The Ancients

Background

Recently I’ve taken to watching the Ancient Aliens television series while doing my morning exercise regimes. It’s truly a mind expanding show if you’re at all interested in this kind of thing. In the very least, it gets you to thinking that some of this ancient archeology is just not quite what traditionalists make it out to be.

Case in point: it’s always bugged me how sharp and crisp all the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics are! Especially when one show, elsewhere, tried to show how they were made and with what tools! There was no way that they could be made with such primitive copper tools–and they knew that because it was quickly glossed over!

And that’s just one reason.

As I’ve come to gain more familiarity with the series, as much as I love it, I do part company in believing that absolutely everything they claim stems from extraterrestrial aliens (do you get my “funny” here? “STEM“!) Giorgio Tsoukalos, David Childress, and the gang all seem to fervently feel that all they’ve witnessed had to come from elsewhere.

I disagree.

My Argument

But don’t get me wrong–I do believe most of what they present, but with a caveat: I don’t think much of what they feel happened were as a result of extraterrestrial aliens. I feel another faction was also involved: ancient civilizations.

Not UFO ETs, but ancient, far-more advanced “Humans” were involved, in civilizations much farther into our past than even we know.

You see another thing that really bugs me about their series is that these guys and gals never differentiate between the different kinds of tech involved with the so-called ET aliens. There are two distinctly different technologies involved in so-call ancient events and encounters:

• Sleek high-tech, nifty Star Trekkie/Star Wars-like technology
• Present-day, brute-force fire-and-brimstone rocket-fuel-like technology

These guys never seem to realize or comment on that. I mean, they’re all quite smart and notice all kinds of other discrepancies across history, but not one of them has ever commented on this stark, in-your-face discrepancy! Do they truly not see this?

I feel that you can’t really have both, because one presupposes the other. Why would you need a brute-force launching mechanism that breathes fire and smoke and rattles the earth like an earthquake if you had quiet, sleek, smooth hyperdrives that are subtle and beautiful and sleek in design?

You wouldn’t.

Therefore the only real solution, in my humble opinion, to this would be different sets of “aliens.”

Now these different sets could be far more than what I’ll present here, but I just see it as another, unexplored consideration.

I feel that there were extremely advanced civilizations much farther into our past than ever realized. And I feel it were these civilizations that may have been responsible–and still are, to present day, for many current sightings–for the more “muscular tech” described and portrayed in the ancient writings. I also feel it were these civilizations that were involved in the more embattled scenarios described throughout history, where one faction fought another, as presented in Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians, Hindus, and other similar depictions. I feel any so-called ET aliens had gone way beyond fighting among themselves. At their level of development such acts were no longer be any kind of a consideration to them–or would result in immediate and total obliteration. I don’t feel a civilization could get to their level of advancement keeping violence in their inventory.

It would be those who are, then, the extraterrestrial aliens. They have the sleeker, more advanced technology that doesn’t involve brutish, action/reaction propulsion with all the smoke and fire ejecta.

I feel that it were these unknown ancient-ancient civilizations (even long before such people as the Atlanteans, Lumarians, etc.) that helped the known-ancient civilizations that we all know and love. It were these people who still ended up fighting amongst each other and had more “primitive” high technology.

This said, I also feel that it were some of these civilizations that then did, in fact, leave Earth for Mars and other …locations. They could very well have then also become…extraterrestrial aliens.

But…

You may well ask.

Do I believe in other ET aliens that don’t originate from Earth?

Fair question. I do not.

My reasons for this may be a bit out there, but I feel that physical existence is all about Humanity. That there is a physical (corporeal) and nonphysical (incorporeal) universe, and in the corporeal world, humans are, indeed, it. We are how incorporeal entities are manifested when they “impress” themselves upon the corporeal landscape. And we need this corporeal existence to properly learn how to control/manipulate our individual and en mass powers before progressing on to other forms of existence. That is why I feel Humanity is really all that exists in terms of “other physical beings.” It’s not just about the Drake Equation and statistics. That’s Human logic, not incorporeal, metaphysical logic. And since it’s be hard-pressed for an Human to think that way, you have to get as close to it as possible, and math and statistics is not that way, because those are physical constraints, not nonphysical ones.

That said, I do believe there are unimaginable (types and quantity) incorporeal beings out there! Beings who used to be corporeal and/or had never been corporeal that inhabit an unimaginable existence “outside” Human experience…but who do intersect with our experience. I feel all of these different experiences merge and weave throughout each other, like multi-dimensional Venn diagrams.

