“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Notes: Last night, Sunday, March 16, a rather long session was held for Dr. Subadh Roy, who is a professor of philosophy and comparative religion at Mansfield State Teacher’s College [PA]. Dr. Roy, who is blind, was driven to Elmira by his friend and student, Mike. Dr. Roy is from India but has been teaching in the United States for some years.

(Tonight’s session was late because of the discussion Jane and I had beforehand.)

He was still afraid to accept it. He did not know whether he dared yet trust his spontaneity, and imposed upon himself symptoms as limitations.

This resulted in uneven attitudes. I know him, and hence I have suggested the periods mentioned in our last session, with weeks set aside for sessions, and time off from them. He knew he was free to take time off at any time, but he was afraid that if he did so he might be deprived of the sessions entirely, and such is not the case.

Subjective freedoms may seem slow to appear on Ruburt’s part. There is however an inner rhythm that is not apparent. In his last trial he faced and is conquering many important issues, and it was better in the long run that they be fought and won during one period rather than stretched out. It has been a compressed period of high activity, with the inner attitudes clearly (underlined), concisely and quickly made visible in the physical form. The learning process was far more effective in this manner—the symptoms serving as immediate checkpoints. He has learned therefore to look within for the reasons as soon as symptoms appeared or reappeared.

(10:13. Jane’s pace had indeed been slower than recently. Tonight in addition, Seth’s voice was very quiet. Resume at 10:21.)

It is no coincidence that he also began working upon a novel idea, and no coincidence that further insights appeared to him this evening, and that the physical organism was almost immediately relieved. The changing of the room is also symbolic, and beneficially so.

He is not so frightened of others now that he must shield himself from them the moment he opens the door. On the other hand the moving of the bookcase to divide the work area showed even before his novel idea that his spontaneity was emerging fully within his work again, and that the work area was therefore to be separated from social activities.

At the same time in his mind, the work area was enlarged, since before he considered it to be composed psychically of his table area alone. It has been extended therefore, you see.

(Jane was gesturing to indicate how much larger an area was now set aside, beyond the new location of the bookcase, for her workroom.)

One point: your friend the Jesuit (Bill Gallagher)—his symptom is hidden within his tissue, and not physically observable. Its buried nature, the ulcer being hidden, is an added indication that he does not want to face his problem. Ruburt chose more observable symptoms. He was more determined to discover the reasons for his problems, and the learning process is much faster. The kind of symptom and its observability is often a clue as to the problem and to the individual’s attitude toward it.

We will end the session. I wanted to make clear the fact that illness can be a method of learning (long pause), and to tell you that Ruburt’s subjective feelings this evening were legitimate. New freedoms will follow. Intuitively you also provided clues that he needed this evening, but he was also ready to put them together.

On that particular evening I was in the room. He and I had been discussing his development. He was in a dream state, and in the dream I appeared to him in the form of a pyramid of lights. We were communicating telepathically.

The form was generally a figure. The pyramid for example could have been a robe, though no robe was present. The lights were my thoughts (pause), in their electromagnetic form. Yet the form of the pyramid represented in other areas the three of us. The form had its own meaning therefore. The form did not disappear when he awakened. He simply switched to physical sight mechanisms that did not perceive it. The freedom of his dream activity will now return. (Long pause.)

(10:50. Seth, above, seems to say that the pyramid of lights Jane saw was a dream image, that she did not see when she awoke. Yet Jane woke me at the time and told me she had just seen an apparition, while awake. I did not catch this, above, when Seth spoke, or I would have asked about the discrepancy. Next session.)