SETH PRIMER
Who is Seth ?
Seth is the internationally acclaimed spiritual teacher who spoke through the author Jane Roberts while she was in trance, and coined the phrase “You Create Your Own Reality.” Seth’s empowering message literally launched the New Age movement.
The books written by Seth have sold over seven million copies and have been translated into over eleven languages.
Seth’s clear presentation of the furthest reaches of human potential, the eternal validity of the soul, and the concept that we create our own reality according to our beliefs, has rippled out to affect the lives of people in every corner of the globe.
Seth’s voice clearly stands out as one of the major forces which led to the current New Age philosophical movement.
His work (first published in the late 1960s) has withstood the test of time and is still the most dynamic, comprehensive, brilliant and undistorted map of inner reality and human potential available today.
If you want answers to life’s most important questions, if you want to improve your life conditions, Seth will show you how, not by relying on him, but by accessing and using the tremendous source of power and wisdom that lies within you.
From the Seth Audio Collection, Vol 1, Tape 1: (read along with text below)
From the Seth Audio Collection, Vol 1, Tape 1: (read along with text below)
“Your beliefs form reality. Your individual beliefs and your joint beliefs. Now the intensity of a belief is extremely important...
And, if you believe, in very simple terms, that people mean you well, and will treat you kindly, they will. And, if you believe that the world is against you, then so it will be in your experience. And, if you believe...IF YOU BELIEVE THAT YOU WILL BEGIN TO DETERIORATE AT 22, then so you shall.
And, if you believe that you are poor, and always will be, then so your experience will so prove to you. Your beliefs meet you in the face when you look in the mirror. They form your image. You cannot escape your beliefs. They are, however, the method by which you create your experience.
It is important that you here realize that you are not at the mercy of the unexplainable, that you are not at the mercy of events over which you have no control whether those events are psychological events or physical ones, in your terms.
As I have told you, there is little difference if you believe that your present life is caused by incidents in your early infancy or by past lives over which equally you feel you have no control. Your events, your lives, your experiences, are caused by your present beliefs. Change the beliefs and your life changes.” –Seth
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF EXISTENCE?
Seth- "The human race is a stage though which various forms of consciousness travel.
Before you can be allowed into systems of reality that are more extensive and open, you must first learn to handle energy; and see, through physical materialization, the concrete result of thought and emotion.”
"In more advanced systems, thoughts and emotions are automatically and immediately translated into action... Therefore, the lessons must be taught and learned well. The responsibility for creation must be clearly understood.”
Additional quotes:
From the book "The Seth Material:"
“… you must be taught and trained to create responsibly. Yours is a training system for emerging consciousness.”
“You are learning to be cocreators. You are learning to be gods as you now understand the term. You are learning responsibility- the responsibility of any individualized consciousness. You are learning to handle the energy that is yourself, for creative purposes.”
From “The Early Sessions:”
“The child must mature, and your system is a maturing ground, a very primary one…. A beginning school…”
“The human race is a stage though which various forms of consciousness travel. Before you can be allowed into systems of reality that are more extensive and open, you must first learn to handle energy and see, through physical materialization, the concrete result of thought and emotion.”
“In more advanced systems, thoughts, and emotions are automatically and immediately translated into action, into whatever approximation of matter there exists. Therefore, the lessons must be taught and learned well. The responsibility for creation must be clearly understood.”
According to Seth, the physical world can be thought of as an elementary school. We are all enrolled in a cosmic grade school and we are here to learn AND to enjoy our being. In the fertile soil of physical reality we are meant to grow and blossom.
Our day to day experience is our classroom, and we are learning the A.B.C.'s of how to use energy so that we can become conscious co-creators with the Univeral Spirit, Mind, God, All THAT IS, or whatever term you prefer. On the one hand we are each unique manifestations of the Universal Spirit/All That Is, and on the other hand we are individual “infant” gods, or gods in training.
One of the most important lessons to be learned is that we create our own reality, according to our thoughts, emotions and beliefs. We each have access to unlimited energy and the inner knowledge of our “soul” or greater identity, and we are supposed to learn how to use our awesome power with skill and wisdom.
SETH ON “YOU CREATE YOUR OWN REALITY”
Seth- “Events are not things that happen to you. They are materialized experiences formed by you, according to your expectations and beliefs.”
