“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(10:44.) Now we come to Dialogues (with much humor)—in a brilliant connection of material—for Dialogues presents an intuitive odyssey. It is a book telling of interior events. It is highly rational, but it is not the type of rationality that people are familiar with. The interior events are not “structured” by the use of drugs. Which could explain the events for many people. Under drugs anything can seem to happen.

Alienation in small doses can be a stimulus for achievement, but overdone it is of no help at all. Your feelings, so brief this evening as you looked outdoors, were therapeutic, rewarding, positive. Your cells were even aware in their way of your emotion. The summer night was here, present to your senses. Had you at the same moment instead thought, for example, about Prentice-Hall in a negative way, or about any other negative event of the past or probable future, you would have responded to an event that in an important way was not immediately a part of the facts of the natural world.

You are surrounded physically by only so much to be immediately dealt with, mentally or physically. You are also surrounded by imaginative events, however, here, in the terms of our discussion. I mean events that have no immediate, present natural existence. They either existed in the past or might in the future.

Whenever you become anxious, overconcerned, you can almost always refresh yourself—I mean both of you—or anyone—by a return of attention to the events immediately present in the natural world.

It is basically far more rational to enjoy the summer night present to your senses than to react instead to unpleasant events separated from you in probabilities. This is not Pollyanna behavior, but a healthy response that has been lost by many people.

What I said to you about your moment with the evening, my remarks about responding to the present moment—these all involve ways of dealing with basic attitudes in your individual and joint behavior. I have given Ruburt physical and mental suggestions that should relieve stress and produce motion and creativity.

(12:01.) As a therapeutic measure then in such situations, a return to concentration upon present natural events is most advantageous, and this is heartily recommended to both of you.