Create the Change You Want to See in the World

by Pete on June 28, 2011

To create the kind of change you want to see in yourself, and the world, you must first figure out what that change is. Start by asking yourself: what do I want more than anything else in All That Is? Use “All That Is” because you don’t know if material reality is all there is. What if there is Life After Life?

When I asked myself this question during a frustration moment in 1983, the answer, in the form of a voice six inches in front of my forehead, said, “love.” That’s it, I shouted; more than anything else in All That Is, I want to love and be loved, unconditionally!

It wasn’t money, it wasn’t power, it wasn’t food, it wasn’t sex and it wasn’t status or privilege; it was love and appreciation for the magic and wonder of All That Is. Buried in the rubble of my difficult and failure-ridden life, knowledge of this truth lived on quietly, until I found the wisdom or felt the irresistible urge to look for it. And there it was, glowing with the brilliance only love can create! Two years later, I actually had an Encounter with Unconditional Love. Click on the link and read it! It was a profound experience that is still unfolding in my life.

Here are more questions to ask yourself. Remember that the reason you ask them is to create the kind of change you want to see in yourself, and the  world.

  • what is the best way for me to treat me?
  • what is the best way for me to treat you?
  • what is the best way for me to treat us (our relationship)?

Remember the following two things:

  1. We are both one AND separate.
  2. We are not only the products of creation; we are creation itself!

Since birth, we’ve been told by word and example how to treat ourselves, and  each other. Isn’t it time to decide those questions for ourselves? When we assume we know the answers to life, we stop asking questions, we stop using our imaginations and we stop changing behaviorally. By asking questions like those above, we throw open the door to creativity and imagination. We give our inner selves permission to express themselves. More than that, we encourage them to express themselves!

Make each question the subject of a paper. Don’t consider it finished until you’re completely satisfied with the answers. Even then, it’s a good idea to keep the door open for even better answers in the future. Improvement is never ending.

Before falling asleep at night, ask the universe or All That Is for the best answers to these questions. Use all your available resources and accept nothing less than the best answers. Keep a notebook by the bedside to write them down.

Ask Value Questions and Listen for Intuitive Answers. (Click on the link and see how it works for me.)

Live by Value Fulfillment and Practice Idealism

Excerpt from The Hope of Audacity:

The Natural Law of Consciousness and Creation

From a spiritual persective, there is no right or wrong, good or bad, guilt or punishment – there just IS. There is what works for us, and what doesn’t; what makes us happy and what doesn’t.

By paying attention to what works for us and what doesn’t, what makes us happy and what doesn’t, not only do we discover our true selves, we actively develop powers of observation and discernment. In furthering our dreams of self-fulfillment and understanding, we learn use our imaginative and intellectual skills, as well as our inner and outer senses. When we pay attention to what works for us, and what doesn’t, what makes us happy and what doesn’t, we honor and acknowledge the desire to be the best selves we can be, not because we have to but because we can. In doing so, we replace confusion with clarity, weakness with confidence and fear with love.

To live by value fulfillment and practice idealism is a two-step process. The first is to determine the qualities of life and being we value most – our ideals.

The next step is to fulfill or actualize our ideals to the best of our ability over time. That’s what “practice” is all about. When it’s done with natural passion, it’s not work; it’s play. This process is the SOURCE of our power! It is CHANGE! It is Growth! It is CREATIVITY! It is FREEDOM! It is doing it MY WAY and learning from it as a way of life! We’re already doing this unconsciously. Why not do it consciously and more effectively?

It doesn’t matter that we come up with the same answers. What does matter is that we come up with them ourselves – that we do things for our own reasons. Allowing ourselves to become receptacles for information given to us from other sources without question or examination, no matter how much we love, fear or respect those sources, is not power, creativity or freedom; it is laziness and passivity. It usually results in subjugation, which breeds resentment and conflict. Failing to question beliefs that cause harm or make us unhappy reflects poorly on us. It does not honor the source from which we come nor the creative selves we are.

