Psycho Cat Lady

Happy Trails, Rob! - June 20, 1919 – May 26, 2008

2008-06-02T16:49:00.001-07:00

gJoanne and I received the following email on Tuesday May 27^th:

Dear Folks,

As some of you may have heard, Robert F. Butts passed away just before 3 o’clock in the afternoon on Monday, May 26, 2008, with his wife Laurel Butts at his side, in St. Joseph’s Hospital, Elmira, New York, after a brief illness. He would have been 89 in June.

Up until a few weeks before his death, Rob was active and busy with his many projects, deeply involved as he was all his life with painting, writing, and directing the ongoing publication of the Seth material and the related lifework he co-created with his late wife Jane Roberts, who died in 1984. Laurel told me that Rob died peacefully, as she held him, and that she knows Jane was there also, as he made the transition from this reality to all that lies beyond.

Laurel has arranged an inclusive service for Rob as well as for Jane, scheduled for Monday, June 2nd, at 10 a.m. at St. Mary’s of the Lake Church, 5823 Wallworth-Ontario Road, in Ontario, New York, a small town just east of Rochester, N.Y. Other arrangements are pending.

I am grateful to Laurel for holding the phone to Rob’s ear a few hours before he died so I could talk with him one last time. As I’ve written elsewhere, he and Jane were not only my friends but something even more than mentors to me – they were my psychic parents, the pivotal figures in the development of my creative abilities in this life, and very likely in other lifetimes as well. My heart goes out to Laurel, who is in my thoughts every day.

Sue Watkins

We had gotten word that Rob was in the hospital the previous week, the same hospital that Jane spent her final days in Elmira, NY, and was being treated for cancer. Laurel had sent out word for well wishes to be sent there. So during our Saturday Rose group session, people signed a get well card. I was actually printing out a topic from Sethnet in which people expressed their get well wishes on Tuesday when we got the news that Rob had passed away from our friend Masa in Japan. (I later thought this to be appropriate imagery of how far and wide the scope of Rob and his life’s work reached.)

Initially we were stunned by the news, but then everything became clear. Many cancers are treated on an out-patient basis, and I realized that Rob had been more ill than we realized. So we want to join Sue Watkins in extending our heart-felt condolences to Laurel Butts. I’m glad to know that she was with Rob during his final hours, and sensed Jane’s presence as well. Laurel has been with Rob for over twenty years now, and has been instrumental in helping Rob with Jane’s legacy.

Speaking of which, where do we begin to honor the legacy of this man and his life’s work? Rob was instrumental in the Seth phenomenon. He transcribed every word in every Seth book between 1963 and 1984. He created hundreds of paintings based on his experiences with Seth and Jane. He archived all of Jane’s work after she died, and fulfilled his promise to her, with Laurel’s help, to publish all the Seth material after she died. He worked with Prentice Hall editor Tam Mossman to donate all of Jane’s work to Yale University’s Sterling Archives, where it remains one of the most popular archives visited yearly. Presumably, after Rob’s passing additional materials will finally make their way to that collection.

I was struck by Sue’s comment that she considered Rob and Jane her “psychic parents.” I felt the same way back in the late 1970s after I had discovered the Seth books. I couldn’t get enough, eagerly awaited each new book, and read them cover to cover several times. Since I had been raised in a secular family, my father was an electrical engineer and mother non-religious, I didn’t have much of a spiritual framework. So my first spiritual information was encountered during my teen years in the shamanic teachings of Don Juan as chronicled by Carlos Castañeda. But in my early twenties the Seth books blew all that away, because they provided a detailed map of All-That-Is, and further, provided exercises to check out the territory through direct experience.

Back to the psychic parents concept, I know that many people felt that way about Jane and Rob over the years. So I was delighted when I found Seth’s reference to this when The Way Toward Health was published posthumously. The following is from February 1, 1984.

(4:35. “Will you say something about the feelings I’ve had about parenthood lately?”)

Let us take a break.

(“Okay.”

(Jane had ginger ale and a few puffs. “If you hadn’t asked, he was going to say something about your parenthood thing,” she said. We talked about how strange it was that no one had been in yet to take her blood pressure and pulse — not that it would have mattered if they weren’t taken. Resume at 4:40.)

Now: If you examine your feelings about parenthood in general, you will see that they bear an astonishing similarity to your feelings about your painting and our work. Only the focus is different. You are indeed both parents of an amazing body of work, and the psychic parents of innumerable people of all ages. You have set aside, however, the conventional idea of a family, as symbolized by your (car) dream of the other evening. You are actually exchanging one kind of a family for another, vaster concept, that also involves parenthood, however — but a psychic rather than a physical parenthood. The letters you receive are often like letters children write to their parents. ~ p. 83.

Like many, I wrote to Rob and Jane over the years. While I never met Jane physically, she has been in my dreamscapes since the late 1970s. While Rob played a secondary role in terms of dreamscapes, in my heart, I still had strong paternal feelings for him and his work. In this way I considered them my “spiritual parents,” and Seth as what Eastern spiritual traditions consider a “root teacher.”

I had the pleasure of visiting the “Hill House” in Elmira, NY in 1991 and again in 1993 with my friend Bob Terrio when we made The Seth Phenomenon: An Interview with Robert F. Butts video. It remains one of the most thorough pieces ever recorded on Seth and Jane, with Rob describing his many paintings and sharing various stories about helping with the Seth books. This was also when we first met Laurel Davies.

I was awestruck during that first meeting! Rob was already in his early 70s, and the house was full of his paintings. I sat in a refurbished version of Jane’s Kennedy rocker and imagined what it must have felt like to be present during a private book as well as group ESP session. There was that famous painting of Seth. I saw Jane’s and Rob’s offices, his lined with various print editions of Seth and Jane’s books, along with the classic quote on the wall from Seth, “You get what you concentrate upon, there is no other main rule.” Laurel was a gracious hostess and made us feel at home as we went about setting up lights, cameras, and sound equipment for the shoot. Rob autographed my two aging hardback copies of The “Unknown” Reality, and they remain two of my most prized possessions to this day.

During this time Lynda Dahl and Stan Ulkowski has taken over Maude Cardwell’s Austin Seth Center, and created Seth Network International. Joanne and I would meet birds of a feather at our first conference in late October, 1996 at New Haven, CT. Stan and Lynda would go on to marshal the largest gathering of Seth-folk, over 420 if memory serves, at the now famous Elmira, NY SNI conference held in June 1997. The Seth books were back in print, thanks to Amber-Allen and Janet Mills, as well as Jane’s Aspect Psychology books. So it was a resurgent period. It’s also when we met Mary Ennis, who channels Elias, and moved to Castaic, CA to help that fledging group publish and expand the Elias forum, which in my view, expanded many core concepts in the Seth Material.

Returning to the present, we all have similar memories with the Seth books, Jane, Rob, and Laurel over the years. My memories are not special in that respect. I share them only to show the enormous respect I have for Rob and the deep appreciation for all his work over a period of forty-five years (1963-2008). The creative legacy of Rob Butts and Jane Roberts is truly a national and global treasure!

I hope that more information will become available as the years roll by, and their legacy will continue to grow. Their work was avant garde in the truest sense of the term, it was ahead of its time, and as such, remains mostly ignored and unappreciated by large segments of the current population, most of which have no clue about the tremendous influence they had on popular culture in the 1970s and onward. After all, The Nature of Personal Reality, their best seller, coined the New Age mantra “you create your own reality.” And authorship is not nearly attributed to the primary source often enough due to continued ignorance of the channeling phenomenon. Hell, even Oprah says she was “spooked” by the Seth books when interviewing to Ester Hicks a couple years ago! Ironically, I don’t think the infamous cover of Seth Speaks helped any. J

In larger terms, Rob’s passing marks the end of the beginning of a “shift in consciousness,” or what Seth referred to as a religious reformation that would center around the “Christ entity” to be completed by 2075. Many other authors and futurists imagine this shift in their own ways. For example, physicist Peter Russell called it an approaching singularity or white hole in time, social philosopher and psychologist Ken Wilber called it the centaur stage of development that features “vision-logic,” sociologist Jean Gebser called it the integral-aperspectival structure-stage of collective evolution, John White predicted the emergence of a new species of human called homo noeticus, Elias, channeled by Mary Ennis, coined the term “shift in consciousness” in 1995 which is now used by The Institute for Noetic Sciences, author Arjuna Ardagh called it The Translucent Revolution, futurist Ray Kurzweil envisioned an Age of Spiritual Machines, and on and on we go!

