“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

(To Ned.) Now, I have a word over here to our friend and it is this. If you would express yourself more often as you did in your paper, either through poetry or prose or painting, you would feel great release. You would also learn things about yourself, and you would recognize the strength of your own individuality and not feel as though you had to go running hunted through the grasses, all kinds of grasses. That is what you need.

([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.

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.

What scares you?

([Giselle:]) “Does that code of ethics refer to what we are trying to learn now?”)

There are some similarities, and that is all I will say this evening because it would take me five hours to explain what I meant by that statement.

(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.

(To Arnold.) Now our fine, spiritual physicist. There are some very important intuitions available to you because of your background if in psy-time you will begin to contemplate what you know of science and where it falls short in answering your questions. Because of your background, you will be able to intuitively pick up answers along those lines where many others cannot. I suggest that you use this as a basis for psy-time and also keep it in mind in your dream states.

([Arnold:] “What different spirit do I have?”)

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.

(To Sue.) Now this one over here. You are doing very well, as you know, in your dream work. You are doing well in your creative work also, and in your writing. You forget there are problems you must work through, and that in the struggle to create further creativity results. If you are satisfied with less, then you do not search further. Now, Ruburt’s way is too expensive. Your way you can pay, do you see the difference? You have your own way. It is too expensive to try to follow someone else’s way, and that is the message of the dream. Also, remember your own childlike self and the two of you, when you think of your son, imagine what you were like at that age and how difficult it was to communicate to your parents.

(To Rachel) Now, what can I say to someone who winks at me?

It was a combination of several things. Now, give Ruburt back his wine, and I will tell you. First of all, there were some elements of fear combined with fear having to do with underlying fears that you are having difficulty—in the physical universe, and you acted this out with the hand. This also had to do something with the leg and the foot difficulties earlier, both being limbs and objects of manipulation in physical reality. Now, the hand also represents freedom. The incident represents two opposites. One of freedom as the hand, as a hand being able to rise. And the other, lack of freedom, as for example, the hand not being able to move. You were objectifying, in your mind, two opposites and attempting to correlate them. Do you follow me?

You think about it. There are some other connections. Give us a moment. Five, representing the five fingers and the ways in which the hand itself, with the five fingers, can operate in physical reality. Now these are symbolic images that you are not consciously aware of that were, however, behind the incident. They are objects, the five fingers, of manipulation in physical reality.

Think about what I have said. The connection between the foot and hand will be clear. Give yourself the suggestion that the connection will appear to you.

We like to see happy faces. Now do you see what I was speaking of? Not the brandy, it tickles golden to our toes.

(To Florence.) You can, and listen to me, allow yourself more freedom. Now, as with Ruburt, oftentimes you believe you are allowing yourself intellectual freedom and being your most intellectual. You are, instead, allowing your intellect to be driven by subconscious rationalization. You are using it as a shield to prevent you from going further, and that is why I always take you up on it as I do the same thing with Ruburt. Do you understand what I mean?

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.

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.

([Ned:] “I realize what you are saying, this is what I have always thought. I don’t see where you got the idea that I thought the way you are talking.”)

(To Rachel) And I hope when you reread the material for tonight you will see what I mean. I know you are a good soul because you like good brandy.

In our small discussions, between what I say and the words you hear, I try to communicate, telepathically, with each of you so that you understand your progress, your achievements, your triumphs and also understand those areas in which you still need work and development.

([Gert:] “What causes parents to become so irritable?”)

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.

(Sue and Ned explained to Jane what Seth had said to them as parents and that Sue was overindulging Sean.)