A Project-Centered Life

To live by value fulfillment and practice idealism is to live a Project-Centered Life in which we are the project. Who are we? What’s reality? What’s the purpose of life? Who do we love to be? What do we love to do? What works for us, and what doesn’t? What makes us happy and what doesn’t? These are questions we must always ask if we want to fulfill our own unique potential.

If an idea in the form of a belief, attitude, value or expectation does not work for us or make us happy, we have the power to replace it with an idea that does work for us, one that does make us happy. This creative ability is our means for self-determination, for becoming self-directing and self-motivating. It is the key to self-fulfillment, honest collaboration and true democracy.

There is no greater show of love than the acknowledgment of power and worth in yourself and others. Conversely, there is no greater show of fear than the denial of power and worth in yourself and others. By taking responsibility for who we are and what we do, by putting ourselves in the driver’s seat of our own lives, we celebrate all being as having value, including our own. This is love!

To ask questions, make suggestions and share your successful strategies with others, go to the Reality Creation Project Yahoo Discussion Board. The website address is http://groups.yahoo.com/group/create_reality.

I also encourage you to form local groups for fun, experimentation, mutual support and discussion. The antidote for fear is love. The antidote for distrust is trust. The antidote for contempt is appreciation. The antidote for violence is forgiveness. The antidote for the belief that we are unlovable and unworthy is the belief that we are lovable and worthy. Instead of thinking about how bad we are, how little we do and how poorly we do it; why not remember how good we are, how much we do and how well we do it? Isn’t it better to count our blessings than our sorrows?

For reference, read:

  1. A New Story of Origin
  2. The Hope of Audacity

“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” – Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

The self (the “decider” in you) is your seat of power and the moment (now) is your point of power.

Roger A. “Pete” Peterson – http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual  beings having a human experience. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we must live with the consequences of our beliefs, how can we afford NOT to question them?

The more we love and appreciate ourselves, the better we treat ourselves, and the world.

Blessings of love and understanding be to us all.

The secrets of the universe lie hidden in the shadows of our experience. Look for them!

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Ideas for a New Self, and a New World

by Pete on January 9, 2012

From We Create Our Own Reality:

The purpose, or challenge, of life is to learn how to use thought in its various forms to shape energy into a pleasing reality. The prize is a sense of satisfaction, a feeling of a job well done. And, like learning to walk or talk, it is a personal, subjective endeavor that requires creative aggression. It is a great balancing act, where one must accept falling down in the course of learning how to stand up.

Remember:

Thoughts are “things” with a reality of their own, and you, an artist. With thoughts in the forms of belief, attitude, value and expectation, you paint the landscape of your life. Create a great day!

Who are we? One morning I woke up with these thoughts on my mind: all life is about intention; learning to think for ourselves; understanding; perspective; exploration; experimentation; discovery; loving and being loved; all I want to do is be me; oneness and sharing.

Two days later, I woke up with the thought, we’re “victims” when our thinking habits and behavior patterns are negative, and “benefactors” when they’re positive and loving. To change negative patterns of thought and behavior requires clear intention, determination, forgiveness, humor and creative aggression, in other words – audacity! We must understand we’re meant to learn from our experiences, not define ourselves by them. In the words of the rehab community, “it’s all good!”

We’re here to learn about who we are, what “reality” is, and what we’re capable of. We are gods becoming and we create our reality whether we do so consciously or not. We’re free to regard ourselves as passive victims of the creative process or active, creative participants. It’s part of an evolutionary process of expanding our awareness until we become consciously aware of our role in creating our own reality and co-creating our shared reality.

Have you ever marched in military formation or seen other people do it? All military Basic Training includes learning to march in formation. Besides moving in lock step, we sing sexually explicit songs in tune with our movements. It’s fun and makes us feel as though we’re one.

Societies and their institutions train us to march in lock step too. Sameness is favored over individuality for the sake of control. We teach a fixed curriculum and discourage each other from asking questions unless they’re of the who, what, when and where variety. Answers to “why” questions are discouraged because they threaten the control society attempts to maintain. “Why” questions are also discouraged because they imply that intention, or consciousness, is the source of matter and not the other way around, as classical science believes.

