“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(By 8:45 Jane was nervous, but not as much as usual. The 26th session with John Bradley as a witness had done her much good; especially had the telepathy effect increased her confidence. Jane took this as a sign that she is using whatever abilities she may have, and is not practicing subconscious fraud.

(By 8:50 Jane felt definite stirrings from Seth, which pleased her because she didn’t have to wonder about how she would do this evening. I had the board set up, ready for the opening of the session. But at 8:55 Jane surprised me by beginning to dictate. And so again we did not use the board to open a session. Jane began to pace rather rapidly.)

There are many things I want to tell you tonight, and I wish to let you know that you have made certain advancements. For one thing, you may dispense with the board. You no longer require it. It was important in the beginning, but after this it served only to upset Ruburt.

(Jane and I were rather amused by Seth’s cavalier advice to keep the board. But then we had never told him these sessions began on a borrowed board. It belongs to our landlord, James Spaziani.)

You cannot of course perform such an achievement yet, but I hope that one day we may attain it. As far as I know this has not been tried on such a scale, but only because all prerequisite circumstances have not been met.

As for another advancement you have made, beside dispensing with the material board—and this advancement has to do with the so-called flashes that Ruburt has received between sessions—he has achieved a state in which he can receive inner data from me more readily. But beyond this he is now able in some small way to contact me. That is, I have contacted you in the past, and now you are gaining the ability to contact me, and this is a step forward on your part.

There must of necessity be in the beginning a distortion, but this comes because of the give and take between us. If our communications involved, or if any such communications involved invasion, there would be no distortion because the individual so invaded would be blotted out. And this is not possible.

(Break at 9:27. Jane said Seth was going strong tonight, and was apparently quite pleased. Jane had awareness of her surroundings but still felt like “taking off.” She had been pacing very fast, but her voice was little stronger than usual.

Ruburt will never sit down and deliver the material in that fashion. As I have said, the human being is more than the sum of its parts, and you two together are more than just the two of you, and you together provide the needed power for these communications to take place. But I do not want to go further into this right now. The procedure will remain the same for quite a while. Changes will not occur until you are ready and prepared for them, and the material itself will prepare you.

I cannot go further into this now because I have not given you the principles involved as yet. What we will have when this happens is a gestalt, with no lessening of your individualities at all, but a merging that will bring greater abilities.

(I had to ask Jane to repeat the last few words of the above paragraph. As soon as I did a startling thing happened: Jane began to talk in a very loud and vibrant voice. It was as though she had suddenly received an extra charge of energy. This strong but not especially deep voice persisted, but did drop somewhat in volume after a couple of hundred words. Her eyes were very dark.)

In my operations in your plane I must use the materials at hand, but despite any ideas to the contrary this involves a give and take with all involved. I know you are waiting to hear more about your own particular function, but remember we are still condemned to the use of words, and Ruburt can only say so much at a time.

Others less perfectionist than myself are content with more distortion. I am not. Ruburt’s Idea Construction was rather amazing. The inner senses provided him with much, but nevertheless the ideas contained represented an achievement of the conscious mind. I was drawn by this to realize that you were ready for me.

You, Joseph, were necessary, but we had to have this particular sort of intuitive intellect that could also deal expertly with words before we could actually begin; and it took Ruburt a long time to achieve this state because his conscious problems, and family relations and preoccupation with them, held him back.

First of all personally: You, Joseph, have acquired an unjustified sense of inferiority as far as not only your dealings with your parents are concerned, but also concerning your dealings with the outside world; and even, for what unknown reason, with your dealings with your own talent.

This experience alone with me will yield financial benefits, but not because you would naturally like it to be so, but because you are expanding, and for some other allied causes. As far as parents are concerned, face it. You were saddled with rather troublesome ones, and for reasons which I will go into sometime later; but not involving guilt of any sort.

I will go into this more deeply. Needless to say these problems have to do with you not at all, really, but with your present parents’ particular distorted way of looking at the outside world. It is basically inadequate and harmful to them, and when you judge yourself not against your own healthier ideas, but against their unhealthy attitudes, you are inadvertently judging yourself harshly.

To me this is all so obvious that I almost hesitate to mention it, but this is because I tend to forget what human existence on your plane actually involves. These are but one set of parents. As a parent yourself you performed exceedingly well, and as a son also. You see, when you really realize the sum of yourself these problems will fade entirely, but please in the meantime take my word for it.

That remark about being broke is undistorted, but it depends upon your ability to assimilate this material, and particularly the personal material, thoroughly; that is, mostly emotionally and subconsciously as well as intellectually. I am sorry I did not realize to what extent some of this problem weighed you down, or I would have covered it much earlier.

