“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(This afternoon I reminded Jane that she should read the 657th session in Chapter 15 of Personal Reality. It contains Seth’s material on the present point of power; I came across it while checking out a reference for Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality. Looking it over, I saw at once that it contained the key to Jane’s solving her challenges with the symptoms. At the same time, it depressed me deeply as I thought of the opportunities we’d missed through the years. My depression grew through the afternoon, the session, while I slept, and woke again. At the same time, I do think we’ve made some progress through our own work with the pendulum.)

Intuitively Ruburt blazed through such beliefs—intuitively—and his books and mine are evidence of that. Intuitional knowledge and conscious assimilation are some poles apart, at least in your society. Both of you found it quite necessary to take a strong conscious, critical look at the material from the beginning, for your trainings told you, in the terms that you understood them, that the “subconscious” could be very misleading, though creative, and that therefore you must critically examine any intuitive productions that profess themselves to stand as truths rather than as creative fictions in your world.

The material in Personal Reality, however, contains psychological and psychic truths. Those truths have indeed, and as of now, helped millions of people. Those people were not involved in such a psychic initiation, however, in your time, so they can in your terms afford to use such helpful information, and do not feel any need at all to hold themselves apart from it as Ruburt has.

If the material does not work, they can always blame Ruburt, you see.

In that regard he becomes overly conscientious. We have never told anyone to do anything, except to face up to the abilities of consciousness. Because of that attitude, however, and because of the critical—or, rather, overly critical stance—he has held himself more aloof than necessary from using the material itself. The ideas, for example, in Personal Reality are exactly those that will resolve his doubts and remove his fears, and the techniques given do work.

You must understand that basically—basically—both body and mind are mental. You are dealing with translations of impulses, beliefs and feelings into flesh, which in itself is composed of consciousnesses also. It is difficult to verbalize, but your question “Why doesn’t the subconscious know when to stop, if its defenses actually become too dangerous?” is asked in too limited a framework, though I understand your concern and what you mean. The self knows it has many lives to live. It knows no limitations last. The body and mind are one, and in that unity, regardless of appearances, one is the materialization of the other.