Seth 395
Change and the Concept of Hope
Tuesday February 10, 2009
8:30 PM
Seth… Good evening, a pleasure to have all of you here with me this evening. For the purposes of allowing Kaetorina to start transcribing these sessions I will modify my speaking patterns. This will also allow you to phrase your questions in a proper manner. (This is the first session that Stephanie began typing as Seth spoke. Seth’s speech here is rather slow and the process of Stephanie typing rather arduous but in time Stephanie became such a fast typist that those of us taking notes could not always keep up! This typing “change” allowed for sessions to be more readily available although not fully edited. There remain hundreds of sessions that have not yet been typed. F.N. Feb 2016)
We will start off under our general heading of Change by asking a question: How do you define the idea of hope? Do we have a volunteer? Betty to go first. (This is Seth humor telling Betty to go first.)
Betty… Something positive or different to look forward to.
Seth… Isabella?
Isabella… A longing or a yearning for something in the future. Oh wait, there is something else I want to add. A positive feeling of a particular circumstance.
Arthur… An opening, a possibility and anticipation.
Frank… A feeling for a desired outcome in the future. I have also some sort of connection to faith.
George… Hope is an optimistic part of our spirit.
Stephanie… A futuristic perspective on a particular topic related to feelings and connected to desire/want.
Seth… For the purposes of having Kaetorina adapt to this new venture all questions will be held until I finish. I suggest that you write them down so that you will not forget them.
Hope may be defined as what an individual does to give reason in a chaotic, unfortunate, disheartening situation. It is interesting to note that individuals do not seek change unless they believe that there is no other outlet for their desires. One is often faced with the knowledge that the future often looks bleak. Each of you on your journey often finds themselves with many pathways, roads if you will that you may choose to embark upon. When each of you finds yourself in a position where you are at a crossroads you routinely stand still and often become paralyzed because of your own fears about the murkiness about futuristic events. One must understand that the future itself depends upon your creativity. Each of you moves along a road or pathway if you will at your own pace. Others will succeed before you do while others are left far behind. When you come to realize that no choice will cause you to be pushed off your path the idea of change becomes easier.
One may question the idea that choices in reality don’t matter. Your choices whether positive or negative do not cause failure in terms of your own ultimate success. They may delay you; they may move you on to a different path, but they cannot cause ultimate failure. One of the principles of success is the ability to try different solutions to the same problem. One changes their approach so that they will be able to accomplish their set of stated goals. A question here for all of you how often do you sit down and physically write out your goals for the next week, month, year or decade? Without doing so you are easily moved away from that which you desire.
One methodology that I suggest is for each individual to pursue and experience the grandeur of silence. When it is nighttime, and the world is quiet how often do you sit and listen to the universe that you are an integral part of. How often do you shut out the noise of your day-to-day existence by opening yourself to yourself so that you may experience yourself in all your grandeur? Each individual if change is to be accomplished, must learn about him/herself. Without this knowledge you are literally blind to that which you are and hope to become!
It is a sad fact that most individuals make excuses for not doing what they love. While it is true that your passions ebb and flow like the tide there is nothing wrong with the need to leave some of your passions behind. This does not mean that you will give them up on a permanent basis. Many times, the circumstances of your existence do not allow for a “frivolous” hobby or playful diversions. I caution each of you not to fall prey to the idea that I cannot have what I love, in reality this is self-sabotage. If only I could have, I would have been a different person, if only I had done that I would have been happier, if only I had seen the correct path, I could have been a success, if only my parents had been different, I would be different as well. The idea of if only diminishes you as an individual. It prevents hope since you will not allow for change. “If only” prevents you from understanding where one should go on your never ending journey.
These ideas cause one to falter in their quest for the dessert of life and you feel left out of the true party that is the physical plane. Each of you must now embark on any journey with hope so that the pathways that you choose to take may be filled with silence and that the love of that which you are overflows from you the vessel that resides on the physical plane.
We shall take a break. (9:10 PM)
Seth… Let us continue. Now that I have given you my thoughts for this evening, I will allow questions to be asked. Yes, Frank?
Frank… Could you comment on why time frames for goals are a good idea?
Seth… My temptation here Frank is to ask you to go into the office on my right and close the door before I answer this question. The reason for that statement is as follows. You have a great tendency to look for a “method” so that you may apply it routinely.
Frank… I didn’t ask…
Seth… Don’t make matters worse.
Time frames in the most general sense are used to give one direction in an ever-changing environment. Without setting goals one cannot change with the times. Is the economy robust or are times so difficult that your goals must be postponed? By setting a framework for yourself you enable yourself as well as those around you to proceed in a direction that promotes prosperity even in the most difficult of situations. By giving yourself a sense of direction you allow for change to become a natural part of your own existence. Are there any other questions?
Frank… In terms of time frames I was thinking about working with others. For myself the question is that I do goals, but I don’t do time frames because it feels more natural to me, isn’t that correct?
Seth… No.
Frank… Why not?
Seth… It is not correct because you are living an existence that would tend to make it an open-ended situation. Let us assume that you would like fifteen more patients in your practice. If you don’t set a goal then those patients may come in a month, a year, ten years, what is suitable? By giving yourself a non-rigid time frame you are attracting and creating that which you may define as your manifest destiny.
Frank… You defined in two methods, time and the specific goal so what you’re saying is it’s better to be specific so that you can manifest what you really want?
