“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Both of you also benefit by the encounters, and it is of course up to you to direct the relationships along the lines that are most fruitful. This after all presents no difficulties, since they will follow your lead. The gift given you this evening was given in a wordless attempt to express appreciation.

If your Friday get-togethers have become boring, it is to a large extent because you have both allowed them to do so, and not taken the lead in directing the conversations along more responsible lines. For these young people can offer much. They look at things with fresh minds, and their questions can lead both of you along new lines of thought.

Make no mistake. You gain also in your relationships with these young people when you direct the relationship along desired lines. If it were allowed to continue as it is, it would have disintegrated on both sides, and to some good extent you would have failed, in that you would not have helped them as much as you could have had you been wiser. And you would have deprived yourselves of what they had to give.

They think very much of you both, and are easily hurt when you are not being honest, for they realize this instinctively. They are not hurt by honesty.

If you use your head my friend, you can end up with a week that is well balanced, will meet both of your needs, will allow you to operate more effectively for this reason in all your endeavors. You will have a framework in your existence which is truly refreshing. The challenge and the opportunity is yours, but now is the time to initiate such a procedure.

You should both think of time in different ways. Remember what I have told you, and you will not be tempted to treat time in a rigid manner. I suggest—this is something new—grapefruit to be substituted for oranges. I strongly suggest at least a short walk for you, Joseph, daily, and Ruburt as well.

You have both been so consciously concerned with your Ouija board pointer that it is difficult for me now to get much information through. The conscious demands inhibit inner information. However give us a moment and we shall see what we can do, despite the difficulty.

(Jane paused and closed her eyes. Both of us had almost forgotten that we wanted Seth to help us locate the little three-legged pointer that goes with the Ouija board. Last weekend we had discovered the pointer was missing, and had been trying to find it ever since.

My best wishes to you both. If it were not for the labor involved on your part, Joseph, I would speak to you both more often. There is personal material that we do not seem to have time for, as I want to continue developing our basic material. You may always call upon me whenever you wish, however.

And once more, I am with you both more often than you realize, and I help you when I can.