“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Florence had been discussing the accident in East Pakistan [Bangladesh].)

In nature there are no accidents. If you do not take Ruburt’s word then at least listen to mine. You need not take mine but listen to it, and there are no accidents. Now, if you accept, my dear Lady of Florence, the possibility of the slightest, smallest, most insignificant accident then, indeed, you open Pandora’s box. For logically there cannot be simply one small accident, but a universe in which accidents are not the exception but the rule. A universe in which, therefore, following logically, your consciousness is a combination of an accidental conglomeration of atoms and molecules without reason or cause that will vanish into nonexistence forever even as, indeed, they would have come from nonexistence.

Once you accept, you see, that idea then you must, if you follow your thought completely through, accept the idea of a random accidental universe in which you are at the mercy of any accident; in which mind or purpose have little meaning; in which you are at the mercy of all random happenings; in which 300,000 human beings can be swept off the face of the planet without reason, without cause, simply at the whim of an accidental happening. And if that is the universe in which you believe that you live then it is a dire and forbidding universe, indeed. In that universe the individual has little hope for he will return to the nonexistence that his random physical creation came from. Following that line of thought, then accidentally, if you follow this through, a group of atoms and molecules were sparked into consciousness and song and then will return to the chaos from which they came. And the individual has no control over his destiny for it can be swept aside at any point by random fate over which he has no recourse.

Whenever you think that you have a headache simply because you have a headache; or you bump into a door simply because you bump into a door; or you have an accident simply because you happen to be in a particular place at a particular time; whenever you feel yourself powerless, then you think that accidents happen and that you have no control over them. The only answer is to realize that you form physical events, individually and en masse. And as I have said, time and time again, you form the physical reality that you know.

If you want to know yourself and to know the reason for your actions, then you should discover why you have, in quotes, “accidents,” end of quotes.

You should not indeed, lest you set up patterns in which accidents, so called, become a way of existence.

([Florence:] “What is the difference between an accident and a mistake?”)

A mistake is when you do not know what you are doing, when momentarily, you lose sight of your goals or when you do not live up to them. You can turn a mistake into a challenge. If you make a mistake you can learn from it because you realize it is your fault. If, on the other hand, you believe an accident happens to you that you had nothing to do with, you can learn nothing from it except to duck. This was your break.

(To Laurie.) Our painting friend. Imagine yourself playing at your painting with the spontaneous feeling a child has. Enjoy it, for it sings. Express yourself spontaneously with it, and let yourself go with it without telling yourself beforehand what you expect of it. The same applies to your psy-time exercises. Enjoy them for what they are. Do not set up limitations, and to all of you the same applies. Your psy-time should not be simply for the purpose of getting outside of your body or having an out-of-body experience. Whatever happens, accept it and go along with it. It is no accident.

There is no accidental universe. You create the accidents. You create the triumphs. Now, each of you create the ambiguous universe that you live in, and you project your ideas of reality upon it.