“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The inner self is acquainting itself with reality as it exists there. In many cases it is emerging into a new world. Since the learning process is involved, there are errors. Any faulty constructions however are used by the inner self in a feedback system and as a part of the learning process. Your system is not the most elementary, but it is one of the most elementary, and it is a way that the inner self acquaints itself with certain basic facts.

It therefore provides itself with a large variety of environments in various reincarnations, with problems of various natures, and with diverse circumstances. It does not try to form life conditions that offer no challenges, quite the reverse in fact. It is getting used to its own abilities and learning how to use them. What happens in the case of willfully used destructive energies? It finds out by using them.

It knows full well its own indestructibility, and that of its fellows. What happens in the case of constructive psychic energy when it is purposely denied aggressive outlets? It finds out. What does it feel like to be the brunt of aggression? It forms another life situation and discovers the answer. How strong and potent is the energy that is at its command? How can it best be used? It is quite necessary that all of these questions be answered, for the inner self is composed of energy, and in other fields of activity thoughts and emotions are instantaneously translated, their results instantly seen. There is no saving time lag, as within your own system, and there is no physical body such as you know it.

There is form. The very mechanism of the body however is so constructed that it can bear the brunt of many errors, and free itself from them, though this may not seem to be the case at times. Nevertheless yours is a slow-motion world in many ways as far as your perceptions are concerned, while you are within it. Your body is much like a sculptor or a sculpt, never really completed, the inner self trying out various techniques of creativity on its first test piece. The results are not always of the best, but the sculptor is independent of his product and knows there will others.

In other cases where the symptom is interior itself, as in ulcers, this is a sign that the inner self has not yet come to such a point. The personality is not yet willing to face the problems even to that extent and the symptom itself is shielded from physical sight, quite rightly symbolically speaking. The relative observability of a symptom is a clue therefore as to the personality’s attitude toward its problem.

There is then a mental, psychic, or emotional lack of sight. An idiocy of a kind, and a complete blockage, a denial of experience along certain lines that is far more detrimental than a specific problem, for there is an inability of the personality to express itself to any effective degree in that area.

One note. Ruburt need not bear the weight of the world upon his shoulders (humorously throughout), nor take the responsibility of the universe. This is high egotism. God can handle his own problems and take care of his universe. Ruburt need not judge him, for he does not know all the facts, and it is sheer nonsense for him to suppose that he does.