We create our own reality by the thoughts, beliefs, intentions and expectations that we hold. This hypothesis has been part of Eastern thought and religion for centuries, and has recently established a growing following in the West. Its essence can be seen in the works of many respected thinkers of our time, including members of the scientific community. And it was a major influence in the birth of Spirit to Spirit.

It is the crux of Seth's message.

Seth, "channeled" by Jane Roberts of Elmira, New York, from the late '60s to early '80s, calls himself an "energy essence personality." Together, they (and Roberts' husband, Robert Butts, who transcribed the Seth sessions in longhand) produced a tremendous amount of material, much of it published in a series of books by the prestigious Prentice-Hall.

What follows are excerpts from various Seth sessions:

"Thought is energy. ... Your expectations send telepathic suggestions."

"Within your physical atoms the origins of all consciousness still sing."

"In each life you choose and create your own settings or environments; and in this one you chose your parents and whatever childhood incidents that came within your experience. You wrote the script. Like a true absent minded professor, the concious self forgets all this, however, so when tragedy appears in the script, difficulty or challenges, the concious self looks for someone or something to blame."

"Using your free will, you have made physical reality into something quite different than what was intended. You have allowed the ego to become overly developed and specialized. You were here to work out problems and challenges, but you were always to be aware of your own inner reality, and of your nonphysical existence. To a large extent you have lost contact with this. You have focused so strongly upon physical reality that it become the only reality that you know."

"If you do not like the state of your world, it is you yourselves that must change, individually and en masse. This is the only way that change will be effected."

"The responsibility for your life and your world is indeed yours ... You form your own dreams and you form your own physical reality. The world is ... the physcial materialization of the inner selves which you have formed."

"Your must honor yourselves and see within yourselves the spirit of eternal validity. You must honor all other individuals, because within each is the spark of this validity."

"Do not fall into the old ways that will lead you precisely into the world that you fear. There is no man who hates but that hatred is reflected outward and made physical, and there is no man who loves but that love is reflected outward and made physical."

"Beyond myself there is another self and still another, of which Iam aware. And that self tells you that there is a reality beyond human reality and experience that cannot be made verbal or translated into human terms."

"Seth is what I am, yet I am more than Seth is. ... Names are arbitrary, and we use them merely for your convenience. Seth's name or mine isn't important."

"Identity and consciousness existed long before your earth was formed. ... Consciousness is the force behind matter, and it forms many other realities besides the physical one. ... So much of your energy is used in the physical productions that you cannot afford to perceive any reality but your own."

"The human race is a stage through which various forms of consciousness travel... Yours is a training system for emerging consciousness ... you must first learn to handle energy and see through physical materialzation, the concrete result of thought and emotion."

"In the most basic sense, the purpose of life is being - as opposed to not being. In your system of three-dimensional reality you are learning about mental energy (also called thought energy or psychic energy) and how to use it."

"Knowledge about mental energy and its use is learned by constantly transforming your thoughts and emotions into physical form (your physical reality) and by then perceiving and dealing with the matter and events that are formed."

"From doing this, you are supposed to get a clear picture of your inner development as it is reflected by the exterior environment. You participate in physical reality so that you can operate and experience within this dimension. Here, you can develop your abilities, learn, create, solve problems and help others."

"Matter is the shape that basic experience takes when it comes into your three-dimensional system. Your dreams, thoughts, expectations, beliefs and emotions are literally transformed into physical matter."

"Every nerve and fiber within the body has an unseen inner purpose. Nerve impulses travel outward from the body, along invisible pathways, in much the same manner that they travel within the body."

"These pathways are carriers of telepathic thoughts, impulses, and desires containing all the codified data necessary for translating any thought or image into physical actuality, altering seemingly objective events."

"This telepathy operates constantly at an "automatic" or subconscious level, providing communication to back up sensory data. Telepathy is the glue that holds the physical universe in position, so that you can agree on the existence and properties of objects."

"The physical environment is as much a part of you as your own body. What seems to be a perception, an objective concrete event independent from you, is instead the materialization of your own emotions, energy and mental environment."

"Events and objects are actually focal points where highly charged psychic impulses are transformed into something that can be physically perceived: a breakthrough into matter."

"The intensity of a thought or image largely determines the immediacy of the physical materialization. All such images or thoughts are not completely materialized, in your perception, as their intensity may be too weak."

"If you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others and you will find the answer."

"True self-knowledge is indispensable for health and vitality. The recognition of the truth about the self simply means that you must first find out what you think about yourself subconsciously. If it is a good image, build upon it. If it is a poor one, recognize it as only the opinion you have held of yourself and not an "absolute state."

"You are not your emotions. They flow through you, you feel them and then they disappear. When you try to hold them back they build up."

"You must learn to trust your own spontaneous nature. Your nervous system knows how to react. It reacts spontaneously when you allow it to. ... In spontaneity there is a discipline that utterly escapes you, and an order beyond any that you know. Spontaneity knows its own order."

"All of nature is spontaneous. Our bodies will be healthy automatically if we do not project false ideas upon them. ... Physical symptoms are communications from the inner self, indications that we are making mental errors of one kind or another. Do not forget that you are a part of the inner self. ... search yourself for the inner problem represented by the symptoms, and measure your progress as the symptoms subside."

"You sell yourself short if you believe that you are only a physical organism living within the boundaries cast upon you by time and space."

"You are a unique individual. You form your physical environment. You are part of all that is. There is no place within you that creativity does not exist."

On beliefs and expectations...

"You create your reality according to your beliefs and expectations, therefore you should examine these carefully. If you do not like some aspect of your world, then examine your own expectations."

"Realize that your physical experience and environment is the materialization of your beliefs. If you find great exuberance, health, effective work, abundance, smiles on the faces of those who you meet, then take it for granted that your beliefs are beneficial. If you see a world that is good, people like you, take it for granted again, that your beliefs are beneficial. But if you find poor health, a lack of meaningful work, a lack of abundance, a world of sorrow and evil, then assume your beliefs are faulty and begin examining them."

"Your world is formed in faithful replica of your own thoughts... If you think positive suggestions to yourself about a situation you send telepathic ammunition for positive use. You must learn to erase a negative thought or picture by replacing it with its opposite."

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