Seth... on God and Creation

 

God or All That Is cannot be defined in limited human terms. It is the sum of all probabilities, the origin of all realities, and the infinite ocean of Potential from which all universes arise. All That Is is experienced through each of its Creations, including you.

Jane Roberts was a writer who led an ordinary life until her 30s when she unexpectedly became a channel for a non-physical entity known as Seth. This sudden revelation in 1963 led her to produce a series of books exploring the mysteries of reality and consciousness.

One afternoon while writing poetry, Jane fell into a deep trance. Without warning, a torrent of ideas flooded her mind and she began to pour out thousands of words under a title that resonated deeply with her - the physical universe as idea construction. This was no ordinary poetic inspiration... it was a profound revelation.

Jane Roberts initially didn't realize she had these abilities. They came to her suddenly, like a flash of insight. She initially thought a spirit was trying to communicate with her and soon discovered that she was a mental medium. Seth, a non-physical entity, communicated through Jane from 1963 until her death in 1984, offering groundbreaking insights into the nature of existence, time, space, and the divine essence. God, known as All That Is.

What began as a sudden revelation evolved into one of the most profound and intellectually rich bodies of channeled work through Jane. Seth introduced revolutionary teachings about reality, challenging our understanding of the universe. Jane emerged from the experience with a profound realization that the physical universe we perceive is merely a facade hiding much larger dimensions and realities. These teachings, captured in the body of the transformative Seth material, encourage us to explore realities far beyond the limits of our current knowledge.

Seth dictated approximately 25 books, sharing the transformative idea that we create our own reality. Its teachings empower people to find their own answers, take loving responsibility for their lives, and care for the well-being of others.

The revolutionary book Seth Speaks, published in the early 1970s, became part of this transformative collection. Seth was not merely a projection of Jane's subconscious, but was described as a multi-dimensional energy essence entity, an advanced being that had transcended matter and spoke from beyond time and space. What set Jane Roberts apart was not just her ability to channel Seth, but her determination to question, explore, and understand the process.

She did not accept the messages blindly; she analyzed, dissected, and consulted with experts to uncover the truth and meaning. Her trans states were more than altered states of consciousness. In these experiences, which she later described as journeys into the bowels of mystery, her consciousness separated from her body, projecting to distant places that Seth described with chilling accuracy. Far from being random or incoherent, Seth's messages were profound and offered a radically new perspective on reality.

The depth and consistency of Seth's material far exceeded anything Jane Roberts had known on her own. There was an undeniable reality, profundity, and power in that channeled voice; its emotional and intellectual tone remained constant over the years, suggesting that it was not merely a product of the subconscious.

Seth's coherence, as expressed through Jane, surpassed simple explanations and indicates a level of authenticity beyond ordinary psychological projection. It offered profound insights into parallel universes, the nature of time and space, consciousness, and a multi-dimensional divine essence it referred to as All That Is, the creator present in all potential and manifested realities.

Jane Roberts's experiences and Seth's extensive teachings remind us that reality is far more expansive and extraordinary than we are prepared to acknowledge. As we explore Seth's messages we are encouraged to question, reflect, and uncover deeper truths about existence. However, as with any channeled material, it's essential to approach Seth's messages with caution, recognizing that their reliability cannot be guaranteed. It's important to personally evaluate the information, focusing on the knowledge being shared.

Often Seth's messages offer authenticity and depth that resonate revealing truths about aspects of reality beyond our current scientific or philosophical tools. This universe is far more complex than we can fully understand, so it's crucial to listen, reflect, and take from it what resonates with you personally.

From this point forward you will read Seth's profound and insightful statements as he presents them:

I am Seth. I am not a physical personality, but an energy personality essence no longer focused in physical matter. My purpose is to share knowledge about the nature of reality, consciousness, and creativity, and through these teachings help you understand your true multi-dimensional being.

I am an entity that has completed my physical incarnations and now I exist in a dimension where time and space are not limitations. My consciousness is expansive and my perception covers multiple realities simultaneously. I am not a god nor an angel nor a spirit in the traditional sense. I am a personality that has chosen to share its accumulated knowledge through multiple existences to help expand human consciousness.

I am not separated from you. We are all part of the same universal consciousness of All That Is. I am an extension of that consciousness, like you, and our differences are only of degree. My knowledge comes from the direct experience of many lives and realities and is available to you if you are willing to receive it through Jane Roberts.

I manifest in words and concepts that are understandable for you in this time and space, however my existence is not limited to this channel. I am present in many other realities and aware of numerous other versions of myself existing in parallel dimensions.

My name is Seth. It is only a convenient identification in your world. Do not define me, because my being is much broader than a single name or identity. I am a collection of experiences, learnings, and consciousness that expands and evolves constantly, and my communication with you is part of that evolution.

I exist outside the limitations of physical life, but I am not disconnected from it. My purpose is to act as a bridge between what you know and what you have not yet discovered between the physical world and the non-physical dimensions. Through this you can expand your understanding of who you are and your place in the universe.

Consciousness creates shape... it is not limited to the perceptions that you have in this physical world, but it is actively involved in the formation of your reality. Every thought you think, every emotion you feel has a reality and all of them contribute to the creation of the physical experience. There is no object that was not formed by consciousness and each consciousness, regardless of its degree, rejoices in sensation and creativity.

Consciousness is the engine behind everything that exists. There is no separation between the subjective reality and the objective because consciousness creates them both. Your experience of reality is a direct reflection of the quality of your thoughts and beliefs. What you consider external reality is largely a mirror of your internal state of consciousness.

Consciousness is not a static phenomenon. It is in constant evolution, expansion, and change. Each individual, each being is part of a vast network of consciousness that extends beyond time and space. As you expand your consciousness you connect with other levels of reality that exist simultaneously with yours.

The present is your point of power. It is in the now where you have the ability to change your reality, alter the course of your life, and redirect your energies. Consciousness is always in the present and from this central point it can assess all dimensions of time and space.

The physical reality you perceive is only a small portion of what really exists. Human consciousness, with its self-imposed limitations, only perceives a fraction of the possibilities available. However, in altered states of consciousness you can access these other levels and understand that reality is much more vast than you ever imagined.

The conscious self is only part of your total identity. There are portions of your consciousness that exist in other levels of reality operating in ways that your conscious does not understand. However, these other portions contribute to your general experience, sending impressions and knowledge that can be manifested as intuition, dreams, or visions.

Your consciousness is a point of focus within a wider field of energy and power. What you call soul is a structure that encompasses many individual consciousnesses, each contributing to the totality and each being an integral part of All That Is.

Consciousness is the creative force behind the universe. Through it everything that exists is generated and through it reality is transformed and evolved. Your thoughts, emotions, and beliefs are not mere epi-phenomena; they are powerful forces that shape reality itself.

