“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now: the present is the point of power. You make your own reality.

Your civilization has decided upon certain beliefs of a quite contradictory nature, however. Animals know that the present is the point of power, of course. They do not have any other kind of time to contend with in the same way that you do.

I do not want to go into the complicated reasons why your civilization chose such beliefs, but you are everywhere presented with their effects. In your historical times, no civilization has been based upon the precepts I have given you. Children also know that the present is the point of power, and that precept is a biological truth, for the physical body in your terms cannot act in the future or in the past, but only in its contact with the present moment.

You have an excellent grasp of “Unknown” Reality, and of all the material contained therein. You have, however, reinforced the difficulty through accepting it as a fact, and then treating it, of course, as a fact that must be dealt with on its own terms. You do know, however, that your mind can have such material on hand. It can deliver it to you in the same way as your crossword puzzle exercises, but you have not thoroughly understood, in that regard, that the point of power is in the present, and that you do there also create your own reality.