The Youniverse

These inborn leanings or attitudes can roughly be translated as follows:

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

2. My existence enriches all other portions of life, even as my own being is enhanced by the rest of creation.

3. It is good, natural and safe for me to grow and develop and use my abilities, and by so doing I also enrich all other portions of life.

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

Next: By nature I am a good deserving creature, and all of life’s elements and parts are also of good intent.

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

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

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

Many people believe that birth, to the contrary, is a time of trauma, or even of rage, as the infant leaves it’s mother’s womb. Birth is life’s most precious natural process. Even in births that are thought of as not “normal”, there is on the infant’s part a sense of discovery and joy.

We will have more to say about the process of birth later on in this book. For now, I simply want to make the point that in the most basic of terms the human birth is as orderly and spontaneous as the birth of any of nature’s creatures - and a child opens itse selfhood even as a flower opens its petals.

The inborn leanings and attitudes that we have been discussing should ideally remain with you for the rest of your life, leading you to express your abilities, and finding fulfillment as your knowledge expands through experience. The same feelings and beliefs should also ideally help you die with a sense of safety, support and assurance. While these inbred psychological supports never leave your entirely, they are often diminished by beliefs encountered later in life, that serve to undermine the individual’s sense of safety and well-being.

— Seth | The Way Toward Health | 1984-01-27 | pp.67-70 (via sytantris)

…Now I ask you, how far do you think a flower would get if in the morning it turned its face toward the sky and said, “I demand the sun. And now I need rain. So I demand it. And I demand bees to come and take my pollen. I demand, therefore, that the sun shall shine for a certain number of hours, and that the rain shall pour for a certain number of hours .. and that the bees come - bees A, B, C, D, and E, for I shall accept no other bees to come. I demand that discipline operate, and that the soil shall follow my command. But I do not allow the soil any spontaneity of its own. And I do not allow the sun any spontaneity of its own. And I do not agree that the sun knows what it is doing. I demand that all these things follow my ideas of discipline?

And who, I ask, you, would listen? For in the miraculous spontaneity of the sun, there is discipline that utterly escapes you, and a knowledge beyond any that we know. And in the spontaneous playing of the bees from flower to flower, there is a discipline beyond any that you know, and laws that follow their own knowledge, and joy that is beyond command. For true discipline, you see, is found only in spontaneity. Spontaneity knows its own order.

— The Seth Material, Chapter 13

Amid the mad scramble, you do make your own reality. I admit that this sounds too simple, but you will not be caught in an earthquake if you do not want to be, and no one dies who has not decided to do so. You make your own reality—or you do not.

And if you do not, then you are everywhere a victim, and the universe must be an accidental mechanism appearing with no reason. So that the miraculous picture you have seen of your body came accidently into creation, and out of some cosmic accident attained its miraculous complexity. And that body was formed so beautifully for no reason except to be a victim.

That is the only other alternative to forming your own reality. You cannot have a universe in between. You have a universe formed with a reason, or a universe formed without a reason. And in a universe of reason, there are no victims. Everything has a reason, or nothing has a reason.

So—choose your side.

— Seth through Jane Roberts

Organize your reality according to your strength. Organize your reality according to your playfulness, according to your dreams, according to your hopes, and then you can help those who organize their reality according to their fears.

— Seth through Jane Roberts

True spirituality is a thing of joy and of the earth, and has nothing to do with fake adult dignity. It has nothing to do with long words and sorrowful faces.

It has to do with the dance of consciousness that is within you, and with the sense of spiritual adventure that is within your hearts. That is the meaning of spirituality; and as I have told you before, if I could I would do a merry dance about the room to show you that your vitality is not dependent upon a physical image.

It is not dependent upon your youth, it is not dependent upon your body. It rings and sings through the universe, and through your entire personality. It is a sense of joy that makes all creativity possible.

So do not think you are being spiritual when you are being long-faced, and do not think you are being spiritual when you berate yourself for your sins.

The seasons within your system come and go. The sun falls upon your face whether you think you are a sinner or a saint. The vitality of the universe is creativity and joy and love, and that is spirituality.

And that is what I shall tell the readers of my book.

— Seth through Jane Roberts

There is no civilization, no system of science, art, or philosophy, that did not originate in the mind.

When you give lip service to ideas with which you do not agree, you are betraying your own ideals, harming yourself to some extent, and society as well, insofar as you are denying yourself and society the benefit of your own understanding.

Each person is an idealist.

I simply want to help you practice your idealism in the acts of your daily life.

Each person alive helps paint the living picture of civilization as it exists at any given time, in your terms.

Be your own best artist.

Your thoughts, feelings and expectations are like the living brush strokes with which you paint your corner of life’s landscape. If you do your best in your own life, then you are indeed helping to improve the quality of all life.