In any case, Seth, Jane, and Rob created their own vision of this shift and left a legacy for us all to explore. I can’t say thank-you or express my appreciation deeply enough for pointing out that the next 50-60 years will be a time of rapid change and global transformation beyond what our wildest science fiction could predict. It will be fun to see how the Seth Material stands the test of time, and what role it, along with Jane’s wonderful Aspect Psychology, will play in foreshadowing major trends and probabilities that the collective are exploring. Will any of us will live to see the following Seth quote become reality?

“This material will take its place in the conceptual and emotional life of Western civilization, and finally will make its way throughout the world. New ideas are not accepted easily. When they take fire however, they literally sweep through the universe.” ~ The Early Sessions, Book 2, p. 314.

It’s an exciting time to be alive, and in the spirit of Seth’s Practicing Idealist we are all encouraged and challenged to live, love, and laugh each day to its fullest. Thank you Rob for your creative genius, inspiration, and humble way of living Seth’s words in the life you lived.

I also want to send my condolences, again, to Laurel Davies-Butts, who was a second wife to Rob, and helped in too many ways to mention here. We also owe her a lot, and so I’d like to say a heart-felt “thanks” to you as well. We’ll await news of any memorials to Rob and ways to help support you in the days ahead. If we can do anything, please don’t hesitate to ask. In the mean time, we will carry on and do our best until it’s our time to move to that next chapter as well.

Thank you Rob for everything! We love you, and will miss your earthly presence.

Finally, as a tribute, here is a small gallery of some of Rob’s paintings that were on display during the 1997 and 1999 SNI conferences in Elmira, NY. They were shot by Rodney Davidson. Enjoy!

Here’s the portrait painted by Stephen Bennett at the 1997 Elmira, NY conference.

Posted: Thursday, May 29, 2008 3:18 PM by Paul M. Helfrich | 4 Comments Filed under: Rob Butts Memorial, Seth Material, Rob's Paintings

Adieu, mes amis

2006-11-11T23:11:00.000-08:00

All That Is

"If you prefer, you can call the supreme psychic gestalt God, but you should not attempt to objectify him. What you call God is the sum of all consciousness, and yet the whole is more than the sum of Its parts."

"It is not one individual, but an energy gestalt. It is a psychic pyramid of interrelated, ever expanding consciousness, that creates simultaneous and instantaneously, universes and individuals that are given duration, psychic comprehension, intelligence and eternal validity. Its energy is so unbelievable that is does indeed form all universes; and because its energy is within and behind all universes, fields and systems, it is indeed aware of each sparrow that falls, for it is each sparrow that falls."

A Little Switch Up To An Abraham Quote From My Friend Sir Real

2006-11-10T00:00:00.000-08:00

l "The third Law, the Art of Allowing, says: I am that which I am, and
I am willing to allow all others to be that which they are. When you
are willing to allow others to be as they are, even in their not
allowing of you, then you will be an Allower, but it is not likely
that you will reach that point until you first come to understand how
it is you get what you get.

"Only when you understand that another cannot be a part of your
experience unless you invite them in through your thoughts (or
through your attention to them), and that circumstances cannot be a
part of your experience unless you invite them to you through your
thought (or through your observation of them), will you be the
Allower that you wanted to be when you came forth into this expression of life.

"An understanding of these three powerful Universal Laws, and a
deliberate application of them, will lead you to the joyous freedom
of being able to create your own life experience exactly as you want
it to be. Once you understand that all people, circumstances, and
events are invited into your experience by you, through your thought,
you will begin to live your life as you intended when you made the
decision to come forth into this physical body. And so, an
understanding of the powerful Law of Attraction, coupled with an
intention to Deliberately Create your own life experience, will
ultimately lead you to the unparalleled freedom that can only come
from a complete understanding and application of the Art of Allowing."

The Nature of the Psyche

2006-11-09T09:24:00.000-08:00

"In dreams you are so 'dumb' that you believe there is a commerce between the living and the dead. You are so 'irrational' as to imagine that you sometimes speak to parents who are dead. You are so 'unrealistic' that it seems to you that you visit old houses, long ago torn down, or that you travel in exotic foreign cities that you have actually never visited.

In dreams you are so 'insane' you do not feel yourself locked in a closet of time and space, but feel instead as if all infinity but waited your beckoning."

Session 758, Page 25

Seth Speaks

2006-11-08T05:24:00.000-08:00

"There is no time schedule, and yet it is very unusual for an individual to wait for anything over three centuries between lives..."

Session 541, Page 152

The Nature of the Psyche

2006-11-07T05:01:00.000-08:00

"The physical manipulation of events is indeed a psychological knack of considerable merit, in which consciousness and attention is exuberantly and wholeheartedly focused, bringing vitality and meaning to one relatively small range of activity."

Session 786, Page 138

The Early Sessions, Book 1

2006-11-06T00:00:00.000-08:00

"The fact is that your plane originated because enough entities needed certain types of experience to warrant such a creation, and they set about forming it through the process of evolution."

Session 31, Page 236

The Early Sessions, Book 6

2006-11-05T00:00:00.000-08:00

"The basis of all life and of all existence can be loosely termed intuitional. Obviously the intellect is not necessary for life."

Session 257, Page 143

The Way Toward Health

2006-11-04T00:00:00.000-08:00

"Consciously you might want to express certain abilities, while unconsciously you are afraid of doing so. The unconscious beliefs are not really unconscious, however. You are simply not as aware of them as you are of normally conscious ones. Negative beliefs can block the passageways between Framework 1 and Framework 2. It is an excellent idea for those in any kind of difficulty to do the following simple exercise. Relax yourself as much as possible. Get comfortable in a chair or on a bed. Tell yourself mentally that you are an excellent person, and that you want to reprogram yourself, getting rid of any ideas that contradict that particular statement. Next, gently remind yourself again: ‘I am an excellent person,’ adding: ‘It is good and safe for me to express my own abilities, for in doing so I express the energy of the universe itself.’ Different phrases with the same meaning may come into your own mind. If so, substitute them for the ones I have given. There are endless exercises that can be used to advantage, but here I will mention a few that appear most beneficial."

Session 6/9, Page 275

The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events

2006-11-03T00:00:00.000-08:00

"No one is as fanatical, and no one can be more cruel, than the self-righteous."

Session 856, Page 238

The Nature of the Psyche

2006-11-02T00:00:00.000-08:00

"A child is not born a sponge, however, empty but ready to soak up knowledge. It is already soaked in knowledge. Some will come to the surface, so to speak, and be used consciously. Some will not. I am saying here that to some extent the child in the womb is aware of the mother’s beliefs and information, and that to some extent it is programmed to behave in a certain fashion, or to grow in a certain fashion as a result."

Session 771, Page 72

The Unknown Reality, Volume 1

2006-11-01T00:00:00.000-08:00

"The totem pole, for example, is a remnant from an era where there was much greater communication between man and the animals -- when, in fact, men went to the animals to learn, and from them first acquired knowledge of herbs and corrective medicinal behavior."

