“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now. There are several points in particular that I want to discuss with you. Not my book, but points concerning your own relationship with Adam. Give me a moment.

Now. You may continue at the same level of communication with your friend Adam, or you may go beyond that level into a still greater reality. You have created your version of Adam... The version that you have created knows that you have created him. Do you follow me?

...but you have not created the personality behind Adam...

...There is more for your personality to handle if you continue along those lines. However, the very attempt to handle more data in itself enlarges your own consciousness and does not detract from it.

However, at the other end there is something else, and there is no point in continuing to construct the bridge unless you intend to get on the other side. When you begin to get to the other side, continuing our analogy, and with good luck and perseverance there will be someone else on the other side constructing their own bridge to meet yours. This personality will form a bridge in the same way that you do. However the two will meet and merge. You will have a strong structure; you then can communicate. But the structure is not the other personality.

Now taking our analogy of a long bridge, you are now here. (Seth-Jane gestures indicating Tam’s end of the imaginary bridge.) So with your Adam you must either take him and form the rest of your bridge, with the joy of adventure, not always knowing who may be at the other end, forming their own structure; or play around with the Adam version in which case you will get no further than you are. I am not telling you to do one thing or the other. I am merely pointing out the possibilities.

Now: the personality on the other end of the bridge will be the reality behind Adam.

And also you see, because you are forming this version of Adam from your end, he does not understand his reality.

([Tam:] “He is a dream of a reality? A mutual dream?”)

Now: In your dreams the other personality can communicate and without the psychological bridge framework, but only in dream reality. When you are ready, you will be able to remember these encounters. I suggest therefore that you write them down in the morning. Over a period of time, you see, these will collect. You will be able to recall various messages and relate these to your own experience. Do you follow me?

To a large extent, as he is now he has arisen out of you. Now he can indeed disappear back into you at this point, and with little care on your part. He would not disappear as an inner awareness. He would exist within your psyche as a small but definite organization of characteristics that would continue within themselves to retain a sense of identity. He would also for continue his protective devices for your own physical body. You would not overly miss him if he did this at this time.

If, however, you expect too much of him without giving time for this structure to form, you drain him of energy and not the other way around. For you have created him with a certain amount of energy and you cannot demand more than you have given him. At the same time, the psychological structure has not reached far enough outward so that he is gathering enough energy from our symbolistic other side: and at times you are asking him to make the leap. And then you are upset if instead he falls down.

Again: You can follow this process through... Several possibilities show themselves. If you follow this process say two-thirds of the way across, then you are more or less committed to go the other third of the way; committed in terms of your own good. It would be highly difficult then to pull in your bridge and scramble back to the other shore.

Selves that ascend like stairs... yet in order to speak to you intelligently I must use this image at times. Therefore when I tell you that this other personality behind Adam may be a future self of your own, I am in no way telling you that this personality is a part of your personality structure as you think of it, or as your psychologists think of it.

You, as you know yourself, will not grow into this quote “higher” self. This higher self and you exist simultaneously. And yet the abilities and knowledge of this “higher” self can become part of your own conscious knowledge through the psychological bridge of which I have spoken.

It means that these are latent, they are possibilities that you may pursue. You will not pursue any such possibilities, you will not complete the bridge unless your own emotional feelings are calm. Otherwise you would have a very wavy bridge indeed. (Smile.) There are emotional components, sometimes at balance, often not at balance, in any personality as you think of personality. When the two of you live together you have many more elements to integrate: new balances. This shifts and changes the emotional reality of you both. It brings possibilities of various kinds of creations, and other developments.

Now: In your marriage and relationship your whole emotional climate has turned direction. Hers has changed direction, so that now you have the two together. So that in any psychic development or work that you do, you do not only have your own emotional strength or current, but another with you. As a result you have more potential, more leeway. Also, as a result anything that one of you do will have an effect on the other, and you will notice this in psychic work. When you are highly involved you will feel additional strength from your relationship. If there is any strong aversion, you will be doubly pulled away. Do you follow me?

I have several suggestions as always. Our new bride here is not so worried about psychic phenomena. She is only worried about Adam. This will pass in time. She needs a part to play: something in which you can participate, and develop yourself (directly to Eve). You would do well to try experiments in the out-of-body state. You have your own abilities to develop. You do not have to be an Eve to Adam.

You can also find many connections between psychic activity and color and painting in which you are interested. Now I will tell you, you have never seen the colors of a rainbow unless you have seen them from an out-of-body state. If you want to see the colors of a flower, or my dear friends, of an apple, you must get out of your body to do so. Now you do not need to feel that his psychic abilities close you out, or that you do not have your own: or that his abilities will draw him away from you, for they would only bring him closer. Your own abilities are here to be used also, and in your own unique fashion.

So do not feel that these abilities are his only or that you do not have a part, for you have your own abilities and you can use them for your own purposes. You can be partners in these endeavors, as you are partners in other endeavors. You need not lag behind. Give us a moment.

I go rummaging through my own acquaintanceship with artists for his benefit, and I pass some of this on to you. There is a native spontaneity here, in our lady, that deals well with transparent color, that relates clearly and simply. And I believe she has been worried about what she may consider in the back of her mind as Adam’s murky quality. I hope we are clearing that up in this session. She has also picked up your thoughts toward Adam (to Tam) and to some extent been influenced by them. If you have ever felt threatened by Adam then she would feel this threat doubly. Do you follow me?

I would see nothing wrong, myself, with the transformation. Now: to some degree you see you are intuitively aware of Adam’s true nature (to Eve here), and on an intuitive basis you even relate to the Adam you sense within Aerofranz, but you do not realize when you are doing this. Adam in this respect would be the superior qualities that you sometimes sense in him, the Aerofranz that you know... This does not mean that Aerofranz on his own does not have superior qualities. (Humorously.)

I am not trying to rob him of his own sterling nature. but beyond those qualities which you recognize, you intuitively sense other qualities and it is these of which I am speaking.

I simply want you to know that all kinds of energy and vitality are possible, that there are all kinds of possibilities for your own development, that there is energy available to you and you can tap it; and knowledge available that you can use. Such knowledge can be highly practical and in many instances, the dreamer is the most practical individual. You do not have to fear that this sort of experience will take you away from reality. It will show you a greater reality than you imagine.

It will enlarge your concepts, change your ideas of what is real and what is not real and what can be and what cannot be; and what you are and what you can be. You can both discover the greater identity that is your own, and step out of your own shadow image. For you identify yourself with a very small portion of your true identity. And when you use the word, I, you do not realize the I of which you speak.

There are other portions of your personality that have knowledge that you can use. There are advantages and they are these: as you become acquainted with these other portions of your own identity, your own capacities for understanding and learning expand. In one lifetime’s work you can learn what it might otherwise take three reincarnations to learn. You are all involved basically with one thing. You are learning to use energy creatively. You are trying to discover how much energy you can direct, what you can create. You can discover these answers for yourselves. You cannot discover them through reading, you must look within yourselves and open your own doors. This is a joyful endeavor.

You should begin it as a child wakes up in the morning. It should not be sober. You make your own reality as I have said, even more times than I wish to remember. This also applies to your inner senses. The more you use your inner senses, the more data you have at your command.