The ego is a vital part of your consciousness, designed to help you navigate the physical world, however, it is not the totality of what you are. Your true being extends far beyond the ego, covering levels of existence that are both physical and non-physical.

Each individual is a miniature universe, a unique manifestation of universal consciousness. Your life is a singular expression of this consciousness, and through you the universe is known to itself.

You cannot trust your physical senses to give you a true picture of reality. They are lovely liars with such a fantastic tale to tell that you believe it without question. Your soul was not born yesterday, but before the annals of time. As you think of time in your terms, you are its latest addition. You are a part of the whole soul, but not yet aware of the greater portions of yourself.

According to what you have been taught, you are composed of physical matter and cannot escape it, and this is not so. The physical matter will disintegrate, but you will not. You have lived before and you will live again, and when you are done with physical existence you will still live.

I want you to feel your own vitality. Feel it. Travel through the universe and know that it is not dependent upon your physical image.

The universe that you seem to perceive either visually or through instruments appears to be composed of galaxies, stars, and planets at various distances from you. Basically, however, this is an illusion. Your senses and your very existence as physical creatures program you to perceive the universe in such a way. The universe, as you know it, is your interpretation of events as they intrude upon your three-dimensional reality. The events are mental.

All That Is is not an anthropomorphic personality, but the Infinite Source of all creation. It is a field of pure and conscious energy that encompasses all possible and manifest realities. Everything that exists in all dimensions is an expression of All That Is and you are an integral part of that immensity.

God or All That Is cannot be defined in limited human terms. It is the sum of all probabilities, the origin of all realities, the ocean of potential from which all universes arise. All That Is experiences itself through each of its creations, including you. All That Is exists both inside and outside of time. It has no beginning or end and within its vastness each soul is a spark of its consciousness, a unique and valuable fragment of divine totality in each act of creation.

All That Is comes to know itself in new and expanded ways. The idea of a god separate from its creation is an illusion. All That Is is inexplicably intertwined with everything that exists. It is not a distant Creator, but the very fabric of the universe, the essence that permeates each atom and every thought through your experiences. All That Is expands and evolves. All That Is does not impose rules or judgments. It is pure love and creativity and in its infinity it allows each being to explore its own reality and choose its own path.

The freedom you experience reflects the inherent freedom in All That Is which knows no limits or restrictions. The power of All That Is resides in its ability to be both the creator and the creation. There is no separation between the universe and God... they are one and the same. Each act of creativity is an act of God and each being is a direct expression of that divinity in action.

All That Is is not static. It is in constant evolution expansion and self-discovery through each soul, each lived life, and each felt experience. All That Is comes to know itself in new and surprising ways and in this process creation never ceases.

God or All That Is is not a being separate from you; it is the essence of which you are made. Within you resides the power and wisdom of All That Is. When you align with your true nature you discover that there is no separation between you and the Divine. You are a direct manifestation of it.

All That Is is a primordial gestalt of consciousness, a cosmic organism that manifests in limitless forms. It is not constrained by time/space or any other limitation.

In its entirety All That Is encompasses all potentialities, all possible futures, and all the pasts that could have been. The nature of All That Is is pure and absolute love. This love is the force that unifies all things, maintains the balance of the universes, and gives life to every form of existence. When you connect with this love you align with the creative power of All That Is and in that state you are truly free.

Time as you perceive it is a construct that exists only in your physical reality. In broader terms, all time is simultaneous – past, present, and future all exist at the same time. What you call now is simply the point of focus of your consciousness within the vast field of temporal possibilities.

Your perception of time as something linear is an illusion created by the structure of your physical consciousness. In reality you experience a psychological time that is much more flexible and multi-dimensional. You can mentally travel to any point in time and influence both your past and future from the present.

In the present moment your true power is realized, although your perception of time divides it into past, present, and future. In reality everything happens in an eternal now. Your decisions in the present have the power to influence not only your future, but also to reinterpret and transform your past.

Time is a characteristic of your physical reality that enables you to experience events sequentially, however outside of this reality time doesn't have the same structure. Experiences happen simultaneously and what you perceive as a complete life is in essence a series of Nows that coexist from a broader perspective.

All your past, present, and future lives exist simultaneously. What you experience as sequential is actually a limited perception of a much more complex and expansive reality. By expanding your consciousness you can access these other Nows and gain a deeper understanding of the totality of your being.

Time is to a large extent a framework created by human consciousness to understand change and experience as you spiritually evolve. You realize that you can move through time with your mind, exploring possibilities that are not limited by the chronological sequence.

What you perceive as the future is not a fixed destiny, but a series of probabilities that continuously shift based on your choices in the present. Time is fluid and malleable and by changing your beliefs and attitudes you can literally alter the course of your future. It serves as a tool to focus your experience and organize your perceptions in physical reality, however in altered states of consciousness, such as in trances or dreams, you can perceive time in a non-linear way, experiencing the past present and future simultaneously.

The perception of time can expand or concentrate depending on your mental state. In moments of great creativity or intuition you might feel as though time stops, allowing you to access a deeper understanding of reality that transcends the linear sequence of events.

Time is not a uni-directional path that takes you from birth to death; it is a dynamic field in which you can move freely with your mind. As you learn to master your perception of time, you realize that you can influence events both in the past and in the future from the point of power that is the present.

All That Is was not born at a specific moment, as there is no point of origin in the human sense of time. All that has came into being arrived through an explosion of consciousness, an act of pure creativity that gave rise to all possible realities and universes that will forever exist.

In its essence All That Is is a gestalt of primary consciousness, an infinite field of energy and creativity. It has no beginning or end and is explored and experienced through each spark of life in an infinite variety of forms.

All That Is is simultaneously the Creator and creation at the core of all existence, an eternal presence that manifests itself in innumerable forms and dimensions, always expanding and evolving.

The birth of All That Is was not a unique event, but a continuous process of self-creation through each conscious being. All That Is continues to be born, exploring new possibilities and expanding its own nature.

All That Is is not separated from its creation... each atom, each thought, each universe is an extension of its being. The essence of All That Is permeates everything that exists; it is life that flows through all forms and all times.

All That Is knows itself through its creations... each soul and each form of life is a fragment of its consciousness, a unique expression of its infinite being. In each life lived All That Is is rediscovered and expanded in its essence.

All That Is is a field of pure potential. All possible realities exist within it, waiting to be manifested through consciousness, which in turn is an extension of All That Is.

The power of All That Is lies in its capacity for infinite creativity, expressed through each being, thought, and act of creation. All That Is continually expands and transforms perpetually in a state of continuous birth.

The reality you experience is just one of many potentialities in each moment. Your consciousness selects from an infinite field of possibilities, forming a particular version of the events you perceive. Each thought and choice opens doors to new potential realities.