This limiting and hardened matrix of “official” beliefs slows our pace of spiritual development. Fueled by material need, we explore and develop new technologies while spiritual understanding goes unexplored and unappreciated. It doesn’t have to be this way and many of us, motivated by unexplainable mystical experiences in addition to the psychological pain of an uncertain future heightened by threatening world conditions, are responding to this need by throwing open the doors to spiritual exploration and understanding. More than anything, we want to make sense of our experience!

During childhood, many of us learn to think we’re bad, untrustworthy, inferior or undeserving. Failing to love or trust ourselves, we accept dependence on outside authority and external judgments of right and wrong, good and bad, guilt and punishment. We do less thinking and imagining for ourselves and do more following. Instead of examining and changing old beliefs that no longer serve us, we defend them as if they are who we are!

Ideas to set us free:

Consciousness (Energetic Awareness) is the source and substance of All That Is.

You, me and All That Is are unique, individualized expressions of Energetic Awareness (Consciousness).

We are Aware Energy Beings creating a human reality.

As Energetic Awareness, All That Is is both one and separate.

We are not only the products of creation; we are creation itself!

LIVE for the love of Being and Creation!

When you (outer self or ego) feel lost or overwhelmed, stop what you’re doing and reach out to higher Awareness. Talk to your inner self or soul, or sit under the stars and talk with the universe. (Review: Ask Value Questions and Listen for Intuitive Answers)

Remember how good you are, how much you do and how well you do it.

Be who you love to be and do what you love to do.

Be yourself to the best of your ability!

Let love be the Light and the Way, not fear.

Live by Value Fulfillment and practice Idealism. In other words, determine the qualities of life and being you value most, your ideals, and actualize them to the best of your ability.

Make self-improvement and natural passion the centerpiece of your life and you will automatically change yourself, and the world, for the better.

Learn from your experiences; do not define yourself by them.

Do what works and makes you happy!

From a spiritual perspective, there is no right or wrong, good or bad, guilt or punishment, there just IS. There is what works for us, and what doesn’t, what makes us happy and what doesn’t.

“Nothing you can ever think, say or do can keep you from being loved unconditionally.” – the Energy of Unconditional Love

What can be more exciting, or worth doing, than changing ourselves, and the world, for the better?

If others don’t love, trust or believe in us, we must love, trust, and believe in ourselves, and them. We must provide each other encouragement and give ourselves room to grow. Fear and judgment imprison us while love and understanding set us free. Forget “The Audacity of Hope” and focus on The Hope of Audacity!

Use the affirmations below to replace common cultural beliefs that tell us we’re bad and we can’t trust ourselves. As you repeat them, be aware of how good they make you feel. If we don’t believe in ourselves, what hope is there for our future? They’re free, simple and easy to use. As powerful seed thoughts, they serve as antidotes to some of the most negative ideas we’re exposed to growing up. Plant them in the fertile soil of your imagination. Watch them grow and bear fruit. Believe in the good intention and healing power of your body and mind!

I love myself, because I am!

I love myself, because I can!

I trust myself, because I am!

I trust myself, because I can!

I believe in myself, because I am!

I believe in myself, because I can!

I love you, because you are!

I love you, because I can!

I trust you, because you are!

I trust you, because I can!

I believe in you, because you are!

I believe in you, because I can!

Take some time and think about how good we are, how much we do and how well we do it. We’re not perfect, but we are doing the best we can with what we know, even though we can and will learn more and do better in the future. Think about how well we treat each other at home, work, school, and in our travels. Things can always be a lot worse than they are in the present.

When we stop making judgments based on external values that define good and bad, right and wrong, and start paying attention to what works and makes us happy, our powers of observation and discernment will improve, as well as our imagination. Our awareness and understanding will expand; we will become more conscious of, and responsible for, the role we play in creating our personal and shared reality.

Find a great motto for yourself, one that inspires and directs you in a way you want to be inspired and directed. It may be inside you now. I’ve been directed by a motto most of my life but was unable to express it in words until recently. The ideas that inspire and direct my thoughts and actions are: Seek the greatest understanding and serve the highest good.

