“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Tonight after supper I took Jane to the chiropractor for treatment of her stiff neck. Before the session I spoke aloud to Seth, asking him for straight answers to my questions about Jane’s symptoms lately. On June 5 I held a two-hour pendulum session of my own, concerning Jane’s symptoms, and received some revealing answers about the role I have played in them. This is written down, and may still be added to.

You must understand that he will need your help now in order to use it. This is rather important. He will be afraid of making errors; and fears that you may blame him for them.

The annoying or frightening symptoms began when Ruburt began his search for work, unknown to him consciously. His attitudes had by now changed. In the past he did think of work as temporary. Now it meant failure.

(“I want him to try too.”)

He is frightened because if this does not work he will have to face the other situation again. Your illness was a shock to him, and he has been afraid of doing anything that would make you feel insecure.

His mother was immobile, and yet as a child he had to rely on her. It is his fear that sensitized him again to old issues.

He has not so far. The chiropractic treatments should help in releasing the arms physically, and in keeping the structure in balance, since he has been unable to do so on his own. This should quiet nervous reactions, and give him time to recover.

(“Yes, but you’d never know it, watching him.”)

If he is going to have an outside job it is as good as any, and after the summer should not bother him. It fills certain spontaneous needs. If however effort is to be made to find another solution—

—the very fact of seeking another solution will be of great benefit, in itself, and leaves open several possibilities. The job could be kept for a semester. It could be dropped entirely, or it could be kept while trying the experiment. The fact of trying the other experiment is really important in his present state of mind particularly. It offers him an alternative beside a regular outside job, to supplement the writing income.

He has a need for mobility. What you call a normal job is confining to him because of his background, and stops up energy.

I will help him to understand this.

Have him buy what he likes to eat, particularly for a while, for he will eat better then. Encourage this.

The order to eat, he interprets as an order, you see. The encouragement to eat is different. Now wait. (Pause, eyes closed.) Again, fried foods should be avoided. He has been right, avoiding tomato juice in the morning, instinctively. He does not need that acidity then. It is aggravating to him. The apricot you see is soothing. He has avoided fresh salads however, and you both need them. Eggplant is good. Too much whole milk is bad. In his coffee is sufficient.

In times of stress this is all the more important. He had no change of environment as a child, you see. The automobile to him means freedom, and is a symbol of release.

Summertime may or may not be a good time to begin private classes. He may be frightened to give up the job ahead of time. Any move in writing will serve him well.

Because of your attitude toward Fell, he did not believe you were pleased with him or the ESP book. He did not believe you considered it the achievement that he considered it. He expected you to throw a party for him.

He is extremely strong, open, and giving and spontaneous when he is functioning well. Any strong impediments cause him to retreat however, though for a while a smiling surface personality hides this fact.

And therefore a fear or distrust of what may be said in these sessions. It is for this reason that I have given him evidential material, you see, in other respects, so that he could see for himself.

This has been rather explained earlier this evening, and in previous sessions: Previous conditioning, and we explained why he became sensitized to this. The fear of spontaneity is what made him so passive in following suggestions of yours, to which he did not agree.

(“One question: How about my hypnotizing him?”)