Seth 363
Inner Strength, the Inner Warrior and Making Your Life Work
Tuesday March 11, 2008
8:25 p.m.
Seth… Again, good evening, a small bit of housekeeping, Isabella?
Isabella… Yes?
Seth… Pick a number, one, two, three or four.
Isabella… Two.
Seth… Two, fine. We’ll see if we need that number later. One of the answers to your question is simply this: I’ve already given it to you in terms of your digestive system. Now if you would like to go ahead and to deal with this in terms of a full explanation you may have it now.
Isabella… I’ll take it now. That be if I can only ask two questions?
Seth… No.
Frank… That would be door number one. (Laughs.)
Seth… You may have it now and if I give it to you now again…
Isabella… Right.
Seth… there is a penalty for not listening and that penalty is you will type up, okay session number 361 and you will have two weeks, or you may listen to the various tapes find out what I said when I said it and therefore you don’t have to type up Session 361.
Jasmine… 361 is about her question?
Seth… Not necessarily.
Isabella… Which tapes are you talking about?
Seth… I believe they are called these tapes. (Probably pointing to a tape or the tape recorder.)
Isabella… I know but which ones that I should be listening to?
Seth… Well, since you do not remember when I said to you at all so you may type up last week’s or the week’s before.
Isabella… Listen to last week’s?
Seth… Yes, in full and you will somewhere find the answer there or you may type up…
Isabella… I remember what you said last week. I know exactly what you said last week about GI issues definitely being related to dis-ease; so, I don’t really need you to repeat that. I know it’s dis-ease for me. My question is I can’t figure out exactly what it is I’m having dis-ease about. That’s my problem and I have pinpointed a few things that I think are bothering me but nothing that I really thought that would be causing me to have major stomach issues.
Seth… 361 gets you a full explanation.
Isabella… I’ll type up 361.
Frank… Whoa. (Stephanie was giggling.)
Seth… Let me see if I can be of assistance and how many weeks do you have?
Isabella… You know I was going to pick four! (Group laughter.)
Seth… But you picked two and that’s the answer to that question.
Frank… I know why you picked two.
Isabella… Why?
Frank… Because it was in the middle, and you were afraid if it would be one of something or it would go too far the other way.
Isabella… Right.
Seth… Now, again when individuals start out with a disorder, you can write this down. When individuals start out with a disorder of their intestinal tract there is a very relevant old idea, “What is eating you?” Now the question here arises, to put it mildly you are unhappy with your perceived situation and therefore you tend…
Isabella… Can you make it clear about what my perceived situation is, living home?
Seth… Living home, not having a gentleman, not being cared for, going ahead and worrying about.
Isabella… “Will I?”
Seth… Will you?
Isabella… Okay.
Seth… Will I have a child, will I meet somebody?
Isabella… Okay.
Seth… The whole gamut if you will of information there. So therefore, what you have is a situation that you cannot win and because you are being tossed and turned between one idea to another, you become panic stricken. Physiologically, yes, it is certainly factual that when you exercise you do produce a great amount of gastric acid which certainly does not help the problem, but individuals have stomach inflammation which leads to digestive system difficulties especially in the area of ulcers, acid reflux disease because they are literally eating themselves from within. Your tendency to define yourself in certain ways does not do you any good. You believe that you are getting ready to move out and be on your own and the answer to that is a most hardy laugh. And the reason I am stating that is because what have you learned? If you look at this evening in terms of eating yourself up, a statement was made to you by Jasmine yesterday which caused you more dis-ease today. Therefore, if you have more disease today obviously you are not in control and since you are not controlling your own destiny your dis-ease becomes greater.
Isabella… So that’s why I was worse today?
Seth… Of course, when you worry, when you are upset, when you are bothered, I cannot blame Jasmine for your actions at all.
Isabella… No, I know.
Seth… This is your issue. So, when you allow this, you suffer, therefore what have you learned about living within a communal setting and the answer is not much because you are still doing and having the same dis-ease symptomatology that you have always had. Do not look at the fact that your stomach is bothering you is the same thing as it has been in the past. It is just a generalized dis-ease whether it be mental, physical or whatever.
