“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The material is quite legitimate, regardless of the ways in which I may choose to present it at various times. The basic principles of it will rest in our own sessions where those who are curious enough and gifted enough intellectually may find the arguments and reasons upon which it is built.

In the past because of Ruburt’s own difficulties, I merely hinted at future developments. I will tell you now however that within our own framework of sessions, and with what I call contact sessions with others, other books will materialize. There will be several in which the basic principles will be given simply, directly, with many examples to the ordinary man and woman.

There will be several books that simply result from our sessions, beside those that will be specifically dictated. There will be books of Ruburt’s own as his personality grows and evolves and correlates what it has learned and will learn. There will be developments in your own painting that will follow naturally, and sometimes directly (underlined) from our sessions.

(Long pause.) Now, our friend Aerofranz (Tam Mossman, of Prentice-Hall) is indeed progressing. (Small smile.) The extent and potential of his healing abilities are considerable. It is therefore all the more important that he always try (pause), to use discipline and caution, that he think in terms of helping other individuals, and that he not glorify his own position egotistically, thinking, “Since I can heal you, I am therefore superior to you,” even though the idea is partially hidden from his own consciousness, and even though he feels kindly—put in here that I smiled—while feeling so superior.

His abilities are considerable in the healing line, and again for this reason it is extremely important that he is understanding of himself as well as others. His ego is (underlined) a kind one, but the structure of any ego is such that it considers, or can consider easily, psychic ability as a sign of its own power; or feel possessive of the ability, and overly proud of it, even when it knows it originates in other layers of the self. We want our friend to have a strong and healthy overall personality balance, for this will allow him to use his abilities well, and then the abilities themselves will further add to his own development.

Now. Our friend (Tam) is in contact with another layer of his personality, and as I told him over the infernal machine (a humorous reference to the telephone), a dependable layer. This is an advancement.

Now I give our friend my most fond wishes, and I enjoyed, in quotes, our “mechanical” communication. He must also make sure of the integrity of his motives, and learn to recognize his own motives. This is not to imply that he does not, but it is a necessity for any personality who is working with psychic activity of this kind.

(Tam has written Jane a letter covering the above episode; the letter will go into our files, etc.)

(We left the spray of mistletoe in place over our hall door lintel after we took down the rest of our Christmas decorations.)