I also feel that there are “forces” out there who are intentionally muddying the waters and perhaps “displaying” themselves as “reptilians” or some other odd form of corporeal expression. For whatever reason(s). Non of this matters to me. I’m concerned about spiritual and philosophical growth. Not about the “toys” that are being focused upon (and I don’t mean this dismissively to those concerns with these…but that is how I look at it–it’s not the tech that’s important, to me it’s what’s behind all the tech).

It is from all of the above that all these weird events originate–in my humble opinion. I think some of the “events” were mass dreams/hallucinations/even flat-out fiction that [in/advertently] became “fact,” while others were intentionally created from these dreams and myths to be presented as fact for whatever reasons they had back then. I mean look at today: governments and secret societies make shit up all the time. They present these “stories” to the public at large to intentionally muddy their secrets and keep them as secrets. And…HUMANS being HUMANS..all over and across all Time and Space…is it that far of a leap that other humans in other times didn’t do the same exact thing we’re doing?

Yeah, So…

How did I arrive at my theory?

I have read many books on many topics over my life time: everything from the Bible to Edgar Cayce and Jane Roberts. The most neutral readings I have ever come across were from Jane Roberts and Rob Butts. Like Cayce, the information they detailed also came from a trance state, and the person involved was Jane Roberts (again, as I’ve mentioned before, all belief systems claim “inspiration” in their creation, so it’s no leap that a trance state could also be consider “inspiration”). Her husband, Rob, transcribed it all. While some transmogrification errors have been induced in some of the material (usually in the beginning and at the ending of each session), it was in these works that I found the most clarification of all-things esoteric that were NOT heavily garbed or filtered in either the belief systems of Jane and Rob or the tropes of Humankind and religion or anything else. Jane and Seth’s messages are as pure and clean as a message of this kind can possibly be. And it is even quite self-aware of this fact, sometimes even commenting when it is being somewhat filtered by Jane’s views or not. In nothing else have I found such self-awareness on the part of the messenger and/or the message, such neutrality in content.

While I never knew Jane, I did know Rob. We’d become pen pals when I was a teenager in the late 70’s and remained friends until his death in 2008. We wrote a fair amount back and forth, and he always came across as a very level-headed, thoughtful, and reasonable man. An artist he also was. He was a you or me. Solid, not flighty. Wasn’t about chants and crystal balls. Had even served in the military. I’ve read all their published works, many of their books more than once. It is in these works that I have read of what I’ve presented above and experienced in my own life hat were therefore proven to me many, many times over my life and even presented in this blog page (yes, I put it all to the test and it always came through with flying colors).

As to the ancient civilization discussion from Jane and Seth, you can search this link for a listing in several of Jane’s books. In my journey through life I’ve just further applied reason to all the “ET alien logic” that Giorgio and the Gang propose. Though they are thoughtful and serious about their work and I hope I could meet them someday, it just surprises me that they haven’t come across Jane’s work, but have mentioned Cayce’s work. They could at least mention it as a possibility, like they do with other considerations. Hopefully Seth’s work is merely an oversight on their end.

So, even if you think I’m daffed, just watch the show and make up your own mind: does it make sense that all that they’re saying is “the same”? Sure, I could be wrong, but it makes zero sense for there to be those two sets of “opposed” technology simultaneously present and so classified as described. I hope Giorgio and The Gang can reconsider their position.

Shameless plug: My novel ERO has some of the above incorporated into its story for further, more entertaining (if unnerving) reading!

The Key, By Whitley Strieber

Over this past weekend I’d read the short work by Whitley Strieber, called, The Key, about his weird encounter with a strange man, whom he’d come to call “The Master of the Key,” or, simply, “The Master.”

It was definitely in keeping with who Mr. Strieber is and the angst he continues to apparently shoulder. While the book was riveting and fascinating, it is largely couched and framed in traditional religious frameworks and symbology (except for where the being really gets into some things…), which was quite off-putting–though understandable (Mr. Strieber’s background and religious preference, so I can see how difficult it would be to reconcile such arcane knowledge with this kind of belief system). At one point he even says to the being that he feels he should worship him/her/it! He just did not get anything this being was trying to convey, which was quite frustrating (that God is in everything–including in Whitley himself, therefore you don’t need to be worshiping others…). It was sad to read, after knowing most of what Mr. Strieber has been through, as documented through his books.

Id est…

I have read many of Mr. Strieber’s works, including his Communion series. In them he quite admitted to his angst and refusal to deal with certain issues, eventually walking away from his relationship with a possibly extraterrestrial being. I have not followed him since, nor searched his site, because, frankly, I don’t know that I want to get caught up in all that again, and because of what I’ve seen in this, The Key, and the titles of his latest works. With all due respect to Mr. Strieber (we all have our journeys), he remains quite rigid in certain very critical ways, I’m sure levied upon by his chosen belief system, and this being said, I do see why any such being would have to communicate with him in similar symbology to “get through” to him. When it really comes down to it, we can only communicate with those to whom whose languages we speak.

