“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.

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.

([Janice:] “How deep should we go in looking for the reason?”)

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.

There is a reason, indeed. It need not always imply guilt, however. The location will be highly significant, indeed, as are all physical difficulties.

(To Dennis.) You can discover the reason for yourself as Ruburt earlier told you, and it is your own self-training that is involved here. I am not the easiest teacher in the world. You must learn to find out the answer for yourself from yourself for this sets up communication between various layers of the self, and this is highly important for your own development.

You scare you. There is no reason to be frightened. Let yourself go and when you are alone straighten out that neck and shoulders. Stand at the window and throw out your arms.

(To Sally.) You should continue with the automatic writing. It will get deeper into the areas of the self than you have been willing to go in the past and therefore, help clear up the basic reasons for your physical difficulties in the past.

([Florence: ]“I am very conscious of doing this for this reason.”)

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.