“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Tonight Seth came through with excellent material on my probability dream question, and on reincarnation. The material really belongs in a regular session. To avoid its getting lost or forgotten, I plan to insert a note calling attention to it in the next regular session we have, which would be a book session on mass reality. It doesn’t seem tonight’s material would fit in here either

People may have some glimmerings of their own reincarnational existences, but they are patterned according to current beliefs—fleshed out by ideas from movies or history books. They need such data as a framework to hold or contain their intuitive knowledge. They do not have access to the history books of the future in the same way. They have nothing to hang that intuitive knowledge upon. The history books of the past, for that matter, are mainly fabrications.

Now: when you are painting a picture and you have a good start, you do not think to yourself “I have a good start, but I will most likely ruin what I have begun.” When Ruburt is writing, and has a good page, he does not think “This is fine and good, but the next page will likely be lousy, and I will never have a book.”

Your attitudes before—and after—our last session, about Ruburt’s condition, can be equated however with precisely such uncreative and cowed frames of mind. To some extent those attitudes have been habitual. Carried to extremes, such a would-be artist or writer would never complete a painting or a book—not because of any lack of ability but because of lack of confidence and poor mental attitudes.

In the face of the belief that the painting or the book would be miserable if produced, each good sentence or artistic stroke would be the opportunity not for rejoicing but for dismay: “Aha, what a fine stroke to be wasted, for the painting will surely go astray.” Or “What a great line thrown away, for surely no others will follow.”

You deal in this area, as in all areas, with probabilities. Ruburt’s body is changing into a more or less normally flexible one. He is pulling that probability toward him. When he is beginning a book, however, he does not think “This is a probable book.” It becomes his book, period. That is because he does not dwell upon possible impediments, and is relatively self-confident.

The Oversoul Seven books are the result of a playful creativity, a free following of creative impetus. As he supposes, he became worried about the Christ satire. This harks back to old concerns, but was also tied into current events, and the growth of fundamentalism lately.