RESEARCH: Yes. Seth’s “families of consciousness” material is remarkably close to the framework you’ve been developing with the Nine Muses. The major source is The “Unknown” Reality, Volume Two, especially Sessions 732–740, beginning in January 1975. Seth Material Seth proposed nine broad psychic families. He compared them loosely to races or physical families—not as biological groups, but as natural affinities within consciousness: “all related, yet having different overall characteristics or specialties.” Now Dictation The nine are essentially: Family Basic impulse Sumafi Teaching, preserving and transmitting knowledge Sumari Creativity, art, innovation, play Tumold Healing Gramada Creating systems and social structures Vold Reform, change, challenging established systems Milumet Mysticism, intuition, inner knowledge Zuli Physical expression and embodiment Borledim Parenthood, nurturing, sustaining the species Ilda Communication, exchange, travel and spreading ideas Seth was quite careful about something I think is important for your project: these weren't supposed to become nine boxes for labeling people. He said the categories were only general descriptions—an outline showing how consciousness diversifies itself while physically expressed. Families can have subdivisions and combinations. Now Dictation In other words, the number nine is a map, not a prison. And belonging wasn't portrayed as an assignment handed down by some cosmic bureaucracy. Seth said people generally fall into a particular family “because you want to,” developing natural alliances, friendships and counterparts there. Now Dictation There is another fascinating part. Jane and Rob identified themselves with Sumari, and Seth described the Sumari as playful, inventive and relatively unfettered, often appearing in the arts and unconventional sciences. Jane's earlier experiences with the spontaneous “Sumari language,” songs and poetry eventually became part of the background to Seth's fuller family material.
