“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

He has done well following my suggestions, particularly going outside. The squatting he performed (last Friday night) should be repeated once daily at least, for it reinforces the idea of letting go with the body.

I want to say something about beliefs that became obvious to him today concerning time and “work.” The ideas of work have been largely covered. His beliefs about time are important in relationship to his work ideas. As he noted, the belief was that he must be the young American poet, or the young American writer. Now we are dealing with an old belief system once shared to a large extent by you both.

The body’s weight was kept down for the same reasons, because he felt according to those old beliefs, that the body’s sustenance and substance in physical reality was not important in regard to his work. These ideas are also vanishing now. The body with weight and substance might be unmanageable, filled with too much energy, and therefore want the physical activity he thought he must deny it for his work. It is not a matter of what he ate, but chemically what he did with the nourishment.

Any panic he now recognizes having to do with time represents left-over old obsessions about the necessity to work with a time limit. Even in those limited terms you see he realized that his achievements and production are in his terms now sufficient; but he must move out of those limiting ideas, and he is.

He still does not completely understand the nature of what he calls Sumari time, in relationship with inspiration. This concept is extremely valuable however, in freeing him from old time ideas.

His idea of changing the present through altering pictures in the past is also pertinent and good. Have him continue the practice as he began it—it aids in understanding beliefs, and it does alter the past and therefore the present.

The sitting down, whether on a chair or the toilet, has to do with the fear of letting the body go. Where the toilet is concerned the ideas of time enter in, where he did not want to take time out. Everything as given last week to be continued then, with the added suggestions. These are geared to his condition.