“If you are in poor health, you can remedy it. If your personal relationships are unsatisfactory, you can change them for the better. If you are in poverty, you can instead find yourself surrounded by abundance...”
“This does not mean that effort is not required, and determination. It does mean that you are not powerless to change events; and that each of you, regardless of your position, status, circumstances or physical condition, is in control of your own personal experience.”
“If you do not like your experience, then you must change the nature of your conscious thoughts and expectations.”
“You need to learn the power of thought and emotion... Once you realize that your thoughts form reality, then you are no longer a slave to events. You simply have to learn the methods.” (from the 1/5/71 Class Session)
Audio Clip 1: (transcript of audio clip follows)
From The Seth Audio Collection, Volume 1, Tape 2, Selection 1, Excerpt E (12th line):
“You form your experience. (...long pause...) You form your past, your present, and your future. You are responsible for each daily moment, individually and en masse.
En masse, your beliefs bring about the world conditions that you know. Individually, they form your intimate daily life. As I have told you before, in a manner of speaking, you are given the gifts of the gods. Your beliefs become reality. What you believe IS, and becomes real in your experience. There are no other answers. There is no area in your life to which this does not apply.”
Audio Clip 2: (transcript of audio clip below)
From Seth Audio Clips, Volume 1, Tape 24 Page 2-3:
“You make your own reality: your dreaming reality, your waking reality, and all realities in which you have existence. There are no accidents. Your joys come from you, and your successes, and your failure, or what you think of as failure...”
Additional quotes :
From Seth Class, Saturday, February 3, 1970:
“If you realize that you create your physical reality through your own thoughts and desires , then you have learned the most important aspects of reality. This is what you have been setting out to do in your other lives, in your past existences.
The realization of these truths nullifies any so-called debts from other lives. When you realize this, and act upon it, there is no reason for you to come back here again unless you want to. Any of your difficulties in past lives were caused because you did not realize these basic truths.”
Seth Speaks, Session 519:
“Three-dimensional experience is an invaluable place of training.”
Seth, Session 614:
“You are in physical existence to learn and understand that your energy, translated into feelings, thoughts and emotions, causes all experience. THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS.”
Seth Class, May 20, 1969:
“You must understand the nature of reality before you can manipulate within it intelligently and well. In this environment and in physical reality, you are learning -- you are supposed to be learning -- that your thoughts have reality, and that you create the reality that you know.
When you leave this dimension, then you concentrate upon the knowledge that you have gained. If you still do not realize that you create the reality that you know, then you return and again you learn to manipulate and again and again you see the results of your own inner reality as you meet it objectified.
You teach yourself the lesson until you have learned it. And when you have learned it, then you have begun to learn how to handle the consciousness that is yours intelligently and well.”
Seth Class, November 21, 1972:
“...for the very point of physical existence is that you realize that your thoughts become matter while you are here.”
The Unknown Reality, Session 742, Notes 1:
“You are meant to judge physical reality. You are meant to realize that it is a materialization of your thoughts and feelings and images, that the inner self forms that world. In your terms, you cannot be allowed to go into other dimensions until you have learned the great power of your thoughts and subjective feelings.”
Seth- “(After death) you will find yourself in another form, an image that will appear physical to you to a large degree, as long as you do not try to manipulate within the physical system with it.” (From the book: SETH SPEAKS)
“For those of you who are lazy I can offer no hope: Death will not bring you an eternal resting place. You may rest, if this is your wish, for a while. Not only must you use your abilities after death, however; but you must face up to yourself for those that you did not use during your previous existence.” (From the book: SETH SPEAKS)
“You will reincarnate whether or not you believe that you will. It is much easier if your theories fit reality; but if they do not, you will not change the nature of reincarnation one iota.” (From the book: THE SETH MATERIAL)
“When I tell you that you lived, for example, in 1836, I say this because it makes sense to you now. You live all of your reincarnations at once, but you find this difficult to understand.” (From the book: THE SETH MATERIAL)
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER DEATH?
