“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The state appeared to be progressing slowly, as in the above two instances. Jane had a tendency to stay put, as she described it; that is, if she was sitting down she did not want to move, etc. She tried working. Although she could type she found herself making mistakes. I then suggested we go shopping and run our other errands earlier in the day than usual, thinking the physical activity would help.

(The state had lifted after supper. Both of us wanted to hold the session in order to learn what had happened. Jane felt she had unwittingly given herself improper suggestions during the experiment. She had also achieved a good state yesterday, Sunday; indeed, this was the first weekend during which she had tried psy-time, and she speculated that she had overdone it by experimenting for ten days in a row. I felt she had alerted her ego somehow, and that it was balking at going through the usual psy-time routine. This experience, Jane said, wasn’t very enjoyable, whereas the one of February 8 had been great fun. Today she had felt “half dissolved.”

When such focus of energy quickens, it will often then propel itself onward, having built up momentum. This is what occurred today. The ego, in anger, would not allow the suggestions made to be carried out. The energy that would have been used in what you may call, for now, astral projection, was dammed up. The difficulty lay not necessarily in the particular suggestions given. The trouble was that the energy that would have been used to carry out the suggestions was dammed up by the ego.

I did indeed contemplate putting off our session for this reason. I suggest now that you take your first break, as we will take it somewhat easy for tonight.