Seth -- You must be willing to be kindly to yourself/Forget the occult nonsense that you have learned

The following information comes from an excerpt of some of the material that came from Jane Roberts ESP class dated, November 5, 1974.

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"You must make this information your own. Then, for you, it becomes psychologically valid and real. And, using it, you can indeed alter the nature of your reality. But you must be willing to be kindly to yourself. You must believe that when you send out pleas, they are indeed answered, no matter how impersonal the universe may seem at times.

"You must realize that your personal self grows as naturally out of the universe as, in other terms, any star does, or any flower, or any oak leaf. You are a part of that system. And when you send out a plea, you do indeed set the universe in motion, so that the plea is answered! And so do you also send help to others, often even when you are not aware of it, as a flower sends out help to someone simply because it is beautiful . . .

"You can stand up and say, 'I am myself, and I am good, and I refused to accept the belief of others with which I do not agree!" Seth continued later on in the same theme. "Then, you . . . make your own direction. You must make that choice! The choice is always yours.

"Cow before beliefs that you no longer accept, cow before the past -- or assert your individuality and being in the present, the full divinity of your being, which includes a conscious mind -- and refuse to be cowed by any elements in the so-called past - and you begin anew! That is of greatest importance to each of you.

"As long as you believe in the basic evil of man, and you must project on yourself great punishment. You must see your world destroyed, and so will you have prophets to tell you so, and so they will speak the truth, for they will speak from your own beliefs in the idea of your own evil.

"Now, there is no holocaust unless you believe that you are so evil that you must punish yourselves. But there will always be benign old spirits like me that tell you that though you are bad, you are perfectly bad, and utterly beautiful, and nothing will destroy you unless you are convinced that you are so evil that you must be destroyed! And even then, only those who so believe will partake in that probability, and those of you who refuse to accept that belief will learn instead, as I have said, a loving technology, and will learn to deal with your universe and your earth with technology, but with love. You will breathe love into your machines, and that love will bring truth.

"The prophets speak truly, that speak of doom. They speak truly when they speak from a framework that believes in doom. But that framework is a mere probability that gains its strength only from a belief in evil. So the prophets feel that belief, and emotionally understand that while that belief is held, it will express itself - and so they are themselves terribly driven by those beliefs; and they paint dire pictures that reside individually and the psyche of each person who feels damned.

"I tell you, you are full of grace. Your plan is full of grace. When you understand that, you will not need to pretend to destroy yourself, or your planet. You can live lovingly with yourself, and with your planet!

"There are directions that your consciousness can take, and I am trying to tell you what those directions are. And if you take those directions, then indeed, in your terms-in your terms-there is a birth of a new kind of species-a species that understands its blessed creaturehood, and a species that understands its biological spirituality; a species that consciously creates a reality of which it can indeed be proud; a species that does not be spoil its planet, but considers that planet sacred; a species that consciously and purposefully creates the kind of world that a sane god would create; a species that creates a god that is themselves; hey God who has no need for a heaven or a hell!

"Forget your ideas of present and past. Forget the occult nonsense that you have learned, and look at your present with wondering eyes of a new self."

--Conversations With Seth, Volume Two, Chapter Twenty, by Susan M. Watkins