Isabella… I understand what you are saying but what you say about living within a community that I haven’t learned much.
Seth… You think you have but your actions and reactions, you fall back upon old ways far too easily and when you do this you justify your doing it because you want to, which is foolhardy. Let me see if I can give you an explanation here: if you were to go ahead and to have someone that you know hit you every time they saw you, your tendency from what you routinely do is to make excuses when they are hitting you and saying it wasn’t that bad. Do not look at the term hitting in terms of physical beating up, but it can also be in terms of a mental beating up as well which is just as difficult for anyone to deal with.
Isabella… So, you are talking in relationship between my mother and I?
Seth… Your mother, your father, your boyfriends, your girlfriends, all of these habits are tending to repeat themselves because you do not create that which is truly profitable for you.
Isabella… I really don’t understand what I am doing wrong…
Seth… For example…
Isabella… I feel like I am working so hard.
Seth… Give us a moment, nobody is saying you are not working.
Isabella… But when you say I am not making any progress…
Seth… Let me give you an example…
Isabella… No progress is very depressing since it has been a year since I have really been trying to work on myself.
Seth… Let us give you an example: I believe an old boyfriend called you…
Isabella… Right.
Seth… who was rude to you, who did not treat you with the esteem that you believe you deserve. Am I correct?
Isabella… Maybe.
Seth… What did you do about it?
Isabella… Ah, I spoke to him.
Seth… Why?
Isabella… Curiosity.
Seth… Not the issue. When I told you to recall this individual it was out of you being concerned that he was well and that his mother was well.
Isabella… Em hmm.
Seth… That is about as far as it should go; you did what is considered the right and proper thing there since he was facing an operation.
Isabella… But that did open a door, obviously.
Seth… It opened a door for him, not for you.
Isabella… Right.
Seth… And when he went ahead and was rude and not correct for you, you tend, you should close the door, but you don’t do that. You fall back in ways in which you define yourself by having someone. Do you understand?
Isabella… Yeah, but I didn’t, I don’t really want him in that way.
Seth… It’s not wanting, it is dealing with him.
Isabella… Uh huh.
Seth… That is the difficulty.
Isabella… Yeah, he is like an “Achilles’ Heel” for me.
Seth… No, that’s an excuse that you should never make again. Someone who is not correct for you by your own statement, “I don’t want him,” you may be polite, you may be kind, you may be considerate.
Isabella… Yeah, well that’s what I felt I did yesterday being like…
Seth… Why was it there, even a necessity to answer?
Isabella… I thought it would have been rude not to.
Seth… Why? Why did he deserve kindness when he didn’t show it to you?
Isabella… He didn’t.
Seth… I believe you must think about this.
Isabella… Okay.
Seth… I’m not telling you to do anything. I would never do that but for your sake just as you found it necessary to go ahead and to have a little exam tonight, I believe for your sake you should.
Isabella… Well for her sake.
Let me tell you two stories. The first story is called the “Wooden Bowl” and the second one is called “Wet Pants”. The “Wooden Bowl” story is quite simple: The farther of a young man was getting old and he has moved into the home of his son and his daughter-in-law. Since he is frail, hands are shaky he tends to spill food and breaks a dish or two. He drops things on the floor and both the son, and the daughter-in-law are getting quite aggravated about his eating habits and the fact that he is breaking things. And after one particularly bad dinner the daughter-in-law says, “I cannot stand this anymore. He is ruining our meals, our family time together. Well, we have to move him. So, they decide that they are going to make a little table for him in the corner of the room and they give him since he drops things and breaks things a wooden bowl to eat out of.
The days turn into weeks and weeks into months and every once in awhile they will look over at the old gentleman and they notice a tear running down his cheek. He still drops things; he still spills but they are less concerned about this. One day during the summer the young man and his wife see their four-year-old son playing in the backyard and he is gathering wood and trying to rub it and shape it. Finally, the father says to his son, “What are you doing?” And in his four-year-old innocence he looks up and says to both of them, “I’m making you wooden bowls so that when I get big, you’ll have something to eat out of.” No further words had to be spoken. That evening they brought grandfather back to the main table and made sure he had the dishes that everyone had. The remarkable fact that his spillage and dropping things no longer annoyed or bothered them. When we change perspective, it is interesting to note how things work out.
