“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

SESSION 317

He developed this objective manner originally years ago because he feared he could not control his own spontaneity. It grew, however, into too strong an armor, and threatened to suffocate him. He will no longer block material now in the sessions, and therefore I will have a freer voice to counsel you when it may be needed.

The other still-lingering symptoms will quickly vanish also; the pendulum sessions, quite apart from our sessions, should be maintained as a kind of personal psychic hygiene until the habit of communication is thoroughly established. Your help will still be of benefit for a short while. Your support is still, if not required, highly advantageous.

In time you will experience them as one. Therefore, when you read, and various names are given to, levels of the self, remember this. This point alone will save you much bewilderment. The exercises, the way Ruburt has adapted them recently, are excellent. He should keep this view. You will always adapt in any case. These sessions and material represent your closest and most dependable source of inner knowledge, outside of direct personal mystical experiences.

You see during Ruburt’s past period of adjustment, our sessions were not cut off. I was able to keep those channels open. You are approaching some excellent periods in your lives, periods that would not have been possible had Ruburt not fully accepted, as he now has, the emergence of his abilities and his responsibility to develop them.

They cannot be intellectually held apart from the whole self. You must actively practice what you both know in your daily living. If you do not do so you will forget what you know, literally. What is said in our sessions must be utilized, and for the sake of others as well as for yourselves.

Ruburt did not trust the sessions for some time, since it was the abilities that made the sessions possible that so bothered him. So that has been worked out. A new balance has been achieved, and literally a new personality framework has been established. It too, of course, will change, but now he can let it change joyfully.

A comparable change occurred in your personality, Joseph, after the sessions began. It was less difficult, mainly since you had been ill earlier, you see, and already forced to know the weight of the body when the ego fights the intuitional self.

(See the copy of the object on page 269. It consists of a note Jane wrote me late this morning, and left on the table for me to find upon coming home from work this noon. Jane herself left for work at about 11:30 AM at nursery school. The note used as object concerned work we had been doing with the pendulum recently, and which has also been discussed to some degree in recent sessions. I thought it would have strong emotional attachment for Jane.

(There is also some factual connection in the displacement, since by using the pendulum recently we have learned of the rather important role Blanche played in some of Jane’s earlier associations; due to a complicated variety of events Jane has been bothered lately by some physical symptoms we are in the process of eliminating. These symptoms, and Blanche, as well as Jane’s mother and other contributing factors, are also discussed thoroughly in the next session.

You, may end the session or continue as you prefer.