Imagination and beliefs. I

SESSION 619, 9 OCTOBER 1972 2PM 6 MONDAY

My mother lives with my brother and her family in a small town in upstate New York, near Rochester, and Jane and I had visited them for the weekend. Driving back to Elmira this morning, Jane commented, "Someone is working on Seth's book, I can assure you. I keep getting fragments of it. It deals with the imagination and the beliefs, I believe, and how they interact, only that there is still much more. Well, "he added, pleased," it's good to know that the work is done ... "

I wish you good night.

Let's retake the dictation. Imagination plays an important role in your subjective life, as it provides mobility to your beliefs. It is one of the motivating agents that help transform your beliefs into physical experience. So it is vitally important that you understand the interplay between ideas and imagination. In order to discard inappropriate beliefs and establish new ones, you must learn to use the imagination to move concepts in and out of the mind. Proper use of imagination can push ideas in the direction you want.

End of chapter three.


4. IMAGINATION AND BELIEFS, AND A BRIEF WORDS ON THE ORIGIN OF BELIEFS

In physical life, the conscious mind depends largely on the functioning of the physical brain. You have a conscious mind whether you are incarnated or not, but when you are physically oriented the mind is connected to the physical brain.

The brain, to a certain extent, keeps the mind three-dimensional. It guides you to the environment in which you must work, and it is thanks to the relationship of the mind to the temporal brain that you perceive time as a series of moments.

The brain channels to the physical structure the information the mind receives, so that your experience is sifted physically and automatically translated into terms that the organism can understand. Therefore, speaking from the physical point of view and life as you conceive it, the mind depends to a large extent on the development and activity of the brain. There is certain information necessary for the physical survival that must be taught and passed from father to son. There are basic premises of a general nature with which you are born; But as the specific conditions of the environment are very diverse, these premises must be applied. So it is necessary for the child to accept the beliefs of his parents, since they reinforce the family group when the child needs more protection. Thus, this acceptance of beliefs is important in the early stages of life, when the baby becomes a child. Sharing common ideas not only protects the new generation from the dangers that are evident to parents, but also serves as a frame of reference within which the child can grow and develop.

This provides a certain margin of freedom until the conscious mind is able to reason for itself and to make its own value judgments. Later we will comment on the more general aspects of the origin of ideas, but for now we will talk about what concerns this life, which you know.

The beliefs you receive, therefore, are the conceptions that your parents harbor about the nature of reality. You are transmitted through example, verbal communication, and constant telepathic reinforcement. You get ideas about the world in general and about your relationship with him; And from your parents you also receive notions of what you are. You are learning your ideas about your own reality.

Underneath all of this, within you you unfailingly carry the knowledge of your identity, meaning and purpose, but during the early stages of growth much attention is paid to your relationship with the physical world. These are directional beliefs that you receive from your parents, and that guide you in a way that they believe to be safe. Protected by these beliefs, the child can be safe and satisfy his curiosity, develop his faculties and dump all his energy in areas of activity well delimited.

So the acceptance of beliefs is very necessary, especially in the early years of life. There is no reason, however, for a person to be able to get rid of the beliefs and experiences of childhood. The nature of some of these beliefs is such that, although the most obvious ones are recognized as harmful or foolish, "other relationships with them" may not be understood with equal ease.

Let's look at an example. It may seem silly to you that you would ever believe in original sin. But perhaps you do not realize that much of your current actions are based on a belief in "guilt". We will speak at length about how your beliefs may be related since you are not accustomed to examine them.

You may say, "I'm fat because I feel guilty about something that has to do with my past." You may try to find out what that prosecutable event was, but in this case the problem is a belief in guilt itself.

You do not have to carry such a belief. I know very well that your civilization has powerful elements based on the idea of ​​guilt and punishment. Many of you believe that without a sense of guilt there is no internal discipline, and without it the world would be a jungle. It is now a jungle now, and not for lack of feelings of guilt and punishment, but to a large extent "due" to them. But we will refer to this in another part of the book.

The first ideas that your parents give you, therefore, structure your learning experiences, establish the safe borders within which you can live the first few years. Without being very aware of it - since your mind, connected to the brain, is not very developed - your imagination walks along certain paths.

The imagination largely follows beliefs, though not completely, and so does emotion. To some extent there are general guidelines. A child cries when something hurts. Stop crying when the pain stops, and the emotion that accompanied the crying automatically changes for another. But if the child finds that prolonging crying after the event gets extra attention and consideration, it will begin to prolong the emotion.

