“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Quite slowly:) You will begin with where you are and joyfully start to expand those attributes that you have now, without expecting them to appear full-blown. You will love yourself and have no difficulty in loving your neighbor. That does not mean that you must be unaware of divergences from your ideal concept of the beloved. And again, it does not mean that you must smile constantly, but that you affirm your validity and grace within the dimensions of your creaturehood.

(10:01.) You must begin to trust yourself sometime. I suggest you do it now. If you do not then you will forever be looking to others to prove your own merit to you, and you will never be satisfied. You will always be asking others what to do, and at the same time resenting those from whom you seek such aid. It will seem to you that their experience is legitimate and yours counterfeit. You will feel shortchanged.

(Pause at 10:06. Our cat, Willy, had been sick so we’d kept him with us during the session. Waking up now, he strolled over to Jane as she sat in her rocker speaking for Seth. He crouched, preparing to spring up into her lap. I called him; whereupon he chose to curl up beside me on the couch instead.

Now: Dictation: Ruburt’s own beliefs in the nature of his consciousness helped bring about these sessions.

(10:49.) Now: In ordinary terms, this book has included no esoteric instructions to help you achieve what you may think of as spiritual development or psychic expertise. Yet it is a preliminary for all of those who want to use creaturehood as a framework through which to perceive and experience other realities.

Tell yourself this often. Create your own life now, using your beliefs as an artist uses color. There is no condition that you cannot change, except one indisputably physically accepted at birth within the realms of creaturehood, such as a liability in terms of a missing organ, or a functional lack.

(11:16 p.m. Jane’s final book delivery had been quiet most of the time, and steady as usual. She was both surprised — as she remarked several times — and a bit disconsolate now that Seth’s part of the long project was through. Just a week ago she’d finished the first draft of her Introduction, so that too is underway. She had no feeling any more that Seth would do an Appendix, as we’d speculated about occasionally.

(Jane and the members of her ESP class have worked with Seth’s book practically every week during its production, and she’s also read it while alone; still, she announced, “I want to go through the entire thing now so that I can see it as a whole.” I told her I thought she’d produced a fine work.