Saturday

The Furniture of Your Own Mind

You form your reality directly.
You react consciously and unconsciously to your beliefs.
You collect from the physical universe, and the interior one,
data that seems to correlate with your beliefs.

Believe, then, that you are a being unlimited by nature,
born into flesh to materialize as best you can
the great joy and spontaneity of your nature.

Core beliefs are those about which you build your life.
You are consciously aware of these...

Data that seems unrelated to this core belief is then not assimilated
but thrown into the corners of your mind, unused,
and you are denied the value of the information.
... inactive material.

This information will not be a part of the organized structure of your usual thoughts.

A core belief is invisible only when you think of it as a fact of life,
and not as a belief about life...

... you must become aware of your own structures.
Build them up or tear them down,
but do not allow yourself to become blind
to the furniture of your own mind...
it will help you, in fact, if you think
of your own beliefs as furniture that can be rearranged,
changed, renewed, completely discarded or replaced.

Your ideas are yours. They should not control you...

Imagine yourself then rearranging this furniture.
Images of particular pieces will come clearly to you.
Ask yourself what ideas these pieces represent.
See how well the tables fit together.
Open up the drawers inside.

You must understand that these are not simply dead ideas,
like debris, within your mind.

They are psychic matter.

In a sense then they are alive.

They group themselves like cells,
protecting their own validity and identity.

You feed them, figuratively speaking, with like ideas.

(Seth excerpts)


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