“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

If you want your mind blown, then blow your own mind. There are many people, many personalities, who have strong abilities. They can tell you, to some extent, much that you do not know, but unless they really know who and what they are individually, they can lead you astray. They build up psychic atmospheres on which you become a mere satellite. They are indeed fascinating. They are free with their energy, but they use it as a fine jeweled rope so that their force can be so fascinating to you that you do not realize that you are being bound about the neck.

([Kyle:] “I think so, but it seems to me we have to build off each other. I try to fight it, but for one person to build up his own ego, he has to push down other people and I say this is wrong but I see it all around me.”)

It is not a necessity, it is simply the result of ignorance. Now, and you all have the beginnings of a good text book, and I am going to ask you questions. You had better read it thoroughly, and if you will read some of the material again that is in the book, you will see what I mean. You do not deprive another person of air by breathing it, for you yourself contribute to the atmosphere. And no man needs to build up his ego by crushing another. And no man builds up his ego by crushing another, he merely crushes the inner being which is within him.

Now, I will speak to the lovely roses in the vase so that you will know I am not addressing anyone in particular. Now, one of these roses leaves the familiar world that it knows and embarks upon out-of-body experiences quite frequently, but this rose has a beautiful memory. In the out-of-body state this rose remembers all the out-of-body experiences it has had, but when it comes back to the body it forgets them all. It is not necessary that you remember, but if you want to remember, then indeed you can. And so the why would take too long this evening but I will answer it for you as circumstances permit. There is, in other words, an answer to the why. You are aware, however, that you take these excursions. For now, be satisfied with that and do not try too hard. You will return. It is not the returning that bothers you. Now, I will give you some information on the subject, though it is too late this evening, and if you want some specific exercises that you personally can use, I do not know that you will smell as sweet as a rose on your return, but we will see to it that you get the exercises.