“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.

And if I solved them for you, then you would go about your way, but you would have no faith in your own abilities and you would have learned nothing.

(What Seth said was repeated to Jane—ending with the fact that he would be here for a “social time.”)

(Brad then asked if he would like brandy.)

I would like brandy but our friend does not like it. And it ill behooves me to force upon her this which she does not enjoy. Ruburt does not care—Jane does not like it.

([Brad:] “Would it be of value for me to know, for example, that I had a relationship with my wife in another life?”)

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.

([Theodore:] “Because then it would seem like a cause-and-effect chain which could not be broken.”)

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.

([Brad:] “I feel I have much energy but I can never decide on which of the several directions in which to channel it. I am plagued by fears whenever I consider any particular direction—perhaps even the fear that I will not be able to measure up to my expectations. By not acting, I may even be excusing myself from failure: “Had I really tried, I would have succeeded.

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.

Now, you said that you would still like the answer given to you as to which road you would travel. And to me this means that you still do not realize that the answer is within yourself, and that you are the one to answer it.