“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

This rigid control of consciousness prevented spontaneous enjoyment of an everyday variety that would otherwise have had a beneficial and balancing effect. On this dining out, for example: even the small shock, you see, involved in different tastes provides small surprises that are releasing to the sense mechanisms.

Again: a change of schedules and habits. It is good that you are making these changes. If some were not made, they would be demanded by other portions of the self. They are breakthroughs, and therapeutic. The ego is working with you now, for it grew frightened and is taking steps to change.

These measures, incidentally, will refresh you both and are always excellent provisions against rigidity in any form. They are actually exercises in the spontaneous release of the intuitive portion of the self. I would suggest for awhile that he refrain from wearing black sweaters in general, except that I fear his wardrobe is already depleted. (Smile.)

You have been doing well with the pendulum, and the exercise has successively opened up communication with deeper layers of the self. An hypnotic session would be helpful, but only when you feel confident. A point here involving Ruburt’s hands and his mother’s sweaters: he knew that knitting was a therapeutic measure suggested in the past to exercise his mother’s hands. When he became sensitized to the sweaters, then he had difficulty with his own hands, you see.

This would add to the depth and reliability, and also allow suggestions given to take hold. A session dealing with upsetting material should lead or be directed toward some immediate release. If extremely upsetting material is obtained then the emotional release must be allowed before the session is considered finished. On a few occasions such material was partially uncovered, and you both ended the session. No release.

Water has healing qualities, and walks by the river when practical, will be of benefit. Therapeutic dreams should be requested each night for now, as standard practice. A small note, not necessarily a recommendation here: a change of hair color would minimize any lingering mother identification.