“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.

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.

([Gene]: “Seth, can you tell me more about who is running the seminar?”)

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.

Ruburt blocks me here ever so gently. You will have to go with what I have given you here now. I will give you a short rest and we can continue, if you so desire.

([Gene]: “Enough for you or me?”)

([Gene]: “Suppose someone has yet to learn who they are? I am afraid we are quibbling over teaching techniques. Let me put a question bluntly. What would you do in my shoes?”)

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]: “Enlighten me. I don’t understand.”)

([Gene]: “Yes. You’ve been giving me difficult answers to difficult questions. Now let’s try the most difficult. I would like to state a proposition and get your response to it. We have been chasing a point—you and I—and it is my feeling that at the level at which we have been chasing it, it is not possible for me to really understand the point and moreover that at the level at which I should like to understand the point, there is indeed nothing to discuss. Does this make any sense?”)

You have not been taking full advantage of your opportunities with me. You have been speaking to me in words only and I have responded as best I can.