“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Your attitude toward your faithful old car is not based upon the reasons you ascribe it to. An automobile means one thing to you and one thing to Ruburt. Obviously your backgrounds have much to do with this, but I do not believe that you realize what I am about to tell you.

I am speaking of the relationship in your mind between your father and automobiles. Has this occurred to you?

First of all, for Ruburt’s idea of an automobile. For his ideas are simpler and easier to explain. His mother could not leave the house. He always ran as a child to make sure that he could move at all. To him a car is an extension of that mobility.

(I am 46. As a young boy I used to watch my father make automobile batteriesby hand. He had his own business in Sayre, PA, and took great pride in the excellence of his work. The business began to fail when batteries became mass produced, and the great depression finished it.)

I want to make this clear, for it should help you both to understand your reactions, and to change them accordingly. Some of your most basic feelings toward the automobile grew as a result of the early trip to California, when for days on end as a child you heard your parents bickering. They were uncertain of what they would find, pessimistic, and they blamed each other for having left at all.

This is not the adventurous spirit they told you of, and you heard every word. On the other hand you do have a rather deeply felt feeling for mechanical objects. This has some connection with your position in the service. But the conscious reasons that you have for being annoyed with your automobile, these reasons are rationalizations to hide the deeper causes.

One note: Your father felt ineffective and a failure when an automobile did not work right, because of his connection with them, and you picked this up. Which is highly ridiculous, as you can see, since your own interests lie in other directions.