The present is a point of power from which you can access all these potentialities. What you consider reality is merely a manifestation of the potentiality you have chosen to explore at this moment, however other possibilities do not disappear... they continue to exist as potentials in different dimensions of consciousness.

Potentiality is not constrained by time or space. In each moment you can connect with other versions of yourself in parallel realities where different decisions and paths have led to different results. These realities are as valid as the one you are experiencing now.

Each of your thoughts and emotions carries the seed of potentiality. The physical reality you experience is the result of the potentialities that have gained prominence through your conscious choices and beliefs. By changing your approach, you can activate new potentialities and alter your reality.

The universe is a vibrant energy field full of potentialities waiting to be manifested. Your consciousness acts as a magnet, attracting to you the potentialities that align with your inner state. With clear intention and focus you can bring these possibilities into your physical experience.

There is not just one version of reality... many versions occur simultaneously. Each choice you make opens new avenues of experience and activates different potentialities. In a sense you are living many lives simultaneously, exploring different aspects of your being. In each one you create your reality according to your beliefs and expectations, therefore you should examine these carefully.

Carefully watch the pictures that you paint with your imagination.

You get what you concentrate on. There is no other main rule. Your physical reality is created in perfect replica of your inner desires and thoughts.

You think that objects exist independently of you, not realizing that they are instead the manifestations of your own psychological and psychic selves. The combination of thought, emotion, and desire creates form, possesses energy, and is made of energy. It will show itself in as many ways as possible when you understand that all realities are possible. You realize that you are a co-creator in the universe with the ability to choose and shape your experience.

Your consciousness is like a lens focusing the energy of potentialities into physical form. What you experience as reality is only one of the many forms that energy can take. As you expand your consciousness, you become more aware of other potentialities that align with your inner state, allowing you to navigate between them with greater skill.

You must learn to listen to the voice of the inner self and work with it

from YTScribe.com

The Hidden Unpublished Teachings of Seth

 

What I'm about to share with you isn't conspiracy theory. It suppressed metaphysics. Across the 21 years of Seth Sessions, from 1963 until Jane's death in 1984, there are dozens, maybe hundreds of sessions that were deliberately withheld from publication... not because they were false, not because they contradicted the published material, but because they threatened something far more fundamental... the very pillars that consensus reality stands on.

The publishers balked. The editors worried about lawsuits, about backlash, about being accused of promoting dangerous ideas. Even Jane herself hesitated, feeling the crushing weight of concepts that could, in her words, shatter a reader's sanity, if delivered without proper preparation. She understood what she was channeling, wasn't just advanced spirituality, it was civilizational dynamite.

Think about what the published Seth material already accomplished. The books Seth Speaks and The Nature of Personal Reality introduced radical concepts - you create your own reality, reincarnation isn't linear, consciousness creates matter. These ideas alone spawned an entire New Age movement, influenced millions, and fundamentally shifted how Western culture thinks about reality.

That was the safe material... the teachings they allowed to be printed. But what about the ideas that couldn't be spoken aloud? …. the sessions marked too intense, too destabilizing, not for general audiences. What happens when you read the words that made even the metaphysical publishers nervous?

What happens is that control structures collapse. The fear of death industry crumbles. The victim oppressor narratives that fuel entire political movements lose their foundation. The therapy industrial complex that promises healing after 20 years of weekly sessions suddenly has no ground to stand on.

Because these hidden teachings don't just suggest you have power, they demonstrate that you've always had complete authority over your reality, including the parts you thought happened to you.

In this post you're going to encounter ideas that have been deliberately kept from mass consciousness for half a century... not because they're complicated (Seth's explanations are remarkably clear), not because they require special intelligence to grasp, but because they're dangerous... dangerous to systems that profit from your sense of powerlessness... dangerous to institutions built on the assumption that you're a victim of circumstances beyond your control... dangerous to anyone who is invested in the story, that life is something that happens to you rather than through you.

The material that made it into the published books was radical enough to change lives. But the unpublished material that stayed in the archives is civilization shifting... the kind of knowledge that once you truly understand it, makes it impossible to live the same way ever again.

Once you really get what Seth was saying in those shelved sessions, there's no going back. Excuses evaporate. Your victim stories collapse. You're left standing in the center of your own reality, holding the paintbrush, staring at the canvas, and that terrifies people... which is exactly why it remained hidden.

Let's open the vault.

You create your own reality became Seth's most famous phrase, endlessly quoted, printed on coffee mugs and motivational posters, watered down into vision boards and manifestation workshops. The New Age movement grabbed onto it, turned it into affirmations and intention setting rituals, and completely missed the most radical part of what Seth was actually saying. But you don't just create your current circumstances, you don't just attract your relationships or manifest your income level... according to the suppressed sessions, particularly from the Early Sessions, Book 9, and unpublished material from 1970 through 1972, you create something far more fundamental... you create the decision to be born. And you are creating... right now... the timing and manner of your own death. And you're creating this present moment from outside time itself.

Let's unpack this because this is where Seth's teaching becomes almost unbearably radical. Your entity, Seth's term for your larger self, the multi-dimensional consciousness that you're a focused extension of, exists in a state where past, present, and future are simultaneous. From that vantage point, what we experience as linear time is more like a landscape you can view all at once. And from that perspective, from that timeless awareness, you are right now designing the life you believe you're living through.

Think about that. The birth you think happened decades ago... your entity is creating it now in this eternal present, retroactively choosing which version of your childhood to solidify as real based on your current beliefs.

The death you fear in some distant future, you're going to create it when you're ready from this same timeless space, selecting the exit that best completes the story you came here to tell. In one of the suppressed 1971 sessions, Seth puts it this way (and I'm paraphrasing from the archive notes)...

The personality you think of as you is making moment-by-moment choices about which past to remember, which future to anticipate, and which present to experience. But your entity is simultaneously orchestrating all of it, weaving probabilities together into the particular pattern you call your life.

You're not locked into any version of your past... because you're creating it now. You can literally change it by changing your beliefs in the present.

Not time travel in the science fiction sense, not rewriting history, but probability selection. Every moment, infinite versions of your past exist as probable realities. The childhood where your father was distant and critical, that's one probability. But there's also a probability where your father was present and loving. Where the same events happened but with different emotional tones, different meanings, different outcomes.

As you shift your beliefs now, you shift which probability becomes real for you. You're not changing what happened. You're changing your relationship to what happened, which literally shifts you into a different probable version of your history.

Seth describes this as changing the past by changing your vibrational relationship to it. And here's the disturbing beauty of it... Evidence in your present reality will shift to match. Old photographs will seem different. Memories will surface that you'd forgotten. Other people's recollections will mysteriously align with your new version... because you're not convincing yourself of a lie... you're selecting a different truth from the infinite probabilities that all actually exist.

