“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now, a child is very dependent upon a parent. To the child a parent seems like God and, therefore, a child feels guilty, feels afraid that the parent will cast him out, particularly the mother, so the child then feels he will be completely abandoned. Now, if the guilt is severe enough, as unfortunately it often is, this pseudo-guilt, then the young adult will do almost anything to relieve it. He does not realize that what he actually feels is the early fear of the child of the parents’ abandonment. This is not in his conscious mind and therefore anything else is accepted with relief.

When you felt you had done enough penance, you did not know how to deal with the part of you you thought you had left. You were so used to thinking of yourself as guilty, and here you had a new sense to deal with. You were like a child with a new toy, and how could it be as good as you supposed and where was the hidden blemish, and so you have been looking for the hidden blemish. In the back of your mind also you wonder if you haven’t done enough penance, and so you worry and stew. You are making progress, however. You are looking inward and you are accepting the responsibility for yourself and your own development.

Now, each of you in this room is a completely separate, unique individual. You each have a hand in the creation of reality as it is known. You have an effect upon those that you know and love, beyond what is usually supposed. As I have said often, there are no limitations, even to the self that you know, except those that you yourselves impose. Therefore you are meant to use your abilities and to develop them, and when I speak of abilities I do not necessarily mean psychic abilities alone. Your spontaneity is your life. It is up to you to expand the nature of your own consciousness so that you understand me. Guilt will not help you; it is only a hindrance. It inhibits, it does not encourage.

You are going to have a lot to do. Now, you have a lot to do now, but consciously you are not aware of what you do, and little by little you must learn to accept greater and greater portions of your own reality in this life and future lives. In your terms, the quicker you learn the better, this despite the fact that time does not exist.

Now, to get out of your body, you must first get out of your mind. You must let your concepts go and experience the nature of your own reality. Without words or symbols you must learn to look through the props. You can still use them as props, but you will know that more exists.

([Derek:] “Is consciousness overriding our natural subconscious?”)

It is indeed, but what you do not understand is that your so-called subconscious is highly conscious, you simply are not aware of it consciously. Therefore, you must expand the consciousness that you know so that it is aware of this other portion of your own identity. You do not really have a conscious state and an unconscious state, they are the same. You have a consciousness. Sometimes you are aware of certain portions of it and sometimes you are aware of other portions of it. You have been told that you cannot know what happens to you when your body sleeps, but you can, indeed. That portion of you is also conscious; there is an artificial division created. I will let you return to your break.