“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

A certain portion of Adam was: the version was... you had a body consciousness of a protective nature, but this was only one portion of an entire personality who has yet to appear. Now there is a reason for the bridge framework. The bridge framework takes exercise, understanding, and knowledge on both of your parts, therefore there would be no communication of a strong valid nature until your personality is able to maintain it, for the bridge will not be strong enough to hold. Otherwise there would be too many implications and personality difficulties that could arise.

I do not like the term... one self higher or more developed than....

([Tam:] “On the other hand I wouldn’t want any psychic development to come between me and my wife... to get between any feelings for my wife who is at this moment even more important to me than any of my other selves.”)

There is no reason why any such development should come between the two of you. In the first place it would only develop when you were ready and entirely prepared, and such a state of readiness and preparation would not occur if you are in a frame of mind where you fear the development for the reasons you have just given.

We will have you dancing over the bridge. (To Eve:) Your emotional comfort is and should be important to our Aerofranz. No development would occur, or should, unless the emotional climate that involves both of you were ready for such a development. In the material that I have just given you I mentioned that there were several possibilities. This does not mean that you must make any conscious decision today or tomorrow.

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 have never seen what design is until you see a spider’s web when you are out of the body. You have never seen what design is until you see a spider’s web from the spider’s viewpoint. Now you can learn to do this. You can use your psychic abilities, to throw your consciousness into the spider. Your body is a very handy mechanism and I do not suggest that you step out of it too long. However, as the earth’s atmosphere hides the conditions in the universe from your scientists, so also do the conditions of the body blind you to true color and design. Now you can develop in this way.

You can also develop along the same line in the dream state if you give yourself the suggestion that when you are dreaming you will see color truly and remember the colors that you have seen. You will remember them, and you can try to reproduce them. Now these colors are like nothing in this world. (Humorously.)

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.

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.