“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I am thinking of you both. However there is also a fine psychic balance upon which our sessions rest, and this balance must be maintained. Domestic tranquillity is highly important to it. The psychic partnership that exists between you and Ruburt is absolutely necessary to our sessions.

The sense data is important, you see; the new balances that your separate personalities achieve lead you both to new expansions. Each expansion however must also be accompanied by a deepening security of necessary inner isolation. For from this inner isolation, you achieve the strength to expand psychically outward. When the balance is a good one, then the outward expansion leads to inner expansion.

Physical reality is noisy, and complicated, and riotous and contradictory. Nevertheless there must also be balance, for to close yourself off too much robs you of any abundant expansion of spirit.

[...] His overall balance, or feeling of balance, does constantly change, however, as the muscular pressure pressures, or tensions, do. [...]

The entire balance and posture is in the process of the greatest beneficial alteration. [...]

Ruburt’s balance has completely changed in a week, so that his weight can now fall on his heels. [...]

[...] Eyes felt softer, etc., Then we went to take Billy to the vet’s; on the way my eyes did funny things; odd sensations involving balance I think—both of these in the car; I asked for help from “divine parent of my being,” and repeated the suggestions Seth gave me; trying not to be worried. [...] This would mean both have lengthened some; and that’s the side, the right one, I had the eye stuff and funny balance feelings on. [...]

The soreness then does not last, but in your terms the muscles must then build strength, and as this happens other muscles are also being released in their own kind of orderly fashion, so that body balance is maintained. [...]

[...] Still, it meant that the body was regaining balance, and was an important development.

[...] Some still have to be released, and the arms are also important to balance. [...]

The overall climate the other evening was highly charged, and yet well balanced. Had another emotionally-oriented person been present the balance would have been upset, and nothing would have happened. [...]

Now you two upset our balance. [...]

[...] The conflict here, in the overall, results in a good balance, though of course there will be times when this is upset.

[...] It depends upon simultaneous actuality in so many fields, and delicate balances and communications, the balances in all cases being determined by the efficiency of the communications.

[...] These forces are dealt with and balanced by the subconscious, and not by the outer ego.

It is possible to treat such disorders from a chemical standpoint, as is sometimes being done, but the acquired artificial chemical balance will in most cases not be maintained, because the inner self, the deep subconscious, has not been signaled that an error is being made. [...]

[...] Work on many physical systems is being carried on at once, while balance overall is maintained. [...]

[...] This does not mean that elation will not occur but that a balancing upswing of habitual emotion is being accomplished.

[...] The arms are important for balance, and are being released. [...] As he said once, he does not walk on his arms, so the improvement in the legs takes place in such a way that balance can be maintained. [...]

There will be definite, rather immediate changes apparent in walking, but a balanced stance must be maintained, and the entire lower region of the body is being activated. [...]

When I say that a person misinterprets sense data, I mean that the fine balance between mind and matter becomes overstrained in one direction. [...] Their reality is the result of the most precise balancing of forces so that certain mental events appear quite real, and others are peripheral. [...] If in the middle of the night, and fully awake, you believe it is sunrise in physical terms, and cannot differentiate between your personal reality and the physical one, then that balance is disturbed.

This portion of the self then can be utilized to keep the ego and the subconscious in balance. [...] This portion of the self can serve to keep you informed as to the balance and efficiency of the immediate operating personality.

[...] Its basic distrust of dream experience is necessary for the overall balance of the personality. [...]

This provides necessary balance and necessary control, and results in the sturdy anchorage of the personality in the environment in which it must survive. [...]

Again however, through this excellent balance and these fine controls, the ego will accept knowledge derived from the dream state, as a man might accept a message from a distant land in which he does not care to dwell, and whose environment would both mystify and frighten him.

[...] Tell him that he does not need the symptoms as a set of checks and balances. [...] That spontaneously, left alone without such checks and balances, he will go to the extremes.

[...] Tell him that the inner self has its own system of checks and balances. [...] Age and experience provide checks and balances of their own that he did not have earlier. [...]

The right and left sides are out of balance. [...]

Now balance has changed, so that the new beliefs outweigh the old ones and allow the body to respond.

[...] This may not occur, the unevenness, but it could as a natural situation as balance is restored.

A balance here is extremely important. There should always be this balance. [...]

Discipline then should not only be considered, as it is by some schools of thought, as a mere mental discipline over the muscles, or various portions of the body by the inner self, but indeed a discipline in terms of training of the ego by the inner self, so that the ego as a personality achieves a well-balanced relationship with the physical universe.

Legitimate, balanced psychic journeyings will result in a beneficial effect as far as the ego and its ability to handle its concerns are involved; and whenever such journeyings or investigations result in a lessening of egotistic control over circumstance then anyone so involved should instantly ask himself questions, and abruptly halt.

[...] There is a balance, equilibrium, and equanimity.

[...] She is relaxed and at peace, poised, balanced, serene, and calm. [...]

[...] Functionally, as the muscles release, balance in the legs must still be maintained. [...]

[...] Now there are countering body impulses, and a constant set of checks and balances where the mind is meant to take another look, or where the body says that the biological integrity is in jeopardy. [...]

[...] A new balance is then set up between impulse and action, that will enrich his work as .well as accelerate the body’s flexibility. [...]

[...] His reach will be good one day and poor the next as certain muscles are stronger than others, and new balances are being set up. [...] Other muscles had done double duty, so to speak, and “improper” postures were set up to maintain balance. [...]

[...] Because of the multitudinous courses open to the species, not only did the highly specific nature of many kinds of animalistic instinct no longer apply, but a curious balance had to be maintained. [...]

Viruses are alive, as I mentioned in another connection (in the 631st session in Chapter Seven), and can be beneficial or detrimental according to other balances in the body. [...]

[...] When your species sees that it is destroying other species and disrupting the natural balance, then it is consciously aware of its violation. [...]

[...] As unfortunate as a drought might seem, it is in its way responsible for the balanced proportion of moisture of the entire planet’s surface. In the same way diseases in their fashion are also often parts of larger processes whose greater purpose is the body’s overall balance and (long pause) strength.

My dear Joseph, there are indeed balances that operate. [...]

[...] Still, there are psychological balances that always operate when the overall personality gestalt is operating effectively, as it is in both of your cases.

The surviving personality has a different psychological balance. [...]