“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The negative thoughts can and should be recognized and plucked up as they are encountered, but you do not need a shovel to pluck up one weed at a time, nor hit yourself over the head with a sledgehammer for finding a weed in your garden. This does little to help the gardener but put him out of commission for a while, and it does not pluck any more weeds.

A few fond prayers, such as you have been doing, are fine. But a watched kettle, if you will forgive the mixed metaphors, does not boil. Let the subconscious bring the seed to fruition. It does not need to be watered with tears, with pledges, or told ten times a minute to grow. These things put a shadow over the seed.

Now we will throw in something better. Even the word “peace” will do. He need not go about at the time searching for an antidote, you see. “Those aren’t the kind of thoughts I want,” that mental statement is a help. If the negative mood persists a while he should not think “Oh now this will be reflected in symptoms, what can I do?” This adds more negative connotations.

Instead imagine the desired result, the health; and his methods in Psycho-Cybernetics do serve him very well in that regard, firing his imagination. One of the main problems however is any undue emphasis on the problem. The emphasis should be on the solution as already being known, and being (underlined) realized.

Now I have given you suggestions that will work to clear up the difficulties I have named. In the overall with your methods, he is doing well. The specifics showed their results, and as more specifics arise, if they do, I will mention them.

Do you want a break while you look for a proper pen?

To some extent, (underlined) you have still been concentrating upon the symptoms that remain, hardly noting those that have been relieved. This could have a tendency to undermine your confidence. Here I am pointing out adjustments to be made, but I do not mean to say that you have not been meeting with success.

Now apply what I have said tonight about Ruburt to yourself, in terms of your desire for abundance in all things, and examine yourself to see what negative attitudes you have, that you may not have recognized. Take the pen example, and apply it to other things that you want; and remember again, imagination as a valuable tool used correctly. It is your paintbrush, with which you form your reality. Do you have questions?

This is indeed beneficial. Think of selling them with love, and you must love the people you sell them to. I do not mean a false Pollyanna-type love, but you must feel that the paintings will bless them, and that you in turn accept the abundance in terms of money which will return to you.

Now do you have any questions?

Give me a moment. (Pause.) One point, not having to do with the sale: he feels that you and Ruburt have no time for him, since he moved away. Telepathically he picked up your envy, and it hurts him because he is afraid of his own driving concern for money and security. This is why he plies you with food and drink when you do see him there. (At his dine-and-dance club.)

He is always afraid because he feels lost in disorganization. He feels guilty for his daughter’s difficulty. He sold the house on the one hand to make money, and on the other hand he sold it to do penance because in his own way he loved it. He talked of selling the land and tearing down the terrace as a projected act of self-mutilation, mutilating something that he loved, to do penance for his sins, in his light.

He felt driven to do so. He is filled with a great love that he can never fully express, and is gifted with an intuition that he cannot follow but cannot close out. His intuitional abilities are considerable. It was not because he did not care for the house, but because he did care that he sold it.