当一个“可能的自己”前来拜访……（下）

? 当一个“可能的自己”前来拜访……（上）

罗说：“我准备好了。”的确如此。在接下来的几周里，他按照赛斯的建议做了“心理时间”的练习，并试着在直觉上对任何不寻常的事保持警觉。在此期间，我们又上了一节课，罗准备了好多问题要问赛斯。照赛斯告诉我们的，这个可能的自己是皮医生。在他的实相系统中，他比我们系统中的罗年纪更大。虽然他全神贯注于他的绘画，但这个兴趣仍比他的医学工作次要些。

赛斯说：“他正在研究绘画在治疗中的应用，不仅将艺术作为治疗手段来辅导病人，而且研究出某些画本身就有治疗效果。”赛斯继续说道：“某些画能捕捉并引导观者的治愈能力……画家的意图嵌入到他所用的媒介与他的绘画中。”

罗问：“皮医生知道我的存在吗？”

“他知道你假设性的存在，”赛斯说。“他相信他有一个可能的自己，而他正致力于访问这个可能的宇宙。不过，他并不知道你可能在期待这样一次拜访，也不知道你可能正计划与他见面……他一直在亲自研究这些药物，和另外两个人一起。

“在他离开期间，他将能够在他自己的系统中操控。你的精神状态和接受度将会传达给他，作为他能识别的一个招呼站。你俩人格中交感的一面将会在你们之间打开清晰的通道。当然，你明白这通路不是物质性的，然而在某种程度上却牵涉到分子结构。”

“但我会看到他的人吗？”罗问。“假如我们有了某种接触，我会知觉到他吗？”

“你会看到他——要么以完全具体化的样子，要么以一个异常生动的内在影像。但除此之外，你们之间应该有一种心电感应性的内在沟通。你知道，他也是以视觉为导向的，也许他能给你展示他自己实相系统中的一些影像。他也许能在投射状态中带你去那儿，而从那一点你应该能够观察你自己的系统，在一系列的闪现画面中更清楚地看到你和鲁柏的生活。”

“但他按我们的时间何时才会来呢？”罗很快地问道，因为快到结束的时候了。

“我相信在七个小时之内他就会到你们的系统里，不论你能否察觉到他。药物或许会有将他的影像染色的效果。所以不要惊讶于淡淡的黄色或紫色。由于各种我们今晚无法讨论的原因，这些实验已进行了数周之久，一直到你们的秋季时才会再尝试。这与细胞结构的传导性有关，还与这个时期里你们特定的大气状况有关。”

这节课在1969年6月9日进行。赛斯再次告诉罗，“心理时间”的练习可以使接触容易些。罗在那周做了好几次这种练习，却没与皮医生达成任何接触。6月16日，赛斯说有两次几乎达成了接触，这让我们很惊讶。

赛斯说：“所发生的是一种超越意识层面的人格特征的瞬间融合。你们两人都不知该怎么处理，你们害怕把自己的身份弄模糊了，而且对两人身份内在的某些相似之处相当害怕。然而，正是这些相似之处，才让这种极小的接触成为可能。”

罗问：“这是什么时候发生的？”

“在你的思绪突然转变方向的某个时候。我相信你在脑海中有过一个人体内部的影像，或者一个与内脏有关的念头。这发生在你在更深的层面上知觉到皮医生的出现时。”

罗之前一直在作人体的画像，因此这些资料对他来说是有道理的。不过，他想不起任何有关人体内部的强烈内在影像。但他说他之前一直在思考身体的内部——这是我所不知的。赛斯继续说，更完满的接触仍为可能，“虽然皮医生的焦点不太准，而且他出现的强度也变化不定。”

赛斯还说了些有关皮医生在他的实验中所用的药物，显然那些药物保证意识不会太快地回到肉体的脑子。他还说，有些方法“可以在另一端监控在旅行中的意识其大致的行为和状态。一旦遇到严重危险，意识就会被拉回去，但这是非常危险的。”

倘若任何人有疑惑的话，根据赛斯的说法，这个可能的实相系统与我们的一样“真实”。对它的居民来说，它是由物质组成，它只是介于物质与反物质之间的无数系统或宇宙中的一个。皮医生的系统里的人已假设有其他的可能宇宙存在。皮医生是最早的探险者之一，主要是由于他有着出色的医学背景。

正如摘录中所解释的那样，这种在可能系统之间的旅行是通过将意识投射于体外来达成的，但这似乎涉及到医学、物理学和其他学科的紧密结合。在过去的其他声明中，赛斯告诉过我们，在我们自己的系统内，任何远距离的太空旅行也将涉及精神的而非肉体的旅行。

一切皆有“可能”

可能的你，皆为本体的化现

没有走的路——赛斯修炼法选读

改变过去，创造未来

眼中有眼还有眼

落选的“可能”们都去了哪儿

''I'm ready, " Rob said; and he was. Over the next few weeks he did psychological time exercises suggested by Seth, and tried to be intuitively alert to anything out of the ordinary. In the meantime we had another session, and Rob had quite a few questions ready to ask Seth. According to what Seth told us, this probable self is a Dr. Pietra. He is an older man in his system of reality than Rob is in ours, and while he is engrossed in his painting, this interest is subordinated to his medical work.

