“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now I bid you all a good evening. Now you have been running away from emotional realities this evening. I have a slight suggestion, this means that I have a question for you. Now I do not expect the question to be answered in a general manner, that is far too safe, and we are not dealing with philosophies. We are dealing with realities from which you may weave whatever philosophies suit your fancy. And the question you can thank a member of this group for. The question comes in two parts and so I shall expect it to be answered in two parts. The first may seem general, but it will be highly personal, and I do not ask you to dispense with any great personal secret this evening. No sacrifices need be offered as a proof of (words lost).  You can save them for later.

Now I will let our friend continue with his class, and I welcome those of you who are here for the first time in all of your new revelance.

Now I will tell you that many of you, in Ruburt’s terms, and quite unwittingly copped out. You were giving intellectual answers. You were thinking in terms of themes and compositions and all of your answers did, indeed, sound fine, spiritual, highly edifying, but very few of you felt.

To answer the questions you need to feel your reality at any given moment, to follow your own thoughts, but not only your thoughts, but your physical sensations, the sensations of physical life. And when you cut off as many of these physical sensations as you can then what remains? What physical sensations do you think that you feel that an ant does not? What can he feel that you cannot? You evaded the questions. Now I knew you would evade the questions, so that is all right and it was part of the lesson but you must encounter your own vitality.

There are to all forms of meditation as there are to all forms of activity.

The most important is that which is before you most intimately and it is the nature of spontaneity. It is this force within you that gives you your life and vitality that keeps you alive and that allows you all to think these fine and weighty thoughts. The spontaneous self, left to itself, ideally is the answer.

Ideally, it is indeed. Unfortunately when you bottle up repressions and feelings then often a structured procedure is necessary to help you release them. But all of you sit here very nicely, very spontaneously, very alive, very conscious and none of you know, egotistically, how you do so or what make your thoughts work. When you begin to question how your heart beats or why, then you can encounter difficulties if you lose the faith that they work spontaneously and that your conscious knowledge is not necessary for the fine mechanisms that keep you alive. The ego is a great king. It sits in splendor upon a great throne and it usually does not want to know that the power resides beneath.

([Ron:] “All forms of activity or all forms of meditation?”)

I will say good evening and set you all at rest. Any of you who are ready to have a good projection can have some help from me if you request it. Now there is no need my even offering to help our friend Ruburt. He will not get out of his snug warm body until the sun shines brightly and warmly. But those of you who are more adventurous can count on me in the meantime. I wish you all then a hearty good evening and

Now I bid all of my regular friends good evening and I bid our new acquaintances a fond good night.