“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I did not intend to go into this any more deeply tonight but it is rather interesting. And he thought he had a foolproof method of gratification, a gratification that seemed to bring no penalties as with overeating and so forth.

No. It is his tendency to gobble here that is important. He has given up in this life gobbling food and drink. In past lives he was never temperate, neither in a physical sense, emotionally or intellectually. This was not in many ways bad. However when the intemperate personality does not discriminate then the basic characteristic can cause unpleasantness. He was always very generous for example and kind, even overly kind. On the other hand he ate and drank too much. He was just overeager as a rule.

You are beginning to learn the lesson. Ruburt’s vehement anger over something that seems perhaps much more trivial, the death by shooting of the starlings, is a case in point.

(Break at 11:02. Jane was dissociated as usual. During break I puzzled over what Seth meant by saying I had done well, since I thought it a rather routine week. And we discussed Miss Callahan’s condition—we had heard from her relatives that it was deteriorating—and wondered if Seth might mention her. Resume at 11:06.)