“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You see about you various kinds of physical objects. There are different classifications, yet all can be called physical. You are yourself physical, though obviously portions of your body are microscopically small. Your psychological life is composed of many different levels of consciousness of varying classifications. You might say that perceivable events are composed of a conglomeration of certain levels of consciousness tuned in to form an event, say, instead of an object.

An object to be declared as such must be in tune with itself—that is, composed of atoms and molecules of a certain classification, working together as a unit. That unit can then be perceived by others whose consciousness is likewise attuned.

Furniture is manufactured according to certain rules. Events are formed automatically. They are formed, however, in response to your own conscious intents, and of those materials that you supply to the inner wonderworks.

You take negative, sorrowful, or even disastrous events more or less for granted, and pride yourself on your creativity in spite of such odds.

It is at first appalling to discover that the negative as well as the positive events are formed at automatic levels, but in response to your expectations and beliefs. World events such as those you read about in your newspaper are the result of conventional ideas and beliefs—those with which you were reared. They will always form part of the fabric of your existence in this life. There are no reasons, however, why they should predominate. They represent a species of consciousness, a classification.

The events of your lives are in part caused by the psychological results of that level of consciousness, but only in part. Your own lives show well the stamp of still other classifications of consciousness. Events are formed then by various levels of consciousness intersecting. The mixture of those levels of consciousness, and their points of intersection, are up to you.

(9:35.) The general world level of consciousness can serve as a springboard, so that you use it as a base only while the intimate webwork of your own psychological reality uses finer creative levels of consciousness. The quality of such events can be vastly superior, in your terms, yet you discover yourselves not pleased with the overall daily fabric of your days.

Now in your cases you are quite aware of the difference. There are certain considerations, quite pertinent, that occur in your physical times, so that while on the one hand you were involved in the highest adventures of creativity, pursuing the most profound questions of consciousness, you were also deeply involved in practical considerations of making a living.

Ruburt wanted to make creativity work financially so that you could both be free to pursue it. Through the years the goals of one level of consciousness— though I am putting this simply—became tied to the goals of another level of consciousness. Overall, ideally speaking, the two could be fused. Practically, however, this is like trying to build two pieces of furniture with different materials, then forming them into one cohesive whole. In both of your lives, those experiences, however valid, that did not fit both categories, gradually went to one degree or another by the way.

This is simply the result of misunderstanding, confusion, and trying to use a “higher” level of consciousness for goals and beliefs still held at a “lower” level, in quotes now.

When you try to use the insights of one level of consciousness to reach the goals of a “lower level of consciousness,” you run into difficulty. I will try to make this as clear as possible.

You are faced of course with conditions built up of long-held attitudes. In general, however, you are tying the highest faculties of your consciousness to goals that are at least unbecoming to them, and because you have still accepted the tenets of conventionalized beliefs. You cannot serve two masters at any one time with hopes of doing justice to either, and you only confuse yourselves. It is the mixture of consciousness with which you form your events that causes the difficulty.

Give us a moment.... The acquisition of your house is on its own a creative achievement—almost purely a side effect of your creativity. But the ideas you have projected upon it belong to that other level of consciousness that erode the joy and accomplishment that should be connected with it.

(Much louder:) Now these are words of the profoundest wisdom, from the fountains of your own psyches, as well as from my own knowledge—and against those words you should judge your own actions, so that you do not react to threatening situations, whose validity exists only at a level of consciousness which you must learn to dismiss.

(Loud and amused:) Your ideas about houses, for example, did not bear fruit until you had one. You did not either, incidentally have to confront your negative beliefs about taxes until you were lucky enough, and creative enough, to find yourself in a position where you need pay a considerable amount. You could have chosen to remain poor, and hence avoid the difficulty.

Now, in your terms you are graced to have a half acre of land upon the earth, and the hillside, with trees that change, and a house that is secure. To some small extent that environment is a part of the entire earthly structure, and its roots go deeply into the past and the future. It should be a spiritual and a creative joy to tend that land, to feel your feet upon it, and to share the seasons with the consciousness that pervades it.

You have been straddling levels of consciousness, in other words, so that the events of your lives have shown gaps that we want to close. Please understand that these gaps are also the results, partially, of certain achievements—as your conflicts about taxes could not have existed years ago. That is simply a small example. When you began to expand your ideas of reality, you naturally attached them to goals that you held earlier, and tried to make them fit. Some of those goals were quite worthy, but carried beliefs along with them that were detrimental.