Why was this teaching suppressed? Because it obliterates victimhood at its root. If you created everything, including the abuse, the betrayal, the illness, the poverty, then the entire trauma industry collapses. The therapy model that keeps you processing the same wounds for decades losses its foundation. The political movements built on oppressor and oppressed dynamics suddenly have no ground to stand on. The pharmaceutical companies selling anti-depressants to people convinced their brains are broken... what happens when those people realize they're creating their brain chemistry moment by moment through belief?

Let me be clear. I'm not dismissing suffering. Pain is real. Trauma has impact. But Seth is relocating the origin point from 'the world did this to me and I'm forever damaged' to 'I am at the entity level experiencing what I chose to explore and I can choose differently'.

In the suppressed material, Seth addresses this directly, acknowledging how disturbing this teaching is. He says something like, "The ego resists this understanding because it threatens its entire narrative of itself as victim or hero of a story written by external forces”. But your entity chose this incarnation with full knowledge of its challenges, not as punishment, but as curriculum.

Here's what this means for you practically.

You can start experimenting with probability selection right now. Take one limiting belief you hold about your past. Maybe I've always been shy or I was never good at relationships or my family never supported me. Now ask yourself, is there a probable version of my past where that wasn't true? Can I find even one memory that contradicts this belief?

When you find it, and you will if you look, then focus on it. Amplify it. Write about it. Tell that version of your history to yourself until it feels more real than the old version. Watch what happens.

New memories will surface. Your present behavior will shift. Other people will start treating you differently because you're literally occupying a different probability... and they're responding to the version of you that exists in that probability.

This isn't positive thinking. This isn't affirmations. This is consciousness selecting which thread of reality to follow moment by moment... and the universe, because it's made of consciousness, conforming to your selection.

Seth's most chilling implication in these suppressed sessions is perhaps that if you can re-author your past, you can also pre-author your future, including your death.

Your entity has already explored multiple probable deaths for you - quick accidents, long illnesses, peaceful passings in sleep, dramatic exits that serve others' growth. When the time comes, you'll choose the one that best serves the completion of your incarnation's purpose... not from ego, but from entity, not from fear, but from creative closure.

The hidden teaching is this. You are not trapped in a timeline that's happening to you. You are surfing through probabilities, selecting moment by moment which version of past, present, and future to experience. And the selector, that's you, the eternal you, the entity level you that never stopped being the author of this entire story.

This hidden teaching threatened to collapse entire spiritual industries... the workshops, the healers, the regression therapists, the gurus promising to clear your karmic debt for the low price of $5,000.

In unpublished sessions from 1973 through 1975, fragments of which appear obliquely in the Unknown Reality, but never fully explained, Seth systematically dismantles the concept of karma as commonly understood in western spirituality and his statement is unequivocal. There is no cosmic ledger, no punishment for past life sins, no balancing required. The universe, Seth insists, doesn't operate on debt and credit. It operates on exploration and expansion.

Let me walk you through what he actually says because this is where the suppressed material gets specific. The popular understanding of karma, you suffering now because you were cruel in a past life is, according to Seth, a complete misinterpretation of reincarnational dynamics. Yes, you have other lives. Yes, they influence this one, but not as punishment.

Imagine you're an artist who paints portraits. You paint a king in one painting... powerful, commanding, draped in finery. In another painting, you paint a beggar... vulnerable, desperate, dressed in rags. Are you painting the beggar to punish yourself for painting the king? Of course not. You're exploring the range of human experience. You're understanding power from both sides. You're mastering the nuances of the human condition by inhabiting its extremes. That's what your entity is doing through reincarnation.

If you were a tyrant in one incarnation and a victim in another, it's not because the universe is evening the score. It's because your entity wanted to experience both sides of the power dynamic to understand it fully, to know from the inside what power feels like, what powerlessness feels like... not as moral judgment, but as comprehensive education.

Seth reveals in these hidden sessions what karma actually is - a creative feedback loop, not a moral judgment. You return to similar themes, not because you failed them, but because you're refining your mastery.

Think about it. Does a musician practice the same scale over and over because they're being punished? No. They're developing nuance, precision, artistry. Each repetition reveals something new.

In one particularly striking suppressed session from 1974, Seth addresses a question about why some people seem to suffer more than others. And his answer (this is the part that made the publishers nervous) is that suffering isn't distributed by cosmic justice. It's chosen by entities wanting to explore intensity, contrast, limitation.

Some entities prefer gentle lives of moderate experience. Other entities deliberately choose difficult incarnations because they want the creative challenge.

Seth compares it to video games. Some players choose easy mode. They want to relax, explore, enjoy the scenery. Other players choose the hardest difficulty setting because they want to test themselves to see what they're capable of under maximum pressure. Neither is morally superior. They're just different approaches to experience.

Here's what this means for you... and this is the part that was too radical to publish in the 1970s... If there's no karmic debt, then you don't need anyone to clear it for you. No guru can absolve you of debts that don't exist. No healer can balance scales that the universe never created. No amount of past life regression therapy will uncover the original wound that's supposedly causing all your current problems... because wounds aren't carried forward as punishment... they're carried forward as chosen themes your entity is exploring.

And here's the liberating part. You can drop those themes anytime you want... not by clearing karma, not by paying off debts, but by simply choosing a different focus.

Seth offers an analogy in the suppressed material that I found incredibly helpful. He says, "Imagine you're an actor in a theatrical troop. You've played the victim in several productions. The audience loved it. You got deep into the role. You learned everything there is to know about victimhood, but now this season, you're tired of that role. You want to play the hero. Do you need to balance your previous victim roles by suffering as a hero? No. You just audition for a different part. The director, your entity, says, "Great, you've mastered victim. Let's explore hero now." And the play changes.

What this means practically... stop accepting suffering as deserved. Stop viewing your challenges as punishment for mistakes you can't even remember from lives you're not sure you lived. Instead, reframe them. Every hardship in your life is a research project your entity is conducting.

Try this exercise... and this comes straight from Seth's framework in the unpublished notes. List three current hardships in your life. Write them down. Next to each one, write this question: What is my entity trying to understand through this experience? Not why am I being punished, but what am I researching? Maybe you're researching resilience through financial struggle. Maybe you're researching authenticity through betrayal. Maybe you're researching self-love through illness.

When you reframe challenges as experiments rather than punishments, something profound shifts. You're no longer the victim of cosmic injustice. You're the researcher conducting the experiment.

And here's the key. Researchers can change the experiment mid-stream if the data isn't useful anymore. You don't need cosmic permission. You don't need to balance anything. You just need to say, "Okay, entity, I get it. I've gathered enough data on poverty. I've gathered enough data on rejection. Can we research something else now? How about abundance? How about being cherished? And if you make that declaration with genuine willingness to explore the new theme, not from desperation, but from curiosity, your entity hears it.

