“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

An introductory chapter may give explanations as to how the material came about and continues. I will let you rest your hand, and I expect thanks for such practical help on my part.

(Break at 8:30. Jane was dissociated as usual, and ended the monologue with a smile. During break, I jokingly remarked that it would be a great help to us if we knew who would be interested in publishing the material. I did not expect an explicit answer.

If you do not have faith in them, who else shall be expected to? Ruburt, in fear of being thought of as an hysterical woman, does hold back at times, as is somewhat natural, and within limits necessary.

Now. Faith and belief in an idea implies some commitment. Commitment is dependent upon expectation. He who does not have expectations along certain lines will not commit himself, and will not achieve; in the particular instance he will not give enough of himself, and he will not receive, except in proportion to what he gives.

He would have been acting out of expectancy, in league with subconscious as well as conscious need, and the impetus of wanting money would have given it to him, if he closed off the other means. He did not.

Both of you, being practical, hardly considered it. For all his talk, he feared failure and your opinion of it. If you want to test the validity of expectation, then I will not say I challenge you, but I merely gently submit the above schedule.

Your own expectations, Joseph, in line with your paintings, have vastly improved, but they are not yet enough developed. I will let you rest.

You can be receiving benefits from this knowledge that you are not yet receiving. The act of faith, the act of expectation involved in what I suggest will make the difference between work that is not selling now, and work that will sell, and no magic will give the same result.

I can wave no magic wand. The expectations, and the acts of expectation that will generate the necessary emotional and psychic energy must come from you, and wholeheartedly. This will make the difference. The commitment to my book will make a difference.

You cannot get the results first for a test. It goes without saying that Ruburt’s technical abilities and know-how as a writer are developed. It is theoretically, but definitely, possible for an individual to suddenly perform an art for which he has in the past achieved no conscious knowledge or mastery, and to do it well. But usually expectations are just not that strong, and a conscious and unconscious preparation is necessary.

(The front room overlooking the water is, contrary to expectations, rather an unusual one in Provincetown, Bill said, since the cottages are rather crowded in against other buildings in somewhat of a helter-skelter fashion, and actually most of them do not command a view of the water. In this O’Toole’s cottage was out of the ordinary. The bar in the cottage has a small beer keg, Bill said, but he does not believe this is the one referred to by Seth.