“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(“No.” At our first discussion, though, Peg told me that a brother-in-law had just come into a tremendous amount of money as a result of lawyers fees, he is a lawyer, and a rich account. She then tied this in with an unpleasant episode in the past where there was trouble with another sister-in-law, and this brother-in-law, and thought that the money would now make this sister-in-law sit up and wonder about her own actions in the past.)

He knows it now in the only real way it can be known. You learned it some time ago, and he knew it intellectually. He did not understand however that fear is not practical. I am speaking of course generally, and of anticipatory fear, not the fear, quite healthy, with which a man faces a ferocious beast.

He has indeed now learned one of the most basic lessons of his life. Had he not learned it, there would have been further difficulties. A man uses his abilities according to the extent of this realization. The notes he wrote should be faithfully read, as he intends each morning, for some time.

Our poor results in the last experimental data were directly the result of the fear which he finally faced. Fear under normal circumstances is immobilizing, as he most certainly now realizes.

He has been going through such a time. He decided to make the journey. He is now returning, and he has learned much. Without the experience his abilities would not fully develop. You went through your own journey and also emerged some time ago.

Fear cannot be ignored. It must be faced and conquered. It always leads to retreat when it is not faced. The physical image is indeed a replica in many ways of the inner self. When a man is ill it is not necessarily because he wants to be ill subconsciously. It is not necessarily because he is receiving some hidden psychological benefit, or because the illness fulfills some need. He is ill often—always in fact—because of a distortion that is occurring within the self, and materialized in physical form.

You and I were quite right in advising Ruburt to face this through without the treatment of a doctor or chiropractor. I (Jane pointed to herself) you see, would not necessarily give this same advice to someone else. He was on several occasions about ready to visit your Piper. (The chiropractor.) I wanted him to face the symptoms for what they were, and to find the cause. Apparent causes came and went, and would continue to do so had he not—with, my friend, your help and mine—found the master cause.

Fear, and a complete, if sometimes momentary loss of confidence, was the basic cause that led to retreat and the physical symptoms. Fear itself is damaging as such, particularly when it is anticipatory. He knew enough so that this was partially counterbalanced. Otherwise he literally would have been in worse shape.

But this lesson, learned, is a valuable achievement. He understood it, it would seem, of a sudden, but this was only a crystallization of knowledge. The habit of fear would have finally been reflected here in our sessions. I have to a large degree kept my eye upon him, but you see the lesson had to be learned by him.

This response to fear is a danger to psychic work, where freedom is necessary. In projections most of all the self must be mobile. Rapidity of perception, mobility of consciousness, openness of emotional response, are prerequisites for our work. The fearful spirit fears to leave the body, and fears to reside in it also. Ruburt has my congratulations, for he has now successfully passed a period of trial. He tried without involving you except when he grew more than usually discouraged.

He is now released because he has released himself as much as possible from fear. The fearing habit is highly destructive.

Now. He will receive it.

The book will sell as I have said. Ruburt is doing well now on the book on which he is working. You should sell two more paintings within a relatively brief time.

For him, connection with a tall white-haired woman, with a slight mustache. This is difficult to explain. The tall person here mentioned could be female. If it is male, he has strong feminine characteristics or manner. This person, you see, not Bernard. It is a relative, fairly close.