I wrote about my struggle with channeled material in Past Life Journeying, and how I was convinced of the wisdom available from “discarnate entities” on the recommendation of the works of Michael Talbot, author of The Holographic Universe. I’ve gone back and forth on the Seth material by Jane Roberts over the years but I had a 3 AM conversion episode last week that brought me back into their camp.
I was awake and too tired to read so I listened to an audiobook from Jane Roberts, The Nature of Personal Reality (1974). I’d forgotten I’d downloaded that on Audible but found a chapter that intrigued me: The Concentration of Energy, Beliefs, and the Present Point of Power.
(Seth seemed to like that alliteration of the Ps and used it a lot!)
The concentration of energy follows your beliefs. Many beliefs, not negative in themselves, but overemphasized, lead to what certainly appear to be negative results.
(I’ll ascribe thoughts to Seth though Jane Roberts and her husband Robert Butts were the ones writing and publishing them, so I’m also using “he” for Seth. Adding to the confusion, Seth refers to Jane as “Ruburt” throughout these sessions.)
In Chapter 19, Seth answered one of my complaints about the “we create our own reality” concept:
Many of you have a tendency to believe that anyone with such abilities as Ruburt has, has no problems or challenges. Ruburt has often said, ‘Some of my correspondents expect me to be completely healthy, wealthy and wise, and indeed beyond any human feelings,’ and he is quite correct.
Numbers of you are looking for a state of ‘peace’ in which there is a static sort of bliss, with all questions forever answered and all answers solved. Some of you think that this will somehow be miraculously accomplished for you. If you recognize the power of your own being, you would know that it ever seeks greater realms of creativity and experience, in which new challenges are inherent—for all problems are challenges.
Seth ties working through these challenges to simultaneous time and both the limitations and possibilities presented by these challenges:
All existences are simultaneous. Within the bounds of creaturehood certain things are possible and certain things are not. You cannot regenerate a limb, or grow a new one. You can cure yourself of an “incurable” disease if you realize that your point of power is in the present.
Whatever your situation, you have chosen it for a reason. If it involves a circumstance that cannot be altered in physical terms, then you have settled upon it as a framework in order to enhance and use other abilities in concentrated form. The main point is not to concentrate upon the liabilities, but to pursue those abilities that you have, for the great energies of your personality will be directed in those avenues.
At present I am on my own healing journey, and dealing with my personal “challenges” both in healing myself and what is possible through my Past Life Journeying practice. Standard “Level 1 new age thought” tells us that all illness has an emotional basis, and uncovering and releasing the core event behind our illness can heal, instantaneously in some cases. I have not found that to be the case in my personal healing challenge, and so do not promise healings from the practice of Past Life Journeying. But it would be much more lucrative if I could. My 3 AM learning experience alerted me to Seth’s addressing this, and in 1974!
Seth is working on two parallel tracks here: Certain healings are possible “within the bounds of creaturehood” but others; like regrowing a new limb are not. But a disease thigh to be incurable can be healed by recognizing that the Point of Power is in the Present.
My healing journey took me to Gary Craig’s EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) which I used myself for years and considered getting certified to practice. My ideas of healing from the core event forward were most influenced by EFT. Now Seth is reversing that point of power from the core event, which is in the Past or even Future but always elsewhere, and placing it firmly in the Present.
This reminded me of my 2020 session I call the “Oh this is for you!”episode. There I was informed that “It’s all us, it’s all now, and healing one life heals all our lives.” But I still thought the healing proceeded from the Other life forward or backward, and here Seth is reinforcing the Present Point of Power. (Loving that alliteration myself!)
The other track Seth is confirming is that we’ve chosen this challenging situation, and that there is a reason behind that choice. Rather than illness, Seth addresses lifetimes where danger is involved, and how:
…entire life contexts are selected that might appear to be incomprehensible, foolish, or even insane to an observer.
Yes, deciphering the reason behind our choice of a lifetime or challenging scenario in that incarnation stretches our reasoning faculties. This is another area Seth addressed here that I’ve wrestled to a draw. The only idea I can offer in this regard may not seem much help but I can sum it up as “Reality is much weirder than we can conceive of.” This was expressed by someone much smarter than me back in 1927. Sir Arthur Edington as the Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics:
Something unknown is doing we don't know what.
Seth explains this in the context of Simultaneous Lives:
You live many lives simultaneously. You often think of these as reincarnational existences, one before the other. If you are severely ill and believe that the reasons for your symptoms exist in a past life, that you must ‘put up with it,’ then you will not realize that your point of power is in the present, and you will not believe in the possibility of recovery.
Again, even so-called incurable diseases can be healed as long as this does not involve regenerations not possible within the context of creaturehood.
In your terms, birth defects of whatever kind are chosen before this life. This is done for many different reasons (just as people choose to be ill in this life, regardless of the duration involved). That is, a certain psychic framework is set up through which an individual decides ‘ahead of time’ to experience an entire life situation.
Those pre-life decisions, and whether or not others are involved in our decisions, such as a Karma Board, are the areas that can be explored with multiple Past Life Journeys. This requires a deep dive into the title that Seth chose for this book, The Nature of Personal Reality.
This reality, I propose, is much weirder than we’ve yet considered. Maybe begin with letting go of Linear Time and Cause & Effect from that same chapter:
Since all is simultaneous, your present beliefs can alter your past ones, whether from this life or a “previous” one. Existences are open-ended. Now with your ideas of progressive time and the resulting beliefs in cause and effect, I realize this is difficult for you to understand. Yet within the abilities of your creaturehood, your current beliefs can change your experience; you can restructure your “reincarnational past” in the same way that you can restructure the past in this present life.
Yes, I realized long ago that we are breaking the laws of physics by “restructuring” our previous incarnations through acknowledging, expressing gratitude, and asking for or granting forgiveness. Seth sums up what for me was a lesson with this:
The point of power is in the present.
This experienced present also represents your psychic touchstone to all of your other existences. You are consciously aware of certain events, and unconsciously aware of much more that in one way or another you are learning to bring into conscious focus.
The same applies to all of your other “reincarnational selves.” They are unconsciously aware of your conscious experience as you are unconsciously aware of theirs.
The interaction is constant, however, and in all of your presents, creative. You draw on their knowledge as they draw on yours, and this of course applies to personalities that you would consider future. You have a gigantic pool of information and experience to draw upon, but this will be utilized according to your present conscious beliefs. If you understand that the point of power is in the present, then you have an inexhaustible realm of ability and energy at your command.
I am putting this into practice by shifting my point of power to the Present. Stay tuned for more posts on my progress (and further alliteration.)