Expectations, Inner Journeys and our Ideal

Seth Early Sessions, Vol 9, Session 485

The Power of Expectations

Your friend Leonard’s return has changed the environment to some degree.  It was his belief, quite simply, that brought about the mowing of the lawn.  He is sending constructive telepathic suggestions to the landlady, and they are being received.  She is highly suggestible.

Some of your own attitudes still escape you.  You do not recognize them as negative because they are so familiar that you glide over them.  Some of these operated in your reactions over the raising of the rent.

You must remember, once more, that expectations are the blocks with which you build your reality.  There are no exceptions to this rule.  I merely wanted to point out these matters this evening.

Now.  Take any single event or perception.  I want you to see what forms an environment.  We will take the simple example of the high grass.  Most of the people in your house took it for granted that your landlady would not take care of the place.  She is highly suggestible.  She is also insecure and very on guard against threats of any kind.  Her houses represent security to her.

She has accepted the advice of two men in whom she puts great trust.  At the same time she is afraid that in several instances their advice has been poor.  She dislikes change, and is afraid of it, and does not trust her own judgment.  She is upset when she distrusts the judgment of those in whom she has put her trust.

The resentment felt by the tenants was picked up by her, and felt as a threat.  If everyone moved out she would have to force the issue with her advisers.  Her advisers have told her to raise rents, since they handle her estate and money.  She means well enough but in her insecurity she believes them when they tell her that she would be a fool for not raising rents.  Money does mean security to her.  She has no other and this does play into their hands.

She was very sensitive therefore to telepathic suggestions sent her way by tenants, and felt that they did not like her, highly resented her as the new landlord.  When Leonard returned, all unknowingly he sent out constructive thoughts to which she also reacted; but he loved his lawn and his yard, and in his mind’s eye he saw it the way he wanted it, clearly, and it did become an event.

The event itself was an interaction of thoughts and emotions and images, a group of communications in which actually many people were involved.  She is not a puppet, simply carrying out the telepathic wishes of others.  She also has a love of yards and gardens, and a love of beauty, so that Leonard’s wish met with fertile ground.

There are points of correspondence you see between people that can be used to set up constructive communications and bring about constructive events.  Leonard's planting of the flowers has more than symbolic significance.

He ignored what seemed to be a fact of reality, built his own constructive expectations, and made them the reality.  He expects good things and receives them.  Now he also gives.  At his own level he gives in his relationship with his students, and primarily his turn toward counseling is directed by a desire to help others.  There is no one to whom he wishes ill.

Now in his own mind Ruburt has been highly critical of that neighbor, and so have you at times.  There is one area you see where he (Leonard) is thus far entirely blocked, for he cannot love another person wholeheartedly, nor imagine himself in that position.  This lack is always with him, and it is caused by a particular shallow area in his personality that is not developed.

(“Who are you talking about here?”)

I am speaking now of Leonard.  Now your landlady is in somewhat the same position, and it is for this reason also that a corresponding sympathy is set up between them.  I am trying to give you some insight into how a seemingly trivial event takes place, how telepathy and expectation enter in.  These intertwinings take place all the time, beneath notice.  Any physical event is the result of them.

(During break Jane and I entered into a discussion that was vehement at times, covering various people, subjects, etc.  …  Seth finally interrupted …)

Now – if you are ready for me – I will tell you.  First of all there is no need feeling resentful.  You knew the rent was going to be raised, and you wanted it raised.  You wanted it raised because you were ready to change your environment, but not ready enough to move on your own, without the additional impetus.

You said often enough to yourself: “I’d move if the rent were raised”.  That is one point.  The raise was meant to be used as an aid.  Now this does not mean that your landlady knew this, but in a way she did, for all of your intentions were subconsciously taken into consideration when such a decision was made.