From the earliest stages of his life, the child automatically compares his interpretation of reality with that of his parents. Because parents are bigger and stronger and meet so many of their needs, the child tries to match their experience with the expectations and beliefs of parents. While it is quite natural for the child to cry or feel "wrong" when hurt, a belief may so reinforce this tendency, that prolonged feelings of desolation be adopted as definitive patterns of behavior.

Behind it lies the belief that all damage is "intrinsically" a disaster. Such a belief may have as its origin, for example, a mother who cares excessively. If a mother's imagination thus obeys her belief - which she actually does - she immediately perceives a great potential danger to her child at the slightest threat. The behavior of the mother, and her telepathic communication, sends the child that message, and the message reacts to that belief.

In the conscious mind many beliefs like this lie. As the adult does not usually examine his beliefs, he may be totally unaware that he holds such an idea. But the idea itself is neither buried nor unconscious: it is simply unexamined.

So one of the most disturbing beliefs, as I mentioned earlier (in session 614), is the idea that the keys to understanding the current behavior lie buried and are usually inaccessible. This belief in itself isolates the contents of the conscious mind and prevents you from looking for the answers that are "accessible" there.

I told Jane that I had thought of using the pendulum after the session to get to the cause of the hand phenomenon, since I did not want to interrupt the dictation of the book by asking this to Seth. (Briefly, for those who have asked me the question: the pendulum is a very old method, and I use it with excellent results in order to obtain ideo-motive-subconscious-responses on knowledge that lie outside the limits of my habitual consciousness I hold a small heavy object suspended from a thread so that it can move freely.When I ask you questions in my mind, I get affirmative or negative answers as the pendulum swings back and forth or from left to right.)

As we talked about our individual problems, Jane concluded that we had to make a decision: either we asked about them, or we continued the work of the book. Seth's two channels were wide open. Although we wanted to continue the dictation, we also wanted to know more about our personal problems. Feeling somewhat guilty, we opted for this last; But, as the material progressed, we were glad we made that decision.

This is your information.

First, everything "lies" in the conscious mind. The pendulum is a method that allows you to see the conscious material that is not organized into "recognized" beliefs. I want you to understand this, since in this way I can not personally address the reader.

Belief is conscious. You are well aware of it, but not so dependent on it. The belief is that you do not communicate well with your mother.

Seth was absolutely right. And, speaking of seeing the proverbial light, I suddenly saw the belief that had been in front of my noses all the time. Remember that Jane and I had spent the weekend visiting my mother, my brother, and her family.

It depends on another belief, that this lack of communication is a bad thing, and that you deserve a punishment for bad things. When writing this book you are helping us communicate with many people, while at the same time you think you can not communicate with your mother.

These beliefs together, therefore, cause a tension in the writing hand. You simply want to express through the sessions these ideas that you believe so much in, but you feel or feel guilty for doing so because you can not convey those ideas to your mother.

Thus, conflicting beliefs cause difficulties in the method, and the hand does not automatically move with the gracefulness it should. You also "believe" that you communicate much better through writing than orally. You often write notes to Ruburt, with simple and beautiful messages that you find difficult to convey orally "due" to your belief.

So tonight you feel guilty because you communicate with others by transcribing the notes, while you think you could not do it with your mother verbally. In this way the method is affected by your beliefs.

I'm telling you all this to show you how beliefs work.

You also "believe" (you could underline every "believe" as I speak to you) that your main method of communication is painting, and instead the form of diffusion you use now is to take notes.

This has happened because two current secondary beliefs related to the experiences of the weekend have come into conflict. One, you should be in Rochester, like you were, talking to your mother. And the second, that you should have been here, communicating with the world in general through your painting.

Instead, on your return you are communicating with the world with your notes, a choice you made consciously, but not entirely about the other contents of your conscious mind, and the beliefs "in conflict." Do you understand?

These beliefs are very obvious when I point them out, but their opposite nature facilitated confusing data to the body's conscience: writing and not writing.

Also involved is the idea of ​​punishment, the belief in it. Anyway, you do what you decided to do - remember the session - but punishing yourself with your personal interpretation.

Your mother's "situation", according to "you believe", implies a lack of communication. Your brother explained that speech sometimes fails. Well, your conscious interpretation of an appropriate self-punishment was the lack of mobility in the hand. I try to express this in simple terms so that you can follow the relationship of the elements.

Since you think that your method of expression is mainly through your hand when you paint, and you think that of your mother is oral, you altered the movement of the hand, and not, for example, your speech. Can you consciously follow this?