Session 689, Page 106

The Nature of Personal Reality

2006-10-31T00:00:00.000-08:00

"Listen to your own train of thought as you go about your days. What suggestions and ideas are you giving yourself? Realize that these will be materialized in your personal experience. "

Session 615, Page 31

The Nature of Personal Reality

2006-10-30T00:00:00.000-08:00

"For best results, you must remember that ideas are as alive as the cells within your hand."

Session 632, Page 127

Seth Speaks

2006-10-29T01:53:00.000-08:00

"Those mentioned earlier who enter at the point of conception are usually highly anxious for physical existence. They will, therefore, be more fully developed and show their individual characteristics very early. They seize upon the new body and already mold it. The control over matter is vigorous, and they usually stay within the body, dying either in accidents or where death is immediate or in sleep or with a disease that strikes quickly. They are manipulators of matter as a rule."

Session 557, Page 197

The Unknown Reality, Volume 1

2006-10-28T06:57:00.000-07:00

"If you pay more attention to what you think of as coincidences, you will discover another kind of order that underlies the recognized order you follow."

Session 693, Page 135

The Nature of Personal Reality

2006-10-27T05:27:00.000-07:00

"Therefore a seeming division occurs, in which a portion of the invisible conscious mind is connected with the physical brain, and a portion of it is free of that connection. That [latter] part forms what you think of as the involuntary system of the body."

Session 626, Page 100

The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events

2006-10-26T00:00:00.000-07:00

"Children do already possess character at birth, and the entire probable intent of their lives exists then as surely as does the probable plan for the adult body they will later possess."

Session 827, Page 130

The Early Sessions, Book 5

2006-10-25T05:05:00.000-07:00

"...for the dream experiments that we plan will enable you to accumulate in time a list of primaries...it will be shortly discovered that the physical organism does not age in sleep at the same rate at which it ages in the waking state. Aging, therefore, is not a primary... A recognition of the differences between primary and secondary conditions can however allow you to minimize the effects of the secondary conditions to some considerable degree."

Session 208, Page 70

Seth Speaks

2006-10-24T00:00:00.000-07:00

"At certain depths of sleep, however, the soul’s perception operates relatively unhampered. You drink, so to speak, from the pure well of perception. You communicate with the depths of your own being, and the source of your creativity. These experiences, not being translated physically, do not remain in the morning. You do not remember them as dreams. Dreams, however, may later the same evening be formed from the information gained during what I will call the depth experience."

Session 528, Page 81

The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events

2006-10-23T00:00:00.000-07:00

"There is no such thing as a chance encounter. No death occurs by chance, nor any birth. In the creative atmosphere of Framework 2, intents are known. In a manner of speaking, no act is private."

Session 815, Page 76

The Unknown Reality, Volume 1

2006-10-22T00:00:00.000-07:00

"The picture is a relatively simple one, all in all - one in which each consciousness is assumed to be directed toward a particular focus, is ensconced in one body, with its existence bounded by birth at one end and by death at the other. Unfortunately, that picture is as limited as any one of your photographs.

You are used to examining your dream state from the viewpoint of your waking condition, but some time in the dream state try to examine your normal waking reality. Simply give yourself the instructions to do so. You may be quite surprised with the results. Speaking as simply as I can, and using concepts that you can understand, let me put it this way: From the other side - within what is loosely called the dream state there is an existence quite as valid as your own, and from that viewpoint you can be considered as the dreamer.

You are the part of you concentrating in this reality. You form it through information and through energy that on the one hand has its source outside this system, and that on the other constantly flows into this system - and so in that respect the systems are united. Give us a moment ... The same applies to all consciousness of any type or variety.

In a manner of speaking, then, your cells dream. There are minute variations of electrical discharge, not now perceivable, that could pinpoint this kind of fluctuation on the part of cells, and also on the part of atoms and molecules."

Session 699, Page 177

Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment, Volume 1

2006-10-21T00:00:00.000-07:00

"Beyond that, however, genetic messages are coded in such a way that there is a constant give-and-take between those messages and the present experience of any given individual. That is, no genetic event is inevitable."

Session 907, Page 271

Exercise: Rejuvenation your body, mind and spirit

2006-10-20T00:00:00.000-07:00

The physically attuned conscious mind in your now cannot handle those staggering probabilities while maintaining a sense of identity, yet there are conscious traces within your daily thoughts that are the psychological representations of such knowledge.

Often you do not trust your imagination, considering that it deals with phenomena that cannot be called fact. Therefore you artificially form a situation in which overall traces must be made. If you are too imaginative, for example, you may not be able to adequately deal with physical life. This applies only in the cultural media in which you presently operate, however. Originally, and in your terms of time, it was precisely the imagination that in its own way set you apart from other creatures, enabling you to form realities in your mind that you could 'later' exteriorize.

Because you now distrust the imagination so, you do not understand the great clues it gives you, both in terms of problem solving and of creative expression. Many quite valid reincarnational memories come as imaginings, but you do not trust them. A good percentage of your problems can be worked out rather easily through the use of your imagination.

Often you inadvertently use it to prolong 'negative' circumstances, as you think of all the things that you could do wrong. Yet you can employ it very constructively, altering past, present and future. To do so in your present, freely imagine a situation in which you are happy. To begin with your imaginings may seem foolish. If you are elderly, poor and lonely, it may seem highly ludicrous to think of yourself as twenty, wealthy, and surrounded by friends and admirers.

Indeed, if after such an enjoyable exercise you look about you and compare what you have envisioned with what you have, then you may feel worse than you did before. You are to realize that this imaginative world does exist - but not in the world of facts that you know. To some extent, however, according to your freedom within it, such an exercise will automatically rejuvenate your body, mind and spirit, and begin to draw to you whatever equivalent is possible for you within the world of facts that you know (emphatically).

Using age as an example now, it may seem to you that you are a given age, that within your subjective experience it must be paramount, that regardless of your age you are to some extent closed off from the experience of being any other age. In some simultaneous existences you are very young, however, and in others very old. Some of your physical cells are brand new, so to speak - the regeneration of fresh life is physically within you; in your terms this is true not only until your death but even after it, when your hair and nails can still grow. Identify then with the constantly new energy alive within you in this now of your being (very intently) and realize that on all levels you are biologically and psychologically connected with that greater identity that is your own.

No matter what your current situation, the answers lie within your own aspirations and abilities. Often you will hold down or inhibit certain aspects of your experience in order to use others - using those available will automatically free you from inhibitions in other areas.

There may be physical circumstances involving birth defects that are beyond alteration, where experience must be focused along other than usual pathways, yet even here those talents and characteristics that are available will open up vistas of experience and achievement.

When you are utilizing your imagination in the way I have suggested, purposefully do so in a playful manner, knowing that in so-called realistic terms there may be great discrepancies between imagination and fact. In your reality take that for granted. Yet often your freewheeling, 'silly,' seemingly unrealistic imagination will bring you quite practical solutions to your problems, for if the exercise is done properly you will be automatically releasing yourself from restrictions that you have taken for granted.

Even if a direct solution does not appear, rejuvenation will of itself begin to point you in the proper direction. If you are a woman in an unhappy marriage, for example, you may begin by imagining yourself with a fine suitor. No Sir Galahad may appear, but if the exercise is pursued properly you will automatically begin to feel loved, and therefore worthy of love, and lovable, where before you felt rejected, unworthy and inferior. This feeling of being loved will alter your reality, drawing love to you. You will act loved. Your spouse may then find you exhibiting characteristics of a most pleasant nature, and he himself may change.

On the other hand you may draw another man to you, and end the marriage that has served its purposes in all ways, finding now the impetus and the reasons for change. Because your imagination transcends time, it is one of your greatest touchstones to your own identity.

You must, of course, be able to distinguish between the world of imagination and the physical world of fact in order to be able to manipulate effectively. But physical reality springs from the imagination, which follows the path of your beliefs.

