“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now, it is extreme egotism to imagine that you can only be alive if you have a body. You are indeed being closed-minded. The voice that I can use on occasion could shatter the small image through which I speak and the spirit that belongs to your parents could not be contained in one bodily form or two. The spirit of your parents is, of course, free. You are free even while you are in the flesh, and I have nothing against the flesh. I have had some time with it through past lives, and found it very handy, indeed, so I am not prejudiced. You are caught up in conventional ideas of this. It is this that frightens you in your dreams. The spirits of your parents are free. Allow them their freedom and speak kindly to them. You would frighten the ghosts away with your own fear. If you had to go through all that they had to go through to contact a beloved daughter, how would you feel if you were met with fear and terror?

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 person to whom I was earlier speaking knows, I am sure, of the message. However—give us a moment—errors can also be used as challenges and those of you who are afraid to commit errors, or who are too afraid to face challenges, and therefore, never look upon an error as a deep or dark thing forever beyond repair, for from it challenges spring. And oftentimes, if an error is committed, it is the same thing as a physical symptom might be.

([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?”)

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.