. This belief, however, is the best kind of insurance that you can have, both during physical life and afterwards. It may outrage your intellect, and the evidence of your physical senses may shout that it is untrue, yet a belief in good without a belief in evil is actually highly realistic."

　　“相当简单地，一个只相信善而不相信恶的信念可能在你们看来非常不现实。但无论如何，这种信念是你们所能获得的最好的保证，无论是在物质生活中还是以后。它可能会触怒你的智力，你物质感官的证据也会叫嚷它是不真实的，然而只相信善而不相信恶实际上是非常现实的。

　　"Your beliefs generate emotion. It is somewhat fashionable to place feelings above conscious thoughts, the idea being that emotions are more basic and natural than conscious reasoning is. The two actually go together but your conscious thinking largely determines your emotions,and not the other way around. Your beliefs generate the appropriate emotion that is implied.

　　“你们的信念产生情绪。将感情放在有意识的思想之上是蛮时髦的，这种理念是情感比有意识的推理更加基本和自然。这两者者实际上是走在一起的，但你有意识的思考很大程度上决定了你的情感，而不是相反。你的信念产生了它所蕴含的适当的情感。

　　"The race must learn the value of the individual man. The race is also learning its dependence upon other species, and beginning to comprehend its part in the whole framework in physical reality. Now: some individuals are being reborn at this time simply to help you understand. They are forcing the issue, and forcing the crisis, for you still have time to change your ways. You are working on two main problems, but both involve the sacredness of the individual, and the individual's relationship with others and with all physically oriented consciousness.

　　“人类必须学会懂得个人的价值。人类也将学会懂得它对其他物种的依靠性，并开始去拿捏它在物质实在的框架中所扮演的角色。注意：在这时候有些人会重新投胎只是来帮助你们了解。他们逼迫问题、强化危机，因为你们还有时间来改变你们的道路。你们正在着手处理两个主要的疑难，两者都牵涉到个人的神圣性和个人与他人乃至所有物质导向的意识的关系。

　　"The problem of war will sooner or later teach you that when you kill another man, basically you will end up killing yourself. The over-population problem will teach you that if you do not have a loving concern for the environment in which you dwell, it will no longer sustain you--you will not be worthy of it. You will not be destroying the planet, you see. You will not be destroying the birds or the flowers, or the grain or the animals. You will not be worthy of them, and they will be destroying you. You have set up the problem for yourselves within the framework of your reference. You will not understand your part within the framework of nature until you actually see yourselves in danger of tearing it apart. You will not destroy consciousness. You will not annihilate the consciousness of even one leaf, but in your context, if the problem were not solved, these would fade from your experience.

　　“战争的问题迟早会让你们明白当你们杀了另一个人，基本上来说你会最终也杀了你自己。人口过度膨胀的问题会让你们明白如果你不关爱你所居住的环境，那么它将不再负担你们－－你们将不配再享有它。你们将看到你们将不再毁灭这个星球。不再毁灭花和鸟、稻谷和动物。如果你们不再配得上它们，它们会来毁灭你们。你们在所参照的框架中为自己设置了难题。只有当你们确实看到将你们自己与之割裂开的危险时你们才会了解你们在自然的框架中所处的位置。你们并不能毁灭意识。你们不能消灭甚至是一片树叶的意识，但在你们的背景中，如果这个难题没有解决，这些就会从你们的经验中消失。

　　"The crisis is a kind of therapy...And you need it now, before your race embarks upon journeys to other physical realities. You must learn your lessons now in your own back yard before you travel to other worlds. So you have brought this upon yourself for that purpose and you will learn.

　　“危机是一种治疗……你们现在正需要它，在你们的族类进发到其他物质实在的旅程之前。你们必须在旅行到其他的世界之前，在你们的后院中接受这些教训。为此之故，你们把危机带来而你们会从中学习。

　　"If you become so frightened of realities that are not your own; if you take upon yourselves tragedies that do not exist in your reality, in your moment, you weaken your position, and you think you are helping. You must operate from strength, not from weakness. When you stand on a firm shore, you can extend your arm to the man that is in quicksand. You cannot help him by leaping into the quicksand with him, for surely both of you will go down, and he will not thank you. Organize your reality according to your strength. Organize your reality according to your playfulness, according to your dreams, according to your hopes, and then you can help those who organize their reality according to their fears."

　　“如果你对并不是你自己的实在感到如此害怕；如果你承担你实在中并不存在的悲剧，你这时削弱了你的位置，而你还认为自己还在帮助别人。你必须基于你的力量运作，而非你的弱点。当你站在坚固的海岸上，你能伸手去救助处于流沙里的人。你不能通过跳进流沙的方式来帮助他，因为显然你们俩都会沉没，他也不会感谢你。按照自己的力量来组织你的实在。按照你的乐趣、梦想，按照你的希望来组织自己的实在，那么你才能帮助那些按照自己的恐惧来组织自己实在的人。”

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　　Seth: "If you accept the possibility of the slightest, smallest, most insignificant accident, then indeed you open a Pandora's Box, for logically, there cannot be simply one small accident in that case but a universe in which accidents are not the exception but the rule. A universe in which, therefore, following logic, your consciousness would appear to be an accidental combination of atoms and molecules without reason or cause that will vanish into nonexistence forever even as, indeed, they would have come from nonexistence. Once you accept, you see, that idea, then if you follow your thought completely enough, you must accept the idea of a random accidental universe, in which you are at the mercy of any accident, in which mind or purpose have little meaning, in which you are at the mercy of all random happenings, such as during a flood or earthquake without reason, without cause, simply at the whim of an accidental happening.

　　赛斯：“如果你接受了那些最轻微、最细小、最无关紧要的意外事件的可能性，那你确实是打开了一个潘朵拉的盒子，因为从逻辑上来讲并不存在即便是最微小的意外，而只有一个在其中意外并不是例外而只是规律的宇宙。因而，一个宇宙在其中，按照逻辑，你的意识看来会是个没有理由和原因的，会永远消失成为非存在的，确实，它们是从非存在里来的一个由原子和分子的偶然结合。一旦你接受了这个理念，那么你要知道如果你足够完全地按照你的思想，你必须接受这样的观点，那就是宇宙是由随机的偶然事件组成，在其中你受任何的偶然事件摆布，在其中心智和目标变得毫无意义，在其中你受所有随机发生的事件摆布，比如象毫无理由、原因，仅仅是即兴发生地遭遇洪水和地震。

　　"Now, people oftentimes live through personal disasters-natural disasters-in which they are pitted against nature as they know it, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes. But there are no accidents, so on other levels they chose those circumstances, whether they realize it or not, through their conscious beliefs.

　　“注意，人们经常从他们所知的与自然的搏斗的他们个人的灾害－自然灾害－中生还，比如象暴雨、洪水和地震。但这并没有偶然，在另外的层次上他们选择了他们的环境，无论他们意识到与否，通过他们有意识的信念。

　　"And if that is the sort of universe in which you believe you live, then it is a dire and foreboding universe, indeed. In such a universe the individual has little hope for he will return to the nonexistence that he came from, the individual has no control over his destiny, and can be swept aside at any point by random fate, over which he has no recourse.

　　“如果你相信你所居住的是这样一种宇宙，那么它的确是一个悲惨和宿命的宇宙。在这样的宇宙中个人毫无希望回到他所来自的非存在，个人丝毫不能控制他的命运，会在任何当口被他所丝毫无法求助的随机的命运所席卷。

　　"All of this can be related to ordinary life. Whenever you think that you have a headache, simply because you have a headache; or you bump into a door; or you have an accident simply because you happen to be in a particular place at a particular time; whenever you feel yourself powerless, then you think accidents just happen and that you have no control over them. The only answer is to realize that you form physical events, individually and en mass. And as I have said time and time again, you form the physical reality that you know.

　　“所有这些都能被联系到日常的生活。每当你因为头痛而想你为什么会头痛；或你因为碰巧在特定的时间和特定的场合而撞到一扇门或遇到什么意外；每当你觉得自己无能为力时你就认为你对偶然事件的发生无法控制。唯一的答案是去认识到你形成了自己的物质事件，从个人到群体。就象我曾经说了又说的，你形成了你所知的物质实在。

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　　Seth Quotes Chapter 7 赛斯名言 第七章

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　　Seth: "Your civilization is in sad straits -- not because you have allowed spontaneity or fulfillment to individuals, but because you have denied it, and because your institutions are based upon that premise.

　　赛斯“你们的文明处在可悲的困境中－－不是因为你们允许有个人的自发性或自我实现，而是因为你们拒绝它，并且你们是依据这个前提来建立制度的。

　　"You think that, left alone, the natural inclinations of man would destroy civilization. Then what, indeed, started civilization, if not the natural inclinations of man? What began the cooperation that allows people to unite even in tribes, if not the natural inclinations of man?

　　“你们认为如果让人的自然天性单独运作它会破坏文明。那么究竟是什么使得文明开始，如果不是人的自然天性？什么使得允许人们联合的合作开始，即便在最原始的部落中，如果不是人的自然天性？

　　"If you learn to trust your being, then you will be able to trust your institutions and your civilizations. You equate spontaneity with irresponsibility; abandon with evil. If you abandon yourselves to yourselves, then what good would seem to spring out of the heavens of your being?

　　“如果你们学着去相信自己的存在，那么你们就能相信你们的制度和文明。你们将自发性等同于不负责任，纵情于自己喜欢做的事等同于罪恶。如果你完全将自己托付给自己，那么从你存在的天堂中究竟能越出什么好东西呢？

　　"Your world is not in dire straits because you trust yourselves, but precisely because you do not. Your social institutions are set up to fence in the individual, rather than to allow the natural development of the individual!

　　“相信你们自己并不会使得这个世界处于悲惨的困境中，恰恰相反才会。你们的社会制度被设置成来阻拦个体而不是允许个人自然地发展。

　　"I come here because it is fun. I have fun when I come here. I do not come here because I feel that I have any great responsibility for your beings or welfare. Who am I to set myself against the innate wisdom of your own individual being, or to take upon my invisible shoulders the great privilege or joyful responsibility for your behavior and destiny?"

　　“我来此因为这是一种乐趣。当我来时我充满了快乐。我来这儿并不是因为我觉得我对你们的存在或福祉有任何巨大的责任。如果我把自己设置成与你们自己个体存在的天生智慧相违背，或者在我无形的肩膀上担负起巨大的特权或你们行为和命运的快乐的责任，那我变成什么人了？

　　"There is nothing more stimulating, more worthy of actualization, than the desire to change the world for the better. That is indeed each person's mission...It is not enough to meditate, or to imagine in your mind some desired goal being accomplished, if you are afraid to act upon the very impulses to which your meditations and imaginings give rise.

　　“没有任何事比把这个世界变得更好的欲望更加刺激和更值得去实现。那的确是每一个的使命……单单冥想、或在自己脑海中想象一些意欲达成的目标是不够的，如果你害怕依照你冥想或想象而给出的冲动采取行动的话。

　　"Meditation must be followed by action--and true meditation is action....it takes aggressive energy to send forth thoughts and feelings of peace. So your idea of aggression is completely wrong. Aggression is action, and the thoughts of peace radiated outward take aggression and joy and vitality."

　　“冥想后一定要采取行动－－真正的冥想就是行动……它将进攻性的能量向外发送成为和平的思想和感情。所以你们对进攻性的看法是完全错误的。进攻就是行动，和平的思想向外辐射时带有进攻、快乐和生命力。

　　"If you do not like the state of your world, it is you yourselves that must change, individually and en masse. This is the only way that change will be effected."

　　“如果你不喜欢你世界的状态，必须改变的是你自己，从个人到群体。这是改变发生作用的唯一方式。

　　"The responsibility for your life and your world is indeed yours....You form your own dreams and you form your own physical reality. The world is...the physical materialization of the inner selves which you have formed."

　　“你们生活和你们世界的责任确实是你们的……你形成了你自己的梦并且你形成了你自己的物质实在。这世界是……你所形成的内在自我的物质具体化。

　　"Your must honor yourselves and see within yourselves the spirit of eternal validity. You must honor all other individuals, because within each is the spark of this validity."

　　“你必须尊重你自己，看到你自己之内的永生的精神。你必须尊重所有其他的个人，因为每一个人都有这种生命力的火花。

　　"Do not fall into the old ways that will lead you precisely into the world that you fear. There is no man who hates but that hatred is reflected outward and made physical, and there is no man who loves but that love is reflected outward and made physical."

　　“不要陷入恰恰引导你们进入你们所害怕的世界的老路上去。一个人如果恨，那他必定会将恨向外反映出来使它变为现实，一个人如果爱，那他必定会将爱向外反映出来使它变为现实。

　　"The human race is a stage through which various forms of consciousness travel....Yours is a training system for emerging consciousness ... you must first learn to handle energy and see through physical materialization, the concrete result of thought and emotion."

　　“人类是这样一个阶段，各种不同形式的意识旅行其中……它是给浮现出来的意识的一个训练系统……你们必须首先学会处理能量，看清思想和情感物质具体化后的结果。

　　"To pursue certain goals, you pretend that they did not exist. Now, however, your global situation as a race requires the new acquisition of some ancient arts. These can help you become aware again of those inner idealizations that form your private reality and your mass world. These arts are useless if they are not practiced, useless in that they lie ever latent, that they are not brought out into the exterior framework of your world. To use these arts requires first of all the knowledge that beneath the world you know is another; that alongside the focus of consciousness with which you are familiar there are other focuses quite as legitimate.

　　“为了追求某种目标，你们假装他们并不存在。注意，无论如何，你们人类的全球处境需要你们对一些古老艺术有新的认知。这些能够帮助你们再次明白那些形成你们私人和群体世界的内在理想化。这些艺术如果未经实践，还一直潜藏着，不拿到你们世界外在的框架中是没用的。要运用这些艺术你们必须知道在你们所知的世界背后，靠着你们所熟知的意识焦点旁边有另外一个世界、另外同样合法有效的焦点。

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　　Seth: "Your spirit joined itself with flesh, and in flesh, to experience a world of incredible richness, to help create a dimension of reality of colors and of form. Your spirit was born in flesh to enrich a marvelous area of sense awareness, to feel energy made into corporeal form. You are here to use, enjoy, and express yourself through the body.

　　赛斯：“你们的精神将它加入肉体，通过肉体去经验一个具有难以置信的丰裕的世界，去帮助创造一个具有颜色和形式的实在的维度。你们的精神以肉体的形式诞生来丰富感觉知觉的神奇领域，来感觉能量变为肉体有形的形式。你们在此运用、享受并且通过身体将自己表现出来。

　　"You are here to aid in the great expansion of consciousness. You are not here to cry about the miseries of the human condition, but to change them when you find them not to your liking through the joy, strength and vitality that is within you; to create the spirit as faithfully and as beautifully as you can in flesh."

　　“你们在此增加意识巨大的扩展程度。你们不是在此叫嚷人类处境的不幸，而是当你们发现它和你们内心的快乐、力量和活力不相符时去改变它们；尽可能忠实和完美地以肉体的形式来创造精神。

　　"In the most basic sense, the purpose of life is being - as opposed to not being. In your system of three-dimensional reality you are learning about mental energy (also called thought energy or psychic energy) and how to use it."

　　“从最基本的意义上来说，生活的目标是存有－而不是不存有。在你们三维实在的系统里你们正在学习有关心智的能量（也叫作思想的能量或心灵的能量）以及如何运用它”

　　"Knowledge about mental energy and its use is learned by constantly transforming your thoughts and emotions into physical form (your physical reality) and by then perceiving and dealing with the matter and events that are formed."

　　“心智能量及其运用的知识你们是通过不断将你们的思想和情感转变为物质的形态（你们物质的实在）并感知和处理那些形成的物体和事件来学习的。”

　　"From doing this, you are supposed to get a clear picture of your inner development as it is reflected by the exterior environment. You participate in physical reality so that you can operate and experience within this dimension. Here, you can develop your abilities, learn, create, solve problems and help others."

　　“要这样做，你们被假定当它被外在环境反映时你们能够获得你们内在发展的画面。你们参与到物质实在以致能够在这个维度中运作和体验。在此你们可以发展你们的能力、学习、创造、解决物体和帮助他人。”

　　"What is gross about your flesh, or about the seasons that sweep through it and across the earth? Where is there a greater exaltation, and where is there a finer power than what you are? And what is within you? From that do you form all of your realities and all your worlds. Look to dim horizons, bloodless ones in which you are spirit without form. If spirit did not want form, it would not have worn it. It would not make it daily in your image, out of your own desires. It would not tremble in your fingertips and fly to the channel of your bone.

　　你的肉体能给你赚得多少，或者说四季掠过地球又能给他带来什么？更伟大的提升又在哪儿，在哪里有比你所是的更精微的能量？而在你之内又是什么？你是从那些形成了你的实在以及你所有的世界的。盯着昏暗的地平线，你是精灵那活儿还不具形状没有血色的样子。如果精灵不想要形状，那它也不会穿上它。它也不会因为自己的欲望而每天以你们的形象。它也不会在你的指间颤抖，在你的骨头之间穿梭。

　　"Your creaturehood is your divinity and your knowledge, for through your creaturehood does your divinity express itself. You are awake who believe you dream. You are dreaming who believe you are awake; for the terms are meaningless. You make your tomorrow out of your desire, as you form your present and your past. Your gut awareness is a god in you laughing, so rejoice! When gods do not need intestines, they will not make them. When gods do not enjoy the smile on your lips, you will not need the lips-and the gods will be the sorrier, and you will be the sorrier!

　　你们身为生灵是你们的神圣性和和知识的结果，因为通过你们之为生灵的存在你们的神圣性才得以表现。你们对相信你们在做梦的人来说是醒着的。你们对相信你正清醒的人来说正在做梦；因为这些说法都没有意义。就象你形成你的过去和现在一样，你按照自己的意愿制造了你的明天。

　　"Within your experience now is the joy of your being--and that fine, astute, pure nature-rousing itself up through stems of flesh and limbs of arms, looking out through your own individual eyes at the Universe it has created, and finds it good. What is gross about your being? Only your belief! You shine with reality that in other universes appears as stars, and they look and they say, "What beauty, what distance, and what fine, undefinable existence is this?"

　　在你当下的经验里有的是你存有的喜悦，那美好、机敏、纯粹的本性，那美好、机敏、纯粹的本性，从肉体和四肢的躯干中迸发，从你自己独特的眼睛中放眼这个它自己创造的宇宙，发现它非常好。你存在的总和是什么？只是你的信念！你们的存在在其他的宇宙中发光看来就象星星，他们看到并说：“这不可解说的存在是怎样的美、遥远和美好啊？”

　　"As all of you know, but as all of you need telling--not from me, but from yourself--spontaneity knows its own order. If you did not distrust yourselves so thoroughly, you would not worry about your responsibilities. Being yourself automatically fulfills any responsibility. The gods created the Universe out of joy and playfulness and creativity, not because they thought they had to. Your being is blessed and spontaneous because it is. And fulfilling it with nature automatically fulfills your purposes and, in your terms, your responsibility.

