Seth: a lesson from childhood

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" The thoughts and beliefs that we want to rearouse are those that were

often predominant in childhood... They are spiritual, mental,

emotional and biological beliefs that are innately present in the

birth of each creature. Children believe not only that there will be a

tomorrow, and many tomorrows, but they also believe that each tomorrow

will be rewarding and filled with discovery. They feel themselves

couched in an overall feeling of security and safety, even in the face

of an unpleasant environment or situation. They feel drawn to other

people and to other creatures, and left alone they trust their

contacts with others. They have an inbred sense of self-satisfaction

and self appreciation, and they instinctively feel that it is natural

and good for them to explore and develop their capabilities.

 

They expect relationships to be rewarding and continuing, and expect

each event will have the best possible results. They enjoy

communication, the pursuit of knowledge, and they are filled with

curiosity.

All of those attitudes provide the strength and mental health that

promotes their physical growth and development. However simple those

ideas may sound to the adult, still they carry within them the needed

power and impetus that fill all of life’s parts. Later, conflicting

beliefs often smother such earlier attitudes, so that by the time

children have grown into adults they actually hold almost an opposite

set of hypotheses. These take for granted that any stressful situation

will worsen, that communication with others is dangerous, that

self-fulfillment brings about the envy and vengeance of others, and

that as individuals they live in an unsafe society, set down in the

middle of a natural world that is itself savage, cruel, and caring

only for its own survival at any cost. "

 

- Seth/Jane Roberts, Session June 3, 1984, p.248, The Way Toward

Health