“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

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

Many personalities do, but when you came into this existence, you came into it with problems and challenges you gave yourself and these probable selves exist in the same manner. You have given them a foundation and a history and an identity as a framework, but from this framework they will grow and learn and develop and without your creation of them they would not exist. Would you, therefore, deny them reality in order to deny them pain? Then the headache can vanish.

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.

Indeed, other portions of your own identity, and as you come even higher you would see that there were other stacks far above the stacks that you originally saw. Now, there is no reason why each of you cannot experience reality, why each of you cannot travel out of the dimensions that you know. Now, in doing so you will find that the personality is as different as, say, this table viewed from different angles and discover all facets of identity with which three-dimensional reality is by nature ignorant. Now, in the dream state you do this, but you can do it in the waking state, and you can do it in times of reverie. You can catch glimpses of your own multidimensional reality, but you must escape three-dimensional existence momentarily in order to do so.

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.