是人？是鬼？

此段摘自《灵魂永生》第十章“生活中的死亡”

如果你想知道死亡是什么样子的，那就开始觉察自己的意识离开物质性活动时的样子吧。你会发现它是极其活跃的。经过不断练习，你会发现清醒时的意识是非常有限的，而你一度认为是“死的”情况，似乎更像是“活的”。

刚才描述的那些其他的存在和实相世界与你现有的世界共存，而你在醒时状态却并不觉知。其实，在梦里你常常能感知那些其他的情境，但你却往往把它们与你自己普通的梦相混，醒来后对那些情境很少有清楚的记忆。

同样，在生活中，你就与所谓的鬼魂和幽灵同在一个屋檐下，正因如此，对其他人来说你看起来也像幽灵，尤其是在睡眠状态中你释放出自己强烈的“心念形象”时，甚至当你无意识地游出体外时。

显然，鬼魂和幽灵的种类如同人类一样繁多。它们也像你们一样，对自己的处境警觉或不警觉。不过，它们都不完全专注于物质实相，无论是对人，还是对形形色色的物质世界，这是它们的主要区别。有些幽灵是那些在深度焦虑中挣扎生存的人释放出的“心念形象”，它们表现出你们日常经验中常见的强迫行为。

比如说，造成一个不安女人反复洗手的机制，同样促使某些幽灵一再回到同一地点。在这种情况下，那些行为通常是由重复动作组成的。

由于种种原因，这个人格还没学会消化吸收自己的经验。而这种幽灵的个性也与那个将它释放出来的不安人格的个性一致——不过，也有一些例外。在这种情形下，完整的意识不在场。这个人格似乎正在做一场恶梦，或一连串一再重复的梦，在梦中它回到了物质世界。这人格本身是“安全也健全”的，但由于它的某一部分正在解决尚未解决的问题，因此以这种方式释放出能量来。

幽灵本身是无害的。只是你们对其行为的“诠释”可能会引起问题。其实在生活中，你也偶尔在其他层面以鬼魂的形式出现。在那里，你的“假象”引起评论，并且成为许多神话的依据，但你并不觉知。

现在我说的是一般情况。再说一次，在例外的情况中记忆仍保留着，但一般而言，鬼魂和幽灵并不清楚自己给别人造成的影响，这跟你无意识地在陌生世界中以鬼魂形式出现是一样的。

If you want to know what death is like, then become aware of your own consciousness as it is divorced from physical activities. You will find that it is highly active. With practice you will discover that your normal waking consciousness is highly limited, and that what you thought of once as death conditions seems much more like life conditions.

Such other existences and realities as just described coexist with your own, and in the waking state you are not aware of them. Now, often in your dreams you are able to perceive such other situations, but you often wind them into dream paraphernalia of your own, in which case upon awakening you have little clear memory.

In the same way in the midst of life, you dwell with so-called ghosts and apparitions, and for that matter you yourselves appear as apparitions to others, particularly when you send strong thought forms of yourself from the sleep state, or even when unconsciously you travel out of your physical body.

There are obviously as many kinds of ghosts and apparitions as there are people. They are as alert or as unalert to their situation as you are to your own. They are not fully focused in physical reality, however, either in personality or in form, and this is their main distinction. Some apparitions are thought-forms sent by survival personalities out of lingering deep anxiety. They portray the same compulsive-type behavior that can be seen in many instances in your ordinary experience.

The same mechanism that causes a disturbed woman, say, to perform repetitive action such as a constant washing and rewashing of hands, also causes a particular kind of apparition to return time and time again to one place. In such cases the behavior is often composed of repetitive action.

For various reasons, such a personality has not learned to assimilate its own experience. The characteristics of such apparitions follow those of a disturbed personality - with some exceptions, however. The whole consciousness is not present. The personality itself seems to be having a nightmare, or a series of recurring dreams, during which it returns to the physical environment. The personality itself is "safe and sound," but certain portions of it work out unresolved problems, and discharge energy in such a fashion.

They are in themselves quite harmless. Only your interpretation of their actions can cause difficulties. Now in the middle of life, of life conditions, you also appear on occasion as ghosts in other levels of reality, where your "pseudo appearance" causes some comment and is the ground for many myths - and you are not even aware of this.

Now I am speaking generally. Again, there are exceptions where memory is retained, but as a rule ghosts and apparitions are not any more aware of their effect upon others than you are when you appear quite unconsciously as ghosts in worlds that would be quite strange to you.

——摘自《灵魂永生》（Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul） 校译

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