“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Recently Jane sent her dream book to Prentice-Hall. An editor rejected the book but wrote a very encouraging letter concerning the publication of the Seth material. Since we were somewhat confused as to what course to follow, a session was held this evening.

Now often in such circumstances you can help others and not help yourself, use your abilities to help others but not yourself, simply because you erect barriers. Whenever distortions appear in the material it is indeed a tip-off of a given area that is particularly touchy to Ruburt personally, or represents an area in which he is not sure; a lack of conviction.

Now. I prefer you see the vocabulary used in our sessions. He is not Cayce nor Montgomery, nor the woman with the crystal ball. There have been segments, not necessarily distorted, but given in different terms than I would have preferred; for at times I try to accommodate the material in order to get it through.

His intellect is a fine one, and should have no quarrel at all with our sessions. It is only when he uses it falsely as a shield to hide behind that he is bothered, and an objective reading of the Seth material would show him that there is nothing in it of which he need be emotionally or intellectually ashamed. To the contrary, he does not have to see me as a white-gowned spirit. (Strong and emphatic.) I am not physical. But the picture of a white-robed spirit, with those connotations, is not one I have given him.

His work with the material can and should weld his emotions and intellect together in a strong powerful force, but not when he attempts to copy others, or on his own uses words that personally annoy him, to express or interpret the material to others.

(9:40—Jane sat quietly without opening her eyes, then said: “He was saying that I don’t have to use other people’s paraphernalia.” She slowly came out of trance, and briefly seemed about to cry. But this passed. Both of us, correctly it developed, attributed the crying feeling to regret at some of our past efforts that were not as successful as we had hoped they would be, regarding using the material to help others, to get it published, etc.

(Jane resumed in the same active manner, but with pauses, at 10:55.)

Personalities are composed of action and of psychic components. This is what you are. It is what I am. There are at all times more various kinds of personalities than there are flower seeds—different varieties. Some mature and develop, some are in ways I have not yet explained, transitory. They merge into other gestalts, but what they are is never destroyed. They operate independently while part of other gestalts.

(I believe that here Seth talks about predictions given some time ago that the dream book would sell; but I didn’t interrupt the session to check.)

In our sessions and in the Seth material I utilize—I must—the best that he as a personality has to offer, and that is considerable. It includes both intuitional and intellectual faculties. He must be familiar enough, open enough, to be able to accept my ideas in sessions, to be a channel for them. But he must use for a standard the Seth material itself. Do you have questions now?

I suggest that he let it go. He has not properly used the experiences that he has had. These should go into this book (the letter indicated again). He will do the sort of book he had in mind, but at a later date, and it will be a far better book.

He is privately enthralled, but business-wise overly cautious. This is why his firm is small. The woman (editor for F.F.) has no feeling for the material, as you know, but is interested in Ruburt as a property; and as a property has no idea of how to handle him. She is afraid of me.

Fell wonders if at times he was taken as a fool. He is intuitively aware, but very frightened of his own intuitions. He is also afraid of success.

Now, I cannot tell you whether or not this particular (letter again) in quotes “deal” will come through. It is too touchy. (Smile, eyes open.) But at least now I can tell you that it is too touchy!

I can tell you, as you personally supposed, that this is the direction in which Ruburt should move. It is a direction now in which he wants to move, but he has been afraid that it was not a financially profitable direction, for he received no encouragement from Fell, no real encouragement, concerning the material; and he did not try elsewhere.

Learning involves your whole being. Great work is a result of great learning. It is not the result of seeing easy answers scribbled magically upon a blackboard. The flowers thrust themselves up through soil, but they hardly consider the soil or thrusting a tragedy, nor resent the time spent in the frozen earth, for they realize the frozen earth is a condition of their blossoming—a challenge that is an aid, not a hindrance. The light does not resent the darkness which it illuminates, you see? Your inner self is aware of this.

He need not fear his spontaneous self. It will not betray him. The arm symptoms still hanging on represent an inhibiting factor. Telepathy does exist, but existence has a far greater vitality than he supposes. People do have a natural defense. He does not need to watch his thoughts that (underlined) closely.

You are responsible for your thoughts. However your spontaneous thoughts are not nearly as destructive as he imagines, and in overinhibiting them, he also inhibits purely spontaneous, joyful thoughts. Psycho-Cybernetics helps him not to brood, not to worry in advance, and set up negative reactions. This is important. But honest reactions within the present are legitimate.

The present simply should not be negatively projected into the future. This is all-important here. He is afraid of hurting others through his thoughts, but the fear is overly inhibiting him. Do you understand this?

But natural thought (underline natural) will be more positive than negative. Does this clear the matter?

(10:55. Once again Jane’s trance had been a good one. She came out of it all right, if slowly, however. Once again she seemed about to cry, but did not. She did not remember what she had said, but had a feeling of sadness. She said she thought tonight’s material would be very helpful.)