“三面夏娃”与转世人格

赛斯几乎立即透过来回答她的问题：“你们对时间的概念是错误的。你们所体验的时间是由你们自己的肉体感官造成的一种幻觉。肉体感官迫使你们以特定的方式去感知行动，但那不是行动的本质。肉体感官一次只能感知一点点实相，所以在你们看来，这一刻来了又一去不返，下一刻到来，然后又像上一刻一样也消失了。

“但宇宙中的一切同时存在于同一时间。用你们的话来说，第一句讲出的话仍然响彻宇宙，最后一句话也已经说出了，因为根本没有‘开始’这回事。只不过你们的感知是有限的。

“没有过去、现在和未来，这些只有对存在于三维实相中的人才如此显现。既然我已不在其中，因而我能感知你们所感知不到的。你们还有一个部分没有被禁锢在物质实相中，你们的那一部分明白只有一个‘永恒的现在’。知道这一点的那部分就是‘全我’。

“比如说，当我告诉你，你曾活在1836年，我这样说是因为现在对你而言它能讲得通。你同时活过你所有的转世，但在三维实相的背景下，你发现这很难理解。

“假设你做了好几个梦，而你知道你在做梦。在每一个梦里，可能世上一百年过去了，但对于你，做梦的人，并没有时间过去，因为你摆脱了时间存在的那个维度。你在梦里——或在每一生里——度过的时间，只是一个幻觉，对‘内我’而言并没有时间过去，因为根本没有时间这回事。”

事实上，赛斯曾用几个类比方法来解释转世经验。在我们自己的赛斯课第3600页，我找到这个：“各个不同的转世自己，可以肤浅地比喻为一个填字游戏的一部分，因为他们全都是整体的一部分，然而它们却可以独立存在。”

在第256节课中，他说：“因为你们执着于过去、现在和未来的概念，所以你们把各个转世想成是一个接一个串起来的。事实上，我们说‘前世’是因为你们习惯了时间顺序的概念。你们所拥有的却是类似于电影《三面夏娃》中所描述的发展。你们有数个主宰性的自我，全是一个内在本体的一部分，在不同的转世存在中主宰着。但这些分别的存在却都存在于同时。只有所牵涉到的自我才会区分时间。公元前145年，公元后145年，你过去的一千年，与你未来的一千年——全都存在于现在。”

事实上，赛斯有三、四节课里将人格“分裂”的个案与我们转世的自己相比。他最后说道：“有趣的是，在《三面夏娃》中，几个人格真地换来换去，可以说全都同时存在，虽然在某一刻只有一个人格是主宰。同样的，所谓‘前世’的人格现在也存在于你之内，但却不是主宰。”

就我们所知，这种“转世”和“同时性时间”的调和学说是赛斯首创。其他大部分转世学说都把时间顺序视为当然。但因与果又如何呢？当赛斯提出这个时间概念时，这是罗和我想到的第一个问题。赛斯对因果的态度在他后来解释“时间”的真实本质时变得足够明了，但当罗第一次问这个问题时，赛斯回答：

“既然事实上所有的事件都是同时发生的，那么说一个过去的事件导致了现在的事件，实在没什么意思。过去的经验并不会导致现在的经验。你正在形成过去、现在与未来——同时进行。这很难解释，因为在你看来事件是按顺序发生的。

“说前世的某些特性影响或导致了现在的行为模式，这样的陈述——我已作过几次了——是为了明确某些观点而被高度简化了的。

“全我知道其所有自我的所有经验，而既然是一个本体形成了他们，他们之间一定有相似之处和共同特性。我给你们的有关转世的资料是相当确凿的，尤其是为了实用的目的，但它是实际发生的事情的一个简化版本。”

因此，尽管赛斯常常将今生的问题解释为前世困难的结果，但他对那些能了解的人说得更清楚——这些前世今生真的是同时存在的，就好像三个人格能同时存在于一个身体内一样。

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"Seth said earlier that all time existed at once," said Jean. "Then how come he talks about reincarnational lives or a series of lives one before the other? The two don't seem to go together."

Almost immediately, Seth came through and answered her question. "Your idea of time is false. Time as you experience it is an illusion caused by your own physical senses. They force you to perceive action in certain terms, but this is not the nature of action. The physical senses can only perceive reality a little bit at a time, 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.

"But 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, for there is no beginning. It is only your perception that is limited.

"There is no past, present, and future. These only appear to those who exist within three-dimensional reality. Since I am no longer in it, I can perceive what you do not. There is also a part of you that is not imprisoned within physical reality, and that part of you knows that there is only an Eternal Now. The part of you who knows this is the whole self.

"When I tell you that you lived, for example, in 1836, I say this because it makes sense to you now. You live all of your reincarnations at once, but you find this difficult to understand within the context of three-dimensional reality.

"Pretend that you have several dreams, and you know that you are dreaming. Within each dream, one hundred earthly years may pass, but to you, the dreamer, no time has passed, for you are free of the  dimension in which time exists. The time you seem to spend within the dream--or within each life-is only an illusion, and to the inner self no time has passed because there is no time."

Actually Seth has used several analogies to explain reincarnational experiences. On page 3,600 of our own sessions I find this: "The various reincarnational selves can be superficially regarded as portions of a crossword puzzle, for they are all portions of the whole, and yet they can exist separately."

In the 256th session he said, "Because you are obsessed with the idea of past, present, and future, you are forced to think of reincarnations as strung out one before the other. Indeed we speak of past lives because you are used to the time sequence concept. What you have instead is something like the developments narrated in The Three Faces of Eve. You have dominant egos, all a part of an inner identity, dominant in various existences. But the separate existences exist simultaneously. Only the egos involved make the time distinction. 145 B .C., A.D. 145, a thousand years in your past, and a thousand years in your future-all exist now."

In fact, Seth gave three or four sessions in which he compared cases of "split" personalities to our reincarnation selves. He ended up by saying, "It is interesting that the personalities [in Three Faces of Eve] did alternate, and all were in existence at once, so to speak, even though only one was dominant at any given time. In the same way, so-called past personalities are present in you now but not dominant."

As far as we know, this reconciliation of reincarnation and simultaneous time is original with Seth. Most other theories of reincarnation take the time sequence for granted. But what about cause and effect, then? When Seth introduced this idea, this is one of the first questions Rob and I thought of. Seth's attitude toward cause and effect will become clear enough in his later explanations of the true nature of "time," but when Rob first asked the question, Seth answered :

"Since all events occur at once in actuality, there is little to be gained by saying that a past event causes a present one. Past experience does not cause present experience. You are forming past, present, and future-simultaneously. Since events appear to you in sequence, this is difficult to explain.

"When it is said that certain characteristics from a past life influence or cause present patterns of behavior, such statements-and I have made some of them-are highly simplified to make certain points clear.

"The whole self is aware of all of the experiences of all of its egos, and since one identity forms them, there are bound to be similarities between them and shared characteristics. The material I have given you on reincarnation is quite valid, particularly for working purposes, but it is a simplified version of what actually occurs."

So while Seth often explains present life problems as the result of past life difficulties, he makes it dear to those that can understand that the lives really exist simultaneously, just as three personalities can exist in one body at one time.