“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

When the figure comes closer let him speak first. You are then using your own enthusiasm and are in control of it. If you develop properly you will understand when the figure speaks. The figure is a person you have known who will help you in your own endeavors... It will not appear until you are ready... Your own abilities must be developed enough so that the meeting takes place.

We cannot give you all this in one afternoon, for I wander like a minstrel through your own past. In a life just previous to that one however, you were a woman with a bitter tongue, who spoke too often and too harshly, and so you set yourself among other things the task, in the Irish life, of speaking only to music. This is highly simplified of course, there were other reasons, but in singing you were not harsh, and in singing you communicated in a way that you could not in the earlier life, and in the singing also you gave of yourself in a way you did not earlier.

You lost this finger and this finger in a brawl, cut by a knife. The brawl being over a woman. (Pause.) Now you played an instrument in which these fingers were valuable, and you were no longer able to play the instrument after the accident. Therefore you took on a helper, who played for you while you sang.

...Do not be overanxious to develop your abilities ... (To Tam:) You must be in control... This is extremely important. When you work with tables, work with those who are experienced in such things...

Do not concentrate on symptoms, but on feelings of health... Do not get caught up in sympathy... abilities won’t be as effective. Before sleep direct your thoughts to those who need help... The healing abilities will automatically teach control in other areas... To help others also helps maintain your own control, and will inspire others...

You can automatically choose good friends through the use of your abilities... Don’t bother now with thoughts of the origins of your abilities... Avoid cultism. Also don’t let your imagination follow along the lines of possession... Fear of this creates a state in which a semblance of that can be caused. Most cases of possession are not caused by spirits... although it does exist in those terms... usually caused by those who request it or are too lazy to live their own lives within ... Such people then issue a blank invite to control the body they no longer wish to control.

I should emphasize that it would be better for you not to play with tables at all, except here or in the company of others who are already familiar with such work.