“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now. You must understand, in our discussions of late, we have been dealing with your current problems, and treating them in those terms for your convenience.

On the one hand all of your questions have their answers. The inner self knows, but the immediate self does not recognize their answers. The degree of your understanding and development is the result of past endeavors in other lives. The degree represents your practical ability to use inner knowledge to solve problems.

The inner self must become the immediate self, you see. This unity then puts you in a position to begin a truly fulfilling existence in other realities after physical death. You are solving many problems therefore now, since this is to be your last reincarnation in physical terms.

An alternate example is your painting. These are the most fruitful ways for both of you to approach all problems. The same qualities and spirit that you bring to your work should be extended to your life pattern, for they are correct for you both, and you operate at prime efficiency then.

Problems are methods of learning, set by the inner self. This is a particularly important statement. They should always be faced in this light. Other existences also involve these challenges.

The ego found poetry acceptable and never challenged it. The psychic work was something else entirely. This, with other problems mentioned earlier, led him to a deep mistrust of the intuitional self. He felt he could not go ahead.

(She did not recall the material. I thought it an excellent summary of the problems we have been facing for the past year. Jane began speaking at a slower pace; oddly enough, when she did she sat up again, and after a few paragraphs her eyes were opening as usual. 10:21.)

You always recognized and envied his spontaneous nature, without realizing consciously that it operated despite his intellectual disapproval of it. Through his difficulty you are saved considerable problems, for through his experience you understand the dangerous inhibiting nature of overrestraint. It is because his spontaneous self is so strong that the conscious self had to learn to cooperate, if the personality was to achieve full stature.

(Her trance was as deep as any she has had, she said later. It seemed obvious that Seth used this extreme in order to get the material through tonight without distortion. I thought it an excellent summary of problems we seem to be surmounting.)