Despite the failings with which they were saddled they understand their own failings subconsciously, but neither of them can afford to admit anything in a conscious manner. In other lives they were both much happier, and that happiness sustains them now. In this life they are solving, or trying to solve, a variety of problems which have hung over them for a long time. They each have a life ahead of them on this plane. That is, one life at least. I’m not sure of the exact number. But the following lives should be relatively happy ones.

They have had six lives apiece, merely because they are particularly stubborn. But you must be able to see your relationship with them in perspective, even though I cannot go into the intertwining of all your lives in one night.

Ruburt is strongly intuitive, but basically in this life relies upon your logic and strength, and you have a good degree of both. I hope that this material will free you to use these abilities.

I can see that we will never cover the material I had planned for tonight, but it is more important that I get these ideas across to Joseph; and in so doing I am afraid I am wearing Ruburt out, in a way that I will explain at a later date.

Joseph, you have helped your parents in more ways than I can tell you now, and given them more comfort than they can consciously admit. They even to some degree resent the comfort, but this is not your fault. You saved your father’s sanity at one point, and no one else could have done it.

But you are to feel free from any rebuffs, realizing that the present personality of your father is choosing to face many hurdles at once. And in this life his failings are more apparent simply because they represent old leftover problem remnants; and you have had a lot to do with your father’s ability to face these problems all at once, so to speak.

Now, it is true that Ruburt possesses strong psychic energy, as you do. But your unjustified sense of inferiority has held you back to some degree, though I believe that this is lessening now. I am sure it is lessening. In any case Ruburt’s psychic energy becomes at times undisciplined. For reasons that I will consider later he should not feel pent in.

The combination of bedroom, workroom, living room and dining room is a bad one. If it were strictly necessary that would be one thing. But I suggest changes, although I have been leery of commenting upon such personal material. Ruburt has a basic though well-disguised need for privacy, as you do Joseph, though your need is not disguised. This is a need for privacy from the outside world that I speak of.

Ruburt is flexible to a large degree, but beneath there are prerequisites that he needs. Many of his Florida contortions had to do with a simple need, basic for him, having to do with space, orderliness and privacy. He does not speak of these as you do, but nevertheless woe if you ignore them, because he will react in an emotional explosion at best and a psychic explosion at worst.

He operates very well until these basic needs are jeopardized. I will tell you the reasons later, but regardless of his flamboyance and seeming disregard, he needs space division of certain activities, and privacy from the outside world. He deals with the outside world in a very constructive manner, provided that a division is set up between him and it so that it cannot leak through. Some illusion of an entryway would be helpful in your main room. He is extremely modest in strange ways; that is. Perhaps strange to you, Joseph, I am not sure.

You are so consciously aware of your need for privacy and you are so consciously modest, that his very strong but mostly unconscious needs in these directions sometimes go unsatisfied, since he is not as consciously aware of them.

You both are very much alike underneath the obvious differences, but Ruburt’s somewhat unrecognized needs along these lines are important. You will probably have to work out practical solutions. I hesitate to advise. If you hit upon the back room as a winter bedroom, perhaps you could purchase a secondhand rug, use plastic window covering, and maybe leave the door open. These are merely suggestions to be considered, not orders to be followed.

I am sorry that we could not cover more material but this personal data is important. Do you want to break or end the session?

His needs that I have spoken of are really fears, which is why I took so much time to discuss them. He is unpredictable in that he is temperamentally good-natured, but you never know when the rocks will fly, and neither does he. Added to this is his strong domestic feelings now as a woman; and this, my dear Joseph, explains the incredible amount of furniture movings in which you have been involved.

Any arrangements you can think of that will satisfy some of these needs are worth it. If Ruburt had his way, something would shield you both when the door was opened from the hallway. He does not even like to partake of food in full viewpoint of others. The corner working space, any corner working space, pleases him, because it provides a place for the collection of psychic energy, and also serves as protection to his way of seeing things. It is too bad you cannot eat in your kitchen, but I believe something can be worked out with that arrangement as it exists.

Ruburt’s grandfather says that you are both two fine kiddos, and I heartily agree. My dear friends, I am with you more often than you know. You are both making many advancements, and tonight’s material will help both of you in many ways. I dislike leaving you, but know that you must be tired. One small word to Ruburt: he will stop smoking and he knows it. I have not pressed this issue.

One more word because of your discussion. The dangerous psychic explosions that I spoke of as being possible are very real possibilities, and involve even chemical changes in Ruburt’s own body; and I do suggest that you make some changes, either by returning to your regular workroom, Joseph, or by making the porch room into a temporary bedroom. Ruburt is unpredictable so I cannot predict what guise such an explosion might take, but it would be definitely dangerous and strong.