“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The critical writing and the symptoms went hand in hand. They were both cautionary procedures, symbolic and literal, that he felt necessary. Until his own understanding of his nature and the nature of consciousness progressed, he needed those tactics.

The reasons given still apply, but all within this greater framework. The body’s needs to some extent even have changed. Now much of this would have frightened you both in the past, and could not have been given until you reached a particular point of development, and achieved a new status both separately and in your relationship.

(It also seemed that both of us had made the decision to confine the psychic work to sessions only, which I thought would at this time automatically shut down a lot of possible developments. I also felt there was a strong possibility the sessions themselves would go by the board unless Jane showed much improvement before too much more time passed. We believe we are committed to delivering Seth’s new book, but after that....

Old stray patterns of thought therefore, or depressions, became more readily materialized, as did more positive ones, to your way of thinking. Both positive and negative elements were more quickly creatively materialized. It is almost (underlined), at least symbolically, as if Ruburt were born at age 36 into a world with new rules, to which he had then to acclimate himself.

You also felt that Ruburt needed you, particularly in the beginning, with both of your feet on the ground, so to speak; Ruburt is quite correct. In its way this session is as important as our initial ones.

For now class should be continued. Your social life should and must not be allowed to deteriorate. You both need that contact, but free you see of the demands he has felt from, say, correspondence. Nor need he feel at the beck and call of anyone who wants to come here for a session or otherwise.

The peanut butter he instinctively seeks out, but he should get in the habit of eating other kinds of nuts—cashews particularly. And as he suspected lately, sunflower seeds are good. Cottage cheese with lettuce he likes, and both are good for him. Olives are an important corollary, and he likes them.

The commercial weight-gaining liquid is highly contaminated, and should be avoided. Malted milk is all right, good, but never more than two glasses a day. Fish, chicken, with some veal. Some beef is all right, but not as a steady diet. I definitely do recommend both the daily vitamin E plus an overall vitamin and mineral supplement.

Later I will suggest that Ruburt cut down on both sugar and milk for coffee, but for now let it stand. The nuts should be kept on his desk however, and nibbled.

All of these suggestions will release both of you in important ways. He was never meant to give his entire conscious concentration to (in quotes) “psychic” work. The freedom of his own creative work will enhance those abilities, but also free him for some further expansions of consciousness that are meant to follow. The same applies to you, and in these endeavors you must work together.

—for you must go on in the way I have directed if you want to fulfill those abilities and purposes that you both have. And that is the end of the session.

That is the end. My best regards to you both.