Quotes from the Seth Material

Last Updated 6 October 1997

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Meaning

"Men can become deranged if they believe life has no meaning. Religion has made gross errors. At least it held out an afterlife, a hope of salvation, and preserved - sometimes despite itself - the tradition of the heroic soul. Science, including psychology, by what it has said, and by what it has neglected to say. has come close to a declaration that life itself is meaningless. This is a direct contradiction of deep biological knowledge, to say nothing of spiritual truth. It denies the meaning of biological integrity. It denies man the practical use of those very elements that he needs as a biological creature: the feeling that he is at lifes centre, that he can act safely in his environment, that he can trust himself, and that his being and actions have meaning....

...If you believe that your life has no meaning then you will do anything to provide meaning, all the while acting like a mouse in one of science's mazes - for your prime directive, so to speak, has been tampered with"

Seth "The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events" p.263
On the Nature of Reality

"Remember also that if physical reality is an illusion, it is an illusion caused by an even greater reality. The illusion itself has a purpose and a meaning"

Seth:"Seth Speaks: the Eternal Validity of the Soul" p. 39

In a very real way of speaking your concept of reality as seen through your physicl senses, scientific instruments, or arrived at by deduction, bears little resemblance to the facts - and the facts are difficult to explain.
Seth: "Seth Speaks: the Eternal Validity of the Soul" p. 36
On Consciousness and Matter

Nothing exists - neither rock, mineral, plant, animal or air - that is not filled with consciousness of its own kind. So you stand amid a constant vital commotion, a gestalt of aware energy, and you are yourselves physically composed of conscious cells that carry within themselves the realization of their own identity, that cooperate willingly to form the corporeal structure that is your physical body.

I am saying, of course that there is no such thing as dead matter.....You cannot understand what you are unless you understand such matters.

Seth: "Seth Speaks: the Eternal Validity of the Soul (1994),
On the Environmental Crisis

The over population problem will teach you that if you do not have a loving concern for the environment in which you dwell, it will no longer sustain you - you will not be worthy of it. Youi will not be destroying the planet, you see. You will not be destroying the birds. or the flowers, or the grains or the animals. You will not be worthy of them, and they will be destroying you.

You have set up the problem for yourselves within the framework of your reference. You will not understand your part within the framework of nature until you actually see yourselves in danger of tearing it apart. You will not destroy consciousnes. You will not annihilate the conscious- ness of even one leaf, but in your context, if the problem were not solved, these would would fade from your experience.

The crisis is a kind of therapy, however. It is a teaching method that you have set up for yourselves because you need it.

Seth, "Seth Speaks - the Eternal Validity of the Soul", p.178 (1994) or p.210 (1972)
On the Living and the Dead

"The present model for physical life precludes any easy mixing of the living and the dead, any casual encounters between those in flesh and out of it as a common occurrence. This was not always the case, for at one time the dead and living mixed far more openly."
Seth
On Death and Choice

"...there are no accidents. No one dies under any circumstances who is not prepared to die. This applies to death through natural catastrophe as well as to any other situation.

Your own choice will dictate the way you die as well as the time.

Many people die young, for example, because they believe so strongly that old age represents degradation of the spirit and an insult to the body."

"The Nature of Personal Reality" p.410-11.
On the Creation of Mass Events

"As I have frequently mentioned, you have a hand in forming 'all' events to one extent or another, and at certain levels you are therefore involved in the construction of those global events that affect the world, whether they be of so-called natural or cultural nature."
Seth, session 933
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