“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Do you follow me?

([Arnold:] “Yes, I do.”)

(To Valerie.) This one was here last night and I was here and I spoke to you because I am such a friendly fellow and you do not remember. The least you all could do is say, hello, when you meet me in the middle of the night.

Do you follow me?

(To Sue.) Now for our friend, Ruburt’s edification I was indeed, old Dr. Seth speaking to you in your dream. Ruburt’s unconscious can go its own way and do its own thing and I go my way and do my own thing.

It is not. There is an association in your mind, however, between the character of Camp and your grandfather, but it is an association from this life that seems to connect them. It is also responsible for your image of the woods. This has to do with immediate psychological associations of a camp in the woods.

Now conventional religion requires tribute and so the men came to you at the door. Now you saw them hooded and with red hoods, this meant several things to you on a subconscious basis. First of all, robbers come hooded and they do not come to front doors but to side doors and to doors not usually used. They came, therefore, as hooded strangers and they were requiring tribute and you did not know whether or not the cause was legitimate or if you should contribute to it. The conventional religions were symbolized as St. Paul to you.

Now in the same kind of a dream, say two years ago, you would not have opened the side door. The connection with your aunt simply has to do with present-life connections and the terms of the house to you. Now the house, to you, represents in one way, the seat of personality also, the inviolate place and you do not open the door to strangers or give them access into the secret self unless you feel that there is a good reason.

They were indeed. You should also have a series of dreams that work out various aspects of the same problem for this is but one isolated point of your feelings. There are other feelings about the same matter that did not enter into this particular drama. When the Pope is at the side door, then what will you do?

It seems to have a dim connection for you having to do with a young woman who received on that date, a letter of an emotional import. Now I am not sure if the woman’s name was Lillian, but a Lillian was somehow connected with the event. The episode was not a traumatic one. It was simply an emotional one, a trivial incident, however, that you picked up telepathically. It sprang to your mind because of the connection of a desk with a letter.

The event was subconsciously recognized by you and had to do, I believe, with a woman with whom you worked with, whom you are at least partially involved in that you meet her now and then. She is not in the room in which you work but I believe, some two doors down or two places removed. I do not know if she is there now, but she was at that time and you met her in the hallway. It was a telepathic connection on your part that subconsciously simply came to the forefront of your mind with the date.

Ask around and see what you can find. Do not simply say, “thank you.”

(To Joel) I have a few remarks for you and it is this. You depend upon her to do all this questioning for you for it releases your mind and you can go into your trance in an easier manner. You know that she will be highly critical and, therefore, she saves you the burden, the added burden, of questioning yourself. This releases you to go into your trance. In the back of your mind the two of you have made a bargain.

Now this bargain does not only have to do with your psychic work but to your entire life situation and in a way you have the same goals but you have a division of labor that you have subconsciously decided upon. You want to be cautious, yet you want to find out what there is about the nature of reality and in this implied bargain you are the one who will make the inroads or seem to go ahead to have the freedom and spontaneity to do so. As our past sessions show in class, you also have a strong sense of responsibility. Now at this time, it seems too much to bear both at the same, and so our friend here is being the critical one for you and then you can free yourself for this trance work knowing that any questions of a critical nature that you might have will be asked by her and, therefore, you will feel free to go ahead.

It is, indeed. You are both doing work for each other.

That is a portion also of your self that you do not admit. Fears that you have. Now the fears are natural enough. You do not need to be afraid of the fears, for example. Again, it is a division of labor, she acquiesces in all this far more than she knows, as you doubt it, far more than you know. She counts on you to go ahead and to break into these inroads and to make progress as you count on her to double check your every step along the way.

The both of you may, indeed, do so. At this point it is reflected in all the areas of your life and I thought you should be aware of it. Once you are aware of it, you can change it as you want to.

I will give you one of my best when I get rid of Ruburt’s cigarette. There, now I have smiled happier smiles but someone has told jokes. I knew that would do it, it made you smile in any case.

(To Joel) And psychological contracts always change and personalities do.

Now I bid you all a fond good evening and I am smiling the best smile that I can make these features smile and if that will not do for you, you will have to wait until the sun rises in the morning.

At least I do not make noise like that.