Probable Selves and Alternate Realities

In The Unknown Reality, Volume I, the third book in the six book series of the main Seth material, Seth discusses alternate realities and probable selves. I’ve only just begun the book but have recently been thinking about my own life in terms of probable selves and considering the idea that there are other Chakis out there experiencing alternate realities as real as the one where I’m currently focused while writing this. Those selves, some of whom are likely very different from this self, are as aware of themselves as I am of myself, and as unaware of me as I am of them. Actually, they’re probably more unaware of me than I am of them since I at least consider their possible existences and ponder about their lives and activities. They probably don’t do the same.

As I’m only near the beginning of the first volume of The Unknown Reality, I don’t yet understand fully the nature of the probable realities discussed, but here’s my rudimentary take, so far:

We’re all born with various gifts and talents, but of course we don’t have time to pursue them all in one lifetime. Basically, there are other probable selves in different branches of reality no different from this one where we are pursuing each of our many talents. Also, whenever we have a big decision to make, especially one charged with a lot of emotional energy, reality branches into two and we continue life as if we had made both decisions. But each of our selves is unaware that reality has branched, that other selves exist in parallel worlds.

Of course, “above” all of our incarnated selves who are pursuing different paths is our higher self, our higher consciousness, monitoring each of its physical incarnations, sometimes helping out when needed, but mostly simply accumulating experiences and expanding its consciousness. Our higher selves are the sum of all of our individual, physical selves. Incidentally, I believe we can have real contact with our higher selves via deep meditation, but that’s a topic for another time. From what I understand, Quantum Jumping is a method by which we can contact and learn from our other probable selves. I haven’t tried it yet but intend to in the future.

You may find it enlightening, fun, and worthwhile, as I did, to do the practice I’ve done below: think back on your life and consider some of the major turning points, and wonder about your other probable selves who are out there pursuing a different life than the you who is reading this post.

Think back to a time when you enjoyed a certain activity or were cultivating a particular skill, then changed paths. Or think back to big decisions like changing jobs or starting or ending relationships, and imagine your life if you had made the opposite decision. It’s possible that you did make that decision, and that you exist in as real a sense as you do while you read this post, but this other probable life is very different from the life you know.

I just spent some time writing out a tree of probable Chakis. It’s not necessary to go through the tree completely, although I tried to make it as clear as possible. With the typed word having all but replaced the physical word, my handwriting has deteriorated significantly – please excuse it. The highlighted line is the life which I have lived, where I’m focused, and it only covers a few of the highlights that first came to mind. Click to enlarge.

I was born/incarnated in Tokyo, Japan, April 10th, 1984. The sakura were in full bloom. From that point in time to this one, August 7th, 2014, it has been an interesting ride.

I wonder what the Japanese Chaki, who never moved to Miami, Florida in 1988, is up to. I really have no idea. I wonder what he looks like, what he’s doing for money, if he has a wife and kids. I wish him the best.

In Miami I became serious about soccer, fishing, golf (starting in 1997), the flute, and academics, not to mention the many other sports and activities I tried and quit after a short period of time. I wonder if other Chakis out there are professionals at any of those things, and what their lives are like.

As it was, I moved to Connecticut in 1998, where I ended up dropping soccer (1999) and fishing (until 2006), and getting good at golf, the flute, and academics. I wonder what the Chakis are up to who stayed in Miami. It’s hard to imagine because life down there is so different from life in New England. I hope they’re doing well.

Near the end of high school when I applied to colleges, I was fortunate enough to be accepted to a few good ones. It came down to an emotionally charged decision between Colgate and Dartmouth. I chose Dartmouth.

I wonder what the Colgate Chaki is up to. Many different friends, people I’ve never met, presumably a much different life than the one I’m now enjoying. It’s even more difficult to imagine all of the branches of that Chaki’s reality because I don’t know what decisions he has faced. Regardless, I wish him the best.