I do have to ask a striking point: why this continued perseverance by this/ese being[s] at targeting Whitley?

Why not pursue someone more open to their messages? Less confined by their belief systems and angst who can better insert their messages out into the world (and I’m not suggesting myself–it’s obvious I am not that guy!)?

He’s constantly rejected and fought and balked at their contact and continues to have difficulty with them. Even during the discussion documented in this book, he tried to one-up the being in a couple of word games and tried to “run circles around him logically,” as Monty Python might put it. But put simply, this being wasn’t having any of it and called him out on it several times.

So, why do I think this/ese being[s] are continuing to pursue him?

I believe they’re actually related! That the being is a future version and/or form of Whitley Strieber…and is therefore never going to give up, much like a mother to a willful child.

I liked a lot about the book, and what the being said rings true with less religiously troped messages I’ve read from other such “beings.” Don’t get me wrong, I don’t claim all-perfect secret knowledge, but I have read all of one set of another’s works who also gave insight into the nature of reality “and all that,” and that person was Jane Roberts, along with her husband Rob Butts (both deceased). They both transcribed information from an entity that called itself, “Seth.” I have also read other messages from other purported entities, and none of them, including Edgar Cayce, had a more neutral and “factual” delivery that wasn’t couched in human-developed “camouflaged terms” and belief systems.

There is no one way to answer all of these issues, and it is critically important that souls of all faiths come to grips with what is going in our world. To deal with climate change, stupidly prevalent secrecy, greed, and all the other inequities that are going on out there. Or as much as the Human Race can take on.

I do not believe there will be a singular “end of the world,” however, because, as the being stated, all time happens now–simultaneously–so that being the case, if we were to obliterate ourselves, how does that fit in with everything else the being states? Don’t probabilities also exist in this simultaneous time? I have direct, personal experience with “probable realities.” What about all the myriad of probabilities existing within “all time is simultaneous”? So, to me, even if we do kill ourselves off…there are other probabilities just as real where we do not. But it is still eminently critical we take responsibility and control of our mistakes.

If I am so entirely vexed with Mr. Strieber, I have nothing against him and am actually quite impressed with the man, because for all his difficulties–including having sworn off any more such contact–he continues to try to branch out and understand and reconcile and assimilate these messages that these beings are continually trying to impress upon him. He is brave and meticulous and honest in all that he does and think. He lays it all out there. He strives to be a better Human.

In the end that’s all any of us can ever do.

Madelon Rose Logue Has Passed

I just learned yesterday that a “pen pal” friend of mine has passed. Madelon Rose Logue, known as “MRL” to her friends, died this past Monday from cancer.

I’ve lost track of how long we’d known each other, but I got to know her from the Seth conferences (I’m not really sure if the conferences in this link developed from the Colorado-based conferences; the Colorado-based conferences were more “cozy” and small, at least the one I’d attended, and the current New York City ones seem more “big budget”) and her off-the-grid The Black Sheep newsletter she put out for many years. During at least one year, the Seth conference had been held in my town, Colorado Springs, Colorado, and we got to meet.

We hit it off, and I can’t remember if I’d offered to or she’d asked, but I’d taken her on a tour of Garden of the Gods, and I believe we went out to eat afterward. We weren’t really close friends, but in every correspondence exchange she always seemed to come across that way. In my computer, I have correspondences with her going back to 2000. We wrote back and forth and she used to publish some of my short stories in her Black Sheep newsletter. I’d even called her a couple of times.

MRL was a psychic, painter, and writer…and had been working on a screenplay over the years. She’d shared parts of it in The Black Sheep. A few years back she’d given away free-for-the-asking some of her artwork that she “felt” would be “attuned” to the asker. I do have one. I thought that was very kind of her to do. She also traveled a lot, I think mainly to England and surrounds.

And she was NOT interested in anything online!

We always got along really well and I looked forward to getting her letters in the mail! Sadly, the last correspondence I had with her was August 5, 2017, and this past weekend, as I went through a bunch of my office paperwork, I’d found a whole slew of her newsletters. I went through them and a funny thing happened. As I scanned all the newsletters and read some of the articles, I noted to myself—at the time I was doing it—that I seemed to keep coming upon MRL’s “thoughts”…and this began taking on a weirdly eulogistic tone.

I kept wondering if Madelon had died! 

Yes, this kept going through my head that late morning/early Saturday afternoon. I got the weird feeling that she might have died, because (I also realized) I hadn’t heard from her in a bit.

So I wrote her a letter early Monday and sent it off. February 4, 2019. This past Monday…the day she died. I’d also sent her a copy of my latest book.

