“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now: this is important to yourselves, but to others also. Your suggestions about a safe universe are finally taking effect. As mentioned, however, the idea of an unsafe universe automatically initiates a certain kind of thinking. The particular versions of such thinking will be highly individualistic. In certain areas, however, invisible beliefs may operate for some time because they are accepted as reality within the framework. For these there seems to be no reference for comparison.

There are all kinds of like suggestions, all meant as preventive measures, but based upon the idea that ill fortune can be most likely expected, and means must be taken to avoid it. In many ways, and important ones, the two of you managed to avoid many complications encountered by others because of such measures. Until very recently, however, Ruburt did not recognize that he often placed the worst kind of connotations upon, for example, his own condition, or behavior in certain manners. This was invisible because the pattern still made sense. Your talk about the dentist did trigger such recognition.

I spoke of many minds in our last book session. Esoteric literature has mentioned various levels of reality, numbered and named them. These refer, however, to man’s other minds. They represent other kinds of mental experience, in which reality is organized differently. Identity itself is put together in another fashion. I could have said that one mind had many variations, but then you would still try to understand the concept using your old ideas about identity itself. You grow out of identities, and into others, all the while retaining an indestructible portion that does the changing. You do not discard a self as you might throw off a coat, but you do have a wardrobe of selves. This happens even in the life you know and recognize, even though you do everything possible to exaggerate the similarities and minimize the differences, so that you always seem to be the self that you have always known.

(11:07.) Coping became a way of life in each civilization. Alongside, however, there were always minorities, religions or cultures, who kept out of the main current and experimented along different lines. The idea of a safe universe seems sacriligious and impractical, and yet the next important breakthrough will be based upon that conclusion. In greater terms no coping is or ever has been necessary—for coping implies a resistance. The coping exists first, and brings forth the resistance in experience.