“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

This was a warning given by the personality himself. He frightened himself into returning to his body for he had been away from it too long. He was dilly-dallying where he did not belong, and he was getting into realities that did not concern him. He was like a truant so he caused the hallucination so that he would return to his body. Now the nature of the hallucination was his own doing. He used his own fears to cause the hallucination. He was not discriminate. He was not using his common sense. He knew it was time to return to the body, and he decided to stay out of it despite the nature of inclination to return, and so he made a nightmare for himself to frighten himself home like the errant boy that he was. And in almost all cases this is what occurs.

Now I have told you often that demons, in those terms, do not exist. If you perceive them, then they are the materializations of your own fears. When you realize this you are freed of such material izations. If you perceive them, you know what they are. There is no evil that you do not create. There are no more spooks running around in my universe than there are in yours, and many of yours are far spookier. The spirit of creativity is very strong, and you create those aspects in which you believe and again, watch your beliefs.

I could not have put it more simply if I tried. Now, I will tell you what I will do. I will see to it that you have a very vivid out-of-body experience from the dream state. With your permission.

([Rachel:] “What can I do to counteract myself in this? Get up immediately?”)

(During break a discussion of the reality of time and how one could try to explain it to someone else.)

Now this is a sort of psychological understanding and intuitional insight that is beyond words. You cannot explain verbally what you feel. Now I have written the material, using rather crafty methods, in that there are keys within the material, within the words, that I have chosen that open up intuitions if you allow them to. Certain words that I have used, in other words, are like gateways, and if you are receptive as you read the words you will enter the gateways, and the gateways will lead you to your own intuitional understanding.

Now this is why you cannot explain to our Lady of Florence the nature of time, because she has closed off her feeling in this particular line. Now you cannot verbalize what I am or what happens in this room, but then, you cannot verbalize what you are or what happens within yourself or within your mind. And there are journeys that each of you embark upon, and you do not know in words the nature of the destination, and you do not know when you arrive at this destination, and you do not know when the destination is no longer a destination but a way.

Now we use words because you deal with them. You deal with the words physically but your inner self has no need of verbalization. What each of you experience as you listen to me cannot be expressed in words, and what each of you feel of yourselves when you are alone and when you are with others, cannot be put into words. You know but you cannot find the words.

Now what I tell you, to some extent, must be distorted because when I speak I use words, but the inner self interprets the words that are spoken. You do not need the words. You do not need me to sit here and speak to you but physically you think that you do and so I am here. Physically you believe that you are here and so you are here but other portions of your identity are in other places and other times, and I use those terms very loosely. They are only to make you happy because the words, times and places, have a meaning to you but in your basic reality you do not know times nor places.

Now, I will let you all take a break. I do not want to crack up your realities, they are too dear to you. You are like children before a Christmas party. There are many packages, and delightful ones for you still to open. Take your time with each one.

The inner self does not know the meaning of time. It is manufactured in the same way that you manufacture plastics. It is the furniture of your universe. You have manufactured it yourself to make living more comfortable. You become lost in the cushions, the cushions of the minutes and the hours. The physical reign and the intellect are focused toward physical reality. They will always think to interpret experience in terms of place, space and time. The inner self knows far better, and the inner self goes its way acting as if time did not exist because it does not exist. These are simply rules that you have adapted, the rules of the game that you have set up in this planet. They only have application in those limited terms.

(Seth II:) We seed universes and consciousness and your animals and your plants. The consciousness that composes them, is endowed by us. The warm-blooded creatures that you know are seeded by our consciousness. They are the children of our dreams and so, also, do you seed other realities and other systems. They are the children of your dreams. You have little contact with these but always the inner self remembers its offspring. Therefore, also do we remember you and your system. Consciousness releases its abilities in ways that you do not understand and yet from your own mind, springing from your own dreams, other systems of reality emerge as you have emerged from our dreams. Your system can be likened to a probability system that was latent always within our own capabilities but was not actualized within our experience.

(After break, Seth:) Now, the time has come for some of you, and I have said this before, to go beyond kindergarten class so that we can sneak in a third-grade lesson now and then and that is what we have been doing. What our friend, the Dean (Theodore) here said, does indeed apply and also I acted as a translator. Such messages will be given in slightly different terms. They will often be devoid of the comfortable images that you all know. They are, therefore, less distorted. You like the word warm-blooded, but where do you think your emotional abilities come from. They come from realities that you, as yet, cannot understand and you would not comprehend them and so they must be translated.

Now the time has come for you to outgrow parables, but this will take considerable stretching of consciousness on your part, and considerable work on our part. I am a mediator as well as teacher. I stand between what you are and what they are, in your terms, and that last phrase is a loaded one. Whenever I say “in your terms” the phrase is a loaded one, so be prepared and remember it when you read our sessions.

The other personality is myself without the illustration. You like me far better in disguise. I have not lived many, many lives without a deep understanding of your own kind of reality and problems, but I have not had many other existences that are not physical without a deep understanding of the nature of reality as it is not apparent to you now. As you reach out to find the nature of reality, so do these other beings reach out to understand the nature of realities that they have created. And each of you create more realities than you understand.

There is a point I want to make, however. Now in my book, my own book, there are two chapters in particular. One is called “Death Conditions in Life”’ and in it I make several points that will somewhat answer your questions. First of all, when you sleep, in your terms, you are as dead as you will ever be. You are operating in out-of-body conditions. You are experiencing other dimensions of reality. You are quite as busy as you are in your daily life but because you do not remember in the morning, it seems to you that you are largely unconscious. In this state, therefore, you are learning. You have every opportunity to study, to look upon your past lives, in your terms, and benefit from them.

All of our regular students attend classes, whether you know it or not. I get you here once a week, as a rule, but I also get you in other dimensions of reality. You all have tasks to perform. Some of you do help persons who have immediately left this system to acclimate to the new conditions. You are smarter when you are asleep than when you are awake. You are learning as much then, therefore, as you do between lives. That is a point that I wanted to make. In your waking existence you are simply focused upon physical reality. When the body sleeps you are no longer focused within it, instead you embark upon other adventures and, in your terms, you advance your own education.

(To Laurie.) Now you are playing around in your haunted house. You are trying to see what you can do with psychic energy. That is well and good. You are like children playing with a ball except you have made the ball yourselves and then it will lead you on a merry chase. It is good exercise and healthy play. Just do not frighten yourselves if the ball bounces too high.

Now there is something you should do, not now, but shortly, and I will tell you what it is when the time comes. And now even my PS is finished.