“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now. If I thought you were a sheep then I would try to lead you. And I would tell you where to go and what to do. You could ask me questions about your personal life and I would not require that you think for yourself. Instead, I would be quite happy to tell you what to do and to sit here and receive your thanks. If I thought you had no abilities of your own, and this applies to all of you, if I did not know that you were multidimensional personalities with all kinds of abilities at your disposal, then I would not tell you to think and feel for yourselves. I would not say you have the ability within you to solve your own problems. I would solve them for you.

It would be of value only if you realized that you create your physical reality now. If you knew that you had a karmic tie with your wife and did not realize that you formed your own reality through your own thoughts and desires, then it would serve you not at all. You would still be imprisoned.

It would indeed. And you would think that all you had to do was to solve the problem that had existed in the past... or endure. All you have to do is realize that you are free, that you form reality as you know it... through your most intimate desires and thoughts and fears. You change the exterior circumstances by changing your thoughts and your desires and by forgetting your fears. There is no other way. There has never been another way.

I have said this often in class: You have been given the most awesome gift of all—the gift to create from your own thoughts and desires.

([Brad:] “Don’t we all?”)

(During the break the discussion centered on the last part above. Seth added:) When you do that, you see, when you relate all others to yourself initially, when you are imprisoned within yourself to that degree, then you are also imprisoned by others because you project your own reality into them where it does not belong. Do you follow me?

([Brad:] “Up to the point of my early twenties I seemed to have had a purpose and a drive -and I think I was succeeding. And then all at once things disintegrated—coincidentally at the time I met my wife. Is it possible that a person can have such an effect on another?”)

Now. The difficulty is this, and I say this to all of you. You have forgotten how to play! You have forgotten how to be spontaneous! You have become lost in intellectual mazes!

You would do much better if your attitude followed thusly: I am in such a position that my seriousness has given me no benefits. My imagination has brought me fear. And I seem to be in a prison. All my hard work has brought me nowhere, and therefore I shall change my tactics and I shall play. I do not care, for I am playing, which game I try first. So today I shall call up and make an appointment immediately as a teacher and I shall pretend with all my might that I am an excellent teacher. And today I shall be a teacher as no teacher ever was! And I will think of all those students that I do not know yet and how I can help them and what fun it shall be! And so I shall call up and make this appointment. And it does not make any great difference whether I get this particular job or not—for if I do not get it, tomorrow I shall be an artist. And I shall call up and make an appointment as an artist—but I shall be free in whatever I do—and spontaneous.

I expect you to! And I expect that in all due seriousness.

Indeed in joy, for I play at being Seth, in joy, for I am many others as you are many others. And as I have said often, the portion of me that you know in this room is a certain portion of my personality from those personality banks that are mine. It is my present currency with you all; the picture that I now portray.

This is not original with me, but you cannot deny one feeling without cutting off all feeling to some extent. You cannot cut off one portion of yourself without cutting off the channels to the whole self to some extent.

Now I tell you, it does not matter which step you take. It does not matter. All your thoughts of “which step shall I take” are unimportant—they are meaningless. The important thing is to take a step, and your appointment is a step, and you must take it.

Now. I bid you all good evening, for my friend Ruburt is wondering how late I will keep the session and worried about his neighbors. I give you what blessings are mine to give you and what vitality is mine to give you.