“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(After supper Jane began experiencing a profound, heavy, liquid, watery and supportive kind of relaxation throughout her right side from head to toe. Then her left side became involved to some degree. She told me she felt cushioned and supported, and my estimate was that she was undergoing an increase in circulation, along other things, and that it was all to the good. She looked wet-eyed, bleary, half-asleep, sitting on the couch. I thought she’d probably not have a session, but eventually she decided to after we had talked it over. Her decision was very fortunate. She also knew of my questions about counterparts that I’d come up with as a result of my work on The “Unknown” Reality: were Jane and I counterparts; and, to resolve a contradiction—in two different sessions in that book, were George Rhoads and I counterparts, or weren’t we? Jane was somewhat “out of it”, or better, by session time.)

The basic, specific areas became largely inactive. They did not demand the same amount of nourishment. This is a simplification, but the cells were put in a kind of dry storage. To an extent the tissues involved became smaller, dry, less elastic, less demanding of nourishment. They curled up, so to speak.

At the same time, because of Ruburt’s own purposes, they were perfectly preserved—not for instance attacked in any fashion, but in many ways isolated from the rest of bodily activity.

Ruburt has recently used the suggestion “Infinite intelligence leads me and guides me in all my ways.” If you thoroughly understood what that means then you do indeed live and experience a safe universe. Your pendulum will give you the specific reasons for any difficulties, but behind these ever-changing reasons is always the sense of insecurity you feel when you believe the universe is against you to whatever degree. It works with you when you let it, and you attract to yourself all of those conditions that are cooperative to your ventures.

Now: when you anticipate problems from Prentice, you attract them. You do not know what would happen, pragmatically, if you did not imagine such difficulties, because in one way or another you have always anticipated them from the beginning. You had no such ideas of a safe universe then. There are people in any organization who are in the habit of sloppy work. There are also people in any organization who have fairly decent standards of excellence. But even the sloppy workers will indeed pick up your ideas of excellence, and try to translate them, finding even a new satisfaction in their work—but only if you think of what you want as a product, and not what you fear you will get instead.

Ruburt’s symptoms made sense in an unsafe universe. He needed protection, he felt. Your feelings about Prentice made sense in an unsafe universe, where you had to protect the excellence of your vision from incompetence. You can make that leap into the safe universe—just as Ruburt is. The leaping is a process of growth, so in your terms give yourself time, but do not equivocate.

To one extent or another you can “pick up on” any personality living or dead, historically or in the future—but in any future, because in far more complicated ways each psyche contains within it the experience and knowledge of others. “You” change your viewpoint in the universe, and “you” are someone else. Yet you are still yourself....

(Long pause at 11:05.) Very difficult to explain. In certain term ways, however, beside this, you and Ruburt have always been related. You have been aware of each other’s intents, feelings and purposes. Now, you can say that you were cut out of the same cloth (amused but intent). Your entire lives this time have been leading toward this new affiliation mentioned earlier.

You (me) even arranged it so that the kind of art you wanted to do could not be done in the accepted framework of artistic reference, but would necessitate such a growth of consciousness. You chose problems, each of you, challenges, that would lead to such a development. I will tell you now that that leap is assured—for had it not been assured in what seems to be your future, I would not have emerged in your past (whispering.

Now in one context those ideas are valid, but they are also deceiving—because your present focus will determine which reincarnational episodes you become aware of (intently). In that context, two lives in one century, overlapping, seem contradictory, but I tell you all along that you live many lives at once.