“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

This does not mean that those other lives are subordinate. Other entities might spread their creativity and focus more equally over many lives. But in all cases the entity is simply the part of the self that cannot fit into one life alone. It is not, for example, an alien superself. When you go on a journey you cannot take your home with you—only certain luggage. In physical life, you cannot take your entire entity with you—only the part of it that you call yourself. And you are well-equipped with the proper passports, and inoculated with certain root assumptions.

The past not only still exists, vital and alive, but it constantly gives forth multitudinous futures, as does your present. Yet each self is couched in an infinite cocoon of being from which it cannot fall, but ever emerge in changing form. If you want a better knowledge of your father’s existence, then try to think of him as a being who happened to be your father, and that will free your concepts of him.

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.”

When either of you do good work you compliment each other. You do not say “But will that be followed up tomorrow by work as good or better?” You do not say “That is fine, but most likely tomorrow you will ruin what you did today.” Yet such uncreative attitudes have often, now, hampered you in that direction of Ruburt’s condition, so that you programmed yourselves to expect disappointment.

He has made efforts, now, but the daily notes help reprogram his frame of mind. You do not always feel, say, “down” at the same time, so learn to encourage each other when possible. The changes in Ruburt’s body continue to be those exactly required, and in response to his intent and desire to be responsive.

That word, again, is important. He can keep his spirits up considerably by remembering to devote three hours to writing—James or otherwise, but he should not lapse into worrying about his condition. He should make an honest attempt at those walking exercises. Some days he will know that his body wants to relax, but even then the walking should be attempted, for the improvements will have an opportunity to work along with the body mechanism in operation.

The causes of the eye “difficulties” are as given. His new or old teeth (humorously) are not responsible. Overall tension on the jaw has contributed, but that is lessening as the neck and head are released. It is highly important that as much as possible he forget the symptoms, concentrate on the improvements that occur, and take it for granted that these will continue.

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.