“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Last Thursday, April 15, as we were driving about Elmira on errands, Jane mentioned to me that she missed trying psychological time. She wondered when, if ever, Seth would allow her to resume. See the 140th session. Jane then received the information, she believes from Seth, to the effect that she might soon be allowed to resume psy-time, but only for fifteen-minute periods, and during the evening when I would be home with her.

I am going to deal with some personal material here this evening, pertaining to Ruburt. I have left him alone in this respect for too long. I heartily suggest that he seriously begin to tackle the smoking problem, for his health in many small but significant ways will benefit.

Also, several basic causes for this habit no longer exist in fact. I will indeed help him to some degree, but I will not do all the work for him.

Smoking represents among other things, to him, a blanket of insulation, not only between himself and exterior reality, but a blanket between himself and interior reality. He is fully capable now of operating without such insulation, and it will be most beneficial for him to dispense with it.

I expect a serious attempt to meet this problem head-on, for he can triumph in this respect. I never do insist, but this is my recommendation. You will both find the coming season to be a most beneficial one, in terms of your work, and indeed of your health.

The energy charge in this particular manuscript is not only very vivid, but well focused. It has already had a vivid effect on more people than you know.

It is most important, again, to realize that action does not move in a straight line. Action may have mass. It may not have mass in other instances. Action will never have one effect only. This is a rather important point. Whenever an action seems to have but one effect, then there is a lack in perceptive abilities.

Action within your field may appear to be affected by your time, but only that part of action which is physically materialized will be so affected. Action may appear to be at rest, but is never at rest, or stationary, or permanent. Action may appear to have a beginning and an ending but this is, again, an error of perception.

You say that an action has begun when it enters your system. You say that an action is completed when it passes beyond your system. But the action, in those terms, began long before; and the action, in those terms, is never completed. Yet even the action as it occurs within your system is constantly changing in the ways which we have described, and this changing in itself implies infinities of beginnings and endings within action itself, with no ending, a real or permanent ending, and no beginning, a real beginning out of nothing. For each beginning carries within it action which has come before.

When the inner patterns are broken the effects cease, but the inner patterns are associated by the personality with those outer habits. Indeed, the need for the habits creates the exterior habit. This is almost a mechanistic response that is confining, and indeed detrimental to expansion.