In the exercise just given, you use the belief in effective change in any given area, and then allow your imagination freedom along those directed lines. Such an exercise automatically does even more, opening up the window of perception and letting in the knowledge and experience of other portions of the self. As this light and energy flows through, it will be tinted or colored by your own psychological reality, as the rays of the sun are through colored glass. This simply means that the other-dimensional information will often appear in ordinary guise, through an intuitive hunch, a sudden idea, or some solution that has already occurred to you but has not been acted upon.

The Nature of Personal Reality
Session 669, Page 383

Seth Speaks

2006-10-19T00:00:00.000-07:00

"You usually glide from wakefulness through to sleep without ever noticing the various conditions of consciousness through which you pass, yet there are several. First, of course, with various degrees of spontaneity, there is the inward turn of consciousness away from physical data, from worries and concerns of the day. Then there is an undifferentiated level between wakefulness and sleep where you act as a receiver -- passive but open, in which telepathic and clairvoyant messages come to you quite easily."

Session 570, Page 249

The Nature of Personal Reality

2006-10-18T00:00:00.000-07:00

"Within the bounds of creaturehood certain things are possible and certain things are not. You cannot re-generate a limb, or grow a new one. You can cure yourself of an incurable disease if you realize that your point of power is in the present."

Session 666, Page 368

The Nature of Personal Reality

2006-10-17T06:18:00.000-07:00

"Therefore the present is your point of power in your current lifetime, as you think of it. If you assign greater force to the past, then you will feel ineffective and deny yourself your own energy."

Session 656, Page 292

The Nature of the Psyche

2006-10-16T00:00:00.000-07:00

"All That Is vibrates with desire. The denial of desire will bring you only listlessness. Those who deny desire are the most smitten by it."

Session 800, Page 219

The Nature of Personal Reality

2006-10-15T00:00:00.000-07:00

"Love, as it is often experienced, allows an individual to take his sense of self-worth from another for a time, and to at least momentarily let the other’s belief in his goodness supersede his own belief in lack of worth."

Session 661, Page 328

Exercise: Imagine where your breath goes when it leaves your body

2006-10-14T00:00:00.000-07:00

The greater your 'period' of reflection, the greater the amount of time that seems to pass between events.

You seem to think that there is an expanse of time between reincarnational existences, that one follows the other as one moment seems to follow another. Because you perceive a reality of cause and effect, you hypothesize a reality in which one life affects the next one. With your theories of guilt and punishment you often imagine that you are hampered in this existence by guilts collected in the last life - or worse, accumulated through the centuries.

These multiple existences, however, are simultaneous and open ended. In your terms the conscious mind is growing toward a realization of the part it has to play in such multidimensional reality. It is enough that you understand your part in this existence. When you fully comprehend that you form what you think of as your current reality, all else will fall into place.

Your beliefs, thoughts and feelings are instantly materialized physically. Their earthly reality occurs simultaneously with their inception, but in the world of time, lapses between appear to occur. So I say one causes the other, and I use those terms to help you understand, but all are at once. So are your multiple lives occurring as the immediate realization of your being in the natural extension of its man)-faceted abilities.

'At once' does not imply a finished state of perfection nor a cosmic situation in which all things have been done, for all things are still happening. You are still happening - but both present and future selves; and your past self is still undergoing what you think is done. Moreover, it is experiencing events that you do not recall, that your linear-attuned consciousness cannot perceive on that level.

Your body has within it the miraculous strength and creative energy with which, in your terms, it was born. You most probably take this to mean that I am implying the possibility of an unending state of youth. While youth can be physically 'prolonged' far beyond its present duration, that is not what I am saying.

Physically, your body must follow the nature into which you were born, and in that context the cycle of youth and age is highly important. In some ways, the rhythm of birth and death is like a breath taken and exhaled. Feel your own breath as it comes and goes. You are not it, yet it comes into you and leaves you, and without its continuous flow you could not physically exist. just so your lives go in and out of you - you and yet not you. And a portion of you, while letting them all go, remembers them and knows their journey.

Imagine where your breath goes when it leaves your body, how it escapes through an open window perhaps and becomes a part of the space outside, where you would never recognize it - and when it has left you it is no longer a part of what you are, for you are already different.

So the lives you have lived are not you, while they are of you. Close your eyes. Think of your breaths as lives, and you the entity through which they have passed and are passing. Then you will feel your state of grace, and all artificial guilts will be meaningless. None of this negates the supreme and utter integrity of your individuality, for you are as well the individual entity through whom the lives flow, and the unique lives that are expressed through you.

No one atom of air is like another. Each in its own way is aware and capable of entering into greater transformations and organizations, filled with infinite potential. As your breath leaves you and becomes part of the world, free, so do your lives leave you and continue to exist in your terms. You cannot confine a personality that you 'were' to a particular century that is finished and deny it other fulfillments, for even now it exists and has fresh experience. As your moment of reflection gave birth to consciousness as you think of it - for both really came together - so then can another phenomenon and kind of reflection give birth to at least some dim conscious awareness of the vast dimensions of your own reality.

The animal moves, say, through a forest. You move through psychic, psychological and mental areas in the same way. Through his senses the animal gets messages from distant areas that he cannot directly perceive, and of which he is largely unaware. And so do you.

Session 636, Page 154

The Nature of Personal Reality

2006-10-13T00:00:00.000-07:00

"In each person’s experience, there are areas with which he or she is pleased. When you find yourself dissatisfied, however, question the orders you are giving in that particular arena of experience. The results do not seem, now, to follow your conscious desires. But you will find that they do follow your conscious beliefs, which may be quite different."

Session 659, Page 311

The Early Sessions, Book 7

2006-10-12T00:00:00.000-07:00

"This is a cornerstone for consciousness and for personality development. It is only a first step, however. Without it, no further development of consciousness can occur. This particular step is not attained by all within your system. You are at this point now. This state has been called cosmic consciousness, but it is hardly that. The next step is taken when identity is able to include within itself the intimate knowledge of all incarnations. Yet in this state the independence of the various reincarnated selves is not diminished."

Session 309, Page 227

Seth Speaks

2006-10-11T00:13:00.000-07:00

"The methods, the secret methods behind all of the religions, were meant to lead man into a realm of understanding that existed apart from the symbols and the stories, into inner realizations that would take him both within and without the physical world that he knew."

Session 568, Page 240

Seth Speaks

2006-10-10T04:26:00.000-07:00

"Your rate of learning depends entirely upon you, however. Limited, dogmatic, or rigid concepts of good and evil can hold you back. Too narrow ideas of the nature of existence can follow you through several lives if you do not choose to be spiritually and psychically flexible."

Session 550, Page 170

The Way Toward Health

2006-10-09T00:00:00.000-07:00

"When you become too serious you overwork your intellect and tire your body, for then it seems that your entire life depends upon the reasoning of your intellect alone. Instead, of course, your intellectual abilities are supported and promoted by that inner mixture of spontaneity and order that so magically combine to form both your reality and the reality of the world."

Session 2/xx, Page 137

The Nature of the Psyche

2006-10-08T00:00:00.000-07:00

"The language of the psyche, however is far richer and more varied. Its words spring alive. Its verbs really move, and do not simply signify or stand for, motion (emphatically). Its nouns become what they signify Its declensions are multidimensional. Its verbs and nouns can become interchangeable. In a way the psyche is its own language."

Session 781, Page 115

Seth Speaks

2006-10-07T04:58:00.000-07:00

"To prevent an over identification of the individual with his present sex, within the male there resides an inner personification of femaleness. This personification of femaleness in the male is the true meaning of what Jung called the anima."

Session 555, Page 184

Seth Speaks

2006-10-06T00:00:00.000-07:00

"Inner vibrational touch is a much more personal experience, more like becoming a part of that which you perceive, rather than for example a reading of an aura."

Session 581, Page 306

The Early Sessions, Book 8

2006-10-05T00:00:00.000-07:00

"Knowledge automatically changes the personality and the camouflage structure through which it flows. Knowledge, in other words, is action."

