“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.

I am not, as you should know, saying that the goal of financial success is a low one. Unfortunately, however, the beliefs connected with that goal usually involve whole webworks of beliefs that would automatically prevent high creativity.

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.

Give unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s. That means the taxes. With all of its evils and ignorances, that Caesar’s world allows a framework in which artists, writers, garbage men, physicians, wise men and fools can exist—and my dear friend, let me tell you: fools have a right to exist. It does you little harm to help uphold their world, and in your terms, time and life without their world would not exist, for there are webworks that unite fools, prophets, wise men and kings. If you understand what I have said, you should honestly be freed of the entire tax hassle.

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.

In no way should that tending take away from your creative work, but add to it in ways that defy conventional ideas of time. With that understanding, such work would vastly enrich your painting, your writing, and the tenor of your life. With that understanding you can have help without conflict, or do the work yourself without conflict.

Each day should include, separately, a half hour alone that includes relaxation techniques and psy-time. This should be followed to begin with for each of you, by 10 minutes of yoga exercises. Ruburt should do the most simple ones. Then you should instantly get up. You are to take a 10-minute walk daily. That is a spiritual exercise as well as physical activity. Ruburt should, as I suggested some time ago, have a private phone. Class at least once a month, later twice a month, never more for now.

I have, by the way, mentioned certain self-deceptions of which you may, each of you, be half-aware. Be alert for those and others. The “dead” periods of time should also be watched for, for they are often caused precisely by your conventional concepts of time, eroding the quality of those moments.