在1967年3月26日的一堂赛斯课上，任教于波斯顿某高中的帕特也参与进来。赛斯专门为她班上的学生录制了一场演讲。

SETH’S LECTURE TO PAT'S BOSTON HIGH SCHOOL CLASS MARCH 25, 1967
Part one
Now, dear friends, there is never any justification for war, and there is never any justification for killing.
It is true that basically there is no death, but this cannot be used as an excuse within your sense-system. You have created death within your system. Since you have created it you are left to deal with it. As long as you believe that a bullet can kill a man, then it behooves you not to kill.
When you realize that a bullet cannot kill a man, then you will not need to kill. All of you have lived before, and many of you will live in physical form again. Some of you will be finished with earthly reincarnations after this life.
All of you have but one responsibility, and that responsibility is to the self. Not necessarily to the self as you know it but to the whole self. It is your responsibility, you see, to develop all your abilities. It is your responsibility to materialize within your own system your own potentials.
I am no beady-eyed spirit. I am no granddaddy longlegs of the spirit world. I have simply lived before within your system and on your planet. Unless you have read the material, it does me little good to go deeply into any specific problems or questions, since you will not have the background for this. The only message I can give you clearly is that you must develop your own abilities. You must probe into the intuitive self, for you will find much knowledge there. Books will help you, but the greater knowledge is buried within the layers of the self. You all have abilities, and you all have liabilities. Both of these come from past experiences in other lives. The inner portions of your personality know the details of your past lives. The abilities that you have now have been developed in past lives. Those problems which you cannot solve on a psychic and mental level, you will have to solve in the physical system.

You will ha*ve to work out these problems in sense data. That is why the abilities within your system are still working within the systems of war. There is no hea*ven and hell in Christian terms. However, if a personality believes strongly in the reality of hell, for some time after death he will experience the hallucination of a hell which will be of his own creation.
This will last very briefly. Hea*ven and hell, indeed, are mere representations. They represented originally intuitive insights. But no hea*ven or hell exist in those terms. There is no place within the universe or within any universe or system for them. You create reality according to your beliefs and expectations. Therefore, it behooves you to examine your beliefs and expectations very clearly.
Your lives at this point are the results of your own inner expectations. If you do not like your lives, then examine your expectations. Your future lives will be the result of your own expectations again. Change these expectations now if need be.

Every thought in one way or another is constructed by you in physical terms. You cannot escape the result of one thought. Every thought is an actuality. It affects every action and it forms your physical environment. As you sit listening to my voice, you are all subconsciously forming the physical environment of your classroom. You are forming the physical chairs. You are forming the blackboard. You are all forming reality, as you know it. Then with your physical senses, you are perceiving that which you have already so created. If you do not like what you see, then who is to blame? For these are your own constructions, formed in faithful replica to your own thoughts. We do not have the time to explain now how this is done, but in the material we have explained it. Certain telepathic connections exist which are what we term root assumptions, of which you are all telepathically aware. Using these you form a physical environment that is cohesive enough so that you can all agree with what you see and feel and smell and touch.
It is all in one respect hallucinatory, and yet it is your reality and you must deal with it. If you do not like the looks of the adult world, then you had better change your own expectations now. The world in which your parents live is a world which they created. It existed first in thought. It existed first in mental realms. It existed first as the stuff of dreams, and from this they spawned their universe, and from this they made their world.

It is the world in which you now will live, and if you will not face their problems, if you cannot solve their dilemma, it will be not their fault but your own. For you also have a hand in this. Every generation sits by. The young generation sits by, apparently helpless while the parents rule the world. But the young helpless ones mature, and they grow and they become parents. They become adults, but what about their world?
What changes do they make? How many of them, after criticizing their elders, look inward into their own hearts? How many demand that they use their own potentials? How many demand the best of themselves? And it is this that you must do. Anything less is disaster. The exploration of inner space—this is your mission. It will lead you into more exciting realms than any you can imagine. It will literally reshape and remake your world. If you see but one item within your universe and it disgusts you, then look within yourself, for you have helped create it.
You can change it in physical terms if you will. But no real change will be effected, for it will spring up again in new form. Any true progress is mental progress. You must change ideas if you would change the world. It you would end war, you must change yourself. It is the idea of war, then that you must fight.
You will find exactly what you wish to find. You will make of your lives exactly what you expect to make of your lives. The beauties that exist in your physical universe are the results of constructive and positive thought. The ugliness is a direct result of negative thought.

