“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(To my surprise last Friday, October 21, I received a call from an old friend, Bill Ward, with whom I used to do comic books about 1940-2. He asked me to help him, probably on a regular basis, with some work, and I said yes. The work, involving inking, arrived Sunday. Wendell Crowley is a boyhood friend of Ward’s, and also an old friend of mine; he was my editor in New York City for some years after World War II. I was working with him in the early 1950’s. Also, see Session 290.

(The festival-type thing is also good, and refers I think to the letter from Bill Ward that accompanied the art. In the letter Bill dwells upon a dinner attended by himself, Wendell Crowley, and several other old friends of mine; the dinner being held just a few days ago; at this dinner Wendell mentioned my availability to Bill Ward for free-lance artwork, and this in turn led Bill to ask me to help him out.

Now. We are speaking of probabilities, my friend. Your own wishes, expectations and attitudes gave rise to this assignment from your acquaintance, Ward. You did this quite unconsciously, and you made the contact in a dream, to your friend Crowley, sometime ago—approximately three months I believe.

(On October 15, 10 days ago, I dreamed Jane and I moved closer to New York City so I could sell my paintings—or so I wrote, rather than comics for instance. In the dream I saw a big city skyline in the distance, beyond the small town we moved to. Bill Ward—not in the dream—lives in Ridgewood, NJ, a commuter town for New York City.)

[...] He does not need to protect himself physically from any experience, nor hold up the arms to ward off the blows of fate. [...]

It is easy to see how people at the hospital, for example, speak constantly of the power of infection, the need to take steps against it before it develops, and so forth, and the little stress laid on the body’s natural ability to ward off such conditions. [...]

[...] This type of animal encounter occurs infrequently, for the animals involved would have had to ignore or short-circuit many lesser preliminary anger or initiation encounters, each meant to make positions clear and to ward off violence.

Another small point here: Christ’s dictum to turn the other cheek (Matthew 5:39, for instance) was a psychologically crafty method of warding off violence — not of accepting it. [...]

[...] She had been told by different “psychics” that she would be a psychic teacher, and various words and techniques had been given her to ward off the “evil” influence.

She felt that certain rituals or foods warded off this evil hypnotic suggestion. [...]

[...] Viruses must be warded off, as if you had no protection against them. [...]

[...] They throw off a barrage of “foul viruses”—that is, they actually collect and mobilize from within their own bodies viruses that are potentially harmful, biologically trigger these, or activate them, and send them out into the environment in self-protection, to ward off the enemy (more vigorously).

Ed[Ed]ward

(This afternoon Jane and I took my parents to the hospital in Sayre; mother for an ear examination, father to be admitted to the psychiatric ward. [...]

[...] This does not prevent the unmazed portion of the self from watching, giving helpful hints of a kind to ward off discouragement. [...]

[...] The behavior usually represents efforts to ward off “evil” that the individual feels is imminent. [...]

[...] He worked up a proportional degree of energy to ward off their influence. [...]

([Bill:] “Do you mean a circular in the graphic sense, or in the Sears or Montgomery Ward sense?”)

[...] One, occurring shortly after our sessions began, really frightened me because I was afraid that it might be precognitive, I dreamed that I was an old woman in a very poor hospital ward of some kind. [...]