“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(It also seems that I’ll never be finished with “Unknown” Reality. During our talk last night, I told Jane that we’d made a serious error in deciding to publish it in two volumes, with extensive notes—that there were obviously other courses of action we could have taken. I know that she is very upset by the time element involved here, and now I’m not at all sure that I know what I’m doing on the project any more. I do know it’ll be done some day—and never again.... Jane has been spending most of her time lately using the pendulum, making notes, reading old sessions on herself and myself, etc, but presently I see all this activity as repeating old rhythms. We’ve talked about it a lot lately, but...? I think she came up with some new insights lately, yet she found hints of even those later, in old sessions; we’d just forgotten them.)

The point of power is in the present. You believe it or you do not believe it.

You react by setting up defenses. Because of Ruburt’s old ideas about femininity, kept beyond their time, he feels more vulnerable than you amid those unsafe conditions, and has put up extra safeguards. Life was not meant to be perfect. You can, however, choose to accept your challenges wholeheartedly, resolutely—something that you have not really done. I do not think you believe what I tell you, and you do not believe me because you do not really believe that the point of power is in the present.

In those areas you believed that the point of power was in the present. Ruburt’s physical condition is so noticeable and so has your joint attention, because it stands out alone as the one large negative in a period of positive growing achievement, abundance, and understanding.

It is, therefore, the result of beliefs once helpful carried beyond their time —of defenses no longer needed. It also represents one area where neither of you truly believe that the point of power is in the present. In that one area you grant the power to the past.

You look at the time involved that the symptoms have continued, and you grant more power to that past than you do to the present.

If you can only manage to realize that the point of power is in the present, in all areas, then Ruburt’s condition can dramatically improve in a short time. You are afraid of looking for improvements. You do not trust them. You think that because there have been failures in the past, failures are inevitable. Ruburt must reinstate a playful attitude mentally and psychically.

(Louder:) The point of power is in the present.