“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(We watched In Search Of from 2:30 to 3:00, and the program reminded me of a number of questions I’d thought of at various times. The program dealt with the atom-bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, and the after-effects, such as cancer. My questions had to do with the consciousness that must reside within, or make up, radiation, and why that type of consciousness was so virulent that we humans couldn’t tolerate it. Yet we’d created it, in ordinary terms. The same with a disease like cancer, I told Jane. Why did we create it when we couldn’t tolerate many forms of it?

1. I am an excellent creature, a valuable part of the universe in which I exist.

Next: I am eternally couched and supported by the universe of which I am a part, and I exist whether or not that existence is physically expressed.

And next: All of my imperfections, and all of the imperfections of other creatures, are redeemed in the greater scheme of the universe in which I have my being.

Those attitudes are inbred in the smallest microscopic portions of the body — a part of each atom and cell and organ, and they serve to trigger all of the body’s responses that promote growth and fulfillment. Infants are not born with an inbred fear of their environment, or of other creatures. They are instead immersed in feelings of well-being, vitality, and exuberance. They take it for granted that their needs will be met, and that the universe is well-disposed toward them. They feel a part of their environment.

(Long pause at 4:20.) They do not come into life with feelings of rage, or anger, and basically they do not experience doubts or fears. Birth is experienced in terms of self-discovery, and includes the sensation of selfhood gently rising and unfolding from the secret heart of the universe.

(“It’s just about what we were talking about early today — the consciousness in radiation, that’s so powerful to us — or in cancer —”)

(4:35 p.m. Jane had some ginger ale and a cigarette. “Well, he’s going to cover those questions in the book,” I told Jane — “about radiation, the consciousness involved with it, and with things like cancer. It ought to be fascinating, unique stuff.” And, I thought, I had to start a page of questions and keep it with each latest session so I didn’t let them get away from us.