“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now. He is not as scintillating as I am—but he has his reasons.

His thoughts are not translated in those terms because you cannot rightfully call them thoughts in the way you are accustomed to thinking of thoughts. Now, a thought to him is a creative experience. What he thinks immediately is. It is not that he is cold, he has a different kind of thermal quality. He is vast. I am old, but he is vast.

I should tell you that I am sorry that I kept you so long last week. My friend Ruburt has been telling me that I must apologize. And I should tell you that I have deep sympathy—but your time is not my time. I do try to take it into consideration. And yet those issues that might bring me to you in a session, have nothing to do with time as you consider it. Now I will let you take a rest period, but I have not said good evening, and you can all be comfortable. Our friend will not be speaking to you this evening, and he is not a bogey man.

Now, remember, try to keep two things in your mind. One: I am who I say I am and these characteristics of mine, are mine, insofar as they can be translated. Remember also that I have one main role, and that role is that of a teacher. And, therefore, I use my characteristics as teaching aids.

And so sometimes you are given a recording. Now this does not mean that I am not present in such sessions, anymore than it does not mean that the information you are given by the teacher, on the screen, is not legitimate. It is a reasonable facsimile.

Much of our work is done when Ruburt is sleeping... or when he is otherwise engaged. And he becomes then your vitalized TV set, and I am sorry that the reproduction is not as good as the original because I also have other endeavors and other places, in your terms, that I must be.

I do not mean to infer that our dear friend Ruburt is simply a channel on a TV screen. Now tonight I am here clearly. My total emotional immersion may be far away from your system, in your terms, when I know I am wanted here, therefore I can appear here. For the program has already been taped.

Now when your teacher appears on the TV screen, he is not aware consciously of himself within the image that you see. It is completely a taped production. When the same thing happens in our classes, however, I am here—but to a lesser extent than I am at this moment. I am aware of myself, going with our analogy, within the image that you would see on your TV screen.

Now. I am indeed here this evening with more energy and power than a facsimile. But this does not mean that I am not here on those other occasions when you hear me speak. Do you follow me? This has been given in our sessions and Ruburt and Joseph understand it.

Now I invite you all to close your eyes, to listen to my voice and to use it as a launching pad for your own experiences. You can travel where I am. Your self is not a closed door. The inner portion of you is open. You have senses which you have not been using, and I invite you now to use them. I invite you, therefore, to listen within yourself and to use my voice as a beacon in the darkness—a point of safety. It can illuminate many ways and you can feel safe to follow these ways into other personalities that are a portion of yourself—and into other realities in which you also have your existence.