“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Tonight John himself told Jane that the success of Personal Reality is “phenomenal,” meaning that it has sold close to 40,000 copies hardcover its first year out.)

What beliefs do you have to change?

(9:40.) You have built up the idea of free time being wrong, sinful, no matter what you tell yourself about wanting more of it. That is one thing. Deeper, however, is the fact that the belief in an unsafe universe sets up certain habits of resistance, and more practically, of self-protection. The resistance is protective. It shows itself in fears that seem perfectly realistic, and indeed highly practical—the feeling itself is not let go of easily, for you and others rely upon it. It is a state of alarm and readiness. You are so used to feeling unsafe that you consider alarm of one kind or another as a realistic approach to life.

There, you have made some good strides. Your good strides there, however, led to your momentary-enough concern with New York City’s economic fate. Your beliefs in the safe universe are spreading. That is why you used the symptoms “just in case.” In the unsafe universe, however, you—not you alone—believe that something good will be fought over. The books prove their merit in that reality, because they are fought over to whatever degree.

If you are with friends, either of you, and someone, for example Bill Gallagher, says that he envies you for being able to work at home and be free, neither of you ever say “It’s terrific—just what we wanted,” or some such.

The woman (Pat) likes the books, is highly enthusiastic, quite sensitive, so that she did pick up your joint dissatisfactions with Fell. She sympathizes with Fell, however, and with the book (ESP Power), as an underdog—an underdog book. There are personal connections between the woman and the man at Fell. She likes him; so John bore the brunt. (I should have asked: what kind of connections?

You form your private and joint reality. Those beliefs of your own that went underground, so to speak, must be altered. I have mentioned the important ones this evening. Time works with you, not against you. Underline 4 times.

Your own will appear in a burst of greater creative freedom. You did not have symptoms in the past—and now they are minimal. Your belief in an unsafe universe however was reflected in a dampening of your creative abilities in contrast to what you can produce. As your beliefs change completely, as they are, you will then experience a far greater creative freedom and release from the tyranny of time that those beliefs brought about.

What he terms “heroic impulses” were impeded because of his beliefs, and the whole concept will become much clearer to him in the very near future. He will become quicker in his motion at all levels. Certain necessary developments are taking place that will appear in Politics, and they are developments that will now be within his reach.