SETH
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Ultimate Guide

Discover Your True Self
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Discover Your Place
in the World
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Discover How We Can
Live in Harmony

Paul M. Helfrich

NewWorldView
Castaic, California

NewWorldView, LLC
PO Box 604
Castaic, CA  91310
www.newworldview.com

Seth: the Ultimate Guide
Copyright © 2010 by Paul M. Helfrich
www.paulhelfrich.com

Cover Design: Joanne Knapp Helfrich
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All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher, except for brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. 

Library of Congress Control Number: 2010912627

First Printing: October, 2010
ISBN:  978-0-9828123-0-3

Printed in the United States on acid-free, partially recycled paper.

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“In Seth: the Ultimate Guide . . . Helfrich brings out the humanity embedded in this material; there is no claim of infallibility, no dogma of absolute truth, and no rejection of skepticism and critical thinking. Instead, the Seth material provides a framework by which people can better understand their world and how to interact with it. The vast scope of this material is impressive, and Helfrich’s organization of it is a tribute to his dedication to a formidable task, and to his articulation of the transformational potential provided by the exercises and insights that permeate these memorable texts, whatever their source.” ~ Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., co-author Personal Mythology

“Helfrich’s writing is knowledgeable and informative.  He presents the exceptional and profound psychological and spiritual teachings of Seth with clarity. Readers who do not know Seth’s work will find this an excellent introduction, and those who are familiar with Seth’s writings will find the book a useful and guide to go deeper.” ~ Arthur Hastings, Ph.D., author of With the Tongues of Men and Angels: A Study of Channeling    

 “Since the disincarnate entity Seth, along with other gifted spiritual teachers, has provided me with deeper insights into the quantum physics of the construction of the ego you may also find deeper insights into your own ego in this book.” ~ Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D., author of many books including Dr. Quantum’s Little Book of Big Ideas, Mind into Matter, and Matter into Feeling

“Paul Helfrich has, magnificently, and with perceptive awareness, captured the important socio-psychological philosophy of Jane Roberts/Seth. He has lovingly and skillfully shared a gift of significant ideas, concepts and practices that can make our lives healthy and productive.” ~ Gwendoline Y. Fortune, Ed. D., author of Weaving the Journey Noni and the Great Grands

 “Condensing any body of philosophical work into an effective and meaningful reference is always a challenge (especially with one, like this, that began with 49 volumes of source material). But Paul Helfrich has done just that in Seth: the Ultimate Guide. This concise yet comprehensive overview of the revelatory teachings of author Jane Roberts and her channeled entity Seth provides an in-depth look at the most significant lessons and insights of one of the 20th Century’s most profound yet underrated visionaries.” ~ Brent Marchant, author, Get the Picture: Conscious Creation Goes to the Movies

“Seth: the Ultimate Guide is a highly intelligent and readable presentation of the Seth material. Helfrich concisely elucidates the often complex Sethian concepts and provides a much needed new doorway into our understanding of the reaches of human consciousness.” ~ Elizabeth Cody Kimmel, author of The Boy on the Lion Throne: The Boyhood of the 14th Dali Lama

“Paul Helfrich has done a beautiful job of liberating the spiritual and psychological teachings of Seth from an earlier format that often obscured as much as it revealed. At such a critical time in human history we cannot overestimate the value of this gift re-given! Apply these lessons diligently, and expect transformative results.” ~ James Bradford Terrell, co-author of A Coaches Guide to Emotional Intelligence

 “Only a compassionate, sensitive and seasoned practitioner like Paul Helfrich could write Seth: the Ultimate Guide, a book for beginners as well as those who have long studied and valued Seth’s ideas about Consciousness and the Universe. Thank you Paul, for lighting the way to Transcendence!” ~ Joyce A. Kovelman, Ph.D., Ph.D., author of Once Upon a Soul

“I have always found the Seth material helpful for my personal growth and I have always loved the integrity of the Jane and Rob material. I endorse Paul’s book for helping create a positive context that one can examine the many ideas that Seth offers for one’s growth in this life.” ~ Charles Hauck, member of Jane’s ESP class and metaphysical teacher

“This book totally rocks! As a long time Seth reader, Paul has boiled down the core Seth concepts into one delicious book that you’ll be reading many times to experience the depth and breadth of Seth!” ~ Andy Dooley, Spiritual Comedian/Life Coach

Contents

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Foreword
INTRODUCTION
What is the Seth Material?
Why is the Seth Material Important?
Are Seth’s Ideas New?
Is the Seth Material “The Truth”?
Is Seth Starting a New Religion?
What is Channeling?
Who, or What, is Seth?
Can Anyone Else Channel Seth?
Is Seth the Only Channeled Source Available?
Toward a New Worldview
Part 1: Discover Your True Self
Chapter 1: You Are More Than Your Body! 
Who is the “You” Who Creates Your Reality?
What is the Conscious Mind?
Exercise 1—Feeling-Tones
Why are the Inner Senses Important?
Exercise 2—Psy-Time
What is Your Purpose in Life?
Exercise 3—Nine Families of Consciousness