Then yesterday I received an e-mail from The Seth House informing me of her and Sue Watkins passing. I’ve looked online for an obituary, but so far nothing…though it is, admittedly, perhaps too early. It was on Facebook that I’d found out a little more, that she’d died of cancer. She was 83 years old.

She was always vibrant and energetic in all her letters and cards and I do not remember her mentioning her illness. I knew she’d mentioned other issues in the past, but I don’t recall her ever telling me about her cancer. I will miss her! She was a fun personality!

Sue Watkins I knew of, but I never interacted with her.

To both—I wish them the most wonderful adventures!

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MADELON LOGUE – December 10, 1935 – February 4, 2019 (83 Years).
Publisher of “The Black Sheep – A Seth/Jane Roberts Funzine.”

SUE WATKINS – January 8, 1945 – January 25, 2019 (74 Years).
Author of several Seth related books and longtime friend of Jane & Rob.

The Reincarnation of F. P. Dorchak

Bull Run, Virginia, Battlefield Cannon (© F. P. Dorchak, April 22, 1990)

I believe in reincarnation…or, more specifically, in the living of simultaneous lives that appear to us in this physical existence as reincarnational.

This belief has led to more than a story or two. The strongest past life is my Civil War existence. This is the one that seems to come up the most. Has the strongest effect on me. It led to the short story “Etched In Stone” (to be posted Feb 26, 2016, on my other blog site). I feel I was part of a Zouave regiment, perhaps the 5th New York. Another life that greatly impacts me is my Titanic life. I feel I died while in the steerage section of that ship. That lead to “The Death of Me.” Existences as a WWII tail gunner and a Ronin/Samurai lead to the short story “Tail Gunner” and a character, “Kioshu,” in The Uninvited. The curious thing about the WWII tail gunner existence is that I also feel I may have been an American ground troop in that war as well. Not only do images of B-17s rattle my bones, but many scenes with ground troops stir my soul quite a bit, too. So, I figure I must’ve had dual counterparts in WWII. But there’s more “military”…

Someone once told me they “saw” me as a Roman soldier. And a chiropractor I used to go to had muscle tested me and came up with 14 past lives…including yet another military life: a WWI life, which was interesting, because I’d never really felt that existence. He might have been confusing it with my WWII lives and his own “filters”…but, in any case, it was interesting (muscle testing can be influenced by the one doing the testing). Yet another World War counterpart. Clearly I’ve dabbled in the military end of things a bit. And I’m quite over it, to tell you the truth. Enough with war.

Another life I haven’t looked into much was one as a witch. A “kid witch.” In early 1984, a woman (a witch) told me she thought I’d been a kid-witch of 12 or 13 years old and had been pressed to death. She also told me that she’d been the cause of my death. I later found this in a letter I’d written to the late Jane Roberts and Rob Butts in 1984. In it I’d written that this present-day witch:

“…keeps seeing me as a coven member, and I tell her that she’s probably just seeing a probable self of me. She also says that we knew each other in a ‘past life.’ That I was a little kid-witch, about 13, and she was the death of me. Interestingly, [while with her one day] I saw an image of a young kid, about 12 – 13, being pressed to death–an agonized face. I told her this after she told me what I told you.”

Curiously, I could find no instances of a teenager being pressed to death over the Internet, so who knows what we’re really picking up on…or maybe it was done “in private”…you know, once you get past believing in any of this….

Interestingly, as a teenager I did have a weird thing happen to me that relates to the above: one day while looking for something in the Lake Clear, N.Y. garage, I had pulled some upright sheets of plywood toward me, away from the garage wall (the wall closest to the house). As I did so, I felt the plywood (this is how I thought of it then) seemingly take on a life of their own and fall into me. I pressed with all my might and was utterly helpless…and it raised a fear in me I had not experienced at that time. The entire “pile” knocked me over onto the gravel floor, all 10 or 15 or however many sheets there were, on top of me. Those suckers were heavy! It was the first time I’d felt so utterly helpless…and it felt so damned weird. I managed to get out from under them no worse for the wear, but that moment remains etched in my mind. I thought back to that later, after the witch told me the above. Also as a kid, I’d read up on the history of witchcraft, but it never really held much interest to me after reading about it…though I did get into it as an interest (not a practitioner) for a while, reading several books on it….

While visiting Maui, in 1998, with my wife, I had the following experience (taken from my diary):

“Nov 14, 1998, 1:36 p.m.

Note: While driving around, had a particularly spiritual experience, like the Manassas one, north of where we were staying [in Maui]. Laura and I drove north, to just inside that one-laned road, and we both felt that this drive felt “weird”! It was overcast, and late in the afternoon, but it was more than that. I again felt like I was straddling two worlds, and I got to thinking: oh boy, am I treading on ground I treaded before? Had Laura and I been alive in another life, past or future, here? Maybe had I been a spiritual kahuna? Had I died here in some ritual or war? It was verrrrrrrry weird….”