"He is studying the use of painting in therapy," Seth said. "Not only working with patients and using art as therapy, but working with the idea that some paintings in themselves have a healing effect." Seth went on to say that "certain paintings can capture and direct the healing abilities of the viewer. . . . The painter's intent is embedded in his medium and in his painting."

"Does Dr. Pietra know I exist?" Rob asked.

"He knows of your hypothetical existence," Seth said. "He believes that he has a probable self, and he is endeavoring to visit this probable universe. He has no idea, however, that you might be expecting such a visit, or that you might be planning to meet him .... He has been working on the drug himself, along with two others.

"He will be able to manipulate in his own system while he is gone. Your state of mind and receptivity will be communicated to him and serve as a beckoning area that he will recognize. The sympathetic aspects of your personalities will serve to open clear channels between you. The passageway, you see, is not physical, of course, and yet molecular structure is to some extent involved."

"But will I see him physically?" Rob asked. "Granted we do make some kind of contact, will I know it consciously?"

"You should see him visually--either entirely objectified or in an unusually vivid inner image. But more than this, there should be an inner communication between you of a telepathic nature. He is also visually oriented, you understand. He may be able to show you images from his own system of reality. He may be able to take you there in a projection, and from that point you should be able to look into your own system, and in a series of flashes see your life and Ruburt's with greater clarity."

"But when will he be here in our terms?" Rob asked quickly, because it was almost time for the session to end.

"I believe that within seven hours he will be within your system, whether or not you perceive him. The drug may have the effect of coloring his image, so do not be surprised at a yellow or purplish tinge. For various reasons we cannot discuss this evening, the experiments are now being conducted over a period of some weeks, and they will not be tried again until your autumn. This has to do with the conductivity of cell structures, and your particular atmosphere during these periods." 

This session was held June 9, 1969. Seth told Rob again that contact could be facilitated by the Psychological Time exercises. Rob did these exercises several times that week without making any contact with Dr. Pietra as far as he knew. On June 16 Seth surprised us by saying that near contact had been made twice.

"What happened was a very momentary merging of personality characteristics on deeper than conscious levels," Seth said. "Neither of you knew how to handle it. You were afraid of blurring your own identities, and rather frightened by some of the similarities within them. It was the similarities, however, that made even that [small] contact possible."

"When did this happen?" Rob asked.

"At a time when your thoughts veered off on a tangent. I believe you had a mental image of the inside portion of a human body, or a thought having to do with inner organs. This occurred as you picked up, on deeper levels, the presence of Dr. Pietra."

Rob had been working on portraits and human figures, so this data made sense to him. He didn't recall any strong inner image of the interior of a body, though; yet he said that he had been thinking of body interiors-something that I didn't know. Seth went on to say that fuller contact was still possible, "though Dr. Pietra's focus is not certain, and the intensity of his presence varies."

Seth also had a little more to say concerning the drugs that Pietra uses in his experiments. Apparently they insure that consciousness will not return to the physical brain too quickly. He also said that there were methods "by which the relative behavior and condition of the traveling consciousness is monitored at the other end. In case of any severe dangers, the consciousness is pulled back, but this is highly dangerous."

In case anyone is uncertain, this probable system of reality is as "real" as ours, according to Seth. To its inhabitants, it is composed of physical matter, and it is just one of an infinite number of systems or universes between matter and antimatter. The people in Pietra's system have hypothesized the existence of other probable universes, and Pietra is one of the first explorers, mostly because of his excellent medical background.

Such travel between probable systems is done through projection of consciousness out of the body, as was explained in the excerpts, but this seems to involve a welding of medicine, physics, and other disciplines. In other statements in the past, Seth told us that any far-ranging space travel within our own system would also involve mental rather than physical journeys.

If, as Seth maintains, we have probable selves and if, besides all this, we live various existences on this planet, what happens to the concept of a single soul?

Here I want to include excerpts from three sessions in which Seth explains the difference between a physical event and a probable one, and the relationship between us and probable systems of reality. (Remember, Rob and Dr. Pietra are each individuals. Seth explains this relationship by saying that the two are related, like distant cousins.) He begins with what I think is an excellent description of the whole self or entire identity as it is related to this and other existences.