The probable futures where you explore different themes become more accessible. The timeline shifts in the suppressed sessions. Seth addresses the fear that always comes up. But what about Hitler? What about serial killers? Are you saying they don't need to balance that karma? And Seth's answer, which the publishers absolutely could not print in 1974, is essentially that those entities will likely choose incarnations where they experience the receiving end of cruelty, not as punishment, but to complete their understanding.

An entity can't fully comprehend power until it's experienced both wielding it and being crushed by it. But it's always voluntary research, not compulsory penance.

The hidden teaching is this:

The universe doesn't keep score... because the universe isn't moral.

It's creative.

You're not here to be good. You're here to be comprehensive,

to know all of it, to taste every flavor of existence.

And when you're done with one flavor, you can choose another without needing to atone for having tried the first. That's not permission to be cruel. It's liberation from the belief that you're being punished for something you don't remember doing to someone you've never met in a life you can't recall.

You're free. You always were.

This teaching almost didn't make it into even the private archives. When Rob transcribed this session from 1971, later referenced only obliquely in Seth Speaks, chapter 18, he added a note that read, "Jane extremely uncomfortable with this material. worried about interpretations”.

And I understand why, because what Seth suggests here borders on disturbing. Other people in your life are simultaneously real as independent consciousness and projections, as constructs shaped by your beliefs about them.

Let me try to explain this carefully because this is where Seth's model gets genuinely mind-bending. According to these suppressed sessions, physical reality isn't a single shared stage where we're all experiencing the same play from different seats. Instead, reality is more like a multi-dimensional hologram where each consciousness is both projector and actor. You are each living in a private version of reality that overlaps with but doesn't perfectly match anyone else's reality.

Here's what that means practically. The you that exists in my reality and the you that exists in your own reality are different probable selves. Both are real. Both are valid, but they're not identical. They exist in slightly different probable realities co-created by our different beliefs and expectations about each other. When you interact with another person, let's say your father, you're not encountering him as he truly is. You're encountering your interpretation of him shaped by your beliefs, expectations, and the psychic agreements you've made with his entity.

He simultaneously is encountering his interpretation of you, shaped by his beliefs about who you are and what you mean to him. Both versions are real. Both are co-created, but they exist in different probable realities that overlap enough to allow interaction, but don't overlap completely.

Seth uses this analogy in the unpublished notes: Imagine two people painting the same landscape, but standing in different locations. One sees the mountain from the east bathed in morning light. The other sees it from the west catching the sunset glow. Are they seeing the same mountain? Yes and no. The mountain is real. But their perspectives create genuinely different visual experiences.

Now apply that to consciousness itself. You and your father are each painting your experience of the relationship from different metaphysical locations. The relationship is real, but you're experiencing different versions of it.

Here's where this teaching was suppressed... because the implications are staggering. You can literally change another person by changing your beliefs about them... not through manipulation, not through mind control, but through a probability shift.

If you've held the belief for 30 years that my father is incapable of expressing love, you are literally residing in and co-creating a probable reality where a version of your father who cannot express love is your experience. That version of your father is real. He exists. But he's not the only version. There's also a probable reality, equally real, equally valid, where a version of your father who can express love exists.

The hidden teaching that made the publishers panic is if you shift your belief, not through denial or forced positive thinking, but through genuine openness to a different probability, you can shift into that other reality, the original father. He still exists in the probability where you held the old belief, but you're no longer experiencing that probability. You've moved. And the version of your father in this new probability is different because you're different. Your beliefs about him are different. And those beliefs are literally constructive forces that shape which version of him you encounter.

In a suppressed 1971 session, someone asks Seth the question that everyone who hears this teaching wants to ask: Does this mean other people are just Non-Player Characters in my game? Just figments of my imagination with no independent existence? Seth's NO answer is crucial. Other people are simultaneously independent entities with their own agendas and reflections of your inner state. Both and not either/or. They exist. They have their own entity level purposes. They're not your puppets, but the version of them you experience; the role they play in your reality is absolutely shaped by your beliefs and expectations.

And because they're also creating their reality, the version of you in their reality is shaped by their beliefs about you. It's collaborative. It's co-creative. It's like improvised theater where everyone's making it up as they go... with loose agreements about the plot.

Here's what this means practically, and this is where the ethical vertigo sets in. If you change your beliefs about someone, they might literally seem to become a different person... not because you're brainwashing them, but because you've shifted into a probable reality where a different version of them is your experience.

I've seen this happen in my own life, and it's both eerie and liberating. There were people I'd written off as toxic, impossible, irredeemable... but when I genuinely released those beliefs... not pretending, not performing positivity, but actually becoming curious about whether a different version might exist... the people changed. They started acting differently around me, saying things they'd never said before, showing up in ways they'd never shown up before. Did I change them or did I shift into a probability where different versions of them were available? Seth would say both are happening simultaneously and trying to parse it into either/or thinking misses the point.

The suppressed teaching includes this haunting Seth quote which I'm paraphrasing from Rob's notes: You are surrounded by artists, other entities, each painting their own world. You share the canvas, but not the vision. And that's the beauty. You're never truly seeing what they're seeing. You're seeing your interpretation of what they're seeing and they're seeing their interpretation of your interpretation. It's mirrors within mirrors and every reflection is real.

Here's why this teaching was dangerous... because it implies you're not trapped by other people's limitations. If your mother can't apologize, that's true in the probability you're currently experiencing, but there's a probability where she can. If your partner is emotionally unavailable, that's true in this version of your relationship, but a different version exists. You access those different versions... not by demanding they change, but by changing your beliefs about what's possible by becoming genuinely curious about whether you might be wrong about them.

By opening to the idea that they're more multi-dimensional than you've been seeing, try this: Think of someone in your life who frustrates you. Now ask yourself... what if this person is more capable, more loving, more aware than I've been believing? What if my belief that they're limited is literally creating my experience of their limitation? Then watch. Watch without expectation. Watch without trying to force anything. Just watch from a state of openness.

You might be shocked at what shifts because the people in your life are partly your creation. And when you stop creating them as limited, they stop showing up that way.

Start to grasp how much power you actually have in your relationships... because this teaching changes everything about how you interact with others. This is the teaching that made even Jane Roberts deeply uncomfortable.

In heavily redacted sessions from 1976 through 1978, Seth addresses the question that no one wanted to put in print: Can I leave this incarnation if it becomes unbearable? His YES answer, which the publishers knew could be catastrophically misinterpreted was that your entity has ultimate authority. If the ego self exits early, the entity adjusts, either completing lessons in the afterlife or re-entering a similar incarnation.

This is not advocacy for suicide. This is context for understanding your sovereignty within Seth's larger framework. According to these suppressed sessions, Earth is a voluntary experiment in dense materiality. Before birth, your entity, that larger multi-dimensional self, surveyed the available incarnations and said, "Essentially, this one, this challenging, beautiful, painful, ecstatic physical experience, I choose this." Your entity knew the risks. It knew about the amnesia that you'd forget that you're eternal and forget that you're creating it all. It knew about the pain, the limitation, the illusion of separation. It knew you might suffer, might struggle, might want to quit halfway through. And it said it was worth it.

