“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now, one brief explanation here, for this sort of thing operates in good as well as poor circumstances. Ruburt’s morning symptoms, for example. I told you why he had them this evening, but then they become associated with certain objects and surroundings, which serve as an automatic perpetuation, you see, in varying degrees.

Simple alterations in the objects can therefore result in a quite real change of pattern, psychic pattern, to disrupt the association. Painting is a wholesale change, for example. In other words, the ghosts of these things can linger. A complete (underlined) house cleaning, a change of details within the environment, these are all practically beneficial, and of great benefit in relieving lingering symptoms.

These are important details however. The chests in the bathroom should be painted. The bookcase there (just moved in) breaks up old conditions, and is good. The chests should be covered as soon as possible to break up associations. Ruburt should change the arrangement of his clothes in those chests. The shoes should be kept in another place than the accustomed one.

I cannot emphasize too strongly the breakup of associations that will result. This will aid in the complete disappearance of symptoms. Otherwise you could have lingering, though far minor ones, while these habitual objects lost their associative powers, you see.

The associative conditions are not Ruburt’s alone. Once projected upon the objects, they become part of the objects until some alteration is made. The alteration actually changes atomic alignments, and shakes off such influences that have been soaked up.