“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The overconscientious self is protecting the whole personality against what it considered evil. It can be reeducated. (Pause.) There is a cleavage apparent in Ruburt’s distaste of the word God, for example.

The old neighborhood has enclosed him, and he must now truly escape its limitations while using the psychic potential of his experience as an integrating power. (Pace slower yet.) It is also responsible you see for the remarkable potential that he has. He does not feel free to use his full energy until all portions of the personality are convinced of the goodness of his purpose. (Long pause.)

The overly conscientious self is the part that will retreat, that carries grudges, that believes an eye for an eye, and is relatively uncompromising. It must be made to understand that the spontaneous self is innately good and can be trusted. It needs to be lovingly protected; but lovingly, not hindered nor fought nor held down.

The grandfather was as rigid in his way as the grandmother. He was afraid of his own thoughts as a child, believing that thoughts could kill. The unspoken bitterness against his mother built up inside him. He considered it wrong, and could not release it. Hence the Pollyanna attitude at times, a desperate attempt to cover up thoughts that are spontaneous, but that are considered evil by the conscientious self.

I will bid you good evening, and I will discuss your tremor and some other matters at our next session.

(“Good. Good night, Seth.”