“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

If you choose a safe universe then you may indeed find some old habitual ideas, thoughts or beliefs, coming to haunt you. Those belonged to the unsafe universe, and made perfect sense there—and there they still do. When you change your affiliation and find yourself now and then encountering such feelings; and they are always one way or another feelings of insecurity—then admit to yourself that while they made sense in the unsafe universe, they do not belong in the safe one. Literally, such feelings make no sense in a safe universe. They are literally meaningless.

Now give us a moment.... At the risk of repeating myself, you live in a safe universe (loudly). At the risk of repeating myself you (to me) can no longer equivocate either (loudly). When you find yourself in a period of distress, it is because you do not trust your safety. You cannot live in a safe universe and an unsafe one at the same time. You have to make a complete choice.

Ruburt’s symptoms made sense in an unsafe universe. He needed protection, he felt. Your feelings about Prentice made sense in an unsafe universe, where you had to protect the excellence of your vision from incompetence. You can make that leap into the safe universe—just as Ruburt is. The leaping is a process of growth, so in your terms give yourself time, but do not equivocate.

Ruburt has recently used the suggestion “Infinite intelligence leads me and guides me in all my ways.” If you thoroughly understood what that means then you do indeed live and experience a safe universe. Your pendulum will give you the specific reasons for any difficulties, but behind these ever-changing reasons is always the sense of insecurity you feel when you believe the universe is against you to whatever degree. It works with you when you let it, and you attract to yourself all of those conditions that are cooperative to your ventures.

[...] You cannot say “I live in a safe universe, but—” —but anything. You cannot say “I live in a safe universe, but I am threatened by the economic problems of my state,” move to Pennsylvania, or to Timbuktu (humorously intent). [...]

[...] Your beliefs in the safe universe are spreading. [...] In the unsafe universe, however, you—not you alone—believe that something good will be fought over. [...]

At John’s level, and in his unsafe universe, the events still prove how valuable the books are, since, to whatever extent, they are fought over. At Ruburt’s level and your own, the events show you that the universe, as it applies to your publishing world is safe—with leeway for action—and also opens up creative relationships with people at Prentice that were latent before. [...]

When you begin to realize that you do indeed live in a safe universe, these patterns of reaction begin to break up. [...]

[...] Your suggestions about a safe universe are finally taking effect. As mentioned, however, the idea of an unsafe universe automatically initiates a certain kind of thinking. [...]

Until an individual gains enough confidence in the concept of a safe universe, he or she will hang on to many of those attitudes. [...] If you are convinced that your world is not safe then it seems sensible to protect yourself in questionable areas by expecting the worst so that you will be prepared. [...]

[...] You are traveling yourselves out of an unsafe universe into a safe one. [...]

[...] The idea of a safe universe seems sacriligious and impractical, and yet the next important breakthrough will be based upon that conclusion. [...]

The material on the book just given is pertinent: you live in a safe universe. [...]

When he is proficient with the bathroom routine, which you were very wise to begin, we will start some other simple new routines, one at a time, instilling appropriate body reaction to a safe universe. [...]

[...] When you realize you dwell in a safe universe, such defenses are unnecessary—and later perhaps you will see that they are as comical as a child is who screams in terror at a bogeyman. [...]

[...] The better known he became the greater the belief that he must protect himself, and the greater his feeling of unsafety, for now he became known in a world in which it was only safe to hide. [...]

[...] In those terms the body is a safe universe, self-regulating. [...] The physical universe always cooperates. It follows those beliefs of yours, for you physically mold your experience with the universe according to your beliefs about it.

(10:44.) You live in a safe universe.

Ruburt said somewhere “Sometimes you lean into the universe, and feel it give.” [...] Mankind “competed” against nature, which was to be conquered, so the universe seemed to be a threatening place. [...]

[...] It also yields; despite all appearances, it is also safe. [...]

You stop, each of you, and think “Actually, how safe is this universe in which we dwell?” The money, or the need of it, in your particular situation, becomes merely a symbol for an inner sense that the universe is not safe, and so money becomes a needed security. [...]

Each of you built up your own set of defenses, because you did not believe that the universe was safe for creativity. [...] But he also needed your help, because while the main method was his, your intents were in unison and the same—to protect yourselves and your creativity from an unsafe universe. [...]

You live in a safe universe. [...]

[...] You must completely accept the fact that you do indeed dwell in a safe universe—one in which you are free to develop, say, your painting abilities to the fullest, without fearing that that development will dull the weapon that brings you money.

[...] You live in a safe universe. It is safe to go outside your door. [...]

[...] It is not safe to eat, or it is not safe to stop eating, or it is not safe to run. [...]