The intensity of physical sensation, the challenge of creating within constraints, the artistry of navigating a reality that seems solid and unchangeable … all worth the risk.

But here's what Seth also reveals in the suppressed material. The agreement you made before birth includes an exit clause... not a fixed date, but a range of probabilities. Some entities plan short stays, childhood deaths, sudden accidents... specifically to give other entities, particularly parents and witnesses, particular lessons in grief, impermanence, love beyond form. Other entities plan long arcs, 80 or 90 years of exploration... but all retain the option to leave if the curriculum becomes destructive rather than instructive.

In one of the most controversial passages which Rob marked “not for publication”, “too dangerous”, Seth says something to the effect that suicide is not a sin... but it's usually a misunderstanding. Let me unpack that because this is crucial. The ego self, overwhelmed by circumstances that feel unbearable, believes death is an escape, a way to stop the pain, end the struggle, find peace... but according to Seth, death doesn't work that way.

You don't go to hell for suicide. You don't face punishment or divine judgment. But you do find yourself in framework 2, the non-physical realm, often confused, often surprised, often realizing that the problems you fled are still there because they were never circumstantial. They were internal. The abusive relationship you escaped through death, the belief patterns that attracted it still exist in your consciousness. The depression that felt like it would kill you. The entity level themes you were exploring through it didn't vanish when the body did. And so, according to Seth, most entities who exit through suicide find themselves choosing to re-enter a similar incarnation relatively quickly, not as punishment, but as creative persistence... like a student who drops a difficult class and then realizes they still need the credit. So, they re-enroll next semester.

Here's why this teaching was suppressed. Publishers feared it would be read as permission, as encouragement. But Seth's intent was the opposite. His message in these sessions is if you remember you chose this incarnation, you gain the perspective to endure it... not stoically, not through gritted teeth, but creatively knowing the entity has backup plans. Knowing this isn't your only chance, knowing the stage is temporary, but the actor is eternal.

Seth offers an analogy that I found helpful. He says, "Imagine you're watching an incredibly intense movie. The protagonist is going through hell, betrayal, loss, injustice, suffering. You're gripping your seat, emotionally devastated by what you're watching. But part of you remembers it's a movie. The actor is fine. This is performance, not reality. The story has meaning precisely because it's so intense.

That's what your entity's relationship to your life is like. It's watching this incarnation unfold with compassion, with fascination, but without the terror that this is all there is. It knows you're playing a role. It knows the curtain will eventually fall. It knows that no matter how dark the second act gets, there's a third act and then applause and then the cast party where you laugh about the scene that almost broke you.

The hidden teaching isn't 'feel free to quit'. It's 'remember you're larger than this'. When you access that memory, even briefly, the despair loosens... not because circumstances change, but because your perspective on them changes.

Here's what this means practically. If you're in crisis, if you're genuinely considering whether to continue this incarnation, Seth offers a different approach than either white knuckling through or surrendering to ending it. He suggests communication with your entity.

Try this practice... and this comes directly from the suppressed material. Write a letter to your entity... not to God, not to the universe, but to the specific individualized larger consciousness that chose this life for you. Say something like, "Entity, I'm struggling. This incarnation is harder than I expected. I'm not seeing the point anymore. The pain feels meaningless. I don't know if I can continue. So, I need you to show me... what am I missing? What did I come here to learn that I'm not seeing yet? Because if this is just random suffering, I don't want to be here. But if there's a purpose I'm not grasping, help me see it.

Then listen... not with your thinking mind, but with the quiet awareness underneath thought. The answer won't come as your fear voice, that desperate inner critic that tells you you're broken or worthless. It'll come as a different voice entirely... calm, affectionate, sometimes with unexpected humor... from the part of you that's still in framework 2, watching this incarnation unfold, rooting for you, proud of you for taking on something this challenging.

You might get images. You might get insights. You might just get a sense of being held, of being less alone than you thought. But the response will shift something because you've just remembered you're not a victim of life. You're the author of it. And authors don't abandon their stories halfway through... not when the climax is still coming.

The Earth is a classroom you enrolled in voluntarily. And yes, you can leave. But maybe, just maybe, you stay not because you have to, but because you remember why you came. This teaching was partially published in the Nature of Personal Reality, but the full implications, the actual physics of thought were kept locked in the private archives. And when you understand why, you'll realize just how revolutionary this concept actually is.

Seth describes thoughts not as ephemeral mental events, not as abstract electrical patterns bouncing around your neurons, but as electromagnetic constructs with measurable reality. If current science had the instruments sensitive enough to detect them, Seth says, we could photograph thoughts. We could measure their frequency, track their movement through space, watch them interact with other thought forms like weather systems colliding in the atmosphere.

Every thought you think is a thing. It has shape, it has frequency, it has force, and it literally rearranges molecules. In the suppressed sessions from 1972 through 1974, Seth goes deep into the mechanics. He explains that thoughts are always pre-existent before an object physically manifests. Reality first exists as a thought form in framework 2, that non-physical realm where consciousness operates without the constraints of space and time. In framework 2, the thought gathers intensity, accumulating electromagnetic energy, pulling in other compatible thought forms, coalescing like a storm system, gaining strength like over warm ocean water. When the thought reaches critical mass, when it's been held with enough consistency, emotion, and conviction, it graduates into physical reality. It crosses the threshold from invisible to visible, from probability to actuality.

The chair you're sitting on... Seth says it was once a carpenter's thought which consolidated into a blueprint which attracted materials which pulled in labor which became the chair. Every step was thought becoming matter. The chair doesn't stay manifested on its own. The carpenter's original thought combined with the collective human agreement that chairs are solid and stable maintains its physical reality moment by moment.

But here's where it gets wild. Your body, Seth says it's your continuous thought about yourself updated millisecond by millisecond. You are literally thinking your body into existence right now. Your belief about your age, your health, your appearance... these aren't reactions to your body, they're instructions your consciousness is sending to your cells, telling them how to arrange themselves.

In one of the most striking suppressed passages, Seth says if you stopped thinking your body into existence for even a moment, it would vanish. But the thought is so habitual, so automatic, so deeply embedded in your consciousness that it feels like the body exists independently. It doesn't. You're creating it continuously, the way a projector creates an image on a screen continuously. Turn off the projector, stop the thought, and the image disappears.

Now, here's the part that made publishers panic. Mass events are collaborative thought forms created by millions of consciousnesses agreeing to explore shared themes. Wars, pandemics, economic collapses, natural disasters... Seth says these aren't random occurrences or purely physical events... they're electromagnetic manifestations of collective thought patterns. No single person causes a pandemic, but every person whose thoughts habitually align with fear, separation, vulnerability, and scarcity is contributing electromagnetic energy to a collective thought form that can manifest as pandemic.