At certain times you made those choices consciously. You did not realize it, but they existed as conscious points of full consciousness and choice. Do you have any question?

Well, Ruburt has been busy recently reorganizing some of the beliefs he wants to get rid of. It has been releasing them, so that they are spinning in their consciousness. They are becoming aware of them, and they are no longer as invisible as they were. He is facing many of them for the first time.

Both should be equally fully aware of the beneficial ideas and their importance in your lives, and this will be a theme of the book.

Tonight Ruburt was in a way exhausted to compare your beliefs together with those of your brother's family, to compare their bodily beliefs with those of those people and to see how their own were harmful; But also contrasted their personal psychic and creative faculties with theirs, and that encouraged him. The result was that Ruburt felt both exhausted and excited.

I made sure he knew that I was working on our book, and some ideas about it came to his conscience. In the past, he did not believe this outpouring of thoughts possible, and therefore normally did not arise in his experience. They were there, but their belief kept them from recognizing them.

From time to time I will give secondary material to Ruburt and also to you, so that in the book there will be a chapter for your personal use. It is vitally important that you realize that you have to work with the beliefs of your mind, that real work is done there in the mind, and that you do not seek "immediate" physical results.

These will follow "with as much certainty and security" as the "bad" results did, and that should be a belief: that good results will come. But the real work is done in the mind. If you do, you can be sure of the results, but you should not try to check it constantly. Do you understand the difference?

Beliefs always change to some degree. As adults you perform many activities that you could not do as children. For example, maybe at three years of age I thought it dangerous to cross a street. Presumably you have now discarded that belief, even though it was correct and necessary when you were younger. If your mother, however, reinforced that telepathic belief and verbally with frightening images of the potential danger of crossing the street, perhaps you still carry that emotional fear, and occupy your mind in imagining possible accidents.

Emotions and imagination obey belief. When the belief fades, the emotional context changes and the imagination turns to other directions. Beliefs automatically mobilize the emotional and imaginative faculties.

Very few beliefs are only intellectual. When you examine the contents of the conscious mind, you must learn to recognize the emotional and imaginative connotations related to a given idea. There are several ways of altering the belief by replacing it with the opposite. One possibility is to generate the Opposite emotion that arises from the belief that one wants to change, and to project the imagination in the opposite direction to the one dictated by the belief. At the same time, it must be said consciously that unsatisfactory belief is only an idea about reality and not an aspect of reality itself.

You must understand that ideas are not immovable. Emotions and imagination move them in one direction or another, reinforce or deny them.

You deliberately play mind games like children, and for a while you ignore what "looks" to be physically and pretend that what you want is real.

If you are poor, pretend that you have everything you need economically, and you can imagine how you will spend the money. If you are sick, you imagine that you are healed and imagine what you would do. If you have difficulties communicating with others, you imagine doing it with ease. If you feel that your days are dark and without purpose, you imagine them satisfying and joyful.

Well, this may seem impractical, and yet in everyday life you often use your imagination and your emotions at the service of much less valuable beliefs; And the results are self-evident and, admittedly, true.

Just as the realization of unsatisfactory beliefs took a certain amount of time, so "time" may pass until you observe physical results; But the new ideas will develop and change your experience as accurately as the old ones did. The process of imagining will also confront you with other secondary ideas that may hold you back momentarily. You may see that you hold simultaneously two ideas in conflict, and both with equal force, so that you yourselves have stalled.

You may think that you have the right to health, but at the same time you believe with equal intensity that the human condition is by nature corrupt. So you will try to be healthy and not healthy at the same time, or to succeed and fail according to your individual belief system (we will see later how beliefs are usually part of a system of related ideas). This is all for tonight.

The next morning, Jane told me that she or Seth had worked on the book all night. Every time he woke up there was a dictation, and it was quite insistent, almost unpleasant at times. Jane had already had similar experiences with the book, and although it is not something that happens every night, I suggested that when she went to bed she said that she would not be aware of that kind of activity during the hours of sleep. We also agreed to ask Seth about it.




Speech Seth III
Through Jane Roberts

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Imagination and beliefs. II

Seth
Imagination and beliefs. II

We resume dictation. Beliefs generate emotion. Now one tends to believe that feelings are above conscious thoughts, and that emotions are more basic and natural than conscious reasoning. The truth is that the two go together, but conscious thinking largely determines emotions, not vice versa. Beliefs generate the proper emotion that is involved. A long period of internal depression, for example, does not just happen. Emotions do not betray you. Rather, over time you consciously maintain negative beliefs that then generate the intense feelings of dejection.

