“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Each creature in its way is born with great expectations, and attempts to use whatever abilities it has to the fullest, to exercise them, and simply to thrill in their use. The day before Willy (One) died, his expectations were no different than they were when he was a kitten. His illness made performance more difficult, and yet in periods of rest he would start out again expecting to make the same leaps, and so often he did.

He did not wear himself out with worry, and so he lived a long life. The body must die. There are many means and methods, but it must not necessarily slow down for need of energy. Framework 2 provides an energy as vital as any given you at birth, and that energy constantly renews the body. I want you to understand that renewal. Literally, portions of your physical being are as new as at your birth. You have new skin. Within the framework of physical reality, then, granting the necessity for death, the body has renewing qualities that come to it from Framework 2. The cells of your body are immersed in Framework 2’s reality. Your cells have great expectations on their own, and rejoice to use their abilities and perform their functions.

When for whatever reason you feel unsafe over a long period of time, or when you begin to retreat, in a frightened fashion—for there are many kinds of retreat—then you cut down your options to whatever degree, and you must of necessity cut down your expectations also. Under certain conditions in one area or another, or sometimes in many, you have dire expectations. There are too many people who expect the worst from you, yet even then the creative self will try from Framework 2 to bring all resources possible, through dreams and intuitions, to alter that pessimistic progress.