冲破“宿命论”的迷雾！

《灵魂永生》附录ESP课（下）

（1971年2月9日星期二）

本节课的上篇：

? 了悟属于你的自由！

（课间休息时，班上同学讨论了命运与宿命论的问题。）

我希望坐在这边的女士哪天晚上能跟我谈谈宿命论。

（Bernice M：“而我希望你来跟我谈谈。”）

你并非被“编好了程序”。没有什么是因为必须发生而发生的。你现有的每一个想法都在改变实相，所改变的还不只是你所知的那个实相，而是所有的实相。你的任何行动都不会预设一个未来的自己必须以某种特定的方式行事。有很多行动的库藏任君选择，你可以选择从中提取，也可以不提取。

（Bernice M：“那我们是不是随时都在做即时的决定？就好比说我在想今天洛杉矶地震的事。有个人走到街上被一块落下来的砖头砸死了。整栋楼里就他一个人走出来，为什么呢？”）

这个人相当明了将会发生什么，这种了解建立在你们所谓的“无意识”的基础上。他的死亡不是命中注定的。用你们的话说，他出于自己的理由选择了死亡的“时间”与“方式”。

（Bernice M：“不管是谁的选择，他的死是注定的。”）

这不是注定。这是他的选择。没有人替他做选择。

（Bernice M：“但他之前就做好了决定。”）

什么之前？

（Bernice M：“在他被砸死之前。”）

他知道自己已经准备好到另外的活动层面去了，他无意识地四处寻找方法并选择那些马上就可以用上的。这个人三天前就已做好谋划。整件事与“宿命”无关。只因一根树枝掉下来，并不意味着它注定要在那个特定的时候以那种特定的方式掉落。在“自由选择”与“宿命”之间有很大的不同。

（Jim H：“之前提到那个身为少数族裔的女人时，你不是说她的人生挑战是由我们所谓的“前世人格”设定的吗？”）

由“全我”设定。

（Jim H：“这个决定是在那个前世人格回到全我，重新评估一番之后做出的吗？”）

我得重申，你们必须明白，我们为方便之故才分开来说，而这些分割真的完全不存在。可以说，就在投生为少数族裔的同时，在一个完全不同的时代，这个人也许生下来就富贵平安。所有这些都是寻找体验和拓展的不同方式。你懂吗？

（Jim H：“我懂。我以为你可能是指那些挑战已经由全我设定了。”）

的确如此。要记住，我们所谈的是你的整个本体。只是你目前只觉察到这个本体的一部分，却又坚称这一部分就是“你自己”。你就是那个做这些决定的自己。

（Bert C:“如果这个集各种霉运于一身的可怜人在自我层面有意识地说：“我不想这样，我更愿意生而富贵”。她有什么办法可想吗？”）

可是，内我很清楚，出现在这里的潜能不一定会出现在其他环境条件下，这些能力不仅能帮助现有的这个人格，还能帮助其他人，甚至整个社会。

你们争论的重点来自情绪方面的障碍，而这种障碍的产生只在于你们对名词的分别心。这就好像你选择去贫民窟工作一天。这个选择貌似荒唐，于是你对自己说：“我为什么要去贫民窟工作？我更想去第五大道上班。”你知道你为什么这样做，你的整个本体也知道原因。你故意瞒住现在的自己，仅仅是为了保证目前的实相看上去不像是在假装。

假如一个富人故意去做一天穷人，以了解贫穷的滋味，那么他学不到多少，因为他忘不了自己拥有的财富。尽管他吃着和那穷人一样可怜的食物，在同一所可怜的房子里住了一天——或者一年甚至五年——他也知道自己有豪宅可回。因此你只有瞒住自己才能真正融入当前的境况。你忘记你的家，以便能带着丰富的经验回去。

与其说意识是由平衡构成的，不如说是由精妙的不平衡构成的，而意识的焦点在某种程度上正是这种不平衡的兴奋状态的结果。在这种状态下永远不可能知道所有的元素，因为新的元素正在不断被创造出来。这里说的并不是物质元素，而是“意识的心理特性”，因为即使是这些特性也在不断地融合与变化。

你现在就不是十分钟之前的你。无论是生理上、心理上、精神上或心灵上，你都与十分钟前大不相同了，而十分钟后你又将变得不同。如果否认这一点，你就等于是在把意识逼到某个它永远无法脱身的僵化模式中，也等于是你对意识强加限制，以造就出一个非常整齐的心理景观。

（现在赛斯说起话来简直声如洪钟。）

现在我希望你们再次认识到那个对你们开放的能量。既然鲁柏可以运用它，你们每个人也都可以按照自己的方式来加以运用。我要你们放下在自己心中竖起的障碍。这个声音只是用来作为一种象征，象征着当你利用那些天赋能力时，随时为你们每个人开放的能量和力量。

你们应该听到我的声音在你们自己心中的回声，那是你们自己的能量与喜悦的象征。忘掉那个有时会畏缩不前的自己，反之要记住你自身存在的神奇本质，即使在当下这一刻它的歌声也正从你的指尖穿过。那才是你们正在寻找的实相。尽情体验它吧！难道还需要像我这样一个死老头子来告诉你们什么是生命吗？我真该替你们惭愧呢！

现在，祝各位晚安，献上一切我能给予的祝福。也祝福各位无论在体内还是在体外都能有宁静、愉快而平安的旅途。

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9,1971

（During break class members discussed fate and predestination.）

Some evening I would like our lady over here to talk to me about predestination.

