“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

He seems like a very nice gentleman to me. You do not have to be so intimidated.

Our other friend (Brad) is playing with his crutches—tossing them in the air a bit—practicing a two-step without them. But we need more than that. You have book one of the material. I tell you that that information is practical information. You can put it to use. I am flattered that you pick it up and look at it now and then. You may have it bound in gold or leather and keep it as a keepsake. But it will do you little good unless you use it.

I use Ruburt’s body, with his permission, because he is a friend of mine. You use your own bodies—they are the vehicles that you wear. As Ruburt would say, they’re the space garments you don in order to dwell upon your earth. They are not you—you use them—use them joyfully and gladly and well but do not identify with them for they are not you. I have used and discarded more bodies than I would desire to count. And had I really died with even one of those bodies, I would not be speaking to you now—and you would not be sitting beside me. For you have also spoken with many tongues.

But again, coming here once a week may help you find yourself—it may point you in the right direction—but you will only find yourself when you journey inward. And by journeying inward I do not mean a quick and hasty and apologetic trip to your child memories. I do not mean an attempt to find out why you are frightened of spiders or have boils on your arm. I am speaking of a more extensive journey. And all of you know to what I am referring.

You may ask me any questions that you like. I do not guarantee that I will answer them all. But I will answer some of them.

([Jack Cross:] “When we leave the physical body, where do we go?”)

You must understand the nature of reality before you can manipulate within it intelligently and well. In this environment and in physical reality, you are learning—you are supposed to be learning—that your thoughts have reality and that you create the reality that you know. When you leave this dimension, then you concentrate upon the knowledge that you have gained. If you still do not realize that you create the reality that you know, then you return and again you learn to manipulate and again and again you see the results of your own inner reality as you meet it objectified. You teach yourself the lesson until you have learned it.

And when you have learned it, then you have begun to learn how to handle the consciousness that is yours intelligently and well. And then you can form images for the benefit of others and lead them and guide them. And then you can continue, you can continue to enlarge the scope of your understanding and consciousness—and as you do this, you take on a more conscious awareness of your responsibility. And your responsibility is not difficult to understand.

It is always up to the individual. There is no predestination. And there is no one who tells you what you must do. The answers are within yourself then as the answers are within yourself now.

([Jack Cross:] “How do you discover those answers for yourself?”)

([Jack Cross:] “How do you develop the power of spiritual healing?”)

You already have the power of spiritual healing. You want to know how to use it. Now you use it whether or not you know that you do. When you think thoughts of peace and vitality, and when you wish a man well, then you help heal him.

Now. I have some questions. It is more difficult for me to form questions than for me to answer them. My question is this—and you do not need to answer it now. You do not need to answer it at any time, to me. It is a question for yourself:

I do, indeed. Not the church—but any church. Do not your ideas already leap over the fences and the fields? And do you not already feel hampered within the environment in which you have spent so much time? And are you not only now—and even reluctantly—taking small steps where you would take giant steps? You do not need to answer.

Your answers to the questions that you gave me will come from within. They will come in an easier fashion if you can free yourself. For you have formed barriers without knowing it—where barriers do not exist.

Now, dear friends, you all dwell in the same unlimited dimension—you simply have not opened your eyes to see it. You think that you are blind and so you do not see. The universe in which I dwell is the universe in which all of you dwell.Some of you have better eyesight than others and the vision is not physical. Now. You have done well with theories (addressing Rev. Cross); now, I tell you to forget them. Forget the self that has the theories—and begin to experience. To do this, follow the directions that I have given, but also get in the habit of looking about you morning, noon and night—and realizing that there is more within every environment than each small room that you see.

And into this reality you do not go as a grown man with preconceived ideas. You go as a wonderer without preconceptions. And you become acquiescent and the answers are given to you—and to you—and to you.