当一个“可能的自己”前来拜访……（上）

1969年6月，当赛斯告诉我们，罗可能被他的一个“可能的自己”拜访时，我们真吓了一跳。在那时我们并不知道“可能的自己”是什么，虽然赛斯以前用过一两次这个词。可能的自己是什么呢？照赛斯所说，我们每个人在别的实相系统中都有对等者存在，不是一模一样的自己或双胞胎，而是其他的我，是我们“存有”的一部分，以不同于我们这儿的方式发展能力。

这些可能的人格比我们转世的自己离我们更远，更像是具有家族相似性的远亲。按我们至今所得的资料来看，他们中的一些人有不同于我们的感知方法。

举例说，在我们的系统中，罗是一名艺术家。几年前他做了些医学插图，他惊讶于自己的熟练程度，惊讶于自己对医学程序和术语的熟练，这些可都是在他刚开始时相当陌生的。罗为那些医生们画的每一幅素描和绘画都让他们赢得了奖金。在第487节中，赛斯告诉罗，在另一个实相系统中，罗有一个可能的自己，他是名医生，把绘画作为一种爱好。这就是为什么罗那么容易地喜欢上了医学图画！（当然，对那个医生而言，罗是一个可能的自己。）

赛斯那晚告诉我们不少关于这个“人”的事，并描述了他尝试接触这个实相的一些方法。赛斯说：“在你们所谓的一个空间架构中，事实上存在着无数种物质。当然，用肉体的感官，你永远无法知觉这些其他的系统。然而，运用“内在感官”的高级训练可以引发这种探索。你的朋友（可能的自己）是更先进的——他的系统在这方面更先进。

“就像思想可以通过空间发送一样，所以个人的意识也能被发送过不同的实相系统（其他次元）。就像一粒种子能飞过空中，因此个人的意识也可以游历过这些系统，但必须加以保护。某些药物可以保护它。（所有这些都是罗的“可能的自己”由他的可能系统投射出来时所用的方法。）

“现在，这些药物就像按时发散药效的胶囊一样，在一定的时间间隔内减少刺激，而后当抵达目的地时则注入兴奋剂。这过程是非常复杂的。药物注射进肉体，影响到脑。意识则投射而游于体外。肉体的脑被保护不受冲击，因为在这种情形下，意识以如此快的速度旅行，通常它与肉体之间的联系会被切断。

“然后给脑注射进某些药物，实际上是帮助在脑外的意识，起到营养的作用。不过，这只是正在使用的一种方法。这种药物使高度强化了的意识能在调控期内以巅峰状态运作，所有的心智能力都会加速。不过在这些调控期之间，也有无意识的时期，这具有保护作用。

“在无意识的时期，注射进大脑的药物会给那些参与意识投射的大脑区域提供更多的营养。因此，即使你可能的自己就在所谓伸手可及的地方，他有时却处于这种‘昏迷——营养’期。

“以你们的时间来说，高度意识活动的周期大约为三天，接着，按情况的不同，有一天半到四天不活动。这牵涉到意识能量由一个本土系统转移到一个陌生的系统，而由一个系统到另一个系统必须做出某种或多或少的自动改变，包括脑波的运用——在不同的系统中，所谓正常的模式也有所不同。

“举例来说，除了你们的科学家发现的脑波之外，还有其他的脑波模式。这些药物在必要时有助于改变这些模式。如果在进入或离开一个系统时这些大脑的模式没变，那么至少在理论上，意识可能会被困在某个系统内：加速或减速，你明白，但只是精神上的。”

课结束之后，当罗告诉我赛斯说了些什么，有好几分钟我们只坐在那儿相互对视。“也许你有一个可能的自己。”我最后笑着说。

“它真的不是一个新概念。”罗说，“科学家们已经从理论上推测出一个可能的宇宙。”

“但从你告诉我的情况来看，赛斯说的是无限个可能的自己，”我说，“从理论上推断出可能的自己是一回事，去想他们中的一个也许将会联系你又是另一回事。”

罗说：“我准备好了。”

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

In June of 1969 we were really startled when Seth told us that Rob might be visited by one of his "probable selves." At the time of the session, we didn't know what probable selves were, though Seth had used the term once or twice in the past. What is a probable self? According to Seth, each of us has counterparts in other systems of reality; not identical selves or twins, but other selves who are part of our entity, developing abilities in a different way than we are here.

These probable personalities are further removed from us than our reincarnational selves, more like distant relations who bear a family resemblance. According to the information we have so far, some of them have methods of perception different from ours.

In our system, for example, Rob is an artist. A few years ago he did some medical artwork and was amazed at his proficiency at it, and with the medical procedures and terminology, which were quite unfamiliar to him when he began. Each of Rob's sketches and paintings won prizes for the doctors for whom he did them. In this session, the 487th, Seth told Rob that in another system of reality, Rob has a probable self who is a doctor who paints as a hobby. This is why Rob took to the medical drawings so easily! ( To the doctor, of course, Rob is a probable self. )

Seth told us quite a bit about this "man" that night, and described some of the methods he was using in an attempt to contact this reality. Seth said : "There are, in fact, infinite varieties of matter, existing in what you would call one space framework. Using the physical senses, of course, you can never perceive these other systems. Advanced training in the use of the Inner Senses can lead to such explorations, however. Your friend [probable self] is more advanced-his system is more advanced in this respect.

"In the same way that thoughts can be sent through space, so individual consciousness can be sent through systems of reality [other dimensions] . As a seed can fly through the air, so individual consciousness can travel through these systems, but it must be protected. Certain drugs can protect it. [All of this is the method used by Rob's probable self as he projects out of his probable system.]

"Now these drugs are like time capsules, cutting down stimuli for certain intervals, and then injecting stimulants as destination points are reached. The process is highly involved. The injections are made into the physical being, affecting the brain. Consciousness projects in an out-of-body experience. The physical brain is cushioned against shock, since in this case consciousness travels at such a fast pace that ordinarily contact between it and the body would be severed.

"Certain injections then given to the brain actually help consciousness outside of the brain and act as nourishment. This is simply one method that is being used, however. The drug allows for regulated periods of highly intensified consciousness, operating at peak levels, with all the mental faculties accelerated. Between these periods, however, there are periods of unconsciousness. These are of a protective nature.

"During the unconscious periods the drugs injected into the physical brain give increased nourishment to those areas of the brain involved in these ejections of consciousness. Therefore, even though your probable self is within reaching distance, so to speak, he is sometimes in these blackout-nourishment periods.

"In your time, the periods of high conscious activity would run approximately three days, followed by a day and a half to four days of inactivity, according to the circumstances. This involves the transfer of conscious energy from a home system to an alien one, and certain more or less automatic changes must be made from system to system, involving the use of brain waves, certain patterns being normal in different systems.

"There are other brain patterns, for example, than those discovered by your scientists. The drugs help in changing these patterns when it is necessary. If these brain patterns were not changed on entering and leaving a system, theoretically at least, the consciousness could become trapped within any given system: acceleration or deacceleration, you see, but mentally."

After the session, when Rob told me what Seth had been saying, we just sat looking at each other for a few minutes. "Probably you have a probable self," I said finally, with a laugh.

"It's not really a new idea," Rob said. "Scientists have theorized about a probable universe."

"But Seth's talking about an infinity of them, from what you tell me," I said. "And it's one thing to theorize about probable selves, and another to think that one of them might be going to contact you."

''I'm ready, " Rob said.