Chapter 2: You Create Your Own Reality
A New Age Mantra, But What Does it Mean?
The Metaphysics of Reality Creation
The Physics of Reality Creation
The Biology of Reality Creation
The Psychology of Reality Creation
How Do I Get Started With Belief Work?
How Do I Change My Beliefs?
Exercise 4—The Point of Power
What Are Some Obstacles to Changing My Beliefs?
What is the Relationship between Beliefs, Thoughts,
and Emotions?
Exercise 5—Changing Beliefs: Rearrange the 
Furniture of Your Mind

Chapter 3: Love, Gender & Sex
What is Love?
What is the Difference between Gender and 
Sexual Preference?
What Do You Mean, I’m Bisexual?
What is the Relationship between Love, Devotion, 
and Sexuality?
What is the Relationship between Love and Hate?
What About Loving Self & Others?

Chapter 4: The Unlimited Power of Dreams
Why are Dreams Important?
Why Should I Explore My Dreams?
Exercise 6—Dream Recall
Exercise 7—Identify Limiting Beliefs That 
Block Dream Recall
Which Sleep and Dietary Habits Promote 
the Best Dream Recall?
What are Therapeutic Dreams?
What are True Dreams from the Gates of Horn?
What are Out-of-Body Projections?
Probable Selves and Your Dreaming Self
What are Some Other Cool Dream Experiments?

Chapter 5: Birth, Death, & Reincarnation
What Happens Before Birth?
Is Reincarnation Real?
What Happens When We Die?
What are the Mechanics of Transition?
What are Counterparts?
What about Karma?
What is Simultaneous Time?
What Exists Beyond My Entity?
What is the Point of Such a Detailed Map?
Part 2: Discover Your Place in the World
Chapter 6: “Before the Beginning” 
An Emerging Postmodern Creation Myth
The Power of Myth
Seth’s Paradox of “Before the Beginning”
In the Beginning
Sleepwalkers—Our Dream Ancestors
The Order of Play in Framework 1
The Garden of Eden: The Awakening of the Outer Ego

Chapter 7: Frameworks of Consciousness
What are Frameworks?
What is the Difference between Frameworks 1 & 2?
What are the Mechanics of Frameworks 1 & 2?
Exercise 8—Framework 2 Affirmation
What Are Master Events?
How Can I Consciously Explore Framework 2?
Exercise 9—Alpha States: Treasure Hunts into 
Framework 2

Chapter 8: The Christ Drama
What is the Christ Material?
What is the Role of the Speakers?
What are Religious Dramas About?
What are the Central Themes in the Christ Drama?
What About the Return of “Paul”?
Was Christ Really Crucified?
What Other Themes Propel the New Religious Drama?
What Does It All Mean?

Chapter 9: Lost Civilizations, A Dream City, & UFOs, Oh My! 
What Are Some of Seth’s More “Out There” Ideas?
What Unknown Civilizations Existed Before Ours?
Did Lumanian Traits Influence our Civilization?
Did Atlantis Really Exist?
What is the Dream City?
What Are Dream-Art Sciences?
Do UFOs and Extraterrestrials Exist?
Did Our Ancestors Originate on Earth?

Chapter 10: Our Animal Heritage
What Role Do Animals Play?
Why Are Cats and Geese Prominent in 
the Seth Material?
What Key Relationships Do We Share With Animals?
Do Animals Have a Soul?
Did Humans Evolve From Animals?
Is Bigfoot Real?
Why is Seth’s View of Our World So “Out There”?
Part 3: Discover How We Can Live in Harmony
Chapter 11: Sethics
What is Truth?
What is Natural Law?
What is Sethics?
How Did our Innate Moral Intuition Emerge 
from our Animal Heritage?
What Other Gifts Did We Inherit from our 
Animal Heritage?
Exercise 10—Notice and Identify Natural Grace
What About Good and Evil?
So What?

Chapter 12: Why Do Bad Things “Happen to” Good People? 
What Do You Mean I Create My Own Good and 
Bad (Evil)?
Exercise 11—Identify Beliefs in Good and Bad (Evil)
What about Incurable Diseases, Birth Defects, and 
Other Handicaps?
What about Natural Disasters?
What about Suicide?
Exercise 12—Create Your Own Healing Mindscape
Do You Create Your Own Death?

Chapter 13: The Practicing Idealist
What about Conflict, War, and Dis-ease?
Do You Live in a Safe Universe?
Exercise 13—Natural Hypnosis: Accepting Desired 
New Beliefs
What is a Practicing Idealist?
What Were the Lessons of Jonestown, Guyana?
What Were the Lessons of Three Mile Island?
What about Hitler’s Germany?
How Can You Become a Practicing Idealist?

