“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(At this point, Tom said, “ I am in good shape tonight, Seth, I’m ready.”)

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

([Tom:] “But between the time of thinking about it now and the time it becomes a reality, other thoughts can come to bear on that idea and change it before it becomes a reality. Is that so?”)

([Tom:] “I see, and form a compromise... composite.”)

([Tom:] “He talked some more about physical matter... an elaboration on the things we’ve talked about during the evening. The reality on another plane or in another dimension is just as physical as what we experience as physical here... just as real, seems physical to them. But the freedoms are greater, so that when we think of something on another plane, it happens instantaneously. Whereas here, there is a time lag between the time we think of something and it results in a created action or object. In the time lag on this plane, there are other thoughts, projections on the same idea or object; Seth declined to go into their effects on the final idea or object until a later time.

([Tom:] “But to want good health or position just for the sake of that is not the end of the line. That, you are saying, is just the beginning of...”)

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

([Tom:] “Now it has been suggested that the next time I go to New York I might see a man...”)

([Tom:] “But the point is... I guess the question I’m asking is: am I really more interested in the certain possibilities of status, and that would not be the positive way of looking at things... or should I be seeing that man within a framework of, just as we were talking about health as just being a stepping stone, should I be seeing this man with a viewpoint towards what this can mean for helping other people be part of a constructive arrangement?”)

(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.

([Tom:] “...Choice or advancement ... and advancement maybe.