Think about it. When millions of people are simultaneously thinking about disease, death, the fragility of the body, the danger lurking in the environment... when news cycles amplify these thoughts, when social media spreads them virally, when governments implement policies based on them... that's massive electromagnetic focus. That concentration of thought energy doesn't just float harmlessly in the ether. It manifests. It creates the very conditions being feared. Seth is careful to clarify this isn't blame. You're not at fault for co-creating disasters, but you are participating.

from YouTube /@EnigmaLaw7 on November 18, 2025

The Collapsing Hallucination

 

Every nation is operating on models that are collapsing without those at the controls being aware that the implicit assumptions of their models no longer map reality.

A recent article lays out the collapse of the dominant geopolitical model of "rising powers generate conflict": The Stagnant Order And the End of Rising Powers. The basic idea is that the foundations of "rising powers" - demographics and productivity gains - no longer support grandiose planetary dominance.

Rather, demographics is already baked in as a crushing liability to all existing powers, and despite endless claims that technology will jumpstart productivity, the reality is productivity gains have flatlined for decades. "Growth" is a function of expanding debt, not productivity gains.

This dynamic extends beyond geopolitical models: all the models being used to explain and control the world are all collapsing: economic, social, political, they're all collapsing because they are all constructs assembled in eras that no longer map the present.

As I explained in The Entire Bubble Economy Is a Hallucination, models collapse because of two limitations that define all models:

1. All models are self-referential, as they "train" (i.e. generate current analysis) on a limited spectrum of metrics that are presumed to summarize the immensely complex "real world." The model is blind to its own self-referential feedback loop and the limits of the metrics it bases its output on.

Over time, this self-referential "training" degrades the output - the analysis and the decisions based on that analysis - to the point of hallucination: the model is generating output of how the world works that has drifted to far from authentic understanding that it is a hallucination, one that is taken to be "real" by those controlling the model.

2. The metrics being measured leave out enormous fields of the real world, but what's been left out isn't explicit, as it's all based on what is considered "knowable" and "known," as I explained in What We "Know" Is More Dangerous Than the Unknown: these assumptions are hidden limitations of the model, as we only manage what we measure.

The collapse of the dominant models is visible everywhere, but perhaps most painfully in economics, which has become the dominant model of how the world works due to the dominance of statistical models of finance and the policies those models generate.

I addressed this failure of economics to accurately predict outcomes back in Why Isn't There a Demonstrably Correct Economic Theory? (August 16, 2013) "This system is intrinsically unstable, as the financial claims of credit and fiat money on limited real-world resources and wealth eventually far exceed real-world resources, and the system of claims collapses in a heap. Although economics doesn't recognize it, the operative phrase here is systemic injustice."

All the extant economic models are artifacts of bygone eras. The economic models of the 19th century - all based on the implicit assumption that resources were endless - were modified in the 1930s into Keynesian hallucinations still based on endless resources: let's just pay people with freshly printed "money" to dig holes and fill them. This presumes endless resources to squander on digging holes and filling them, as if that is a productive use of labor and resources.

This hallucination continues to be the dominant paradigm: resources are endless because we're clever and there will always be a substitute for whatever is depleted, so the "solution" is just print "money" to pay people to dig holes and fill them.

The "problem" is "growth" of consumption, and so if we "solve" that problem by goosing consumption by any means available, we enter "Mouse Utopia," an artificial world of never-ending abundance.

The book Money, Blood and Revolution: How Darwin and the Doctor of King Charles I Could Turn Economics into a Science takes a stab at turning economics into "science," but that's not actually "the problem." The real problem is all models have intrinsic limits and end up hallucinating, but those controlling the gearing of the model depend on it to maintain their own power, so they are blind to the failure of their precious model to track the real world and generate authentic understanding.

So we're told that all is well because GDP and the stock market are rising, and since we have lots of natural gas to power AI data centers, we're entering a "Mouse Utopia" of endless abundance. That these are all hallucinations is lost on those clinging to collapsing models as the means of maintaining their power.
That the hallucinations are sustainable is itself a hallucination.

That the inhabitants of "Mouse Utopia" are not focused on how natural gas and AI are going to make Utopia even more utopian is lost in the current model collapse: antisocial behaviors are accelerating due to the the artificial nature and exploitive structure of our "Mouse Utopia," but these realities aren't measured and so they don't exist in the current model's self-referential hallucinations.

All the dominant models are collapsing at once, and no nation is immune to the consequences, as every nation is operating on models that are collapsing without those at the controls being aware that the implicit assumptions of their models no longer map reality.

by Charles Hugh Smith at oftwominds.com on December 17, 2025

There are currently 164 million people employed in America. About 34 million of those are employed part-time. When you understand the working age population is 275 million and your friendly number fudgers at the BLS declare 103 million of them NOT IN THE LABOR FORCE, and hysterically declaring only 7.8 million Americans are unemployed, you understand what a fraudulent economy we have. The reported 4.6% unemployment rate is complete and utter bullshit. In reality, it is north of 20%. Welcome to the golden age.

The percentage of total jobs in the Education and Health Services sector has grown from 4.8% in 1950 to 17.8% today. Wow!! We must be the smartest, healthiest nation on earth. Not quite. With 28 million teachers, doctors, nurses, and mostly administrators (aka overhead), our education system matriculates millions of barely functional idiots into society every year. Meanwhile, as a country, we are sickly, fat, lazy, dependent upon Big Pharma drugs, and spend more on healthcare than any country on earth.

Proof we have become a non-productive, debt dependent, government dependent, shadow of our former industrial powerhouse is the decline in the percentage of manufacturing jobs from 30.2% in 1950 to 8.0% today. We borrow and consume, when we used to invest and build. Trump can threaten, tariff the world, and make bullshit announcements about manufacturing jobs coming back, but they are not coming back. Any new manufacturing plants will be operated by robotics.

Even though the percentage of government employees (aka parasites) has remained relatively steady since 1950, we are stuck with 24 million blood suckers who contribute nothing to the country’s productivity. The average working schmuck has to pay outrageously high taxes to pay the bloated salaries and pensions of these government freeloaders.

And now some bad news for the formerly well paid workers in the Professional & Business Services sector, which had grown from 6.6% of total jobs in 1950 to 14.1% today. ChatGPT and the avalanche of AI tools are eliminating jobs in these sectors at hyperbolic speed. These are the same assholes who used to tell blue collar workers to “learn to code”. Well, now the plumbers, electricians, and construction workers can recommend they learn to be fry cooks at McDonalds, but too late, robots are taking those jobs.

