Friday, January 26, 2007
You will remember the smell of autumn air... , by Penelope
Jane Roberts had an ESP class in her home every Tuesday night for a number of years, and occasionally Seth would make an appearance. In Eastern religions and current New Age thought, we're supposed to crave 'ascending' and becoming part of Nirvana and losing our desires and individuality completely. That idea has always terrified me!! I knew I was supposed to really want this end of the ego into blissful nothingness, but it never quite appealed to me...that's why I love this quote from Seth--it's the most comforting thing I've ever read.
Seth (ESP Class, 5-18-71): "I have tried to explain the God concept
in many ways, using different vocabularies, speaking very simply; and
yet because of the subject matter I see that it is not understood.
You must also know that what I am telling you cannot be translated
into words, and so you are getting at best a second-hand translation.
Words cannot convey the message but working from the words you can
obtain a portion of the reality behind them.
"Now each of you is a part of All That Is, highly individual and
unique, like no other, and that like no other-ness will never be
taken from you. You will not melt into some great golden bliss in
which your characteristics will disappear. You will not be gobbled by
a super-god. On the other hand you will continue to exist, you will
continue to be responsible for the way in which you use energy, you
will expand in ways now impossible for you to understand. You will
learn to command energy of which you now do not know. You will
realize that you are more than you realize that you are now, but you
will not lose the state of which you are now aware, and regardless of
the fact of reincarnation and regardless of probable selves the
unique self that you now call yourself has eternal validity even
though the memories that you cannot now consciously recall will be
yours in their entirety; and physical life in its reincarnational
self is not some chaos thrust upon you, some evil from which you must
shortly hope to escape. It is a particular reality in which you have
chosen to know your existence, in which you have chosen to develop
yourself, and it is indeed a system, again, like no other system, a
unique and dear and beloved portion of reality in which you have
decided to flourish for a while. And in denying it, again, you deny
the reality of experience.
"In other terms, you will leave this system for others, but there
will be a portion of you yet, no matter how many eons pass, that
remembers a spring evening and a smell of autumn air; and those
things will always be with you when you want them. You make your own
flesh and your own world as now en mass you form the evening. These
are creations of yours and of your kind. They are not prisons to be
escaped from."
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