“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now I give you my regards and to our visitors and now tell Ruburt what I said.

Now your personality has no limits. Now each of you, in this reality, have decided upon emphasizing certain characteristics and forgetting others. You have allowed, therefore, certain characteristics to come to the surface, and you are aware of them and you use them and you think these characteristics are myself.

The ego is a king with a very precarious crown, and you think you are what your ego is. It does not occur to you, however, that there are literally countless, countless probable egos within yourself, numberless abilities that could come to the foremost of your consciousness to be latched upon and used. You are unaware of these buried selves, these buried abilities, these buried creative functions and combinations, and yet in other layers of reality these come to the forefront and you allow these their play and the characteristics that you think of now so securely as your own, these are buried. But while they are buried, they are not unaware, they are in trance and you can become aware of them.

Now the trees that you see outside the window you see simply as trees because you perceive them only through the physical viewpoint, and yet even these trees have potential abilities and potential combinations of consciousness that you do not perceive and that exists in other probable realities.

(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. Do not buck it so. You can enrich it and do not be frightened of it. Now, in your terms, I dig what you are after.

(To Sue.) Within you, for example, and everyone in the room, there is an unlimited amount of what you would call identity. Now all you do when you have an identity and focus on it, is grab out of your own bank of potentials a group of potentials and say, “these are the ones I will settle upon for now, and these I will call my identity, and so I will use these and I will ignore anything else.” But another portion of the self says, “ah hah, these potentials are not used, they are freewheeling and I will adapt these and these will be those potentials with which I will work.” There are no potentials within you that are not being realized and no creative abilities that are not being used.

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.

(To Sue.) The other room exists simultaneously, as this room now exists, and your two friends are as closely connected as our Ruburt and Joseph. Ruburt was speaking of commitment, the commitment there is as complete. These are not fine fantasies, they are realities of your existence and each of you have realities in probable existences of which you are unaware. This does not mean that you need not use those abilities, that you can say, ah hah, well in another period of reality they are being used.

Now you may take your break.

(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. You are not lost. 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.

(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. Beginning, in Ruburt’s terms, therefore, do not get uptight about using them. 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. You have a level head, and so do you, use it. That is all the advice that you need. Enjoy your freedom.

Recognize the fact that distortions will occur, particularly in the beginning. You are flesh and blood at this point of space and time as you think of it, and not sterile pure air, therefore, what you receive will automatically come through the subconscious layers of your mind. There will be specks of subconscious dust on it. Later you can wipe them off, but do not discard the entire experience because you fear these specks of dust. Learn to work through them. And he will not go beyond some point where you cannot follow. 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. Do you follow me? You are beginning. The personality that you are now encountering will also change for he is also beginning in his own line of endeavor.

Do not push for the change, it unfolds out of its nature and to force change is to distort the true nature. Now you have enough sense to know not to go overboard on the one hand, and not to inhibit your abilities on the other, and your own personality and your own true feeling must dictate where that point is and no one else can tell you. In that you must make your own way. Now he is an apprentice as you are an apprentice, and to some extent, you will learn to use your abilities together.

I do not know him. I know through various grapevines of him, and let us leave it at that for now.

Now you may all sing, “Hark the Herald Angels Sing” if you prefer.

Now you may all take a break.

It does, indeed. Now what you are hearing of the other personality is a dim image of what he is, for he cannot as yet relate to you what he is. What you are getting of him is a dim web work that is not substantial as yet. Give yourselves both time to build this web work before you decide to jump up and down upon it.

Now, if you want singing I will have our friend, Ruburt, sing some night but he would not like it. 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.

(To Sue.) Now you will have to get through many of your own misconceptions, as Ruburt did, and you will fight, as Ruburt did, to maintain them but they are limitations. You must learn to see the reality within the words that people use to clothe realities but you must think and you will, emotionally. Now our friend Ruburt put up a fine battle but it was sad to see for it was not necessary and neither is yours.

Now you can all play around with your vocabulary, but what you know is not dependent upon words and do not allow them to limit you.

(To Natalie.) Now I have one point for our friend over here. The effort involved in recording these sessions and the stretching of the psyche that is involved has automatically helped you progress.

And now I bid you all a fond good evening.