（Bernice M.: “I would like you to talk to me about it. ”）

You are not ‘“programmed.” Nothing happens because it must happen. Every thought that you have now changes reality. Not only reality as you know it, but all reality. No act of yours predisposes a future self to act in a particular manner. There are banks of activity from which you can draw or choose not to draw.

（Bernice M.: “Do we make instantaneous decisions? For example, I was thinking of the Los Angeles earthquake today. A man walked out into the street and was killed by a falling brick. What made this one person in the entire building walk out? ”）

This particular individual was quite aware of what would occur, on what you would call an unconscious basis. He was not predestined to die. He chose both the time, in your terms, and the method, for reasons of his own.

（Bernice M.: “Regardless of who chose, it was destined that he die. ”）

It was not predestined. He chose. No one chose for him.

（Bernice M.: “But he had made the decision before. ”）

Before when?

（Bernice M.: “Before he was killed. ”）

He knew that he was ready to go on to other spheres of activity. Unconsciously, he looked about for the means and chose those immediately available. This particular individual, three days earlier, had made the plan. There was no predestination involved. Because a tree branch falls, this does not mean that it was destined to fall in either the particular manner of its fall nor in the timing of the fall. There is a great difference between free choice and predestination.

（Jim H.: “Didn’t you say earlier, referring to the woman who was born in a minority race, that her challenges had been set up by a previous personality, in our terms? ”）

By the whole self.

（Jim H.: “The decision was made when that previous personality had returned to the whole self for a period of reevaluation? ”）

You must realize, again, that we are speaking of divisions for convenience’s sake, where none really exists. At the same “time,” so to speak, that this personality is born into a minority race, in a completely different era it may be born rich, secure and aristocratic. It is searching out different methods of experience and expansion. Do you follow me?

（Jim H.: “I understand. I thought you probably meant the challenges had been set up by the whole self. ”）

Indeed. Remember, this is your entire identity of which we are speaking. It is only you who are presently aware of but one portion of it; and this portion you insist upon calling yourself. You are the self who makes these decisions.

（Bert C.: “What recourse would the poor individual who was born with all of these seemingly insurmountable handicaps have, were she to say consciously, at the ego level, ‘I just don’t want any of this. I would have much preferred to have been born aristocratic ’? ”）

The inner self realizes, however, that potentials are present that would not necessarily be present under other circumstances —abilities that can not only help the present personality but other individuals, and even society at large.

Your main point of contention is brought about by the emotional barriers that are caused by the difference in terms. It is as if you choose to work for a day in the slums. It would be ridiculous for you to choose to do this, and then say to yourself, “Why did I choose to work in the slums? I would prefer to work on Fifth Avenue.” You know the reason, and your entire identity knows the reason. You hide it from the present self simply to insure the fact that the present reality is not a pretended one.

A rich man who tries to be poor for a day to learn what poverty is learns little, because he cannot forget the wealth that is available to him. Though he eats the same poor fare as the poor man, and lives in the same poor house for a day — or for a year or five years—  he knows he has his mansion to return to. So you hide these things from yourself so that you can relate. You forget your home so that you can return to it enriched.

Consciousness is not made up of balances so much as it is made up of exquisite imbalances, and the focus of awareness is to some degree the result of this state of excitability. In this state all elements are never known because new ones are always being created. I am not speaking of physical elements, but of the psychological characteristics of consciousness, for even those continually merge and change.

You are not now what you were ten minutes earlier. You are not the same being physically, psychologically, spiritually, or psychically, and ten minutes later you will be different again. To deny this is to try to force consciousness into some rigid form from which it cannot ever be freed, to apply rules to it that make a very neat psychological landscape.

（Now Seth’s voice really began to boom out.）

Now I would like you again to realize the energy that is available. If Ruburt can use it, you can each use it in your own way. I want you to open up those barriers that you have erected within yourselves; this voice is only used as a symbol of the energy and the strength that is available to each of you, as you utilize those abilities that are your heritage.

You should hear your own echo of my voice as a symbol of your own energy and joy. Forget the cringing selves that you sometimes are and remember, instead, the magic essence of your own being that sings even now through your fingertips. That is the reality which you are seeking. Experience it fully. Do you need an old dead thing like me to tell you what life is? I should be ashamed.

Now, I bid you a fond good evening, and those blessings that are mine to give, I give you. Travel in peace and joy and safety, in your bodies and out.