“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

Now, the deliberation with which you speak, in class and to those with whom you work, has to do with the fact that in the past, as I mentioned earlier, you memorized a code of ethics, and you had to be deliberate as you recalled this code and then told it to others. You can be more spontaneous now in your speech, and you will find that you can communicate more smoothly to others. It is more difficult now for you do not have a code of ethics written in your head to tell others. You are learning and then you tell others what you learn but the intuitions are highly involved.

(To Janice.) There is much better communication between you and your children but not as yet between you and your husband. Now this will come. As Ruburt would say, play it cool.

I was not particularly thinking of your work problems, but these may be used also. But you will be able to translate knowledge in technical terms and perhaps come up with some breakthroughs that scientists can understand. You will speak their language even if you have a different spirit.

You have a wiser, more creative spirit, but you will be able to translate what you get into technical terms which few can do comparatively speaking. Set for yourself whatever theoretical questions you imagine as to the nature of the universe. And in the dream state and in psy-time the answers will be given to you. Choose, therefore, subjects that are close to your own inclinations.

([Rachel:] “Not now, but I will think about it, though.”)

(To Rachel) Now, in your own description of your experience you came close to making the connections of which I spoke, for the impression of the hand frightened you, that it was so old and decrepit and, subconsciously you connected it, at that time, with your foot when it was bad. You thought immediately in terms of the hand being old and dead. If you had not, the hand would have written. You were frightened for your own physical hand and, therefore, you stopped the flow of information that could have come. It was a subconscious connection on your part. You allowed yourself the freedom to begin with but then you interpreted the appearance of your hand as the hand of a very old woman and became frightened. Now, do you understand a little more? Then, by all means, have some brandy.

Then allow yourself greater freedom. Now the intellect can be used and should be used beautifully to help you in your search but not when you use it as a shield to protect yourself against true reality. Now, you are progressing as your dreams show, and I am aware of that progression and so are you. Do not judge yourself against the performance of anyone else in this class. You are yourself, you have your own background to contend with and so when I tell you you are progressing I mean that wholeheartedly.

(To Ned and Sue.) I will have something to say to you, and to you, at another time when class is not involved, but I want you to jump together on the same stick. Did that come across? It will hold the both of you. Reality is not so precarious that you cannot both do your own thing and find a secure framework to hold you, for it will indeed.

You are correct. When you realize you are free, he will not bother you and you will not feel the need to be hunted. He is, in your terms, a screwed-up human being, as you are, with his own problems. And if you could but realize it you could talk to him but you magnify your differences.

You magnify the differences of culture as a background and idea instead of realizing that you are both human beings embarked on a magnificent adventure. Travelers in a space and time that you have both created. Actors wearing different masks, but in a play that you have both created.

Feel it. You think one way, but feel another. Now, do you follow me? So, peace.

Now, I have been both a mother and a father many times and so I understand your problem but the fact is this. When you are a parent it is impossible for you to completely remember your own childhood or to understand the feelings of consciousness that are growing at that time. Now, as a parent, your chore is to train a consciousness to manipulate in physical reality. The consciousness, by that time, far more free than your own and you are quite jealous of their spontaneity and of their inner understanding. They do not have to hoe the line as you do and yet, you are supposed to teach them how to hoe the line.

It is largely cultural in your particular environment. Now, in some native cultures this is not true, but you are learning to encourage spontaneity, and yet within certain areas there must be a concentration of abilities in the physical line and in this extent you are a teacher and you are learning as you teach them. You also experience their own frustrations, and this makes you angry. When you were a child you could be angry at the parent. When you are a parent you can feel the child’s anger but you do not know what to do. When you are a child you can blame the parent. When you are a parent there is no one to blame. Therefore, you are forced to ask about the nature of reality. You are angry because you do not understand, as yet, the nature of reality and you have no answers but you can learn the proper questions. You can learn to experience again that spontaneity and to encourage it.

She is, indeed, but that is not the reason for your reaction. Do not confuse the two. You are annoyed because you are annoyed and it has nothing to do with her overreaction and overindulgence. I did not say you were a bitchy parent. I was not that harsh or severe. That was your interpretation.