“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

Most people could not handle a knowledge of future lives in the present. They would always be looking for greener pastures, so to speak, and life would lose that necessary clear focus. You can try to contact future selves, however, simply by trying to do so. It is better to concentrate on the subjective reality involved—that is easier, for if successful you will automatically tune into the future self that “emerged” from your present reality. You can receive quite beneficial advice in such a manner.

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.”

Give us a moment.... Make an effort, Joseph—more of an effort—to compliment Ruburt on his appearance, when it strikes you that he does look good. This will help reinforce his confidence. Complimentary lies do not work as a rule, and certainly I would not suggest them. When someone has been worried about their appearance, however, as Ruburt has, then honest compliments, when appropriate, operate most strongly as positive suggestion.