Seth- “(After death) you will find yourself in another form, an image that will appear physical to you to a large degree, as long as you do not try to manipulate within the physical system with it.” (From the book: SETH SPEAKS)
“For those of you who are lazy I can offer no hope: Death will not bring you an eternal resting place. You may rest, if this is your wish, for a while. Not only must you use your abilities after death, however; but you must face up to yourself for those that you did not use during your previous existence.” (From the book: SETH SPEAKS)
“You will reincarnate whether or not you believe that you will. It is much easier if your theories fit reality; but if they do not, you will not change the nature of reincarnation one iota.” (From the book: THE SETH MATERIAL)
“When I tell you that you lived, for example, in 1836, I say this because it makes sense to you now. You live all of your reincarnations at once, but you find this difficult to understand.” (From the book: THE SETH MATERIAL)
Additional quotes:
From book Seth Speaks:
“You will find yourself in another form, an image that will appear physical to you to a large degree, as long as you do not try to manipulate within the physical system with it.”
“For those of you who are lazy I can offer no hope: Death will not bring you an eternal resting place. You may rest, if this is your wish, for a while. Not only must you use your abilities after death, however, but you must face up to yourself for those that you did not use during your previous existence.”
“There are teachers to explain the conditions and circumstances.”
“The afterdeath environments... are generally far more intense and joyful than the reality you now know.”
“All necessary explanations are given to those who are disoriented. Those who do not realize that they are dead are... told of their true condition, and all efforts are made to refresh the energies and spirits.”
“There are always guides to help you understand your situation...”
SETH ON WAR AND VIOLENCE:
Seth- “There is never any justification for violence, for hatred, for murder. Those who indulge in violence for whatever reason are themselves changed, and the purity of their purpose adulterated.”
(From the book: THE SETH MATERIAL)
Audio Clip 6 (transcript of audio clip below)
From The Seth Audio Collection, Volume 1, Tape 15, Class Session, November 21, 1972:
“But when all the young men refuse to kill for the sake of peace, and when all the women forbid their men to kill for the sake of peace, and when you realize that no peace will come through killing, and that the end does not justify the means, and when you grow full and light with thoughts of peace, there will be an end to war. But as long as any men go to war for the sake of peace, there will be war. And, as long as any woman teaches her sons to go to war because of love of the peace, there will be war.
You make your world. When you populate your world with ideas of peace, then peace will grow. When you think thoughts of aggression, you attract aggression and you draw it out from others in daily contact, and on the part of nations.
...Now you cannot understand this now, and yet I tell you that your own preoccupation with arms, as a country, is received by others, and your own thoughts are materialized and you create wars in your minds that then must be faced with your flesh and your blood.
The reality that you have is a replica of your thoughts. If you do not like the world, you must change your thoughts and no exterior manipulation will change the face of your experience one iota, if you do not change your dreams and your thoughts.
...Unfortunately, you equate aggression with strength, so you are afraid to elect a peaceful man. And all the other countries feel the same, so they are afraid to put into power, by whatever means, peaceful men. And so your world situation is the result of your individual beliefs, en masse.
...Now, when individually you believe in peace, and when you no longer believe that good is weak and evil is powerful, then, on countrywide bases, you will put people into power who believe in the active nature of peace. And, again, there is no other answer.”
SETH ON RELIGION, GOD, ALL THAT IS:
Seth- “For you find ALL THAT IS through the understanding, the joy, the compassion and the experience of your own individuality.
You are a portion of what god is and that God wants to be you.”
(From Seth CD/Tape #28, January 22, 1974)
Audio Clip 7 (transcript of audio clip below)
From Seth Audio Collection, Volume 1, Tape #22 Nov 6, 1973:
“I am trying to tell you that if you look inward, and study your own sacredness and creativity and blessedness, and joy and power, as closely as you study the sacred books of the gods, then you would realize that all those books of the gods were based upon the great reality of the individual, the individual soul, and therefore based upon your own reality.
Do yourselves just honor, and in doing yourselves that honor, you will see within yourself, the ‘gods-in-becoming’ that you are.
Now the idea of the gods have been set up before you, by yourselves as ideals for you to follow - projected outward from your own souls into physical reality as guides for you to follow - that you yourselves have set up. And so they have followed the thesis and the times and the historical context of their mortal birth.
But behind and within those myths are the realities of your being - the Christ and the Buddha are both within you, for they are symbols of what you are. Pray to them and you pray to the hidden gods within you. You do not need to kick them aside like a child irritated with his toys!
Understand the nature of the gods as they come down to you, through your histories, and in them always you will find the unspoken but real nature of the hidden god within each of you.
