Seth: “Now, each of you, to some degree or another, believe that the universe is not safe, and therefore you must set up your defences against it,” Seth said one summer evening. “Now, the one-line official consciousness with which you are familiar says, “The world is not safe. I cannot trust it. Nor can I trust the conditions of experience, or the conditions of my own existence. Nor can I trust myself. I can look at a squirrel and rejoice, but I cannot look at myself and rejoice, for lo I am filled with iniquity, and I am, to some extent, evil, and I must hide myself. I am not only evil, as myself, but I come from a tainted and flawed race, and my father and my mother are tainted before me, and I send those tragic flaws before me into the future, and therefore I must need protect myself, and I must set up my defence in whatever way I can, to protect myself in a universe that I cannot trust, and to protect myself from a self that is evil and flawed.
“You have an entire civilisation and world set up about those beliefs I have just given you: that the universe is not safe; that you must defend yourselves from enemies that come from without, and worst of all, from enemies that are within. And so indeed do you feel uneasy, and set up your barriers, and run as fast as you can, in whatever way given you, from those enemies that are the result of a one-line official consciousness.
“As long as you believe that you dwell in a universe that is a threat, you must defend yourself against it. As long as you believe that the self is flawed, and that your race is damned and evil, you must defend yourself against yourself, and how can you then trust the voice of the psyche?
“And when I say to you, “Be spontaneous, ” how dare you take that step, when to be spontaneous would obviously give rise to all the lust, and all the passion, and all the murder, and all the hatred, to you quite obviously inherent in the human heart? And so you say, “I will try to be spontaneous, but how can I? I believe that I am good, but how can I be good when I come from a race that is evil?”
You try to say, “The universe is safe,” and then you watch the news on television, or you read the newspaper and you say, “What lie is this? How can the universe be safe when I read about wholesale murder, and war, and trickery, and greed? How can I be myself, for if I am myself, will I not unleash unto the world only more of the horror that I see about me, for surely human nature cannot change, and human nature is evil. Look what evil it has already worked upon the planet in which I have my existence; then tell me, Seth, be spontaneous. What do you ask of me, and how can I therefore in this context stand upon the authority of my own psyche and say, “I insist that I am good?”
“The official line of consciousness forms a world about it, and you perceive and experience that world, and it will always show you the results of the beliefs that are inherent in the official line of consciousness. While you devote yourself to that official line of consciousness, the world will always appear the same: evil, disastrous, bound only for damnation, whether through nuclear destruction, or the greater judgement of a fundamental god.”
Conversations with Seth, book one, chapter 12, pages 234-235
March 2012
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Good evening.
(“Good evening, Seth.)
Now. If you paint a picture, its overall quality comes from the inner atmosphere
of your being. In the same manner, you create your physical image and your
world. If anything in that physical image or world needs changing, the change
must first be made in the atmosphere of the inner self For this projection of
inner into outer is automatic. Understanding the processes involved is of great
benefit. The physical self seems (underlined) to react to physical stimuli.
Actually, of course, it is reacting to its own reality, projected outward.
The
objects in the physical universe are but symbols to express other realities
existing within private realms. The inner will always be projected outward
within your system.
If, for example, a letter comes to you bearing good news, and you react to the
letter with high spirits, then you should understand that the high spirits
existed first, and created the materialization of the letter within the physical
systems, through the multilayered and complicated reactions that bind together
the physical system. If an annoying letter arrives and you react to it
negatively, the negative quality preceded the letter and caused it to
materialize in your system.
Now you do not force someone to write such a letter, you see.
You broadcast the
negative feelings,
which were then picked up by whomever was ready to receive
them, for their own purposes.
I cannot emphasize too strongly that this is
automatic. I do not want to put it in such a way that it is oversimplified.
Neither do I want it to get too involved in too many complications. The
intensity of the inner feeling is the dominating factor here. A sudden but
intense feeling of hatred or resentment or fear may cause tragic physical
circumstances, for example.