Leonard will want to buy a house.  When he finds he can afford the rent easily, he will realize he can afford a house easily.  Your lawyer wanted to get out of a bad situation in the front apartment, and the increased rent serves his purpose.  The woman in the back over the garage, the whole family, is also involved.  One daughter is paying the rent.  Other members of the family live there some of the time.  She wants a smaller place so the family cannot visit overnight.  This will giver her an excuse shortly to move.

The two unmarried people on this floor are also involved.  Dick wants the young lady to marry him.  The high cost of keeping the two apartments will be used by both of them as an issue and excuse.  The man on the top floor always feels persecuted; for his own reason she seeks out situations where his feeling is justified.

Now I am giving you an apartment-by-apartment version simply to make my point.  The elderly widow fears living alone now, and hopes her children will take her in.  She hopes the additional rent will help convince them.

The only person who was more or less entirely neutral in the whole affair was the woman above, who had little to do with any decision.  Now this does cover only one issue that you mentioned.  Give us a moment.

The landlady chose, unconsciously, houses in which the deeper needs of her tenants would in one way or another correspond with her own.  This does not exonerate injustices.  Nevertheless the lacks that exist, for example in your landlady, will bring about further lacks, and resentment on your part only hurts you.  Does this answer a few of your questions?

(“Yes.”)

Now I can go into each issue that you mentioned in detail –

(“No, that’s not necessary.”)

-  but each event is formed by those involved in it, for their own reasons, and it is foolish to feel resentful because also the situation serves ends of your own that you may not consciously recognize.  If you can take this for granted then you will be much more at peace; and beside that you will most likely be much more correct in your overall assessment.

There were also reasons why the same thing happened in the medical line, with the offices.  Many of the men involved were imagining how happy they would be in a medical building, and subconsciously hoping for an excuse to move into one.  The people drew the landlord then as much as she drew the houses.  There is always a give and take.  She will discover that without inner security money is no security, and she will discover this without your resentment to help her.

You will say later: “If the rent hadn’t been raised we might have been in that place the rest of our days – who knows?” and laugh, but at times you still feared that that might indeed be the case.

…  This material, while it is personal, should give you an excellent example of how ordinary events occur.

ESP Class June 3, 1969

Inner Journeys

…  to solve your problems and triumph over your challenges … and the impetus is this: you must not journey into inner reality until you feel secure in physical reality … for you cannot live in two worlds at once unless you are secure in one.  You need a firm groundwork … a groundwork that you can trust.  And then you can travel through these other doors, but you must be able to stand on your two feet in this universe … And then you will go consciously where your body cannot follow … and you will find your answers.  But you must have something secure to hang onto.  Now there is no better reason to solve your problems.

When you are certain that you feel at least reasonably secure, where you are, then we shall take you to where you are not and you will find yourself.  You are already there, but in order to go there, you must start from somewhere.  You must start with, you see, a balance and a degree of security … You must start with confidence.  And if you travel too quickly and too far, you will not have confidence, for in the back of your mind you will think: if I do not feel secure in physical reality, then why should I feel secure here … and you will not have the daring that is necessary, nor will you have the peace of mind … and the peace of mind is the key to the door.

So when you are on the way to solving your situation here, I will give you some new ones to solve … and I will give you a push along the way, and you can count on it … and you can count on it when you tell me that you are making true progress here.  Then I will give you a gigantic push.

…  You do not understand the ways in which you project the physical matter of yourself into this room, however.  When you understand that completely and fully, you will no longer be within physical reality.  But that is of little notice.  You will never notice the difference.  In any reality, you create the image that you see.  And the reality that follows this one will seem as physical to you as this … and as real.  But you will have freedoms within it that you do not have now … Not unless at 8 o’clock in the morning you leap from rooftops and fly through the windows to your death.

You can do things with the inner image that you cannot do with the physical image.  But while you are doing them, they appear physical.

In this existence, when you see a picture in your mind, and when there is strong emotion and vivid desire behind it, it will be constructed.  There will be a time lapse within this system, but in other systems there may be no time lapse … and your thought may be instantly transposed into reality.  Therefore, now you must learn the nature of your thoughts and how to handle energy.

