“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Shortly after the mass began, I became aware of what seemed to be solid but invisible waves that beat against both ears externally. An analogy would be cupped hands clapping against my ears. An extremely rich thrilling suffused my head, then quickly spread to various parts of my body, not evenly by any means. I tried to increase the sensation by concentrating, for instance, on hearing the sound with my left knee when the sensation was strong there, but did not succeed especially. I was reminded of this by the 154th session, dealing with the body’s generalized ability to receive stimuli.

(Last Saturday, June 19, Jane received a brief communication from Seth while going about her household chores. Her thoughts had touched upon the sessions dealing recently with Bill Gallagher’s ulcer. Jane thought, idly, that some foods would not be practical for Bill to eat. She then received the brief message from Seth, to the effect that our ideas of practicality are often hardly practical.

It is important that it be understood that suggestion, as you know it, is but the manifestation of inner flows and inner directions. Without the inward flows and directions, it goes without saying that action would indeed involve itself in chaotic disorders, without constructive patterns or materializations. It would instead entangle itself within the power of its own energy, and be unable to form any long-lasting patterns or frameworks within which fulfillments and fairly permanent constructions could be formed.

The integration of the whole personality as a psychological unit, and as an effective psychic gestalt, is obviously dependent upon the free and unimpeded flow of action. Any impediments here can be most threatening to the integrity of the personality itself, for one aspect of the personality would benefit at the expense of other aspects.

An illness, as an impeding action for example, may nevertheless be a constructive action at any given time, in that it may prevent action within the personality from following more destructive actions. When this destructive possibility has passed however, an illness that is still maintained would therefore become a definite impeding action; for any seemingly impeding action cannot be judged alone, but in the context of other action elements of which any given personality is involved.