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Free Age

20:56 / 18.11.03

Free Age

"...when people commit their beliefs to certain fields they invest heavily into these beliefs and only accept material that supports these beliefs. In that way it becomes a truth to them that defies contradiction and only seeks confirmation."

"The problem is that these truth offerings only distract you from really finding the true you and obtaining optimum health. This is why you are probably still searching for new concepts and will most likely continue to search in the future. You will never find yourself outside of your being."

"I have personally grown weary of these perceived evolved entities. They constantly refer to us as lost children but offer very little substance other than sticky jargon like "Oh Beloved Ones", etc. This places us in a saviorship mode."

"Past experience does not cause present experience. We are forming past, present, and future, simultaneously."

Etc.

I don’t know much about Seth or the other sources this person cites, but it seemed an interesting article anyway. What do you think?

21:25 / 18.11.03

I've read some of the Seth material and it's pretty good stuff. Just a lot of blunt, plainspoken stuff about how we truly create, with every little tiny conscious and subconscious thought about ourselves, our reality. This Free Age page seems interesting. Nothing too revolutionary, though, for those of us who are longtime magick students, I think. But thanks for posting this - very intruiging! I think this is cool just to get a mention of the Seth material out there.

(A from-memory off the top of my head primer: Seth was the name given to an entity that was channeled and interviewed many many times over a long period of time - a few years, I think - to this hipster/beatnik sort of woman in the late 60s, as I recall. Some friends of mine have a book of the collected Seth material and I read it while I was housesitting for them a year or two back.)

11:04 / 19.11.03

Cool! Makes a great 'primer', but as Hunterwolf says to a lot of people it's not new. I like the diagrams, very evocative of the ideas.
It does have a bit of a prescriptive flavour (This Is The Truth) but I suppose that's unavoidable when you really believe what you're writing passionately.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

15:27 / 21.11.03

Yeah, I liked the blunt, upfront quality of the writing too. Sure, to a lot of people it's not new, but new people are coming along all the time, and it never hurts to have info floating around in an accesible form for those who haven't seen it all, done it all.

What I didn't like: 'Seth' seems to define hir message in opposition to another message, which isn't always a good thing. Either the info stands on its own merits or it doesn't. Also, the "I'm right and everyone else is WRONG!" vibe is likely to alienate many.