Why so much suffering?

It always gives me the goose bumps every time I read Jane Roberts’ various Seth Materials. I just recently discovered ‘Seth’ yet it ‘scares’ me that we share the same thoughts and beliefs. And I even wonder where I got these ideas from. But I admit, after reading some of Jane/Seth’s books, it helped me widen my perspective about our ‘consciousness’. It made me re-member better.

One interesting discourse was about the state of the world in general. Jane and her husband, Rob, discussed that “What real sense or purpose is behind it all? Granted some part of us knows what we’re doing, still we seem hell-bent on destroying the planet, if not through war, then pollution.”

The following text is lifted from Jane Robert’s Seth Material, Chapter 20. No copyright infringement is intended but I am sharing it so that perhaps, we will understand why suffering and destruction exist.

November 6, 1968. 446th Session.

Among  other things, Seth Two said:

“The human race is a stage through which various forms of consciousness travel. Before you can be allowed into systems of reality that are more extensive and open, you must first learn to handle energy and see, through physical materialization, the concrete result of thought and emotion. As a child forms mud pies from dirt, so you form your civilizations out of thoughts and emotions, and then see what you have created.

When you leave the physical system after reincarnations, you have learned the lessons – and you are literally no longer a member of the human race, for you elect to leave it. Only the conscious self dwells within it in any case, and other portions of your identity dwell simultaneously within other training systems. In more advanced systems, thoughts and emotions are automatically and immediately translated into action, into whatever approximation of matter there exists. Therefore, the lessons must be taught and learned well.

The responsibility for creation must be clearly understood. To some extent, you are in a soundproof and isolated room. Hate creates destruction in that ‘room’, and until the lessons are learned, destruction follows destruction.

In the terms of other systems, that kind of destruction does not exist – but you believe that it does, and the agonies of the dying are sorely felt. A vivid nightmare is also sorely felt, but quickly over. It is not that you must be taught not to destroy, for destruction does not actually exist. It is that you must be taught and trained to create responsibly. Yours is a training system for emerging consciousness.

The training will serve you for existence in a variety of interrelated systems. If the sorrows and agonies within your system were not felt as real, the lessons would not be learned. The teachers within your system are those who are in their last reincarnation, and other personalities who have left the system but have been assigned to help those still within it.

You are dealing with the transformation of emotional energy into action and form. You then manipulate within the system which you have yourselves created, and by its effects learn where you have succeeded and failed. The system includes some fragment personalities who are entering for the ‘first’ time, as well as those in later reincarnations.

Humanity dreams the same dream at once, and you have your mass world. The whole construction is like and educational play in which you are the producers as well as the actors. There is a play within a play within a play. There is no end to the ‘within’ of things. The dreamer dreams, and the dreamer within the dream dreams. But the dreams are not meaningless, and the actions within them are significant. The whole self is the observer and also a participator in the roles.”  

Namaste.