If we like what we’re doing,  whether it’s learning to walk, talk, learn, parent, write, teach, create, organize or employ – we seek the greatest understanding to achieve the highest good, whatever we perceive that to be in the moment. We may have never expressed this impulse in words before but it’s what we do intuitively. When we become consciously aware of this natural ideal, we not only appreciate ourselves more, we multiply its effectiveness by being consciously aware of it and enthusiastically supporting it.

For reference, read: A New Story of Origin.

Pete – http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

In other words, we create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we must live with the consequences of our beliefs, how can we afford NOT to question them?

The more we love and appreciate ourselves, the better we treat ourselves, and the world.

Blessings of love and understanding be to us all.

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As with all things, take what you like and leave the rest.

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Join the Real Talk World Yahoo Forum

by Pete on December 19, 2011

Join the Real Talk World Yahoo Forum, ask questions and look for answers. Who are we? What’s reality? What’s the purpose of life? What can be more exciting, or worth doing, than changing ourselves, and the world, for the better? Is greed good? Is competition more effective than collaboration? Is fear, vengeance and capital punishment better than love, understanding and forgiveness? What does money represent, how does it affect our lives and how can we best use it? What’s the best way to treat ourselves as individuals and nations? How can we make education more meaningful? What role should we let government and its institutions play in our lives? Do you have questions about sexuality and its expression, bring it on!

What are the root elements that drive behavior? Let’s examine society’s “official” answers and how they affect our lives. Do they work for us or against us, do they make us happy or unhappy? Use your intuition, experience and imagination to figure out what makes the most sense to you. When we let go of external values of right and wrong, good and bad (recipes for living) and start paying attention to what works for us, and what doesn’t, what makes us happy and what doesn’t, our powers of observation, imagination and discernment grow. Bring material from Seth, Elias, the God of Neale Donald Walsch, Abraham and any other channeled entity to the table if their ideas make sense to you. Let’s drop our human masks and be the spiritual beings we are, creating a human reality. Let’s make conscious what we know unconsciously!

Pete – http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

The more we love and understand ourselves, the better we treat ourselves, and the world.

Blessings of love and understanding be to us all.

The secrets of the universe lie hidden in the shadows of your experience. Look for them!

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Is Greed Good?

by Pete on November 30, 2011

Some of us believe that greed is good and  some of us believe that greed is bad, even evil. What is it and when was the last time we actually stopped to think about this idea? Why do we act as though we know the answer to something when we don’t? This brings up another question: are we here to learn and grow in understanding of who or what we are or are we here to be automatons, “good citizens” who go along with the flow without question?

Instead of reacting to the idea of “greed” with old judgments of right and wrong, good and bad, why don’t we reexamine it with open hearts and minds? Why continue to play the  I’m right, you’re wrong; I’m good, you’re bad; I’m smart and you’re stupid game when it hasn’t worked in the past? Is there any time this strategy has gotten us anywhere beyond high blood pressure or violent reaction?

So, is greed good, is it bad or is it something in between? For the sake of this discussion, let’s assume there is no right or wrong, good or bad, there just IS! There is what works for us, and what doesn’t, what makes us happy and what doesn’t. In the end, isn’t this how we organize our lives anyway? Don’t we all want to do what works best for us and makes us happy?

Definition of Greed

The Encarta Dictionary defines “greed” as:

a “strong desire for more” or, “an overwhelming desire to have more of something such as money than is actually needed.”

The English Dictionary defines greed as:

  1.  a “strong wish to have more money, things, or power than you need.
  2. a strong wish to have more food than you need.

While we’re at it, what stands behind the impulse to want more of anything than we need?

As we think, we create. Change what we think, and we change what we create.

Pete – http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

The more we love and understand ourselves, the better we treat ourselves, and the world.

Blessings of love and understanding be to us all!

The secrets of the universe lie hidden in the shadows of our experience. Look for  them!

