“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(10:05.) Give us a moment.... You cannot say that any of Ruburt’s attitudes were “wrong,” nor can you say in larger terms that his method was “wrong.” You cannot say, and should not, place moral connotations in such situations. Each personality is different, and affects the body in a different way. You think of health as physical only. If you think in terms of an unhealthy relationship, for example, then you may at least begin to glimpse the ways in which individuals will seek prerogatives, so each case must be seen separately.

In normal terms in life, while the conditions for life are given, the nature of physical time means that practically speaking life will be full of surprises, for in usual terms you do not know what will happen tomorrow. In that context people take “risks.” They set up prerogatives. They do not usually concentrate with the same intensity in all areas of their lives, so there is seldom what you might think of as any ideal balance. If your health is bad enough, of course, you will die. If you are poor enough, of course, you will starve, or freeze to death in the wintertime. If you are lonely enough you may go mad, as people do in isolation cells.

In between excellent health and death through disease, in between wealth and perhaps gluttony, and poverty and starvation, in between a glittering social existence, the comfort of a family, and the utter loneliness of isolation, there are literally infinite variations and gradations of behavior, according to individual differences and prerogatives. Most of this refers to your question, and is by way of giving you a fuller explanation.

Now there are some people who consider overall balance a prerogative, and you will usually find them in decent health, with average concerns, and you will not find them taking risks. The subconscious does not exist, of course. “It” is a highly personalized portion of the self, uniquely tuned. Some people enjoy risks. The body may be in excellent health, and die that way in an accident. But the subconscious knows that the quality of life for that individual involves such exhilaration, and such a person literally chooses that rather than, for example, what someone else might consider a well-balanced long life.

[...] In programmed societies where “each man or woman knows his or her place,” then the will knows which direction to follow, though other considerations and prerogatives might be ignored. Actually in your society there are many prerogatives. [...]

At different times in life certain areas may become prerogatives, while other just-as-important areas are largely ignored, or downplayed, in which case they suffer. [...]

[...] Such a person may, however, according to intents and beliefs and focus, be in fairly decent physical health —because health may be a prerogative.

[...] They were dropped into the water, the realm of Ruburt’s fears, by a young man who represented an earlier self who thought success was a male prerogative. [...]

[...] The part of the self responsible for the fears was the part that thought success a male prerogative, so that the woman had to exert extra discipline. [...]

[...] The ego may be strong enough to insist upon its old prerogatives of control, yet too inflexible to adjust to the new conditions. [...]

Your gods, and your ideas of a God, have always followed the contours of your consciousness, your civilizations, your prerogatives, and your values. [...]

[...] The original prerogative is the creative one, from which all benefits automatically flow.

[...] It is certainly time to look at your prerogatives, as I have stressed. [...]

Now, in politics and religion, (Prime Minister) Begin believes it much more practical to deal with the Sinful Self and its “evil prerogatives” than he does with the better self that may indeed represent “the Son of God in man.” [...]

[...] And yet at the same time he was afraid of exerting power, for fear it would be thought that he was usurping male prerogatives. [...]

[...] And yet at the same time he was afraid of exerting power, for fear it would be thought that he was usurping male prerogatives.

[...] (Pause.) He feels he has the prerogative to use power in any way he chooses. [...]

[...] Love and devotion are not the prerogatives of one sex or one species.

[...] In programmed societies where “each man or woman knows his or her place,” then the will knows which directions to follow, though other conditions and prerogatives might be ignored. Actually, in your own society there are many prerogatives….

[...] If you truly use your prerogatives as an individual in your country, then you can exert far more power in normal daily living than you do now. [...]

[...] In the past he cut the desires down, to make sure that the most important prerogatives would be met, but his picture of reality was too small. [...]

[...] But more than that, the whole question of a house of that kind brought into their own lives questions of values and prerogatives that were of great importance. [...]

[...] When you have decided, and see where your prerogatives lie, then stick to them.

[...] The ancient mother-goddess concept became “unconscious”; the male, purposely forgetting the great natural aggressive thrust of birth, took physical aggression and force as his prerogative — for this came to represent the quality of ego consciousness in its need to physically manipulate its environment.

In your mind making money is a male characteristic, and subconsciously a male prerogative. [...]