“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

He has the idea at times that he should accept me in conventional terms, from the books that he has read. The interpretation is his own, colored by subconscious prejudice, and largely a matter of vocabulary. This has resulted at times in 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.

Because Ruburt is at times so literal, he then did become bothered by thoughts of setting himself up, or thoughts of misrepresentation; and all of this because of the interpretation of the word spirit, or spiritual, and highly colored interpretations at that. Then he felt guilty because he was not living up to other people’s interpretation of the word.

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.)

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.

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.

Take your vacation. (Pause.) Give him physical activity then. Stay away from his mother until I tell you. He does not have to prove he is all saintly yet. The time will come. (Our cat Willy jumped up into Jane’s lap.) Psycho-Cybernetics was good for him, for it stopped at least some of his conscious brooding. He must rediscover however his spontaneous self for these distorted and adopted and superficial ideas—underline superficial—of religious rules inhibited him.