“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You said earlier that everyone is looking to find themselves, and as our regular students should know, there is only one place to look, and you begin with yourself. All That Is is not male or female, and I am sorry to upset anyone. All That Is is indeed energy and yet all energy is individualized so you are not dealing merely with impersonal energy but neither are you dealing with a personality in the terms usually used. For you do not understand as yet what personality is, and when you understand what you are, then you will have some small glimmering of what All That Is is and basically you will find All That Is within yourselves.

You will find All That Is also within a leaf and within a flower. But only when you try to understand what a leaf and a flower are. If you believe that a leaf is a piece of physical matter without consciousness, without glory, then you will learn nothing from it. But if you realize that a leaf is a portion of All That Is then you will realize what communion is.

You redeem and you sanctify, otherwise there is no redemption and no sanctification. All That Is is within you. It is not objectified outside of you. The inner voice is the voice of All That Is and that voice speaks through the tissues of your body and the cells and atoms and molecules that compose your physical image. The inner voice speaks through All That Is. The very atoms and molecules in the air give blessing.

There is nothing that is not blessed, nothing that is not filled with All That Is from which it achieves its existence, its energy, its consciousness and its strength. When you attempt to objectify All That Is into the nature of a God that exists somewhere outside you, then it seems to you that you must reach outward when instead you must listen inwardly.

If you would feel better about it, we can shut off all the lights and I will have Ruburt dress in a white robe. You are stereotyped, do not stereotype your thought. The emotions are never stereotyped.

(To all.) Trust where your intuitions lead you. Do not trust those who say, “I have the truth.” For I tell you frankly, truth takes many forms and wears many masks. There is no whole truth to be given you like a package that you can open like a child on your birthday. You can only get glimpses of truth and you can only understand and interpret these glimpses if you trust your inner self and your intuitions.

(To Arnold.) (Words lost) he gets confused, but I do not get confused. He is in a trance, but I am not in a trance. You are all in trances, however, for you believe in this improbable physical existence and therefore I must couch all my language so that it makes sense to you, who believe in this fantasy in which you now live.

If it were not for these energies you would not have children; if it were not for these energies you would not be alive. You worry and all of you worry at one time or another about that which you do not know consciously. Yet you do not know consciously how you breathe and if you did you would be dead, because you could not consciously handle the millions of manipulations that must take place in order to assure one breath. These are the energies of which you speak. These are the energies that allow you to sit as you do upright in the chair when you do not consciously know how your muscles hold you up; and when you begin to speak you do not know consciously with what word your sentence will end; nor do you consciously know how you speak nor indeed from where the thought comes.

I can imagine a lovely scene where bodiless individuals, spiritual psychologists and I, sit in a dark room all dressed in gowns at another level of reality, and they ask me what is wrong with me and I say—I am obsessed. I have it in my head that there is a physical reality somewhere where objects have shape and form—where there are things like trees and people and streetcars and a strange thing called progress. And where people believe in things like ghosts and demons all on the same line, seeing little difference between them and I imagine in my most schizoid (Doug—“that’s what I said”) moments that there is a woman called Jane Butts in a strange, funny little town in a completely fantastic place called Elmira, New York. And I have the delusion that I speak through this woman and look out through her eyes at the most fantastic creatures imaginable.

The joy that All That Is rings through every consciousness that lives. It rings through your wineglass. It rings through the atoms and molecules of the table. Why then do you think it does not ring through your own body? And through the inner selves that you try so hard to hide?

It would be easy for me to give you a set of rules. Some of you would be only too glad to follow them for you would not have to face your own responsibility and your own responsibility is to look within and to use your own abilities. For you, each of you, will develop in your own way through endless eons in your terms. You think that an atom is beneath you or a flower. You have 500 times as far to go. You will develop in ways you cannot now understand and you develop as you unfold, as you use your abilities. You will find your own road. You will even make your own truths. For you are expected to make new ones. Truths are not trees that you discover in the forest. They spring up ever new. All That Is is not static or it would be dead; it is ever changing as you are.

([Gert:] “Do we all have someone such as you assigned to us—like the Catholic Church says each person has a guardian angel—watching over us so to speak?”)

You may not at this particular point of development have the rapport, in your terms, that Ruburt and I have. But you are constantly being instructed and guided whether or not you realize it. But then you will also instruct and guide others and all of you in the sleep state do this.

([Brad:] “We all instruct others?”)

You all do indeed, at a lower development than your own. I would make a remark here but I shall not to show you that I am pure of heart, invisible heart or otherwise.

There are many gradations and distinctions, however, you see. Now since all of you are white, when you see a black man you think of a black man and forget his individual characteristics. So when you think of spirits, in your terms, you think of spirits without the individual characteristics and there are many that would be comparable in terms of an analogy only. Do you follow me?

Now this situation did not simply arise. You brought it upon yourselves to teach yourselves a lesson. You brought it upon yourselves to bring yourselves to a new step of spiritual and psychic evolution. You had to realize that a certain amount of spirituality was necessary if the inner psychic self would grow. You brought it upon yourselves so you would realize that you were blessed with a planet upon which your species could grow. You brought it upon yourselves so that you would realize despite all your stories (shouts really loud!) that you have not been given domination.

You are not to dominate the planet. You are not to dominate the species upon the planet. You are not to use the earth for your own purposes. You were not set in domination over the animals. You are to cooperate with all life and all life is a part of All That Is and every animal has consciousness and you will realize this or you will destroy your planet.

(Words lost) think this occult and secret and magic and forbidden you see, and this is nonsense—it is quite natural. So you must divest yourself of those notions first of all.

Now far be it from me to keep you all from a well-earned sleep. So I will bid you all a good evening and I give you those blessings that are mine to give.