Session 412, Page 294

The Early Sessions, Book 7

2006-10-04T05:36:00.000-07:00

"None of us are ever equipped, for general purposes, to perceive reality in all of its forms. The pyramid gestalts can do this, and we help the pyramid gestalts perform this feat. But as a rule we must pick and choose. There is too much for any consciousness to digest except those so highly developed that even I know little of them."

Session 297, Page 138

The Early Sessions, Book 7

2006-10-03T04:00:00.000-07:00

"Indiscriminate use of the psychedelic drugs can severely shake up learned patterns of response, that are necessary for effective manipulation within physical reality, break subtle connections and disturb electromagnetic functions. Ego failure may result. Development of the inner senses is a much more effective method of perceiving other realities, and consciousness even of physical reality is increased."

Session 285, Page 33

From the Online Seth Group

2006-10-02T04:00:00.000-07:00

Clarification: Seth on when exterior manipulations DO WORK

Seth (ESP Class, 1-27-69):

“If there is one message I would give to you all, it is that there is no justification for killing – there is no justification for hatred – there is no justification for violence.

It may occur, but those who indulge in violence are themselves
changed, and the purity of their purpose adulterated. They are no
longer the selves that they were.

“In the past, with few exceptions, attempts have been made to change
the external situation. I have told you that if you look around you
and do not like the world that you see, then it is yourselves
individually and en masse that you must change. For this is the only
way that change will be effected. And if your generation or any
generation would ever effect a change – this is the only way change
will be effected.

“What I am telling you has been told throughout the centuries and the
people have not listened. It is up to you now (Sue and Carl) whether
or not you listen. It is wrong to curse a flower, and it is wrong to
curse any man. And it is wrong not to hold any man in honor and it is
wrong to ridicule any man. You honor yourselves. You see within
yourselves the spirit of eternal vitality, and you honor it and you
treat yourselves in that manner as gods. If you do not do this, then
you destroy all that you touch. And you honor each other individual
also, because in him is the spark of eternal vitality.”
# Alice Says:
October 1st, 2006 at 11:38 am e

Seth (ESP Class, 11-21-73):

“Now, the enemy does not need a Seth any more than you do to tell them to lay down their arms. They need their own inner selves. And, if one side lays down its arms, the other side will realize there is no need for arms.

“Now you cannot understand this now, and yet I tell you that your own
preoccupation with arms, as a country, is received by others, and
your own thoughts are materialized, and you create wars in your minds
that then must be faced with your flesh and your blood. And no drop
of blood flows, as in Ruburt’s form, that does not first flow in your
mind, and in all of your minds.

“And there is no other way to have peace but to believe in peace.

“As I speak here, others also speak in other countries, as they have
in other times. And you have not listened! And, in not listening, you
continue to create the reality that you have. And, in creating that
reality in the world that you know, and in time as you understand it,
you return again and again–sons who have been slain on the
battleground are born as women, who then bring up their fine sons to
repeat once again the old history. So it shall be done to you as you
do.

“And, as you think, so is your world. The reality that you have is a
replica of your thoughts. If you do not like the world, you must
change your thoughts and no exterior manipulation will change the
face of your experience one iota, if you do not change your dreams
and your thoughts.”

The Early Sessions, Book 9

2006-10-01T02:34:00.000-07:00

"In your terms the selves that are the sum of your reincarnational personalities. These whole selves then are a part of your entity."

Session 507, Page 428

The Unknown Reality, Volume 1

2006-09-30T07:02:00.000-07:00

"Reincarnation simply represents probabilities in a time context."

Session 683, Page 52

The Nature of Personal Reality

2006-09-29T06:53:00.000-07:00

"Because you now distrust the imagination so, you do not understand the great clues it gives you, both in terms of problem solving and of creative expression. Many quite valid reincarnational memories come as imaginings, but you do not trust them. A good percentage of your problems can be worked out rather easily through the use of your imagination."

Session 669, Page 383

The Nature of Personal Reality

2006-09-28T04:00:00.000-07:00

"To change the physical effect you must change the original belief -- while being quite aware that for a time physical materializations of the old beliefs may still hold. If you completely understand what I am saying, however, your new beliefs will -- and quickly -- being to show themselves in your experience. But you must not be concerned for their emergence, for this brings up the fear that the new ideas will not materialize, and so this negates your purpose."

Session 620, Page 72

The Early Sessions, Book 4

2006-09-27T05:19:00.000-07:00

"Within your system colors may be perceived as sound. Their connections with human moods is only too apparent."

Session 155, Page 32

The Early Sessions, Book 9

2006-09-26T05:08:00.000-07:00

"Concentration in any given area predisposes certain elements within the nervous system toward that particular kind of focus or concentration, as many footfalls hollow out a pathway. Now this is somewhat understood in your scientific circles. What is not understood is that the same sort of conditioning also operates, not only in the reaction to events but in the formation of events. You predispose yourselves toward the construction of events of a particular nature, to which of course you then react. "

Session 472, Page 279

The Unknown Reality, Volume 2

2006-09-25T05:22:00.000-07:00

"The course of a cell is not predetermined. Cells are usually very cooperative, particularly as they form the structures of the body."

Session 730, Page 530

The Early Sessions, Book 7

2006-09-24T09:37:00.000-07:00

"When you awaken, or seem to in the middle of the night, try simply to get out of the physical body. Simply try to get out of bed, you see, and walk into another room while the physical body stays where it is. If you keep this in mind, generally speaking, then you will find yourself able to do so within a brief time."

Session 298, Page 143

The Early Sessions, Book 2

2006-09-23T12:36:00.000-07:00

"The barriers are yours. The barriers are camouflage. It is ridiculous to develop camouflage vehicles to deal with camouflage space, when all that is necessary is that you realize that camouflage is camouflage."

Session 47, Page 44

The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events

2006-09-22T00:54:00.000-07:00

"It is somewhat of a psychological trick, in your day and age, to come to the realization that you do in fact form your experience and your world, simply because the weight of evidence seems to be so loaded at the other end, because of your habits of perception. The realization is like one that comes at one time or another to many people in the dream state, when suddenly they awaken while still in the dream, realizing first of all that they are dreaming, and secondarily that they are themselves creating the experienced drama. To understand that you create your own reality requires that same kind of awakening from the normal awake state"

Session 830, Page 149

The Early Sessions, Book 6

2006-09-21T00:00:00.000-07:00

"You see, in the waking state you direct your energy into the manipulation and construction of objects. In some respects this dissipates the energy, of course. In the dream state you manipulate energy more directly. This is what you are doing of course in self-hypnosis."

Session 254, Page 119

The Early Sessions, Book 1

2006-09-20T04:01:00.000-07:00

"The emotions come closer than anything else to the vividness of inner data."

Session 24, Page 188

The Nature of the Psyche

2006-09-19T04:15:00.000-07:00

"In the same way, a steps-by-step illustration of the nature of the dream state might well make you too self-conscious. (Humorously:) You would begin to question: Am I dreaming right? Many people are in awe of their dreams. They are afraid anything they do not consciously control. Yet if you think of your dreams as extensions of your own experience in another context, then you can indeed learn?? to gain ease with them. You will recall them more easily, and as you do you will be able to maintain a sense of continuity between the waking and dream states."

Session 790, Page 160

The Nature of Personal Reality

2006-09-18T04:00:00.000-07:00

"I told you that thoughts are translated into this inner sound, but thoughts always attempt to materialize themselves also. As such they are incipient images, collectors of energy. They build up their own embryonic form until it is in one way or another physically translated."

Session 624, Page 90

The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events

2006-09-17T09:49:00.000-07:00

"Left alone, the body can defend itself against any disease, but it cannot defend itself appropriately against an exaggerated general fear of disease on the individual’s part."