At Dartmouth I had to choose a major and it came down to Economics and Philosophy. Economics seemed to promise a good finance job, but it didn’t interest me. I’d always had an affinity for philosophy, ever since my 7th grade teacher, Mr. King, taught us about Plato’s Cave. I’ll never forget that day.

I wonder what financial professional Chaki is up to, where he’s living, how much money he’s making, and if he’s happy and fulfilled. I wish him the best.

Another big decision I had to make in college was which fraternity to pledge (first world problems). I had equal numbers of friends in two different houses, AD and Phi Delt. Fifteen minutes were left before the decision deadline, and it was still a coin toss for me. Different fraternities have different cultures, and at my remote school surrounded by forests and mountains, the fraternity you join has almost total influence on your social life, and a significant influence on your college life in general. Largely on a whim, I chose Phi Delt.

I wonder what AD Chaki is up to, what friends he’s close with, where he’s living, and how his life is. I wish him the best.

From college graduation in June 2006 until October 2006 I played poker online and at the nearby casinos for money, and got pretty decent at it. I ended up doing the sensible thing and getting a “real” job in October 2006, but I wonder if there’s a pro poker player Chaki out there. If so, I’m sure his life is interesting. I wish him the best. That is, if he’s alive. Same goes for all my other selves. They could be dead.

The last year or so of college, with all the Keystone Lite and cheap vodka and buffalo chicken pizza and french fries, I got pretty fat, and continued to be fat until around 2010 when I started lifting weights and eating well. I wonder if there are a few fat Chakis out there, still working desk jobs and being depressed. If so, get in shape man/men! Life is much better on this side of the fat spectrum.

I also stopped playing the flute after graduation, which is perhaps my biggest regret at the moment. For me to take it up again now would be around six months of practicing every day to get anywhere near where I was skill-wise. I still plan on taking it up again, but it’s possible I won’t have time considering the future I have in mind for myself. We’ll see.

I take solace in the possibility that there are other probable Chakis out there who have continued with their music. I wish them the best of luck, and I hope when I die I can visit their realities to listen to them perform at their peaks. The flute is, in my opinion, the most beautiful sounding instrument in existence. Check out this video, for example. (Skip to 1:50 where the flute comes in.)

In 2009 I started dating a girl we’ll call Janine. We fell in love quickly and life was good for the most part. We spoke of marriage and kids and the future, but due to irreconcilable differences, we broke up in late 2010. I wonder what probable Chaki who stayed with her and got married and had kids is up to. I wish him the best of luck (he’ll need it).

In August of 2011, I met my current girlfriend, who won’t mind if I use her real name: Jen. I was a bit of an idiot and an asshole that night and she really didn’t want to give me her number, but I forced it out of her (nicely), and here we are, almost exactly three years later, in a great relationship. The events surrounding that night and how we both ended up at the same place are coincidental to the point that they’re almost unbelievable. If not for the two chains of events that led each of us to be there on that night, there’s almost no chance we ever would have crossed paths again, and our lives would have been completely different from that time to now. It’s experiences like this that make me wonder if some events are predestined to occur.

I wonder what the Chaki who didn’t get her phone number is up to, and if he’s still being a dirty little slutbag. I wish him the best of luck, as well as all of the other probable Chakis that branched off from his reality.

More recently, I quit my job in September 2013 to pursue self-employment via the internet. I wonder what the Chaki who didn’t quit is up to, if he has gotten promoted or moved companies. Good luck to him.

And that brings us to the present. There could be thousands of probable selves out there in different realities that branched off from the main trunk. I wish I could connect with them and draw from their wisdom. Still working on it.

How many other probable yous are there? What do you think they’re up to? What would you ask them if you could have a conversation? Imagine what you could learn from each other.

It’s fascinating to think about. As I’ve said many times before, this life is but a dream. When we die, it’s just like waking up from a vivid dream we thought was real. Then we’ll willingly go back to sleep and do it all over again and again and again until we expand our consciousness to the point where we become god-like and join all the other gods who’ve gone through it all. Or not.

Either way, sweet dreams, jelly beans.