“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Give me a moment on your seminar. We are not precisely in the same class, you see. There is nothing there in your seminar that is not here now and that is not wherever you are. This does not mean that that which is, is readily accessible. It is there for the taking, but you must learn how to take it; for if you try to take it, you lose it, you see.

I am speaking now for your convenience simply. There are four cornerstone personalities involved in your seminar. Now three of these personalities are yours: one is not yours. One is not “yours" in your terms as of this time. When you look up and recognize, you will accept that which you do not now recognize as yourself, as yourself. If you looked up now, you would not recognize the self that you will recognize. Because the Spacious Present exists as it is, the recognition has already been made. You have not yet caught up with it, you see. You are slowpokes. My friend Ruburt in many respects is also a slowpoke. The environment is not where you think it is. I refer to these seminars. The voice that does not “speak" in your terms is yours, but the instructor is not yourself as you know yourself. It is a self you do not as yet know in your terms.

Now I speak from several layers, though the word “speak" is a poor one, I turn myself, you see, into steps down which I walk and the steps represent what you would term personality fragments, though the term is distortive. I speak on a level that you can all understand. I have been to your seminar—not your seminar—but ones much like them in what you would term the past. I attend my own and I give my own. I am broken up into highly energized personality fragments of my own accord, you see. The breaking up itself is an illusion. Those who wish to learn will be found by others like me—individualized and equipped because of their own internal structures to communicate and to receive communications from them. You must have your own circuit through.

It is indeed. The separation process is illusion; nevertheless in this way a depth perception is achieved. You are all one self, but you are all individuals and no individuality is lost. There is no merging. There is no need for merging, since what you are already is a part of all else.

([Gene]: “But as he really is, would he not agree?”)

You are all pieces, you see, of the whole; but you are not all the same pieces of the whole, but rather individualized pieces of the whole. You do not all fit together like a crossword puzzle that any idiot can put together. You are still highly individualized portions of the whole. You are the whole, but you are all highly unique. You fit into different portions of the whole. The self or structure or personality travels outward and inward and (if you will forgive me) in all directions. It is action. It constantly changes. Each self as you know it has its own abilities and inclinations and sympathies. It has its own particular place within the Pyramid Gestalt. It can contact that whole self which in your terms does not yet exist, but which is of course always present. In your search you must contact that whole portion of yourself toward which you are growing—toward which I hope you are growing. This is your individual circuit, so to speak. All ways are one way, but your way is your own way. And you can travel no other. He is—Baba—highly advanced indeed. He is a way, however; he is not the end. He is not completed. He is right, but he is wrong in taking pleasure in his rightness. (I have never been known for my own humility. It ill-behooves me to speak.) Nevertheless he who is and knows that he is, is. He has no need for words and he has no need to proclaim himself, for he speaks without the necessity for words and he is heard. Those who are really heard have no need for words. I speak to you now in words because without words now, there would not be the necessary understanding that must be reached before I can become wordless.

Rightness is indeed pleasure, yes. All pleasure—all true pleasure—is indeed right. However, pleasure in the terms of which I spoke referred, unfortunately, to a smug and rather unpleasant satisfaction at having attained a certain position. The position has been attained, but beneath it all the attitude denies it and prevents its fruition. Far be it from me to shatter idols.

([Gene]: “I do. May we pursue that point a bit? We would like to create a sort of school—a very simple kind of school—to help anyone who seeks for it, without presuming that we have any answers, but going on the assumption that the way which has been proclaimed by many men is a good way—namely the simple way of love. I presume that you know about the idea that we have for creating such circuits. Will they work? If not, what are their major shortcomings? What would you recommend?”)

([Gene]: “I don’t. But I don’t understand how the chasm over which Tim Leary is so blithely flying can be anything other than a figment of my imagination.”)

Indeed you form the patterns in the sense universe, but when you have formed them, you must know them not only as your own creations. You must know their nature for the physical chasm represents a mental chasm within the self.

Ruburt saw my viewpoint here. It is indeed no joke. It is a means for the whole to know itself. But in knowing itself, more of itself is constantly created. You follow me here, Joseph. The “moment presents" are constantly created by you and then probed and yet they have existed and will exist. You make the divisions. You are part of the whole, but you constantly enlarge the experiences of the whole. It is not done and finished in the terms of which you think.

([Gene]: “But always becoming?”)

But always in a state of becoming. However in the Spacious Present, All That Is does exist. The becoming can never be completed and yet wherever you choose to draw a line, you will think of it as an end.