As much as I very much loved visiting Maui…I have absolutely no desire to  permanently live there (though am perfectly willing to go back as many times as possible!). Whatever the reason…it seems to stem from the above “weirdness” and finally made total “sense” to me.

Another interesting one is seeing images of me walking in monk-like robes over sand in a far-away (barren) land. I wonder if it’s Australia. I haven’t gotten much from this imagery.

There have been a couple of other possible lives I’ve glimpsed, but none of them are as strong and emotional as the ones mentioned above.

Now…as fascinated as I am by the lives I feel I’ve lived/am living in other realities, I don’t focus my energies so much on finding out all I can about them (i.e., “reliving” them) as in acknowledging them, listening to them when I need to, but focusing my conscious thoughts and efforts to my current existence. Those lives…those consciousnesses are elsewhere…being focused upon by the me that is there…and I need to focus on the me that is here…but acknowledging that my other selves do still exit elsewhere and are every bit as important and real as the me I am, here, writing this. Some of those lives I really don’t want to revisit anyway.

If you keep focusing on the past (or “elsewhere”), you’re never really living in the present.

I feel the important thing about learning about our past lives is that we have them and acknowledge them when we become aware of them. Send them positive energy. I feel in doing this we can enhance their lives…change them, even. Remember I believe in simultaneous lives…not so much past lives. All our lives are ongoing…and this being my belief, I feel we can all help each other out. Make our collective lives better…which therefore helps out our individual “present” lives as well. It’s all energy…and all energy is connected. As we help ourselves out…we’re also helping out everyone else.

So, while it’s cool and interesting to learn about the other lives we live…we still need to focus on our present-day lives (“Over Now,” by Alice in Chains has been playing just now, and “Say Goodbye” just popped up from Theory of a Deadman…). I feel that’s also why many of us cannot remember much about our other lives. Or why we only get bits and pieces. I feel we have built-in filters. We only get what we can “handle”…or only enough “bleed throughs” to remind us who “we are”…but not enough to cause us to focus so heavily on these other lives so as to ignore our current focus. The purpose of having a life is to live it. Live and focus on the things in front of us. That, in turn, helps us all in our overall experience of Life and growth of our soul.

And each of you all have this ability. I bet you’ve all had some weird imagery or experience you can’t readily categorize that fits into the realm of reincarnation or simultaneous lives but have dismissed it as fantasy.

Well, don’t.

Acknowledge it…send it positive, constructive energy when you get such images…and move on. It’s okay if you do ignore it/them…they happened/are happening whether or not you believe it/them…or acknowledge them (you know, given you believe in this stuff…). But they pop into your consciousness for a reason. So, why not give them their due? No one else has to know! It’s just between you and…you. And it doesn’t even matter if you’re misinterpreting what you’re “getting.” Just acknowledge the thought…the idea…it.

So this post is not just about the reincarnation of F. P. Dorchak…it’s also about the reincarnation of you.

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Remembering Jane Roberts May 8, 1929 – September 5, 1984

This is where it all started for me. Seth Speaks, by Jane Roberts, ©1972, Prentice Hall

I never was able to interact with Jane Roberts.

I’d written her back in the 80s, but—little did I know—she was already full-bore into the health problems that ended up taking her life: complications from rheumatoid arthritis. Now, what was really cool was that her husband, Rob Butts, wrote back. And from then until his death in 2008 Rob and I wrote each other. We never met—almost did—but we did talk on the phone.

Jane and Rob—and Seth—heavily influenced my life by showing me what’s behind the curtain of life. That there was more than we physically saw…and that we can see this stuff. Manipulate it. Make it work for ourselves. I found their work with the 1972 publishing of Seth Speaks. I was hooked ever since, have read all the books, multiple times for the original work in the 70s and 80s.

So, I’m remembering you, Jane! Wondering what you’re up to now! What cool adventures are you having?

I love this poem she wrote, which is in this link. I don’t normally use things without permission, but I am doing my best at attribution. I hope Laurel Butts doesn’t mind me using it, but if she does, I’ll remove it.

Here’s to you, Jane!

Death is following,
I hear his step upon the stair.
And birth is waiting,
And behind this death and birth
A million doors
Which will open and close,
Through which my image must pass.

There is always one following,
And one waiting, and none forgotten.
For the end shall overshadow the beginning,
And the shadow of the rock is the rock.
This moment is Forever, poised upon our dream.
I am born a million years and know no tomb.