Your thoughts are as real as snowflakes or raindrops or clouds. They mix and merge with the thoughts of others, to form man’s livingscape, providing the vast mental elements from which physical events will be formed.

— Seth through Jane Roberts

(Source: sethspeaks.multiply.com)

The eye projects and focuses the inner image (idea) onto the physical world in the same manner that a motion-picture camera transfers an image onto a screen. The mouth creates words. The ears create sound. The difficulty in understanding this principle is due to the fact that we’ve taken it for granted that the image and sound already exist for the senses to interpret. Actually the senses are the channels of creation by which idea is projected into material expression.

The basic idea is that the senses are developed, not to permit awareness of an already existing material world, but to create it…

— Seth through Jane Roberts

(Source: sethspeaks.multiply.com)

You may think of your soul or entity- though only briefly and for the sake of this analogy- as some conscious and living, divinely inspired computer who programs its own existences and lifetimes. But this computer is so highly endowed with creativity that each of the various personalities it programs spring into consciousness and song, and in turn create realities that may have been undreamed of by the computer itself.

— Seth through Jane Roberts

There is no need to justify your existence. You do not need to write or preach to justify yourselves, for instance. Being is its own justification. Only when you realize this can you begin to utilize your freedom. Otherwise you try too hard…….

…..If you become too determined to justify your existence then you will begin to close out areas of your life. Only those areas that mean safe justification to you will have meaning, and the others will begin to disappear. You do not have to justify in any terms.

Now if you would each, for ten minutes a day, open yourselves to your own reality there would be no question of self-justification, for you would realize the miraculous nature of your own identity.

— Seth through Jane Roberts

Accept all that is happening in your life, because you have chosen everything that is happening. There is no other force outside you that is forcing your experience on you. You may not be conscious of how you have been choosing your experience, but this does not mean that you haven’t been choosing it. Acceptance of your experience is the first step to realizing that you are choosing everything.

Acceptance doesn’t mean you cannot choose something else. You may change what you don’t prefer, but do not resist what you don’t prefer. There is no need for resistance because by resisting you solidify the illusion of separation between you and what you don’t prefer. In resistance you get lost in the illusion of the world of separated forms and become a powerless observer of what is happening “outside” you.

In acceptance you realize your oneness and unity with even those things you don’t prefer. In acceptance you are one with everything that is happening in your life and you are put into touch with the beliefs and definitions that have created your experience. You also realize that you are powerful enough to simply and effortlessly choose another experience. Through acceptance you change your life through the power of love.

This is the way the Universe creates change. It holds and embraces everything that is occurring, because it knows its own oneness with everything that is occurring, until a new choice is made. Then the new choice is embraced fully while the old one falls back into the loving source of all forms. The Universe doesn’t hate something to death because it is not a hateful Universe and it doesn’t need to be. It knows that the form only came into being by its desire and that it is being held together by its continued desire. So it simply removes the desire to express itself through that particular form and allows the form to fall back into its whole self. In this process it loves the form to death and allows it to come back home to the source of all forms that it is.

Being the powerful individualized portions of the Universe that we are, we can also choose to make changes in this way. We can simply choose the experience we desire to occur in our lives and allow the experience to take form without any struggle. This is through acceptance of the desired form and the simple and loving letting go of the undesired form. No resistance, no pain, no struggle. Just ongoing, ever-expanding love.

— Sohail Desai

Don’t get caught up in the world of separate forms. Realize that all forms are created out of the love of the Universe. They are all actually one thing seeming like it is many things. Creating the experience of separate forms is the only way the Universe can experience itself. It is the loving desire of the Universe that provides the impetus for all forms to be born and to die and return to their source, only to return again in the form of other forms. In this way, the cycle of life and death is the Universe’s cycle of desire and fulfillment.

Before you were born you knew yourself to be the Universe itself, but this knowledge wasn’t enough for you. You deeply desired to go beyond knowledge and actually experience the wonder of yourself. That all-consuming desire is what caused your birth as a human being, and it is that desire that continues to maintain your body and the environment that supports your body right now. When the time comes that you decide you have created the experience you desired to experience, you will then desire to cause your death and move on to another, perhaps more expanded type of experience. This cycle has gone on, is going on now, and will continue to go on forever. You are the Universe, desiring to experience yourself in all the ways you can.

You didn’t know this before because you were caught in the world of separate forms, and so you didn’t know that you were in control of your experience. But now you do know, and now you can take the power that is your nature and mould your desire to create new, wondrous forms and consciously create an experience that is more reflective of your true nature.

Where you once created your life based on your illusory identity as the limited form of a human being, you now will create it based on your true identity as the ever-expanding, infinite, loving, joyful, harmonious Universe. You will create the experience of remembering the knowledge you had of yourself before you were born. You will create the experience of yourself as the Universe incarnate.

— Sohail Desai

Life is what happens when the Universe decides it wants to experience itself in all of its glory.

— Sohail Desai