“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(To me:) I have a few comments before dictation. Give me a moment. (Long pause.) You have a deep love of the land, from your Denmark days. Early in this life you also enjoyed it. You liked working with the land, but because of conflicts with your father you turned against, for example, gardening.

You have always wanted some land of your own, and have been bitter that you did not have it. Subconsciously you are also bitter because you could have nearly purchased a place of your own with the money that you used to help your father purchase your family home.

There is simply a deep difference. Ruburt for example will enjoy and make use of whatever land he has, be it only the dirt in a window-sill plot. He does not have ambiguous feelings to supercharge his reactions in this particular area. To you this apartment house and its grounds are considered in terms of land, and dwelling. You think of the land you do not have. You have not been able to take advantage of the yard or the ground available as positive things of joy and refreshment, and have therefore been denied an extra advantage from this place, and the conditions that Ruburt has enjoyed.

He thinks of this place in terms of a dwelling rather than as land, but because his attitude is not charged and because he does love land, he is able to enjoy what land there is. Now he compares this place for example to his childhood home, as subconsciously you compare it to yours, whether you know it or not. He comes out far above in comparison. You do not, and this angers you.

To him other apartments, vacant, that you look at, represent automatically psychic probabilities that intrigue him simply because they exist. No land idea is connected. This does not mean he does not notice or dislike a given neighborhood. The lay of the land with you however immediately overwhelms other considerations, and if there is no land you do not even want to step foot upon the property. These are simply variations in reaction that you should both understand.

There is also in your subconscious the feeling of a land or farm in connection with the one owned by your father’s family.

While you want land, you also fear that it will tie you down, and to some extent your feelings are ambiguous. This added to the points mentioned earlier, has largely prevented any move; far more, I believe, than any financial considerations.

All right. Ruburt automatically thinks of the productivity of land, when he thinks of land. He would do very well in the future in buying real estate—and there will be money to buy it. He would not do as well with stocks and bonds. They are meaningless to him.

You need not fear, then, that he would not follow wholeheartedly, say, in moving to a house for example, for the tangible element and the land would rouse those instincts. If you have no questions we will resume dictation, or what was the beginning of chapter 9 (of Seth Speaks.

(10:10. Jane’s trance had been good—she was far out, she said. Her pace had also been good. I thought the material excellent. It should prove very useful. I had suspected some points, but most was very revealing, especially my subconscious reasons re land ownership, Jane’s very excellent way of personifying wherever she lived, etc., and her unknown ability for real estate dealing, etc.

(I will make the attempt to change negative attitudes. I have often puzzled over our lack of action in seeking larger quarters, etc. My ambiguous feelings re owning land, rather than purely financial considerations, is quite instructive, etc.)