Session 804, Page 41

The Nature of Personal Reality

2006-09-16T04:17:00.000-07:00

"Do not place the words of gurus, ministers, priests, scientists, psychologists, friends -- or my words -- higher than the feelings of your own being."

Session 677, Page 433

The Early Sessions, Book 8

2006-09-15T01:48:00.000-07:00

"The very deep love that you have for each other, my dear friends, is in the overall a bisexual love, for you have known each other many times, and in different sex roles."

Session 399, Page 213

The Nature of Personal Reality

2006-09-14T07:06:00.000-07:00

"The knowledge that your beliefs are not necessarily reality will allow you to be aware of all the data that is consciously available to you."

Session 616, Page 34

The Early Sessions, Book 6

2006-09-13T00:15:00.000-07:00

"The object represents your interpretation of the basic reality."

Session 267, Page 228

The Way Toward Health

2006-09-12T04:21:00.000-07:00

"People with life-threatening diseases also often feel that further growth, development, or expansion are highly difficult, if not impossible to achieve at a certain point in their lives. Often there are complicated family relationships that the person does not know how to handle. To numbers of such individuals crisis points come and are conquered. Somehow the person learns to circumnavigate the unpleasant situation, or the conditions change because of other people involved - and presto: the disease itself vanishes."

Session 6/10, Page 272

The Early Sessions, Book 4

2006-09-11T04:56:00.000-07:00

"A cure of any kind will never depend upon any given treatment. It will in all cases depend upon the belief on the part of the sufferer that he can be cured. It will depend upon his desire to be cured. It will depend upon the strength of the purpose that an illness serves. It will depend upon, in the last analysis, the individual’s own ability to mobilize his own energies, for only these will effect a cure."

Session 159, Page 67

The Early Sessions, Book 6

2006-09-10T10:16:00.000-07:00

"Your brain is itself a camouflage pattern. It can only translate and perceive what seems to be the evidence of the physical senses. It cannot step outside of itself. It is that which it attempts to investigate. It is as much camouflage as the glass on the table, and its knowledge must come through the physical system. Now. The mind is uncamouflaged. It perceives the uncamouflaged reality of sense data, or it sees the energy that exists. It sees the energy independently of the physical objects, you see."

Session 267, Page 228

The Way Toward Health

2006-09-09T05:09:00.000-07:00

"All creatures are also born, then, with a keen sense of self-approval. Each creature is born proud of itself, and loving itself. That same self-approval is also experienced in varying ways not only by creatures as you think of them, but also by atoms and molecules, and by all orders of matter."

Session 2/xx, Page 98

The Seth Material

2006-09-08T04:21:00.000-07:00

[This is from the digest of an online Seth group]

"There is never any justification for violence.

There is no justification for hatred.

There is no justification for murder.

Those who indulge in violence for whatever reason are themselves changed, and the purity of the purpose adulterated.

"I have told you that if you do not like the state of your world, it is yourselves that you must change, individually and en masse. This is the only way that change will be effected."

Here Seth stared at Carl and said "If your generation or any generation effects a change, this is the only way it will be done.

What I am telling you has been said before through the centuries. It is up to you [nodding at Sue and Carl] as to whether or not you will listen.

"It is wrong to curse a flower and wrong to curse a man. It is wrong not to hold any man in honor, and it is wrong to ridicule any man.

You must honor yourselves and see within yourselves the spirit of eternal vitality. If you do not do this, then you destroy what you touch.

And you must honor each other individual also, because in him is the spark of eternal vitality.

"When you curse another, you curse yourselves, and the curse returns to you.

When you are violent, the violence returns....I speak to you because yours is the opportunity [to better world conditions] and yours is the time.

Do not fall into the old ways that will lead you precisely into the world that you fear.

"When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. As long as you fight for gain and greed, there will be no peace.

As long as one person commits acts of violence for the sake of peace, you will have war.

Unfortunately it is difficult to imagine that all the young men in all of the countries will refuse to go to war at the same time. And so you must work out the violence that violence has wrought.

Within the next hundred years that time may come. Remember, you do not defend any idea with violence.

"There is no man who hates but that that hatred is reflected outward and made physical. And there is no man who loves but that that love is reflected outward and made physical."

pages 273-274 (chapter eighteen)

The Early Sessions, Book 9

2006-09-07T05:48:00.000-07:00

"The race also realizes well the advantages and disadvantages of the physical reality it has adopted. It knows for example that there is a tendency to go extremes. I mentioned earlier that the rewards, the challenges and the dangers exist precisely because so much freedom is allowed. Now. Those within the system know this. Regardless of what you may think of their present performance at any given "time" in quotes, it is from this system that the greatest potentials emerge; for having dealt with it, consciousness undergoes one of the severest tests in learning to handle its own energy. The horror and the results of mismanagement, and the vulnerability, are the teaching methods that each consciousness has accepted before entering your system. There is no way out but to learn or to ruin the entire system. In no other field of reality are the terms so drastic. For this reason the inner self withholds much of its knowledge. There must be no leaning upon the very basic fact that behind and within the system there is relief. You must believe in the physical reality and accept the vulnerability."

Session 498, Page 370

The Unknown Reality, Volume 1

2006-09-06T07:21:00.000-07:00

"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."

Session 681, Page 31

Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment, Volume 2

2006-09-05T00:05:00.000-07:00

"I do not, therefore, want you to concentrate your efforts in memorizing methods of perceiving other realities, but to realize that such insights are everywhere within your grasp. If you understand that, then you will rearrange the organization of your own thoughts quite by yourself."

Session 940, Page 535

Seth Speaks

2006-09-04T00:05:00.000-07:00

"The experiment that would transform your world would operate upon the basic idea that you create your own reality according to the nature of your beliefs, and that all existence was blessed, and that evil did not exist in it. If these ideas were followed individually and collectively, then the evidence of your physical senses would find no contradiction. They would perceive the world and existence as good. This is the experiment that has not been tried, and these are the truths that you must learn after physical death."

Session 546, Page 192 (original Prentice-Hall)

The Early Sessions, Book 3

2006-09-03T06:06:00.000-07:00

"The ego is a state resulting from the third creative dilemma, which happens when consciousness of self attempts to separate itself from action. Since this is obviously impossible, since no consciousness or identity can exist without action, because they are inseparable, we have our third dilemma. A note of further explanation here. The difference between consciousness of self as a result of our second dilemma, and ego consciousness as a result of our third dilemma, should be made very clear. Consciousness of self involves a consciousness of self within, amid, and as a part of action. Ego consciousness, on the other hand, involves a state in which consciousness of self attempts to divorce itself from action, an attempt on the part of consciousness to perceive action as an object. Here we see that ego consciousness, in this attempt, strives to perceive action not only as separate, but to perceive it in such a fashion that it appears to ego that action is not only separate from itself, that is separate from the ego, but that action is initiated by the ego, and a result rather than a cause of ego’s own existence. These three dilemmas represent three areas of reality within which inner reality, or inner vitality, can experience itself. And here we have also the reason, or one of the reasons why, inner vitality can never achieve complete materialization. The very action involved in vitality’s attempt to materialize itself adds to the inner dimension of inner vitality. Action basically can never complete itself. Inner vitality, materializing in any form whatsoever, at once multiplies the possibilities of further materialization. At the same time, because inner vitality is self-generating, only a minute fraction of inner vitality is needed to seed a whole universe. Inner vitality attempts therefore to materialize itself completely, and yet because of its very nature, with each materialization it increases itself, making the attempt impossible. This is the basic dilemma, from which all types of reality spring. This of course leads us to the necessity for further discussion concerning the nature of inner vitality itself"

Session 138, Page 289

The Early Sessions, Book 2

2006-09-02T08:15:00.000-07:00

As far as self and notself are concerned, the unit of self is organized, as you by the inner ego, which directs the whole energy field. The outer ego directs the manipulation of this gestalt in the physical universe. The outer ego is rather more tied to physical properties, and yet it can directly experience inner reality by a change of focus through aligning itself with the inner ego, focusing its energies with the inner rather than the outer senses. This is by far the most advantageous method of experiencing inner reality, because the outer ego is therefore consciously aware of what has been going on, and can use such knowledge in its own sphere."