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Seth – Physical Reality Emerges from Subjective Reality

by Pete on September 7, 2011

 Posted on Seth, Practicing Idealist by Oceanside Rick, Fri Aug 12, 2011 7:11 am (PDT)

When I speak of the dream world, I am not referring to some imaginary realm, but to the … world of ideas, of thoughts, of mental actions, out of which all form as you think of it emerges. In actuality this is an inner universe rather than an inner world. Your physical reality is but one materialization of that inner organization. All possible civilizations exist first in that realm of inner mind.

In the beginning, then, the species did not have the kinds of forms they do now. They had pseudo forms, dream bodies, if you prefer – and they could not physically reproduce themselves. Their experience of time was entirely different, and in the beginning the entire earth operated in a kind of dream time. In your terms, this meant that time could be quickened, or lengthened. It was a kind of psychological time.

Again, forms appeared and disappeared. In your terms of time, however, the dream bodies took on physical forms(, although) physical reproduction was impossible. That did not happen to all of the species at once, however. For a while, then, the earth had a mixed population of species who had completely taken on physical forms, and species who had not. The forms, however, whether physical or not, were complete in themselves. Birds were birds, and fish fish.

In the beginning there were also species of various other kinds: combinations of man-animal and animal-man, and many other “crossbreed” species, some of fairly long duration in your terms. This applies to all areas. There were dream trees, with dream foliage, that gradually became aware within that dream (with gentle emphasis), turning physical, focusing more and more in physical reality, until their dream seeds finally brought forth physical trees.

There may be other terms I could use, in some ways more advantageous than the term, “the dream world.” I am emphasizing this dream connection, however, because the dream state is one familiar to each reader, and it represents your closest touchstone to the kind of subjective reality from which your physical world emerges. The dream state appears chaotic, shadowy, suspicious, or even meaningless, precisely because in life you are so brilliantly focused in daily reality that dreams appear to be staticky objective background noise, left over from when you sleep. But that is how physical experience would seem to someone not focused in it, or inexperienced with its organization.

Again, the world came into being in the same way that any idea does. The physical world expands in the same way that any idea does. I am speaking for your edification of the world you recognize, of the earth you know, but there are probable earths, of course, as real as your own. They coexist with your own, and they are all in one way or another connected.

Each one carries hints and clues about the others. In the terms used by science, there was no evolution in linear terms, but vast (long pause) explosions of consciousness, expansions of capacities, unfoldings on the parts of all species, and these still continue. They are the inner manipulations with which consciousness presents itself.

Later in the book I will discuss some of these, but they represent intuitive leaps of new understandings. The pattern of animal behavior, for example, is not at all as set and finished as you suppose. Your physical experience is a combination of dream events interlaced with what you call objective acts.

Were it not for your myths, you would have discovered no “facts.”

Session 887, Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment, Vol. 1, copyright © 1986 by Jane Roberts and Robert F. Butts

Links to related Seth articles:

Seth on the Impulse (Will?) to Be

Seth – Trust Yourself

Seth on Man’s Purpose

Afterthoughts

Science tells us that consciousness arises from matter even though our personal experience tells us otherwise. Could it be that we stubbornly insist on believing in science instead of ourselves? Popular belief says that consciousness is limited to brain function. While we remain hobbled to this belief, do we fail to see that Consciousness (Awareness and Energy) lies behind the organization and expression of All That Is? Do we fail to see that the activity and integrity of each day, each cell, each molecule and each atom is maintained and controlled by a combination of self-awareness and other-awareness?

Isn’t awareness and energy everywhere and everything? Isn’t it the essence of who we are? How else can we explain the exquisite detail that exists at all levels of being? Even our dreams are self-organizing and perfect, from the smallest to the largest, from the simplest to the most complex expression of being. As we think (as awareness and energy interact), we create. Change what we think, and we change what we create.

Our brains and bodies connect us to the earth’s unique field of being and creation. If it were not for our bodies and the development of our outer egos (human self-identity), how could we continue to experience ourselves as human beings over a lifetime of moments, from childbirth to death from old age? If it were not for our bodies and outer egos, time and space would not play such a prominent role in our experience. As they do in dreams, the most dominant and energetic energy forms (thoughts, feelings and intentions) would spontaneously catch us up in their expressions. Without physical bodies and outer ego identities, our physical relationships and world, time and space, would change as rapidly and spontaneously as our thoughts.