　　就象你们众所周知的，但也是你们都需要提醒的，不是由我，而是由你们自己，自发性知道它自己的秩序。如果你们不那么彻底地不相信你们自己，你们就不会那么担心自己的责任。成为你自己自动地实现了任何的责任。上帝创造这个宇宙是出于喜悦和嬉戏性和创造性，并不因为他们认为他们必须这样做。你们的存在是被祝福的和自发性的因为它确实是这样，按照本性去实现它就自动地实现了你们的目标，用你们的话说也就是你们的责任。

　　"If you are the self that you are, you use your abilities out of joy. When you use your abilities out of responsibility you distort them. You help because you think you should, not because it is a joyful part of your being. And you begin to question, "Who needs my help most?"

　　如果你是你自己，你就会发自喜悦地去运用你的能力。当你出自责任心去运用你的能力时你就扭曲了他们。你们帮助别人因为你觉得你应该而不是因为它是你存在的喜悦的一部分。于是你就开始疑问：“谁最需要我的帮助？”

　　"Can you imagine the sun thinking, "Who needs my help most? Should I send forth my rays upon this flower, or that one? Which flower needs my help the most?"; or the rain saying, "Which blade of grass should I bless with myself?"

　　你能想象太阳在想：“谁最需要我的帮助？我应该把我的光芒照耀这朵花还是那朵？哪朵花最需要我的帮助？”；或者雨在思考：“哪片草叶必须由我来保佑？”

　　"No; The sun is itself, as you are yourself, and through your being you bless yourself and all others. Being yourself, you can trust yourself; then your responsibilities are automatically fulfilled. But if you do not trust yourselves, there is no responsibility that you can fulfill, and no one that you can truly help.

　　不，太阳是它自己，就象你就是你自己一样，通过你的存在你保佑了你自己和他人。成为你自己，你可以相信你自己，而后你的责任会自动地实现。但如果你不相信你自己，那就没有什么责任会得以完成，也就没有任何人可以真正得到你的帮助。

　　"If you could but perceive the miraculous nature of your own reality in this particular moment that you call the present, how dazzled you would be, and how little you would think in terms of purposes. Your reality is purpose and knows itself. What a rich, undefined miracle exists in each of your beings now! You look at paintings-or a poem-and call them great. If you could feel the miraculous structure of your own being now, and appreciate it, how you would wonder!

　　如果你能在这当下察觉你自己实在的不可思议的本性，那你会多么眩惑，也就多么不会想到目标这样的问题。你们的实在是目标，它知道它自己。你们现在每个人内都存在着一个多么丰富、不可解释的奇迹啊！你们观赏绘画、或一首诗，而后称它们伟大。如果你现在能感觉你自己存在神奇的结构，并激赏它，你会多么惊奇啊！

　　"The appreciation must come from yourselves. You think you are aware with techniques which you read [about]. Listen to just one cell within your body, and hear it sing with purpose, and integrity, and joy!

　　欣赏必须发自你自己。你认为你懂得阅读它的技巧。聆听哪怕只是你体内的一个细胞，听它有目的、和谐和喜悦地歌唱！

　　"Feel a leaf! Feel the petal-like quality of your own thoughts. Be yourselves in the moment and, again, what is the power of the present! I demonstrate it for you, but it is your own, and it is within you now, the energy that you perceive.

　　感觉一片树叶！感觉你思想花瓣般的性质。成为你当下的自己，再说一遍，现在的力量是多么无穷！我可以向你们证明你们现在所感知的能量，但它是你们自己，并就在你们当下之内的。

　　"You each have the same energy, [speaking loudly and forcefully now:] and it sings within your being. You need not be shy of it. It is your own! You need not look to gurus, or gods, or Ruburts, or Seths. It dwells within you!

　　你们每个人都有相同的能量，（现在变得响亮而有力了：）而它在你们存在之内歌唱。你不必对此感到害羞。它是你们自己的！你们不比去指望上师、上帝、或罗布兹、或赛斯。它就居住在你之内！

　　"There is a spirituality within your tissues. Physical existence is sacred and good. There is nothing wrong with it. Atoms and molecules, they are holy. Your consciousness is holy, and so is your little toe. You can aspire--you must aspire for that is within you. But All That Is is now within you.

　　你们的组织内有灵性。物质的存在是神圣和美好的。它丝毫没有什么不好。原子和分子，它们是神圣的。你们的意识是神圣的，你们的小脚趾也一样。你可以渴求，你必须渴求在你之内的东西。而一切全有现在就在你之内。

　　"You do not have to traverse worlds; you do not have to meet hopeless little gods at doorways to let you know whether or not you can enter or follow through on tests, as some psychics tell you. You do not have to take upon yourselves definite rituals. You have only to look within yourself for the source of exaltation, creativity and song. , , , "Now, Ruburt makes contact with me, but having made contact, I am like some vital, ever-growing field that you finally reach. It is up to you to wander in that field and pluck your own idiot flowers and find your own paths. At this moment the field is there--the field that is my reality and yet is your own reality--and you must intellectually probe it and intuitively probe it and find your own paths within it.

　　你不比去越过世界，你不比去在门口遇见无望的小神让你知道你是否能进入或者通过一系列测试，就象一些心灵研究一样。你不比给你自己采用一些具体的仪式。你只要注视你内心提升、创造和歌唱的源泉。目前鲁勃特和我联系上，但只是联系上而已；我就象充满活力、永远成长的领域，而你们最终会达到这里。这需要你们自己在那疆域里漫游、采携自己愚蠢的花朵而后发现自己的道路。在此刻那领域就在那儿，那领域是我的实在而也是你的实在，而你必须从智性、直觉上去探查它，而后在其中发现自己的道路。

　　"Its sources rise from your own being and from the fountainhead of creativity that is within each of you. The teacher is within each of you, and you are yourselves the teacher that you do not recognize, And the voice that speaks in your dreams is the voice of yourself that you do not recognize speaking from the ancient founts of knowledge that are your own.

　　它的源泉从你自己的存有和你自己之内的创造之源升起。导师是在你们每个人之内的，你是你们自己还没有被认识的老师，而在你梦中向你说话的声音是你自己还未被认出的从你自己古老知识之泉发出的声音。

　　"I have told you often that I am no spooky guide that speaks in the night. I am myself, but I am also the speechless portion of your own selves. I am height that you have reached and do not know that you have reached. I am your own heartbeat. I do have my own individuality, yet this in no way means that there is not a meeting ground between what I am and what you are..:.

　　我经常告诉你我并不是幽灵般在晚上说话的人。我是我自己，但我也是你们自身那不说话的部分。我是你们达到但还不知道已经达到的高度。我是你们自己的心跳。我确实有自己的个性，但这一点也不意味着我们之间就没有一个可以会面的场所。

　　"I want you to understand that in this moment in your time, your very cells respond to what I say not because I say it, but because your cells also speak through my voice and the forgotten portions of you to which you do not listen. The voice that cries in the wilderness is your own, and the voice that answers from eons of time that you do not understand is your own.

　　我想让你们知道在你们时间的此刻，你们的细胞对我的话作出反应并不是因为是我说了那些话，而是因为你们的细胞也通过我的嗓子和你自己并不聆听的你自己遗忘的部分说话。在荒野叫喊的声音是你们自己的，而你们所并不懂的从无数世代以来的回答声也是你们自己的。

　　"You have counterparts you are not alone. You have brothers and sisters that you do not recognize. Stratums that fly through the night, in your terms now, have known consciousness and song. The air that brushes past your cheek is alive. It too has known love and exaltation and will again....

　　你有与你相应的部分所以你并不孤单。你有你还并不认识的兄弟姐妹。你们所谓的现在，在晚间飞越你们的地层已经知道意识和歌唱。掠过你们双颊的空前是有生命的。它们也知道爱和提升并且还会……

　　"Remember, therefore, that your own vitality is without bounds; that it is ever new; that it sweeps through your own frame as easily and as naturally as the energy sweeps through this form; that you have only to accept it and acknowledge it. The vitality of life is not quiet; it is not adult; it is not dignified; it is! All the alleyways down which you have traveled have openings. Any disasters that you have worked upon yourselves have openings. Any energy that you need to direct to any part of your physical image is yours for the asking. Any thought that you have is creative....

　　因此记住，你们自己的生命力是没有局限的；它一直常新；它就象能量扫过形式一样容易、自然地扫过你们的窗框；而你只要接受它并承认它即可。生命的活力并不是宁静的；它并不成人的；它并不是高贵的；它只是它自己！你们所走的所有小巷都有出口。你们所面对处理的所有灾难都有出路。所有你们所需要导向你们物质形象的能量都等着你们去开口索取。你们所有的思想都是创造性的……

　　"As easily and miraculously as a flower grows or as a hair grows out of your skull or as a thought rises from your brain, that energy resides within you. That energy is your own--your own divinity rests within it. The bridge ways that you form and that all of you know are made of this vitality. In silence it grows and is nurtured, but it is not of itself quiet. It is vigorous and it is not afraid of quiet. It forms you. Get on good terms with it and do not deny it.

　　就象花朵轻易而奇迹般地生长、就象头发从你的颅骨长出、就象思想从你的头脑中萌发，那能量确实居留在你身上。那能量是你的－－你自己的神性在其中歇息。你们所形成的籍以沟通的桥梁以及你们所知道的所有的一切都是由这种生命力构成的。它无声无息地成长和培育，但它本身并不是安静的。它精力充沛而且不怕寂寞。它形成了你。好好地处理它而不要否认它。

　　"I ask you to identify with the power behind this voice and to feel it within your very cells, for it is your own power, your own energy, your own knowledge, and the divinity from which you have sprung and which is a part of each of you. The voice that answers is your own, then listen to it with love and understanding."

　　我要你认出这嗓音后面的力量并在你的细胞中感受它，因为它是你自己的力量，你自己的能量，你自己的知识，而你们从中迸发出的神性是你们每个人的一部分。回答的声音也是你自己的，所以用爱和理解去聆听吧。

　　"Two young women visited Ruburt lately. They were exuberant, energetic, and filled with youthful idealism. They want to change the world. Working with the Ouija board, they received messages telling them that they could indeed have a part in a great mission. One young lady wanted to quit her job, stay at home, and immerse herself in "psychic work," hoping that her part in changing the world could be accomplished in that manner. The other was an office worker.

　　最近两个女青年来访问了鲁勃特。她们非常精力充沛、富有朝气而且充满了年轻人的理想主义。她们想改变这个世界。通过灵应盘，她们获得讯息告诉她们她们确实能够参与一个伟大的使命。其中一个女青年想辞去她的工作呆在家里，把自己沉浸在“心灵的工作”中，希望她改变这个世界的这部分工作能这样完成；而另一个女青年则是一个办公室工作人员。

　　"There is nothing more stimulating, more worthy of actualization, than the desire to change the world for the better. That is indeed each person's mission (intently). You begin by working in that area of activity that is your own unique one, with your own life and activities. You begin in the corner of an office, or on the assembly line, or in the advertising agency, or in the kitchen. You begin where you are. . . . When you fulfill your own abilities, when you express your personal idealism through acting it out to the best of your ability in your daily life, then you are changing the world for the better."

　　没有比把这个世界改变得更好这个欲望更刺激、更值得去实现了。那确实是每个人的使命（专心地）。你们从你们自己独特的生活和活动的那部分做起。你从办公室的一角、或流水线或在广告代理或在厨房。你从你所在的地方做起。……当你实现了自身的能力、当你通过在日常生活中将你个人的理想展现出来时，那你就在将这个世界变得更美好。

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　　Seth Quotes Chapter 9 赛斯名言 第九章

　　对那些身患严重疾病者的评论

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　　Seth: "If you cut your finger, it is no accident. If you stub your toe, it is no accident. If you come down with the flu, or with a virus, it is no accident. If you have a chronic physical difficulty, it is no accident. If you are creative, it is no accident. If you get good news, it is no accident. If lovely things happen to you, it is no accident either.

　　赛斯“如果你割破了你的手指，这不是偶然的。如果你的脚趾断了，这不是偶然的。如果你感染了流感或病毒，这不是偶然的。如果你有一种慢性身体障碍，这不是偶然的。如果你非常具有创造性，这不是偶然的。如果你得到一个喜讯，这不是偶然的。如果那些可爱的事情发生在你身上，这也不是偶然的。

　　"You form your reality, and this applies all the way up or down the scale, from the consciousness you now have to the tiniest molecule in the tiniest eyelash on your body. It is only when you are not willing to face consciously your own beliefs, and face them through and make distinctions, that seemingly unconscious accidents occur: when all of a sudden you are not as quick as you should be; or, when all of a sudden, your reactions are not as good; when a car comes that should not be there. Each of you have your own ways, and an event that seems horrendous from the outside-from the inside, from your private viewpoints, may be something else entirely.

　　“你形成了自己的实在，这适用于大大小小所有的方式，从你现在所拥有的意识到你身上睫毛里最小的分子。只有当你不愿有意识地面对自己的信仰，彻底地面对、认清，那些看来是无意识的意外事件才发生。当你突然并不象你所应有地那么反应迅速；或突然你的反应不那么好；当一辆本不该在那儿的小汽车出现。你们每一个人都有自己的方式，一个来自外界和内在，或从你私人的角度来看的可怕事件，可能完全是其他的什么事。

　　"You can rid yourself of any illness when you realize that you create and draw such illness to yourself. What you fear most, you draw to yourselves. Now, if you decide to leave this world, that is your right; go in joy and vitality, but go because you know you decided to leave, and not as a victim of a disease that has been given a name. On the other hand if you decide you want to continue to live, then live in your full glory and strength. If you decide to live, then tell yourself you want to live and know the reasons, and your body will repair itself in joy and glory. You are not a victim!

　　“当你意识到是你创造或将任何这种疾病吸引到自身时，你就能去除它。现在，如果你决定离开这个世界，那是你的权利；欢乐和有活力地离开，但要知道你离开是因为你决定离开，不是作为一个疾病的受害者这种名义离开的。另一方面，如果你决定继续活下去，那么就活出你全部的荣耀和力量。如果你决定活下去，那就告诉你自己你想活下去并知道其理由，你的身体会自己快乐和荣耀地修复。你不是一个受害者！

　　"While such situations as illness are chosen by the personality, the individual is always left to work out its own solution. Complete recovery, illness, or early death are not preordained on the part of the entity [or whole self]. The general situation is set up in response to deep inner involvements. The problem is a challenge set up by the entity for one of its own personalities, but the outcome is up to the personality involved. One does not choose illness per se for a lifetime situation.

　　“当一个人格选择某种疾病的情形时，这个人总有机会用他自己的方式来解决。完全的恢复、疾病或是过早地死亡并不是实体（或者说是全我）预定的。总体的情形是按照深层的内在牵连而设置的。这难题是实体为它自己的某个人格而设置的挑战，而其结果也与这个人格有关。实体并不选择疾病作为其一生的情形。

　　"The inner self, as distinguished from the more accessible subconsciousness, is aware of the situation and finds release through frequent inner communications where successes are remembered and reexperienced. The dream state becomes an extremely vivid time, for such experiences assure the personality of its larger nature. It knows it is more than the self that it has for a time chosen to be. You need to learn the power of thought and emotion. Once you realize that your thoughts form reality, then you are no longer a slave to events.

　　“内在的自身，有别于更容易被接近的潜意识，知道这情形并通过频繁地将记忆中的成功之处作内在的交流和重新体验来寻求疏导。梦的状态成了极度活跃的时间，因为这类经验确保了人格更大的本质。它知道它比它一时选择存在的自我要多。你们需要学习思想和情感的力量。一旦你意识到你的思想形成实在，那你就不再是事件的奴隶。

　　"True self-knowledge is indispensable for health and vitality. The recognition of the truth about the self simply means that you must first find out what you think about yourself subconsciously. If it is a good image, build upon it. If it is a poor one, recognize it as only the opinion you have held of yourself and not an 'absolute state.'"

　　“健康和活力不能缺少真正的自我认知。对于自身真理的认识只是意味着你必须发现你潜意识里对自己是怎么认为的。如果它是一个好的形象，那就在它上面建造。如果是个拙劣的形象，认识到它只是你对自己所一时持有的意见，并不是一个绝对状态。

　　"You are not your emotions. They flow through you, you feel them and then they disappear. When you try to hold them back they build up."

　　“你不是你的情感。它们流经你，你感觉到它们然后它们消失。当你试图抓住它们不放时，它们就开始堵塞。

　　"You must learn to trust your own spontaneous nature. Your nervous system knows how to react. It reacts spontaneously when you allow it to....In spontaneity there is a discipline that utterly escapes you, and an order beyond any that you know. Spontaneity knows its own order."

　　“你必须学着相信你自己自发的本性。你的神经系统知道如何去反应。当你允许它这么做时它会自动反应……在自发状态中有一种完全超乎你的纪律，一种超越你所知的规则。自发性知道自己的规则。”

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　　Seth Quotes Chapter 10 赛斯名言 第八章

　　死亡的经验

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　　Seth: "According to what you have been taught, you are composed of physical matter and cannot escape it, and this is not so. The physical matter will disintegrate but you will not. I can assure you that death is another beginning. You have lived before and you will live again, and when you are done with physical existence, you will still live. I want you to feel your own vitality. Feel it travel through the universe and know that it is not dependent upon your physical image.

　　赛斯：“按照你所被教以的你由物质的事物构成而无法离开它，其实并不是这样。物质会分解而你不会。我可以向你保证死亡是另一种开始。你曾经生活过并将再次生活，当你处理完物质的存在，你将继续活着。我想让你们感受你自己的活力。感觉它在宇宙中穿行并知道它并不依赖于你物质的形象。

　　"I am life and I am death. Now when death can talk about death, that is your answer. Only the living are so mute. Think of your definitions. In certain terms, you are all dead and have been for centuries. In other terms you are not yet born and centuries will come before you walk upon the surface of the earth. Yet you are alive, and you take it for granted that I am dead, and so, what a delightful game we play!

　　“我是生，我也是死。现在当一个死者在谈论死亡，来回答你们的问题。只有活着的人才那么沉默。考虑一下你们的定义吧。用某种语汇来说，你们都是死亡的，死了已经好几个世纪了。用另外的话来说你们还没有出生而到你们在地球表面行走还有许多世纪。然而你们是活着的，你们想当然地认为我是死的，我们所玩的游戏是多么令人惊喜啊！

　　"What I am trying to show you is that individuality continues. Now, I have been born and died more times than I can remember. And yet, in my present state, my individuality continues. It is not my essence. It is not buried in some bovine goodness in which I must think beautiful thoughts and become lost in the beauty of the Universe. I am part of the beauty of the Universe, and as such, my individuality continues-as does your own."