Session 58, Page 125

Seth Speaks

2006-09-01T07:30:00.000-07:00

"One prerequisite for such an intuitive understanding of the soul is the desire to achieve it. If the desire is strong enough, then you will be automatically led to experiences that will result in vivid, unmistakable subjective knowledge."

Session 527, Page 77

The Nature of Personal Reality

2006-08-31T05:58:00.000-07:00

"In your mind, therefore, see those probable abilities or events taking place. As you do, the intensity of your desire brings them into your experience."

Session 655, Page 288

The Early Sessions, Book 8

2006-08-30T06:21:00.000-07:00

"This is not the Cayce material, with information seemingly coming from some vast storehouse of knowledge. In those terms no such storehouse exists. Knowledge does not exist independently of the one who knows. Someone gave Cayce the material. It did not come out of thin air. It came from an excellent source, a pyramid gestalt personality, with definite characteristics, but the alien nature of the personality was too startling to Cayce, and he could not perceive it."

Session 417, Page 317

Seth Speaks

2006-08-29T06:28:00.000-07:00

The inner experience with the multidimensional God can come in two main areas. One is through the realization that this prime moving force is within everything that you can perceive with your senses. The other method is to realize that this primary motive force has a reality independent of its connection with the world of appearances. All personal contact with the multidimensional God, all legitimate moments of mystic consciousness, will always have a unifying effect. They will not, therefore, isolate the individual involved, but instead will enlarge his perceptions until he will experience the reality and uniqueness of as many other aspects of reality of which he is capable. He will feel, therefore, less isolated and less set apart. He will not regard himself as being above others because of the experience. On the contrary he will be swept along in a gestalt of comprehension in which he realizes his own oneness with All That Is." />

Session 561, Page 208

The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events

2006-08-28T05:02:00.000-07:00

"Those involved in such disasters - the survivors - often use such larger-than-life circumstances in order to participate in affairs that seem to have greater import than those possessed by previous humdrum existences. They seek the excitement, whatever its consequences. They become a part of history to whatever extent. For once their private lives are identified with a greater source - and from it many derive new strength and vitality. Social barriers are dropped, economic positions forgotten. The range of private emotions is given greater, fuller, sweep."

Session 821, Page 99

The Early Sessions, Book 8

2006-08-27T10:23:00.000-07:00

"It is as if any artist finished a painting, and instead of going to a new one he does countless variations of the original, without realizing what he is doing. This is a between-plane existence, and legends refer to it as purgatory."

Session 396, Page 198

The Nature of Personal Reality

2006-08-26T04:21:00.000-07:00

Exercise: Replacing Negative Images with Constructive Ones

2006-08-25T23:56:00.000-07:00

There is an inability to handle his own energy- At times his own energy frightens him, and then it seems to abandon him completely. Here, however, he has abandoned it, for he succumbs easily to negative suggestions. Because he is sensitive to various elements, he also soaks up atmosphere and suggestions like a sponge, and he has not learned to protect himself.

In poor periods he is almost completely vulnerable to negative suggestion, so that it operates through his own psychic and physical system. He should then often give himself the following suggestion: I will only react to constructive suggestions. You may take a break and we shall continue.

Now, listen to me. When you find yourself facing such negative images in your mind and projecting them into the future, you should at once mentally wipe out that image and replace it with a constructive image, seeing yourself, for example, sitting in command of a well-ordered room.

This must be done immediately and upon every such occasion and under every such circumstance. This exercise will indeed wipe out the previous negative image.

You must mentally wipe out the negative image, for example. If you think that tomorrow Johnny F will misbehave in study hall, you should, in your mind, replace this with the image of Johnny F behaving very well. In the first place, if you imagine that a particular student will misbehave, you are automatically sending him a telepathic message to that effect. If he is highly susceptible to suggestion, he will carry out the suggestions that you have given.

When you replace this with a constructive thought, you are sending that constructive suggestion to which he will also react. Any time you see yourself in your mind as unhealthy or staggering, you must immediately wipe the image away and make an effort to see instead a mental image of yourself as healthy and strong.

Such images affect your whole physical system through the manufacture of hormones and chemicals. Suggestions, whether given to you or given by you, cause an emotional situation that automatically affects the production of hormones and chemicals.

I told you to tell yourself- I will only react to constructive suggestions. If however, you find yourself harboring a negative suggestion, then instantly counter it by replacing it with a constructive one.

This can be compared and correctly to errors in a painting. When you are in a poor state of mind, you automatically affect the others you meet, negatively. You then react to their behavior and complete the circle. Now this leads into a highly charged emotional environment, which is the cause of the depressions of which you have spoken.

When the peak is reached then self-pity controls your emotions so completely that there seems to be no escape. In a mood of self-pity there is indeed an almost perverted luxury, the luxury of despair, for despair says: There is nothing I can do, and relieves you of any responsibility for change. This applies not to you only but to such a state in general. You become incapable of getting out of yourself, even to the extent of enjoying small pleasures and, little by little it seems every joy is withdrawn from you until nothing is left but despair.

This is caused by the culmination of negative suggestions and of negative thought. They build up until you can take it no longer. In the natural state of affairs, however, sooner or later, some highly charged positive suggestion then begins to clear the emotional air.

The Early Sessions, Book I
Session 332, Page 333-334

Seth Speaks

2006-08-24T04:14:00.000-07:00

"In a light trance the meaning of dream symbols will be given to you if you ask for them."

Session 570, Page 252

The Nature of the Psyche

2006-08-23T00:03:00.000-07:00

"In larger terms, it is as natural for a man to love a man, and for a woman to love a woman, as it is to show love for the opposite sex. For that matter, it is more natural to be bisexual."

Session 769, Page 61

The Nature of Personal Reality

2006-08-22T06:52:00.000-07:00

"The hypnotist then acts as a parent substitute. In cases of therapy, an individual is already frightened, and because of the beliefs in your civilization he looks not to himself but to an authority figure for help."

Session 659, Page 312

The Early Sessions, Book 4

2006-08-21T04:24:00.000-07:00

"The conscious mind, the ego, must be momentarily diverted, so that the intuitive self is allowed freedom."

Session 186, Page 251

The Early Sessions, Book 3

2006-08-20T04:26:00.000-07:00

"These subpersonalities are not unconscious to themselves. They are conscious of themselves but they are not conscious of themselves in relation to other selves. They are conscious of needs and drives, and of their existence.... When the outer ego is narrow, and poorly represents these subdominant personalities then they rise up in arm, and when conditions are favorable attempt to express themselves through a momentary weakness on the part of the dominant ego. But without even doing this they may momentarily take over or express themselves through a single function, such as speech or motion, while the outer ego is blissfully unaware. "

Session 119, Page 207

The Way Toward Health

2006-08-19T00:06:00.000-07:00

"For one thing, again, almost all situations, including the most drastic, can be changed for the better to some extent, and the very attempt to do so increase a person’s sense of control over his or her own circumstances."

Session 6/17, Page 291

The Nature of the Psyche

2006-08-18T00:45:00.000-07:00

"This direct kind of knowledge is available, again, on any subject, to anyone who provides a suitable pattern through desire, love, intent or belief."

Session 763, Page 39

The Way Toward Health

2006-08-17T00:17:00.000-07:00

"The mind grows wiser with age when it is allowed to do so. There is even an acceleration of thought and inspiration, much like that experience in the adolescent years. that suddenly brings a new understanding to the aged individual, and provides an impetus that should help the person to achieve greater comprehension - a comprehension that should quell all fears of death."

