“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jason Hatton of Pittsburgh, PA discussed how he had developed his talents after leaving the church and wanting to use these to help others, but mainly being interested in healing. He related a dream in which he went to turn the TV set off, but it stayed on no matter how many times he clicked it off and on. He then put a lead shield over it, but this didn’t help. He lifted the shield to try again to turn the set off and out jumped a shiny, many-tattooed Buddha which started after him. Jason ran upstairs to get a gun and got the feeling the Buddha had run out into the night. Then he woke up.)

Now, I will give you the information now or later, or you may find out the information for yourself using your own abilities and sources. But those who have been princes in the Church in the past often find themselves confronted in later lives with the laws and regulations that they themselves helped form.

(To Jason.) And also because of a deep feeling of goodness and strength and courage over here, but I do not want you to distort what you are getting either. I do not want you to interpret it so strongly along certain lines. It is always when you think that you are most right that you can fall into difficulties. I believe you know this and now I will interpret your dream for it has to do with religion.

Now, the television screen represented your abilities—it transmitted the messages. In the dream you could not turn it off, and you put up a shield. Underneath you are frightened that these abilities will lead you along the paths that you have lead, that despite all your deliberations you will lead to another religion signified by the Buddha. And you are tempted at times to close these off for that reason, but you are also afraid that you have gone so far so quickly that the abilities cannot be closed off, and you cannot close the channel. You are also wondering what thing can come through the channels that you have not anticipated. You are strongly inclined, as you know, toward mystical matters. At the same time, because of your background, you also distrust mystical matters to some extent. You do not want them to pop up again in new guises.

You were also afraid that the Buddha would escape in the night, that through you, unknowingly, you could release this sort of thing outward. Now there is nothing for you to fear but remember, whenever you feel strongly, very strongly, against any given issue, there are usually more reasons behind your feelings than you know. There are always obvious reasons that you can point to, but the emotional charge that exists within you on these issues is highly important and should be examined and investigated by you in the same way, you see, that you would investigate it if you saw it in someone else. Do you follow me?

(Continuing to Jason.) Now, you did not come here for platitudes with which you are familiar. I like you. I enjoy your enthusiasm and your humor but because you have come so far here, it is also my responsibility to speak to you plainly, and so I am doing so.

You said earlier you were still learning and searching, and I am simply telling you to continue to do so and to make sure that you also search those attitudes of yours of which you are most certain. This is the portion, you see, that can so easily escape your examination. You are angry at what you have done to yourself because in a past life you had much to do with the organization that you do not now like. There is nothing of guilt in this. I am not telling you to feel guilty for the past. I am simply trying to explain to you those inner motives that also operate. What you feel is legitimate but it is also charged heavily because of your own past existence—so, if I am warning you, I am simply warning you gently. And I am smiling. I am trying to get these muscles to smile so when you listen to the recording, and if the voice sounds harsh, then remember that the mechanics are not simple either.

You have done very well. As you know, you are beginning an important venture, and that is why I want you to examine your feelings and motives now. You have done so, but you have not examined the specific attitudes of which I am speaking. You have taken them for granted as beginning in this life and as a result of this life’s experience. Now, you have always been involved with churches, and you are only now learning to relieve inner truths outward without dogma. This also has something to do, as you see, with the dream. You fear again the old bugaboo would return.

Now see, you are smiling and that is much better. This was supposed to be your break, but I could not stand such a long face over here. Now, you were a fine Irishman at one time. The good Father Aloysious Ian and it was not Ian Aloysious, it was Aloysious Ian. Father indeed. Do not look at me like that. So free yourself entirely. These words, as you listen to them later, should bring other intuitions to you and insights concerning past life experience. Free yourself. You see, while you harbor bitter feelings toward any person or any organization you are not free, and you will misinterpret your information to that degree. I am sorry I forgot to smile. That is almost an Irish smile. I will let you return, and then I will return but I had to catch him on that.

(After break to Jason.) I’m telling you what I think it is most important that you know this evening. You relate to other people, as you know, and they respond to your emotional warmth. You are good, therefore, in reading for others for this reason. You are strong, emotionally. For the same reason, however, watch your material for you will often emotionally read into it what is not there. Now, I am speaking in terms of theories. You can trust your intuitions with people. They are very strong, but you can have a tendency to emotionally color material that is not personally related to others, so simply watch yourself in that respect, that is all. Now, do you have a question?

I would not plan on the program. Now, give me a moment. I do not see it as a place you should fill. There seems to be another person involved, not on your part, but on the other party’s side. This person has a strong bearing on the other person’s thoughts. These would be highly negative simply because of your characteristics and the other person’s characteristics. These could be a smothering effect that you would try to conquer, but in doing so, there would be the tendency that you would try too hard. You would want the right things to happen, in other words. There seems to be another offer, perhaps three months in the distance, that would be much more, not only to your advantage, but to the advantage of others.

(To Dennis and Giselle.) Now, you two will be around here for some time and as we have done with the other students here, we will do you in depth. I am smiling. Why is it that with new people, I have to say I am jovial? Ruburt’s muscles do not do what I want them to do, but then they are all I have to work with and so I cannot complain. It could be worse.

Her mother was not the Mother Superior. Her mother was a poor young woman who lived and came from the same town that you did, thirteen miles from Dublin. She had an illegitimate child, a female, which she deposited at the nunnery for the nuns to care for. The child was brought up there and served in her younger years as a housekeeper doing kitchen chores and later took her vows. They were indeed enforced vows but there was no place else for her to go.

([Jason:] “Yes, but why the relationship between them now?”)

You can free yourself by letting go. You must let go without trying as hard as you have. Relax about the affair. Do not try desperately to let go. Do you see the difference, because it is important that you do. Give me a moment. You must learn to release her completely from your own thoughts, the habitual thoughts that you have concerning her you must change, even though at this point your thoughts seem completely legitimate and in line with physical reality as you know it. You must change the situation completely, for the better, in your own mind. See it change, imagine it change. Do not keep checking against the physical reality that you know to see whether or not it has changed, for particularly in the beginning, this can lead you astray or make you feel you are getting nowhere; but if you change the situation in your own mind you will change it in physical reality.

(To Sally) We will make another try. I am yanking them out of their bodies one by one, you see, and this one yells and at the last moment pulls back. You do well when you do not realize what you are doing, but I want you to become aware and to use your intellect when you are out of your body, and you cannot do it when you are scared stiff.