A sudden and intense exaltation, however, will have the same immediate and
literally astounding but opposite physical effect. That is, pure joy, even of
brief duration, can literally change the direction of a life. Between these
extremes lie all the other colors and hues of inner feeling.
A variety of poor or negative feelings, however, of fairly low intensity, can
add up to a general negative emotional climate, which projects itself outward
into physical reality.
These negative feelings will be translated in physical terms. It does you little
good to know that physical symptoms or inadequate physical surroundings are
symbolic unless you realize that the inner situation can be changed.
Now it appears to you that a difference is worked when you exchange a poor
physical symbol for a constructive one. The change of course comes before this
in the inner self.
The physical being simply uses the physical system as a checking board. It must
be realized that the physical conditions are not (underlined) permanent, but
ever-changing.
To imagine otherwise is to become hypnotized by the physical symbols. Each day
should be considered a new day.
Ruburt should not think for example: “I have had
these symptoms for such and such a time.” This reinforces the idea of
permanency.
The day should be considered as a psychic rebirth.
Separately:
My Life is Mine, and I Form It.
Tell yourself this often. Create your own life now, using your beliefs as an artist uses color. There is no condition that you cannot change, except one indisputably physically accepted at birth within the realms of creaturehood, such as a liability in terms of a missing organ, or a functional lack.
If you have been filled with self-pity because of a disease or a life situation, then seize the initiative. Face your beliefs honestly and find out the reason for the difficulty.
I speak with the inner vitality that is inherent within each of my readers, with the inner knowledge that also belongs to them.
I close by saying, as I have said before: You are given the gift of the gods; you create your reality according to your beliefs; yours is the creative energy that makes your world; there are no limitations to the self except those you believe in.
I am Seth. I speak my name joyfully, though names are not important. Then each of you speak your names with affirmation every morning.
You create your life through the inner power of your being, whose source is within you and yet beyond the selves that you know. Use those creative abilities with understanding abandon. Honor yourselves and move through the godliness of your being.” —Seth through Jane Roberts
You breathe, grow, and perform multitudinous delicate and precise activities constantly, without being consciously aware of how you carry out such manipulations. You live without consciously knowing how you maintain this miracle of physical awareness in the world of flesh and time.
The seemingly unconscious portions of yourself draw atoms and molecules from the air to form your image. Your lips move, your tongue speaks your name. Does the name belong to the atoms and molecules within your lips or tongue?
The atoms and molecules move constantly, forming into cells, tissues and organs. How can the name the tongue speaks belong to them?
They do not read or write, yet they speak complicated syllables that communicate to other beings such as yourself anything from a simple feeling to the most complicated information. How do they do this?
The atoms and molecules of the tongue do not know the syntax of the language they speak. When you begin a sentence you do not have the slightest conscious idea, often, of how you will finish it, yet you take it on faith that the words will make sense, and your meaning will flow out effortlessly.
All of this happens because the inner portions of your being operate spontaneously, joyfully, freely; all of this occurs because your inner self believes in you, often even while you do not believe in it.
These unconscious portions of your being operate amazingly well, frequently despite the greatest misunderstanding on your part of their nature and function, and in the face of strong interference from you because of your beliefs.
Each person experiences a unique reality, different from any other individual’s.
This reality springs outward from the inner landscape of thoughts, feelings, expectations and beliefs. If you believe that the inner self works against you rather than for you, then you hamper its functioning—or rather, you force it to behave in a certain way because of your beliefs.
The conscious mind is meant to make clear judgments about your position in physical reality. Often false beliefs will prevent it from making these, for the egotistically held ideas will cloud its clear vision.
Your beliefs can be like fences that surround you.
You must first recognize the existence of such barriers—you must see them or you will not even realize that you are not free, simply because you will not see beyond the fences. (Very positively.) They will represent the boundaries of your experience.
There is one belief, however, that destroys artificial barriers to perception, an expanding belief that automatically pierces false and inhibiting ideas.
