“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Before this life both of you decided upon the search for knowledge. Knowledge, of course, is not some thing that you find or discover. You must become knowledge. It is never apart from you. It is a process of self-discovery. You chose your environments, your interests, your families, friends, and associates forming bit by bit the details that would become the pictures of your lives.

You knew you would not be after conventional knowledge. To mix your purposes with the conventional family life would have been most difficult, so you chose situations that left you free until you met—that is, of property, children, or important ties.

You were gifted enough so that you would not starve in the marketplace (humorously)—and yet your gifts were also those that would fit in with your overall purposes of obtaining knowledge of the inner workings of nature, and the psyche. Both of you constantly question the world, and both of you in different ways protected yourselves, so that you would not be tempted by the world’s usual ways.

You both believed in relating personally to the universe. You wanted some relative seclusion. The search for knowledge would mean often that you would be between beliefs, operating as you had been taught through training, and trying to operate according to the new knowledge. You know this, of course. The search for knowledge on your parts was personal. You would share what you learned with the world —but he who seeks knowledge must first of all be himself or herself, for most members of the world cannot follow such a course.

Ruburt has often felt that it was too late, and that you could not help him —for you would sabotage his efforts, as it seemed he himself did. Such feelings should be admitted. They are, however, the results of old hangovers, when he is reacting to conventional, quite limited knowledge filled with distortion, about the nature of the psyche, the nature of time—knowledge further polluted by methods of problem-solving that simply add to problems.

Your joint comprehension of this can bring about changes in Ruburt’s condition that now, to you, would seem to be miracles. When you put the action of your mind in line with the knowledge I am giving you, you cannot help but solve your problems, because the solutions naturally arise.