“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now. No personality chooses a life situation of illness. It chooses the best method it can to aid in overall development.

I will try however to give you this as an example. A personality is born in a particular environment that is not clear and straight but crooked, as in a maze. The angles, corners and curves of the maze he has cleverly formed himself, before this existence. To get out of the maze automatically means that he has developed the abilities necessary. The flexibility, spontaneity, persistence, what have you, none of which he may have acquired had the “road” in quotes been absolutely straight from start to finish.

Many of the points you have made to Ruburt lately have been well taken, and were more important than you realized. To you they seemed rather obvious, and trivial, almost. Now Ruburt’s ego had been hit over the head, so to speak, so many times in his childhood that it became very sensitive, developing a rigidity out of self-protection.

What you see as symptoms are those that have not as yet been transformed. Now this is a creative process where the personality uses for its advantage and development those elements in its background that it seems (underlined) could have destroyed it.

The personality for best purposes would have to be a woman, for the intuitive nature is more easily developed. I do not want to go tonight too deeply into other connotations, for they can lead us astray right now.

He wants to help others. On the positive side this leads into new frontiers, and it expands and develops his abilities. It is a basis for his ethical and intuitive achievements. On the negative side he can go overboard, fearing to cause another the slightest hurt, and hurting himself instead.

You may. Give us a moment. (Pause.) The religious area is tricky, because it contains high potentials for his development, and also sore points, you see. If he is asked to speak out of sincere desire, he can do his best. If he feels he is on trial in the religious area, then this has negative connotations.