“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now I bid you all good evening, and I bid a particular good evening to an old friend who has not been here in some time.

(To Rose C.) Now this friend would like some information, and she has wanted it for some time. Ruburt knows this also. Ruburt also knows that our friend has wondered often why the information was not given. Now let us take a moment. There were reasons, incidentally, why you were not given the information earlier and the reasons should be apparent to you, if you think about the matter for you have a tendency to brood. You brood about the experiences of this life, and then you want me to give you information about five other lives so you can brood five times as much. Now it matters not what information you are given for unless you change your attitude you will find something there to brood upon. So I will give you a few goodies and hold back some other information until you can tell me that your attitude has changed.

Now, you are here for one particular reason this evening whether you know it or not, and it is because you knew our new friends, the Greek twins (Valerie and Vanessa) and so you came when they attended class. Now you were at one time, in the same area given as for the twins, and give us a moment here. You were then a music teacher, teaching the flute mainly, but in the back of your mind you had a great plan which you were never able to bring to fruition in that particular life. And you dreamed a great dream and the dream had to do with an instrument called the piano, and you wondered how you could bring this instrument about and how it could be made and how it would work. And yet in your mind you heard the music. And when you taught the flute, in the back of your mind always, was the idea of the piano. So you tried to make the flute do things that the flute could never do.

You were a stern teacher and yet the love of music in that life sustains you often in this life. Now give us time. You were, in that life, a male. Now this was originally in a province three days away from Athens. Later your reputation spread and you moved to Athens. You had an earlier life at the time when the most important Greek plays were being written. In that life, the earlier one, you were an actor.

In the third quarter of your life there was some strong physical difficulty that prevented you from plying your trade, and during this period more and more you began to emphasize in your mind the reality of this strange instrument called the piano, and in your mind you composed for it. You were connected with a man named Aurelius. He was a statesman and you were for some time connected with his household. Your music was your god and your purpose for living. You gave it everything that you had, and in 18th-century Germany you became a well-known pianist. Now give us a moment. The name appears to be—the last name Ramburg, the first name, I believe, though I am not as certain, Marc. Now your middle name was Aurelius and it was a throwback. There was a small town near Hamburg and here you were a teacher of music, and a pianist in a school that seemed to be connected with a gymnasium or the school was called a gymnasium.

The music represented your main interest then in several lives, but behind this has always been an interest in emotions translated into some kind of creativity such as music or art; but also, at times an oversusceptibility to emotions so that they drove you, and you could find no escape from them. And you would take one emotion and follow it with great obsession until you found where it led. You were not able to separate yourself from your emotions and to some extent you are learning that now. You are learning that you must. They are not horses to drive you.

(To Louise.) Now, if you want to cough have a good one and do not feel embarrassed. There is nothing worse than trying to cough and trying not to at the same time. Now, I will let you all take a break and you may cough to your heart’s content. I did not mean to give the suggestion if you do not have to cough.

You are all portions of your own higher identity, your own multidimensional selves. Now these selves know how to heal, and in the dream state they will indeed do so if you allow them to. You carry many of your misconceptions into certain areas of your dream reality and even there you close many doors.

Now, to some extent, all of you take advantage of these abilities or you would not have physical bodies to begin with. They simply would not last that long, in your terms. But when you cannot do this for yourself, and when your own misconceptions hold you back from using your own abilities, then there are others who can reawaken your own energies and direct them to your advantage; who can meet you and speak with you when you are in more auspicious states than the one you usually call conscious— When you are at your most creative and alert, in other words, when you are asleep. These others can then speak to you and communicate with you, illuminate you as to the reasons behind your difficulty and help you erase that difficulty.

Now I will have some more to say about this but I will let you take a social break. You can even cough some more if you want.

Now, if I may say so, you have beautiful eyes (to Louise). You create them yourself. You are responsible, therefore, for them. They represent a portion of you that you are materializing in physical reality with great success. Is that, then, psychosomatic working backward?

You are aware of your body as you know it, and you form it, but this you do not yet realize. Therefore, the point I am trying to make is that you form your own illnesses and your own physical defects but you also form your entire physical being, and the good points of your physical image are also your own work. Now I will let you continue with your break.