Our second story, “Wet Pants,” in a third-grade classroom, a nine-year-old little boy is sitting at a desk and all of sudden he notices that his pants are wet and there is a puddle on the floor. He realizes very quickly that he doesn’t know how this happened, but he instinctively knows that if the boys in the class find out they will make fun of him, forever. If the girls in the class know they will never speak to him again. He looks up and prays to God, “Please help me, I am in desperate need.” At that moment Susie is walking with a bowl of water for the Goldfish that is in the back of the room, and she trips and spills the water all over him and onto the floor. Everybody laughs at her. They feel badly for our young student. And the teacher takes him to get into his gym shorts while they dry out his pants. And everybody is angry at Susan; they tease her. The end of the day and they are getting ready to board the bus our young man walks over to Susie and say’s, “You did that on purpose, didn’t you?” And she puts her mouth to his ear and says, “I once wet my pants as well and I knew what you were feeling.”
Our second story shows us that change is often accomplished by inner-strength, your inner warrior if you will, your inner desire to improve. One must realize that even when situations are difficult, when events seem to work against you, one must develop the strength and the wisdom to not only to change but to help another as well as yourself. Inner-strength carries with it the burden of responsibility towards self. One cannot improve unless you are willing to admit that one, you have difficulty and two, you desire change to improve that which you are. Prosperity is defined by the gain in experience.
We will eventually, Frank, deal with value fulfillment whether it is this week or next.
One must have the wisdom to attempt progress. If you sit alone, if you delude yourself that you are doing something but in reality, you are repeating events over and over again then you cannot and will not prosper. Your inner-strength may be defined by some as courage, yet for you as an individual your inner-strength is in reality a connection with your conscious mind which flows from the inner frameworks into the physical plane through you.
The question arises when you make an error, when you make a mistake and the answer is obvious, of course you will. But does that mean if things are difficult, if you are having a hard time, if you are not as prosperous as you would like to be then the warrior needs to go into battle. You need to remind yourself that you are creating that which you choose to be. One makes life work because you accept the challenge THAT YOU MUST have set for yourself. When one takes a back seat to life one allows others to do for them. It is and I must state the care for me syndrome. If you are not willing to work hard for you the question arises, who should? Your existence on the physical plane is but a series of challenges or better yet opportunities for you to improve that which you choose to become. You do this by changing, by making a difference to the most important individual that you know and that of course is you.
Life works because you make it so. You are literally at war with your own opportunities for growth and development. I could easily go around the room and ask each of you who you or what challenges do you face? If you fear them, if you worry about them, the chances are you will say that this is not profitable. However, I disagree, one must learn to be concerned properly, one must learn to understand that challenges are not easy. They are meant to foster growth. What is difficult is the idea that you as an individual should not and cannot become so enmeshed, concerned with… Would you like me to pause, Isabella?
Isabella… No. (Jasmine was rereading her notes and repeating)
Seth… or concerned with another’s challenges. Learn to offer advice when asked. Learn to change your own perspective when necessary. Your existence here on the physical plane will be easier. You will be able to understand another’s problem. You may give help when required.
One of the ways in which you may keep a positive outlook is by remembering events. I suggest that each of you learn to keep a journal, a diary if you will of what you consider an important challenge in your existence. When one looks at either my lectures from a few years ago you’ll note how often you have misinterpreted or not understood that which I have said. That is why your notes or transcriptions of the tapes is a helpful idea. One of the reasons why I require Kaetorina and the man through whom I speak to reread the book that they had started was due to the fact that they did not interpret the words to their fullest meaning. One often sees something differently when linear time has passed. That which may have seemed disastrous or upsetting at one point of reference is in reality minor when revisited at a different point of reference. Examples of this may be seen with the idea of Isabella and her tenure situations when she was going through her difficulty, she was quite distressed. Yet when we look at it from this perspective, was it annoying or bothersome the answer is obvious. So, the question arises was it as disastrous as it seemed to be then? Your ideas, your feelings often need to be contemplated again. Use your own thoughts about something and reflect on them in your writing so that you may revisit these ideas at a latter point of reference. When each of you revisits an idea, a thought, a feeling you will note that the intensity and oft times the desperation of those ideas lessened, not because they were not important, they are important. Not because they are not factual, they are. But because your experience on the physical plane has changed you, the decisions around those challenges may be correct or incorrect, it matters not.
