Seth's (Our) many lives and deaths

Speaking on his past lives (From Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul) Seth says a number of important things about the nature of reincarnation in Chapter 22.

He has lived many lives as both a male and female--in luxury, in squalor--many different races--he experienced the vast range of human existence. He says that those personalities--those lives he's lived-- still exist and are independent of him now. He likens it to age regression under hypnosis, though his other selves or personalities are not locked up within him, but have progressed according to their own dictates. They coexist with him, but at another layer of reality.

So the question that arises, for me, is how does a life that has been lived "progress according to it's own fashion"? Earlier in the week I wrote about how what we do in the present moment can affect the past as well as the future. I think this is what Seth is blatantly hinting at. A life or existence is never static--never done--is constantly evolving--even after the physical body is "gone". As we are constantly changing, our changes--choices--triumphs and failures--happening now--are known to our other selves. And vice-versa--our other selves continue to develop in their own ways, though this is mostly not consciously known by us. Yet our inner self knows of all of this--it has quite the stockpile of knowledge and experience--and shares it with us through our intuition, or through self exploration, dream examination etc.

Seth says he was never surprised by any of his many deaths, and that he felt during the process "the inevitability, the recognition, and even a sense of familiarity.......The life could not be finished properly without the death."

He goes on to give a further reassuring paragraph: "There is a great sense of humility, and yet a great sense of exaltation, when the inner self senses it's freedom when death occurs. All my deaths were the compliment of my lives, in that it seemed to me that it could not be otherwise."

And this: "If I choose, in your terms, I can relive any portion of those existences, but those personalities go their own way."

Seth shared his experiences with us to let us know how it is for all of us. Knowing this, then, how does it affect the way you think about your life now? For me, it has greatly lightened the load. If I have had a dark place where the fears of death have been harbored, this knowledge has been a bright torch--Seth's words have provided a link to within myself where these inherent truths have been all along.