If you could rely on emotion over conscious reasoning, conscious thinking would not make much sense, you would not need it.

Neither are you at the mercy of emotions, because they follow the flow of reasoning. The mind is designed to perceive the physical environment clearly, and the judgments it makes about the environment activate the body's mechanisms to elicit an adequate response. If your beliefs about existence are fearful, emotional reactions will lead to depression. In this case, it is your value judgments that you must review.

Imagination enlivens emotions, and also faithfully obeys beliefs. As you think, you feel, and not the other way around.

Later we will make some comments about hypnotism. Now I want to mention that you are hypnotizing constantly with your conscious thoughts and suggestions. The term "hypnosis" refers simply to a fairly normal state in which you concentrate your attention by narrowing the focus field in a particular area of ​​thought or belief.

You concentrate with great energy on one idea, usually excluding others. It is a "conscious" attitude.

As such, it also shows the importance of beliefs, since by employing hypnosis you forcibly feed a belief in you, or one given to you by another person, the "hypnotist." But the fact is that you concentrate all the attention on the idea that is presented to you.

In this case, as in normal life, emotions and actions obey beliefs. If you believe that you are sick, to all effect "you are" sick. If you believe that you are healthy, then you are "healthy." Much has been written about the nature of healing, and in this book we will discuss this subject, but there is also the "reverse cure", that is, a person who loses his belief about his health and accepts instead the idea of The personal disease.

In this case, the belief itself generates the negative emotions that end up producing a physical or emotional illness. Imagination obeys the belief and presents hideous mental images of a particular illness. In a short time physical data will corroborate the negative belief; Negative in the sense that it is much less desirable than a concept of health.

I mention this here simply because, in the general development of a person, a disease can also be used as a method to achieve a constructive purpose. In such a case there is also a belief involved: the person believes that an unhealthy state is the best way to achieve another purpose.

Because of his personal beliefs, he thinks that any other medium is inaccessible; That is to say, there is a gap in his experience that prevents him from seeing another way to reach the same end. We will discuss this point in more detail later.

A belief, of course, can depend on many others, each of which generates its own emotion and imaginative reality. Belief in the disease itself depends, for example, on a belief in human indignity, guilt, and imperfection.

The mind holds not only active beliefs. It contains many others in a passive state, which remain dormant until you concentrate on them and use them. Any one of them can surface when a conscious thought acts as a stimulus.

When you are focused on ideas of poverty, disease or lack, for example, the conscious mind also holds latent concepts of health, vigor and abundance. If you divert thoughts from negative ideas to positive ones, your concentration begins to alter the balance. The vast reservoir of inner energy and potential is called into action under the direction of the conscious mind.

Since you reason as creatures and have at your disposal a great variety of experiences, the faculty of reasoning of the human species is designed to evolve and grow as it is used. Awareness expands as you use it. You become more "conscious" in exercising this faculty.

A flower can not write a poem on itself. You can, and in doing so the consciousness revolves around itself and becomes literally more than it was. Since the human psyche exists within a framework of very diverse possibilities and in a very rich environment, it had to develop a conscious mind that could make fairly concise and accurate judgments and estimates at every moment. As the conscious mind grew, so did the grasp of the imagination. The conscious mind is a vehicle of the imagination in many ways. The greater your knowledge, the greater the scope of the imagination. At the same time, imagination enriches conscious reason and emotional experience.

As you have not learned to use the consciousness properly or fully, it seems that imagination, emotions and reason are separate faculties, or sometimes contradicted. The conscious mind matures, I repeat, accepting information from both the outer and the inner world. It is only when you believe that consciousness has to be attuned exclusively to external conditions, you force it to isolate itself from internal knowledge, intuitive "voices," and from the depths from which it emerges.

Seth spoke through Jane five times last week. The nights of Monday and Wednesday gave us material for this book, plus other personal information for us; Spoke long and hard Tuesday night during the extrasensory perception class; Spoke briefly Friday afternoon for a guest editor of Time magazine on Freudian psychology; And on Saturday evening he talked colloquially with a group of friends of ours about everyday life in Italy during the time he had been an early pope of the fourth century. (About this reincarnation, Seth first mentioned his papal experience in a session of the extrasensory perception class, May 1971. See Chapter 11 of Speech Seth II.) (1)

Or only a few brief notes on the Sabbath material after our guests left. We had been talking about the current problems of population, when Seth intervened to tell us that in the fourth century infanticide - at least as far as he knew - had been quite common. Before they were baptized, the children were the property of the parents, who could do with them what they desired, without any disgrace.

