“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

Now you see, he is hardly possessed. He can carry on a conversation with you while I carry on a conversation with you. When you think in terms of possession, you are thinking again in antiquated terms of good and evil. Trust your intuitions. The energy that is within you gives you your existence and meaning. It is responsible for the birth of your children. In fact, if any one has any complaints, I have; I’m possessed by Ruburt.

([Gert:] “And I think my question is now, if l go back to teach little children the Catholic concepts of mortal sin, hell, etc.”)

If you are speaking in terms of that particular statement—those statements—if you cannot avoid making those particular statements, then you will do the children harm. If you can still teach while avoiding those particular statements, then you can teach.

You will learn that it is cruel to bring into existence new consciousness when your planet cannot support it. For your planet will not be able to support it and spiritual growth cannot be achieved through starving bodies nor through the agonies of mothers who must watch their children starve. (Nigerian civil war at this time.)