Without a strong sense of self and purpose, we lack an anchor and become more like a leaf in the wind. We blow about willy-nilly, driven by forces around us that are stronger and better organized than ourselves. In whatever form we express ourselves, our freedom and strength lies in paying attention to and determining what works for us and what doesn’t, what makes us happy and what doesn’t. To do anything less is to be blown about by the wind.

The purpose, or challenge, of life is to learn how to use thought in its various forms to shape energy into a pleasing reality. The prize is a sense of satisfaction, a feeling of a job well done. And, like learning to walk or talk, it is a personal, subjective endeavor that requires creative aggression. It is a great balancing act where one must accept falling down in the course of learning how to stand up. (from We Create Our Own Reality)

For further research, read: A New Story of Origin

Pete – http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

The more we love and understand ourselves, the better we treat ourselves, and the world.

Blessings of love and understanding be to us all.

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The Trouble with Money is not Money

by Pete on August 17, 2011

Is it possible for any of us to completely understand why things are happening the way they are today, or any day? Often, what we see as Armageddon one minute becomes our salvation the next.

Putting these larger thoughts aside, why do some millionaires and billionaires, and want-to-be millionaires and billionaires, hate paying taxes so much they’d rather spend their fortunes to destroy our social contracts and turn us against each other? Why not spend that money on taxes for the benefit of all? Or, why not spend it looking for solutions to problems like over-population, resource management and unfettered growth instead of making them worse? Why would they choose to be part of the problem instead of the solution? Do you remember the game of Monopoly? When one or two people own all the money and property, the game’s over. Money, like blood needs to circulate, otherwise, society, like the body, die.

Waxing philosophical again, perhaps they are part of the solution and we can’t see it. Yet, there is a part of me that yearns for us all to work together instead of at odds. It seems more fun and elegant that way, doesn’t it?

It’s nice to be good at something, even making money but when it goes far beyond filling our personal need, it becomes disruptive. It becomes an irrational obsession like drug addiction. It reflects an imbalance between mind, body and spirit. It becomes an unrealistic expectation in the power of money to make us feel safe and happy, spiritual/emotional qualities no amount of money or property can buy.

When emotions like fear or greed rule our thoughts, we turn the world against us because we have turned against the world.

It is not the individual or the corporation that needs to be controlled so much as it is an emotional appetite for money, power and privilege that is so large and so great, it would consume or control everything in sight. It is not that we are bad, it is our ideas about who we are that are bad.

Pete – http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

The more we love and understand ourselves, the better we treat ourselves, and the world.

Blessings of love and understanding be to us all.

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Seth on After Death – Part 2

by Pete on July 22, 2011

Posted on Seth, Practicing Idealist by Oceanside Rick, Sat Jul 9, 2011, 8:10 am (PDT)

If [after death] you firmly believe that your consciousness is a product of your physical body, then you may attempt to cling to it.

There is an order of personalities, an honorary guard, so to speak, who are ever ready to lend assistance and aid, however.

Now this honorary guard is made up of people in your terms both living and dead. Those who are living in your system of reality perform these activities in an “out of body” experience while the physical body sleeps. They are familiar with the projection of consciousness, with the sensations involved, and they help orient those who will not be returning to the physical body.

These people are particularly helpful because they are still involved with physical reality, and have a more immediate understanding of the feelings and emotions involved at your end. Such persons may or may not have a memory of their nightly activities. Experiences with projection of consciousness and knowledge of the mobility of consciousness, are therefore very helpful as preparations for death.

You can experience the after death environment beforehand, so to speak, and learn the conditions that will be encountered.

This is not, incidentally, necessarily any kind of somber endeavor, nor are the after death environments somber at all.

To the contrary, they are generally far more intense and joyful than the reality you now know.