Children who "survived" because they would have been an "impossible burden" for the economy of that time, housing, food supply, etc. They simply killed each other before baptism. Once the child was baptized, however, it became something sacred, having a soul and the right to live ...


Goodnight.

I am not minimizing the importance of the inner being. All your infinite resources are at "disposal" of the conscious mind, for your conscious purposes.

There has been an over-dependence on the conscious mind-despite the misunderstanding of its characteristics and mechanisms-so that proponents of theories that give preeminence to the "conscious rational mind" advocate a use of the intellect and the faculties of The reason, while they do not recognize their origin in the inner being.

(1) Ediciones Luciérnaga, Barcelona 1999, p. 223


It was expected, then, that the conscious mind would act alone, so to speak, ignoring the highly intuitive internal information that is also "at your disposal". It was not supposed to be aware of such information. But anyone knows very well that intuitive impressions, inspirations, precognitive information or clairvoyant material often surface in consciousness. Normally they are not paid attention or scorned, because they have been taught that the conscious mind should not harbor such "nonsense". So you have been instilled in trusting the conscious mind, while at the same time you were led to believe that it could only be aware of stimuli coming from the outer physical world.

On the other hand there are those who emphasize the great value of the inner being, the emotional being, at the "expense" of the conscious mind. These theories hold that the intellect and the habitual consciousness are well below the "unconscious" zones of the inner being, and that all the answers are hidden with the naked eye. The followers of this belief qualify the conscious mind in terms so pejorative that it almost seems to be a cancer that burst like a tumor in man's psyche and represents an obstacle rather than contributing to its progress and understanding.

Both groups ignore the miraculous unity of the psyche, the subtle natural bonds that exist between what are called conscious and unconscious mind, the incredibly rich interaction in which each contributes and takes.

The "unconscious" simply contains large fragments of your experience in which you do not believe because it has been taught to you. I repeat that the conscious mind is designed to observe both the outer and the inner world. The conscious mind is a vehicle for the soul to express itself in a corporeal way.

Its function is to evaluate the temporal experience according to the beliefs it holds about the nature of reality, and automatically causes the body to react in a certain way. I will not tire of saying it: your beliefs form your reality, your body and state, your personal relationships, your environment and, together, your civilization and your world.

Beliefs automatically attract the appropriate emotions, and are reinforced through the imagination. Again I repeat it, because it is of great importance: imagination and feeling follow beliefs, not vice versa.

Let us now take a brief example. If you often meet a person who dislikes you, and you think, "This guy stirs my stomach," it will not be by chance that you end up with stomach discomfort every time you see him. It is a "conscious" suggestion you yourselves make and that is put into practice, not symbolically, but in a practical, literal way. In other words, the conscious mind gives its orders and the inner being carries them out.

In this existence you are oriented towards the physical. Thus, this conscious mind oriented toward the physical must be able to make inferences about the nature of physical reality. Otherwise you would not have free will.

From the Industrial Revolution, in the western culture the idea that there was very little relation between the objects of the world and the individual became strong. As this is not a history book I will not go into the reasons behind that idea, but I will only mention that it was an exaggerated reaction to the prevailing religious concepts.

Before that time man believed that he could affect matter and environment through his thoughts. With the Industrial Revolution, however, even the elements of nature lost their "living" quality in the eyes of man. They became objects capable of being classified, named, torn apart and examined.

No one dissects a cat or a dog that is your pet; So that when man began to dissect the universe in this way, he had already lost his sense of love towards him. The world became for him a soulless entity. Only then could he examine it without scruple "and without being aware of the living voice he protested." So in his great fascination to know what made things work, in his great curiosity to understand, for example, the inheritance of a flower, he forgot everything he could learn only by smelling a flower, watching it, seeing it she herself.

So he examined "still life." He often had to "kill" life in order, he thought, to discover his reality.

You can not understand what makes things live if they are robbed of life first. And so, when man learned to classify, calculate, and dissect nature, he became insensitive to the vital quality of nature and no longer felt part of it. Man greatly denied his inheritance, for spirit is born in nature and soul, and for a time resides in the flesh.

Man's thoughts no longer seemed to have any effect on nature because in his mind he was separated from nature. So, paradoxically, although he concentrated very consciously on the outer aspects of nature, he ended up denying the conscious powers of his own mind. He became blind to the connection between his thoughts and his physical environment and experience.