© Jane Roberts
November 17, 1954

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Faux Metaphysical Interview with F. P. Dorchak, Author of Voice

The Circles of Life. (By Mariano Deheza [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons)

The following is the second part to a faux interview with me by one of the characters in my new novel, Voice. It delves into my metaphysical leanings and was removed from the main faux interview of me on my other blog, which is more about writing.

Voice: In Voice you wax philosophical. How did you get into all this New Age/metaphysical philosophy?

F. P.: New Age. My thoughts on the philosophy are similar to my thoughts on the writing of its fiction. It’s a term I’ve come to not like—and only because of all the negative connotation associated with it—otherwise, I have nothing against the term nor the “movement.” “New Age” has been around a long time. The concepts have been so associated with floozy philosophies and daisy power that I think it’s hurt the label. And since humans like to label things, I think we might need a new label—or a reeducation. But I like to think that my work can help change perceptions. Get people to be [more] introspective. Expand their awareness by considering other possibilities for why things might be. Give consideration to what might be happening in the background of our lives. Get them to not-so-easily dismiss the little “weird occurrences” that happen to our lives, for they are many! I’m not setting myself up as some guru or saying I know everything…I’m just trying to show other possibilities about why things might be.

I got into my Weltanschauung (world view), kind of interestingly. As I mentioned, I’ve always been interested in the strange and weird…the paranormal. As a youngster I had gotten these weird mailers for “occult” and supernatural books and I’d send away for them. Then one day—I had to be around 14 or so—I got a particular flyer for a book called Seth Speaks, by Jane Roberts. It totally blew my mind! It kicked ass with respect to human thought and why we were all here, and anything else you wanted to ask. It—and all of Jane’s successive books that I bought—was simply and utterly amazing. If any of this was true, man, the world changes we could effect! It was staggering! The information came from Jane Roberts, as she channeled an “energy personality essence” who called itself “Seth.” All major religious change started from some kind of inspiration, and I maintain that “channeling”—while I am highly, highly suspect of anyone who outwardly claims this, highly, highly suspicious—is no different than anyone else’s inspiration: John the Baptist or John Smith, you pick the “john,” the leader. And I’m not saying just because you’re inspired you’re right. I’m just talking pure mechanics, here. Followers and writers just call it “inspiration”—or madness. Who’s to say that inspiration isn’t channeling? That our ideas, though coming from us, our personality vessels, might not also come from something or someone deeper within? Not just God, but other “personalities” within us…nonphysical energies behind and a part of who we are? Might they not come from “world views” like has been written about in The World View of Paul Cézanne, and The Afterdeath Journal of an American Philosopher? And if this was true (which I feel it is)…isn’t it exactly how it might work? Just think outside the box for a second. Now, whether or not you should hang your hat on any of this inspiration is another story…but, again, I’m just talking about the involved mechanics…not the content of the inspiration. Inspiration can be misinterpreted. But, then again, all interpretation is highly individual…and is interpreted by individuals as it will and must be. But that still doesn’t make it “right” for others.

So I read this Seth material and was stunned by every word of it. Amazed. Even downright scared at times. I remember one day, as a kid, going to my mother and talking to her about this. I told her how scary some of it sounded, and asked her how could it be real? I don’t recall much of the conversation, but I do remember my mom being very supportive and understanding, and somehow putting me to ease. Must be a mother thing.

Voice: It is.

F. P.: So, as I grew up, I continued reading absolutely any book Jane and Seth (Jane’s husband, Rob Butts, transcribed all these books as Jane related them aloud) put out. I also studied religion—I was actually raised Roman Catholic—and philosophy. I did this both on my own and while studying in college. I was actually one class short of a philosophy minor. I decided to see if these concepts really worked. See how much of life’s questions they could answer—and I don’t mean like those simple “it’s the Devil’s work” wave-of-the-hand snippets. I needed more…and what “more” was I wouldn’t know until confronted with it. Well, what I found—and I’d actually gotten back into the traditional religious side of things for a spell—was that whether I was “religious” or wasn’t I would get what I wanted…so how could one faction be wrong and the other right? Well, these mind-bending philosophies from Jane’s books explained everything to me—or a helluva lot more than anything else out there I’d ever read before or since—including traditional eastern philosophy. Seth’s work is like a Venn Diagram: I can place absolutely every other philosophical thought or concept or issue into the answers and explanations I got from Seth/Jane’s books, but not the other way around. I used my life experience to prove these concepts and didn’t just blindly accept what I had read. I simply found that “Seth/Jane’s concepts” worked in everyday life. Whether or not she channeled the information or “made it up”—it didn’t matter to me, it all worked, and made sense to me, even if they didn’t appear to work.

Voice: Explain.

