“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

He is indeed. You have an idea of what that type of personality should be like and, to some extent, and for awhile, you will manage to distort his image until you are sure that it is pure and good and true. [...] You will find that there are definite elements put upon your own personality that you must be ready to face. [...] There is no growth without strain, without the shattering of old barriers and the learning or new responsibilities but these responsibilities are experienced as joys. I would, however, not suggest that, except for our friends here, you have any witnesses for sessions for some time. That you work this out, the two of you. A session or so is all right but I do not want you placing yourself in a position where you are trying to prove the legitimate nature of such communication to others. It is too great a strain upon your own personality at this point and it is not necessary at this point. Your own interpretation of the experience is far more important than the interpretation that others place upon it. [...]

If there is any sense of divorce between you and All That Is it is only yourself that has done the divorcing and it is quite an artificial divorce. You cannot stand apart from All That Is and examine it. [...] Who is the self that wonders and where does it derive its meaning and its energy. [...] There is no reality within you that you do not understand if you open yourself to the feeling and the understanding. [...]

[...] You all realize that you are playing with vocabulary. The meaning of your being and the meaning of All That Is is as close to you as your breath and if there is any division between you and All That Is it is a completely artificial division that you have yourselves erected and maintained. [...]

The gods do lie sleeping in the grasses but their sleep is a very active sleep indeed, and their dreams have more vitality than you have ever imagined. And in the tip of your toe, in the most minute cell within your little toe, there is an energy and a knowledge and a power that you have not used and have not yet understood. And if All That Is knows what humility is, then it knows what it is to be the most minute cell within your little toe and it knows what it is to be the most powerful hydrogen molecule within the most gigantic star. And the same power is within each. [...]

(To Joel.) Now, our friend here has taken his first steps from the diving board and his brave friend here is afraid that he will drown. You are beginning to use abilities that you have always had. [...] When you are learning to walk or swim you do not stop to think, “How am I doing this, will I meet a mean old fish or not, will I pull?” and you do not imagine the dire consequences that may, therefore, attend you and do not do so now. [...] That is all the advice that you need. [...]

(To Molly.) I was telling you that it will take awhile to admit that what we are saying in class is a fact that applies to your life, and that it will take you awhile to become acquainted with your own probable reality for you have a very strong existence in a particular probable reality, and you are aware of it to some extent in some of your dreams but you often forget these. Now, you give a strong vitality to our scientist here but it is deceptive because on the surface, it is not apparent, and you have strong abilities and you are using them very well in a probable system of reality. Now that was behind my statement. [...] I said it was not apparent that you were giving strong energies to your husband and that the relationship, to that extent, could appear deceptive. [...]

Recognize the fact that distortions will occur, particularly in the beginning. [...] You will not lose him in a nether land or some forsaken place where you cannot reach him, so do not fear that. Instead, if the abilities are used, and used widely, you will find you will come closer together and not further apart and without the security of knowing that you are there he would not use the ability. He would not use them for he needs to know that the physical universe, like the floor, is directly beneath his feet and that there is someone there who wants to make very sure that he will get back. Therefore, the doubts that you voice are also his own unvoiced ones so do not be ashamed of them. [...] The personality that you are now encountering will also change for he is also beginning in his own line of endeavor. [...]

(To Ned.) And you find rest beneath trees that are not physical, and you travel quite safely in areas that are not physically perceived. And our friend, Ned, for all his troubles with your draft board, is quite well aware of the nature of existence and joy, but it is because you are so well aware of it that you become so desperate in the field of reality in which you are presently focused, and you must find a way to give that joy and freedom a release in the reality in which you are presently focused. [...]

Now, in our friends dream of probable reality what you have, though none of you will admit it for some time particularly this one (to Molly), is practical experience with probable reality as it exists with people that you know. Now it is not a fine story, though you can appreciate it as a story, and if you want to think of it as a fantasy, even that will enrich your mind, but it is not fiction. It is, indeed, a fact in which you are all intimately involved. [...]

Problems involving the nature of consciousness, the nature of reality and problems regarding the responsibility of consciousness to All That Is. Questions as to whether or not All That Is exists and if so your place within it and your responsibilities and your joyous abandon. [...]