Nature then became an adversary to control. But, deep down, he felt that he was at the mercy of nature, because by isolating himself from it he also refused the possibility of using many of his own faculties.

It was at this time that man so misunderstood the very nature of the conscious mind, and later schools of psychology attributed the unconscious parts of being to those unrecognized or rejected powers. Certain very natural functions of the conscious mind, therefore, were "buried" and prevented their normal use.

Now, as the conscious mind has undergone many tensions (and has stripped it of many of its characteristics), there is actually an overreaction that lowers the value of normal consciousness, so to speak.

Emotion and imagination are considered something very superior. The displaced powers of consciousness are still attributed to the unconscious, and great efforts are made to achieve what appear to be normally inaccessible areas of consciousness. For this purpose drugs are used, sects are created, and there is a great variety of methods and training manuals. However, there is nothing basically inaccessible in relation to that "internal knowledge or experience." Everything can be conscious, and used to enrich the reality that you know. The conscious mind is not a prodigal son or a poor relative of being. You can focus with total freedom on the inner reality when you understand that you can do it. I repeat that you "possess" a conscious mind, and you can change the focus of your own consciousness.

Among the many arbitrariness imposed by the race of man upon itself, one of the main ones is the idea that the conscious mind has no contact with the sources of its own being, which is separated from nature, and that the individual is Finds therefore at the mercy of unconscious impulses, over which he has no control.

So the man feels helpless. If the purpose of civilization is to allow the individual to live in peace, happiness, security and abundance, then that idea has served him well.

When a person feels that there is no relationship between his personal reality and experience and the environment of his world, he loses even the animal sense of pure propriety and belonging. I repeat that beliefs form reality, because they shape life and all its conditions.

All the powers of the inner being are activated as a result of conscious beliefs. You no longer feel "responsible" for your conscious thought because you have been taught that it is not he who gives shape to your life. They have told you that whatever your beliefs are, you are subject to unconscious conditioning.

(The following sentence must be fully emphasized :) "And while you harbor that conscious belief, you will experience it as reality."


Some of your beliefs originated in childhood, but you are not at your mercy unless you "believe" that you are. Since the imagination follows the thoughts, you can find yourself in a vicious circle because you constantly create images in the mind that reinforce the "negative" aspects of your life.

Imaginary events generate the corresponding emotions, which automatically cause hormonal changes (2) in the body or affect your behavior with other people, or cause you to interpret


(2) Hormones are secretions of different glands of the endocrine system (adrenals, thyroid, pancreas, etc.). Body fluids transport these substances to other organs or tissues, where they have certain effects. Here, as always, Seth asserts that we are not at the mercy of such involuntary processes.


Events always in the light of your beliefs. And so the daily experience seems to justify what you are increasingly believing with greater conviction.

The only way out is to be aware of one's beliefs, one's conscious thinking, and change one's beliefs so that they harmonize more with the kind of reality one wants to experience. Imagination and emotion will then automatically go into operation to reinforce new beliefs.

As I mentioned (in session 614), the first important step is to realize that beliefs about reality are just that - beliefs "about" reality - and not necessarily attributes of reality. You must draw a clear distinction between you and your beliefs. Then you must understand that your beliefs are physically materialized: what you believe to be true in your experience is true. To change the physical effect you have to change the original belief, even if you are aware that the physical materializations of the old beliefs can last for a while.

If you fully understand what I am saying, your new beliefs will begin to manifest in your experience not long after. But you should not worry about their appearance, for "this" would awaken the fear that new ideas will not materialize, with which you would deny your purpose.



SESSION 62O, II OCTOBER 1972 22O WEDNESDAY
SESSION 621, OCTOBER 16, 1972. 2I.4O MONDAY
Speech Seth III
Through Jane Roberts

Imagination and beliefs. III

Seth 's imagination and beliefs. III 

mention (in session 619) a game in which you take an idea you wantrealize, and you imagine that happening. Remember that all events are mental and psychological happen first and then physically, but do notobserve all the time. Gowith the game. 

Constantly you do the same with the beliefs that you have, and they also translate constantly and automatically. 

It is the separation between being and beliefs which is so important at first. No you have to insist and consciously martirizaros. Imagination and emotion are your greatest allies. Your conscious direction will automatically enter the scene. 

Why it is so important that examinéis all your beliefs about yourself and about the nature of reality; and a belief will lead you to another. There are many who argue that if the will and imagination are in conflict, eventually winning the imagination. I assurethat ifyou you examine,discover that imagination and the will "never" are in conflict. 

