Personalities, Great Work and Spontaneity

Seth Early Sessions, Vol 8, Session 405

Personalities

Personalities are composed of action and of psychic components.  This is what you are.  It is what I am.  There are at all times more various kinds of personalities than there are flower seeds –different varieties.  Some mature and develop, some are in ways I have not yet explained, transitory.  They merge into other gestalts, but what they are is never destroyed.  They operate independently while part of other gestalts.

Great Work

Great work stands alone.  It is a triumph of the human spirit, and it always grows out of experience.  As an egotistical creature, alone, you would not choose the experience, even though great work resulted from it.

Learning involves your whole being.  Great work is a result of great learning.  It is not the result of seeing easy answers scribbled magically upon a blackboard.  The flowers thrust themselves up through soil, but they hardly consider the soil or thrusting a tragedy, nor resent the time spent in the frozen earth, for they realize the frozen earth is a condition of their blossoming – a challenge that is an aid, not a hindrance.  The light does not resent the darkness which it illuminates, you see?  Your inners self is aware of this.

Advice To Jane On Being Spontaneous

He does not have to prove he is all saintly yet.  The time will come.  Psycho-Cybernetics was good for him, for it stopped at least some of his conscious brooding.  He must rediscover however his spontaneous self for these distorted and adopted and superficial ideas of religious rules inhibited him.

He need not fear his spontaneous self.  It will not betray him.  The arm symptoms still hanging on represent an inhibiting factor.  Telepathy does exist, but existence has a far greater vitality than he supposes.  People do have a natural defense.  He does not need to watch his thoughts that closely.

You are responsible for your thoughts.  However your spontaneous thoughts are not nearly as destructive as he imagines, and in over-inhibiting them, he also inhibits purely spontaneous, joyful thoughts.  Psycho-Cybernetics helps him not to brood, not to worry in advance, and set up negative reactions.  This is important.  But honest reactions within the present are legitimate.

The present simply should not be negatively projected into the future.  This is all-important here.  He is afraid of hurting others through his thoughts, but the fear is overly inhibiting him.  Do you understand this?

(“Yes.  I’m a little surprised by it, though.”)

By which portions?

(“To hear that Jane has such fears about her thoughts.”)

He is reacting in an exaggerated manner to a truth – and the truth is that thoughts cause reality.  He interprets this negatively because he is afraid of hurting others.  He takes it for granted that natural thought, left alone, will be destructive and hurt others.

But natural thought will be more positive that negative.  Does this clear the matter?

(“Yes.”)

He is afraid of striking out or harming others, and to some extent, still afraid of spontaneity.  Therefore the arm conditions still persist.

(“Why should he be afraid of hurting others?”)

I believe I have mentioned this in past sessions.  The over-conscientiousness all connected with conditioning.  He understands more now, and tonight’s material should help him.