Personal Reality, Session 677
There is certainly
nothing wrong in asking for help from others when you think that you need it,
and sometimes much to be gained.
There are those who
make a practice of seeking aid from others, however, using this as a means of
avoiding responsibility. In specific
physical problems, help should be sought in areas in which you have little
knowledge. But many people look to those
outside themselves – psychics, doctors, psychiatrists, priests, ministers, friends
– for the answers to overall life situations, and in so doing they deny their
own abilities of self-understanding and growth.
Because of your
educational framework, the individual is taught to be wary of the inner self,
as mentioned earlier (in the 614th
session in Chapter Two, for instance), so unfortunately the ordinary man or
woman looks for the solutions of personal problems outside of the self, where
they can least be found. If you use the
methods given in this book, you should know yourself far more intimately than
you did before, and be better equipped to handle your personal reality. Simply knowing that you form your reality
can free you from some limiting concepts that have held you back in the
past. You can then examine your beliefs
creatively, finding the correlations between them and your experience. The conscious knowledge alone will trigger
intuitional responses within the inner self so that you will receive helpful
information through dreams, impulses, and ordinary thought patterns.
If you affirm the
basic grace of your being, then this will automatically weaken the
beliefs you have that are contrary to that principle. You will be able to hold equally within your
experience the vision of an “ideal self” and all those natural deviations
from it.
You will begin with
where you are and joyfully start to expand those attributes that you have now,
without expecting them to appear full-blown.
You will love yourself and have no difficulty in loving your neighbor. That does not mean that you must be unaware
of divergences from your ideal concept of the beloved. And again, it does not mean that you must
smile constantly, but that you affirm your validity and grace within the
dimensions of your creaturehood.
As soon as you
begin to compare what you are with some idealized concept of yourself, you
automatically feel guilty. Until you
work with your beliefs, this guilt can be initiated by the most harmless
episodes and characteristics. It is a
good idea to write down a list of specific acts or incidents that fill you with
a sense of guilt. Often you will be able
to trace them to early childhood beliefs quite easily – some instilled by a
well-meaning parent to protect you, or out of an adult’s ignorance. Brought into the open, however, many of these
will dissolve before your comprehension.
When you affirm
your own rightness in the universe, then you cooperate with others easily and
automatically as a part of your own nature.
You, being yourself, help others be themselves. You are not jealous of talents you do not
possess, and so you can openheartedly encourage them in others. Because you recognize your own uniqueness you
will not need to dominate others, nor cringe before them.
You must begin to
trust yourself sometime. I suggest you
do it now. If you do not then you will
forever be looking to others to prove your own merit to you, and you will never
be satisfied. You will always be asking
others what to do, and at the same time resenting those from whom you seek such
aid. It will seem to you that their
experience is legitimate and yours counterfeit.
You will feel shortchanged.
You will find
yourself exaggerating the negative aspects of your life, and the positive sides
of other people’s experiences. You are a
multidimensional personality.
Trust the miracle of your own being.
Make no divisions between the physical and the spiritual in your
lifetimes, for the spiritual speaks with a physical voice and the corporeal
body is the creation of the spirit.
Do not place the words
of gurus, ministers, priests, scientists, psychologists, friends – or my
words – higher than the feelings of your own beings. You can learn much from others, but the
deepest knowledge must come from within yourself. Your own consciousness is embarked upon a
reality that basically can be experienced by no other, that is unique and
untranslatable, with its own meaning, following its own paths of becoming.
You share an
existence with others who are experiencing their journeys in their own ways,
and you have journeying in common, then.
Be kind to yourself and to your companions.
I am also
journeying. What information and
knowledge I have I try to give to you through Ruburt and Joseph, who are parts
of me in your space and time. But they
are themselves as I am myself.
Ruburt’s own
beliefs in the nature of his consciousness helped bring about these sessions.
Ruburt and Joseph
have both worked with the nature of creativity, and from an early age each of
them sought for answers – but most of all they trusted the destiny and grace of
their beings.
They might have
felt that they had lost direction at times.
For certain periods they might have had problems in which they forgot
their aims momentarily, and yet their beliefs in themselves individually and
together were strong enough to give them their present reality.
Many who write want
to develop and use the same abilities, yet it is obvious from their letters
that their beliefs prevent them from trusting the inner self enough. You cannot fear your own being and expect to
travel through it, to explore its dimensions.
First you must take the simple step of affirming your identity. That affirmation will release those
attributes that you have and open up new avenues of experience. They will and must be your own. When you ask others to interpret your dreams,
for example, you are automatically putting the fulfillment of your own
potentials a step away. When you ask
another to tell you the direction of your life, then to some extent you keep
from yourself the realization that you yourself possess it. Without that awareness no methods will
help you.
In ordinary terms,
this book has included no esoteric instructions to help you achieve what you
may think of as spiritual development or psychic expertise. Yet it is a preliminary for all of those who
want to use creaturehood as a framework through which to perceive and
experience other realities.
As I mentioned
earlier, you will not become more spiritual by denying your flesh. (See
Chapter Seven.) This is the
life you are living! Trust the living
that flows through you. By doing so, other
realities will make themselves known. They
add dimension and depth to your present reality.
You Make Your Own Reality – Wherever You Travel, and in
Whichever Dimension You Find Yourself.
Before you embark upon
other journeys of consciousness, understand that your beliefs will follow you
and form your experience there as they do here. If you believe in demons you will meet them –
in this life as enemies, and in other realms of consciousness as devils or “evil
spirits”.
If you are
frightened of your emotions and believe them wrong, then when you try “psychic”
experiments you may believe that you are possessed. Your feelings, the repressed ones, will seem
demonic. You will be afraid to assign
them to yourself, and so will think that they belong to a disembodied
spirit. It is very important then that
you understand the true innocence of all feelings, for each of them, if
left alone and followed, will lead you back to the reality of love.
Trust no person who
tells you that you are evil or guilty by reason of your nature or your physical
existence, or any such dogma. Trust no
one who leads you away from the reality of yourself. Do not follow those who tell you that you
must do penance, in whatever form. Trust
instead the spontaneity of your own being and the life that is your own. If you d not like where you are, then examine
those beliefs that you have. Bring them
out into the open. There is nothing
within yourself to fear.
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.
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