“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.

The first question is, “How relevant is life?” And the second question is, “How relevant do you think you are?” And I do not expect beautiful sounding generalizations. Not only do I not expect them, but I will not stand for them. The nature of reality is now. It is within the reality that you know, and the reality that you know is a part of these other realities. Illusion is also a part of reality.

Now our friend, Ruburt, will shortly call a break in his class, and this will give you time I know to figure out what you think you will say, but when the time comes, I expect feeling to predominate. I will give you a hint to show you the extent of my great goodwill. Every breath that you take is revelant, and every thought is revelant and what seems to you to be waste is not waste.

Now I will let our friend call his own class break, but I will be listening to your answers, and I expect you to encounter the question in both of its parts quite honestly. “How revelant is life? How revelant is your life?” and I will add a third portion. “Are you more revelant than an ant?” Than an ant.

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.

Now during the week here is a little assignment for you. I want you to consider the same question, but from a feeling level. What does life mean to you? Then listen and feel the life within you. Sit quietly and listen to the tumult within you. To the vitality within your atoms and molecules. To the alternate periods of peace and tumult that flash through your being. To the activity that courses through your body.

Imagine if you can, the reality that exists within and beneath and supporting your most single thought. What is that thought that flashed so momentarily and clearly and then to drop away, upon what is it dependent. Come into contact with the life that is within you now, not with words. I am not asking you to relate to the word life, but to life itself and to do this you must experience the life within yourself and feel it.

Now in her (Bette) emotional response and in his (Ned) emotional response, you found a clear answer to the question and the answers were not the same but they were felt and honest and you (Arnold) came close but then you hid within the concepts.

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.

Now I would like you, in the following week, to think of these questions again but answer them from a feeling level, from an experience level and then answer them as simply as you can verbally. But in finding the answers for yourselves you should have experiences that you may not be able to verbalize. And you should sense within yourselves the energy that resides within your own identity and sense to some extent the unique vitality of every living organism.

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.

Your spontaneous selves is the answer. Not control, but spontaneity, Now I did not say this, but spontaneity knows its own control, that is an entirely different sort. December does not bring flowers and yet December does not know your means of control. I just wanted to be sure that you understood.

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