“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

It is indeed, and it is important that you experience, that you open yourselves up to experiences that you may perhaps have believed impossible in the past, for there are no barriers, only those you impose. When you realize, deeply realize, that other realities exist, you can begin to perceive your own part in them. As long as you do not realize they exist you will rationalize away the greatest indication of them that you may perceive. Come into my parlor, said the spider to the fly.

Do not forget, when I speak to you I am not speaking symbolically. These are not fine philosophies to be listened to and ignored, nor fancy words again to be enjoyed and then forgotten. You do quite literally form your own reality and there is no symbolism in that statement. If you do not like the reality that you are forming then you can change it, and honesty is extremely important in this regard.

(To Natalie.) Now, when I am looking at someone in particular, you do know that I am looking at you and you know to what I am referring. You must first recognize the fact honestly, that there are certain portions of your reality that you do not like. Do not pretend, be honest, and then you can change the reality. And you should be coming here to learn more about yourself. In learning what you are you will discover what reality is, and again what the nature of God is. You can use whatever term you prefer.

(To Gert.) Now, you must honor yourself and do yourself justice. Until you can honor and love yourselves you cannot honor nor love anything else or anyone else, and as long as you see yourselves as guilty, then you will see guilt in every other person you look at, and you will see evil in the nature of reality. The answers, you see, are within yourselves. It is only when you do not realize they are there that you have such difficulties. You have only to let go.

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.

Now, since in the dream state you are able, quite easily, to perceive the future, why do you find it such a frightening thing to do when you are awake? Because someone else will say this is not real? Because their idea of reality is limited, why should you limit yours? Because another man is blind you do not close your eyes so that you can agree. That is what you are doing when you limit your own idea of reality.

That, I am afraid, you will have to answer for yourself. I would, for myself, answer in the affirmative. There are better things you can use this state for. There is no reason to be afraid. Your own face may not have been beautiful, but it was your own.

Now, this is your break. You see, and I have said this again many times in class, spontaneity knows its own discipline. The body breathes beautifully in a highly disciplined manner and knows nothing of your idea of discipline. Indeed, the seasons come and go. In your location it does not snow, usually, in July. The flowers appear and disappear. Everything has its season, and yet there is no discipline imposed from without. Spontaneity has its own discipline and its own knowledge, and when you attempt to rule spontaneity with a heavy hand, then rigidity enters in and you destroy the fountain of inner knowledge and intuition and understanding and you distort the emotions that you have.

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.

I will, indeed. You have to take some steps on your own, however. Now I bid you a fond good evening, and I wish you an exciting night