“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Then since we have that established, let me tell you that it is of course no coincidence, for the right arm was the area first affected. The body has its own patterns of behavior, connected with beliefs; but in this memory pattern there are tracings, and these are beginning to be erased in the order in which the condition was established. Do you follow me?

While the condition reigned there was a characteristic overall body position and method of behavior that operated as a whole, and in line with his beliefs. It was organized, each portion of the body participating to give you the overall modus operandi.

In the meantime Ruburt is aware of sensation that before was largely deadened. The old condition had its own balance. The improvements will follow their own rhythm as the body sets up a new balance in compensation. Some of this has to do with energy patterns and flows.

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.

In that system he saw you nearly ten years older than he, and in those terms unsatisfied; so he must work all the harder against time, and cut out everything else. In that system, as he developed it, there was no time for leisurely meals, showers, shopping trips or mundane enjoyments—only the work was important. Only it would survive. The day in which it was produced would vanish and be nothing—only the work would survive as a monument. The trivialities and moods, the feelings of morning and twilight would be extinguished—so he thought as you told him, and so against many of his natural instincts he tried to obey.

So the day became nothing more than a framework in which he must work, and in which all relationships had little value except as they were interpreted through work. He became pursued by time, so that in his world there literally was no time for anything else.

Now this did finally become so reflected that feeling shunted aside threatened his work, and he finally recognized this. He was afraid of out-of-bodies precisely because he did not have a good enough footing in the present. He did not have the needed support.

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.

(10:50. Jane had been “really out.” She was already aware of more from Seth waiting for her, she said. Now she was extremely relaxed; she has had many relaxation sessions since this series from Seth began a few weeks ago. Her body felt like water, and also warm. I described the good news in the session to her. “I’m going to light a cigarette, get myself together, and go back to the session....” 11:02.)