All That Is is beyond your intellectual ideas of personhood. Any concepts you use to personify that idea can be useful. But only in seeing beyond them can you release the power, and the energy, and to some extent, the knowledge of what you are, and only through understanding that, can you hope to have any idea of All That Is. For All That Is materializes through your flesh and being.”
SETH ON YOUR ETERNAL SOUL: (your INNER SELF, your ENTITY)
Seth- “Now, you ARE your entity (your soul). You are its materialization in space and time as you understand it. There is no division between your entity and what you are...
You are your entity growing through the seasons. The entity is not some soul, completed, perfect, done, and you a product. You are a living portion of the tree of your entity. You experience newly in your own dimension, and therefore enrich your entity as it constantly enriches you, for your source springs from it. But you are one, and there is no division.”
(From THE SETH AUDIO COLLECTION, Tape 26)
Audio Clip 8 (transcript of audio clip below)
From The Seth Audio Collection, Volume 1, Tape 26:
“Now, you ARE your entity. You are its materialization in space and time as you understand it. There is no division between your entity and what you are...
You are your entity growing through the seasons. The entity is not some soul, completed, perfect, done, and you a product. You are a living portion of the tree of your entity. You experience newly in your own dimension, and therefore enrich your entity as it constantly enriches you, for your source springs from it. But you are one, and there is no division.”
SETH ON TIME AND SPACE AS CAMOUFLAGE:
Seth- “As I have said before, time as you think of it does not exist.”
(From the book: SETH SPEAKS)
“The settings in your physical environment…the physical aspects of life as you know it, are all camouflages.
The brain is a camouflage pattern. It takes up space. It exists in time. The mind takes up no space, it does not have its basic existence in time. The reality of the inner universe does not take up space, nor does it have its basic existence in time. Your camouflage universe, on the other hand, takes up space and has an existence in time, but it is not the real and basic universe, any more than the brain is the mind.
Your idea of space is some completely erroneous conception of an emptiness to be filled... True inner space is to the contrary vital energy, itself alive, possessing abilities or transformation, forming all existences, even the camouflage reality with which you are familiar, and which you attempt to probe so ineffectively.
This basic universe of which I speak expands constantly in terms of intensity and quality and value, in a way that has nothing to do with your idea of space. The basic universe beneath all camouflage does not have existence in space at all, as you envision it... Space is a camouflage... ”
From the book, Seth Speaks, page 235:
“As I have said many times, time as you think of it does not exist.”
From the book, The Nature of Personal Reality, page 152:
“...the fact is that all ‘time’ is simultaneous.”
From the book, Seth Speaks, page 245:
“There are an infinite number of inner universes...”
SETH ON WEALTH AND ABUNDANCE:
Seth- “Your thoughts have an electromagnetic reality. Now you must realize that this is true or the rest of what I am saying will indeed sound like Pollyanna nonsense.
Audio Clip 5: (transcript of audio clip below)
From The Seth Audio Collection, Volume 1, Tape 1 Selection 3 Excerpt C
“Your thoughts have an electromagnetic reality. Now you must realize that this is true or the rest of what I am saying will indeed sound like Pollyanna nonsense.
When you think in terms, for example, of abundance and plenty, then those thoughts draw to you abundance and plenty as a magnet does.
There will be a while, while you are changing your beliefs - for example, you will find yourself in a period where you feel quite self deceptive and you are saying ‘I am surrounded by wealth and abundance’, and you still look around you and you are poor. And you think, ‘This is a lot of bull!’
But it took you some time to build up your beliefs to the point of your present experience, and, so, in your terms, there may be some lag before your new beliefs draw to you abundance. But, your physical experience follows your thought. And you cannot change the experience without first changing your thought. Now it does no good to believe two things at the same time.
So, what you do is this -- you say, ‘I will play around with this idea. I will admit that it might be possible that my own thoughts about money are causing my lack of it. And so, for the hell of it, I will, several times a day, pretend that I am surrounded by abundance, and in my mind I will imagine the things that I want. If it does not work, I have not lost a thing, but if it works, I have gained a lot.’
So, you try it for several weeks, and each time that you do, the idea becomes a little bit more possible, a little bit more real. And, in the meantime, these thoughts are changing the beliefs that you have had.
They are at least balancing them. And they begin to draw to you abundance. There is no other way to change your physical reality, but by changing your thoughts.”
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