“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now: Your beliefs and intents cause you to pick, from an unpredictable group of actions, those that you want to happen. You experience those events. (To me:) “Your” desire to live straddled the death of the child in an operation. The child’s desire to die chose that event. People are as free as atoms are. Give us a moment … In no way could you predict what would happen to the child in that photograph of yourself.⁶ In no way now can you “predict” what will happen to you now. You can choose to accept as your reality any number of given unpredictable events. In that respect, the choice is yours, but all the events you do not accept occur nevertheless.

6. Seth referred to the photograph my father had taken of me when I was about 2 years old; see the appropriate note at the beginning of the 679th session.

Since Seth mentioned predictions in connection with the photograph, this is a good time to present a few of the things he said in an earlier session about his own ability to predict, and about the subject in general. Jane and I have found this very useful material to keep in mind. From the 234th session for February 16, 1966:

9. On facing pages in our album, Jane and I have a pair of large, rather formal photographs of ourselves that we’ve often joked about. As it happened we looked at them earlier this evening. Both of them were taken in 1936. Jane, in her photograph, is 6½ years old. I’m 16 in mine, and one year short of finishing high school. More than once Jane has asked me what I’d have thought at that age had I been aware that my wife-to-be was a “round-faced little kid, still playing with paper dolls….”