Stephanie… Decisions?
Seth… Around those challenges or opportunities may be correct or incorrect, it matters not. It is the ability that you give yourself to make your life work that matters. First time an infant tries to walk or let go they fall; does that mean they never get up and try again? For those of you who ride bicycles, did you ride perfectly the first time? Could you drive a car when you got behind the wheel for the first, second or fifth time as well as you do today? Just because something is difficult, just because you are disappointed does not mean that one gives up. This is when your inner warrior must come out. All have the ability to accomplish whatever you desire. Do you choose to make things perfect? Of course not. (Jasmine asked for repetition of last several sentences and people assisted her.) I will change this: Your desires are a mere signpost, a guide if you will, to help you follow through to make your life work in the most productive manner possible. If one has difficulty with one set of circumstances, do not back away, move forward. The idea that I am working so hard matters not; the idea that you are working matters. You may not succeed at this point of reference but without fighting for yourself can your life truly work? You will learn to revisit ideas and thoughts… You will learn to revisit ideas and thoughts and in doing so will ask yourself the following: How could I have missed that idea? Why did I not see that for what it was? When you say these things each of you will have truly grown and you will know prosperity is there for the taking.
I believe at this point we shall take a break.
Let us continue: Question had been asked, how do you bring out your Peaceful Warrior, I use the word Peaceful Warrior since Jasmine, I would like you to reread the book. Isabella, let me tell you what I have said. (Isabella had been out of the room and responded but this was not picked up by the tape.) Yes, and I have asked Jasmine to reread the book (“Way of The Peaceful Warrior” by Dan Millman)
Isabella… Do I have to reread it again?
Seth… You don’t have to anything you don’t choose to. It might be of assistance for you.
Isabella… I’ve read it four times already, I have to read it again?
Seth… No, you don’t have to anything. You have to do nothing that I state.
Isabella… Just asking.
Seth… No.
Isabella… I thought you were going to tell me I have to read it again.
Seth… No, I believe that you understand that you understand the concepts in the book. It is putting that idea into practice that you have difficulty with. And therefore…
Isabella… Like most people do.
Seth… May I ask you a question?
Jasmine… Because I don’t want her to feel such pain.
Seth… Excuse me. Isabella, you may feel free to ignore the comment there. Pain and difficulty are not terrible things.
Isabella… I never said they were terrible.
Seth… I am not talking to you I am talking to Jasmine.
Isabella… Oh, you were looking at me.
Seth… Pain and difficulty are not terrible things; they are a sign of a challenge or an opportunity to give you an ability to redefine yourself. And when one redefines themselves in any number of ways do you as an individual stay on center? Or are you pulled to the side? If you remember you are existing in the ever expanding now since time and reality has no relevance. If one then understands that when you become an individual who is easily pulled off center your life becomes more difficult. The diary you keep will clearly show you where you moved when you did not want to. It is a book of events. You may then learn in similar situations to re-center yourself since your greatest portion of power is now. You succeed because you face the opportunity to make your existence profitable. (Jasmine said something inaudible.)
Frank… Could you repeat the last sentence?
Seth… Because you make existence properly, you succeed because you make your existence profitable.
Stephanie… You’re saying just the facing it is profitable not the outcome of it.
Seth… Outcome matters not. May I go ahead, Jasmine?
Jasmine… Let me just ask this, you succeed because you make your existence profitable by facing the difficulties?
Seth… Yes.
Jasmine… Okay I get it.
Seth… By facing the difficulty.
