“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You badger your creative abilities too much. You are at them all the time. You want them to produce. You need to do physical work outside of your home and you need this now, in a very desperate way. This will take your conscious mind away from your subjective problems and allow your great vitality, for you have great vitality, to rush up from the unconscious and solve whatever problems that you have.

This is a crossroads that comes, not only to you, but to each individual upon the face of the planet and in every time it comes when an individual realizes that they are using all the resources that they have, and that they are not getting the results that they wanted. It happens when it seems to them the meaning has fled out of the universe. When they look back on their childhood and realize that, in that time, there was great magic and great rejoicing and great freedom and they ask, “Where has it gone?” It is a crisis that comes to each soul born in flesh.

Now, consciousness is a quality of the soul. You can turn your consciousness in many directions. It is like a tool that belongs to you, but you are more than your consciousness is. It is a quality inherent in the nature of the spirit or soul, but it is far more.

([Gert:] “Then a consciousness of a person may leave before death, but the soul would be the last thing that leaves the body?”)

Indeed. However, you may turn your consciousness in many directions and this is what I hope you are learning to do. Consciousness is like a searchlight that belongs to you. Usually, you direct it only into three-dimensional existence, but I hope that you are learning to direct it in many other areas. It is a method of perception.

([Rachel:]“Then consciousness is the feeling of the soul, the light, the understanding of the soul. The consciousness for everything that is around that exists.”)

In certain terms. I agree with what you have said so far, but you have not said enough. The soul uses consciousness. Consciousness is a characteristic of the soul. Consciousness is a method by which the soul understands what it is.

([Rachel:] “You are always telling me I travel so far. Do I go to other realms of a consciousness I cannot perceive or understand?”)

([Rachel:] “Do we travel to other realms of consciousness?”)

Now, you are taking advantage of what you are learning, whether or not you are consciously and egotistically aware of what you are doing. There is nothing wrong with the ego. If there is nothing wrong with a flower, why should ego be a dirty word?