Now, separately:
The Self Is Not Limited.
That statement is a statement of fact. It exists regardless of your belief or disbelief in it. Following this concept is another:
There Are No Boundaries or Separations of the Self.” —Seth through Jane Roberts
Almost all false thought is based on separation and all separation is an illusion. Everyone is fighting and competing for the resources they believe allows them to live when they don’t even realize that they are life itself. That’s right. YOU are life. You do not live life, you ARE life. This game of separation we all are living makes it seem as if we have a life and that we must fight to survive because otherwise we will lose life and become separate from it by dying. When you think about it, that is why death is so scary to so many of us. It is the ultimate separator. It is the great void that nobody has returned from. The fear of death is really the fear of separation and loneliness.
All pain is based on these ideas of separation. The pain of not knowing you are the creator of your experiences can only exist if you believe you are separate from your experiences. The pain of living in doubt of how life will turn out can only be experienced through separation. There is no doubt about life. You exist now and you always have and always will. There is nowhere for you to go except deeper within yourself. You are completely safe. No matter what you allow anybody to do to you, you will never be able to remove yourself from existence. You can never become separate. You can fail miserably in this life and die a depressing death alone in an alleyway somewhere, but guess what? It won’t change a thing. You will learn from your failing and you will try again. Because you will still exist and you will know that there is no limit to second chances. This is why you are unconditionally loved by creation. What kind of punishment can it put upon you for failing? It knows that any pain it inflicts upon you it inflicts upon itself because you and it are one. All separation is an illusion. Creation cannot get rid of you and so why would it spend any moment berating you for anything that you do? You are an integral part of it. You will always be supported and you will always be given second chances.
If you knew the truth you would never fear. You would know your identity is secure. You would know that you are truly untouchable and that no matter how many people try to tear you down they cannot, because you exist. You wouldn’t even hate them for trying to tear you down because you know that they are doing it out of their own fear and their own feeling of separation. You wouldn’t try to become anything other than who you are right now. You wouldn’t try to become any more successful because you know that you are the definition of success. You exist and always will exist. You cannot become more successful by becoming more existing, if that even makes any sense. You would express your joy and your creativity simply because you want to. Your actions would be based on integrity because you would know the nature of others as well. You would know that they are not separate from you and that they also have the same birthright as you do. You would not need to exercise power over others or your environment because of your fear and anxiety about your place in existence. You would feel relaxed and loved. You would bask in the ecstasy of being aware of your miraculous nature. You would finally be you again.
Man, I am loving all of these Seth quotes right now. Really hitting the spot….
First step and a crucial step in changing undesirable aspects of your life: Own every experience that happens in your life. Owning your experiences is declaring your power over them. It is a statement of being the creator. Running from it or acting as a victim only creates more separation between you and reality. It makes reality more powerful and diminishes your power to change your life.
Running around trying to change life externally is also an act of separation. It is an act of being disempowered compared to reality. Your power is within, not without. Find out how you created the experience. Change the belief that created it and then act as if the change has happened within you. Know that your reality will change. After all, it is your reality. But don’t look to the reality for the change. This is once again another statement of separation and puts the power within the reality. You are in charge.
If you are going to be the creator you are going to have to be creative rather than reactive. True creativity to create something new, whether it be a new painting or a new reality, takes some courage to stick to your vision. Reactivity is sticking with old patterns and succumbing to the current trends because it is easier to do so or because of a fear of failure.
Speaking of failure, failure to create your preferred reality is nothing more than an opportunity to uncover a hidden belief within you that is out of alignment with your preference. If you did not have an out of alignment belief you would have the reality you prefer. Simple as that. So rejoice no matter what happens in your journey to create your preferred reality. Because if you use your failures as learning experiences and to clarify your internal picture, they will have served you just as positively as any success. In reality then, they will all have been successes.
Great post about why passion is so important. Definitely a must read if you’re listlessly wandering through life.
