“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

When you are certain that you feel at least reasonably secure, where you are, then we shall take you to where you are not and you will find yourself. You are already there, but in order to go there, you must start from somewhere. You must start with, you see, a balance and a degree of security.... You must start with confidence. And if you travel too quickly and too far, you will not have confidence, for in the back of your mind you will think: if I do not feel secure in physical reality, then why should I feel secure here... and you will not have the daring that is necessary, nor will you have the peace of mind... and the peace of mind is the key to the door.

If I could sing that beautifully, I would sing for you through our classes. Now I wish you (DM) a bon voyage. And I did not mean to hurt your (class) feelings; far be it from me to hurt your feelings when you hurt your own so well you do not need help from me. I will have a message for you (VMcC) through our friend Ruburt shortly in any case. I simply wanted you to know that I was here and I did have a specific message that I wanted to deliver to our friend (WL) on this side. And if you do not have the words recorded, they are recorded there (pointing to WL’s head) and you will not forget them. And when I make promises I make promises and I keep them. And when I say I will give a “push” at a certain time, I will give a fine push... though then you may not need it. I’ve come through this evening in any case simply as a friend. I wish you all well. I am not going to keep you until two o’clock in your morning. Some evening I will keep you until two o’clock in the morning just so you can say that I have done it. But you would not bless me the following morning... of that I am sure.

Now, indeed you are. And... as a piece or chunk of physical matter... you are indeed immediate and here. You do not understand the ways in which you project the physical matter of yourself into this room, however. When you understand that completely and fully, you will no longer be within physical reality. But that is of little notice. You will never notice the difference. In any reality, you create the image that you see. And the reality that follows this one will seem as physical to you as this... and as real. But you will have freedoms within it that you do not have now.... Not unless at 8 o’clock in the morning you leap from the rooftops and fly through the windows to your death.

You can do things with the inner image that you cannot do with the physical image. But while you are doing them, they appear physical. Do you follow me?

([Tom:] “Because now we have time to do it.”)

([Tom:] “We should desire good health because it makes it possible for us to do something else... to serve or perform some other role...

(Pause. [Tom:] “My interpretation of what he said is that (1) good health is a natural part of ourselves, and so we should naturally desire it, and (2) good health in itself is not the objective at all. It is what you can do when you are in a state of good health. We carried it into another dimension besides health... vocational aspects. We project ourselves ahead mentally to vocational status we are interested in, and by doing that, accomplish it. It is not the status itself that is the end. It is what we are able to do through it, that we should really be aiming at.

([Dave:] “Tom made the analogy of health vs. occupation. His implication was that the product of good health was the ability to do good more efficiently. Taking it over into occupations, then, I don’t know how it would be ... advances an occupation, I guess is the closest.

I do not want you to have the attitude, however, or make the implication, that your health or status in any way automatically, and alone, is an indication of your spiritual wealth... or lack of it.

Some of you for example, do well in certain areas and are blocked in others. We want to get rid of the blocks. You are working toward this ideal, and the ideal is—and you will achieve it—to use all your abilities, all of your capabilities... and in doing this, you will help others automatically. And you will help the race of which you are a part. And you will add to the creativity of All That Is ... and I said that you would add to it. This is for you, for the anticipated argument that you will think of. (To VMcC.)

And now I do wish you a fond good evening. And store up your questions... and store up your answers... for I will grade you!