You can get rid of all the illness when you realize that you have the habit of creating and drawing it to you out of fear. What you fear most you draw to yourself. Instead you must concentrate upon what you want and do not be so worried about where I am, just listen to what I have to say for now. You can learn to concentrate upon what you want and draw that to yourself and you can learn and without too much difficulty, to completely restructure the health habits of your family.

Now there are some past-life reasons for your attitudes and also for the profession in which you find yourself, and we will go into those. But first of all you must understand that you can draw health to yourself and vitality and strength and that you are not at the mercy of any poor crawling germs or little flying monsters that come to attack you or your family, nor are you at the mercy of any fact. Now I tell you this because there is a connection in your mind and illness becomes to you the symbol of something far different and far more profound. It becomes in your mind the symbol of evil which attacks you in your mind in small ways to small illnesses. Now, this you have created for yourself and you can cease creating it. And now go home and feel well.

Now, there are some comments I want to make.

(To Rachel) The one over here on the couch who winks at me in such an infamous manner, you also have healing abilities. In the main you direct them outward toward others and when you have a better opinion of yourself, you can use them for your own benefit. Right now you do not think you are worthy. Not only does she wink but she sniffles her nose at me. Now these are abilities you can learn to use and develop.

I have seen many starers in my day, but I have never seen a starer such as this one, and if there are holes in our poor friend Ruburt’s back, when the session is over then you had better stuff them with cotton, but know where they came from. Now when I choose to stare at you, you will know that you have been stared at. I will have more to say about healing this evening, but I am going to let you take a break so that our friend here can beat her weary way home.

If I did not care I would not spend so much time talking to you. Now, why is it that when I take the time and effort, because I like you and take your questions into consideration, that you think I do not like you. It must be that this voice is not that melodious. Now, if you had to speak through someone else instead of through your own voice box, you would find, indeed, that there were many difficulties involved and besides it is fun for me to get you so upset.

(After break:) Now, pull your chairs up closer and I will tell you a story. Closer. Our brooder too. Now, I am going to drink some of this, though it is not good brandy. It is good wine, but it is not good brandy.

Now, I will tell you a children’s tale. Once upon a merry time, on a distant star, there lived a fine people. They were not physical people, in your terms, and if you traveled to that star now in your spaceships you would not see them. You would walk through their fields and think that the land was barren. You would land in your spaceships and though the whole populous came out to greet you, you would see no one.

Now in this children’s tale pretend with me. Pretend with me that you sit here in a physical reality in one tiny unspeakably and unutterably small dot upon the physical planet called Earth. Pretend with me that you are presently sitting in a room in a town called Elmira, in a state called New York, that you are seated in a circle and that you are listening to me speak, and pretend with me that at the same time you are in a circle about me in another space and another time. Pretend with me that, in your terms, we were in another circle and in another star in a past inconceivably distant so that your physical brain cannot imagine it and that together, being nonphysical, we had a great dream. We imagined a physical reality and we imagined this moment and this time and there is no end to this children’s tale. There is never any end to a children’s tale. It is only adults that insist upon beginnings and endings. And imagine also, therefore, that within yourselves now are other far more wise selves and that within your eyes are other eyes as old as mine and other selves quite as ancient and quite as new and that these selves, within yourselves, look out at me and wink and in winking know what they know.

I will have you know I would not do such a thing and my performance right now proves I would never do such a thing as you can all tell.

Now, I am glad you liked my children’s tale. I do want to give our friend (Jane) more of a break, however, but let me tell you that in my own book I am not using children’s tales. You have been given children’s tales too often. Now they are lovely and there is meaning in them, and you here should understand the meaning of the tale I gave you. But beneath the stories of the beginning there are other things that you should know, and in my own book I will tell you what they are. And now, you see, I do not interrupt.

(To Louise.) Now, you have great energy, you simply do not know how to use it and direct it, but it is there and to some extent it is spontaneous and free. It can also be used to give comfort to others.

(To Janice.) Now, you are doing very well and making a good start. You are doing very well, indeed, in all the areas in which you have begun to achieve.