Session 1/xx, Page 170

The Way Toward Health

2006-08-16T04:50:00.000-07:00

"We must also remember, however, that in a fashion BELIEFS THEMSELVES ARE TOOLS, and that in some situations beliefs that seem quite negative can also clear the way for more beneficial ones. With all of this discussion of negative beliefs, therefore, it is a good idea not to call any beliefs BAD or evil in themselves. They are no more bad or evil in their own way, say, than viruses are in theirs. If you look upon them in that manner, you will avoid being overwhelmed by what seems to be an endless parade of negative thoughts and beliefs that can only lead to destruction. Instead, compare the negative beliefs, for example, with the STORMS that sweep the country: they have their purposes - and all in all those purposes tend to promote and support life itself."

Session 5/31, Page 241

The Unknown Reality, Volume 2

2006-08-15T00:06:00.000-07:00

"The effects of objectivity are caused as the psyche projects its experience into inner dimensions that it has itself created"

Session 711, Page 331

The Early Sessions, Book 5

2006-08-14T05:46:00.000-07:00

"It must be understood however that these other portions of the self are incapable of the ego’s intense focus within physical reality. Their focus is elsewhere. However, these selves are not limited as is the ego to one main field of perception only"

Session 219, Page 171

Seth on Killing

2006-08-13T00:16:00.000-07:00

This is from the Seth group online:
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Hi Everyone,
Here is facinating Seth quote on how killing is wrong, and eventually we won't have to kill to exist (kill for food); and also how there is no punishment involved.
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Seth (Session 32): Jane was very upset over the killing of starlings by the police.

Seth responds: "Killing except for self-protection will be paid for. The idea of killing is what is at fault. If you agree with the killing of birds for example, you wind up with the killing of men. You will be taught the sacredness of all life, and in the most practical way."

Rob: "How about our killing animals for food?"

Seth: "On your plane the hunter and the prey system is at this time a necessary one but it will not always be this way. A time will come when you will not have to kill in order to exist, and the balance of nature will take care of itself. This time is sooner on the way than you think. In your country if there is peace, you will see its beginning in your lifetimes."

Rob: "Does this include doing away with slaughterhouses?"

Seth: "It most certainly does. This involves your own intellectual technology, which will be able to maintain its population with synthetic proteins. However this technological development will come first; unfortunately the corresponding ethical evolution will follow after. There is a very practical reason for a reverence of all life, and very practical reasons why man must learn certain facts that up to this point he has considered impractical. He has usually managed to separate his ethical conceptions from his daily business life, but this shall be increasingly difficult for him to manage. Until you learn reverence for all living things you will continue to slaughter each other. Again, this does not involve punishment in any sense of the word. but the idea of killing permissiveness is not discriminating. Once you allow yourselves to kill you will kill any living thing. In future lives this involves the race in further adjustments."

The Nature of Personal Reality

2006-08-12T04:22:00.000-07:00

"By recognizing these differences and honestly following the feelings through -- in other words, by riding the emotions -- you will be led to the beliefs behind them. A series of self-revelations will inevitably result, each leading you to further creative psychological activity. At each stage you will be closer to the reality of your experience than you have ever been."

Session 644, Page 214

Seth Speaks

2006-08-11T04:27:00.000-07:00

"As a preliminary to the methods I will give later, it is a good idea to ask yourself now and then: What am I actually conscious of at this time? Do this when your eyes open, and again when they are closed. When your eyes are open, do not take for granted that only the immediately perceivable objects exist. Look where space seems empty, and listen in the middle of silence."

Session 539, Page 140a

The Nature of Personal Reality

2006-08-10T01:50:00.000-07:00

"In your mind, therefore, see those probable abilities or events taking place. As you do, the intensity of your desire brings them into your experience."

Session 655, Page 288

The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events

2006-08-09T01:51:00.000-07:00

"In certain terms the past, present, and future [of your present life] are all compressed in any given moment of your experience. Any such moment is therefore a gateway into all of your existence."

Session 806, Page 59

Exercise: Broadcasting your altered position

2006-08-08T00:22:00.000-07:00

When someone who has been ill starts on the road to recovery through changing his beliefs, he may be quite surprised to find even his dearest allies suddenly upset, reminding him of the "reality" of his dire state for the same reasons.

Because beliefs form reality - the structure of experience - any change in beliefs altering that structure initiates change to some extent, of course. The status quo which served a certain purpose is gone, new exercises are introduced, another creative process begins. Because your private beliefs are shared with others, because there is interaction, then any determined change of direction on your part is felt by others, and they will react in their own fashion.

You are setting out to experience the most fulfilled reality that you can. To do this you have, hopefully, begun to examine your beliefs. You may want others to change. In doing so you begin with yourself. I told you (in the 619th session) to imagine a game in which you see yourself acting in line with the new desired belief. As you do so, see yourself affecting others in the new fashion.

See them reacting to you in the new way. This is highly important because telepathically you are sending them interior messages. You are telling them that you are changing the conditions and behavior of your relationship. You are broadcasting your altered position.

Some will be quite able to understand you at that level. There may be those who need the old framework, and someone, if not you, to play the part you played before. Those people will either drop out of your experience or you must drop them from yours.

Once more, if you think of daily life as an ever-moving three-dimensional painting with you as the artist, then you will realize that as your beliefs change so will your experience. You must accept the idea completely, however, that your beliefs form your experience. Discard those beliefs that are not bringing you those effects you want. In the meantime you will often be in the position of telling yourself that something is true in the face of physical data that seems completely contradictory. You may say, "I live amid abundance and am free from want," while your eyes tell you that the desk is piled with bills. You must realize that you are the one who produced that "physical evidence" that still faces you, and you did so through your beliefs.

So as you alter the belief, the physical evidence will gradually begin to "prove" your new belief as faithfully as it did your old one. You must work with your own ideas. While there are general categories of beliefs, and general reasons for them, you must become personally aware of your own, for no one person is completely like any other. The old beliefs served a purpose and fulfilled a need.

As mentioned earlier you may have believed that of itself poverty was more spiritual than abundance, or that you were basically unworthy and should therefore punish yourself by being poor.

According to your energy, power and intensity, you can help change the beliefs of many people, of course.

In your daily physical life you are usually concerned simply with changing your beliefs about yourself, and then changing the beliefs others hold about you. You will find conflicting beliefs within yourself and you must become aware of these. As an example, you may believe that you want to understand the nature of your inner self - you may tell yourself you want to remember your dreams, but at the same time still hold a belief in the basic unworthiness of the self, and be quite frightened of remembering your dreams because of what you might find there.

It does no good in such a case to bemoan the situation and say, "I want to understand myself but I'm frightened that I will not like what I find." You yourself must change your beliefs. You must stop believing that the inner self is a dungeon of unsavory repressed emotion. It does contain some repressed emotion. It also contains great intuition, knowledge, and the answers to all of your questions.

Listen to your own conversation as you speak with friends, and to theirs. See how you reinforce each other's beliefs. See how your imaginations often follow the same lines. All of this is quite out in the open if you realize that it is.

The Early Sessions, Book 6

2006-08-07T00:14:00.000-07:00

"Your waking consciousness only participates in projections as a rule when you are in a period of high vitality, and exceptional health. On occasion the waking consciousness does participate during other usually very depressed periods. But generally speaking high energy is needed in order to maintain overall stability, and in order that the ego is not overstrained ...It is the same with the conscious retention of dreams in general. You are indeed exercising what amounts to an added ability."

Session 277, Page 304

The Early Sessions, Book 7

2006-08-06T01:08:00.000-07:00

"If you are awakened for any reason during the night, the chances for a conscious projection on your return to sleep are somewhat higher than they would have been had your sleep not been interrupted."

Session 290, Page 70

Seth Speaks

2006-08-05T00:47:00.000-07:00