A new synthesis and expansion of the groundbreaking Seth teachings

• Reframes Jane Roberts’s Seth teachings, recentering them in the awareness that all consciousness expands in all directions

• Examines how we create our reality through our conscious beliefs but how no one controls spontaneous reality so you cannot simply will your desires into being

• Synthesizes Sethian teachings with an eclectic variety of concepts, schools, and influences, from aura reading and interpersonal engagement to Buddhism and Theosophy to nondual awareness, multipersonhood, and communication theory

The Seth books, channeled by the late Jane Roberts in the 1970s, galvanized a whole generation of spiritual explorers. The entity known as Seth turned familiar mystical concepts into a radically new framework and introduced little known truths, including a unique understanding of how we create our own reality with our conscious beliefs. But in important ways, the Seth information hit a temporary dead end, especially through confusion about just what creating your own reality means.

After nearly 5 decades exploring Seth’s ideas, along with many other spiritual approaches, John Friedlander, a member of Jane Roberts’s original Seth classes in 1974, has reframed the groundbreaking Seth teachings, recentering them in the awareness that all consciousness expands in all directions. He synthesizes Sethian teachings with an eclectic variety of concepts, schools, and influences, from aura reading, healing, and interpersonal engagement as taught by Lewis Bostwick, to Buddhism, reincarnation, karma, and the Theosophical practice of the seven planes, to conscious dying, nondual awareness, multipersonhood, and communication theory. Sharing engaging discussions from his classes, the author examines how you do create your own reality, but that no one controls reality, which is spontaneous and surprisingly creative.

By recentering Seth in the awareness that all consciousness expands in all directions Friedlander reveals many ways to support the meaningful engagement of life as it is, bringing more pleasure not just to what is easy, but even to your tensions and contradictions.

John Friedlander holds degrees from Duke University and Harvard Law School. He began a formal meditation practice in 1970 and was introduced to Seth’s books in 1972. He attended Jane Roberts’s Seth classes in Elmira throughout much of 1974, and he studied psychic meditation and aura reading with Lewis Bostwick beginning in 1973. He is the coauthor of 3 books, The Practical Psychic, Basic Psychic Development, and Psychic Psychology. He lives in Saline, Michigan.

Editor’s Foreword:
The Big Picture by Richard Grossinger

Preface

PART ONE
A JOURNEY THROUGH CORE CONCEPTS
1 How I Teach
2 Shoulds, Have Tos, and Oughts
3 Polarity, Flow, and the Center of the Head
4 Experience, Pain, and Joy
5 Personality, Soul, and Atman
6 Reincarnation, Time, and Will Ives
7 The Driver
8 Creating Reality and Dying Consciously
9 Spacious Intellect
10 The Universe Optimizes Experience
11 Addressing Fierce Aspects of Reality
12 Overdetermination
13 Matching Your Crown
14 Life Is Meaningful Rather Than Real
15 Probabilities
16 The Dream State
17 Change History
18 Cats and Dogs
19 Camouflage Self and Multipersonhood

PART TWO
A SETHIAN APPROACH TO REALITY AND BEINGNESS
20 Nondual Awareness, Duality, Enlightenment, and Suffering
21 Seth
22 Story-Telling
23 The Origin of Individuality
24 Multipersonhood

PART THREE DESIRE, ANGER, NEUTRALITY, AND BELIEFS
25 Desire and Difficult Conversations
26 Anger
27 Neutrality
28 Whose Energy Is It?
29 Grounding Cord
30 Clearing Karma and Other Energies
31 Moving Pictures between the Astral and the Physical-Etheric
32 Creating Reality
33 Coordinate Points
34 Prophecy and Miracles

PART FOUR PICTURES
35 Difficult Conversations
36 Boundaries and Matching Pictures
37 Evil
38 Further Relationships between the Astral and Etheric

PART FIVE THE SEVEN PLANES OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND PERMANENT SEEDS
39 Planes of Consciousness
40 Permanent Seeds
41 The Etheric
42 Soul and Atman Consciousness

Conclusion: End of Class

Glossary

Sample Exercises

Index

About the Author