“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

For now (to Theodore) accept the thoughts as a spontaneous part of the moment. You are fighting them too hard. They are not enemies. You do not need to shoot them down. Accept them as a part of the moment, and they will lose their strength. The only strength they have is a strength you give them, and the more you try to resist them in that regard, the more importance you give to them. So go along with them and they will dissipate.

Now, I wish you all a good evening and I am going to be here to see how you do.

See (to Theodore) how that makes you spontaneous. Another brief word, however. There is an old, unfortunate idea, and I am sure by now you are above it and it is, that in order to be pious you must work very hard and be extremely dignified. And the harder you work and the harder it becomes, the more sure you are that to be pious must be a great thing. So if you have not dismissed the idea then at least kick it about a bit.

Now, I will let you get on with your experiments. I am waiting to see how you do, and Ruburt will be mad at me because he will say that you will not be spontaneous if you know I am around and, you see, you must prove him wrong. If I can be so spontaneous and dead these many years, then I fail to see why you would have any difficulty! Have fun. The gods have fun, and if you listen you can hear their laughter.

Now, each of you had to recognize your own emotions and your own feelings this evening, to one extent or another. This is your reality. You are used to hiding from them, and the more feelings you inhibit the more you inhibit your natural joy and spontaneity. And, to some extent, our friend over here is correct in that you can use sensitivity sessions themselves as simply another mask, in which case you never show yourself. Instead you display whatever mask you feel is required, which is after all another part of the social game that you always play. When you are doing psychological time, however, you cannot afford to be using energy to hide your own emotions from yourself. You need a feeling of release, you need to be friends with yourself so that you can let your abilities flow freely.

Now, I try to show you all, whenever we have a session, that what you are seeing and hearing is a demonstration of the nature of human personality. And you all have human personalities, so therefore the abilities that are shown in this room are examples of the abilities that you have within yourselves waiting to be developed. I am referring here to many things. I am referring, in the main however, to a deep feeling of oneness with other human beings. The ability to open yourselves up enough so that you can bear to understand the reality of another individual. The more terrified you are personally, the less you dare let down your guard, and you build up psychological walls to protect you. You shove aside the problems of others because they simply remind you of your own. Now, using psychological time and learning to be spontaneous, you can free these abilities within yourself. It will not be an intellectual matter of thinking that you are a part of All That Is. It will, instead, be an emotional awareness of that relationship.

Now, you (to Garrett) had your strongest sense of immediacy with our friend over here, and he encountered each of you according to his own light, at the moment, as he met you. You could agree or disagree with what he felt or what he said. He could have been in any instance right or wrong, but he met you squarely and spontaneously, and you felt that aliveness and responded to it.

Now, in somewhat the same way must you meet your own aliveness and encounter yourselves, and you cannot do it by digging around the bush. You do it by realizing emotionally two things: your relationship with everything else that exists and your miraculous uniqueness; and the meeting place between the two is where the self is and you think of the self. The words I speak are meaningless if you do not put them to use and if they do not arouse in you a spark of activity. Now, I will lead a sensitivity session here some night that will be some session.

Now, I do not mean to badger you (to Theodore) for I know you cannot badger someone to be spontaneous, but I have nothing against shaking you up a bit.

I expect (to Sue and Ned) some greater performance from you two now. You have the knowledge and the ability.

Now, I give you both my best wishes (to Felix and Bette).

Now, I know that you are all worn out after such deep psychological probing this evening, so I will say goodnight to you all.