Seth Speaks final session

Seth Speaks, Appendix, ESP Class Session: February 9, 1971

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.

This also applies to our friend Ruburt.  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.  I have said this before in class:  You are as dead now, and as alive, as you will ever be.  In life you can be as dead as you think any corpse is – even, by contrast, far deader.

When I come here to speak I focus my energy, but not toward this room as a destination, for in your terms this room does not exist to me.  In your terms, this room does not even exist to you.  You pretend to agree that it does; we meet in no place of space or time.  The true meetings that take place here have nothing to do with the room or the people that you think you are.  You know that you hallucinate the room, that you are as much in trance here as you ever are when you are in psychological time.  I simply want you to realize that if this life is a trance, then you can turn the direction of your consciousness to perceive greater realities that presently exist.  You can be aware of your own greater identity, even as I am.  You sit within the miracle of yourselves and ask for signs.  It is your inner eyes I would open.

As you know yourselves, you only accept those suggestions, ideas and hang-ups that suit your purposes at this time.  You are not, therefore, at the mercy of any neurosis from a past life, nor are there any fears from your present lives that you cannot conquer.  I have not said that you will necessarily conquer them, but it is within your ability to do so.

The decision is your own according to your understanding.  You cannot be hounded from one level of reality to another by a fear that you do not understand.  You cannot be threatened in this life by fears from your early childhood, or by so-called past existences, unless you so thoroughly believe in the nature of fear that you allow yourselves to be conquered by it.  Each of your personalities are free to accept and develop, from the miraculous banks of reality, those experiences and emotions that you want, and to reject those you do not want.

Let me give you a more concrete example that each of you can use in your own way.  Suppose the worst, that in this life you have the following background: You are poor, you are of a minority race, you are not intellectual, you are a woman, you have a severe physical defect and you are no beauty.  Now you set these challenges for yourself in a so-called past life.  This does not mean that you cannot use all of your courage and resolution to solve these problems.  You set them in the hope that you will solve them.  You did not set them like millstones about your neck, hoping ahead of time that you would drown.

All you have to do is realize your own freedom.  You form the reality that you know, not esoterically, not symbolically, not philosophically.  Some great oversoul doesn’t form it for you – you cannot put the burden there, either.  You have in the past, collectively and invidually, blamed a god or a fate for the nature of your personal realities – those aspects, indeed that you did not like.

The personality is given the greates gift of all; you get exactly what you want to get.  You create from nothing the experience that is your own.  If you do not like your experience, then look within yourself and change it.  But realize also that you are responsible for your joys and triumphs, and that the energy to create any of these realities comes from the inner self.  What you do with it is up to the individual personality.

(“I would like you to talk to me about predestination.”)

You are not “programmed”.  Nothing happens because it must happen.  Every thought that you have now changes reality.  Not only reality as you know it, but all reality.  No act of yours predisposes a future self to act in a particular manner.  There are banks of activity from which you can draw or choose not to draw.

(“Do we make instantaneous decisions?  For example, I was thinking of the Los Angeles earthquake today.  A man walked out into the street and was killed by a falling brick.  What made this one person in the entire building walk out?”)

This particular individual was quite aware of what would occur, on what you would call an unconscious basis.  He was not predestined to die.  He chose both the time, in your terms, and the method, for reasons of his own.

(“Regardless of who chose, it was destined that he die.”)

It was not predestined.  He chose.  No one chose for him.

(“But he made the decision before.”)

Before when?

(“Before he was killed.”)

He knew that he was ready to go on to other spheres of activity.  Unconsciously, he looked about for the means and chose those immediately available.  This particular individual, three days earlier, had made the plan.  There was no predestination involved.  Because a tree branch falls, this does not mean that it was destined to fall in either the particular manner of its fall nor in the timing of the fall.  There is a great difference between free choice and predestination.

(“Didn’t you say earlier, referring to the woman who was born in a minority race, that her challenges had been set up by a previous personality in our terms?”)

By the whole self.

(“The decision was made when that previous personality had returned to the whole self for a period of reevaluation?”)

You must realize, again, that we are speaking of divisions for convenience’s sake, where none really exist.  At the same “time”, so to speak, that this personality is born into a minority race, in a completely different era it may be born rich, secure and aristocratic.  It is searching out different methods of experience and expansion.  Do you follow me?

(“I understand.  I thought you probably meant the challenges had been set up by the whole self.”)

Indeed.  Remember, this is your entire identity of which we are speaking.  It is only you who are presently aware of but one portion of it; and this portion you insist upon calling yourself.  You are the self who makes these decisions.

(“What recourse would the poor individual who was born with all of these seemingly insurmountable handicaps have, were she to say consciously, at the ego level, ‘I just don’t want any of this.  I would have much preferred to have been born aristocratic’?”)

The inner self realizes, however, that potentials are present that would not necessarily be present under other circumstances – abilities that can not only help the present personality but other individuals, and even society at large.

Your main point of contention is brought about by the emotional barriers that are caused by the difference in terms.  It is as if you choose to work for a day in the slums.  It would be ridiculous for you to choose to do this, and then say to yourself, “Why did I choose to work in the slums?  I would prefer to work on Fifth Avenue.”  You know the reason, and your entire identity knows the reason.  You hide it from the present self simply to insure the fact that the present reality is not a pretended one.

A rich man who tries to be poor for a day to learn what poverty is learns little, because he cannot forget the wealth that is available to him.  Though he eats the same poor fare as the poor man, and lives in the same poor house for a day – or for a year or five years – he knows he has his mansion to return to.  So you hide these things from yourself so that you can relate.  You forget your home so that you can return to it enriched.

Consciousness is not made up of balances so much as it is made up of exquisite imbalances, and the focus of awareness is to some degree the result of this state of excitability.  In this state all elements are never known because new ones are always being created.  I am not speaking of physical elements, but of the psychological characteristics of consciousness, for even those continually merge and change.

You are not now what you were ten minutes earlier.  You are not the same being physically, psychologically, spiritually, or psychically, and ten minutes later you will be different again.  To deny this is to try to force consciousness into some rigid form from which it cannot ever be freed, to apply rules to it that make a very neat psychological landscape.

Now I would like you again to realize the energy that is available.  If Ruburt can use it, you can each use it in your own way.  I want you to open up those barriers that you have erected within yourselves; this voice is only used as a symbol for the energy and the strength that is available to each of you, as you utilize those abilities that are your heritage.

You should hear your own echo of my voice as a symbol of your own energy and joy.  Forget the cringing selves that you sometimes are and remember, instead, the magic essence of your own being that sings even now through your fingertips.  That is the reality which you are seeking.  Experience it fully.  Do you need an old dead thing like me to tell you what life is?  I am ashamed.

Now, I bid you a fond good evening, and those blessings that are mine to give, I give you.  Travel in peace and joy and safety, in your bodies and out.