　　我想要向你们展示的是个体性是会延续。好了，我已经出生入死多少次我也说不清了。然而在我目前的状态我的个体性还在延续。它并非我的本质。

　　"You sense here the energy of your being, and it is death and it is life, for the two are one and united, and, in your terms, are the faces of the same reality. You will never know, in your terms again, the self that you are now, and yet it will never end, and you will always remember it. Yet there is a history, in other terms, to your being, and you can read that history. In your terms, you can look backward toward reincarnational lives, but they are not you..."

　　"Life implies death, and death implies life--that is, in the terms of your world. You could not die unless you were the kind of creature who was born, nor could you have a present moment as you consider it. Your body is aware of the fact of its death at birth, and of its birth at its death, for all of its possibilities for action take place in the area between. Death is therefore as creative as birth, as necessary for action and consciousness, in your terms.

　　“生意味着死，死意味着生－－那的确是这样，用你们世界的话来说。你不能死亡，除非你是你所出生的那种生灵，否则你也不能拥有你所认为的当下的现在。你的身体知道它出生时死亡的事实，也知道它死亡时的出生，因为所有它行动的可能性在这两者之间发生。所以死亡象出生那样的富有创造性，用你们的话来说，对行动和意识都有必要。

　　"Here time as you think of it has little meaning. You could compare the two different time experiences in this way: In your dimension it is as if remembered events were like pieces of furniture, all arranged in one room, in a given order. Living in that room, you can find your way between various pieces easily. You then move out into a larger and different kind of room, and here the furniture may be rearranged in any fashion, arranged and rearranged to your heart's content. You may form different combinations from it and use it for different purposes as you might visit a new residence and move some of your belongings there before you officially make it your own. There will be guides to help you and you will hardly notice that you have entirely moved in, for you will feel so at home. Shortly, training periods will begin. It will become your turn then to help others and be their source of strength.

　　“这儿，你们所认为的时间没有一点意义。你可以用这种方法比较两种不同的时间经验：在你们的维度里记忆中的事件就象一件件家具，都放在一个房间里，用一种给定的秩序。住在那个房间里，你可以容易的找到如何从这个走到那个。然后你又搬出到另一个较大的不同的房间，这儿家具可能以任意的样式重新放置，按照你内心的满意程度放了又放。你可以将它形成不同的组合，用作不同的用途，就象你可能参观了一个新居，在正式将它定为你的居所前将你部分的财物转译过去一样。会有向导来帮助你，你可能一点儿也不会注意到你已经完全迁入了，因为你会感觉在家一样。不久，训练阶段将开始。这下将轮到你来帮助别人成为他们力量的源泉了。

　　"Now the new body is, of course, not a new one at all, but simply a body not physical in your terms, one that you use in astral projections, one that gives the vitality and strength to the physical body that you know. Your flesh is embedded in it now. When you leave the physical body, the other body is quite real to you and seems physical, although it has many more freedoms.

　　“这时这新的身体，当然它一点儿也不新，只是用你们的话来说不是物质有形的，一个你们在星体投射时采用的，它是给你们所知的物质的身体以活力和力量的那个。这时你们的肉体已经植入它里面了。当你离开了你物质的身体，另外一个身体会对你看来非常真实，象物质有形的一样，尽管它有更多的自由。

　　"First of all, there are verbal difficulties having to do with the definition of life. It appears to you that there is living matter and nonliving matter, leading to such questions as: "How does nonliving matter become living?"

　　“首先，对生命的定义存在着有形表述的困难。在你们看来存在着有生命的事物和没有生命的事物，而导致产生这样的问题：“没有生命的事物是如何变成有生命的？”

　　"There is no such thing, in your terms, as nonliving matter. There is simply a point that you recognize as having the characteristics that you have ascribed to life, or living conditions---a point that meets the requirements that you have arbitrarily set.

　　“用你们的话来说，不存在什么没有生命活力的事物。只有某个你们所认可的归于生命或活着的状态特性的临界点－－一个符合你们任意设置需要的点。

　　"This makes it highly difficult in a discussion, however, for there is no particular point at which life was inserted into nonliving matter. There is no point at which consciousness emerged. Consciousness is within the tiniest particle. There was no point at which consciousness was introduced, because consciousness was the illumination from which the first cells emerged.

　　“这使讨论非常困难，无论如何没有哪个生命切入非生命物质的特别点。意识并不在某个点上浮现。意识在最小的粒子里面。意识并不在哪个点上被引入，因为意识是使最早的细胞浮现的光亮。

　　"There is a design and a designer, but they are so combined, the one within and one without, that it is impossible to separate them. The Creator is also within its creations, and the creations themselves are gifted with creativity and that each contains an infinite capacity for development---and that each is innately blessed.

　　“存在一个设计和设计者，但他们的结合是如此紧密，一里一外不可能将它们分离。创造者也在他的创造物里面，而创造物它们自己也被赋予了创造性，每个都包含了发展的无限潜能－－而每一个天生都被祝福。

　　"In the dawn of physical existence, men knew that death was merely a change of form."

　　“在即将到来的物质存在中，人会知道死亡只不过是改变了形式而已。

　　"What you call death is rather your choice to focus in other dimensions and realities. You do not acquire a 'spirit' at death. You are one, now! You adopt a body as a space traveler wears a space suit, and for much the same reason."

　　“你们所谓的死亡毋宁是你们关注于其他维度和实在的选择。你并没有在死亡时获得一个精神。你现在就是！出于差不多相同的原因你采用了一个身体就象一个宇航员穿了一件宇航服。

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　　Seth: "You are not any of those past selves, even though they are a part of the history of your being. They are themselves in their own space and time. You are as different from those reincarnational selves, therefore, as you are from your parents, though you share certain backgrounds and characteristics. So you can theoretically expand your consciousness to include the knowledge of your past lives, though those lives were yours and not yours. The next step is taken when identity is able to include within itself the intimate knowledge of all incarnations. Yet in this state, the independence of the various reincarnated selves is not diminished as each separate identity then seeks to know and experience its other portions, then All That Is learns Who and What It Is. Action never ceases its exploration of itself."

　　“你并不是你过去那些自我，尽管它们是你存有的历史的一部分。在它们自己的时空里它们是它们自己。所以你和你那些再生的自我相异就象你和你的父母，尽管你们共享某些背景和个性。所以从理论上来说你们可以扩张你们的意识去包容你前世的知识，尽管那些生命是你的而又不是你的。当总体的身份能够包容它所有转世的亲密知识时，下一步也就完成了。然而在这种状态中，独立的各个不同的转世自我并没有被削弱因为每一个分离的身份在寻求对其他部分的知识和体验，那时一切全有知道了谁和它是什么。探索它自身的活动永远也不会停止。

　　"In each life you choose and create your own settings or environments; and in this one you chose your parents and whatever childhood incidents that came within your experience. You wrote the script. Like a true absent minded professor, the conscious self forgets all this, however, so when tragedy appears in the script, difficulty or challenges, the conscious self looks for someone or something to blame."

　　“在每一生中，你选择和创造了你的背景和环境；在这生中你选择了你的父母和来到你经验的无论什么童年的事件。是你在编写剧本。就象一个心不在焉的教授，有意识的自我遗忘了所有这些，好了，当悲剧在剧本里出现了，困难和挑战，有意识的自我便找别人或别的什么来责怪。

　　"...When consciousness splits off from itself, the original is not less, but a new synthesis occurs. Such psychological births take place often in one life, quite escaping your notice. ... The self is quite able to keep track of its own journeys into various realities and times, and feels no confusion. ..."

　　“当意识和它自己分裂时，原来的那个并没有减少，只是有一种新的综合产生。这种心理的诞生在一生中经常发生，相当逃避你的注意……自我相当有能力跟踪它自己通往不同实在和时代的旅程，而不会感到混淆。

　　"Reincarnation involves the historical periods that you recognize, and the seemingly sequential progress of events. Your reincarnational selves more or less belong to the same probability, translated into historical terms. Since all time is simultaneous, however, all frameworks of historical nature are being formed at once. In those terms you are born in the past with your knowledge of the future held in unconscious abeyance, and you are born in the future convinced that your knowledge of the past comes only from history books."

　　“转世牵涉到你所认识的历史片断，以及那表面上的事件的连续进展。如果从转译为历史的方式来说，你转世的自我们多少属于相同的可能性，因为所有的时间都是同时存在的，所以所有历史性的框架都同时形成。从那种角度来说你在过去出生却具有在无意识中被搁置起来的未来的知识，而你在未来出生可以确信那些只从历史书中得来的过去的知识的准确性。

　　"The entire complex social world rests however on strong probable relationships, and the power behind civilizations rests upon a great unconscious rapport, and is built upon, in any given present, future and past, personal and social relationships."

　　“整个复杂的社会是安置在可能的有力的关系中，而文明后面的动力是安置在巨大的无意识的紧密关系中，在任何给定的时刻，它建立在未来和现在、个人和社会的关系中。

　　"An excess of male lives will turn a personality sour in a feminine manner, without the inner understanding and compassion that is usually associated with the female sex. In like manner, consistent feminine personalities will turn harsh without the inner strength usually associated with the male sex. For this reason, most entities live lives as male and female."

　　“过多的男性投身会使人格的女性风格变味，而失去了通常与女性相关联的内在的理解和关怀；同样，连续地以女性的人格投胎会使人格的男性风格变得粗糙，而失去了通常与男性关联的内在的力量。为此之故，绝大多数实体的投身是男女兼有。

　　"It does not follow that everyone with whom you are concerned was also involved with you in past lives. You will always meet new personalities in various existences, as well as people you have known.

　　“并不是你所关心的每一个人都和你的前世有牵连。在不同的存在中你总是遇到新的人格，就象你所认识的人一样。

　　"When you leave the physical system after reincarnations, you have learned the lesson and you are literally no longer a member of the human race, for you elect to leave it. Only the conscious self dwells within it in any case, and other portions of your identity dwell simultaneously within other training systems. In more advanced systems, thoughts and emotions are automatically and immediately translated into action, into whatever approximation of matter there exists. Therefore, the lessons must be taught and learned well."

　　“当你在转世后离开了感官实在的系统，你已经学会了课程而的确已经不是人类的一员了，因为你选择离开了它。在任何情况下，只有有意识的自我还居住在它里面，而你身份的其他部分同时地居住在其他的训练系统中。在更高级的系统中，思想和情感被自动地转译为行为，变成与存在的物质极其近似。所以，一定要教这些课程，而且要学得好。

　　"The teachers within your system are those in their last reincarnation, and other personalities who have left the system but have been assigned to help those still within it. The system also includes some fragment personalities what are entering for the first time, as well as those in later reincarnations."

　　“你们系统中的教师是那些最后一次投身，和另外那些已经离开你们的系统但被派来帮助那些还在里面的人的人格的。系统中也包括一些初次进入和多次投身后的人格片断。

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　　Seth Quotes Chapter 12 赛斯名言 第十二章

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　　Seth: "If you prefer, you can call the supreme psychic gestalt God, but you should not attempt to objectify him. What you call God is the sum of all consciousness, and yet the whole is more than the sum of Its parts."

　　赛斯：“如果你偏爱，你可以称至高的心灵完形为上帝，但你不应该试图将它客体化。你所称的上帝是所有意识的总和，而全部要比它各部分的总和要多。

　　"[It] is not one individual, but an energy gestalt. (It) is a psychic pyramid of interrelated, ever expanding consciousness, that creates simultaneous and instantaneously, universes and individuals that are given duration, psychic comprehension, intelligence and eternal validity. Its energy is so unbelievable that is does indeed form all universes; and because its energy is within and behind all universes, fields and systems, it is indeed aware of each sparrow that falls, for it is each sparrow that falls."

　　“（它）并不是一个个人，而是能量的完形，（它）是一个互相联系、不断扩张的心灵金字塔，同时和即时地创造着能够持续的宇宙和个人、心灵的包容、智力和永恒的生命力。它的能量是如此的不可置信，它确实形成的整个的宇宙；并且因为它的能量在所有宇宙、场和系统之中和之后，它确实知道每个降落的麻雀，因为它是每个降落的麻雀。

　　"Dimly remembered through what you would call history, there was a state of agony in which the powers of creativity and existence were known, but the ways to produce them were not known. All That Is existed in a state of being, but without the means to find expression for Its being. All That Is had to learn this lesson, and could not be taught. From this agony, creativity was originally drawn, and its reflection is still seen. All That Is retains the memory of that state, and it serves as a constant impetus toward renewed creativity. Desire, wish and expectation, therefore, rule all actions and are the basis for all realities. Within the dreams of All That Is, potential beings had Consciousness before any beginning as you know it."

　　“透过你们所谓的历史的模糊记忆，有一种状态在其中创造和存在的力量是被知的，但制造它们的方式是未知的。一切全有存在于一种存有的状态，但无法发现表现其存有的方法。一切全有不得不学习这样的课程，而它又不能被教以。欲望、希冀和期待统治了所有的行动并且是所有实在的基础。在一切全有的梦中，在你所知的任何开始之前潜在的存有就具有了意识。

　　"All That Is saw an infinity of probable, conscious individuals. These Probable individual selves found themselves alive within a God's dream And they clamored to be released into actuality. All That Is yearned to release them and sought within itself for the means to do so. Finally, with love and longing It let go of that portion of itself, and they were free. The psychic energy exploded in a flash of creation."

　　“一切全有看到了无限可能的、有意识的个人。这些可能个人的自身发现自己存活于上帝的梦中并叫嚷着要释放成为现实。一切全有渴望释放它们而在其自身寻找这样做的方法。最后怀着爱和渴望它让它自身的那部分离开，它们也就自由了。心灵的能量在一种创造的闪光中爆炸了。

　　"All That Is loves all that It has created down to the least, for It realizes the dearness and uniqueness of each consciousness which has been wrest from such a state of agony. It is triumphant and joyful at each development taken by each consciousness, and It revels and takes joy in the slightest creative act of each of Its issues."

　　“一切全有爱它所创造的即便是最卑微的一切，因为它意识到从这种痛苦状态中费力取得的每一个意识的珍贵性和独特性。它为每一个意识所取得的每一个进展感到胜利和欢乐，并为其每个事件的最微小的创造性行为欢呼和喜悦。”

　　"All individuals remember their source, and now dream of All That Is as It once dreamed of them. And they yearn toward that immense source...and yearn to give it actuality through their own creations."

　　“所有的个人都记住他们的来源，象一切全有梦见他们一样梦见一切全有。他们想念和渴望那广阔无边的源泉……渴望通过他们自己的创造使它成为现实。

　　"The connections between you and All That Is can never be severed, and Its awareness is so delicate and focused that its attention is indeed directed with a prime creator's love to each consciousness."

　　“你与一切全有之间的联系永远也不能被切断，而它的知晓是如此之细微和专注以致其注意力确实是导向元初创造者对每个意识的关爱。”

　　"All That Is knows no other. It does not know whether or not other psychic gestalts like Itself may exist. It is constantly searching."

　　“一切全有不知道其余的。它不知道是否有象它自己一样的心灵完形存在。它在不停地寻求。”

　　"There are answers to some questions that I cannot give you about the origin of All That Is, for they are not known anywhere in the system in which we have our existence."

　　“对有些关于一切全有的起源的问题我不能给你们答案，因为在我们存在的系统中对它还不知晓。”

　　"All portions of All That Is are constantly changing. All That Is is constantly seeking to know Itself, for seeking itself is a creative activity and the core of all action."

　　“一切全有的所有部分都在不停改变。一切全有在不停寻求去认识自己，因为寻求自己是一种创造性的活动而且是所有行为的核心。”

　　"You, as a consciousness, seek to know yourself and become aware of yourself as a distinct individual portion of All That Is. You automatically draw on the overall energy of All That Is, since your existence is dependent upon it. The portion of All That Is that is aware of itself as you, that is focused within your existence, can be called upon for help when necessary. This portion of All That Is looks out for your interests and may be called upon in a personal manner. A psychic gestalt may seem impersonal to you, but its energy forms your person."

　　“你作为一个意识，寻求认识你自己而变得知道你作为一个与一切全有不同的部分。你自动地吸收一切全有的全部能量，因为你的存在是依赖它的。一切全有知觉它自己之为你的那部分，那关注于你内在存在的部分在必要的时候能被唤来作为帮助。一切全有的这部分向外寻求你的利益，它能以一种个人的样子被唤来。心灵的完形可能在你看来是非个人的，但它的能量形成了你的人。”

　　"When a race is in deepest stress and faced with great problems, it will call forth someone like Christ. It will seek out and indeed from itself produce the very personalities necessary to give it strength."

　　“当一个种族在巨大的压力之下面对巨大的困难时，它会唤起象基督那样的人。他会竭力寻找并确实从它自身产生出这样的必要人格来给它以力量。”

　　"You do not have to die to find God. All That Is, is-now; and you are a part of All That Is now. And as I have told you often, you are a spirit now. The avenues for development are open now. If you want to, you can now set upon exploring environments that are not physical, but I do not see any rush of students at that invisible door!"

　　“你不必死了以后再去发现上帝。一切全有即是现在；你是现在一切全有的一部分。正如我经常告诉你的，你现在是一个灵魂。通往发展之路现在向你开放。如果你想要，你现在就可以探索非物质的环境，但我并未看到有哪个学生冲向那扇看不见的门！”

　　"Now, when I speak to you, I very seldom use such words as love. I do not tell you that a god is waiting for you on the other side of a golden door. I do not reassure you by telling you that when you are dead, God will be waiting for you in all His majestic mercy, and that will be the end of your responsibility."

　　“现在,当我在跟你说话时，我很少用诸如“爱”这些词。我从未告诉你，在一扇金色的门后会有一个神在等你。我从未向你保证：当你死了，上帝将会在仁慈地等待你，那时你的责任也到了尽头。”

　　"And so, I offer no hope for the lazy, for they will not find eternal rest. However, through traveling within yourself, you will discover the unity of your consciousness with other consciousnesses. You will discover the multi-dimensional love and energy that give consciousness to all things. This will not lead you to want to rest on the proverbial Blessed Bosom. It will, instead, inspire you to take a better hand in the job of creation."

　　“因此，我并未给懒惰者以希望，他们将不会找到永恒的安息。然而，通过你对自身的探索，你将发现你的意识与其它意识体是一体的。你将发现赋予一切事物以意识的多次元的爱和能量。这并不会将你领至安乐窝中休息。相反，它将鼓舞你以更佳的方式进行创造。”

　　"And that feeling of divine presence you will find indeed, and feel indeed, for you will sense it behind the dance of the molecules and in yourself and in your neighbors. What so many want is a God Who walks down the street and says, "Happy Sunday, I am I, follow Me. But God is hidden craftily in His creations so that He is what they are, and they are what He is; and in knowing them, you know Him."

　　“你将会真切地发现、真切地感受神圣的存在的感觉，因为你会在分子的舞蹈背后、在你自身之中、在你的邻居中感觉到它。许许多多人所需要的是一个上帝，他会从街上走来，说道：“星期天快乐，我就是我，跟我来。”但是上帝狡猾地躲在他的创造之中，这样他就是他的创造，他的创造就是他；你了解他的创造，你也就了解了他。”

　　"God is always more than All That Is, is the sum that you cannot find--and for my definition of God, I therefore leave you with that one: For God is the sum that you cannot find, that resides within you, that is more than anything you can discover, that is His creations and yet more than that which is created, within Whom infinities rest."

