“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The conscious mind had nothing to do with this. He strongly wished for the friend’s presence. The wish became reality. You must understand the rules that apply. For they apply whether or not you understand them, and whether or not the wish is one that you really want fulfilled.

Take for example this subconscious feeling: “I want to be comforted. If I were sick someone would feel sorry for me and comfort me then.” Such a wish is very seldom on a conscious level, but it is often emotionally charged, and it brings forth immediate results because of the charge it carries. Whenever you catch yourselves in moods of self-pity, then you are courting just such results.

These positive symbols can be used quite deliberately. They should be utilized for your own benefit. You do this often without realizing that you do so, but a conscious knowledge will help you.

(Dr. and Emma Martin are old friends of my parents, and their age—early seventies, or nearly so. I have childhood memories of them, of course. As soon as Seth mentioned it, I immediately saw a distinct resemblance between Emma Martin, as she had been, and the young girl Pat. The smile in both was much alike. Consciously I had made no such connection however, before Seth mentioned it, but had sensed something familiar about Pat Friday evening.

(Jane said she did not know I had taken cod liver oil as a child. I remember doing this, and disliking it intensely. My parents have told me often that I displayed hay fever symptoms by the age of 3 or so, so evidently the first cod liver oil episode was earlier than this, and before my conscious memory. Jane insisted I hadn’t mentioned cod liver oil to her, though I had discussed castor oil.

(I have no conscious memory of such an episode.)