“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You may say, “I am overweight because I feel guilty about something in my past.” You may then try to discover what the charged event was, but in such a case your trouble is a belief in guilt itself.

You do not have to carry such a belief. I am well aware that strong elements of your civilization are built upon ideas of guilt and punishment. Many of you are afraid that without a feeling of guilt there would be no inner discipline, and the world would run wild. It is running quite wild now — not despite your ideas of guilt and punishment, but largely because of them. But we will have more to say about that later in the book.

(With a smile:) I am giving this to you to show you how beliefs work.

You also believe — (humorously:) if you wish you can underline every “believe” while I am talking to you — that your main method of communication is painting; and here you are taking notes as a form of dissemination instead.

Your mother’s “condition,” you believe, involves a lack of communication. Your brother told you about her occasionally faltering speech. Now your quite conscious interpretation of an apt kind of self-punishment was a lack of hand motion. I am trying to put this simply so you can follow the connections.

(Pleasantly:) I am glad you approve.