“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

He was giving a good deal of time to our sessions. The woman’s session, to him, was to some degree a test of the material’s practical worth to someone in deep trouble. The woman’s death obviously meant that it did not pass. Again, he forgot the integrity of the personality. It must make its own choices, and may accept or refuse help given. The woman did not want the session, and had made a decision she did not intend to change. Venice’s will or anyone else’s could not stand against that.

(This is excellent material, well worth remembering. I want to keep it in mind especially re paintings and sales, of course. It’s still working as I type this, on a class night; one of Jane’s students bought another portrait. This one I’d finished but a couple of months ago. I didn’t expect this sale. Even as I write this paragraph, another student asked the price on a still life I painted a couple of years ago....)

In the back of their minds they are suspicious that had you continued you would have beaten them, and now they can never know differently. They cannot understand, either of them, how you could leave your job, their own sense of worth is so bound in possessions. They are deeply insecure, but good men. For you to leave your job and have a new car is doubly mysterious. They respect you, for that matter, in a quite mysterious way to them, that they do not understand.