“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

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.

There are always ample apparent causes behind symptoms. Various upsetting events for example. I am going into this as I go into your own psychological circumstances when I feel it advisable.

You are at the point of a new and higher plateau. (Jane pointed at me, eyes wide open and dark.) You have not yet reached it however. It has taken you this time to consolidate your gains, and you have helped Ruburt these months also. The interaction between you results you see in a higher form of consciousness, for which both of you are responsible. For you do indeed operate as a gestalt also. Your joint abilities add up to more than your joint abilities.

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.