“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(This morning Jane and I embarked on a new program in an effort to track down the origin of her symptoms. They appear to be worse and we’re vitally concerned. We wrote out a series of 14 questions for Seth, and planned for a session tonight. We also began a list of her beliefs. A list of my beliefs will be added. We want to have at least a session a week on personal matters, and two or three meetings a week for work on beliefs. As expected, some of Jane’s beliefs at least partially answered some of the questions we had for Seth, but we still desire him to consider the questions.

(Jane’s beliefs as listed already are very revealing, and much more is sure to come. Doing this work and having the session made us both feel much better. We slept well. Jane got up at 5 AM to do some work, and also went for a walk around the block before calling me for breakfast at 8.)

We are working with his beliefs. He felt that you would find tours, etc., highly disruptive. There would be endless decisions to be made. The symptoms cut the need for decisions in that area.

We are starting at the surface and working downward.

As mentioned today, he felt they served you, helped you save face in your family, and in society at large. You were not to be given the second place. Ruburt obviously needed you. Some of this did have to do with old ideas that you were angry at him for any success if you had not achieved your own—and more, that the success might take you on tours and further away from your own work, which would make you angrier at him.

Now. As partners, to some extent consciously you agreed to varying attitudes at different times to the conditions, though the main elements of course are Ruburt’s. You feel the necessity for some restraint in social encounters, and with the world at large. Ruburt is providing them, and also for his own reasons. He is showing the spontaneity in his work that you have denied yourself in many respects in yours. He is dealing with the world of markets that you have been unwilling to deal with. That is why you are so sensitive in that area.

Give us time.... You have agreed that restraints should be used. Ruburt chose the method. The methods came from his own experience in this life. The things you both strongly agreed upon were allowed freedom within those limitations. Until recently you spoke to him against travel because you lost work time. He believed that you thought it a waste of time, so he did not believe his lack of physical mobility that way would hamper you.

He feared that left alone he would want to travel at the drop of a hat. Your deepest drives involve inner work. He thought he chose methods then that would annoy each of you the least.

You have, Joseph, your own invisible beliefs. In a way Ruburt was doing precisely what you would do on one level—not leaving the house, avoiding tours, simply working, cutting out all distractions, and again you approved—not of methods, but of everything else.

The idea of cutting down stimuli and concentrating on work was quite agreeable to both of you for some time, far beyond the time you think it was. (Pause.) You then had to do many of the chores, and go out into the world, in you must admit a small fashion, but Ruburt was afraid that otherwise you would retreat.

Now all of this tonight is in response to one question, and would apply whether or not psychic work was involved. It is only lately that each of you have really become worried enough to want a real change.

(Seth’s reference to Jane’s book idea, Aspect Psychology, touches on one of our other questions. Her editor, Tam Mossman, has offered her the prospect of a contract for a book on Adventures in Consciousness combined with Aspects. We’ve been wondering if it is a good idea for Jane to become involved with Adventures, in light of past problems. At this time we think it’s probably okay for her to work on Aspects, though.)