　　“上帝总是超乎一切全有，他是你无法发现的总和——要我对上帝下定义的话，我就会告诉你：上帝是你无法发现的总和，他在你之内，他超乎你所能发现的一切之上，它们就是他的创造，而他超乎这些创造之上，无限在他之内栖息。”

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　　Seth Quotes Chapter 13 赛斯名言 第十三章

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　　Seth: "The ego at any give time in this life is simply the part of the inner self that surfaces in physical reality; a group of characteristics that the inner self uses to solve various problems."

　　赛斯：“自我在此生的任一给定的时间只是内在自身浮现于感官实在的这部分，一个内在自身用来解决各种不同问题的特性组。

　　"Each of you exists in other realities and other dimensions, and the self that you call yourself is but a small portion of your entire identity."

　　“你们每一个人都存在于另外的实在和另外的维度，你称作你自己的自身只是你整个身份的一小部分。

　　"Within the self that you know is the prime identity, the whole self. This whole self has lived many lives and adopted many personalities. Personality may be somewhat molded by the circumstances that are created for it by the whole self but the prime identity uses the resulting experience."

　　“你所知的自身的内部就是最根本的身份，整体的自身。这整体的自身已经生活过许多世并采用了许多人格。人格也许在某种程度上被整体自身为其所创造的环境所塑造，但最根本的身份运用了所产生的经验。

　　"Your prime identity is an energy essence personality which is composed of energy gestalts. As each individual consciousness grows, out of its experience it forms other 'personalities' or fragments of itself. These fragments are entirely independent as to action and decision, while constantly in communication with the whole self of which they are a part. These 'fragments' themselves grow, develop, and may form their own entities or 'personality gestalts.'"

　　“你最根本的身份是一种人格的能量本质，由能量的完形所组成。当每个个人意识成长时，由于它的经验它形成了另外的“人格”或它自己的片断。之于行动和决定这些片断是完全独立的，与此同时它们不断地与其身为部分的整个自身进行交流。这些“片断”自己成长、发展，并可能形成他们自己的实体或“人格完形”。

　　"You have constant contact with the other parts of your whole self, but your ego is so focused upon physical reality and survival within it that you do not hear the inner voices. No individuality is ever lost. It is always in existence."

　　“你不断地与你整个自身的其他部分联系，但你的自我是那么关注于其所在的物性的实在和生存，以致于你听不到内在的声音。没有一个个体会永远失落。它一直都存在。

　　"There is an inner ego, an inner self which organizes 'unconscious' material. As the outer ego manipulates within the physical environment, so the inner ego or self organizes and manipulates within inner reality."

　　“有一个内在的自我，一个内在的自身来组织“无意识”的材料。就象外在的自我在物性环境中操纵一样，内在自我也在内在实在里组织和操纵。

　　"It is this inner self, out of massive knowledge and the unlimited scope of its consciousness, that forms the physical world and provides the stimuli to keep the outer ego at the job of awareness. The inner self organizes, initiates, projects and controls the transformation of psychic energy into matter and objects."

　　“是内在自身，用大量的知识和其意识的无限范围，形成了物性的世界并性担当知觉工作的外在自我提供刺激。内在自身组织、发起、计划和控制心灵能量向物质实体的转化。

　　"The individual inner self, through constant effort of great intensity, cooperates with other entities like itself to form and maintain the physical reality that you know."

　　“个别的内在自身，通过不停的高强度的努力，和与其类似的其他实体合作来形成和维持你所知的物性的实在。

　　"The inner self has a virtually infinite reservoir from which to draw knowledge and experience. All kinds of choices are available, and the diversity of physical matter is a reflection of this deep source and variety."

　　“内在自身有一个事实上无限的仓库从中可以吸取知识和经验。所有的选择都是可行的，物质事物的多样性是深层源泉和变化性的反映。

　　"Having determined upon physical reality as a dimension in which it will express itself, the inner self, first of all, takes care to form and maintain the physical basis upon which all else must depend -- the properties of the earth that can be called the natural ones."

　　“一旦决定将物性的实在作为其表现自身的一个维度，内在的自身首先关心形成和维持所有其他必须依赖的物质的基础－－就是可被称之为自然的地球的属性的那一个。

　　"It is the daily ego's ignorance and limited focus that makes it view so-called unconscious activity as chaotic. The waking ego (dealing with physical reality) cannot know all the unconscious material directly. The daily ego is simply not conscious enough to be able to contain the vast knowledge that belongs to the inner conscious self from which it springs. The outer ego is spoon-fed, being given only those feelings and emotions, only that data, that it can handle. This data is presented in a highly specialized manner, usually in terms of information picked up by the physical senses."

　　“是日常自我的无知和关注的局限使得它将所谓的无意识的活动看作是混乱的。清醒的自我（处理物性的实在）不能直接地知道所有这些无意识的材料。日常的自我只是没有足够地有意识到能够包容这属于这内在意识自身并由之迸发的巨大的知识。外在的自我是被溺爱喂养的，只被给予那些它能处理的感觉和情感的数据。这数据以一种高度特殊化的样式展现，通常用物质感官收集信息的方式。

　　"The inner self is not only conscious, but conscious of itself, both as an individuality and as an individuality that is a part of all other consciousness. It is continually aware of both this apartness and unity-with. The outer ego is not continuously aware of this fact. It frequently forgets its 'whole' nature."

　　“内在自身非但有意识，而且意识到它自身，同时作为一个个体和一个之为其他意识一部分的个体。它持续地知觉到这种分离和联结。外在的自我并不一直知觉这个事实。它经常忘记它“整体”的本性。

　　"When it becomes swept up in a strong emotion it seems to lose itself. When it most vigorously maintains its sense of individuality, it is no longer aware of unity-with. If the ego were aware of the constant barrage of telepathic communications that do impinge upon it, it would have a most difficult time retaining a sense of identity."

　　“当它被一种剧烈的情感所席卷时它看来失去了其自身。当它最精神旺盛地维持它的个体感，它不再知觉到这种结合。如果自我感知到这不停的冲击它的心电感应，它会变得非常难以保持一种身份感。

　　"You must learn to listen to the voice of the inner self and work with it. You may also simply ask the inner self to make the answers to problems available on a conscious basis."

　　“你必须学会聆听内在自我的声音并和它打交道。你也可简单地要求内在自身在有意识的基础上透露疑难问题的答案。”

　　"Now, if you realize that you create your physical reality through your own thoughts and desires, then you have learned the most important aspects of reality. This is what you have been setting out to do in your other lives, in your past existences. The realization of these truths nullifies any so-called "debts" from other lives. When you realize this and act upon it, there is no reason for you to come back here again unless you want to. Any of your difficulties in past lives were caused because you did not realize these basic truths. Your reincarnational pasts can help you if you know of them. . .only if they make these truths evident to you, only if you learn from them. Otherwise, they exist within you subconsciously--and unconsciously, in any case."

　　如果你意识到你通过自己的思想和欲望来创造你的物质实在，那么你就学会了实在最重要的方面。这就是你在你以往其他的转世中被派遣去做的。这些真理的实现消除了其他转世中的债务。当你意识到此并去遵照执行，你就没有理由再回到这儿除非你想来。你们前世的任何困难都是由于你没有意识到这些基本的真理引起。如果你知道你前世的经历，那它们会帮助你……只要它们将这些真理向你展明，只要你能从中学到一些东西。否则它们就只能存在于你的下意识或者无意识之中。

　　"Now, each of you is a part of All That Is, highly individual and unique, like no other; and that like no-other-ness will never be taken from you. You will not melt into some great golden bliss in which your characteristics will disappear. You will not be gobbled by a super-god. On the other hand, you will continue to exist; you will continue to be responsible for the way in which you use energy; you will expand in ways now impossible for you to understand. You will learn to command energy of which you now do not know. You will realize that you are more than you realize you are now, but you will not lose the state of which you are now aware."

　　你们每个人都是一切全有的一部分，高度个人化和独特的，不象其他的，而且这种不象其他人的性质永远也不会从你身上被夺走。你不会被消融在一些伟大的金色狂喜中以致你的个性会消失。你不会被一个超级神明所鲸吞。相反，你会继续存在，你将继续对你所使用能量的方式负责，你将以你现在所无法理解的方式扩展。你将学会以你现在不知道的方式统帅能量。你对自己的认识将会比你现在所意识到的要多，但你并不会失去你现在对之知晓的状态。

　　"And regardless of the fact of reincarnation, and regardless of probable selves, the unique self that you now call "yourself" has eternal validity, even though the memories that you cannot now consciously recall will be yours in their entirety. And physical life in a reincarnational self is not some chaos thrust upon you, some evil from which you must shortly hope to escape. It is a particular reality in which you have chosen to know your existence, in which you have chosen to develop yourself; and again, it is indeed a system like no other system--a unique and dear and beloved portion of reality in which you have chosen to flourish for a while. And in denying it, again, you deny the reality of experience."

　　“姑且不论再生的事实，也不论可能的多个自我，你现在称作“你自己”的独特的自我永远有效，那些记忆，尽管你现在不能有意识回忆它们，将完整地属于你。一个再生的自我的物质生活并非是强加于你的混乱，你会遇上一些罪恶，你希望可以很快摆脱。这是你为了了解自己的存在所选择的一个独特的实在，你选择了在其中发展自我；并且，它其实是一个与众不同的系统——一个独特的、可亲可爱的实在的一部分，在其中你会选择兴旺一阵子。如果你否认它，你也就是否认经验的实在。”

　　"In other terms, you will leave this system for others, but there will be a portion of you yet, no matter how many eons pass, that remembers a spring evening and a smell of autumn air And those things will always be with you when you want them. You make your own flesh and your own world, as now en masse you form the evening. These are creations of yours, and of your kind. They are not prisons to be escaped from."

　　“换句话说，你会离开这个系统而去往其他系统，但是不管过了多久，你的一部分还会记得某个春天的夜晚、和秋天空气里的气息。当你想要它们时，所有这些会永远和你在一起。你造就了你自己的肉身和你自己的世界，正如你造就了那个夜晚。这些是你的创造，也是你的同类的创造。它们并非要逃离的监狱。”

　　"The whole self is involved not only in this reality, but in other realities. The whole self sends a portion of itself into various realities. These portions of the whole self are to learn to materialize as best they can the strength and energy as they know it in whatever camouflage they find themselves. The whole self gives you, therefore, a responsibility--and it leaves it mainly up to you."

　　“全我不仅涉入这个实在，而且涉入其他实在。全我将其一部分投入不同的实在。全我的这些部分是要尽其可能地学习将它们所理解的力量与能量物化，不论处于什么样的伪装之下，它们要发现自我。因而，全我赋予你一种责任——它将责任全都托付给你。”

　　"The whole self gives you help at times, for within you is the knowledge of your connection with the whole self. And you are never given a chore more difficult than your abilities [can handle]."

　　“全我不时帮助你，因为在你之内具有你与全我相连的知识。你从来不会承担超出你能力之上的事务。”

　　"When the artist paints a painting, you can look at it and say, "Ah, the artist was in a certain frame of mind," or, " Look at the dull colors and the dreary landscape," or, "Look at the wild colors and the fantastic forms," or, "See, there is no form, and yet there is marvelous vitality." And so are each of you artists, and you create the world that you know. And when you look at the world, you know that you can say, "Look, this is what I have created! And if you do not like what you see, then there is no point in ripping apart the painting, or ripping apart the framework of your life. Instead, you change your pigments. And in this case, your pigments are your thoughts and your imagination. And then you change your painting."

　　“当画家画一幅画时，你会看着它，说：“呃，这个艺术家沉浸在某种意境之中，”或者，“看这黯淡的色彩和沉闷的景色，”或者，“看这狂野的色彩和奇异的构图，”或者，“看哪，不拘形式，但有着不可思议的活力。”你的每一部分都是这样的画家，你创造你所知道的世界。当你看着这个世界时，你知道你可以说：“看哪，这就是我创造的！如果你不喜欢你所见到的，那么，撕掉画作，或扯破你的生活的画框会是毫无意义的。相反，你应改变你的颜料。你的颜料是你的思想和想象。你用它们改变你的画作。”

　　"You must image that within yourself--for this is the truth--there is a stronger and more powerful self, a larger self. And when the "little" self says, "I am afraid, and I will make excuses," you must imagine the larger self saying, "I am strong. I will not allow the smaller self to make excuses. There is no need for them." You must identify with this larger portion of yourself."

　　“你必须想象在你之内——因为真相就是如此——存在着一个更强大、更有力的自我，一个更大的自我。当“小”我说：“我害怕，我要找个借口，”你必须想象更大的自我说：“我是强大的。我不允许小我寻找借口。也无须任何借口。”你必须认同这个更大的自我。”

　　"There are no divisions to the self. Those that you experience are illusions. Yet, those illusions are lovely. They are creative. They are valid experiences of reality."

　　“对自我而言没有部分之分。你所经验的是幻象。但这些幻象很可爱。它们具有创造性。它们是实在的有效的经验。”

　　"You are over concerned, however, about the nature of your own individuality, and afraid to open up to the greater areas of your own being. You are all of your selves at once. The aviator is not swallowed or lost or annihilated or betrayed or forgotten."

　　“但是，你对你自己个性的本质多虑了，你害怕打开你的自我存有的更大的领域。你同时是你全部的自己。飞行员并未被没吞没、失落、歼灭、背叛、或忘记。”

　　"For the inner self knows who it is. The inner self knows the personalities that constantly emerge from its own being. And again, you are simply, understandably, trying to define the nature of creativity, and worried lest your own individuality be lost within it. And such is not the case."

　　“因为内我知道它是谁。内我知道不断自其自我存有显现出来的各种人格。并且，可以理解，你只是试着阐释创造的本质，你担心以免自己的个性会丧失其中。但情况并非如此。”

　　"We will lead you gently into the greater areas of your own being, in which your seeming contradictions vanish in the light of your own knowledge."

　　“我们将渐渐地引导你进入你的自我存有的更大的领域，在那里，你表面上看似矛盾会在你自己的知识中消失。”

　　"You listen to these words that are spoken in English, yet beneath the words rises a knowledge that is inherent in your own being. Let that knowledge then joyfully rise, and when the words that I speak reach you, then will indeed the verbs and the nouns, the vowels and the syllables, turn into birds of knowledge that fly out of your own skulls and through the dreams of your night time, and transform your days."

　　“你听到的这些词是用英语说出来的，在字面之下是你自我存有固有的知识。那么，当你听到我说的话时，让这些知识欢乐地升起，然后动词和名词、元音和音节定会化作知识之鸟，飞出你头骨、穿越你夜晚的梦境、改变你的日子。”

　　"If I do no more than this, let me be an echo for the energy of your own being and remind you of your ancient and ever new knowledge. Emerge out of the knowledge of your selves, and translate what you know into the world of flesh."

　　“如果我仅仅做这些，那让我化作你自我存有的能量的一个回音，以唤醒你亘古常新的知识。来自于你的自我的知识，并且把你所知道的转化进肉身世界。”

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　　Seth Quotes Chapter 14 赛斯名言 第十四章

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　　Seth: "Humanity dreams the same dream at once, and you have your mass world. The whole construction is like an educational play in which you are the producers as well as the actors. There is a play within a play within a play. There is no end to the "within" of things. The dreamer dreams, and the dreamer within the dream dreams. But the dreams are not meaningless, and the actions within them are significant. The whole self is the observer and the participator in the roles. "

　　赛斯：“人类同时在梦着相同的梦，这样你便有了你们群体的世界。整个的构造就象一出教育性的戏剧在其中你既是制作人又是演员。戏中有戏。其中没有尽头。梦者在做梦，而梦中的梦者还在做梦。整个的自身是个观察者和所有角色的参与者。”

　　"When you dream of others, they know it. When they dream of you you know it."

　　“当你梦到他人时，他们知道；当他们梦到你时你也知道。”

　　"(Seth-Jane leaned forward, whispering and smiling, as if telling a joke.) In dreams you are so "dumb" that you believe there is a commerce between the living and the dead. You are so "irrational" as to imagine that you sometimes speak to parents who are dead. You are so "unrealistic" that it seems to you that you visit old houses, long ago torn down, or that you travel in exotic foreign cities that you have actually never visited."

　　“( 赛斯—简向前弯腰，低声说着，微笑着，似乎在说笑)在梦中，你是如此“蠢笨”以至于你相信死人与活人之间有一个交易。你是如此“毫无理智”以至于想象自己有时跟已故的父母说话。你是如此“不现实”以至你造访早已坍塌的旧房子，或去你从未去过的异国他乡旅行。”

　　"In dreams you are so "insane" that you do not feel yourself locked in a closet of time and space, but feel instead as if all infinity but waited your beckoning."

　　“在梦中，你是如此“疯狂”以至你并未感到自己被困于时空之内，反而感到一切都无止境，正等着你去造访。”。

　　"If you were as knowledgeable and crafty when you were awake, then you would put all religions and sciences out of business, for you would understand the greater reality of your psyche. You would know "where the action is."

　　“如果你醒来时，你依然如此知识渊博而又机智，那么你会丢弃所有的宗教和科学，因为你理解了你心灵更伟大的实在。你会知道‘发挥作用的所在。’”。

　　"Your dead relatives survive. They often appear to you in the dream state. You usually interpret their visitations, however, in terms of your own station of reality. You see them as they were, confined to their relationship with you, and you usually do not perceive or remember other aspects of their existences that would not make sense in terms of your own beliefs."

　　“你已故的亲戚依然幸存。他们经常出现在你梦中。然而，你通常从你的现实出发，来解释他们的到访。你这样来看待他们，局限于他们与你的关系，并且你通常并不察觉或记得他们存在的其他方面，这些对你的自己的信仰而言毫无意义。”

　　"Throughout the ages, some have recognized the fact that there is self-consciousness and purpose in dream and sleep states, and have maintained, even in waking life, the sense of continuity of the inner self. To such people it is no longer possible to completely identify with the ego consciousness. They are too aware of themselves as more. When such knowledge is gained, the ego can accept it, for it finds to its surprise that is is not less conscious, but more, and that its limitations are dissipated."

　　“世代以来，一些人已经认识到这个事实，那就是在梦中和睡眠状态有一个自我意识和目标，甚至在清醒状态也还维持着内在自身的连续感。对这些人来说已不再可能完全地与其自我意识认同。他们太知道他们其实比这些更多。当自我得到这些知识时，它可以接受，因为它惊奇地发现它并不是较少地意识着，而是更多，而那种界限也消失了。”

　　"A man's thoughts and dreams are more far reaching than he knows. They exist in more dimensions; they affect worlds of which he is unaware. The are as concrete, in effect, as any building....The dream world is constructed within a field that you cannot physically perceive, but it has more continuity than the world you know."