Isabella… So, it’s just like (unclear)
Seth… It’s not quite factual.
Isabella… How is that not factual?
Seth… When you face a difficulty, you can gain experience by learning to work through it. You face it. If you hide; if you don’t want to look at something, then you cannot succeed. Just because you do not succeed in a challenge or an opportunity on the first time, the second time or the ninetieth time matters not. The delusion is that I must be good. I must end with a profitable idea. I am improving, I am working hard, I am becoming diligent. My answer is that’s nice, but does it matter? The answer is no! What matters is, is the relevance, the learning, your conscious creations that you are drawing from, from the inner world, the hidden one that matter. Your conscious mind allows you to draw from the inner frameworks. There is a connection between the two and when you discount this connection, when you do not allow it to prosper and only focus on the physical plane the question arises why do things keep repeating themselves. Why do ideas, events, actions repeat? They repeat because you have not finished!
Isabella… So, if you don’t accomplish it, you’re looking at a miserable life?
Seth… That is not quite true!
Isabella… It is true because if the same things keep coming back up over and over again and you can’t somehow work through it then you’re looking at being miserable.
Seth… Let us start again.
Isabella… I mean that’s what it is. I mean that’s basically what you are saying…
Seth… No.
Isabella… If you can’t work thorough it and you can’t you know, change and get better then it’s just about the trying that’s going to make it but that’s, that’s, I don’t believe that, it’s not just about the trying.
Seth… Show me how I am wrong.
Isabella… Because it’s not just about the trying, I mean we all try to fix things and work on yourselves and make yourself better.
Seth… And how do you succeed in certain areas?
Isabella… Apparently not.
Seth… You have succeeded in nothing?
Isabella… So, you said I’d make little progress.
Seth… What was that word? There was a small word there?
Isabella… Yeah, little which means…
Seth… Does that mean none?
Isabella… Basically.
Seth… Please show me how little means none?
Isabella… Because number one you didn’t explain at all where I made progress and number two it’s very easy to say that you know, I mean, I don’t know you know when you feel like you’re working hard…
Seth… Are you working hard if you feel you are working hard?
Isabella… Are you working hard if you are feeling you are working hard?
Seth… Correct.
Isabella… Yeah.
Seth… The answer is possibly. When events repeat themselves, it means all questions have not been asked and answered.
Isabella… See I feel like I’m losing my pattern here. I don’t know… I don’t know what event is repeating here at this point.
Seth… The event is simple. If I were to ask you, how do you truly define you?
Isabella… Right.
Seth… Then you will have to come up with an answer.
Isabella… Yeah, but I think my answer is very different than what it was a year ago.
Seth… And let’s assume it is different than it was a year ago.
Isabella… Right.
Seth… Should it be?
Isabella… Yes.
Seth… Of course, but does that mean that you have fully succeeded no matter how hard you are…
Isabella… No, I don’t feel that I have, I don’t even feel that, I don’t feel that I’ve fully succeeded, that would be impossible. But to say that I made little if any progress is basically what you said before is…
Seth… In areas that you require work with. You asked me why you have dis-ease, did you not?
Isabella… Yes.
Seth… And my answer was because you are still victimizing yourself. You are still making yourself a victim by how and the ways in which you define you. That does not mean you are failing.
Isabella… But I know myself, I know myself from three years ago, four years ago and the way that I handled certain situations now is vastly different than I would have then.
Seth… That is correct and you are more capable of standing up for yourself than you were three of four years ago.
Isabella… Right.
Seth… But in that standing up for yourself do you sometimes lose the idea and the challenge, and the answer is of course, yes.
Isabella… But who wouldn’t, who doesn’t?
Seth… I am not stating that. You are trying to separate that which should not be separated. You cannot have it that I am making horrible progress, you cannot have that I am making wonderful progress, you cannot have it that I am making a little bit of progress without understanding that which you are is created and defined by you on a moment-to-moment basis.
Isabella… I never said…
Seth… Your ideas about existence change from one point of reference to another.
Isabella… Of course.
