“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(“Yes.” At suppertime, Seth spoke to Jane rather harshly as she worked in the kitchen. His data concerned her symptoms, and evidently continued material we had been discussing ourselves the last day or two on our own. I asked that tonight’s session deal only with personal material, so we were fairly well prepared. Jane shed a few tears when she came to the studio to tell me that she had heard from Seth late this afternoon. She also remarked that she wished she hadn’t heard from him. However, I considered the insights she gained to be very valuable indeed.)

Numb to the body’s desires for exercise, motion, air. Do you follow me?

(9:45. The pace had been good. My hand was tired. I was absolutely appalled by the material. It was an extension of insights we had been discussing lately, but to see it all neatly arrayed together was devastating. I sat in silence for several minutes because I didn’t know what to do; I seemed to be neutralized by the conflicting feelings washing over me. Nor did Jane say anything.)

You would have fallen into many problems yourself with the attitudes you had if the opportunity had come to you first. Do you follow me?

(I couldn’t agree with these ideas less. It may be beating a dead horse, but let me say that I’ve told Jane time and again that I don’t consider her physical condition an acceptable price to pay for any sort of creative achievement. This idea hasn’t penetrated, though.)

(This statement struck me so forcibly that I simply had to stop writing for a bit in order to recover from my amazement. I asked Seth to wait.)

(“Is this vacation going to do any good? It seems to me there’s got to be a strong change in his attitude, or the whole thing’s going to be wasted.”)