　　“一个人的思想和梦所涉及的比他所知的要多得多。它们存在于更多的维度中；它们影响着他所不知到的世界。从实质来说它们和一切的建筑物一样确实……梦的世界在一个你们的感官所不能觉察的领域被构筑，而它所具有的连续性要比你们所知的世界多。

　　"When you are manipulating within physical reality, you have a fairly simple set of rules to serve you. Within dream reality there is greater freedom...Each dream begins with psychic energy which the individual transforms into a reality which is just as functional and real as physical reality."

　　“当你在物性的世界中操纵时，你遵循一套相当简单的规则。在梦的实在中有更大的自由……每一个梦都由心灵的能量开始，个人籍之转换成与物性实在具有同样功能和真实性的实在。

　　"Through our dreams we change physical reality, and our physical daily experience alters our dream experience. There is constant interaction. Our consciousness is simply directed in a different kind of reality when we dream, a reality as vivid as waking life."

　　“我们通过自己的梦来改变物性的实在，而我们日常的物性的经验也对我们梦的经验加以修改。这其间有一种持续的相互作用。我们的意识在梦中只是被导向一种不同的，和我们醒来的生活一样生动的实在。”

　　"On one level the personality attempts to solve problems through dream construction....Dream action CAN be turned toward fulfilling constructive expectations, which will effect a change for the better!"

　　“在一种程度上人格试图通过梦的建筑来解决问题……梦的行为能够被导向于实现建设性的期望，而引起一个更好的改变。”

　　"Dreams can be utilized creatively to improve health, gain inspiration, restore vitality, solve problems and enrich family relationships. You can have a pleasant and joyful dream that will completely restore your good spirits and vitality."

　　“梦可以被创造性地用来改善健康、获得灵感、恢复精力、解决问题和丰富家人的关系。你能够做一个愉快和欢喜的梦来完全恢复你良好的精神和活力。”

　　"In our dream life we also visit other levels of existence, and gain needed skills."

　　“在我们的梦中，我们也造访其他层次的存在并获得所需要的技巧。”

　　"The ego is not present in dream reality. The waking consciousness is not the ego. The ego is only that portion of waking consciousness that deals with physical manipulation. Waking consciousness can be taken into the dream state, but the ego cannot, as it would falter and cause failure there. When you take your consciousness into the dream state, you will meet with various conditions, some you can manipulate, some you cannot. Some dream locations will be of your own making, and others will be strange to you because they belong to other dimensions of reality."

　　“自我并不在梦的实在中展现。清醒的意识并非自我。自我只是清醒意识处理物性操纵的那部分。清醒的意识能够被带入梦的状态中，但自我不能，因为它会在那儿不知所措而遭到失败。当你将自己的意识带入梦的状态中，你将会面临各种不同的情况，有些你能控制，有些则不能。一些梦的场所是你自己所制造的，而其他的对你来说会显得陌生，因为它们属于实在的其他维度。”

　　"As the personality is changed by any experience, it is changed by dreams. We may forget our dreams, but they are always part of us. The dreams experience is felt directly by the inner self. Dreams have their own actuality, they not only exist independent of the dreamer, but they also have tangible form, though not in the form of matter as you are familiar with it. They are forever contained as electrically coded data within the cells of the physical organism."

　　“就象人格可以被任何的经验所改变一样，梦也可以改变它。我们可能会忘却自己的梦，但它们始终是我们的一部分。梦的经验被内在自身直接地感受到。梦有它们自己的现实性，它们非但独立于做梦者而存在，而且它们还具有有形的形式，尽管它们并非你们所熟知的物质形式。它们永远地以电码的形式被保存于物质器官的细胞中。”

　　"The dream universe possesses concepts which will someday completely transform the physical world, but the denial of such concepts as possibilities delays their emergence."

　　“梦的宇宙中藏有会在将来的某天彻底改变物质世界的观念，但对这些观念可能性的否认耽搁了它们的发生。”

　　"There are also shared or "mass" dreams. In these mankind deals with problems of his political and social structure. In these man dreams individually and collectively of ways in which change about could occur. These dreams actually help bring about the resulting change. The very energy and direction of these dreams will help change the situation. The solutions reached are not always the same as those he accepts in the physical world."

　　“也存在着共享的或群体的梦。在其中人类处理其政治和社会结构的问题。在其中人类个人地和集体地用不同的方式做着能使这种改变得以发生的梦。这些梦确实有助于产生这些改变。正是这些梦的能量和导向会帮助改变这种情形。得到的解答并不总与他的物质世界中所接受的相一致。”

　　"The energy behind a 'bad dream' is the energy of hidden fears, which could be formed by anyone, since there are fears in anyone. ... Fear directs your conscious energy into the realm of reality of that fear, and you then must deal at that level. The words 'May peace be with you' will get you through any difficulty in other layers of reality."

　　“一个恶梦背后的能量是隐藏的恐惧的能量，它可被任何人所形成，因为每个人都有恐惧……恐惧使你意识的能量导向恐惧的实在领域，而你必须在那个层面处理。愿和平与你同在这种说法会帮你顺利渡过在实在其他的艰难。”

　　"In a dream, I have said, you can experience many days while no corresponding amount of physical time passes. It seems as if you travel very far in the flicker of an eyelash. Now, condensed time is the time felt by the entity while any of its given personalities live on a plane of physical materialization. To go into this further, many have said that life was a dream. They were true to the facts in one regard, yet far afield as far as the main issue is concerned."

　　“我曾说过，在一个梦中，你能经历许多天，而并未实际度过相应的现实时间。似乎你一眨眼间就旅行了很远。现在，压缩的时间是这个实体感到的时间，而它的特定的任何人格生活于物化的一个层面上。更进一步，许多人说：人生如梦。他们忠实于事实的一个方面，而就主要问题而言却远非如此。”

　　"The life of any given individual could be legitimately compared to the dream of an entity While the individual suffers and enjoys his given number of years, these years are but a flash to the entity The entity is concerned with them in the same way that you are concerned with your dreams. As you give inner purpose and organization to your dreams, and as you obtain insight and satisfaction from them, though they involve only a portion of your life, so the entity to some extent directs and gives purpose and organization to his personalities. So does the entity obtain insights and satisfactions from its existing personalities, although no one of them takes up all of its attention."

　　“任何给定的个人的生活能顺理成章地比作一个实体的梦，而这个个人在有生之年中经历悲欢离合，但对这个实体而言，这些年只不过是一瞬间。它们之于这个实体，正如你的梦之于你。尽管它们仅仅涉及你生活的一部分，而你将你的梦赋予内在的目的和组织，并从中获得洞见和满足，同样，这个实体在一定程度上对他的人格给以指导并赋予目的和组织。这个实体也是这样从它存在的人格获得洞见和满足，而没有哪一个人格可以占据他全部的注意力。”

　　"And as your dreams originate with you, rise from you, attain a seeming independence and have their ending with you, so do the entity's personalities arise from him, attain various degrees of independence and return to him while never leaving him for an instant."

　　“你的梦源于你，由你上升，似乎获得一种独立性，也由你结束，实体的人格也如此，由实体上升，获得不同程度的独立性，并回归至实体，但不会有片刻离开他。”

　　"You are familiar through your reading with so-called secondary personalities. Now, this idea comes close to the relationship between the entity and its personalities. They are independent to various degrees, and they operate on various planes of existence for purposes of overall fulfillment and development."

　　“你从书中会了解所谓的第二人格。现在，这个想法与实体和他的人格之间的关系相仿。各种人格程度不同地具有独立性，他们为全面完善和发展的目的而在各个存在层面运作。”

　　"To a lesser degree, you function along these lines in varying roles when you exist simultaneously as a member of a family a community and a nation and as an artist or writer. As you attempt to use your abilities, so does the entity use its abilities, and he organizes his various personalities and, to some extent, directs their activities while still allowing them what you could call free will . . . "

　　“在次一层，你在这些层面中扮演各种角色，你同时作为一个国家、一个社团、一个家庭的一个成员、一个画家、或一个作家存在。正如你试图运用你的能力，实体也同样使用他的能力，他组织他的各个人格，并在某种程度上，指导他们的活动，同时仍然允许他们发挥你们所谓的自由意志……”

　　"Your own dreams are fragments, even as you are fragments of your entity An unrecognized unity and organization lies within all of your dreams, beneath their diversity And your dreams, while part of you, also exist apart."

　　“你自己的梦是碎片，甚而你是你的实体的碎片。一个未被认出的统一体和组织，藏在你所有的梦中，尽管你的梦千差万别。而你的梦，作为你的一部分，也分别存在。”

　　"The dream world has its own reality its own 'time' and its own inner organization. As the entity is only partially concerned with its personalities after setting them into motion, so you are unconcerned with this dream world after you have set it into motion. But it exists."

　　“梦的世界有它自己的实在，它自己的“时间”以及它自己内部的组织。正如实体将它的人格设置完毕后仅仅部分地与它的各个人格相连，当你设置好你的梦以后，你也不再关注于这个梦的世界。但它存在着。”

　　"To a different degree, it is filled with conscious semi-personalities. They are not [as a rule] as developed as you are, as you are not as developed as your entity is. That dream world experiences its own continuity. It is not aware of any break, for example, when you are waking. It does not know if you sleep or wake. It merely exists to a fairly vivid degree while you dream or sleep, and it sleeps but does not 'die' when you waken . . . "

　　“在不同的程度上，它充满了有意识的半人格。它们并不（作为一条原则）象你一样完善，正如你不如你的实体完善一样。梦的世界经验它自己的连续性。例如，当你醒着时，它并不意识到任何间隙。它并不知道你是睡着了还是醒着。当你做梦或睡觉时，它仅仅存在于一种相当生动的程度，当你醒着时，它就睡觉，并不“死去”。

　　"The entity itself does not have to keep constant track of its personalities because each one possesses an inner self-conscious part that knows its origin. This part, for now, I will call the self-conscious beyond the subconscious . . . I mentioned that some part of you knows exactly how much oxygen the lungs breathe, and this is the part of which I spoke. It also receives all inner data."

　　“因为每个人格拥有一个知道它的起源的内我意识的部分，实体自己并不需要与它的人格不断保持联系。现在，我把这部分称作潜意识之外的自我意识。我曾提及你自身中的某一部分确切知道肺呼吸多少氧气，我说的就是这部分。它也接受所有内部数据。”

　　"This portion of the personality translates inner data and sifts it through the subconscious, which is a barrier and also a threshold to the present personality. I told you also that the topmost layers of the subconscious contain personal memories and beneath梤acial memory. The personality is not actually layered, of course, but continuing with the necessary analogy beneath the racial memories you look out upon another dimension of reality with the face of this other self-conscious part of you."

　　“人格的这部分翻译内部数据并通过潜意识进行筛选，对于当前人格来说，潜意识是一个屏障，也是一个门槛。我也曾告诉你们，在种族记忆之下，潜意识最顶端的层面包含个人的记忆。当然，人格实际上是不分层的，但在种族记忆之下，它以必要的类比延伸，你以你的这另一个自我意识的面目观察另一个现实维度。

　　"This portion is 'turned toward' the entity. When such abilities as telepathy are used, this function is carried on continually by this other self-conscious part of you. But as a rule, you act upon such data without the knowledge of the ordinary conscious self."

　　这部分被“转向”这个实体。当这种诸如心灵感应的能力被使用时，你的这另外的自我意识的部分继续不断使用这种功能。但作为一条准则，你并不凭借通常意识自我的知识对这种数据作出反应。”

　　"There is also a corresponding, but 'lesser' self-consciousness that connects your present personalities with the dream world, which is aware of its origin and communicates data from you to dream reality . . ."

　　“还有一种相应关系，维系你现在人格和梦的世界的“次要”的自我意识，它知觉它的起源并将你的资料传递至梦的实在。"

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　　Seth Quotes Chapter 15 赛斯名言 第十五章

　　过去、现在和未来

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　　Seth: "Your idea of space and time is determined by your neurological structure. The camouflage is so craftily executed and created by the inner self that you must, by necessity, focus your attention on the physical reality which has been created."

　　赛斯：“你们关于时间和空间的理念是由你们的神经结构所决定的。这种伪装结构是那么精巧地被内在自身所执行和创造以致你必须，而且自然地，将你注意的焦点集中在那些被创造了的物性实在上。”

　　"Time as you experience it is an illusion caused by your own physical senses....The apparent boundaries between past, present and future are only illusions caused by the amount of action you can physically perceive, and so it seems to you that one moment exists and is gone forever, and the next moment comes and like the one before also disappears."

　　“你们所经历的时间是由你们自己的物质感官所引起的一种幻象……那些显然存在于过去、现在和未来之间的界限只是由于你能用感官来觉察的行为总和所引起的幻象，所以在你看来一个瞬间存在而后永远地消失了，下一个瞬间来到就象刚才那个一样而后又消失了。”

　　"Everything in the universe exists at one time simultaneously. The first words ever spoken still ring through the universe, and in your terms, the last words ever spoken have already been said."

　　“宇宙中的每一件事物都同时存在。一句话刚说出几个词，用你们的话来说，就已经对这句话最后几个词已经说出的宇宙产生影响。”

　　"The past, present and future only appear to those who exist within three-dimensional reality. The past exists as a series of electromagnetic connections held in the physical brain and in the nonphysical mind. These electromagnetic connections can be changed."

　　“过去、现在和未来只对那些存在于三维实在者才显然。过去作为一系列的电磁连接被保存于物质的大脑中和非物质的心灵中。这些电磁连接能够被改变。”

　　"The future consists of a series of electromagnetic connections in the mind and brain also. In other words, the past and present are real to the same extent. You take it for granted that present action can change the future, but present actions can also change the past."

　　“未来也以一系列的电磁连接存在于心灵和大脑中。换句话说，过去和现在是同样程度的真实。你们当然地认为现在的行动能够改变将来，但现在的行动也能改变过去。”

　　"The past is no more objective or independent from the perceiver than is the present. The electromagnetic connections were largely made by the individual perceiver. The connection can be changed, and such changes are far from uncommon. These changes happen spontaneously on a subconscious basis."

　　“过去对观察者来说并不比现在更客观或独立地存在。电磁连接多半是由个别的观察者制造的。这种连接能够被改变，而这种改变也并不罕见。这种改变在潜意识的基础上自然地发生。”

　　"The past is seldom what you remember it to be, for you have already rearranged it from the instant of any given event. The past is being constantly recreated by each individual as attitudes and associations change. This is an actual recreation, not a symbolic one. The child is indeed still within the man, but he is not the child that 'was', for even the child within the man constantly changes."

　　“过去很少是你所记得的那样，因为从你给定的任一事件的即刻起已经将它重组了。过去因每个个人的态度和联系改变而不断地被重新创造。这是真实的再创造而非象征性的。孩子确实还在一个成人的里面，但并不是那个曾是的孩子，因为即使那个成人内的孩子也在不断地改变。”

　　"Every action changes every other action. Therefore, every action in your present affects actions you call past. It is possible to react in the past to an event that has not occurred, and to be influenced by your own future."

　　“每一个行为改变着每个其他的行为。所以每一个你现在的行为影响着你所谓过去的行为。在过去对还未发生的事件作出反应，被你自己的未来影响这是可能的”

　　"It is also possible for an individual to react in the past to an event in the future, which in your terms, may never occur."

　　“对一个人来说在过去对一件，用你们的话来说，将永远不会在未来发生的事件作出反应这是可能的。”

　　"Because past, present and future exist simultaneously, there is no reason why you cannot react to an event whether or not it happens to fall within the small field of reality in which you usually observe and participate."

　　“因为过去、现在和将来同时存在，你没有理由不能对一件事作出反应而不管它是否发生在你们通常观察和参与的狭小领域。”

　　"On a subconscious level, you react to many events that have not yet occurred as far as your ego's awareness is concerned. Such reactions are carefully screened out and not admitted to consciousness. The ego finds such instances distracting and annoying, and when forced to admit their validity, will resort to the most far fetched rationalizations to explain them."

　　“在下意识的层面，你对许多还未为你意识所知觉的事件的发生作出反应。这些反应被小心地屏蔽而不为意识所承认。自我发现这种事例令人分心和恼火，而当被迫承认它们的有效性时，会诉诸那些最不相关的理性来解释它们。”

　　"No event is predestined. Any given event can be changed not only before and during but after its occurrence. The individual is hardly at the mercy of past events, for he changes them constantly. He is hardly at the mercy of future events, for he changes these not only before but after their happening. An individuals future actions are not dependent upon a concrete finished past, for such a past never existed."

　　“没有什么事件是预先注定的。任何给定的事件不仅能在其发生前和发生中，而且在其发生后被改变。个人一点儿也不听任于过去事件的摆布，因为他在不断地改变它们。他一点儿也不听任于未来事件的摆布，因为他非但在这之前，而且在此之后改变了它们。一个个人的未来行动并不依赖于一个具体的已经完成了的事件，因为这种过去从来就不曾存在。”

　　"The past is as real as the future, no more or less. There is a part of you that is not locked within physical reality, and that part of you knows that there is only an Eternal Now. The part of you that knows is the whole self, your inner and outer ego (all that you are)."

　　“过去和未来一样真实，一点不多也不少。你有一部分并不被囚禁于物质的实在中，而那部分的你知道只有一个永恒的现在。而知道这的你的那部分就是你的全我，你内在和外在的自我（你的全有）。”

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　　Seth Quotes Chapter 16 赛斯名言 第十六章

　　自我

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　　Seth: "The ego is a jealous god, and it wants its interests served. It does not want to admit the reality of any dimensions except those within which it feels comfortable and can understand. It was meant to be an aid but it has been allowed to become a tyrant. Even so, it is much more resilient and eager to learn than is generally supposed. It is not natively as rigid as it seems. Its curiosity can be of great value."

　　赛斯“自我是个爱嫉妒的神，它希望它的利益被满足。它不想承认其他实在的存在，除非那些它在其中感到舒适并可理解的。它有意被用来成为帮手，但它却被允许成为一个暴君。尽管如此，它还是比通常所假想的要来得更富于弹性和渴望学习。它并不天生就象它看来的那么僵硬。它的好奇心会是非常有价值的。”

　　Seth asks "Why is it so difficult for you to learn what freedom is? ...I ask you, how far do you think a flower would get if in the morning it turned its face toward the sky and said, "I demand the sun. And now I need rain. So I demand it. And I demand bees to come and take my pollen. I demand, therefore that the sun shall shine for a certain number of hours, and that the rain shall pour for a certain number of hours... and that the bees come - bees A,B, C, D, and E, for I shall accept no other bees to come. I demand that discipline operate, and that the soil shall follow my command. But I do not allow the soil any spontaneity of its own. And I do not allow the sun any spontaneity of its own. And I do not agree that the sun knows what it is doing. I demand that all these things follow my ideas of discipline.?

