“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

At one time — in your terms — I myself acted as such a guide; as in a sleep state Ruburt now follows the same road. The situation is rather tricky from the guide’s viewpoint, for psychologically utmost discretion must be used. One man’s Moses, as I discovered, may not be another man’s Moses. I have served as a rather creditable Moses on several occasions — and once, though this is hard to believe, to an Arab.

Certain images have been used to symbolize such a transition from one existence to another, and many of these are extremely valuable in that they provide a framework with understandable references. The crossing of the River Styx is such a one. The dying expected certain procedures to occur in a more or less orderly fashion. The maps were known beforehand. At death, the consciousness hallucinated the river vividly. Relatives and friends already dead entered into the ritual, which was a profound ceremony also on their parts. The river was as real as any that you know, as treacherous to a traveler alone without proper knowledge. Guides were always at the river to help such travelers across.

It does not do to say that such a river is illusion. The symbol is reality, you see. The way was planned. Now, that particular map is no longer generally in use. The living do not know how to read it. Christianity has believed in a heaven and a hell, a purgatory, and reckoning; and so, at death, to those who so believe in these symbols, another ceremony is enacted, and the guides take on the guises of those beloved figures of Christian saints and heroes.

(9:55.) I am speaking now of the events immediately following death, for there are other stages. Guides will helpfully become a part of your hallucinations, in order to help you out of them, but they must first of all get your trust.

(Infinite intelligence leads and guides me in all my ways. [...]

(The infinite intelligence which gave me this desire to paint leads, guides, and reveals to me the perfect plan for the unfolding of my desire. [...]

[...] These buyers may look at many other paintings, but mine are the ones they want and will buy, because they are guided by the infinite intelligence within each of them. [...]

The “spirit guide” designation may be a handy symbolic representation of this idea, and I’m not saying that spirit guides do not exist. I am saying that the idea deserves greater examination, for the spirit guide may represent something far different than we think. [...]

[...] There he’s accepted as an independent spirit — a spirit guide by those with spiritualistic beliefs — or as some displaced portion of my own personality by the scientific community. [...]

While I was trying to define Seth that way and questioning whether or not he was a spirit guide, I was closed off to some extent from his greater reality, which exists in terms of vast imaginative and creative power that is bigger than the world of facts and can’t be contained in it. [...]

[...] It inspires you, guides you, reveals to you names and facts and scenes from the storehouse of memory. [...]

[...] Here then is a source of power and wisdom that places you in touch with omnipotence, or the power that moves the world, guides the planets in their course, and causes the sun to shine. [...]

(9:17.) Each species is endowed also, by virtue of the units of consciousness that compose it, with an overall inner picture of the condition of each other species (pause), and further characterized by basic impulses so that it is guided toward choices that best fulfill its own potentials for development while adding to the overall good of the entire world consciousness. [...]

[...] Those serve to organize individual action in a world where an infinite number of probable roads are open—and here again, private impulses are basically meant to guide each individual toward avenues of expression and probable activities suited best to his or her development. [...]

[...] They are guided by memories that they later forget.

[...] If you will forgive the term, the spiritual guide, as ape was animal guide, for both are related, and both were compassionate. The spiritual guide was the doctor Ruburt heard in his sleep and immediately questioned, and he is quite valid. [...]

[...] But he is not relying alone upon “his own” resources, but upon those great dimensions of energy that connect the soul and body—the silver guide and the ape.

[...] Here then is a source of power and wisdom that places you in touch with omnipotence, or the power that moves the world, guides the planets in their course, and causes the sun to shine. [...]

[...] One impulse may be in response to one need, one to another—but all in all, taken together, they will sustain and guide you to your most fulfilling situation if they are allowed to, and if they are trusted.

[...] You may literally perceive certain elements of consciousness in a personified form, as spirit guides, angels, or even as gods and goddesses. [...]

The spirit guides are perceptions of other kinds of psychological and psychic activity. [...]

[...] Now the Speakers are familiar with those rules, and often serve as guides. [...]

[...] The rejuvenating characteristics enter in here, and it is during this period that the Speakers act as teachers and guides.

[...] Here we have a legitimate occasion, in which Ruburt projected to your room, and I acted as his guide. [...]

There are manuals that are written primarily (underlined) as textbooks or as guides to help others, in which there is no attempt made to create an art, but to state a case. [...]

[...] This list can also be used as a guide to refer us back to the body of material from which any particular quote is taken.)

[...] They are often, in fact, maintained en masse by the guides who carry out the necessary plans. [...]

[...] There are always guides to help you understand your situation, but you may be so engrossed that you pay them no heed.

[...] It’s also one that may startle those who are used to quiet and proper “spirit guides.”

There are some people looking about for some other people to guide in the dream state. [...]

(9:44.) Impulses provide life’s guide to action. [...]

There are natural laws, then, that guide all kinds of life, and all realities — laws of love and cooperation — and those are the basic needs of which I am speaking.

[...] He could be scattered into several ‘spirit guides’; that’s how his reality would be interpreted, or come through …

There have been guides to help her. [...]

[...] She has already begun a new life therefore, though presently her experience is being monitored to some degree by guides. [...]

[...] They only needed to be guided by people to some degree. Many men were used to guide them but not to lift or carry them. [...]

[...] Unfortunately, conscience as you think of it is an untrustworthy guide, speaking to you through the mouths of mothers and fathers, teachers and clergy — all perhaps from distant years, and each of whom had their own ideas of what was right and wrong for you and for humanity at large.