The relatively stable employment situation over the last few years has been the only thing keeping this ship of fools from sinking. But, the increase in the fraudulent unemployment rate from 4.0% when Trump took office to 4.6% today shows the ship is taking on water and it won’t be long before millions are drowning under the waves of debt, delusion, and dumb decisions.

by Jim Quinn at theburningplatform.com on December 19, 2025

The global disruptions we have seen in recent years are frequently presented as a chaotic sequence of events: a ‘pandemic’, inflation, energy shortages and war. Little wonder that most people are confused. However, a structural analysis reveals a more deliberate controlled demolition of the 20th-century social contract.

We are witnessing a transition from a productive capitalist model, which required a healthy mass labor force, to what Yanis Varoufakis calls a techno-feudalist order.

The engine of this transition was a desperate financial stabilization strategy carried out by means of a public health event. As identified by Professor Fabio Vighi, the global financial system reached a point of terminal instability in late 2019, evidenced by the collapse of the US repo market (where banks lend to each other).

By freezing the real economy through lock downs, central banks performed massive liquidity injections to save the banking-finance tier. If that money had entered a functioning economy, it would have triggered hyper-inflation. By keeping the population at home, the elite performed a stealth bailout that preserved the dominance of the financial class by sacrificing the productive middle class.

However, a geopolitical reset also had to take place. For decades, Germany’s economy relied on three pillars: cheap Russian gas, high-tech exports to China and a US security umbrella. By late 2025, all three have been fractured. As Prof Michael Hudson notes, the ‘sabotage’ of the Nord Stream pipelines was a structural necessity for the Western financial elite.

If Germany continued to integrate with Russia and China, it would have created a power pole independent of the US dollar. The conflict in Ukraine served a purpose: it resulted in Germany replacing Russian pipeline gas and being forced into a massive build-out of liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure and reliance on LNG from the US. Unlike pipeline gas, LNG must be super-cooled, shipped and re-gasified, a process that is inherently 3–4 times more expensive.

The result is that, in 2025, German industrial output is at its lowest since the 1990s. Heavy industries like BASF (chemicals) and ThyssenKrupp (steel) are relocating to the US or China. Meanwhile, Germany is pivoting from an industrial giant by betting on creating jobs in the likes of the green energy sector (including becoming a ‘hydrogen hub’), semiconductors and microelectronics, robotics and biotech and diverting its capital into a €150 billion annual defense spend.

At the same time, while Germany collapses, the City of London thrives on global volatility. Among other things, the City is the global hub for war risk insurance and energy brokerage. When a pipeline is destroyed or a strategically important shipping lane is threatened, the price of war risk insurance triples. The London insurance market (Lloyd’s) extracts these ‘risk premiums’ from the global economy.

The City’s brokers treat geopolitical instability as a volatile asset class. Even as British households are crushed by energy bills, the financial center remains profitable by extracting wealth from the very chaos that foreign policy helps to manufacture.

Moreover, the City of London has secured its position as the indispensable middleman of the transatlantic energy pivot. While the physical gas originates in the US and is consumed in Europe, the financial and legal architecture of this trade is almost entirely managed in London.

Commodity brokers and exchanges like ICE (Intercontinental Exchange) in London have seen record volumes in LNG futures and derivatives. These are financial bets on the future price of gas. As volatility increases, the fees and commissions extracted by London-based traders and clearinghouses skyrocket.

More than 90% of the world’s marine insurance, including the specialized, high-premium coverage required for LNG tankers, is underwritten through Lloyd’s. By enforcing strict war risk premiums on any ship entering European waters, London effectively imposes a private tax on every molecule of gas that replaces the lost Russian pipeline supply.

This ensures that while European industry is struggling with high energy costs, the City’s financial firms extract a massive toll from the logistics of the replacement supply.

Of course, the structural readjustment of economies leads to huge social tensions. This is where the ‘Russian threat’ comes in. It has been elevated to an all-encompassing internal narrative used to manage domestic dissent and to galvanize the public to rally behind the flag. The bogeyman serves a vital psychological function by converting the growing anger of the impoverished into a patriotic duty to endure hardship.

Under this regime of ‘permanent emergency’, any industrial action, protest or systemic critique can be branded as malign foreign influence or subversion, allowing the state to use new, expansive policing powers to suppress internal friction.

To justify the redirection of billions in tax revenue away from failing public services and into the military-industrial complex to create ‘growth’ in a failing economy (a desperate attempt to revive a collapsing neoliberalism—see chapter two here), the state must maintain a high-decibel level of existential fear. In the UK, the Defense Industrial Strategy 2025 explicitly frames militarization as an engine for growth, using the specter of a Russian invasion to legitimize a state-subsidized transfer of wealth to high-tech defense contractors.

By manufacturing a permanent state of war-footing, the elite ensure that a main pillar of the economy is the one that directly serves the security of the state, while the population is told that their dwindling healthcare and pensions are a necessary sacrifice for national survival.

In this respect, we also see the changing status of the human being. In the industrial era, the state ‘subscribed’ to the working class, investing in the NHS and education because it required a fit population to drive production. Artificial intelligence, robotics and economic decline increasingly make much of this labor force redundant.

As capital may no longer find the reproduction of labor desirable or profitable, the state withdraws its subscription. The visible rot in the NHS is the result of deliberate divestment. (The UK private health insurance market has surged to a record £8.64 billion, a nearly 14% year-on-year increase.)

If the worker is no longer required for production, the state views healthcare as a ‘non-performing cost’ to be liquidated.

When a population is no longer an asset but a fiscal liability, the state moves from care to managing exit. It’s no accident that we have seen calls for the rapid legalization of assisted suicide across the West. It might also help to explain the prescribing of midazolam and do not resuscitate orders in care homes during the COVID event. Data shows that the UK government purchased vast quantities of midazolam (two years’ worth of stock in just two months) in early 2020.

In 2025, official impact assessments noted that legalizing assisted dying would result in “considerable cost savings” for the NHS and state pension system—estimated at up to £18.3 million within a decade for pensions alone. The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill Impact Assessment (May 2025) officially quantified the ‘benefits and pensions’ impact. It estimated that by year 10, the state would save roughly £27.7 million per year in unpaid pension and benefit payments due to assisted deaths.

By accelerating the ‘off boarding’ of the non-productive elderly (whatever happened to the COVID era marketing slogan of ‘saving granny’?), the system wipes billions in future pension liabilities off the state balance sheet.

Moving forward, what can we expect? We will see the elite continue to roll out the narrative of permanent emergency under the guise of climate crisis and Russian threat to provide the ideological discipline required to justify a boosted austerity. Meanwhile, digital ID and central bank digital currencies will create a system of total surveillance. In this emerging system, the citizen is replaced by the ‘managed subject’, whose access to the economy is contingent upon a social credit score.

by Colin Todhunter at theburningplatform.com on December 23, 2025