“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

There is a certain knack necessary on Ruburt’s part, a difference in the way in which energy is used, a variation of method between sessions in which rather objective material is presented, and in those sessions where we attempt to make a more personal type of contact.

The guests of the other evening were most advantageous, their attitudes objective; not gullible people, nor on the other hand were they the type who will not admit the results of their own experience. The woman has a large store of energy which she is using with above-average efficiency, but she also has abilities which are not being used.

The man is using his own energies less effectively, since so much of them are being consumed in nervousness. He has not learned to conserve his energies, but to use them at all it seems that he must allow them almost to explode, so that there is little reserve. This is unfortunate, but can be corrected.

The ulcer problem can indeed be solved by the personality himself. An attempt however should not be adopted by the personality, if possible, on an intense or desperate level. This, or any such too-intense effort will tend to make additional drains upon needed energy.

We may not expand this program this evening. When we do he will see that only good can come from it. It will not involve medicines or drugs. It will involve perhaps more than anything else the task of slowly changing the focus of his attention and energies, of turning energies that are being used in a self-destructive manner into constructive channels.

This is the main problem. The reason that these energies are being used against the self must and will be uncovered. I will also have, if I am asked, suggestions for the woman in their relationship, that will be most beneficial. I mentioned that the reason for the difficulty had been built up.

I am going to take this instance of your friend’s illness however to make a few points of my own, some that may not be too well received. A cure of any kind will never depend upon any given treatment. It will in all cases depend upon the belief on the part of the sufferer that he can be cured. It will depend upon his desire to be cured. It will depend upon the strength of the purpose that an illness serves. It will depend upon, in the last analysis, the individual’s own ability to mobilize his own energies, for only these will effect a cure.

Any physician of any kind can only help a sufferer mobilize these energies and direct them. A sufferer has adopted an illness into his own self-image, through suggestion, which to a large degree he himself has given. He has caused the illness, whether it be organic or otherwise, and only suggestion will rid him of it.

It is indeed quite time for us to discuss the true nature and reality of what is so loosely called suggestion. We have indeed spoken much concerning the focus of energy, and a sufferer is truly entranced with the idea of his illness, and it is only this which basically allows the illness to continue. He focuses upon it both consciously and unconsciously.

The energy that would be used to solve the problem instead is spent maintaining the illness. It is therefore necessary that an attempt be made as soon as possible to solve the problem, which of course must first be discovered by the ego, which has avoided it.

Our focus of energy is vital, both yours and mine. Expectation to a large extent determines the manner in which we will use this energy, and the types of constructions that will be formed. Your friend’s ulcer for example is his problem in its entirety, constructed into the physical matter of his own organism.