“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

You had no problems with parents in the past, and my dear Yo-yo, you were an excellent father to me at one time, and if I may say so at one time I was an excellent father to you.

As a son you were helpful, considerate and kind. Your troubles with your present parents have absolutely nothing to do with you as a personality in any way. They involve something entirely different, problems that they themselves have not worked out in the past.

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.

(Jane had also mentioned to me yesterday a flash she had received about the self-conscious self behind the ego; this in addition to the material on Ruburt’s psychic explosions. We also discussed Seth’s remarks about financial problems. Resume at 10:09.)

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.

When you give in to it you do become immobilized to some degree, and therefore incapable of true dissociation. Then you cannot help them, and this to you then seems a further demonstration of inadequacy. The circle is vicious. I repeat: In all your past lives you dealt with the problems of both parenthood and childhood well, in relation to your own parents. This present trouble is a result of your parents’ inabilities and false conceptions, and of your own over-conscientiousness resulting from your Denmark life.

I am now in contact with your parent’s entity and he tells me that subconsciously even his present personality, that is your father, appreciates this fact and loves you deeply. He himself, that is your father’s entity, feels no pain because of the present personality’s problems, since he is working out so many necessary kinks.

Your father’s entity’s name is Arruhk, A-r-r-u-h-k. I cannot go into all the problems of his present personality. They are definite challenges that he had to face, and the overall entity is facing the majority of these in one fell swoop, for his own reasons.

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.