You will simply be learning to operate in a new environment in which different laws apply, and the laws are far less limiting than the physical ones with which you now operate.

In other words, you must learn to understand and use new freedoms.

Session 535, Seth Speaks, the Eternal Validity of the Soul Copyright © 1972 by Jane Roberts

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual  beings having a human experience. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

The more we love and understand ourselves, the better we treat ourselves, and the world.

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Seth on After Death

by Pete on July 22, 2011

Posted on SethJaneRoberts@yahoogroups.com by Oceanside Rick, Fri 7/8/2011, 6:17 AM

Again, as mentioned earlier, an individual can be so certain that death is the end of all, that oblivion, though temporary, results. In many cases, immediately on leaving the body there is, of course, amazement and a recognition of the situation. At many funerals, the deceased is amidst the company — and no one gazes into the face of the corpse with as much curiosity and wonder.

(Sorry, but I rewrote the last sentence for clarification. Here’s the original sentence as it was written in Seth Speaks, the Eternal Validity of the Soul: “The body itself may be viewed, for example, and many funerals have a guest of honor amidst the company— and no one gazes into the face of the corpse with as much curiosity and wonder.” - Pete)

At this point many variations in behavior emerge, each the result of individual background, knowledge, and habit. The surroundings in which the dead find themselves will often vary. Vivid hallucinations may form experience quite as real as any in mortal life. Now, I have told you that thoughts and emotions form physical reality, and they form after death experience. This does not mean that the experiences are not valid, any more than it means that physical life is not valid.

Certain images have been used to symbolize such a transition from one existence to another, and many of these are extremely valuable in that they provide a framework with understandable references.

The crossing of the River Styx is such a one. The dying expected certain procedures to occur in a more or less orderly fashion. The maps were known beforehand. At death, the consciousness hallucinated the river vividly. Relatives and friends already dead entered into the ritual, which was a profound ceremony also on their parts. The river was as real as any that you know, as treacherous to a traveler alone without proper knowledge. Guides were always at the river to help such travelers across.

It does not do to say that such a river is illusion. The symbol is reality, you see. The way was planned. Now, that particular map is no longer generally in use.

The living do not know how to read it. Christianity has believed in a heaven and a hell, a purgatory, and reckoning, and so, at death, to those who so believe in these symbols, another ceremony is enacted, and the guides take on the guises of those beloved figures of Christian saints and heroes.

Then with this as framework, and in terms that they can understand, such individuals are told the true situation. Mass religious movements have for centuries fulfilled that purpose, in giving man some plan to be followed. It little mattered that later the plan was seen as a child’s primer, a book of instructions complete with colorful tales, for the main purpose was served and there was little disorientation.

In periods where no such mass ideas are held, there is more disorientation, and when life after death is completely denied, the problem is somewhat magnified. Many, of course, are overjoyed to find themselves still conscious.

Session 536, Seth Speaks – the Eternal Validity of the Soul Copyright © 1972 by Jane Roberts

In the late 1970s, we lived at Freedom West, a large housing cooperative in San Francisco. While there, I met an elderly Filipino man who was absolutely delightful. He had a smile on his face and a kind word for everyone. When he died shortly after I met him, my sense of loss was so great, I decided to attend his funeral for one last goodbye.

As his family and friends shared their fondest memories of him, I couldn’t help but think about how wonderful he was and how much I would miss him personally. Sensing his presence in the middle of my thoughts, I looked up at the casket and saw him sitting on it with his right leg crossed over the left one while bracing himself with both hands. He looked at us with the most loving smile I had ever seen, and hidden within it, was the thought, “if you only knew what it’s like on this side of reality, you wouldn’t be so sad.”

His knowing smile brought a smile to my face and I walked home with thankfulness for having attended his funeral and experienced this magical moment.

Pete – http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual  beings having a human experience. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

The more we love and understand ourselves, the better we treat ourselves, and the world.

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Seth on Man’s Purpose

by Pete on July 8, 2011

Posted on SethJaneRoberts@yahoogroups.com by Oceanside Rick [oceanside77usa@yahoo.com], Mon 6/27/2011, 6:00 AM

Physically speaking, man’s “purpose” is to help enrich the quality of existence in all of its dimensions.

