“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

He learns from his students. He is sensitive to their needs, and therefore demands more of himself than he would otherwise. Therefore his own abilities grow. I will help him when he asks me in his classes, as long as he does not ask too often. (Smile, amused voice.)

The demand for attention is a healthy sign. There may be a flare-up of mental confusion, accompanying any physical improvement or release of symptoms. The illness has been accepted by the personality in place of deeply rooted problems that the personality would not face. As any symptoms subside the problems will be felt by the personality.

A steady, progressive, but paced release from symptoms will allow for a more orderly mental and physical return to health. Otherwise the personality would become swamped by the problems that it has been trying so desperately to avoid. (Pause.)

(10:35. Jane was again well dissociated, and came out of trance slowly. John Bradley said he had no Wednesday appointments scheduled for the coming week, but would keep Seth’s statement in mind.

(Thereupon commenced a wild episode. The table began to hop and dance about the room. In order to keep up with it we had to leave our seats and walk about the rug with it. Each time it reached the edge of the rug we pulled it back to keep it off the bare floor, where it would have been very noisy.

(This was not all. At times the table tipped up on two legs, then would poise there, seemingly balanced by itself. To our surprise we discovered that it required an active pressure from us to force the table back down to the floor so that all three legs made contact. The feeling of this force was unmistakable, and new to all of us. There was no doubt about its existence, since the pressure required to level the table off was obvious to all. This of course did the job that gravity would normally be expected to do. Each time we pushed the table down, it rose up again at one edge. The feeling given by this maverick or opposite pressure was quite similar to the feeling one gets from playing with magnets, when they are so aligned that one repels the other. Whatever force is operating in such cases of repulsion is invisible, but unmistakably there.

(The session climaxed with a very active dance by the table, as the three of us left our chairs and followed it about the rug. It described circles, balanced on one leg at a time, then two, in a regular rhythm. At times it scooted in a straight line. The hilarity of all this is hard to convey, but the objective realization of what was taking place, and of how hard it would be to explain to a neophyte, finally got to John Bradley. This was his first experience with a table. He ended up laughing until the tears rolled down his cheeks, as the three of us went round and round the room with the table.