“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

([Mark Disbrow:] “That first question, ‘How relevant is life?’ You mean physical life?”)

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 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.

Do not simply say that the ant has a right to existence as you do. Either feel it and understand the reality of the ant or understand that you do not understand the reality of the ant. Do not play around with the concepts. Experience as directly as you can within yourselves your own living reality, then go from that, if you can, to other living realities. To life as it shows itself in many forms, not to the word life.

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.

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.