(“Because now we have time to do it.”)

Indeed.

(“But between the time of thinking about it now and the time it becomes a reality, other thoughts can come to bear on that idea and change it before it becomes a reality.  Is that so?”)

Then the ideas merge.

(“I see, and form a compromise … composite.”)

Now as a compromise, but not as a composite, I will leave you, but I will give you more information on that topic the next time we meet.

(Summary for Jane:

(“He talked some more about physical matter … an elaboration on the things we’ve talked about during the evening.  The reality on another plane or in another dimension is just as physical as what we experience as physical here … just as real, seems physical to them.  But the freedoms are greater, so that when we think of something on another plane, it happens instantaneously.  Whereas here, there is a time lag between the time we think of something and it results in a created action or object.  In the time lag on this plane, there are other thoughts, projections on the same idea or object; Seth declined to go into their effects on the final idea or object until a later time.

(“By our projecting our thoughts to this finished product, we can influence our health, our future, our position, etc.  We should picture ourselves as being in a state of good health.  Now I would assume that this same thing applies to a station or vocation …”)

But never as a finished product.  For a state of health is not an end product … or an unchanging station in those terms.  It is the ability to effectively handle energy in a constructive way for your own benefit and the benefit of others.  The state of health is a poor term.  You should indeed imagine yourself, therefore, able to handle your energy effectively for your own good and the good of others; to imagine yourself as a channel through which the creativity of the universe can express itself.  For when you harbor negative ideas and resentments, then indeed you set up a block and the block causes distortions.  Now you call them illnesses in many instances.  They are distortions.  The energy is being distorted and misused and misshapen.

(“But to want good health or position just for the sake of that is not the end of the line.  That, you are saying, is just the beginning of …”)

It is a beginning, and health is not a static state in any case …

(“We should desire good health because it makes it possible for us to do something else … to serve or perform some other role …”)

You should desire good health because it is a natural state of your being.  You should trust in the innate intelligence of your own being … which produces good health.  Health is a natural state of your being.  Through your physical image the energy of the universe expresses itself.  You as an individualized consciousness are a part of this, and you cannot express yourself fully nor fulfill your purpose as an identity, as an individual, if you are not in good health … for the effects of the body are felt in the mind … and the effects of the mind are felt in the body.  You distort the picture.  Now I did not intend a question and answer service this evening, but I seem to be involved in one.  And some evening I will turn the tables.  And when I ask you questions, I will expect some answers.  And they will not be easy questions … and they will not be general questions.  And I will make you search for the answers … and the answers will form steps upon which you can walk and will serve as foundations within which you can travel within yourselves.  But they will be your answers and not my answers.

… I want to clear up an issue.  If you are in poor health, this does not mean that you are an evil person.  It means that you have a block in that particular area … in which you are unable to utilize energy constructively.  And if you are not at the top of your profession, the same thing applies.  It does not follow that those in excellent health are more blessed than others.  It does mean that in that particular area they are able to utilize energy more effectively.

And theoretically, theoretically, if you are using energy the way you should, you would indeed be at the top of your profession and in excellent health and filled with abundance.  Now various kinds of lacks can show up in many ways … in mental deficiencies … A man or a woman who has strong and definite mental deficiencies … who has strong negative habits … such a person has blocks in those areas.  You may not attain perfection ... I have not attained it.  But it is the ideal toward which we work.

I do not want you to have the attitude, however, or make the implication, that your health or status in any way automatically, and alone, is an indication of your spiritual wealth … or lack of it.

Some of you for example, do well in certain areas and are blocked in others.  We want to get rid of the blocks.  You are working toward this ideal and the ideal is – and you will achieve it – to use all your abilities, all of your capabilities … and in doing this, you will help others automatically.  And you will help the race of which you are a part.  And you will add to the creativity of All That Is … and I said that you would add to it.