“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now, he does indeed visit you while you sleep. He has been trying to communicate with you, and you must indeed relax for you are the one that adds these symbols of death. It is you who adds the symbolism that he rises from the tomb. He never knew the tomb, he left his body long before then.

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?

We are not having a long session this evening, a very short one. I simply wanted you to know that the dead can be quite lively, that they are not quiet and somber and that your mother only appeared tired because she knew you expected her to. She did not want to frighten you.

(To Natalie.) Now, we have some good progress over here from the silent one in the corner and we expect it to continue.

([Ned:] “Were you the tall, slender one?”)

No, only one.

([Sue:] “Oh, the one with the concentric circles?”

(To Derek.) I was talking to you, and that is why this one (referring to Arnold) began to cough.

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.

([Derek:] “Earlier today I was working on some clay work I was doing for someone else. I had already done one and found I could not do it again because I had spent all of my creative energy on the first and could not do another one like it. Is this what you mean by betraying my own ability to do it again?”)

You cannot copy a creation, you cannot repeat it. Each thought is a new creation. Each artistic endeavor is a new creation. You cannot, no matter how you try, reproduce an original creation. That is what I meant. It is one example of what I meant.

([Arnold:] “If we were two-dimensional and were one of a stack of cards placed in the middle of the deck, we would not be aware of those above and below, but if we could pull ourselves out of the stack we would be able to see that which was above and below?”)

It is very good and the more proficient you become in psy-time the further you can travel from three-dimensional reality. In your terms, and simply as an image, the further up you can go that not only was there one stack of cards, but many other stacks about it.