“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(At about 9:40 PM, as we sat waiting for the session to start, Jane said she felt a bulky “something” off to her right, toward the bay windows in the living room. She didn’t actually see anything, nor did the effect develop further.)

In all of this you also acquiesced. It was known that only by presenting the material in writing, and eventually in books, that his personality would accept it. He would also be driven to critically analyze the phenomena (hyphen)—and in books, because he is a writer—before he felt free enough to simply create (period).

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.

(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....

(I thought at least that Jane could use the psychic awareness as intuition, etc., in her work, as everyone else did, do her “straight writing,” and let it go at that. At this time, in view of our own experiences, I seriously doubted that very many individuals in our reality were truly ready or equipped to handle such developments without a great struggle—chosen or no. There was, I felt, a great chance the struggle would get the best of them.

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.