Guru Corner

Disclaimer: Teachers highlighted in the guru corner are not being recommended or promoted for spiritual guidance. They are merely individuals who exemplify certain spiritual qualities that are placed here for us to observe and use in whatever fashion works best for us.

"You see and feel what you expect to see and feel. The world as you know it is a picture of your expectations. The world as the race of man knows it is the materialization en masse of your individual expectations. As children come from your physical tissues, so is the world your joint creation." - Seth, as channeled by Jane Roberts from "The Nature of Personal Reality."

"Who and What is Seth ? Seth, by his own description, is a personality who is no longer focused in physical reality. From late in 1963 until 1984, when Jane passed away, Seth spoke through Jane Roberts (I believe its fashionable these days to call it channeling.) The sessions were recorded (mostly in a modified long hand) by Jane's husband, Robert Butts. In the early years, Jane held a weekly ESP class where sessions were recorded (audio tape) by the students and later transcribed. Collectively the sessions are frequently referred to as the Seth material.


Seth refers to Jane and Rob as Ruburt and Joseph, names he said better describes their greater selves. After an initial "getting acquainted" period with Jane and Rob, Seth started dictating "Seth Speaks: the Eternal Validity of the Soul", and the rest as they say, is history
Over the years Seth dictated a number of books and Jane wrote a number of books of her own. The Seth books include detailed session notes given by Rob on what was going on in the world and in their personal lives at the time of the sessions. Seth drew heavily on these experiences by way of examples in his books. An interesting, and amazing aside, Seth dictated all his books in one draft, often with long interruptions between sessions, without ever contradicting himself.

The range of subject matter in Seth's books is broad. From dreams and out of body travel to life after death. Biblical history, space travel, other dimensions, parallel and probable selves, and behavior of subatomic particles are just a few of the topics covered. While many of Seth's explanations are very in depth and not likely to be grasped with a quick read through, he writes with a sharp wit and a full sense of humor and frequently explains that many things are only as complicated as we expect them to be. Throughout Seth's work the main themes return again and again ... "You create your own reality", and "You get what you concentrate upon." " - Excerpt from www.secretoflife.com

Seth started communication in a totally unexpected format: channeling. Did Jane ever expect her little foray into psychic matters would lead to a library of material that has had a huge impact in metaphysics? Probably not. She had no expectations for contact with Seth and thus allowed the communication to take place freely.

 
Beyond The Dream

What makes science fiction and horror movies so fascinating is how they manage to shock our sense of expectations. We like to believe our reality is stable and never-changing when nothing could be further from the truth. We think that our situations create our expectations when in actuality, our expectations determine our situations.

In "The Truman Show," Truman expects every day of his life to be the same. Everyone watching is expecting Truman to behave in ways that he has been scripted to behave. What makes it entertaining is how Truman eventually manages to see past his own inner script to enlarge the boundaries of his world. He widens his expectations to include a long-lost love and a world that doesn't end where the ocean meets the shore.

When we expect something to happen, we trust that it will occur. In that respect, trust is what is actually doing the creating. We think of expectation as a thought, but before the thought came the trust and that is what generated the thought and the subsequent reality. When Sigorney Weaver fights the Alien in outer space, we trust that she will make it through alive. She is the protagonist, the heroine, so we trust that she will make it out alive. We don't know how, and we fear she might not, but we hope and expect her to survive.

If we could have such rock-solid expectations of our own lives, we would never feel our lives are "out of control." We would understand that every little bit of our reality is created by our seeming blase trust, or expectations. When we project awful things into the future, they most often start to happen, do they not? Pat yourself on the back! You trusted awful things to happen and they did! And when we are certain things will most likely work out, don't they also?

I have a friend who uses this technique to find a parking spot wherever she goes.

"Okay, everyone," she will exclaim as she nears her intended destination. "Start visualizing that parking space! I'm sure there's one there just waiting for us."

I haven't gone riding with her when there wasn't a space there for us. It's amazing how are expectations can provide such amazing results!

Most of our health information nowadays is based on expecting the worst. If you don't get vaccinated for the flu, you're bound to get deathly ill this winter! I prefer to listen to the herbalists who tell me I can live a healthy life without a doctor or a prescription medications.

In that vein, this year I "stumbled" across a natural remedy for allergies: stinging nettles. Was it an accident or did my expectation that I can manage my own health lead me to the information that worked for me? We have to begin to trust ourselves and know, like Sigorney Weaver, that whatever alien force we meet we are strong enough to learn from it and survive.

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