　　赛斯问“为什么你们那么难以学习什么是自由？……我问你，一朵花会得到什么如果它在早上把脸对着太阳说：“我需要太阳。而现在我要雨。所以我要求。我还要求蜜蜂来取我的花粉……蜜蜂来的话要蜜蜂A、B、C、D和E，因为我不接受其他的蜜蜂。我要求那原则运作，而土壤要听从我的指挥。但我不允许土壤有它自己的任何自发性。我也不允许太阳有它自己的任何自发性。我不同意太阳知道所发生的事情。我要求所有这些都听从我原则的理念。？”

　　"And who, I ask you, would listen? For in the miraculous spontaneity of the sun, there is discipline that utterly escapes you, and a knowledge beyond any that we know. And in the spontaneous playing of the bees from flower to flower, there is a discipline beyond any that you know, and laws that follow their own knowledge, and joy that is beyond command. For true discipline, you see, is found only in spontaneity. Spontaneity knows its own order."

　　那么我问你谁会听呢？因为在太阳神奇的自发性中有着绝对超越你的规则，那种知识超乎我们所知的一切。在蜜蜂花间自发性的游戏中有着超乎你所知的规则，而那种规律听从它们自己的知识，而快乐是不听从命令的。因为真正的纪律，要知道，只能在自发性中发现。自发性知道其自身的秩序。”

　　"In the spontaneous working of your nervous system, what do we find? We see here the head of "the Dean" that rests upon his shoulders, and the intellect that demands discipline. And yet all of this rests upon the spontaneous workings of the inner self, and the nervous system of which the intellect knows little. And without that spontaneous discipline, there would be no ego to sit upon the shoulders and demand discipline... "

　　“在你神经系统自发性的工作中我们发现什么呢？我们在此看到“院长”的头安置在其肩膀上，而智力要求管束。而这所有这些依靠内在自我的自发工作，而智力对神经系统所知甚少。如果没有自发性的纪律，就没有自我坐在肩膀上来要求纪律……”

　　"You are like children with a game, and you think that the game is played by everyone. Physical life is not the rule. Identity and consciousness existed long before your earth was formed. You suppose that any personality must appear in physical terms. Consciousness is the force behind matter, and it forms many other realities besides the physical one. It is, again, your own viewpoint that is presently so limited that it seems to you that physical reality is the rule and mode of existence."

　　“你们就象孩子之于一个游戏，你们认为这游戏是给每个人玩的。物质的生活并不是准则。身份和意识在你们地球形成之前就早已存在。你们假设所有的人格必以物质的形式展现。意识是事物后面的动力，它在物质实在之外还形成许多其他的实在。再说一遍，你们的物质实在看来是存在的模式和准则是因为你们目前的观点是如此受局限所至。”

　　"The source and power of your present consciousness has never been physical, and where I am, many are not even aware that such a physical system exists. The physical system is an illusion, but you must accept it and from your viewpoint try to understand the realities that exist beyond it."

　　“你目前意识的源泉和力量从来就没有物质化过，在我所在的地方许多甚至还不知道你们这种物质系统存在。物质的系统是个幻象，但你必须接受它，并试着从你们的观点来理解其背后所存在的实在。”

　　"You cannot objectify the inner portions of your own identity, and therefore you do not perceive them. So much of your energy is used in the physical productions that you cannot afford to perceive any reality but your own. Like children playing with blocks, you focus your attention on the physical blocks. The physical blocks appear very real to you when you dwell within their perspective. Other shapes and forms that you could perceive, you do not. Even in explaining other realities, I must use the words and shapes or you would not understand me."

　　“你不能使你自己身份的内在部分客观具体化，因而你不能感知它们。你们太多的能量被用于物质的生产以致你们无力感知除你之外的其他实在。就象孩子们玩积木，你们关注于物质的积木上。当你处于其观点时物质的积木对你们而言显得非常真实，而其他你们所能感知的形态你们没有感知到。甚至在解释其他实在时我也必须运用这些词语和形状，否则你们便不能领会我。”

　　"The human race is a stage through which various forms of consciousness travel... Yours is a training system for emerging consciousness. Before you can be allowed into systems of reality that are more extensive and open, you must first learn to handle energy and see through physical materialization, the concrete result of thought and emotion.

　　“人类是这样一个阶段，各种不同的意识形态在其中穿行……你们的是一个正在浮现的意识的训练系统。在你被允许进入更广阔、开放的实在系统之前，你必须首先学会处理能量并通过物质的具体化而看清思想和情感的具体后果……。 ”

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　　Seth Quotes Chapter 17 赛斯名言 第十七章

　　祝福

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　　Seth: "Now I bless you, but the blessings must come from yourselves. The real blessings must come from yourselves. You must realize that you are one with All That Is, and within you is the only one who can give blessing, and you must be willing to accept the blessing that only you can give, and the joy that only you can give to yourselves and to one another.

　　赛斯：“我现在祝福你们，但祝福必须首先发自你们自己。真正的祝福必须首先发自你们自己。你们必须意识到你们和一切全有是一体的，而你自身是唯一可以给予祝福的，你必须愿意接受只有你自己才能给予的祝福，只有你自己可以给自己的祝福你才能给别人。”

　　"There should never be a word in any language that means repentance. There should only be a word that means, I bless; for when you bless, you do not need to repent. For when you accept a blessing, there is nothing to repent. Love of All That Is requires simply that you become open as air, for when you are open as air then joy of all that is flows through you indiscriminately, and there is nothing to repent. You only need repentance when you do not know joy. For within joy and within all that is there is only glory, consciousness and song. There is only blessedness.

　　“在任何语言中都不该有意味忏悔的词的存在。而只应有这样的词存在，我祝福；因为当你祝福时，你就不需要忏悔。因为当你接受祝福时，就没有什么可以忏悔。爱一切全有只要求你变得象空气一样开放，因为当你象空气一样开放时一切全有的喜悦就会没有分别地流经你，而同时没有什么可以忏悔。你只有在不知道什么是喜悦时才需要忏悔。因为在喜悦和一切全有中只有荣耀、意识和欢歌。只有祝福。”

　　"When you berate yourself for your sins, then you do not realize what joy is. Do you berate a flower that has one crooked stem? So in yourselves, know spontaneity and in spontaneity you will find joy. Spontaneity has its own discipline. You do not need to enforce discipline upon it."

　　“当你因你的罪过而自责，那你就没有意识到什么是喜悦。你责怪一株干支弯曲的花朵吗？所以在你之内了解什么是自发性而在自发性中你会发现什么是欢乐。自发性有其自己的纪律。你不必强加纪律在其上。”

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　　Seth Quotes Chapter 18 赛斯名言 第十八章

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　　From Dreams, session 882:

　　Seth: "The universe will begin yesterday. The universe began tomorrow. Both of these statements are quite meaningless. The tenses are wrong, and perhaps your time sense is completely outraged. Yet the statement: 'The universe began in some distant past,' is, in basic terms, just as meaningless."

　　赛斯“宇宙将在昨天开始。宇宙在明天已经开始。这些陈述都是毫无意义的。它们时态有误，或许你的时间感被彻底触怒了。然而这个陈述：“宇宙在遥远的过去开始”，从本质上来说也是同样毫无意义的。”

　　"In fact, the first two statements, while making no logical sense, do indeed hint of phenomena that show time itself to be no more than a creative construct. Time and space are in a fashion part of the furniture of your universe."

　　“事实上，这前面的两个陈述，尽管不合逻辑，但确实暗示了时间本身不外乎是个创造性的构筑。时间和空间是你们宇宙陈设的某种样式。”

　　"The very existence of passing moments belongs to your psychological rooms in the same way that clocks are attached to your walls. Whenever science or religion seeks the origin of the universe, they search for it in the past. The universe is being created now. Creation occurs in each moment, in your terms. The illusion of time itself is being created now. It is therefore somewhat futile to look for the origins of the universe by using a time scheme that is in itself, at the very least, highly relative."

　　“过去时刻的在你们心理时间的真正存在和钟挂在你们的墙上是一样的。当科学和宗教探究宇宙的起源时，它们在过去寻找。宇宙现在就在被创造。用你们的话来说，创造在每一刻发生。时间的幻象本身现在也正在被创造。所以用一个自身也至少非常相对的时间尺度来寻找宇宙的起源显得是有些无效的。”

　　"Your now, or present moment, is a psychological platform. It seems that the universe began with an initial burst of energy of some kind. Evolutionists cannot account for its cause. Many religious people believe that a god exists in a larger dimension of reality, and that he created the universe while being himself outside of it. He set it into motion. Many individuals, following either persuasion, believe that regardless of its source, the universe must run out of energy. Established science is quite certain that no energy can now be created or destroyed, but only transformed. Science sees energy and matter as being basically the same thing, appearing differently under varying circumstances."

　　“你们的现在，或目前的时刻，是个心理的平台。宇宙看来是由一种元初的能量爆炸开始的。进化论者不能说明其原因。许多宗教界的朋友相信在实在更大的维度中存在着一个上帝，它创造了宇宙而其自己置身其外。它使其运动。许多个人，经过劝说也相信，无论其起源，宇宙总有一天会耗尽其能量。已确立的科学相当肯定现在没有能量能够被创造和毁灭，而只是被转型。科学将能量和物质看作基本上是一回事，在不同的情况下显现得不同罢了。”

　　"In certain terms, science and religion are both dealing with the idea of an objectively created universe. Either God "made it", or physical matter, in some unexplained manner, was formed after an initial explosion of energy, and consciousness emerged from that initially dead matter in a way yet to be explained."

　　“从某种意义上说，科学和宗教都在处理一个客观地创造了的宇宙的观念。要么是上帝“创造了它”，要么是物质经由一些不能说明的方式在一个元初的能量爆炸中形成，而意识从那起先死的事物中以一种还有待解释的方式展现出来。”

　　"Instead, consciousness formed matter. As I have said before, each atom and molecule has its own consciousness. Consciousness and matter and energy are one, but consciousness initiates the transformation of energy into matter. In those terms, the "beginning" of your universe was a triumph in the expansion of consciousness, as it learned to translate itself into physical form. The universe emerged into actuality in the same way, but to a different degree, that any idea emerges from what you think of as subjectivity into physical expression."

　　“相反，意识形成物质。就象我先前所说，每一个原子和分子都有其自身的意识。意识和物质、能量是合而为一的，但意识发动了能量向物质的转化。用那种方式来说，宇宙的“开始”是一个意识扩张的胜利，因为它学会了将它自己转译为物质的形态。宇宙也以相同的方式展现为现实，但程度不同，任何你所认为是主观的能够表现为物质形态的理念都是也是如此。”

　　"The consciousness of each reader of this book existed before the universe was formed (in your terms) but that consciousness was unmanifest. Your closest approximation - and it is an approximation only - of the state of being that existed before the universe was formed is the dream state. In that state before the beginning, your consciousness existed free of space and time, aware of immense probabilities. This is extremely difficult to verbalize, yet it is very important that such an attempt be made. Your consciousness is part of an infinitely original creative process."

　　“在这个宇宙形成之前（用你们的话来说）本书的每一个读者的意识就早已存在，但那意识还未得以展现。你们关于宇宙形成前的状态的最接近的近似，而且仅是近似而已，是梦的状态。在那种开始前的状态，你们的意识超越时空而存在，知道广大无边的可能性。这特别难以形容，而它确是如此。

　　"I will purposely avoid using the word "God" because of the connotations placed upon it by conventional religion. I will make an attempt to explain the characteristics of this divine process throughout this book. I call this process "All That Is". All That Is is so much a part of its creations that it is almost impossible to separate the "creator form its creations," for each creation also carries indelibly within it the characteristics of its source.

　　“我将有意地避免使用“上帝”这个字眼因为由传统宗教所赋予其的涵义。在本书中我将试图解释这神圣过程的特性。我将此过程称为“一切全有”。一切全有是如此地成为其受造物的一部分以致几乎不可能将创造者从其受造物中分离，因为每一个创造也不可消灭地在其自身携带着其来源的特性。”

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　　Seth Quotes Chapter 19 赛斯名言 第十九章

　　宠物的失去

　　(Assorted excerpts from Seth's book: The Individual and The Nature of Mass Events)

　　(摘自:个人与群体事件的本质)

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　　Rob speaking:

　　"When I arose early on the 26th so that I could wrap the proofs for mailing however, I noticed that Billy didn't appear to feel well. Jane watched him while I went to the post office. He was no better when I returned, and as the morning passed we came to realize that he had a urinary problem. That afternoon I took him to our veterinarian, who kept him for treatment; the problem was serious; by then the cat was in great pain. Jane and I both wondered: Why Billy? Why should such a seemingly perfect young creature suddenly become that sick, for no observable reason? .... On Tuesday the veterinarian told us by telephone that Billy was better, that "probably" we could take him home the following afternoon, I was to call before making the drive across town, though. Wednesday afternoon, then, an hour before I was due to check, the phone rang ...it was the vet, regretfully explaining that Billy had died an hour or so before.

　　“26日我起了个早，以便包好邮寄包裹，这时，我注意到比利好象不舒服。我去邮局时，简在照看他。当我回来时，他并未好转，快到中午时，我们发觉他撒尿有问题。下午，我带他到我们的兽医那里，兽医把他留下诊治；问题很严重；那时猫非常痛苦。简和我都感到惊讶：为什么比利会生病？如此一个看起来完美而年轻的动物为什么突然病成这样，毫无明显的的原因？…… 星期二，兽医打电话告诉我们，比利好些了，我们“大概”第二天下午能带他回家了，我准备穿过市区去接他之前先打一个电话。星期三下午，在我准备打电话前一小时，电话响了……是兽医打来的，他遗憾地向我解释，比利一个小时前已经死了。

　　"We were shocked because Billy's unexpected--and serious--illness reminded us of the almost universally accepted view that life is terribly vulnerable. Any kind of life. Billy was a replacement for our previous cat, Willy (who'd died in November 1976 at the age of 16), and we'd found him at an animal shelter the next weekend after Willy's death; as far as having a pet to love went, we'd thought ourselves "set" for a number of years. At first we'd called the newcomer Willy Two, but soon automatically shortened that to Billy.

　　“我们无比震惊，因为比利的意外的——也是严重的——疾病提醒我们，正如众所周知的，那就是生命多么不堪一击。任何一种生命。 比利是我们先前养的一只猫的代替, 威利 (死于1976年11月，死时16岁)，在威利死后一个星期，我们在一个动物收容站发现了他。由于一只我们喜爱的宠物的死去，我们也想到自己余年不多。起初，我们叫他威利二世，但不久我们自然而然地简称他为比利。

　　"During the 836th session, Seth reminded us that "animals do not 'think' of long lives or short lives, but of a brilliant present, which in a way, compared to your framework, has no beginning or end.., time, in your terms, does not exist for them--and in the deepest of terms a life's quality on a human scale cannot be judged primarily in terms of its length, either.

　　“在第836 课，赛斯提醒我们：动物不“考虑”生命的长短，只考虑一个闪亮的出场，相较你们的框架而言，这没有开始或结束……时间，用你们的话说，对他们来说并不存在——终极而言，一个人的生命的质量并不能用它的长度来衡量。

　　Seth: "My dear friends: Existence is larger than life or death. Life and death are both states of existence. An identity exists whether it is in the state of life or in the state of death. Your cat's consciousness never was dependent upon its physical form. Instead, the consciousness was itself choosing the experience of cathood. There was nothing that said: 'This consciousness must be a cat.'

　　赛斯:“我亲爱的朋友们：存在大于生或死。生和死两者都是存在的状态。一个身份总是存在，无论它处于生的状态或处于死的状态。你们的猫的意识从不依赖于它的肉身形式。相反，意识本身选择猫的生活的经验。没有任何东西说：“这个意识必须是一只猫。”

　　"Billy belonged in another probability, and in a fashion you switched probabilities for him, though without his consent, when you took him from the animal shelter, where he would have soon been 'done away with.' His three years with you represented a grace period for him . . . He did not make this probability his own because of what you may call 'other commitments' --or rather, other purposes.

　　“比利属于另一个或然性，你以某种方式为他转换或然性，尽管没有征得他同意。你将他从动物收容站带回家，否则他很快会在那里被“消灭”。他与你们相处的3年代表了他的一个优雅的时期。由于你们会称作“其他的承诺”——或更是由于其他目的，他没有自己选择这个或然性。

　　"There is no such thing as a cat consciousness, basically speaking, or a bird consciousness. In those terms, there are instead simply consciousnesses that choose to take certain focuses. We have not touched upon some of these matters, and some are, again, most difficult to explain, as we wish to avoid distortions. These would have nothing to do with Ruburt per se, but simply with the way you put concepts together at this stage of development"

　　总的说来，没有像一只猫的意识，或一只鸟的意识这么回事。如此说来，相反，只有选择集中某个焦点的意识。我们还没在接触过其中一些问题，我们希望避免造成曲解，某些问题同样极其难以解释。这些与罗伯本身没关系，只与在此发展阶段中你合成这些概念的方式相关

　　"You both knew Billy was about to die. So did the plants in your house, and the trees outside your door. The cellular announcement was made that the strong possibility existed, for the birth and death of each cell is known to all cells in the world . . .Cellular communication is too fast for you to follow. The cat could have changed its mind, of course, but the signals were sent out, and ahead of time. [Several people who wrote to you] picked up on that probability... .

　　“你们俩都知道比利要死了。你们屋里的植物也知道，你们门外的树也知道。细胞已宣告强大的可能性存在着，因为世界上所有细胞都知道每一个细胞的生死。细胞交流太快，你们根本无法跟上。当然，猫可能已经改变了主意，但是信号已发送，而且是提前发出。（几个给你写信的人）提供了这个或然性……"

　　" .. . .The quality of identity is far more mysterious than you understand, for you assign an identity in a blanket fashion, say, to each living thing. Now your dead cat, Billy, exists in the following manner: The units of consciousness that organized to form his identity as you knew it, still form that pattern--but not physically. The cat exists as itself in the greater living memory of its own 'larger' selfhood. Its organization--the cat's--exists inviolately, but as a part of the greater psychic organization from which it came.

　　“……身份的性质比你所理解的要神秘的多，可以说，你赋予每一个有生命的事物一个身份。现在你们死去的猫，比利，以这种方式存在：构成你们所认识的他的身份的意识单位，依然构成它的身份——不过并非以物质形态。猫作为它自己存在于它自己的“更大”的自我的更大的生活记忆中。它的组织——猫的——不受侵犯地存在着，但是作为其所来自的的更大的心灵组织的一部分。

　　"That identity of Billy's remains vital, known to itself whether or not it is reactivated in your terms. This is not necessarily always the case--and there is great variation--but Billy identified with 'the larger organization' of the litter [that is, with his brothers and sisters, all of whom are also dead], and the consciousnesses of that litter are now together. They are forming a gestalt, where the five consciousnesses will merge to form a new identity."

