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Recentering Seth: Teachings from a Multidimensional Entity on Living Gracefully and Skillfully in a World You Create But Do Not Control
A new synthesis and expansion of the groundbreaking Seth teachings
• Reframes Jane Roberts’s Seth teachings, recentering them in the awareness that all consciousness expands in all directions
• Examines how we create our reality through our conscious beliefs but how no one controls spontaneous reality so you cannot simply will your desires into being
• Synthesizes Sethian teachings with an eclectic variety of concepts, schools, and influences, from aura reading and interpersonal engagement to Buddhism and Theosophy to nondual awareness, multipersonhood, and communication theory
The Seth books, channeled by the late Jane Roberts in the 1970s, galvanized a whole generation of spiritual explorers. The entity known as Seth turned familiar mystical concepts into a radically new framework and introduced a unique understanding of how we create our own reality with our conscious beliefs.
After nearly five decades exploring Seth’s ideas, John Friedlander has reframed the groundbreaking Seth teachings, recentering them in the awareness that all consciousness expands in all directions. He synthesizes Sethian teachings with an eclectic variety of concepts and influences, from aura reading, healing, and interpersonal engagement to Buddhism and reincarnation to conscious dying and nondual awareness. He reveals how you do create your own reality, but that no one controls reality, which is spontaneous and surprisingly creative.
• Reframes Jane Roberts’s Seth teachings, recentering them in the awareness that all consciousness expands in all directions
• Examines how we create our reality through our conscious beliefs but how no one controls spontaneous reality so you cannot simply will your desires into being
• Synthesizes Sethian teachings with an eclectic variety of concepts, schools, and influences, from aura reading and interpersonal engagement to Buddhism and Theosophy to nondual awareness, multipersonhood, and communication theory
The Seth books, channeled by the late Jane Roberts in the 1970s, galvanized a whole generation of spiritual explorers. The entity known as Seth turned familiar mystical concepts into a radically new framework and introduced a unique understanding of how we create our own reality with our conscious beliefs.
After nearly five decades exploring Seth’s ideas, John Friedlander has reframed the groundbreaking Seth teachings, recentering them in the awareness that all consciousness expands in all directions. He synthesizes Sethian teachings with an eclectic variety of concepts and influences, from aura reading, healing, and interpersonal engagement to Buddhism and reincarnation to conscious dying and nondual awareness. He reveals how you do create your own reality, but that no one controls reality, which is spontaneous and surprisingly creative.
448 pages, Paperback
Published February 15, 2022
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July 11, 2022
Recently, the idea of a multiverse where one experiences alternate selves and circumstances branching from different life choices is streaming everywhere in our collective imagination, evidenced by a spate of popular novels and movies. Into this moment and reality John Friedlander’s Recentering Seth arrives to provide a delightful exploration of this and other timely keys to our emergent consciousness that is both practical and esoteric.
The Seth Material and subsequent books, channeled by Jane Roberts and published in the 1970’s and early 80’s sold over 8 million copies and explored exciting new psychospiritual frameworks of parallel realities and “multipersonhood.” I was not the only reader who awaited each one knowing I’d be invited into exciting new sensibilities through evocative ideas about the varieties, richness and quirks of human and more-than-human consciousness. My world, and my sense of my own agency in it became infinitely more interesting. John was a student in Jane’s original classes.
Extending and building on this body of work, I find John a uniquely experienced and effective guide. He embodies in his teaching and storytelling an insatiable curiosity, a willingness to share his own learning and vulnerabilities, and a gentle irreverence that make these sometimes weighty concepts lighter and more personally relevant. In the Sethian universe that John elaborates and also channels through his own sources, ALL experience is worth exploring. And the aim and attitude is inclusion and wholeness, rather than transcendence and a de-natured “unitive” consciousness. He says, “if you understand life expanding in all directions, you will begin to understand more deeply the sacredness of every moment . . . [no] moment is less enlightened if there is no track of reality toward some apotheosis.”
John teaches how to live everyday life authentically and to the fullest. He offers accessible practices in clearing and grounding emotions and in doing work with one’s personal energies that helps us discern physical and subtle body experiences to act more “skillfully,” to use one of his favorite words, in relation to self, others, and collective events. I particularly like his emphasis on the importance of being able to engage well in difficult conversations as an evolutionary calling for our time, which involves the “very subtle and deep energy process” of working with boundaries, and being authentically kind and generous.
The book is based on transcripts from John’s classes and is organized thematically. There’s a glossary and sample exercises at the back that I’d recommend reading first if you’re not familiar with John’s frames of reference and core exercises.
The Seth Material and subsequent books, channeled by Jane Roberts and published in the 1970’s and early 80’s sold over 8 million copies and explored exciting new psychospiritual frameworks of parallel realities and “multipersonhood.” I was not the only reader who awaited each one knowing I’d be invited into exciting new sensibilities through evocative ideas about the varieties, richness and quirks of human and more-than-human consciousness. My world, and my sense of my own agency in it became infinitely more interesting. John was a student in Jane’s original classes.
Extending and building on this body of work, I find John a uniquely experienced and effective guide. He embodies in his teaching and storytelling an insatiable curiosity, a willingness to share his own learning and vulnerabilities, and a gentle irreverence that make these sometimes weighty concepts lighter and more personally relevant. In the Sethian universe that John elaborates and also channels through his own sources, ALL experience is worth exploring. And the aim and attitude is inclusion and wholeness, rather than transcendence and a de-natured “unitive” consciousness. He says, “if you understand life expanding in all directions, you will begin to understand more deeply the sacredness of every moment . . . [no] moment is less enlightened if there is no track of reality toward some apotheosis.”
John teaches how to live everyday life authentically and to the fullest. He offers accessible practices in clearing and grounding emotions and in doing work with one’s personal energies that helps us discern physical and subtle body experiences to act more “skillfully,” to use one of his favorite words, in relation to self, others, and collective events. I particularly like his emphasis on the importance of being able to engage well in difficult conversations as an evolutionary calling for our time, which involves the “very subtle and deep energy process” of working with boundaries, and being authentically kind and generous.
The book is based on transcripts from John’s classes and is organized thematically. There’s a glossary and sample exercises at the back that I’d recommend reading first if you’re not familiar with John’s frames of reference and core exercises.
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