# Introduction If you don't know who Jane Roberts is, or who Seth is, this page may not be for you. If you know about Seth, or you want to know more about this content, I will give some context about how it came to be in my life. ## My Origin with the Seth Material My father was a seeker. His father was born into a Catholic family and when they moved to the United States they embraced the concept of religious freedom with a passion. They changed from church to church, and eventually found themselves involved to one degree or another in different "new age" religions. My father related to me about the ["I am" church](https://visitiam.com) . By the time I was in high school, Dad had a very eclectic set of beliefs. I can not recall the exact sequence of events, my family may remember it differently, but as I remember when I joined a bible study in high school to learn more about Christianity, Dad started talking to me about Seth. I should say that I had (and still have) cousins and family members who were involved in _very_ conservative Christian religions, the kind of fire and brimstone faiths that I personally find counter productive. Dad introduced me and my sister (and some of my friends) to Jane Roberts work because I think he wanted to share what he was finding in his own personal journey to find his own faith. Being an engineer, I think, like me, he just wanted to know how it all worked. My Dad made some absolutely amazing discoveries, in the sense of practices that worked for him, and for me. And for the rest of his life, I knew him to be a spiritualist, who believed in Christ (the Big Gun), but not in organized religion. In high school and early into college I read a lot. Some for fun, some to make me think. I love brain food (food for thought). One of the best philosophy books I read was "Zen and the art of Motorcycle maintenance." I also read my Suzuki GS400 from Michigan to Arizona my sophomore year in College. I had a hard time reading the bible, although I did enjoy studying it with friends. It wasn't until I had to take a "christianity course" when my wife and I got married that I actually learned the tenets of the faith. Reading the bible with friends did very little to teach me the religion. How weird. For a long time I didn't understand why the New Testament did not only consist of the four gospels (shouldn't we only listen to what Jesus said?) and why so many people like this "Paul guy". (He wasn't even there with Peter, and the other disciples in the gospels why exactly are we so excited about what he has to say?). But I also read Seth Speaks, and the Nature of Personal Reality, both books by Jane Roberts. At the time, those books _blew my mind_. They were super dense, hard to follow, but packed with so much "Brain food" I felt compelled to read them. A lot of that material I would discuss with my father and my sister and I suppose a lot of it still shapes a lot of my beliefs about spirituality, and life. If you want the light version of the Seth Material, I highly recommend reading, [Illusions](https://amzn.to/3GIEBnv) and [Johnathan Livingston Seagull](https://amzn.to/3JtpMXu) both by Richard Bach. ## The Nature of Personal Reality All of the practices I am listing here are drawn from the Book [The Nature of Personal Reality](https://amzn.to/3gKI9es). The premise of the book is that you can change your experienced or lived reality by changing your beliefs. If there is one big idea in the book (and there are many), that pertains to this concept is that _nothing is hidden from your conscious mind_. The beliefs that shape our perceived reality are readily apparent _if we look for them_. they are not buried in the subconscious. They are not hidden way in lost memory. However, they may lay unexamined in our conscious mind like forgotten furniture in our home. If you look for the beliefs that shape your life, you will find them, sitting right there, out in the open, but completely forgotten about. This happens because it is our ego that directs our attention and focus. And examining what we believe, and why we believe it is _not_ a common practice (at least for anyone I know). But if you start the process of actually documenting your beliefs, you may be surprised like I was, to discover that there are great many things you believe that could effect how you experience your life. As Seth explains, beliefs are simply powerful ideas _about_ reality, but they are not reality themselves. Like cells can form an organ, collections of ideas can, and do, form belief "structures", complex systems that shape how we perceive the world around us. I believe the whole point of the book is to make us aware of this and give us some tools to choose our beliefs more intentionally and thus, improve our experience of life. I should pass on one other note. Seth claims that emotions arise _from_ beliefs. What we believe shapes the way we feel. You may not agree with this, but it is an important for making use of the second practice. It is the kind of idea that got me thinking, why not give it a try. But first, I needed to distill the 609 page manuscript down to the actual exercises and practices Seth recommends. This was not as easy as I supposed at first. ## The Practices In Seth's books, he often gives advice, or practices to the reader. However, the way Jane Roberts, and her husband Robert Butts copied down the book, they captured not only Seth's words, but the process of how the books were created. This, while interesting, tended to leave some of the content "buried" in the middle of long passages of narrative or exposition. My attempt here is to pull out specific practices, or tools Seth recommends. Of course, being me, I also started linking what he was talking about to other, more modern books and sources that seem to support the same idea. I did this because even if you don't accept the foundations of what Seth is talking about, there is excellent supporting literature for the concept. Without further ado, here are the list of Practices. I will share the pages, as I get them complete, but I wanted to start listing them 1. [[List Your Beliefs Practice|List Your Beliefs]] - Start at the beginning, top down, what you believe and why. 2. [[Follow Your Emotions Practice|Follow Your Emotions]] - They will guide you to the beliefs that spawned them. 3. [[Point of Power Practice|The Point of Power Practice]] - Using the present moment to free yourself from your past and create your future. 4. [[Hypnotic Suggestion Practice|Self Hypnosis Practice]] - Use intentional auto-suggestion to install new beliefs directly. 5. [[Affirmation Practice]] - Mantras, cues, and reminders to tell yourself. ## References 1. It is safe to assume that any book links I post are affiliate links on Amazon (although I often forget to take this step). If you would prefer you can easily search the title of the book in Amazon and find it. 2. Note: Not all links will be available to you because I have not published all pages in my personal knowledge base. I am only publishing the ones that are relevant to this topic. The on caveat is that, this can make navigating back to this page a little difficult. My apologies.