“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now if you will allow me, creativity is born from desire. To deny creativity is to deny All That Is, is to deny the vitality that was born itself out of its own desire. To deny individuality or to speak in terms of nirvana is to deny the vitality from which all originally came, in your terms.

Now you may ask me questions when I am done. Store them up and give us a moment.

([Mark D.:] “My ego will not step aside and let me communicate with this vitality. What can I do?”)

(After break.) A villain or a victim can also be a part of a religious drama, but I enjoy your interpretations of what I have said, and so before I finish I would like to hear more of these. I have to tell my friends how I am doing, you know. Sometimes they do not believe me.

Now you have a division neatly drawn for yourself; a framework in which you find yourself acting. A personality that you have set up for yourself, but the fact that you are coming to classes and using the intuitional abilities opens up a slight window in that artificial personality that you have adapted, for in your mind you think—  and if you will forgive me, I will speak for you, but you may make a rebuttal. You think: “I am frank, I am earthy, I am one of the common stock; I do not understand this high verbalized chatter. Those that have been to school understand these things, but I am left out. But I do not care for the words are meaningless and in me there is a frankness and vitality that these others do not have.”

(To everyone.) Now in one way you are all playing childhood games with yourselves, and if you will forgive me, I will use an analogy and remember it is an analogy. And an analogy is a fable, a tale, a story, or a parable that is innately true while it may not physically appear to be so. You are all children in one way playing beneath the maple trees, dreaming in the long twilights of your adult state even as your adult selves now seemingly so independent would not know what to say to your childhood selves if you met them; but within you the childhood self must also grow, and allow it its growth. In the reality that you know there are many boxes. You can travel from one box to another. The boxes are not prisons anymore than the cousin of Richelieu is hidden to the housewife who is now so proudly the housewife and so contemptuous, for Richelieu’s cousin who was also contemptuous particularly of housewives.

I was not particularly speaking of myself. I have always, for example, honored both the evening and the dawn in my earthly reincarnations. I have always glorified in that which was directly before me and have had close relationships with those who came within my sphere. Listen to what I say in the context of the passage in that session.

([Bette:] “Why did you have to give me this one tonight?”)

(To Gert.) Over here, we are letting St. Lucia use her own wings and encouraging her not to rely on dogma and therefore we have given you none. And we have not intruded so that you would look up to me as the great white father that you do not need.

([Gert:] “Was that French business to get me asking questions?”)

The affair in the overall will work out well for you  the situation as it now exists. It will work out in the framework that you now have. Do you follow me? The one detriment is an explosive nature on the part of the male involved under certain circumstances and certain conditions. A certain attitude on his part. This can be compensated for by an evenness of disposition on your part ...(tape was changed here, words missing) ...you need not manufacture such an attitude... work out should help give it to you. A feeling of inner confidence that he will sense.

([Janice:] “Can you tell me anything more about my cat’s condition?”)

What do you think you would feel if you were convinced that what I told you about your lives tomorrow and for the next year was true, and then I told you. What would you think if I gave you a legitimate statement about the activities of your lives until your deaths, in your terms. Would you thank me, or would you instead hate me for taking from you the glorious unpredictability of the life that you know?

I should have you say, “Good evening, Seth” as I come into the room. It reminded me of a class in school with everyone saying, “Good night, Seth.”)