[...] While the animal may encounter danger, it does not feel that its world is not safe. [...] When you feel that your world is not safe the body may respond in many ways, according to the characteristic temperament and beliefs. [...]

[...] Then, however, he stops to make sure that the danger is past, and to make certain it is safe to go ahead. [...]

[...] Your help, again, with the suggestions is invaluable in terms of your loving active aid—but also because you are convincing yourself that you live in a safe universe, so that Ruburt does not feel that he must battle for himself and for you. Your sexual encounters are very important, for if you do not feel you are safe,then even animals have difficulty expressing corporal sex. [...]

[...] You live in a safe universe. [...]

[...] You do live in a safe universe. [...]

Traveling from one shore of it to another becomes a vast learning adventure, in which both sea and sky are observed in all of their moods and nuances while you are safely ensconced all of the while. [...]

When you have your stomach difficulties you insist, however, upon looking overboard and saying “Those waves are dangerous and threatening,” while forgetting momentarily that you are indeed quite safe aboard your craft. [...]

[...] Played old Safe Universe Seth tape for them, was struck by Seth’s discussion strongly and saw how back in ‘75 he had the issues already organized for the future.... [...]

[...] Such expansion reacquaints the known self with the great energy that supports it, therefore bringing an individual to a point of understanding in which the concept of a safe universe makes sense. The idea of a personal universe will be emphasized.

[...] You also need the reinforcement yourself of the safe universe concepts.

[...] Seth initiated the following passages by talking to me about “the safe universe” that each person can create, and live within. [...]

“When you thoroughly understand what is meant by the entire safe-universe concept, then the physical, cultural climate is seen as a medium through which the ideal can be expressed. [...]

[...] Your religions do not explain your greater reality, and your sciences leave you just as ignorant about the nature of the universe in which you dwell.

[...] Such an endeavor essentially involves the pursuit of an ideal, and represents our attempts to give physical and mental shape to the great inner, creative commotion of the universe that each person intuitively feels. [...]

[...] The child returns to the safe universe of tea and biscuits. [...]

[...] Your dreaming and waking experience has a direct effect upon the entire universe. [...]

To me your world is a dream universe which I visit by invitation, a probable reality that I find unique and very dear — but one in which I can no longer have direct experience. [...]

[...] Whenever our sessions, your own efforts, or other events, have convinced Ruburt either of the personal safe universe or of the basic safety of the self, that reassurance helped quiet the unconscious fears, and allowed him then to direct his will toward physical improvements.

[...] It was not safe to stand out. [...]

[...] When he met you, he turned to love and science, for by then he had set upon science and the intellect as a safe means of containing his abilities and expressing them.

If you really do understand that you live in a safe universe, you need no such protection. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s improvement has been steady, but guarded, as he watches for your attitude, and to make sure that it is indeed safe now.

[...] With his literal mind Ruburt took protection against it, and found in your apartment and home what he hoped would be a safe sanctuary in monastic terms, where each of you could learn and grow. [...]

[...] When you thoroughly understand what is meant by the entire safe universe concept, then the physical, cultural climate is understood as a medium through which the ideal can be expressed—can be expressed. [...]

Your feelings, however, are based upon personal and cultural background—the unsafe universe, in which inspiration must be guarded and protected. [...]

If the dream world, the mind, and the inner universe do exist, but not in space, and if they do not exist basically in time, though they may be glimpsed through time, then your question will be: In what medium or in what manner do they exist, and without time, how can they be said to exist in duration? I am telling you that the basic universe exists behind all camouflage universes in the same manner, and taking up no space, that the mind exists behind the brain. [...] Your camouflage universe, on the other hand, takes up space and exists in time.

[...] How can you believe that you live in a safe universe when each species exists because it survives through claw, if it must hunt and kill out of murderous intent, as implied in the theories of evolution and of reality itself?

6. Ever since Seth came through with the material in this (44th) session 10 years ago, I’ve been interested in comparing his second law of the inner universe with the second law of thermodynamics of our “camouflage” physical sciences. [...] At the same time I see them as linked through our distorted perception of that inner reality, thus pointing up Seth’s statement just given, that “the so-called laws of your camouflage universe do not apply to the inner universe.” (When this session was held Jane knew nothing of the three laws of thermodynamics, or how they define energy/heat relationships in our universe. [...]

This basic universe of which I speak expands constantly in terms of intensity and quality and value, in a way that has nothing to do with your idea of space. The basic universe beneath all camouflage does not have an existence in space at all, as you envision it. Space is a camouflage … This tinge of time is an attribute of the physical camouflage form only, and even then the relationship between time and ideas, and time and dreams, is a nebulous one … although in some instances parts of the inner universe may be glimpsed from the camouflage perspective of time; only, however, a small portion.