“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The validity of Dr. [Gilbert] Holloway’s advice for Brad was being discussed when Seth interjected the following.

([Brad:] “This is true of problem-solving also, is it not?”)

You think of yourself (to Brad) as a “closed physical personality”—weak and helpless—in a world that you do not understand. You do not realize that you have as much energy available to you now as Ruburt is now showing or as this voice now shows.

([Brad:] “But the proper direction of the energy is the important thing, is it not?”)

([Brad:] “Does that mean that solutions should come more from an emotional rather than a rational—?”)

(Brad then asked if he would like brandy.)

([Brad:] “Would it be of value for me to know, for example, that I had a relationship with my wife in another life?”)

([Brad:] “Assuming that I wish to be a teacher, can I create that reality by simply desiring it?”)

([Brad:] “Please explain.”)

([Brad:] “Don’t we all?”)

(During the break Brad mentioned a teaching position “so good that I don’t dare dream of actually getting it. “)

([Brad:] ‘I feel I have been dreaming too much with too little action.”)

([Brad:] “Up to the point of my early twenties I seemed to have had a purpose and a drive -and I think I was succeeding. And then all at once things disintegrated—coincidentally at the time I met my wife. Is it possible that a person can have such an effect on another?”)

([Brad:] “Am I using this in any way as an excuse for my failures? “)

(Brad said he fell immobilized—an inertia.)

([Brad:] “I feel I have much energy but I can never decide on which of the several directions in which to channel it. I am plagued by fears whenever I consider any particular direction—perhaps even the fear that I will not be able to measure up to my expectations. By not acting, I may even be excusing myself from failure: “Had I really tried, I would have succeeded.

([Brad:] “I am going to call up tomorrow and make the appointment.”)

(To Brad.) You became afraid of the inner self, and what was hidden there, and so you denied it.

([Brad:] “Why was I afraid of it?”)

Now. I will not give you what you (Brad) want, but to show Laurie what a jolly fellow I am, I will make a compromise. You must make the first step. I will be with you when you make it. I am aware, as Ruburt keeps reminding me, of your (Theodore) question. However, it is complicated in answering but not important, and this was more important.

(Present: Theodore, Sally, Laurie, Brad.)