“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

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.

You are trying to live your lives, speaking simply now, at two mutually exclusive levels, combining two lines of belief that contradict each other. As a result any one action you take does not satisfy you, for you are equally drawn to the other direction. Events then are not clearcut or satisfying. You cannot thoroughly relax or thoroughly go ahead. You cannot thoroughly enjoy your solitude, or thoroughly appreciate your friends and normal social activities. You see in Ruburt’s physical condition the clearest representation, but this is simply the clearest sign of events that exist in your own private experience also. You go out into the world to do the chores, grudgingly, but you go. Ruburt goes ahead creatively, lately, grudgingly, but he goes.

The worries caused by the conventionalized beliefs cut down the quality of your time, so that while you jealously try to preserve your creative hours they become diluted. So that you actually spend “dead” time—that is, periods that are devoid of creativity while supposedly devoted to it. The chest trouble is a result of such conflicts.

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.

The recommendations I have made even so far will alter conditions. If you relax and do psy-time for example, your reality will automatically change, for the intent that allows you to do this will automatically begin to produce results. This applies to each of you.

The relaxation will help both of you physically. You have not fully relaxed, and that will relieve you of the chest difficulty along with the understanding, I hope, that will come to you as the result of this session.

Then we will see some results. I will comment at our next session, then. I want the two of you to discuss this session, and begin each day with a sense of dedication. I want you to encourage each other’s strengths honestly, and not reinforce your weaknesses. You cannot change your lives by complaining, or by saying “Yes, I have certain beliefs,” and accepting them. You cannot preserve the status quo, and be creative.

That is the end of our session. I expect—since you agree to my recommendations—that they will be followed. Do not be discouraged if psy-time does not bring instant results—though it well may. These recommendations can change your lives, and set you in those directions proper for you.