How many of you are ill? How many of your parents are ill? The illness is a physical materialization of an inner illness. You can rid yourself of the physical symptom perhaps, by taking medicine, but the illness will break out again and again. You can only rid yourself of such a condition by discovering the inner reason for it, by discovering the inner illness. And there are various ways of doing this.
Many of these we have discussed in our sessions, and there is no time now to tell you. Look where nothing seems to be, for no place is truly empty. Where there appears to be nothing, there will be no distortion. Within that seeming nothingness, reality can show itself if you know how to look. That which appears full, that space which appears full, is misleading, for reality is already given to a rigid form.
Anything that you can see and feel and touch exists within your own reality, yes, and within it, it is legitimate and valid. It is also highly distorted, for your physical senses are lovely liars that betray you constantly. They form reality for you, and yet the reality that they form is highly distorted; and what you see, dear friends, does not exist and you do not see what does exist.
I regret the little time that I have to speak to you. I regret also the necessary limitations put upon me by this method of communication. Nevertheless I speak to you in terms of fondest affection. The voice which we must necessarily use it unfortunately, devoid now of humor, and yet I am indeed a man of humor. I give you all indeed my blessing, for I do have blessings to give. Look around you at your surroundings. Look within your surroundings. Do not trust what you see.

此段摘自《早期课》第七册

好，亲爱的朋友们，战争从来没有正当的理由，杀戮从来没有正当的理由。
确实，从根本上说是没有死亡的，但在你们的感官系统内，这不能被用作一个借口。你们已经在你们的系统内创造了死亡。既然你们已经创造了它，就要留下来处理它。既然你相信子弹能杀死一个人，那么你理应不去杀人。
当你认识到子弹不能杀死一个人时，那么你就不需要杀人了。你们所有人都曾经活过，你们中的许多人将再次生活在物质形态中。你们中有些人会在此生之后完成地球上的轮回。
你们所有人只有一个责任，这责任就是为自己负责。不一定为你所知的自己，而是“全我”。你看，你的责任就是发展你所有的能力。你的责任就是在你们自己的系统内，实现你自己的潜能。

我不是豆眼如炬的幽灵，也不是灵界的长腿鼻祖。我只是曾在你们的系统里，在你们的星球上生活过。除非你读过赛斯资料，否则我深入于任何具体问题都无甚益处，因为你没有这种背景知识。我能明确给你的唯一讯息就是，你必须发展自己的能力。你必须探索直觉的自己，因为你会在其中发现很多知识。书本会帮助你，但更多知识埋在层层自己之内。你们都有能力，你们都有责任。能力与责任都来自过去的转世经验。你人格的内在部分知道你前世的细节。你现有的能力在前世就得到了发展。你在心灵和精神层面不能解决的问题，将不得不在物质系统内去解决。
你将不得不在感官资料里解决这些问题。这就是为什么你们的能力仍然运作在战争系统里。没有基督教所说的天堂和地狱。然而，如果一个人坚信地狱的真实性，他在死后的一段时间将体验到地狱的幻觉，而那是他自己制造的。
这将持续很短的时间。天堂和地狱，事实上仅仅是表征。他们代表了最初直觉的洞察。但并没有那样的天堂或地狱存在。在这个宇宙中，在任何宇宙及任何系统中，都没有天堂和地狱这样的地方。你根据自己的信念和期望创造了实相。因此，你理应清清楚楚地检视自己的信念和期望。

