“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You forgot to buy the gasoline. You had previously not noticed the small red flash indicating that oil was needed, and if the trend had continued you would have continued to ignore this warning light. If your attitude had been strong enough to affect Ruburt, he would not have noticed it either. The general and overall condition of the car was on its way to deterioration.

There was no need for your garageman to think, then, that the trouble had not been noticed, for when he examined the car last the overall condition was poor. But there was no specific physical or localized trouble. I thought that you would find this rather interesting.

I was pleased with the trance state that you achieved when you visited your dentist. And when you can do this under that stress, you see that you can also do it in other situations. With your parents for example you can use this knowledge, so that their actions will not upset you unduly. With them you simply need the suggestion that you will only react to constructive suggestions.

This still leaves you free from ordinary reactions with them, need not close you off from conversation, and yet gives you an immunity from their negative attitudes. In such a manner you can indeed help them while remaining free yourself.

(Break again at 9:51. Jane said she realized of course that she enjoyed having a car, any kind of car, available. But she hadn’t particularly associated this with the reasons Seth ascribed to a need for mobility. Nor had she made any great connection with the idea of her father being a traveling man. My idea was that Seth had mentioned these things briefly in much earlier sessions.

He does not feel the need to change the furniture with such startling rapidity.