Seth: Do not be so afraid of failure or of making mistakes

¶ The world is composed of individuals. It is therefore unrealistic to expect, say, wholesale criticism—or, for that matter, wholesale praise. It is a give-and-take world. In those terms, now, there is an open forum, and within it you make your own reality. No one is going to mistake Ruburt for a fanatic, or a psychic nut, or whatever. He can see through this experience how such people behave. He cannot remotely be considered in that framework—except by fanatics, who are already within it.

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¶ We are trying to undermine all of the reasons behind the condition. You must, however, realize that it is reversible. Ambiguity everywhere surrounds you, so that it can seem that few issues are clear-cut, or can be directly acted upon, and in those areas your experience of course confirms those beliefs. You have each been afraid to really exert all of your energies to rid yourselves of this problem.

¶ You are afraid to trust improvements, so that they could follow no main clear-cut line, but bubbled up here and there, seemingly going nowhere. You did not really exert yourselves fully, except upon a few occasions in the past when improvements did definitely appear to be coming to a hopeful conclusion of the difficulty.

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¶ The same applies to, whatever stance you take in the world. Do not be so afraid of failure or of making mistakes. Learning processes are involved, and relationships. If you do or do not like television programs, it makes little difference, as long as you understand your attitudes.

—Seth, The Personal Sessions: Book 3 of The Deleted Seth Material; Deleted Session July 11, 1977