F. P.: Most of the concepts are based on us controlling and creating our own lives—not everything that is, but our physical lives. That we are the energy behind the rocks and trees and pollution, you name it. God, or as I prefer All That Is, is the energy behind us. Within us. Allowing us our lives and value fulfillment. Giving us unconditional love and support. In a nutshell. There’s a little more to it, but that’s why there’re so many books on the subject. So, when things don’t work, the philosophy explains why it doesn’t work, and there could be any of a number of reasons. For example: say you have a fear of intimacy—and most of our seeming failures, by the way, seem to be related to some kind of fear—you seem to get close to a person, but always end up breaking up…or never finding that one “perfect” person. Well, the quick and dirty explanation could be that you—not the world, not the people you’re dating and meeting—but you are the one pushing people away. You are bringing into your life situations that consciously or unconsciously reinforce your system of beliefs that (maybe) you are unworthy. Your fears are keeping you from finding who you want…not that there’s no one out there for you. The people that are coming into your life are there for their reasons as well, but this doesn’t negate that you brought your version of them into your life to begin with. You attracted them. So, the theory goes, by changing your beliefs, which is not always an easy thing to do (but should be), I’m saying you’ll change your life. We all interact with each other for our own physical and nonphysical reasons, but our own circles of influence are brought on by us…individually and en masse…not by any “external” forces or causes. We bring everything into our own lives, good and bad. Any further explanation here, gets book length, and that’s why there are so many books! The books get very detailed.

In any event, I try to incorporate aspects of all this philosophy into all I write. Sometimes it’s more obvious than others. Sometimes it’s not. Sometimes it’s sexy, as with Voice.

Voice: Well, thank you for some insight to your philosophy and how it ties into your work!

F. P.: You’re most welcome!

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In Memoriam to Jane Roberts (May 8, 1929 – September 5, 1984)

Jane Roberts, 1929 – 1984 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Today marks the 28th anniversary of the death of Jane Roberts, who, along with Rob Butts, compiled the Seth material. I didn’t personally know Jane, though had written to her when I was a kid (and, well, read most of her work). I did know her husband (he had responded to my youthful letters), and we’d corresponded for many years, until his death in 2008.

Here’s to remembering Jane and her work!

• Roberts, Jane (1956). The Red Wagon, short story. Publisher: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December edition.
• Roberts, Jane (1957). The Canvas Pyramid, short story. Publisher: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March edition.
• Roberts, Jane (1957). First Communion, short story. Publisher: First Communion Fantastic Universe, March edition.
• Roberts, Jane (1957). The Chestnut Beads, novella, (Bundu series). Publisher: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October edition.
• Roberts, Jane (1958). The Bundu, novella, (Bundu series). Publisher: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March edition.
• Roberts, Jane (1958). A Demon at Devotions, short story. Publisher: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September edition.
• Roberts, Jane (1959). Nightmare, short story. Publisher: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April edition.
• Roberts, Jane (1959). Impasse , short story. Publisher: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July edition.
• Roberts, Jane (1963). The Rebellers, novel. Publisher: Ace Books.
• Roberts, Jane (1964). Three Times Around , short story. Publisher: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May edition.
• Roberts, Jane (1966). How To Develop Your ESP Power. Publisher: Federick Fell. (Later retitled and reprinted as The Coming of Seth.) ISBN 0-8119-0379-6.
• Roberts, Jane (1970). The Seth Material. Reprinted, 2001 by New Awareness Network. ISBN 978-0-9711198-0-2 .
• Roberts, Jane and Robert F. Butts (1972). Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul. Reprinted 1994 by Amber-Allen Publishing. ISBN 1-878424-07-6.
• Roberts, Jane (1974). The Nature of Personal Reality. Prentice-Hall. Reprinted 1994, Amber-Allen Publishing. ISBN 1-878424-06-8.
• Roberts, Jane (1975). Adventures in Consciousness: An Introduction to Aspect Psychology. Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0-13-013953-X.
• Roberts, Jane (1975). Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time. Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0-13-208538-0. Poetry.
• Roberts, Jane (1976). Psychic Politics: An Aspect Psychology Book. Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0-13-731752-2.
• Roberts, Jane (1977). The “Unknown” Reality Vol. 1. Prentice-Hall. Reprinted 1997, Amber-Allen Publishing. ISBN 1-878424-25-4.
• Roberts, Jane (1979). The “Unknown” Reality Vol. 2. Prentice-Hall. Reprinted 1997, Amber-Allen Publishing. ISBN 1-878424-26-2.
• Roberts, Jane (1977). The World View of Paul Cezanne: A Psychic Interpretation. ISBN 0-13-968859-5.
• Roberts, Jane (1978). The Afterdeath Journal of An American Philosopher: The World View of William James. Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0-13-018515-9.
• Roberts, Jane (1979). Emir’s Education in the Proper Use of Magical Powers. Prentice-Hall. ISBN 1-57174-142-9. Children’s literature.
• Roberts, Jane (1979). The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression. Prentice-Hall. Reprinted 1996, Amber-Allen Publishing. ISBN 1-878424-22-X.
• Roberts, Jane (1981). The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events. Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0134572599. Reprinted 1994, Amber-Allen Publishing, ISBN 1-878424-21-1.
• Roberts, Jane (1995). The Oversoul Seven Trilogy. Amber-Allen Publishing. ISBN 1-878424-17-3. Edition: Paperback; May 1, 1995 (originally published as three separate books: The Education of Oversoul 7 (1973); The Further Education of Oversoul Seven (1979); Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time (1984).
• Roberts, Jane (1981). The God of Jane: A Psychic Manifesto. Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0-01-335749-2. Reprinted 2000, Moment Point Press. ISBN 0-9661327-5-0.
• Roberts, Jane (1982). If We Live Again, Or, Public Magic and Private Love. Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0-13-450619-7. Poetry.
• Roberts, Jane (1986). Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment. Prentice-Hall, two volumes, ISBN 0-13-219452-X and ISBN 0-13-219460-0.
• (1993). A Seth Reader. Vernal Equinox Press. Compendium edited by Richard Roberts. ISBN 0-942380-15-0.
• Roberts, Jane (1995). The Magical Approach : Seth Speaks About the Art of Creative Living. Amber-Allen Publishing. ISBN 1-878424-09-2.
• Roberts, Jane (1997). The Way Toward Health: A Seth. Robert F. Butts (Foreword), Amber-Allen Publishing. ISBN 187842430.
• Roberts, Jane (2006). The World View of Rembrandt. New Awareness Network. ISBN 0-9768978-2-2.
• Roberts, Jane (1997 and after). The Early Sessions (Sessions 1 through 510 of the Seth Material). New Awareness Network. Edited by Robert Butts. Nine volumes. ISBN 0-9652855-0-2.
• Roberts, Jane (2003). The Personal Sessions. New Awareness Network. Deleted session material. Seven volumes. ISBN 0-9711198-4-8.
• Roberts. Jane. The Early Class Sessions. New Awareness Network. Two volumes.