There may be conflict between beliefs, but imagination always follows the power of will and conscious thoughts and beliefs. If thisnot evidentyou, it's because you have not yet fully examined your beliefs.Consider a simple example. Suppose you have a weight problem. 

Youu have tried several diets, but in vain. You say you wantlose weight, and you do what I have said so far. Cambiais belief and you say, "Because I think I'm fat, I am; so I'll think I'm thin, my ideal weight. " 

But you find that you keep overeating. Mentally you continue seeingas an overweight person, imagine sweets and goodies, and you "you render" to your imagination.And then you think that the will is useless and that conscious thought is powerless. But suppose youone step more. Of sheer desperation, you say, "Okay, I examine my beliefs more closely!". 

This is a hypothetical case, so youfind one among many possible beliefs. Perhaps you discover, for example, think it not worth much, and therefore you should not look attractive.Or health equiparais physical weight and think it is dangerous to be thin. Or maybe youfeel so vulnerable thatbelieve thatneed the extra weight so that people think twice before messing with you. In all these cases the ideas are aware. Ye have entertained them often, and your imagination and emotions agree with them, and not conflict. 

Perhaps you may be poor. By following my suggestions, perhaps tratéis to alter the belief and say: "My needs are met and enjoyed great wealth." But possibly still struggling financially you should follow. Maybe you see in your imagination get the next bill and that you can not afford. "" I have "enough money -decís-. 

This is my new belief "But nothing changes, so you think.: "My conscious thoughts do not mean anything." But after examining your thoughts, perhaps ye may find the deep conviction that not worth much at all. You might feel: "To begin, I am nobody," or "The rich are getting richer and the poor poorer" or "The world is against me" or "Money is something wrong. People who haveare not spiritual. " Again, youdiscover a belief that takes you not wanthave money or be afraid of it. 

In any case, your imagination and your beliefs go together. -decís- enough money. This is my new belief "But nothing changes, so you think." My conscious thoughts do not mean anything. " But after examining your thoughts, perhaps ye may find the deep conviction that not worth muchall. Say, for another example, that you try to remember your dreams. Sugestionáis you will properly every night, but awaken each day without being able to remember them. Perhaps you say: "Consciously I remember my dreams, but my suggestions do not work. Therefore I want a conscious level is of little consequence. " 

But if you examine your beliefs in more detail, youfind some that prevents you remember, such as "I'm afraid to remember my dreams," or "My dreams are always unpleasant," or "I'm afraidknow what I dream" or " I remember my dreams, but I may reveal more than you wantknow. " In this case your reality also affects your beliefs, and your experience is a direct result of your conscious attitudes. 

With attitudes like the ones I just mentioned, you liquidáis to your inner, purposely obstaculizáis your experience, and so reforzáis beliefs on the negative aspects of your being. Only by examining these ideas you can know what your relationship you have with yourself. I do not intendreinforce negative at all, so I suggestobserve those areas of your life with whom you will feel comfortable and I did well. Look how emotional and imaginatively have reinforced those beliefs and how physically carried into fruition; Warn how natural the results appear automatically. Hold fastthose feelings of accomplishment and understand that you can use the same methods in other areas. 

Good evening, we start with the dictation. You alsotransmit your beliefs to others,course. When guests enter your home, they do not look exactly like you because also see through the screen of their beliefs. However, in your own environment usually dominate your personal beliefs. 

People with similar ideas are mutually reinforcing their beliefs.Perhaps you will enfrentéis to some misunderstanding when you judge suddenly change your realitychanging your beliefs; dependingthe circumstances, perhaps you will encaminéis in a completely different direction from that of the group to which you belong. Others may feel the need to defend ideas before dabais all for granted. In such cases your beliefs came together.

Each person has their own ideas about reality for reasons that seem valid. The needs converge.When suddenly you change your beliefs, you change your position in the group, you are no longer you play more this game. 

In the group, perhaps suddenly ceasing to satisfy a need that others before satisfacíais. This affects both intimate behavior and social interactions. So, for a while youprove perhaps a sense of loss while ye trasladéis a set of beliefs to another. However, soon others who share your new beliefs will be attracted by you and you for them. 

Idiscuss this in more detail later in the book, but this explains, for example, why a person who follows a diet and suddenly decidedlose weight may find party or open resistance from family or friends; or why the person who adopts new resolutions meets the taunts of his classmates; or why the alcoholic trying not to drink is openly tempted by others to drink, or induced to do with subtle tactics. 