　　“比利的身份依然充满生机，用你们的话说，他自己知道他是否恢复活力。这并不一定如此——并且有着巨大的多样性——但是比利认同了它的一窝（它的兄弟姐妹，它们也都已死去）的“更大的组织”，这一窝的意识现在在一起。他们正在形成一个完形，五个意识将以一个新的身份出现。”

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　　Now: There is an 'unknown' reality. I am part of it, and so are you.

　　注意：存在一个“未知”的实在。我是其中的一部分，你也一样。

　　"Some time ago I suddenly appeared within your space and time. Since then I have spoken to many people. There would be nothing strange to anyone in any of this if I had been born into your world in a body of my own, in usual terms. Instead I began to express myself by speaking through Jane Roberts. Period. In all of this there has been a purpose, and part of that purpose lies in this present book.

　　一些时间以前我突然在你们的时空中出现。从那时起我已向很多人说法。如果我已我自己的肉体，用通常的样式，在你们的世界出生那没有人会感到奇怪。但我却开始用通过简·罗布兹说话的方式来表达自己。停顿。在所有这一切中含有一个目的，而本书也是其中的目的之一。

　　"Each individual is a part of the unknown reality. Because of my position, however, I am obviously more a part of it than most. My psychological awareness bridges worlds of which you are consciously aware, and others that seem, at least, to escape your notice. The woman through whom I speak found herself in an unusual situation, for no theories梞etaphysical, psychological, or otherwise梒ould adequately explain her experience. She was led to develop her own, therefore, and this book is an extension of certain ideas already mentioned in Adventures in Consciousness. To write that book, Jane Roberts drew on deep resources of energy.

　　每个个人都是这未知的实在的一部分。因为我的位置，显然我要比大多数人在其中占有得更多。我心理的觉知跨越你们所有意识知觉的和那些看来至少超越你们所注意的世界。我通过她来说话的那个女人发现自己处在一个不同寻常的位置，因为没有一种理论－－形而上的、心理的或其他任何的－－能够充分解释她的经验。她被引导去发展她自己的理论，因此，这本书是在《意识的探险》一书中若干理念的扩展。为写本书，简·罗布兹汲取了更深层的能量。

　　"The unknown reality, however, is unknown enough to usual reaches of the most flexible consciousness, in your terms, that it can only be approached by a personality as couched in it as I am. Once expressed, however, it can be comprehended. One of my purposes then has been to make this unknown reality consciously known.

　　无论如何，用你们的话来说未知的实在对绝大多数灵活的意识来说是足够未知的，它只能被象我这样隐含在它中的人格所接近。而一旦被表达，它便能被理解。于是我的一个目标便是将这些未知的实在被有意识地了解。

　　"Man thought once, historically speaking, that there was but one world. Now he knows differently, but he still clings to the idea of one god, one self, and one body through which to express it.

　　历史地说来，人类曾经认为只存在一个世界。但现在他不这样看了，但他还是坚持一个神、一个自身、一个通过它来表现的身体。

　　"There is one God, but within that God are many. There is one self, but within that self are many. There is one body, in one time, but the self has other bodies in other times. All 'times' exist at once. Historically speaking, mankind chose a certain line of development. In it his consciousness specialized, focusing upon sharp particulars of experience. But inherent always, psychologically and biologically, there has been the possibility of a change in that pattern, an alteration that would effectively lift the race into another kind of weather.

　　存在一个神，但在那个神里有许多神。存在一个自身，但在那个自身里有许多自身。存在一个身体，在一个时间，但在别的时间里自身有其他的身体。所有的“时间”同时存在。历史地说来，人类选择了某条发展的路线。在其中他的意识专门化了，关注于某些特定的突出的经验里。但心理和生理都始终传承着将那种样式改变的可能性，一种能有效地将人类提升到另一种境遇的变更。

　　"Such a development would, however, necessitate first of all a broadening of concepts about the self, and a greater understanding of human potential. Human consciousness is now at a stage where such a development is not only feasible, but necessary if the race is to achieve its greatest fulfillment.

　　无论如何，这种发展会首先必然扩展关于自身的观念，并对人类潜能有更广大的理解。人类意识现在正处于这样一个阶段，即这种发展不仅可行，而且这个物种如果要达成它最大的实现必须这样做。

　　"Jane Roberts experience to some extent hints at the multidimensional nature of the human psyche and gives clues as to the abilities that lie within each individual. These are part of your racial heritage. They give notice of psychic bridges connecting the known and 'unknown' realities in which you dwell.

　　简·罗布兹的经验在某种程度上暗示了人类心灵的多维性并对每个人内在潜藏的能力给出了些许线索。这些是你们人类物种遗产的一部分。它们使你们注意到你们所居住的实在里连接已知和未知实在之间的桥梁。

　　"While you have highly limited concepts about the nature of the self, you cannot begin to conceive of a multidimensional godhood, or a universal reality in which all consciousness is unique, inviolate梐nd yet given to the formation of infinite gestalts of organization and meaning.

　　当你对自身的本性抱持高度局限的观念时，你不能开始设想一个多维的神性，或者这样一个普遍的实在，在其中所有意识都是独特、不可侵犯，而又顺从于无限组织和意义的完型。

　　"In my other books I used many accepted ideas as a springboard to lead readers into other levels of understanding. Here, I wish to make it clear that this book will initiate a journey in which it may seem that the familiar is left far behind. Yet when I am finished, I hope you will discover that the known reality is even more precious, more "real," because you will find it illuminated both within and without by the rich fabric of an 'unknown' reality now seen emerging from the most intimate portions of daily life. Give us a moment. Your concepts of personhood are now limiting you personally and en masse, and yet your religions, metaphysics, histories, and even your sciences are hinged upon your ideas of who and what you are. Your psychologies do not explain your own reality to you. They cannot contain your experience. Your religions do not explain your greater reality, and your sciences leave you just as ignorant about the nature of the universe in which you dwell.

　　在我其他的书中我运用了许多已被接收的观念来作跳板以引导读者进入理解的其他领域。在此我想说明本书将发起一个在其中熟知的一切会看来是被抛在一边的旅程。然而在当我结束时我希望你们会发现已知的实在是更加宝贵、更加“真实”，因为你会发现它里里外外被看来是从你日常生活最密切部分所涌现的“未知的”实在的丰富结构所充实。让我们再说一下。你们目前对人的观念限制了你们的人格乃至群体的，然而你们的宗教、形上学、历史、甚至你们的科学都依照你们对自己是谁、是什么的观念形成。你们的心理学家并没有向你们解释你们自己的实在。他们并不能包容你的经验。你们的宗教也不能解释你更大的实在，而你们的科学也一样并不能解释你们所居住的宇宙。

　　"These institutions and disciplines are composed of individuals,each restrained by limiting ideas about their own private reality; and so it is with private reality that we will begin and always return, period. These ideas in this book are meant to expand the private reality of each reader. They may appear esoteric or complicated, yet they are not beyond the reach of any person who is determined to understand the nature of the unknown elements of the self, and its greater world.

　　“这些制度和纪律由许多个人组成，每个人受到对他们自己私人实在的思考的限制；并且，我们将以私人的实在期间性地开始和回归。这本书中的这些想法是要扩展每个读者的私人实在。它们可能显得深奥而复杂，然而对于决心理解自我未知要素的本质及其更伟大的世界的人来说，它们并非遥不可及。

　　"So the book had a private beginning. Jane Robert's husband, Robert Butts, wondered about the death of his mother. In a session he brought out some old photographs. Now: Life after death has usually been described quite in keeping with the old accepted ideas about one self, and limited concepts of personhood. I took that opportunity, however, to begin this book.

　　“因此本书有一个私人的开始。简·罗伯特的丈夫，罗伯特·布茨，对他母亲的死感到困惑。在一节课上，他拿出了一些旧相片。现在：通常对死后生命的描述与有关一个人的自我的古老观念、局限的人格的概念相当一致。但我以此机会来开始这本书。

　　"The self is multidimensional when it is physically alive. It is a triumph of spiritual and psychological identity, ever choosing from a myriad of probable realities its own clear unassailable focus. When you don't realize this, then you project upon life after death all of the old misconceptions. You expect the dead to be little different from the living梚f you believe in afterlife at all梑ut perhaps more at peace, more understanding, and, hopefully, wiser.

　　“当自我肉身上活着时，他是多次元的。从无数或然实在中，选择它自己明确的攻不破的焦点，这是一个精神的和心理的身份的胜利。当你没有认识到这一点时，那么你投射在死后生命之上的是所有陈旧的误解。你期望死人与活人并无多大不同——如果你完全相信死后生命——只不过更和平、更具理解力、更充满希望、更明智。

　　"The fact is that in life you poise delicately and yet perfectly between realities, and after death you do the same. I use the opportunity, then, to explain the great freedom available to Robert Butts's mother after death梑ut also to explain those elements of her reality present during life that had been closed to him consciously because of mankind's concepts about the nature of the psyche. I comment now and then about photographs that belong to the Butts family, including Jane Roberts, yet any reader can look at old photographs and ask the same questions, applying what is said here to private experience. The 'unknown' reality梱ou are its known equivalent. Then know yourself. Your expand as you become acquainted with these ideas.

　　“事实是，在生活中，你巧妙而完美地在实在之间平衡，在死后你也是如此。那么，我以此机会来解释罗伯特·布茨的母亲死后可得到巨大的自由——而且我也解释，由于人类关于心灵本质的概念，在意识上接近他的她母亲活着时她的实在的要素。我时而评价属于布茨一家，包括简·罗伯茨的相片，任何读者可以看着旧相片，运用这里所说的有关私人经验的内容，问同样的问题。“未知”的实在——你是它已知的等价物。那么理解你自己。当你熟悉这些想法时，你会扩展你自己。

　　"I speak, myself, for those portions of your being that already understand. My voice rises from stratas of the psyche in which you also have your experience. Listen, therefore, to your own knowing.

　　“我自己，我为你已已知的存有的那部分而说。我的声音从你也有经验的灵魂的层面升起。因此，倾听你自己的已知。

　　--Seth

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　　UFO

　　不明飞行物

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　　Seth: The strange thing about your flying saucers is not that they appear， but that you can see them. As science advances on various planes the inhabitants learn to travel between planes occasionally， while carrying with them the [camouflage] manifestations of their home stations...

　　赛斯：有关你们的飞碟的奇怪之处不在于它们出现，而在于你们能看见它们。随着科学在各个层面的发展，居民们学习偶尔在层面之间旅行，同时他们呈现出他们老家的[伪装]形象……

　　"I am quite sure--I know for a fact--that beings from other planes have appeared among you， sometimes on purpose and sometimes completely by accident. As in some cases humans have quite accidentally blundered through the apparent curtain between your present and your past， so have beings blundered into the apparent division between one plane and another. Usually when they have done so they were invisible on your plane， as the few of you who fell into the past， or the apparent past， were invisible to the people of the past.

　　“我相当确信——我知道这是事实——来自其他层面的生命已经在你们之中出现，有时是故意的，而有时完全是意外。在某些情形中，人类相当偶然地误撞入你们的现在和你们的过去之间的显而易见的幕布，一些生命也同样误撞入一个层面和另一个层面之间的明显的间隔。通常当他们撞入时，在你们的层面上是看不见他们的，正如当你们中的个别人跌入过去或显然的过去时，过去的人是看不见他们的一样。

　　"This sort of experience involves a sudden psychic awareness， straight from the entity， that all boundaries are for practical purposes only. However， there are indeed many kinds of science. There are a number of sciences dealing just with locomotion. Had the human species gone into certain mental disciplines as thoroughly as it has explored technological disciplines， its practical transportation system would be vastly different， and yet by this time even more practical than it is now. (With amusement:) I am making this point because I want it made plain--this， dear Joseph， is a pun--that when I speak of science on another plane I may not speak of the plain old science that you know.

　　“这种经验涉及一种直接来自这个实体的突然的精神觉知，即：所有的界限都只是出于实用的目的。然而，实际上有许多类型的科学。有数种科学只涉及运动。如果人类能像探索技术学科一样彻底地探究某些精神学科，人类的实用运输系统则会大为不同，并且会比现在的运输系统远更实用。(发笑：)我指出这一点，是因为我想表明：当我谈论另一个层面的科学时，我并不是在谈论你们所知道的老套科学。——亲爱的约瑟夫，这是一个双关语。

　　"Now back to the point. When sciences progress on various planes， then visitations become less accidental and more planned. Once the inhabitants of a plane have learned mental--science pat--terms， then they are to a great degree freed from the more regular camouflage [physical] patterns. This applies to "higher" planes than mine， generally speaking， although mine is further along in these sciences than your own.

　　“现在话说回来。当科学在不同的层面上发展时，访问就变得更少意外，而更有计划了。一旦一个层面的居民已掌握精神科学，那么他们就在很大程度上从更常规的伪装[物质]模式中解放出来。总体而言，这适用于比我的层面“更高”的层面，尽管我的层面在这些科学方面远胜于你们自己的科学。

　　"[Many of] the flying saucer appearances come from [such] a plane， [one] that is much more advanced in technological sciences than earth at this time. However， this is still not a mental-science plane. Therefore the camouflage paraphernalia appears， more or less visible， to your own astonishment. Now， so strong is this tendency for vitality to change from one apparent form to another， that what you have here in your flying object is something that is actually， as you view it， not of your plane or of [whatever] plane of its origin... The atoms and molecules that structurally compose the UFO， and which are themselves formed by vitality， are more or less aligned according to the pattern of its own territory. Now as the craft enters your plane a distortion occurs. Its actual structure is caught in a dilemma of form... between transforming itself completely into earth''s particular camouflage pattern， and retaining its original pattern. The earthly viewer attempts to correlate what he sees with what he supposedly knows or imagines possible in the universe.

　　“[许多]飞碟的外形来自[如此的]一个层面，[这个层面]比现在地球的科技远更先进。然而，它还不是一个精神-科学的层面。因此，会显现随身携带的伪装，或多或少能被你们看到，这令你们吃惊。现在，从一种显然的形式转变为另外一种形式的活力趋势是如此强劲，以致在你们这里的飞行物实际上——正如你们所见到的——并非是你们层面上的东西，或它起源的[无论什么]层面上的东西……。在结构上构成UFO的原子和分子——它们自身正是由活力形成——或多或少地依照它自己领域的模式排列。于是，当飞行器进入你们的层面，就会发生一种扭曲。它真实的结构陷于形式的两难困境——在将它自身完全转换为地球的特殊伪装模式、和保有它原来的模式之间。地球上的目击者试图将他所见到的与他所推测或想象的宇宙中的可能之物相关联。

　　"What he sees is something between a horse and a dog， that resembles neither. The flying saucer retains what it can of its original structure and changes what it must. This accounts for many of the conflicting reports as to shape， size， and color. The few times the craft shoots off at right angles， it has managed to retain functions ordinary to it in its particular habitat.

　　“他所看见的是介于一匹马和一只狗之间的东西，但两者都不像。飞碟尽它可能地保留它原来的结构，并作必要的变化。这解释了为什么会有许多有关形状、大小、和颜色方面彼此矛盾的目击报告的原因。当飞行器为数不多地以合适的角度射出时，它成功地保有了在它特殊的居住地的正常功能。

　　"I do not believe you will have any saucer landings for quite a while， not physical landings in the usual sense of the word. These vehicles cannot stay on your plane for any length of time at all. The pressures that push against the saucer itself are tremendous... The struggle to be one thing or another is very great on any plane. To conform to the laws of a particular plane is a practical necessity， and at this time the flying saucer craft simply cannot afford to stay betwixt and between for any indefinite period.

　　“我相信，你们将在相当一段时间内不会有飞碟着陆，这不是通常字面意思上的实际着陆。这些交通工具不能在你们层面上作任何长度时间的停留。飞碟自身承受的压力是巨大的……。在任何层面上作这样或那样的抗争是非常艰巨的。遵循特殊层面的法则是实际的需要，这时，飞碟根本不能承受任何不确定期间的模棱两可的和介于两者之间的停留。

　　"What they do is take quick glimpses of your plane--and hold in mind that the saucer or cigar shape [often] seen on your planet is a bastard form having little relation to the structure as it is at home base.

　　“他们只是快速地朝你们的层面瞥上一眼——记住，[常常]在你们的行星上看到的飞碟或雪茄形状，是对它在老家的样子的几乎毫不相干的仿冒。

　　"At a later date I may go into the inhabitants of [those planes] more thoroughly， but as it is I am not very much acquainted with them myself.

　　“在以后，我会更彻底地探究[那些层面的]居民，但实际上现在我自己对他们也不是非常熟悉。

　　"There are so many things you do not understand that I hope to explain to you. There are other things you do not understand that I cannot explain to you， simply because they would be too alien now for your regular mode of thought...

　　“有许许多多你们不明白的事情，我希望都能为你们解释。还有一些你们不明白的事情，我却无法为你们解释，只因为对于现在你们通常的思维而言，它们是太不一样了……

　　"One note along these lines. A plane--and I am using your term; I will try to think of a better one--is not necessarily a planet. A plane may be one planet， but a plane may also exist where no planet is. One planet may have several planes. Planes may also involve various aspects of apparent time--this particular matter being too difficult to go into right now， although I will continue it later.

　　“这里要说明一下。一个层面——我正在使用你们的用语；我希望能找到一个更贴切的词——不必是一颗行星。一个层面可以是一颗行星，但一个层面也可以存在于没有行星的地方。一颗行星可以有数个层面。数个层面也可以包含显然的时间的各个方面——现在要探究这个奇特的概念实在太困难，但我稍后将会继续谈到它。

　　"Planes can and do intermix without the knowledge of the inhabitants of the particular planes involved. I want to get away from the idea of a plane being a place. It may be in some cases but is not always. A plane may be a time. A plane， believe it or not， may be only one iota of vitality that seems to exist by itself. A plane is something apparently divided from the rest of the universe for a time and for a reason. A plane may cease to be. A plane may spring up where there was none. A plane is formed for entities as patterns for fulfillment on various levels. A plane is a climate conducive to the development of unique and particular capacities and achievements. A plane is an isolation of elements where each one is given the most possible space in which to function.

　　“数个层面能够并确实相互渗透，无需知晓所涉及的特别层面的居民的知识。我想抛弃作为一个地方的层面的概念。有些情形会是如此，但并不总是如此。一个层面可以是一个时间。一个层面，信不信由你，可以只是似乎是独自存在的一个极微小的生命力。一个层面是显然在某一时间、出于某一原因、有别于宇宙其他部分的东西。一个层面可以结束存在。一个层面可以从虚无中萌芽。一个层面是为实体而形成的，作为其在不同层次上的实现模式。一个层面是一个有益于独特的和特别的能力和成就的发展的气候。一个层面是元素的一个隔绝区域，在这些区域中，生命被赋予最大的可能空间，以在其中活动。

　　"Planets have been used as planes and used again as other planes. A plane is not a cosmic location. It is oftentimes practical that entities or their various personalities visit one plane before another. This does not necessarily mean that one plane must be visited before another. A certain succession is merely more useful for the entity as a whole.