Chapter 14: The Birth of Aspect Psychology and a New Worldview
Why is Aspect Psychology Important?
Why are Worldviews Important?
Exercise 14—Visualize Your Own Worldview/Shift Perspectives
What was the Negative Impact of Freud’s Psychology?
Why Are the Codicils Important?
Why is the God of Jane Important?
Why is the American Vision Important?
Why is Jane Roberts’s Death Important?

Chapter 15: The Secret Revealed
What is the Magical Approach?
Is the Seth Material a Religion or a Science?
What is the Secret of Reality Creation?
What is Seth’s Version of the Secret?
Which You? Which Worldview?
Epilogue
Where Do I Go From Here?
How Long Will It Take to Benefit From Practicing 
the Seth Material?
Should I Do This Alone or Within a Group?
What is the Best Order in Which to Read 
the Seth Books?
And Finally. . .

Endnotes

Glossary of Terms & Concepts

Appendix 1: The Nine Inner Senses

Appendix 2: A Jane Roberts Bibliography

Appendix 3: Seth-related Resources

Index

	

Dedicated with Love and Appreciation to Jane, Rob, Seth, And all the Speakers who inspire New Worldviews

Acknowledgments

There are many people whose creative efforts helped to inspire this book. Heart-felt thanks to Alan Aspinall, Sandy Astin, Marie Barton, Don Beck, Augustina Blake, Bill Booth, Ron Bryan, Mark Bukator, Laurel Butts, Winter Calvert, Maude Cardwell, Ron and Cathy Churchman, Hal Cook, Ed and Deejay Condon, Lynda Dahl, Lawrence Davidson, Rodney Davidson, Mary Dillman, Andy Dooley, Mary Ennis, Kaan Erdal, Sean Esbjörn-Hargens, Tom and Judy Ewing, Mary Fahey. James Ferrigno, Sean Foreman, Gwendoline Fortune, Kristen Fox, Norman Friedman, Jim Funk, George Garner, Barrie Gellis, Mark Giese, Jim and Loretta Gilbert, Ellen Gilbert, Lucy Gillis, Serge Grandbois, Arthur Hastings, Andy Hauck, John Hawkins, Judy Hensel, Bobbi Houle, Bill Ingle, Ray Irwin, Donald Johnson, Harry Johnson,  Judy Johnson, Richard Kendall, Betty Kielty, Beth Kimmel, Jon Klimo, Frank Kollins, Stanley Krippner, Bruce Lipton, Sheri and Sabrina LoBello, Andy Maleta, Bill Marshall, Randy Martin, Carter Massie, Denise Mazzocco, Dawn and Morgan McKay, John McNally, Nardine Neilson, Masahiro Nishio, Barry Noonan, Anne Marie O’Farrell, Oshara, Andrea Pair, Vicky Pendley, Billie Petty, Erin Plummer, Gregory Polson, Bob Proctor, Jan Ramsey, Mary Rouen, Elisabet Sahtouris, Tom Sherlock, Carmen Silvers, Kerstin Sjoquist, Rick Stack, Rich Stammler, Samantha Standish, Michael and Helen Steffen, Helen Stewart, Emmy van Swaaij, Linda Symans, David Tate, Clifford Taylor, Robert Tyrka, Stan Ulkowski, Robert Waggoner, Nancy and Helen Walker, Melinda Walsh, Tenzin Wangyal, Susan Watkins, Ken Wilber, Fred Alan Wolf, Maurice Wright, and Gordon Yarber.
Many thanks to the ninety-five folks who responded to my book questionnaire and provided me with invaluable feedback about which questions were the most important to ask (you know who you are!).
Big hugs to the more than five thousand intrepid souls who attended various Seth conferences, gatherings, dos, and passed through the Sethnet e-mail list since 1996. You helped me explore Seth’s ideas and challenged me to find ways to explain them.

Special thanks to:

•	Bob Friedman who believed in the need for this book.
•	George Goodenow who introduced me to Bob Friedman and has supported my work for many years.
•	Brad Reynolds, Huston Smith, and Ken Wilber for permission to use a variation of their charts on the Levels of Reality and Levels of Selfhood.
•	Carol Funk, Elena de la Peña, Joyce Kovelman, Brent Marchant, and Christopher Johnson who provided critical feedback and supported me during the dark days. 
•	Nicolas, Frieda, Leon, Mary Ann, Nick, Eric, and the rest of my family for all the love and support these many years.
•	My “partner in time”—JoRose—whose extraordinary dedication to the pursuit of excellence, creativity, and endless love made this project possible. She also edited the book and helped me find my voice. “Young love lingers so . . . .”