"We come together in ways that we do not understand. We're composed of elements, chemicals, and atoms, and yet we speak and call ourselves by name. We organize about our inner stuff the outer stuff that coagulates into flesh and bone. Our identities or personalities spring from sources we do not know.
"Perhaps what we are has always waited, hidden in the possibilities of creation, dispersed and unknowing--in the rain and wind that swept across Europe in the thirteenth century--in the heaving mountain ranges--in the clouds that rushed through the skies of other times and places. As dust particles, we may have blown past Greek doorways. We may have been sparked on and off into consciousness and uncousciouness a million times, touched by desire, by yearnings toward creativity and perfection we barely understood.
"And so there may be others now (like Seth), also without images, but knowing--others who have been what we are and more---others who remember what we have forgotten. They may have discovered through some acceleration of consciousness other forms of being, or dimensions of reality of which we are also part.
"So we give them names who are nameless, as basically we are nameless. And we listen, but usually we try to squeeze their messages into concepts that we can understand, cloaking them in worn stereotyped images. Yet they are all about us, in the wind and trees, formed and unformed, more alive in many ways perhaps than we are--the speakers.
"Through these voices, these intuitions, these flashes of insights and messages, the universe speaks to us, to each of us personally. You are being addressed, and so am I. Learn to hear your own messages, not to distort what you hear or translate it into old alphabets.
"In class (and in life, generally,) I think we are responding to such messages, sometimes with almost childlike wisdom, forming them into dramas that are original and individualistic--dramas that arouse within us meanings that cannot be put into words.
"This may be the kind of play in which the "gods" indulge, from which creations grow, sprawling out in all directions. We may be responding to the gods in ourselves--those inner sparks of knowing that defy our own three-dimensional knowledge.
"Seth may be leading us out of our usual limitations, into another realm that is ours by right--elemental whether we are in the flesh or out of it. He may be the voice of our combined selves, saying, 'while you are conscious bodies, remember what it was like and will be like to be bodiless, to be freewheeling energy without a name but with a voice that does not need tongue, with a creativity that does not need flesh. We are yourselves, turned inside out.'"
--Jane Roberts, taken from book "Seth Speaks"
