“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now many of you here use the word “shit.” You apply the term in a derogatory manner to yourselves, and you think: “I am full of shit.” And where does the great spectacular reality, the physical reality of your earth, spring from? Why is shit not considered sacred and blessed and glorious? You think of shit, unfortunately, as the antithesis of good; and when you play around it or with it, you think you are being childish at the best, and wicked at the worst.

So, when you shrink from such words or such meanings, why do you shrink? Because you do not trust the biology of your being or the integrity of your soul in flesh. You are people. You are made of the stuff of the earth, and the dust from the stars has formed into the shit that lies in piles — warm piles that come from the beasts and the creatures of the earth. And that shit fertilizes the flowers and the ground, and is a part of it.

This does not mean, my dear young friend, that you need to go about speaking [the word] to those who do not like it, and saying “Fuck you.” (To the class, with deep humor:) He wanted me to use that word (fuck) on tape. But again: This does not mean that you should use such a word to make other people uncomfortable.

(Class members laughed, of course, and Seth said:) Yet when you laugh, you laugh because you still think the word is beneath you, and you are being sneaky or smart-alecky — or you think I am — by speaking so freely.

(Seth has always cautioned us against being too self-righteous; warned us against considering silence, seriousness, or piety as synonymous with goodness or “truth.” Above all, he’s insisted upon the exuberance and “rightness” of the physical world. He put the same idea across beautifully, of course, in Session 725 without ever using the word “shit.” But when dealing directly with people, Seth is — direct, and most perceptive. For many people will accept the same philosophy when expressed as it was in the 725th session, and yet be quite upset when those ideas are discussed in the vernacular, in language that certainly cannot be considered ambiguous in any fashion.)