“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I am no beady-eyed spirit. I am no granddaddy longlegs of the spirit world. I have simply lived before within your system and on your planet. Unless you have read the material, it does me little good to go deeply into any specific problems or questions, since you will not have the background for this. The only message I can give you clearly is that you must develop your own abilities. You must probe into the intuitive self, for you will find much knowledge there. Books will help you, but the greater knowledge is buried within the layers of the self. You all have abilities, and you all have liabilities. Both of these come from past experiences in other lives. The inner portions of your personality know the details of your past lives. The abilities that you have now have been developed in past lives. Those problems which you cannot solve on a psychic and mental level, you will have to solve in the physical system.

Your lives at this point are the results of your own inner expectations. If you do not like your lives, then examine your expectations. Your future lives will be the result of your own expectations again. Change these expectations now if need be.

It is all in one respect hallucinatory, and yet it is your reality and you must deal with it. If you do not like the looks of the adult world, then you had better change your own expectations now. The world in which your parents live is a world which they created. It existed first in thought. It existed first in mental realms. It existed first as the stuff of dreams, and from this they spawned their universe, and from this they made their world.

What changes do they make? How many of them, after criticizing their elders, look inward into their own hearts? How many demand that they use their own potentials? How many demand the best of themselves? And it is this that you must do. Anything less is disaster. The exploration of inner space—this is your mission. It will lead you into more exciting realms than any you can imagine. It will literally reshape and remake your world. If you see but one item within your universe and it disgusts you, then look within yourself, for you have helped create it.

You can change it in physical terms if you will. But no real change will be effected, for it will spring up again in new form. Any true progress is mental progress. You must change ideas if you would change the world. If you would end war, you must change yourself. It is the idea of war, then that you must fight.

And yet a portion of you knows the answer, and a portion of you knows who you are, and the memories of your previous lives are not in your genes or in your chromosomes, but in the psychic reality that forms the genes and the chromosomes. For the identity is a different identity than the name that you bear. The physical mechanism has chromosomes indeed, but the physical chromosomes have a psychic counterpart, and the psychic counterpart is the original; and within you is the codified information containing all your past lives and all your knowledge, and it is hidden so deep within you that the subconscious as you know it does not realize the truth, for the subconscious as you know it is, indeed, a very shallow affair containing only those hidden memories from this life.

But beyond this life, and before this life, and forming this life, there are identities and there are realities and these are not dead. Identity as experience is intimate. It is a psychic reality but it exists electromagnetically. Identity, the self that you are, is made up of the selves that you were and, my dear friends, the selves that you shall be. The selves that you were still exist. The selves that you shall be already exist. The lives that you have lived, in your terms, are still being lived. There is no past, present or future.

Time, as you know it, is a distortion brought about by the operation of the physical senses. Direct experience has no need of physical time. You exist now, period. The past, the present and the future as you know them are illusion, and yet they exist now. You can influence the past today; you can have memory of the future.

You can draw upon the knowledge of the future today. You can change the past tomorrow. Your time is valid only within your system, and it is not particularly valid within your system. The dreams that you dream are as real as the classroom in which you sit. The dreams that you dream form your today.

If you sell yourselves, this is what you will do. You will say, I am a physical organism and I live within the boundaries cast upon me by space and time. I am at the mercy of my environment. If you do not sell yourselves, you will say, I am an individual. I form my physical environment. I change and I make my world. I am free of space and time. I am part of the good mind. I am more than I know that I am, and there is no place within me that creativity does not exist. I will form the physical universe according to the picture that exists within my mind. I cannot kill, for there is only life, and life cannot be killed.

Those of you who would change your world, then I tell you, listen: for if you would change your world you must listen to the voice within yourself. You must examine your own dreams. You must inspect the innermost portions of yourself, and from this indeed shall you be resurrected.