Seth… Depending upon what you are manifesting and what your belief systems are. The man through whom I speak sets a goal that is specific and vague. His question always is “How would a prosperous man act?” The question is specific to what he believes is a specific difficulty or challenge yet, at the same time vague enough to allow him to create prosperity in whatever means suits him best at any specific point of reference. Are there any other questions?
Frank… Could you offer any specific advice in terms of making my practice more prosperous during these current times?
Seth… Why would I do that since YOU must create for yourself? And by doing so I would rob you of free-will.
(To Stephanie) How are your fingers? (Stephanie indicated that her fingers were fine but that typing perhaps to keep up was hard.) You’ll learn.
Frank… I was specifically concerned and ambivalent regarding the concept of stopping taking insurance for new patients. Can you give me any information on that? (I never did stop taking insurance. F.N)
Seth… No.
Isabella… I have a question regarding the spiritual connection between two individuals. How is it that two people will call each other text each other at the exact same time and often about the same thing?
Seth… A while ago I gave a lecture about a ruler and when two individuals are on the same side of the ruler, they are connected in ways they cannot imagine. That lecture would be very profitable for you. I would suggest that you have our friend Frank research his notes to give you the lecture number and you will type it. Second, in terms of housekeeping, how is the back end of that session going? (There was back and forth banter between Seth and Isabella ending with the edict that she should finish typing a particular session.)
Isabella… How does that relate to the idea of lifelong players?
Seth… It does not have to relate at all. Lifelong players present each other with challenges. This is completely different.
Isabella… Tommy and I have these weird moments that often happen where I can almost feel and he too that we are in each other’s minds. Is that the same idea as the ruler?
Seth… Correct. When you have a chance speak to Kaetorina and the man through whom I speak, and they will relate to you a story about throwing toys. (This toy event occurred many years earlier when Stephanie was quite angry and throwing toys in her mind. Jerry picked up on this telepathically and in an effort to assist her they spoke telepathically. This in a sense was the beginning of their psychic work together and marked her understanding that she was psychic and furthermore was the beginning of her development into a truly gifted psychic.) Are there any other questions?
Frank… Related to Isabella’s question: When I type Seth material or read like The Magical Approach invariably it’s timely with a question I had or an understanding that I needed. I am in correspondence with that material, correct?
Seth… Finish your question.
Frank… Am I in correspondence with that material?
Seth… Have each of you ever noticed that my lectures were directed to you?
Frank… (Group laughter.) Of course.
Seth… The reason that each of you feel that I am speaking directly towards you is due to the fact that my research clearly shows what is going on with each of my students. It is no surprise that when I suggest some reading for any of you it is due to the fact that your creations will give you what you need so that the material becomes pertinent to your own way of life. This is nothing new, I have stated this on previous occasions.
Isabella… I’m having a really hard time with The Nature of Personal Reality.
Seth… This is as it should be. The difficulties are placed there so that you will encounter hardship which forces you to think. Have you written a question? I haven’t heard any yet.
Isabella… I don’t…
Seth… If you don’t know what you don’t know…
Isabella… I don’t even know what to do.
Seth… You would write I do not understand this paragraph. I do not understand this concept. I do not understand this. I have a question on that. And you will write two or three things down and you may ask them.
Isabella… (Talking further on the book.) And the language that he uses!
Seth… Difficult, on purpose.
Isabella… It is so different then how you speak here that I can’t…
Seth… Here I am in a conversational mode.
Isabella… But I can barely understand what is being said.
Seth… Then have you… there is something called a dictionary.
Isabella… I understand the vocabulary, but it is so complicated.
Seth… It seems I just said that.
Isabella… It makes it so challenging to get through. It is almost like I am losing…
Seth… How many pages did I tell you to read a day?
Isabella… Three, I can barely…
Seth… Two to three. And when you read two to three a day you will take a little note book, you will write down a question or a concept or a feeling.
Isabella… I am finding it very challenging, and I am a good reader.
Seth… It is supposed to be very challenging. Yet there are individuals who will read it and understand it. Yet, if you remember I stopped Kaetorina and the man through whom I speak when they were on about page 200 because they thought they were reading it, yet they were only looking at words and I made them go back over it. Just as Jasmine, who said she understood everything was on page 25, understood nothing.
Isabella… I am like barely on page like 40 and I go back and re-read from the beginning.
Seth… Where are your questions on concepts?
Isabella… I could literally ask about every single paragraph.
Seth… Then you will and it will be explained.
George… A couple of months I have a wedding coming up… (Stephanie is laughing.)
Frank… Do you want her to type this?
Seth… No. (The above including Isabella’s conversation about the difficulty of The Nature of Personal Reality was all recaptured and edited from the tape.)
George… I would like the time to be a good time for my family. Is there anything or any information that I can give to my father that would help him get out of this situation that he has been in for the last two years and is now finally starting to get out of and work through?
Seth… I believe you just stating that he is getting out of it. My best advice to you or anyone: When times are difficult most individuals seek refuge into what they believe is a comfortable zone. The natural person expands himself and joins forces with the community around him. They become a part of a greater whole. They inherently understand that to be yourself is to be prosperous. That is the advice that you require, for if you are not yourself then you are hiding from that which you truly seek to be.
Let me leave you with this: Hope does spring eternal, use it to put reason into your existence. You will be able to find a better pathway. Let silence push you along. Do what you love, your needs will be met and your wants lessened. A good evening to all.
(10:09 PM)