Seth… Yet you define yourself in certain ways that are detrimental to you, that is why you have stated here I believe it is disease or dis-ease that is causing my stomach problems. That’s what you stated, and I am agreeing with you on that statement, and I have given you the reasons why and those instances you have not made great progress, you have made a little and that is perfectly acceptable.
Isabella… In the instances of causing dis-ease for myself?
Seth… In the instances I have described earlier…
Isabella… In regards to needing to be taken care of, all that kind of stuff? But that I feel like I’ve made tremendous progress there comparatively to how I have been in the past. I mean that’s what I am saying like I even just from being able to be okay being alone at night and you know that kind of stuff. I feel like that’s very different for me.
Seth… Yes, it is different but you’re still defining yourself by a closing set of parameters.
Isabella… Such as?
Seth… Such as, I’m going to move in with George. You are defining yourself as needing a male when you don’t.
Isabella… Okay.
Seth… When you allow this Abraham individual to victimize you, you are defining yourself in a way that is detrimental to you.
Isabella… I don’t think I am allowing him to define me.
Seth… You are defining you not him. And that shows in those two instances some progress because you are aware of it but not enough. So, if you don’t like my word, “little” change it to some. Does that mean you are not trying? Does that mean you are not succeeding? Of course not. Does it mean you still have work to do? The answer is, yes.
Isabella… I’m not saying that I don’t have work to do but I just, you know, I mean, it’s very hard to make a decision about you know moving on with my life in regards to staying here or moving out or whatever when you are telling me that I haven’t completed learning how to live in a community.
Seth… Practice. Become faithful to yourself and you will succeed, I guarantee that. Are there any other questions?
Arthur… How did Susie promote herself by arranging that situation where she…?
Seth… She promoted herself by putting herself at risk. She knew that the outcome for her would be far less disastrous than the outcome for the boy.
Arthur… Well, how does that differ from the things that I do that you tell me are not profitable for me?
Seth… If you have to ask that question you already know the answer.
Arthur… It seems to me I sometimes put myself…
Seth… Routinely.
Arthur… at risk when I feel…
Seth… It is not a question of risk; what you do is you place yourself in a position where there is no benefit.
Arthur… To… me?
Seth… You or them.
Arthur… I don’t know if that’s always true. (Said softly.)
Seth… Factual. Show me how giving money to your sister is helpful?
Arthur… How about giving my sister a car?
Seth… Same thing as money, is it not?
Arthur… No, she can’t gamble the car away.
Seth… Oh yes, she can. (Long pause.) Sells it, money, gone.
Arthur… She can’t sell it; she needs it to live in and to…
Seth… What you think she cannot do is foolhardy. The answer is she can do what she chooses to do.
Arthur… Certainly, she can do what she chooses to do. What do I do with the struggle that I have with seeing her at such risk?
Seth… Why is it your problem?
Arthur… Well, because I love her.
Seth… Loving someone does not mean doing and taking away their problem.
Arthur… I’m just a, I guess I’m afraid that if she dies…
Seth… Is it your fault? If she ends her incarnation?
Arthur… I will feel…
Seth… If she ends her incarnation whose choice is it?
Arthur… It must be her choice.
Seth… Does any soul end their incarnation before they are ready?
Arthur… You have told me that that’s what is factual.
Seth… That is factual. That is a simple fact.
Arthur… I have this from you. I don’t know this from myself. I don’t know.
Seth… Of course, you do.
Arthur… How do I know that?
Seth… Of course, you do. Research the inner recesses of you and you will find that it is absolutely a statement of fact.
Arthur… Through meditation?
Seth… Any way that you can. The woman who is a battered wife and who constantly goes back and knows that her husband will become so enraged one day that he will kill her but yet she continues to suffer and go back until one day he does kill her, who is responsible for those actions.
Arthur… Well, she is responsible and…
Seth… It is the same thing here.
Arthur… Who is responsible for what he does? You know he’s responsible…
Seth… She places herself there.
Arthur… Yes, she does.
Seth… And that’s the issue here.
Arthur… But that doesn’t tell me that every soul does that.
Seth… Every soul.
