“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now, for example, say you have a deep problem. You may create a physical symptom so that you wonder why you have the symptom and it forces you to ask questions that you would not otherwise ask. You may instead, however, commit an error so that you are suddenly brought up short as you say, “Why did I do this thing which is so unlike myself?” In that case, the error or the action is the same thing as a symptom for it makes you question your own motives and look into your own spirit. Therefore, it is indeed a way of learning.

([Sue:] “I guess I was afraid I had created personalities like that myself.”)

You want to create a perfect thing. If you want to create another personality then you think in terms of a perfect personality and the perfect personality does not exist, for perfection in your terms means death. When you think in terms of perfection, you think in terms of purposes already achieved, none coming after; but existence makes its own new purposes that arise of the joy and exaltation, as well as pain and challenge. Therefore, you have given birth in more terms than one. You see, because of the creative nature of your personalities, even when you thrust a pain apart from yourselves and give it as a heritage to a fragment personality, you give it, also, your creative power and your hopes. You cannot help but do it and so you do not set these personalities adrift without hopes, without potential.

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.