When someone who has been ill begins to recover by changing their beliefs, you might be surprised that even his dearest relatives suddenly concerned and for the same reasons, remind the "reality" of his poor health.Since beliefs form reality-experience- structure, any change in the beliefs that alters the experience of course, triggers a change to some extent. The condition for serving some purpose no longer exists, new elements are introduced, and begins another creative process.

 As you share your private beliefs with others, since "no" interaction, any change of direction from you is felt by others, they react in their own way. You propose the most satisfying experience possible reality. To do this you have begun, I hope, to examine your beliefs. Perhaps you wish that others change, but this must start with yourself. 

I said (in session 619) that practicarais a game in which you imagine actingaccordancethe new desired belief. As you do, imagine how afectáis also others with this new way. Imagine that react differently. This is very important because you send them telepathically internal messages. 

You tell them that you are changing the conditions and behavior of your relationship. You diffuse your new position. Some may well understand your new position. Perhaps thereothers who need the old reference frame and someoneplay the role previously desempeñabais you.

 Those people will turn away from your experience, or you will leavehers. If you conceivedaily life as a constantly moving threedimensional picture that you create, you will see that, as your beliefs change, so will your experience. "You must" fully accept the idea that your beliefs are your experience. 

Cast aside the beliefs that do not produce the effects you desire. Meanwhile, you often will say that something is true even though the physical data seem completely contradictory. Perhaps you say: "I live in abundance and I lack nothing" while the eyes inform you that your desk is full of unpaid bills. You must understand that you yourselves produjisteis these "physical evidence" to which you face, and you did it by means of your beliefs. S

o when cambiéis belief, physical evidencegradually begin to "show" the certainty of your new belief as faithfully as he did with the old. So, you must work with your own ideas. Although theregeneral categories of beliefs, and general reasons that explain, you must personally make you aware of your own, because no person is completely alike. 

Old beliefs served a purpose and met a need. As we said earlier, maybebelieved that "yes" poverty was more spiritual than abundance, or you were basically worthless and therefore chastise you ought to poverty. 

Dependingyour energy, power and intensity, "you can" help change the beliefs of many people. Normally, in physical life youengaged only you change your beliefs about yourself, and then change the beliefs that others have about you. You will see that there are conflicting beliefs within you and you have to be aware of them. 

For example, perhaps you may believe that wantunderstand the nature of your inner self and tell you that you wishremember dreams, but atsame time alberguéis a belief on nature unworthy of being,and fear ye remember dreams so you could find in them. In suchcase, there is no point lamenting the situation and say, "I wantunderstand myself but I'm afraid I do not like what you find." You must change your beliefs. 

You must stop believing that just keeps infamous inner being repressed emotions. In fact,contains "some" pentemotions, but also contains a great insight and knowledge, and answers to all your questions. Pay attention when you conversáis with friends. You will see how each reforzáis beliefs, and how your imagination often follows the same direction. 

It is very easysee when you're aware of it. Most people in this society knows the old suggestion: "Every day got a little better in all aspects." * This is an excellent suggestion, given by the conscious to other parts of * be Seth refers to the famous autosugestión francés Émile Coué, a pioneer in the study of suggestion who wrote a book on the subject in the twenties. His ideas were well received in Europe at the time, but not in the United States. In fact, his lecture tour in this country proved a failure because of the hostile press reaction. 

be. But suchsuggestion results also depend on the conscious beliefs. Previously I turned toexample of "I am a responsible parent" asexample of a belief. If for you this means: 'I watch with great attention to my children brush their teeth, eat and behave appropriately enough, "then you will understand the suggestion to" improve "in the light of that interpretation.

 If belief means to you that your children love expressed "best" in this way, if you think you embarrassing express affection directly, then the suggestion "improve" only reinforce that belief. That way you can more competentagain. It is therefore vital that examinéis your beliefs and comprehend what they mean for you personally. 

If, in the example we gave, soon you ADVERTIS your position and begin to directly express love to your children,no doubt be surprised and delighted though, they will feel confused. Ittake time to understand your reactions; but, and the former actually had a cohesion, also will have the new. So, you must examine and understand your beliefs, give account that make your experience, and consciously change that do not have the effects that you want. In the review you will become aware of many excellent beliefs that give you good results.

 Examinecarefully. See how your imagination and emotions obeyed. If possible, seek in the past at what time you got those new ideas and how beneficially changed your experience. Ideas not only alter the world constantly: the "create" constantly. We are nearing the end of chapter four, but now we will adjourn and continue at our next session. Warm Regards.