Sue Watkins and Rob’s wife, Laurel, have asked me to post this
message here from Sue about Rob’s death:

Dear Folks,

“Dear Sethian friends,

I just got informed that Rob Butts died on Monday (May 26th) of cancer.
He was 88 years old.

Many of you could already know this, but just in case I wanted to share
the information.
Although we all know that Rob just went to another reality, I’ll express
Laurel my condolences. I just need to thank Rob for everything he has
given us. Without him not a single sentence of Seth would have reached
us outside of the States and we would have had a completely different life.

I hope all is well with you.
Masa”

“The past existed in multitudinous ways. You only experience one probable past. By changing this past in your mind, now, in your present, you can change not only its nature but its effect, and not only upon yourself but others.”

Seth Speaks
Session 566, Page 231

“You have cast your idea of god, therefore, in your own image.”

Seth Speaks
Session 560, Page 203

When Augustus Two was in control of the body the chemical makeup varied considerably. It showed significant differences over Augustus`s usual hormonal status. The chemical changes were caused by the transition in beliefs that operated, and not the other way around.

The Nature Of Personal Reality, Session 629, Page 113

“In each person’s experience, there are areas with which he or she is pleased. When you find yourself dissatisfied, however, question the orders you are giving in that particular arena of experience. The results do not seem, now, to follow your conscious desires. But you will find that they do follow your conscious beliefs, which may be quite different.”

The Nature of Personal Reality
Session 659, Page 311

The experiment that would transform your world would operate upon the basic idea that you create your own reality according to the nature of your beliefs, and that all existence was blessed, and that evil did not exist in it. If these ideas were followed individually and collectively, then the evidence of your physical senses would find no contradiction. They would perceive the world and existence as good. This is the experiment that has not been tried, and these are the truths that you must learn after physical death.

Seth Speaks
Session 546, Page 192

‘‘Then, without preamble, Seth gave us the dream hint that had tripped my warning bells:

‘‘During the week, before you sleep, tell yourself – if you want to – that you will have a ‘True Dream from the Gates of Horn’,’’ he said. ‘‘Now, that is an ancient suggestion, given by the Egyptians: The Gates of Horn. I do not want to tell you what it means yet, simply to ask you to give yourselves the suggestion – those of you who want to! – for a True Dream, that will help harmonize the portions of your being. That is part of the suggestion! Ask for a True Dream that comes from the Gates of Horn, [and] that will help harmonize the portions of your being.’’

An excerpt from Sue Watkin’s book about ESP classes: Conversations With Seth, Vol. 2 by Susan Watkins. Chapter Fifteen

Further Expeditions: Out-of-Bodies and the Gates of Horn pp. 293-94

Christ spoke in terms of the father and son…the story he told to explain the relationship between the inner self and the physically alive individual.

Page 337 Seth Speaks, Session 587, Page 337

Using age as an example now, it may seem to you that you are a given age, that within your subjective experience it must be paramount, that regardless of your age you are to some extent closed off from the experience of being any other age. In some simultaneous existences you are very young, however, and in others very old. Some of your physical cells are brand new, so to speak - the regeneration of fresh life is physically within you; in your terms this is true not only until your death but even after it, when your hair and nails can still grow. Identify then with the constantly new energy alive within you in this now of your being (very intently) and realize that on all levels you are biologically and psychologically connected with that greater identity that is your own.
You may take a break.

The Nature of Personal Reality, Session 669, Page 383

Your beliefs automatically attract the appropriate emotions. They reinforce themselves through imagination; and at the risk of repeating myself, because this is so important: Imagination and feeling follow your beliefs. It is not the other way around.

The Nature of Personal Reality, Session 621, Page 69

Your reincarnational selves have as many probable lives as you do. Your beliefs and actions in your present alter “their” experiences, as each of them, in their presents, change yours. If you see these reincarnational selves as one entity, then this becomes quite natural. The whole self is changed by all of its comprehensions.

The Nature of Personal Reality, Session 668, Page 376

In terms of personality as you understand it, the individual chooses the abilities he or she will have, and the life challenges. In the present then each person has unlimited opportunity to draw upon the entity´s energy, and the understanding and powers of all of its parts. (Long pause.) It goes without saying that any human being possesses the latent ability shown by a great artist or athlete, or statesman or philosopher. Within creaturehood there are wide ranges of abilities; these may be seldom used, but they are there as practical ideals that can be expressed within that system. In the same way, every individual possesses the abilities of its entity in latent form. These too serve as practical ideals, but in a different kind of context, for you have other centuries to play with and many existences instead of one.

You often excel in situations that utterly escape you at a physical level. These accomplishments still operate through the focus of your present, since you are physically aware of but one line of probable events, so the meaning of many dream events escapes you. But in dreams you often do work quite as valid as any performed in the day, and in the dream state you meet and interact with your own reincarnational selves.

The Nature of Personal Reality, Session 668, Page 376, 377

If you remembered such a dream, therefore, you might think that it was precognitive, and that the event would become physical. Instead, the whole portent of the dream event would be an educational one, bringing your fear into clear focus.

Session 720 The Unknown Reality, Volume 2

You must watch the pictures that you paint with your imagination for you allow your imagination too full a reign. You form physical materializations of these realities within your own mind. If you imagine dire circumstances, ill health, or desperate loneliness, these will be automatically materialized, for these thoughts themselves bring about the conditions that will give them reality in physical terms. If you would have good health, then you must imagine this as vividly as in fear you imagine the opposite.
The Seth Material, page 161

“The psyche, as it is turned toward physical reality, is a creator of events, and through them it experiences its own reality as through your own speech you hear your voice.”

