“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(This afternoon Jane and I took my parents to the hospital in Sayre; mother for an ear examination, father to be admitted to the psychiatric ward. Tonight Jane assumed I would want Seth to talk about my parents, but I told her Seth could discuss anything he wanted to. I planned only a couple of questions to ask.

His part in it was finished early. Her part was not, and she has chosen this road, all without knowing. Characteristics now being shown impeded the progress of the whole personality to which she is attached. The whole personality has to work these characteristics out in physical terms in order to discover through direct experience where they would lead.

She would feel quite trapped if you tried to do so, and in a rage, for you would have betrayed her. If you rose to take his place, then she would be driven to do her battle over. Do you see?

This refusal also in many ways represents your own salvation, or the release at least of several important problems at this point. Any weakness on your part would signal to you the loss of inner independence, the loss of a battle that you had thought over years ago.

Still however out of pity, the trap is still a probable one. It is a probable one simply because it does exist. For your mother it would represent nevertheless a betrayal on your part, for she would immediately realize that she had failed in the bitterest of terms, and to her the most ignoble of terms. This applying to her specifically, for she would win you when she was an old woman.

The betrayal to her would be bitter. (One minute pause.) She realizes that Ruburt makes you an excellent wife. She hates her and loves her for this reason. In one way, when you were born, she was quite content that your father vanish. She did not want children, yet giving birth gave her a sense of power, the only sense of power she had experienced in this existence, and so she used this power as a weapon when she felt a weapon was needed.

If this is not done then the desire to replace the father is a strong inner problem. It exists for you, now, not on your part because of the successful transference, but on the part of your mother. The three sons, incidentally, agreed as to their parents, and with full inner knowledge of the circumstances that would be involved. This is also true in Ruburt’s case, and in all cases.

Had he been working on the dream book also there would have been some noticeable improvement by now, because of the financial conditions there also. He is finding himself more capable than he had believed also in dealing with your parents’ situation. This will add to his confidence in himself, and contribute to an improvement in the arms also.

(“I thought there would be, yes.”)