Hi Everyone,
I recently finished reading "The Unknown Reality" volume one , and there was a bit in it that i wasnt clear about. On page 97 Seth says ...
"New CUs enter and leave your system constantly,then.Within the system en masse, however, through their great and small organizational structures, the CUs are aware of everything happening - not only on the top of the moment ,but within it in all of its probabilities. Now : This means that biologically the cell is aware of all of its probabble variations, while in your time and structures it holds its unique position as a part,say, of any given organ in your body. In greater terms the cell is a huge physical universe,orbiting an invisible CU ; and in your terms the CU will always be invisible-beyond the smallest phenomenon that you can perceive with any kind of instrument.To some extent, however its act can be indirectly apprehended through its effect upon the phenomenon that you can perceive."
I have typed out the sentences either side but the sentence that confused me is the cell " orbiting an invisible CU" (singular) Is Seth saying that a cell has just the one CU in charge of it ? I thought a cell would have heaps of CUs in it ?
Thankyou to whoever understands what i am asking and can answer me !
Love from Cara x

Hi Cara: I don't think Seth meant to imply that a linear or 1:1 relationship exists. If you know anything of quantum physics, then you know that molecules are made of atoms, atoms are made of protons, neutrons and electrons, and these sub-atomic particles are made of quanta - quarks, leptons, bruons, mesons, etc. Get any 'smaller' than that - in scientific terms, and you bridge the energy-matter barrier. This is where science gets wonky. From what I understand of Seth's 'Consciousness Units', they're like quanta with one important difference - in Seth's terms the CUs have a consciousness that science can not yet afford them, or begin to understand.

My understanding is that here Seth is making a 'size' comparison in physical terms. Of course, from a physical perspecive we tend to see things in terms of amalgamation - a molecule is more complex than an atom, a cell is more complex than a molecule, an organ is more complex than a cell, etc. In terms of consciousness those limitations do not apply. Each CU can hold within it all of All That Is, in what we can (so far) best describe as maybe a holographic process.

Love,
Mike.

P.S. It's been a long time since I read that book, so I'm afraid I don't have much more to add.

Thanks Mike for that answer which cleared up my confusion perfectly. Love Cara xx

Hi Cara,

It is my understanding of this difficult topic that Seth refers to units of consciousness in both the micro and macro formats. Maybe I have misunderstood, but I thought he meant that a single atom can contain millions of CUs, but that the combined CUs in one atom can also be referred to as one CU. I arrived at this after reading (see session 682)that CUs combine with others of its kind, forming then units of consciousness...

Hiya Jeffrey and thanks for pointing that out. The paragraph in session 682 that you mention actually totally changes the thought i had in my head about CUs. Its amazing that i have read that session several times now and managed to miss it. Love Cara xx

To add to the topic, perhaps, Seth says this in "Nature of the Psyche" on page 164:

"Your consciousness is not one thing like a flashlight, that you possess. It is instead a literally endless conglomeration of points of consciousness, swarming together to form your validity - stamped, as it were, with your identity."

"Using an analogy, its 'particles' could be dispersed throughout the universe, with galaxies between, yet the identity would be retained. So unknowingly, now, portions of your consciousness mix and merge with those of other species without jarring your own sense of individuality one whit - yet forming other psychological realities upon which you do not concentrate."