“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now, I cannot sing along with Mitch, but I do have something to say to this one (Sue) and that one (Joel) and, to some extent, to all of you and it is this. There is no need to justify your existence. You do not need to write or preach to justify your existence. Being is its own justification. You do not have to knock your gut out, in other words, either of you and this also applies to our friend, Ruburt. Consciousness is its own justification, and this goes for each of you. Only when you realize this, can you begin to utilize your freedom. Otherwise you try too hard.

Now no one asked me what it was like when I go in trance. Now to go into a trance is simply to focus intensely in a highly specific area of reality and, therefore, I throw or project a part of what I am here because I am able to utilize greater areas of my personality than those with which you are now acquainted in yourself. I can do this in a conscious manner and yet still, as I am here and as I have mentioned, I find a difficulty in looking at you and relating to the selves that you think you are within your given moment of time for I see the composites, so it takes some training on my part to pinpoint you in the time and space with which you are acquainted.

You have been much given to thoughts of death this evening. Now, I have been a very lively corpse many times, but then, so have you all. And the inner portions of yourselves know this well. You have walked away from more graves than you can remember and will, indeed, many of you, walk away from more. Why then do you worry about justifying your own existence in this hour?

Now if you would each, for ten minutes a day, open yourselves to your own reality there would be no question of self-justification for you would realize the miraculous nature of your own identity. I have said this before in class, you are as dead now, and as alive now, as you will ever be. In life you can be as dead as you think any corpse is, by contrast far deader.

Now, when I come here to speak I focus my energy, not toward this room as a destination, for this room, in your terms, does not exist to me but in these terms, this room does not exist to you. You pretend to agree that the room exists and so we meet in no place of space or time. The true meetings that take place here have nothing to do with the room or the people that you think you are. You know that you hallucinate the room. You know that you are as much in trance here as you ever are when you are in psy-time or when you are making an effort to look inward. I simply want you to realize that if this life is a trance you can turn the direction of your consciousness in other ways and perceive greater realities that presently exist. That you can be aware of your own greater identity even as I am aware of it. That you sit within the miracle of yourselves and then ask for signs, it is your inner eyes I would open.

Now when I said in the last class session that I preferred, if you must project your thoughts and images upon me that, instead of thinking of me as a wise old man, you thought of me as a lark in the morning, I meant because I am such an old bird. And you may take your break.

Now let me give you a more concrete example that each of you may use in your own way. Suppose the worst, that in this life you have the following background—you are poor, you are of a minority race, you are not intellectual, you are a woman, you have a severe physical defect and you are no beauty. Now these challenges, in a so-called past life, you have set for yourself. This does not mean you cannot use all your resolution, all your courage to solve those problems that you have set. To use those abilities that are still yours and to make from a seemingly chaotic pattern of personality and environment a product of joy and fulfillment.

Now you may all take your break.

You are not programmed. Nothing happens because it must happen. Every thought that you have now changes reality. Not only reality as you know it, but all reality. In your terms you alter the past and the future.

Now there is not time, in your terms, it is all simultaneous and yet, in your terms, you can become aware of what you would call a future self. No act of yours predisposes a future self to act or forces him or her to act in a particular manner. These are banks of activity from which you can draw or choose not to draw.

Now you must realize again, that we are speaking of division for convenience sake when none exists, so at the same time, so to speak, that this personality is born in a minority race, poor, etc., in a completely different era it may be born rich, secure and aristocratic. It is searching out different methods of experience and expansion. Do you follow me?

(To Theodore) I have one note for our Dean over here. Do not try to take too many burdens from your mother. She needs the stimuli, she needs to exert herself. To take too many burdens from her is to tell her that she cannot handle them. You can only offer your father support, that is all you can do for him now and be acquiescent. Let him maintain those responsibilities that he can still maintain.

Consciousness is not made up of balances so much as it is made up of exquisite imbalance, and the focus of awareness is to some degree the result of these exquisite imbalances. This state of excitability, and in this state of excitability, all elements are never known because new elements are always being created. And I am not speaking of physical elements but of psychological elements of those characteristics of consciousness for even those themselves continually change and merge. You are not now what you were ten minutes earlier. You are not the same being physically, psychologically, spiritually or psychically, and ten minutes later you will be different. To deny this is to try to force consciousness into some rigid form which it cannot be ever freed and to apply rules to it that make a very neat psychological landscape.

(To Joel) Now you have good energy and a good clear channel open. Use it and use it together.

Now I would like you again to realize the energy that is available. If Ruburt can use it you can each use it in your own way. I want you to open up those barriers that you have erected within yourselves and this voice is only used as a symbol of the energy and the strength that is available to each of you as you utilize those abilities that are your heritage.

And you should hear your own echo of my voice as a symbol of your own strength and energy and joy. Forget the cringing selves that you sometimes are and remember, instead, your abilities and the magic essence of your own being that sings even now through your fingertips. That is the reality for which you are seeking. Experience it fully. Do you need an old dead thing like me to tell you what life is? I should be ashamed.

Now, I bid you a fond good evening and those blessings that are mind to give, I give you. Travel in peace and joy and safety, in your bodies and out.