“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(To Theodore.) It was your own exuberant energy and not my own, your group energy, that played the tricks with the fire. Had I been around it would have occurred to me, and it would have been a great trick, but I was not. You felt free to use your own energy spontaneously. You also have a good sense of humor. It was very well directed, and you made certain none of you got burned. They were worried about hellfires.

(To Mary Ellen.) You knew what the message would be before you came here on a subconscious basis and Ruburt, all unaware, has already delivered it to you, and it was in his terms to cool it because spontaneity must progress at its own rate and feel comfortable in both physical reality and inner reality. You are not to go into inner reality like a door to a closet, and close the door behind you. It may be comfortable, but that is not its purpose. Now, your own unconscious mind knew this and you were told to come so that the message could be delivered rather forcibly, so consider this a forcible delivery. You are doing very well.

(To Natalie:) Now, intuitively, you knew that information was going to be given to you and spontaneously you went along with it, and that is good.

Many of you would have questioned yourselves for an hour, “Why do I want to go back to bed? It is wicked and lazy and wrong of me to even think of such a thing. How will the world do without me if I am not up and about? The devil deals with idle minds.” And so, at the end of an hour, had you begrudgingly gone to your bed, the inspiration would have long since departed. What inspiration could hang around in such thought? You laugh spontaneously, the Gods laugh spontaneously. They do not stop, first of all, to decide whether it is right or wrong.

Consciousness has its built-in protection. But when this is not spontaneously admitted and when out of fear of evil it is repressed this is when it gains additional charge. And so for release that it turns into violence, both individually and en masse. You are so afraid of violence that you do not try to understand what lies behind it. Or the creative nature that lies within it. Violence is a distortion of a thrust toward activity and when you realize this you can use it creatively. When out of fear you try to pretend that it does not exist or, on the other hand, you fear it so drastically that you shove it under, then it is magnified and can do damage.

Do not, therefore, exaggerate the situation or magnify it by imagining this feeling as affecting the other person involved. Say, “I feel this way and I must express it at this time or be honest, but he has his protection from my feelings. He is filled with the vitality of life even as I am.” But if you ignore the feeling or pretend that it does not exist, then it is repressed within you and it draws to it all those other repressed violences; minute, insignificant details, seemingly, that gain charge until they fill you and must be expressed. Then you can meet the same individual four years later when the situation is forgotten and react violently and hurt him, where harmlessly the feeling automatically and spontaneously would have been expressed.

Get used to turning your consciousness into other areas of activity and let yourselves go and trust the spontaneity of your being. This is one reality and it is a valid one but it is not the only reality in which you have your existence. Therefore, look within yourselves, look in the physical universe where there appears to be nothing and you will find there are other kinds of reality.

(To Florence.) And if you trusted your spontaneous self, then you would allow yourself greater freedom. Now class is good for you. It gives you a framework that you can trust in which you can allow yourself freedom. You cannot allow yourself freedom within conventional religion at this time because of your own ideas. You cannot allow yourself freedom without any framework because you are afraid of what you will find, so you had better take advantage of the framework that is here presented to you.