“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now, there is one very cozy answer that is quite handy at times and it neatly relieves you of all sense of responsibility. It takes a while to understand who and what you are, and while you are learning it is often very handy to have someone else tell you and say you are this and so, you can do this and this and this and this is good and this is bad, as you indeed tell children. And so you do not have to ask yourself questions and you do not, yourself, have to probe the nature of good and evil because you accept what has been told you. And when you are in such a state you do not develop. Sometimes you are safe, but you do not develop and often you are not even safe.

(To Derek Pearson.) Now, I did not mean to ignore you, and I give you my most hearty welcome. I was a young man and my hair was longer than yours, but I wore lace about mine. At other times my style was rather different but when my hair was worn somewhat in the style of yours, then I wore more sporty attire to go along with it.

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.

Now, our educated friend over here knows full well and better than any of you that the table is made of atoms and molecules, but it does not forbid him from using the table very nicely as a prop, and so you can still use the prop with which you are familiar, but you must realize that is all they are.

(To Natalie:) You do not need to keep such a tight rein upon yourself. You will not do anything so dreadful if you allow yourself some freedom. When you let your self go you do not lose your self, but you find your self. This is perhaps the hardest lesson, but it is one that you must learn.

Now, you are getting some distortion simply because of the focusing. However, you are also working toward an inner image of a self in a previous life but it is highly distorted. If you want to see the image, then continue. It is a face that you wore at one time.

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.

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.

Incidentally, I spoke humorously, because for your information, we do not sleep, in your terms. We rest when we wish to, but we do not sleep, and so we are not huddled up with blankets over our heads for eight hours at a time. We are too curious.