“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The pendulum is an excellent method of discovering your subconscious feelings, and indeed of changing them. As you both suppose, incidentally, the music you played this evening was highly beneficial from several standpoints. (Yma Sumac.) Any connection with past periods of productivity or joy have immediate reference to the present. As negative suggestions play their part, so do positive suggestions, and both in terms of symbols.

(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.

Now such associations have an electrical reality, you see, built within your system. Realization of these causes creates an opposing force that can neutralize the original. The words—“Father, I refuse to accept your hay fever for myself; though I once took it, I now throw it free from us both”—these words will help.

When you realize this, again, you will find the symptoms hardly necessary. Your mother basically did not share (smile) your father’s love of the out-of-doors, and you played both ends against the middle. For the symptoms also allowed you to stay indoors with her on many occasions.

(After supper on the evening of July 3,1966 Jane sat in the backyard. It was not yet dark. Also in the backyard were the girl who lives in the downstairs back apartment, Barbara, and her steady boyfriend Dick. Both are in their thirties. As they sat in lawn chairs, they asked Jane to have a drink with them. This surprised Jane, for she saw that Dick was angry with Barbara for teasing him about marriage. Also, Jane felt that being asked to share a drink with the couple was a gesture, and that when she accepted Dick was not happy about it.

(“With a brush or something that resembles it, with bristles.” Both Barbara and I use bristle brushes in our painting. In an oblique way this also leads to the next data.

(“The words ‘A fine form of a woman’.” Jane says this is a clear-enough reference to a remark Dick made when the group of three was sitting in the yard with their drinks, on the evening Jane wrote the poem used as object. Barbara asked Dick why he shouldn’t get married. Dick replied there was no reason he should, since he now sat with “two fine women,” both of them good looking; or words to that effect.

My heartiest regards to you both. This session should be of considerable benefit to you, Joseph.