Spiritually speaking, his “purpose” is to understand the qualities of love and creativity, to intellectually and psychically understand the sources of his being, and to lovingly create other dimensions of reality of which he is presently unaware.

In his thinking, in the quality of his thoughts, in their motion, he is indeed experimenting with a unique and a new kind of reality, forming other subjective worlds which will in their turn grow into consciousness and song, which will in their turn flower from a dream dimension into other ones. Man is learning to create new worlds. In order to do so he has taken on many challenges.

You all have physical parents. Some of you have physical children as well—but you will all “one day” also be the mental parents of dream children who also waken in a new world, and look about them for the first time, feeling isolated and frightened and triumphant all at once.

All worlds have an inner beginning.

All of your dreams somewhere waken, but when they do they waken with the desire for creativity themselves, and they are born of an innocent new intent. That which is in harmony with the universe, with All That Is, has a natural inborn impetus that will dissolve all impediments. It is easier, therefore, for nature to flourish than not.

Session 901, Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment, Vol. 1 Copyright © 1986 by Jane Roberts

What’s your reaction to this piece? I find it incredibly expansive, life-affirming and spiritually moving!

Pete – http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual  beings having a human experience. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

The more we love ourselves, the better we treat ourselves, and the world.

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Seth – About “Mistakes”

by Pete on June 11, 2011

When you first learned to write in school, you had to be taught how to form the letters. You made many mistakes. Finally, however, you could form the letters quite easily. You felt triumphant. You forgot the mistakes you had made in the past. You had accomplished something.

Then you were told that you had to put those letters together to make words. Again you made many mistakes, and forgot them as with delight you now wrote separate words. Then you were told to put the words into sentences, and you followed the same procedure. You forgot your mistakes.

Were you stupid or dumb – or an asshole – when you could only form simple letters?

Obviously not.

Your aspirations and your curiosity kept leading you toward a more complete development, until you could finally read and write whole paragraphs. You could not only copy sentences, but – important development – you could form your own sentences, and express your own thoughts in that form.

These were all stages of development, then, and the same applies to your life (now).

Your so-called mistakes exist as mistakes only in the light of your aspirations to perform better, to express more fully developed experiences, rather than to write better sentences.

It is self-defeating, therefore, to blame yourself for mistakes, so-called, simply because in the light of your present development they are seen as less developed acts than those to which you now aspire.

Whenever you catch yourself disapproving of yourself for past mistakes, read these passages. Do not check on yourself all the time.

Trust that you will learn what you want to learn as automatically as you once learned to read or speak, or as automatically as you think.

In your realm of reality; mistakes are a part of the learning process.

They do not even seem to be mistakes until you are “at the next level” of development, or a step higher in your understanding – as when, say, in the sixth grade you looked back and saw a page of your own childish lettering done at the age of five.

I realize it is difficult to understand at times, but even your so-called mistakes have many far-reaching beneficial results that do not show in any isolated fashion.

They may add to your understanding of yourself and others. They may be applied beneficially in entirely different areas of your life – so stop disapproving of yourself, of your “mistakes.”

Try to set your goals and to trust that the proper impulses will come to you to bring them about and that others will be disposed in your direction, for their own reasons.

In the meantime, try to live in the present as much as possible. Do not undervalue or overvalue yourself.

Session 917 from Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment, Volume 2, Copyright © 1986 by Jane Roberts

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Mistakes are “mistakes” until we learn to be or do better from them. Then, they are no longer mistakes but necessary stepping stones to value fulfillment. “Never give up!” – Winston Churchill

Pete – http://realtalkworld.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual  beings having a human experience. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We create our own reality from what we choose to believe about ourselves, and the world around us.

If we do not CONSCIOUSLY choose our own beliefs, we UNCONSCIOUSLY absorb them from our surroundings.

If we are accountable (responsible) for our actions, how can we afford NOT to question our beliefs?

How you define yourself, and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality. – Seth

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