“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(This noon, driving home from work, I pulled a muscle in my right side while wheeling the car around a corner—one of those painful things that you feel when you cough, breathe deeply, laugh, etc.)

You are apt to forget about it simply because in your childhood home you had to work for emotional isolation.

(There is some element of truth in the above; but also I feel that Jane would rather I wait until she has the book typed up perhaps halfway before I begin to read it. I can change this idea. I had the idea she would rather I didn’t interfere with the gestation of her books—at least this is the way my reading of them seems to have worked out in the past.)

At the risk of being repetitive: if he concentrates upon his work, the morning issue will take care of itself, and by work I mean not only his writing, but his own individual psychic endeavors. He measures what he does daily against what you do daily, and feels automatically guilty if you do more than he, or even if he is doing watercolors while you are typing a session.

He still feels guilty about you going to work in the morning, and not getting up just rubs his nose in it further. He is saying “I may not have to go out to work like you do, but I am punishing myself for it, so do not blame me.”

—and then on weekends, when you do not have to go to work, he feels bad when you have to see him.

—since he is punishing himself during the week because you have to go to work. (Emphatic.

(10:55. I believe the above is new information, and some that we certainly shall explore. After the session, I explained to Jane that my going out to work perhaps represented an unsolved problem on my own part, and that she shouldn’t be that much concerned with it.