“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The Prentice letter caused him to react with a burst of spontaneous pleasure. It was highly therapeutic in that regard, and swept before the spontaneity were symptoms and problems. The system cleansed itself. The personality appeared briefly as it should be. A day or so following, the clamps were again applied however, and the old situation returned.

Give us a moment. (Pause.) The shortage of sessions is a symptom of the fear of spontaneity. The fear of the unknown, mentioned earlier, is not a fear of psychic phenomena, nor of psychic endeavor. It is a mask, for a fear of his own spontaneity.

Earlier the symptoms themselves masked the lack of spontaneity in writing. Now the symptoms are not so pronounced and the other problem, which was there, shows. His mother, for all her emotionalism, stressed intellectual control, contrasting it with the father’s lack of control. Ruburt is at the tail end of these inner problems that have been there in this life since childhood.

(10:45. Jane came out of trance easily, though it had been a fairly good one, she said. Break time found me very discouraged. I was angry and disappointed; I was fearful that Jane and I would never be able to rise above our problems and fulfill our potentialities, which I knew to be excellent. I was especially concerned that Jane wouldn’t be able to surmount the problems, so explicitly delineated by Seth, above, and so eliminate the symptoms. I couldn’t see how she would be able to really give her great creative spontaneity full reign, to accomplish the things I felt she had in her.