“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(After break, to Sharon.) Now, your parents do not want you to grieve, they have been trying to tell you that they are as alive as you are. I do not want to hurt your feelings but they are more alive than you are. They came to you because they wanted you to question the nature of reality more deeply than you have done so. They will not come for long. They have their own business to attend to and their own reality to meet and their own challenges to accept, but, they are coming to you so that you will be aware of their continued existence; and also so that you will be aware of the nature of your own inner self which is as free of your physical body now as they are.

And again, we will not look at anyone in particular but we can give clues, can we not? We have, therefore, a touch of rebellion. Now, rebellion can be a good thing if you know what you are rebelling against. And if you are rebelling, it behooves you to know what you are rebelling against. It is very important to understand the nature of your own inner self and symbolism behind action. For when you understand the symbolism behind your own actions, then you begin to understand yourselves and you know the reasons behind your actions. And when you act you do not deceive yourselves, you know quite clearly I am acting for thus and thus reasons. Oftentimes you fool yourselves. You think you are acting for a particular reason but the action is for an entirely different reason, and therefore, you must learn why you act as you do.

Now, the inner self knows the answers and often- times the inner self brings you to this error, this action, or this symptom, so that you will look inward. And now look inward and we will have a break.

(To Ned.) I was in your last experience as a probable self of my own and you did not recognize me, but that is all right and I will not hold it against you.

He was a probable self of your grandfather’s and he kept in touch with you, and you were able to see him because of your own abilities. He noticed you, even as you noticed him, and in his probability he wondered who you were, but he liked you. He was a portion of your grandfather that your grandfather as you know him, could not be, and in many ways he was much freer than your grandfather. Now, he had a hobby and he made small dolls. These were dolls made of wood and into them he projected all of his creative energy, and he made a doll that looked like you, and he called it Susan without ever knowing where he got the name. He did not know it was your name, nor who you were. He lived in Germany in his reality. He was born in his reality in 1831 and died in 1897. But you were able to see him. In out-of-body states, he projected into your reality. We will give you more information on it as we are able to.

([Gert:] “Jane says I am quite guilt-ridden. My question is, as I am able to find out what I am guilty about and I find that guilt, do I then project that into another probable self?”)

You need not do so. Once you realize that your guilt has no basis then it can dissolve. It is only when you do not understand it that you become frightened and project it in such a manner. You are creating the guilt, and through understanding you can learn to dissolve it for it will simply vanish.

Now, I am not going to keep you. I have aroused sufficient energy in each of you so that you can use this when you sleep this evening and be thankful that I have human tendencies that are so obvious and noticeable. Then there is something else to consider and then personality as you do not understand it comes to the fore. Personality without those characteristics that you know and understand so well. In other words, consciousness without camouflage, for the characteristics that I use are camouflage, beloved camouflage perhaps; but without them you would not understand what I am saying, and without them in yourselves, you would not learn to recognize the self that you can be.