Session 784, Page 128, The Nature of the Psyche

Hatred does not exist as a basic psychological structure. It is, however, the result of psychological manipulation of fear; and fear is not a basic psychological structure. Survival is a basic psychological structure. Consciousness survival: construction of this basic psychological structure of consciousness survival must be interpreted, or projected or constructed, in terms of physical survival within your physical field. Inadequate perception, manipulation, or construction in the psychological structure of consciousness survival leads to the psychological creation of fear and hatred. The individual then constructs fear and hatred into physical construction, giving fear and hatred definite physical form. The error is in the original inability to perceive the correct inner data, the basic underlying psychological structure of consciousness survival.
The Early Sessions, Book 2, Session 75

To rid yourself of annoying restrictions then my dear friend, you repattern your past from the present. Whatever your circumstances, you use the past as a rich source, looking through it for your successes, restructuring it. When you search it looking for what is wrong, then you become blind to what was right, in those terms, so that the past only mirrors the shortcomings that now face you.

The Nature of Personal Reality
Session 657, Page 298

The personality creates its dreams; the dreams are then experienced. The experience is indelibly recorded, and then changes the personality, again, in the same manner that any experience would.
The Early Sessions, Book 4, Session 173, Page 164

In order to examine the reality of dreams it is necessary to change the focus of the inner self to those directions in which the inner self moves, when the ego does not limit its scope to camouflage reality only.
The Early Sessions, Book 3, Session 94, Page 51

The breath of life, so to speak, is breathed into the ego by the inner self, but from that point on the ego is independent.
The Early Sessions, Book 3, Session 126, Page 234

Today I discovered the pages of Barrie Gellis. He was a member of Jane´s ESP classes and has quite a story to tell.
His Homepage you find here: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/7723/qa.htm
It really is worth visiting…

Charles

I am not saying that every one of you must or should be healthy, wealthy and wise.
I am only addressing those here now who have effects in their lives with which they are dissatisfied.
In one manner of speaking, then, the suggestions you give yourselves constantly operate overall as beliefs that are reflected in your experience…

…Each of you will find habitual thought patterns in your own life backed up by resulting action - conditioned behavior as it were - by which you continually reinforce negative aspects, concentrate upon them to the exclusion of conflicting data, and so bring them into experience through natural hypnosis.
Session 658, Page 308

You must accept the idea completely, however, that your beliefs form your experience. Discard those beliefs that are not bringing you those effects you want.

You will find yourself with impulses that arrive in line with these newly inserted beliefs, and then it is up to you to act on these and not ignore them.
Session 658, Page 315

In those areas in which you are dissatisfied, you feel that you are powerless, or that your will is paralyzed, or that conditions continue despite what you think of as your intent. Yet if you pay attention to your own quite conscious thoughts, you will find that you are concentrating upon precisely those negative aspects that so appall you. You are hypnotizing yourself quite effectively and so reinforcing the situation. You may say, horrified, ‘What can I do? I am hypnotizing myself into my overweight condition (or my loneliness, or my poor health).’ Yet in other facets of your life you may be hypnotizing yourself into wealth, accomplishment, satisfaction - and here you do not complain. The same issues are involved. The same principles are operating. In those positive life situations you are certain of your initiative. There is no doubt. Your beliefs become reality.
In the unsatisfactory aspects, you must understand this: there is also no doubt. You are utterly convinced that you are sick, or poor, or lonely, or spiritually opaque, or unhappy.
The results, then, as easily and effortlessly follow. Natural hypnosis, in the terms given here, operates as well in one case as in the other.
What should you do, then? First of all, you must realize that you are the hypnotist. You must seize the initiative here as you have in other positive aspects of your life. Whatever the superficial reasons for your beliefs, you must say:
For a certain amount of time I will momentarily suspend what I believe in this area, and willfully accept the belief I want. I will pretend that I am under hypnosis, with myself as hypnotist and subject. For that time desire and belief will be one. There will be no conflict because I do this willingly. For this period I will completely alter my old beliefs. Even though I sit quietly, in my mind I will act as if the belief I want were mine completely.
At this point do not think of the future, but only of the present. If you are overweight, insert the weight that you think is ideal for you while you are following this exercise. Imagine that you are healthy if you have the belief that you are not. If you are lonely, believe that you are filled with the feeling of companionship instead. Realize that you are exerting your initiative to imagine such situations. Here there can be no comparison with your normal situation. Use visual data, or words - whatever is most natural to you. And again, no more than ten minutes is required.
If you do this faithfully, within a month you will find the new conditions materializing in your experience. Your neurological structure will respond automatically. The unconscious will be aroused, bringing its great powers to bear, bringing you the new results. Do not try to overdo this, to go through the entire day worrying about beliefs, for example. This can only cause you to contrast what you have with what you want. Forget the exercise when it is completed. You will find yourself with impulses that arrive in line with these newly inserted beliefs, and then it is up to you to act on these and not ignore them.
The initiative must be yours. You will never know unless you try the exercise. Now if you are in poor health, and have a physician, you had better continue going to him, because you still rely on that system of belief - but use these exercises as supplements to build up your own sense of inner health, and to protect you against any negative suggestions given by your doctor. Utilize the belief in physicians since you have it.
Session 658, Page 315

…It also contains great intuition, knowledge, and the answers to all of your questions.

A core belief is invisible only when you think of it as a fact of life, and not as a belief about life; only when you identify with it so completely that you automatically focus your perceptions along that specific line.