Thanks to Wikipedia for a listing of Jane’s work (I have not cross-checked all references, so pardon for any omissions).

Mind Games

Cover of The Way Toward Health: A Seth Book

Here’s a little game to play:  try to substitute any positive word or thought for a negative one. If you’re thinking about how many bills you have to pay, immediately change it around to “I have an abundance of wealth!”  If you’re thinking you’re not going to get that promotion or your project isn’t going to win at the Science Fair, instead change it around to “I have an abundance of success!” And don’t be looking for immediate results, what we’re doing, here, is neural rewiring! We’re changing patterns of behavior–not looking for immediate “pots of gold.”

So, see how long you can do it! If you falter…start over again!

Think it’s easy? Maybe even a waste of your time?

If our thoughts drive our actions, I think you can make the connection. But it’s also interesting to note how your thoughts, actions, and words come out of you. Think you’re really an optimist? A happy, positive person? Examining your thoughts and actions in this way can be quite eye-opening. And as we’ve all heard from psychologists and all the other great thinkers, if you think one way, it carries over into your actions. If you don’t initially believe something, yet pretend to believe that something, eventually you do come to believe it (now, sometimes the body and/or mind can “revolt” or take issue, say, perhaps with sneezing or any other bodily function, but ask yourself if this is related to some innate “push back” because of a fear of success, or change, or any other internal issue you may have–everything’s related…).

After all, if you had a choice to go through life as a happy and positive individual, wouldn’t you prefer that over being dark, dank, and depressed? Personally (and we all have our “moments,” me included), I prefer to go through life with a smile and a good word than the alternative. Greeting “Hi, how ya doin?” to all I meet, and trying to get them to smile. It’s just the way I am.

I got this “game” from a book, called The Way Toward Health, by Jane Roberts, Seth, and Robert Butts. It’s been in other forms in other books by these three, but I most recently completed rereading it and have been earnestly playing the game the past week (I’ve actually been doing this most of my life, but revitalized it recently). It’s most enlightening. But it’s also important to keep it fun, and “like” a game. Don’t get pissy or down on yourself…just observe and substitute. It’s important to remain playful!

The Way Toward Health, like all their books, is a fascinating read, the last one worked on by Jane, literally days before she passed on, on Sept 9, 1984. It may be a stretch for many (the whole Seth and channeling aspect might leave some cold…but whether or not you agree with the delivery mechanics…is the information at all useful to you?), but if you give it a chance, it might give you some different perspectives on how to “be healthy” in mind, body, and spirit.

So…what are you thinking right this moment?