　　“行星已被用作层面，它又被用作其他的层面。一个层面不是宇宙中的一个场所。实际情形时常是，实体们或他们的不同人格造访一个层面，接着造访另一个层面。这并不一定意味着，一个层面一定要在另一个层面之前被造访。对一个实体而言，某种连续性只是比作为一个整体更有用。

　　"In other terms， you could say that an entity visits all planes simultaneously， as it is possible for you to visit a certain state，county， and city at one time. You might also visit the states of sorrow and joy almost simultaneously， and experience both emotions in heightened form because of the almost immediate contrast between them.

　　“换句话说，你可以说，一个实体同时造访所有的层面，正如你有可能同时访问某一个州、某一个县，某一个城市一样。你也可能几乎同时经受悲伤和喜悦，并都以高强度的形式来经验这两种情感，因为它们之间存在巨大的反差。

　　"In fact，the analogy of a plane with an emotional state is much more valid than that between a plane and a geographical state--particularly since emotional states take up no room.

　　“事实上，将一个层面和一种情绪状态作类比，要比一个层面与一个地理形态相比较更有效——尤其是因为情绪状态不占据空间。

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　　Seth Quotes Chap.22 赛斯名言 第二十三章 亚特兰提斯

　　Atlantis

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　　Your ideas of Atlantis are partially composed of future memories. They are psychic yearnings toward the ideal civilization--patterns within the psyche， even as each fetus has within it the picture of its own most ideal fulfillment toward which it grows.

　　你们有关亚特兰提斯的观念部份地由未来记忆组成。它们是你们心中对理想文明模式的心灵渴望，甚至正如每个胎儿之中都怀有它自己至高理想的画面，它会朝向实现理想而生长。

　　Atlantis is a land that you want to inhabit， appearing in your literature， your dreams， and your fantasies， serving as an impetus for development. It is real and valid. In your terms it is not "yet'' physical fact， but in some ways it is more real than any physical fact， for it is a psychic blueprint.

　　亚特兰提斯是一片你们想要居住的土地，它出现在你们的文学中、你们的梦境和你们的幻想中，为发展提供动力。它真实而有效。用你们的话来说，它“还”不是物质事实，但在某些方面，它比任何物质事实更真实，因为它是一幅心灵蓝图。

　　It carries also， however， the imprint of your fears， for the tales say that Atlantis was destroyed. You place it in your past while it exists in your future. Not the destruction alone， but the entire pattern seen through the framework of your beliefs. Beside this， however， many civilizations have come and gone in somewhat the same manner， and the "myth" [of Atlantis] is based somewhat then on physical fact in your terms.

　　它也带有你们恐惧的烙印，因为故事中说，亚特兰提斯毁灭了。你们把它放置于你们的过去，而它却存在于你们的未来。不仅是毁灭，还有通过你们的信念框架所看到的整个模式。但不光如此，许多文明都以多多少少相同的方式面临和经历过，用你们的话说来，[亚特兰提斯]“神话”多少是基于物质实事的。

　　The species then moves into its own new houses. Atlantis is the story of a future probability projected backward into an apparent past.

　　人类于是搬入它的新居。亚特兰提斯是一个故事，它由一个未来的可能性投射回一个显然的过去。

　　Your planet as you know it is a certain kind of focus point for consciousness. At your level you think it is divided into areas of land and water-continents and oceans， islands and peninsulas， cities and woods-because that is all you perceive. Your consciousness is tuned in to frequencies of perception that give you that impression. A cat''s world， or an insect''s or a plant''s， are each far different， yet equally valid.

　　正如你们所知，你们的行星是意识的某一种焦点。在你们的层面上，你们认为，它被分为陆地和水域——大陆和海洋、岛屿和半岛、城市和森林——因为这是你们所感知到的全部。你们的意识被调谐至给你们这种印象的知觉频率。一只猫的世界、一只昆虫的世界、或一棵植物的世界，都大相径庭，但却同样有效。

　　As simply as I can explain it， your planet is also "divided" into time and probability areas. Period. So many civilizations exist at once， then， and there are certain bleed-throughs. In your terms some civilizations are real and perceivable， and some are not.

　　我所能作的最简单的解释是，你们的行星也“分成”时间和可能性的区域。期间。于是，如此众多的文明同时存在，也存在着某种渗漏。用你们的话来说，一些文明是真实的和可感知的，而另一些则不是。

　　"Atlantis. First of all， take it for granted--as you do--that your ideas about the age of the earth are erroneous. There were intelligent human beings far earlier than is supposed; and because you assume a one-line kind of progression from an apelike creature to man， you ignore any evidence that shows to the contrary. There were highly developed human beings with elaborate civilizations， existing simultaneously with what you might call animal kingdoms--that is， more or less organized primeval animal tribes， possessing their own kinds of ''primitive'' cultures.

　　“亚特兰提斯。首先，理所当然——你们正是如此——你们有关地球年龄的观念是错误的。存在过远比你们所认为的更早的智慧人类；因为你们认定了从类猿生物向人类进化的单一线性模式，所以你们忽视任何相反的证据。曾经存在具有高度文明的高度发达的人类，同时也存在你们可能会称之为动物王国的人种——即，或多或少组织化的原始动物部落，有他们自己的‘原始’文化。

　　"Those animal kingdoms， some of them， utilized tools. Their senses were extremely acute， and their ''cultures'' dealt with a kind of transmission of knowledge that made a highly complicated vocabulary unnecessary.

　　“这些动物王国，其中一些，会使用工具。他们的感觉极其敏锐，他们的‘文化’涉及一种知识的传播方式，它使高度复杂的词汇变得毫无必要。

　　"Those species did not vie for domination of the earth， but simply shared the same general environment with the more sophisticated groupings beyond their own perimeters. There were many highly technical human cultures， but in your terms not on a global scale. The legend of Atlantis is actually based upon several such civilizations. No particular civilization is the basis， however. Apart from that， the legend as picked up， so to speak， by Plato was a precognition of the future probability， an image of an inner civilization of the mind actually projected outward into the future， where it would be used as a blueprint， dash-the lost grandeur， as， in other terms， Eden became the lost garden of paradise.

　　“这些人种并未争夺地球的支配权，只是单纯地与他们范围之外的更为复杂的人种共享同一个环境。曾经存在过许多高科技的人类文化，但用你们的话来说，并非是全球范围的。亚特兰提斯传说实际上是基于多个这样的文明，而非基于某个特别文明。但除此之外，可以说，这个由柏拉图发掘出来的传说，是对未来可能性的一种预知，它是一幅心灵真实地向外投射进未来的内在文明的意象——它在未来会被用作一幅蓝图，它是失落的庄严的幻灭，换句话说，正如伊甸园变成了失落的天堂花园一样。

　　Ruburt has implied in [his novel] The Education of Oversoul Seven that some archaeological discoveries about the past are not discovered in your present because they do not exist yet. Now such concepts are difficult to explain in my kind of prose， and in your language. But in certain terms， the ruins of Atlantis have not been found because they have not been placed in your past yet， from the future.

　　拉伯特已在[他的小说]《超灵七号的教育》中含蓄地指出，你们现在并没有发现一些有关过去的考古学发现，因为它们还不存在。现在，这样的观念以我的方式、以你们的语言很难解释。亚特兰提斯遗址还未被发现，但就某种意义而言，是因为它还没有被从你们的未来放入你们的过去之中。

　　"Now the future is probable. However， in your terms there are ruins of the civilizations that served as the ''concrete'' basis for the one Atlantean legend. Those civilizations were scattered. The so-called ruins would not be found in any one place as expected， therefore. There are some beneath the Aegean Sea， and some beneath an offshoot of the Atlantic， and some beneath the Arctic， for the world had a different shape.

　　“未来是可能的。但用你们的话来说，确实存在一些文明遗址，它们被当作亚特兰提斯传说的“具体”基础。这些文明分散各处。所谓的遗址因而不会如你们预期的那样在一个地方找到。有些在爱琴海底，有些在大西洋中，有些在北极之下，因为世界的面貌早已改变。

　　"In far greater terms time is simultaneous， so those civilizations exist along with your own. Your methods of dating the age of the earth are very misleading.

　　“从更为广大的方面而言，时间是同时的，所以，这些文明连同你们自己的文明同时存在。你们计算地球年龄的方法非常令人误解。

　　"In your terms， from your present you ''plant'' images， tales， legends， ''at any given time，'' that seem to come from the past， but are actually like ghost images from the future， for you to follow or disregard as you choose.

　　“用你们的话来说，你们将看似来自过去的‘任何特定时间的’图像、故事、传说‘种植’于你们的现在，但是它们实际上就像来自未来的魅影，供你们选择，追随或忽视。

　　"Atlantis and the Garden of Eden are the same in that regard.

　　“在这方面，亚特兰提斯和伊甸园并无两样。

　　"When you think that perhaps your species came from another planetary system， in time terms， then of course you are still dealing with old concepts. In your usual terms of thinking， the earth does not exist at all--not if you are considering it as a chunk of matter occupying a certain position in a physical cosmos. It is really futile to question whether the universe came from a big boom or is constantly expanding (though in those terms I have said it continually expands， as an idea or a dream does). I am not saying the universe does not exist--only that it does not exist in the way that it seems to you.

　　“以时间方面而言，你们认为也许你们的人种来自于另一个行星系统，那么，你们当然仍抱着老观念。以你们通常的想法而言，地球就根本是不存在的——要不是你们认为它是物质宇宙中占据某个位置的一颗星球。要问宇宙是否产生于一次大爆炸，或它是否正在持续膨胀，真的是毫无必要(尽管就此而言，我曾说过它在持续膨胀，正如一个观念或一个梦一样)。我并不是说，宇宙不存在——只是它并不以你们以为的方式存在。

　　"By itself (with a smile， almost an outright laugh): The truth of the matter is far more spectacular.

　　“自言自语(带着微笑，差不多大笑)：事物的真相远更宏伟壮观。

　　“All That Is creates its reality as it goes along. Each world has its own impetus， yet all are ultimately connected. The true dimensions of a divine creativity would be unendurable for any one consciousness of whatever import， and so that splendor is infinitely dimensionalized (most intensely throughout)， worlds spiraling outward with each ''moment'' of a cosmic breath; with the separation of worlds a necessity; and with individual and mass comprehension always growing at such a rate that All That Is multiplies itself at microseconds， building both pasts and futures and other time scales you do not recognize. Each is a reality in itself， with its own potentials， and with no individual consciousness， however minute， ever lost.

　　“一切全有一路前行，创造它的现实。每个世界都有它自己的动力，而一切都终极地相连。一个神圣的创造的真正维度对任何一个无论何种意义的意识而言，都是无法忍受的，这种壮丽是无限维度化的（强烈到遍布一切)，这同样是意识无法忍受的，这些世界随着宇宙呼吸的每一‘瞬间’向外盘旋；因为它们相互分离是一种需要；因为个人和大众的内涵总是以如此的速率增长，以致于一切全有每一微秒都在增殖它自身，建构过去和未来，以及你们并不知晓的其他时间量度。每个世界都是它自己的一个现实，都有它自己的潜力，任何个人意识，无论其多微小，从未曾消失过。

　　"In that kind of framework， how can I explain an Atlantis? It exists both in your past and future， a probable world that some of you will choose from a model placed in the past of your future--partially based upon fact， in your terms， but with its greatest validity lying in its possibilities."

　　“在此框架中，我如何来解释亚特兰提斯？它既存在于你们的过去，也存在于你们的未来，它是一个可能的世界，这个世界是你们中的一些人将从被置于你们未来的过去中的一个模型中选择出来的——用你们的话来说，它部份地基于事实，但在它的可能性中蕴含着它极其巨大的有效性。”

　　Seth Quotes Chap.22 赛斯名言第二十二章 未来

　　The Future

　　未来

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　　Now： ...you move into new areas of the self all of the time. The species is now entering such a phase， a period in which it will come more into its own. Mankind will be entering its own new house， then——but the physical changes will be the results of interior ones， and alterations in main lines of probabilities.

　　现在：……所有时候你都在进入自我的新区域。人类现在正在进入这样的一个时期，这时，人类将会更深入自己之内。于是，人类将会进入自己的新居——但外在变化将会是内在变化，以及可能性的主要路线变化的结果。

　　“Christian theology sees the end of the world in certain terms， with a grand God coming to reward the good and to punish the wicked. That system of belief allows for no other probability. Some see the end of the world coming as a greater disaster， or envision man finally ruining his planet. Others see periods of peace and advance——and each probability will happen “somewhere.” However， many of my readers， or their offspring， will be involved in a new dimension of selfhood in which consciousness is fully explored and the potentials of the soul uncovered， at least to some extent.

　　“基督教神学在某个范围内看待世界末日：会有一个伟大的上帝来赏善罚恶。这个信仰体系排斥任何其他可能性。有些人把世界末日视作一场大灾难，或想像人类最终摧毁了地球。也有人预见和平和进步的时代——并且每种可能性都会在“某处”发生。然而，我的许多读者，或他们的子孙，将会涉入一个新的自我的维度，在其中，意识得以彻底探究，灵魂的潜力至少在某种程度上得以发掘。

　　“Human capabilities will be seen as what they are， and a great new period of development will occur， in which all concepts of selfhood and reality will be literally seen as “primitive superstition.” The species will actually move into a new kind of selfhood.

　　“人类的能力将以其本来面目而得以认识，一个伟大的新的发展时期将会出现，这时，自我和现实的所有观念将会真正被视作“原始的迷信”。人类将会真正进入一个新的自我。

　　“Theories of probabilities will be seen as practical， workable， psychological facts， giving leeway and freedom to the individual， who will no longer feel at the mercy of external events——but will realize instead that he (or she) is their initiator.

　　“可能性的理论将会被视为实用的、可行的和心理学的事实，这将给个人以余地和自由，他将不再感到外在事件的对他的制约——反而会认识到他(或她) 是它们的创造者。

　　“Now， you squeeze the great fruit of your selfhood into a tiny uneasy pulp， unaware of the sweetness of its juices or the variety of its seasons. You look at the outsides of yourselves as if a peach were aware only of its skin. In the reality I foresee， however， people will become familiar with far greater aspects of themselves， and bring these into actualization. They will be in touch with their own decisions as they make them.

　　“现在，你将你的自我的巨大果实紧握成极小的、不安的果肉，并不知晓它的果汁的甜蜜、风味的丰富。你看着你自己的外表，仿佛是一只只知道自己的表皮的桃子。然而在现实中，我预见人们将会变得对他们自己的远更伟大的方面更为熟悉，并会将它们带入现实。当他们造就它们时，他们将会与他们自己的决定联系上。

　　“If they become ill， they will do so knowing they choose the condition in order to emphasize certain areas of development， or to minimize others. They will be aware of their options， consciously. The great strength and resiliency of the body will be much better understood; not because medical science makes spectacular discoveries——though it will——but because the mind''s alliance with the body will be seen more clearly.

　　“如果他们生病，他们会明白，他们选择这种情形，是为了强调发展的某些领域，或减弱另一些领域。他们会有意识地知晓他们的选择。身体的伟大力量和弹性会得以更好的理解；这并非因为医学科学获得了伟大的发现——尽管它会——而是因为心智与身体的同盟会被更清晰地看到。

　　“In this probability of which I speak， the species will begin to encounter the great challenge inherent in fulfilling the vast untouched (forcefully) potential of the human body and mind. (Long pause.) In that probable reality， to which each of you can belong to some extent， each person will recognize his or her inherent power of action and decision， and feel an individual sense of belonging with the physical world that springs up in response to individual desire and belief.

　　“在我所说的这种可能性中，人类将会开始遭遇巨大的挑战，这种实现人类的身体和心智的广大的、未(有力地)触及的潜力是与生俱来的。(长时间停顿)。在可能的现实中，你们每个人在某种程度上都会属于可能的现实之中，每个人会认识到他或她的与生俱来的行动和决定的力量，并感受到一种个人的对物质世界的归属感，这源于对个人欲望和信念的回应。

　　“. . . but remember——you call this your universe and your reality， and it is indeed， for you form it. Within you also is the knowledge of other great experiments that are being tried， just as other probable systems are aware of the experiments you are involved with. I am speaking in your terms only， which means that to some extent I am hedging——but other civilizations have gone your route. Some have failed， but the inhabitants of some earths have succeeded very well.

　　“……但要记住——你把这称作你的宇宙和你的现实，而它确实是，因为你形成了它。在你之内，也拥有正在被尝试的其他伟大实验的知识，正如其他的可能系统知道你所涉入的实验一样。我只用你们的用词来谈论，这意谓着，在某些程度上，我并不是在正面做答——但是其他文明已走过你们的路线。一些已经失败，但是一些星球上的居民已非常成功。

　　“As you think of it， your future is not set. You can follow any road you choose， but——until you realize that as individuals you each form your own personal life， and have a part in the mass creation of reality——there is much learning ahead for you. This is a lesson you are meant to fully understand within physical reality.

　　“当你想到未来时，你的未来是不确定的。你可以追随你选择的任何道路，但是——直到你认识到，作为个人，你们每个人都形成了你们自己的个人生活，并参与大众的现实创造——在你们前面，还有很多要学。这是你们在物质现实中必须要完全理解的一课。

　　“You are meant to judge physical reality. You are meant to realize that it is a materialization of your thoughts and feelings and images， that the inner self forms that world. In your terms， you cannot be allowed to go into other dimensions until you have learned the great power of your thoughts and subjective feelings. So even when you think you destroy， you destroy nothing. And when you think you kill， you kill nothing. When you imagine that you can annihilate a reality， you can only assault it as you know it. The reality itself will continue to exist.

　　“你必须对现实做出判断。你必须认识到，它是你的思想、感受和意象的一种物质化，以及是内我形成了这个世界。用你们的话来说，你不得进入其他维度，直到你了解了你的思想和主观感受的巨大力量。所以甚至当你认为你在破坏时，其实你什么也没破坏。当你认为你在杀戮时，你什么也没杀戮。当你想像你能消灭一个现实，其实你只能如你所知的攻击它。现实本身将会继续存在。

　　“Because you cannot follow a thought， you wonder where it has gone; has it fallen off some invisible cliff in your mind? But because you can no longer hold that thought in consciousness does not mean it no longer exists， that it does not have a reality of its own， for it does indeed. And if a world escapes you——if you cannot follow it and think it has been destroyed——then the same thing applies to the world as to the thought. It continues to live.

　　“因为你不能够追随一个思想，你不知道它到哪里去了；它是否从你头脑中某个无形的悬崖跌落?而因为你不再能在意识中保有这个思想，并不意味着它就不再存在，它就不拥有它自己的现实，因为它确实如此。如果一个世界从你这里逃脱——如果你不能追随它，并且认为它已被消灭——那么适用于思想的也同样适用于这个世界。它继续生存。

　　“Now， what I have said should inspire questions within you....”

　　“现在，我所说的应该在你内心激发出问题....”

　　——Seth

　　——赛斯

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