“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

What is not understood is that the same sort of conditioning also operates, not only in the reaction to events but in the formation of events. You predispose yourselves toward the construction of events of a particular nature, to which of course you then react.

The interior self causes the physical challenges that then seem to spurt further bodily activity. The impetus for any developing and latent action is incipient in the unborn infant. The child’s first steps are latent within the first flickering of the infant’s eyes, for the events follow as naturally as the opening of the petals of a flower.

It therefore provides itself with a large variety of environments in various reincarnations, with problems of various natures, and with diverse circumstances. It does not try to form life conditions that offer no challenges, quite the reverse in fact. It is getting used to its own abilities and learning how to use them. What happens in the case of willfully used destructive energies? It finds out by using them.

Now this was Ruburt’s state before the emergence of the symptoms. The explosive first emergence represented the first forceful emergence of the problem into physical terms, but as such was actually productive and of a healing nature—much more beneficial, say, than if such emergence had not occurred.

They are negative feelings, deliberately exaggerated so that he can understand their nature and handle them as such. Your therapy was highly successful. I refer to your shopping endeavor (on Saturday March, 29) and the therapy of delight in small things, and laughter.

Now the information given earlier this evening, along with other material, will someday provide an effective measuring stick by which individuals can understand the nature of their difficulties, and is therefore quite important.