“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now: (Long pause.) Personal fears never exist as a result of personal experience alone. They are always connected with larger belief systems that belong to some extent to the person, and to the person’s age as well.

Personal Reality, a book Ruburt may have heard of, does indeed deal precisely with such issues. No particular episodes alone, though they may seem to do so, ever cause a particular condition, say, of illness, though such episodes may be used as catalysts. Instead, the framework of belief in which the episodes occur has prime importance. Fears should not he inhibited, but encountered, and yet behind all of them, in your time at least, lies the feeling that the individual is powerless against the conditions of his body or the events of the world.

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.

Your immediate situation and all past ones, regardless of personal fears, which should not be discounted, result from Ruburt’s until-now determined decision to stand critically apart from his intuitional knowledge. That knowledge, in other words, consciously assimilated and used, can solve any of the personal problems.

Ruburt’s mood of powerlessness must be broken, and you can help him there. Such a program will have effects in your life also, Joseph. Ruburt’s fears, again, should not be buried, nor should they be emphasized, but the book will tell you how to handle this. I mean both of you. (By having faith that in the future things can be better—thus, no conflict.)