“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

This fact is responsible to a large degree for your death shock, and for the more powerful birth shock, when the new personality awakes to the prisonlike clutch of rigid camouflage pattern. Other levels have different and sometimes severe problems of a different type. One of the basic purposes of existence on your plane is to enable the personality to focus powerfully and to form basic vitality into creative pattern. Sometimes the lesson is learned too well. However, it is extremely difficult for personalities to learn to organize vitality well enough to give it form, and therefore some troubles are to be expected.

The inner experience of which I speak would not be frightening, although it would be frightening in the extreme if you were not prepared for it. The fact is that you would experience these other live things as if you were part of them. You would know them directly. No one would have to teach you about the oneness of all living things, or the brotherhood of man. The lesson would be instantaneous and complete.

(“Well, you said once that we were your first lesson class. Are you instructing anybody else?”)

No, for purely personal reasons I have my own way of conducting lessons, and I prefer to deal with one instance at a time. I am trying to keep this explanation simple, since the term “at a time” is somewhat misleading.

(“Have they tried to give lessons like this?”)

I was attempting contact with Ruburt during his brief nap as an experiment and as a brief lesson.