Arthur… You tell me that.
Seth… Every soul.
Arthur… Ah… (Long pause.) Is there any feedback you can give me about how I am doing with this?
Seth… You’re obviously quite upset.
Arthur… Yeah?
Seth… You’re obviously distraught.
Arthur… Yeah.
Seth… You’re obviously feeling that you have to be able to accomplish and do more than you have done…
Arthur… It just hurts.
Seth… because you feel responsible…
Arthur… Yes.
Seth… and show me how that is profitable for you?
Arthur… I just don’t know how the opposite will be profitable for me.
Seth… What has it accomplished so far?
Arthur… The opposite?
Seth… No, what you are doing now.
Arthur… I am doing it differently now.
Seth… How?
Arthur… I have not given her money. I have not given her a car. I talk to her. I get concerned that she will not be there to call me. (Crying.)
Seth… Whose choice is it? You cannot make an individual do something that they are not ready, willing and able to do.
Arthur… Alright, you said that she was going to get nowhere until she got psychiatric help. For what? For the gambling or for her personality disorder?
Seth… It starts with the idea of how she victimizes herself with money, that’s the gambling. But in doing that her personality disorder will come directly into play.
Arthur… Yes. And when I did not do, and she went to the storage unit and found papers. Three bags of papers, a stack her boy friend had stored there she came to a partial realization, I am not crazy. I, you know this actually happened. That was good for her. That was a piece that she would not have gained if I had somehow done something…
Seth… Correct.
Arthur… that she would not have gone into the storage unit to look at that. She then used that in a way that was a camouflage. She took that further, but I don’t, I don’t know. It’s just like, it’s like I have to have nerves of steel to let go of this.
Seth… Yes, you do. But you cannot succeed for her. That is the issue. Do you not see how you are connectable to Isabella in this situation?
Arthur… I feel more connectable to Jasmine in this situation!
Frank… No.
Jasmine… Because I am doing the same thing that you are.
Arthur… Oh, well I don’t know about what you are doing.
Seth… She is trying and attempting, and I am not saying that it’s a bad thing, but she is trying to assist to do for when you cannot.
Arthur… So, what is the thing about you can give assistance…
Seth… Assistance means…
Arthur… when it’s required.
Seth… Right. That’s correct, you should give assistance when required, (Almost seem to say “requested.”) But that does not mean giving money. It does not mean doing for as your sister would think she requires you to do. Or that you would like to believe you do. Giving assistance means…
Arthur… She’s not asking…
Seth… I understand.
Arthur… for money.
Seth… But it will get to that and very quickly. We are both aware of this.
Arthur… It has been there in the past. It has routinely been there in the past. But it is not there now, interestingly.
Seth… Because you are not going to allow it. Are you?
Arthur… I ah, certainly hope not.
Seth… Well, that’s the difficulty that you have. (Arthur laughing emotionally.) Do you see the difference?
Arthur… It’s just really hard to hold that position; it’s really hard, (Spoken softly into mumbling.)
Seth… Don’t you think that the person who is victimizing you realizes that it is difficult for you?
Arthur… That she’s victimizing me?
Seth… Of course, she is. And you allow it. Because you feel responsible, you feel guilty…
Arthur… (Speaking over Seth…) It’s a serious… I feel survivor’s guilt…
Seth… You feel worried that she is going to die.
Arthur… I feel…
Seth… You are going to go ahead and say, “What can I do to prevent!” And my answer is simply this: nothing.
Arthur… Hmm.
Seth… For example, have you ever dealt with a drug addict or an alcoholic? Please tell me what the family is first told when a diagnosis is made?
Arthur… Do not enable. You can’t… it’s not up to you.
Seth… You do not enable! Please show me how (Arthur is talking at the same time.) you are not enabling? Please show me how you are not enabling?
Arthur… I’ve been trying not to give her cash. I’ve been trying not… I helped with the wedding. I tried to give love, I tried to give advice. I locked my door so she wouldn’t steal things. You know I…
Seth… I understand.
