“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

A mistake is when you do not know what you are doing, when momentarily, you lose sight of your goals or when you do not live up to them. You can turn a mistake into a challenge. If you make a mistake you can learn from it because you realize it is your fault. If, on the other hand, you believe an accident happens to you that you had nothing to do with, you can learn nothing from it except to duck. This was your break.

I was not particularly thinking of your work problems, but these may be used also. But you will be able to translate knowledge in technical terms and perhaps come up with some breakthroughs that scientists can understand. You will speak their language even if you have a different spirit.

(To Sue.) Now this one over here. You are doing very well, as you know, in your dream work. You are doing well in your creative work also, and in your writing. You forget there are problems you must work through, and that in the struggle to create further creativity results. If you are satisfied with less, then you do not search further. Now, Ruburt’s way is too expensive. Your way you can pay, do you see the difference? You have your own way. It is too expensive to try to follow someone else’s way, and that is the message of the dream. Also, remember your own childlike self and the two of you, when you think of your son, imagine what you were like at that age and how difficult it was to communicate to your parents.

([Rachel:] “I agree with you, I like brandy better. Now, the other night, the incident with my hand, was it my vivid imagination or something else?”)

It was a combination of several things. Now, give Ruburt back his wine, and I will tell you. First of all, there were some elements of fear combined with fear having to do with underlying fears that you are having difficulty—in the physical universe, and you acted this out with the hand. This also had to do something with the leg and the foot difficulties earlier, both being limbs and objects of manipulation in physical reality. Now, the hand also represents freedom. The incident represents two opposites. One of freedom as the hand, as a hand being able to rise. And the other, lack of freedom, as for example, the hand not being able to move. You were objectifying, in your mind, two opposites and attempting to correlate them. Do you follow me?

I said earlier that two things were involved and one was fear. I did not say the fear was justified. I also connected it up with the foot symptom. Do you follow me now?

(To Giselle.) Now, I have a remark over here and it is this. You are still, to some extent, frightened. Now, this has to do in some regard to work you did in the past when it was highly dangerous to speak of your beliefs or to remember this code of ethics. So try to allow yourself greater freedom for the two of you can work very well together. Do not be too timid. Be courageous. He can use your courage also, and you need to taste it yourself.

(To Rachel) Now, in your own description of your experience you came close to making the connections of which I spoke, for the impression of the hand frightened you, that it was so old and decrepit and, subconsciously you connected it, at that time, with your foot when it was bad. You thought immediately in terms of the hand being old and dead. If you had not, the hand would have written. You were frightened for your own physical hand and, therefore, you stopped the flow of information that could have come. It was a subconscious connection on your part. You allowed yourself the freedom to begin with but then you interpreted the appearance of your hand as the hand of a very old woman and became frightened. Now, do you understand a little more? Then, by all means, have some brandy.

We like to see happy faces. Now do you see what I was speaking of? Not the brandy, it tickles golden to our toes.

(Sue and Ned explained to Jane what Seth had said to them as parents and that Sue was overindulging Sean.)

She is, indeed, but that is not the reason for your reaction. Do not confuse the two. You are annoyed because you are annoyed and it has nothing to do with her overreaction and overindulgence. I did not say you were a bitchy parent. I was not that harsh or severe. That was your interpretation.