“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

We have had more enthusiastic responses. Now this is a preliminary. The rest will follow as you are ready for it and if you rush up in rage against me then I will leave Ruburt to face it. So listen. Now consciousness is a beautiful, personified, precarious thing. You cannot really see it or feel it or touch it and yet you know its characteristics. The cat taught you to love again and to open up again. You were also close to hiding within your home with the cat and ignoring physical reality. The love which was awakened is to be directed in other areas, and you may speak when I am finished, but for this one time I will have my say.

There is nothing wrong and much good in loving animals. However, when you love any one thing so strongly that it begins to exclude others then you need to think.

(To Rachel after break:) Now, your husband had a horror of old age. Now, give us a moment—he much preferred leaving his body when he did. He was particularly frightened at the idea of living to an old age. He feared mental disability in old age. He wanted to be free of the body before that time was reached. Now in the two lives immediately previous he stayed with the body at one time until he was 87 and at another to the age of 92 and at a time when such age was quite unusual. He determined that in this life he would leave at the height of his powers and so he did. This was not pre-determined. It was a decision that he made.

You also, however, had connections in past lives, very strong ones. Now, give us a moment here. You may ask whatever questions you have either at another class or later, but give us time to pursue this now. You were members of a group. The campfire that you have experienced in class is connected here. He was a leader of a band of men and women. You were an itinerant traveling tribe. At one time you were his son and at some time I will give you particulars, dates and places. Now I am concerned with your state of mind, not with the state in which you lived. At another time he was your daughter and you were the father. There was an over-protectiveness involved in all of your relationships, an exclusiveness. He was interested in music and the piano. He was afraid for his fingers and his hands. You had several existences together where you were involved with plants and flowers, hence, in this life, your love of flowers and the business that you had.

(To Ned.) This time I will start with you, and it is up to you this time to bring this one (Sue) along.