Stephanie… (Directed to Arthur with the first part unclear but…) You did everything that you think she requires; she still has the opportunity to use it and fail…
Arthur… Yes, yes, she does.
Stephanie… to help herself. If you give her everything she requires Even if you are giving and giving and giving for example and she will abuse the gifts…
Seth… As she always has.
Stephanie… That’s why it is not your choice.
Seth… There is the difference if she was going into for example a program, whatever the program was and she asked you for assistance, do me a favor I need to be able to pay for this program, I’m going…
Arthur… I’ve thought of offering her that.
Seth… No, she has to come to you not you to her. I’m going into this and then you arrange and help with the finances of the program, that’s a vastly different thing then giving. Do you understand the difference?
Arthur… Okay.
Seth… Are there any other questions?
Arthur… Can I ask another thing about…
Seth… You can ask two.
Arthur… Thank you. What is this 2012 stuff? Is this whole shift thing that people are talking about… (This is being typed in 2012 and edited in 2018 and so far, we are still here. F.N.)
Seth… Nonsense, just leave it alone.
Arthur… Okay and so…
Seth… The world is not going to end in 2012.
Arthur… Okay well I didn’t, I wasn’t going…
Seth… Yes, it is all part of the…
Arthur… No, they are talking about a struggle that is going on with a shift of energy…
Seth… In 2074 there will be a man coming around that will help that area, just skip it. Move along.
Arthur… Okay and what about this theory of Eileen’s (Laughs.) about my coming from a different place?
Seth… Well, you don’t live in Rockville Centre, do you?
Arthur… That’s right no, I don’t, (Said with humor.)
Seth… And therefore, you do come from a different place.
Arthur… Yes, this star?
Seth… You come from here. (Stephanie giggles.) It’s like the man was not in your computer. (Now Frank giggles. This refers to a previous issue with a fear of Arthur’s computer being tampered with.)
Frank… 2074? I thought that was a lot sooner? (This does refer to the Second Coming of Christ. Seth’s explanation of this is vastly different then Biblical interpreted end of the world beliefs. Seth has stated that the Christ Consciousness was actually contained within the three historical figures know as John the Baptist, Jesus and Saul or Saint Paul. It is the Saint Paul personality who will return as he was not completely satisfied. There will be some sort of religious rebalancing or new understanding as his incarnation unfolds. F.N.)
Seth… Reread.
Frank… Okay. Does anybody want to ask questions about this?
Seth… That is all we are going to have time for this evening is this, nothing else. (Frank, I believe asked about some sort of concepts and perhaps material on Value Fulfillment.) You already have them. We can deal with that next week.
Frank… That’s fine.
Seth… Anything else?
Stephanie… You’re suggesting to do a diary of what kind of events?
Seth… Things that are significant for you.
Stephanie… Difficult or anything?
Seth… Anything, it doesn’t matter. It’s what you feel that you have to look at again. For example, give us a moment; do you remember the Harry Potter books?
Stephanie… Yeah, I love the Harry Potter books.
Seth… Okay, in the Harry Potter books, Dumbledore uses and pulls out from his memory and puts into a bowl of memories that he wants to revisit later, those are his diaries, his thoughts. And they are significant and what I am saying to you as an individual, things that you feel are significant for you would not be the same even if you were dealing with, for example with Jasmine. What she felt was significant may not be what you felt was significant for her. Do you understand? So, whatever you feel is significant for you write down and then have an ability to revisit.
Stephanie… How far back do we go back with that?
Seth… As far back as you want, a twenty-two-page letter would be nice.
Jasmine… Positive or negative?
Seth… Absolutely positive. If you do not put the…
Jasmine… Not negative?
Seth… Or negative, you do not just put, you will excuse the expressing discomforting things in that diary because that serves no useful purpose. Are there any other questions?
Let me leave you with this: Change, you may attempt it or not, without change you do not prosper. Your inner warrior is necessary so that you may make your life work and your needs will be fulfilled. You will see this clearly in your diary and when you make your life work your wants are lessened. I am going to end here by the way the time is 9:53 and I shall continue on with something slightly different. (Private material not recorded.)