你此刻的生活是由你自己内在的期望所形成的。如果你不喜欢自己的生活，那么就去检查你的期望。你未来的生活也将由你的期望所形成。如果需要的话，现在就改变那些期望。
每一个念头都被你以这样或那样的方式，从物质的角度构建。你无法逃避一个念头带来的结果。每个念头都是一个实在。它影响每一个行动，它形成你们的物质环境。当你们坐着倾听我的声音时，你们全都在潜意识地形成这间教室的物质环境。你们在形成物质的椅子。你们在形成黑板。正如你们所知，你们全都在形成实相。然后，你们再用肉体感官去感知你们已然创造的东西。如果你们不喜欢自己所看到的，那是谁的错？因为这些都是你们自己的建构，通过忠实地复制你们自己的思想而形成。我们现在没有时间来解释这是如何做到的，但在赛斯资料里我们已有解释。存在着某些心灵感应的连接，我们称之为根本假设，那是你们全都以心灵感应的方式意识到的。运用这些，你们形成了物质环境，它有着足够的凝聚力，以至于你们都能同意你们所看到，感觉到、闻到和接触到的东西。

一方面，这全都是幻觉，但它是你们的现实，你们必须面对它。如果你们不喜欢成人世界的样子，那么最好现在就改变你们自己的期望。你们父母生活的世界是他们创造的一个世界。它首先存在于思想中。它首先存在于精神的领域。它首先作为梦而存在，由此催生了他们的宇宙，由此创造出他们的世界。
这是你们现在要生活的世界，如果你们不面对他们的问题，如果你们解决不了他们的困境，那将不是他们的错，而是你们自己的错。因为你们也在其中参了一手。每一代人都袖手旁观。当父辈统治世界时，年轻一代袖手旁观，显得很无奈。但无奈的年轻人成熟起来，为人父母，长大成人了，但他们的世界又如何呢？

他们做出了什么改变呢？他们中有多少人，在批评长辈之后，向内看进自己的内心呢？有多少人要求自己运用自身的潜能呢？又有多少人要求做最好的自己呢？而这正是你们必须做的。如果不这样做，就是灾难。探索内在空间——这是你们的使命。它将引领你们进入比你们所能想象的更令人兴奋的领域。它确实将重塑和改造你们的世界。如果你在世界上看到一样令你厌恶的事，那么就向内看，因为你已经帮忙创造了它。
如果你愿意，可以从物质上着眼来改变它。但那不会产生真正的变化，因为它将以新的形式再次出现。任何真正的进步都是精神上的进步。如果你想改变世界，就必须转变观念。如果你想结束战争，就必须改变自己。那么，对战争的理念才是你必须攻克的。

你会发现你希望找到的东西。你会按照你的期望来塑造人生。你们物质宇宙里的美是由建设性的、积极的思想形成的。而丑陋则是消极思想的直接结果。
你们有多少人生病了？你们的父母有多少生病了？疾病是内心疾病在身体上的物化。你也许可以通过服药让自己摆脱身体症状，但病情会一再爆发。你只能通过发现它的内在原因，通过发现内心的疾病，来让自己摆脱这样一种状况。而做这件事有各种方法。
许多方法我们已在赛斯课上讨论过了，而现在没有时间告诉你们。去看那好似空无一物的地方，因为没有一个地方真正是空的。那些似乎什么都没有的地方，是没有扭曲的。在那表面的虚无里，如果你知道如何寻找，实相会自行显现。而那看似被占满的地方则是一种误导，因为实相已被赋予了一种僵化的形式。
凡是你们能看到、感受到和触摸到的东西，都存在于你们自己的实相中，没错，在它之内，一切都是合理而有效的，但同时也是被高度扭曲的，因为你们的肉体感官是不断背叛你们的可爱骗子。它们为你们形成了实相，然而，它们所形成的实相却是高度扭曲的;亲爱的朋友们，你们看见的东西并不存在，而那些确实存在的东西，你们又看不到。
我很遗憾没有多少时间来对你们讲话。我也遗憾这种通讯方式加在我身上的必要限制。然而，我以最美好的感情对你们讲话。我们现在必须使用的声音，不幸地丧失了幽默感，但我的确是个幽默的人。给你们所有人我的祝福，因为我的确有祝福可给。看看你们周围的环境。在你们的环境中看。不要相信你们所看到的。
——摘译自《早期课》第七册
编译：laujenny/碧砂

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