“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(We also discussed a letter Jane had received today from a young man who’d visited us unannounced a couple of months ago; he thinks he’s being bugged by nasty voices from outer space; before that he’d insisted that Seth was speaking through him. He still refuses to consider that his problem is a psychological one, instead of disembodied, outside evil voices picking on him. I’d felt badly about his visit, since we certainly accorded him a hostile reception, and evidently had accomplished little.

Each person has a highly unique mental environment. For various reasons not to be gone into here, your people have learned not to trust their bodies or their minds. It seems to Ruburt that his thoughts are negative a good deal of the time—naturally—and that he must take effort to change them. Of course, instead it is the other way around: his thoughts are creative and exuberant—naturally—when he leaves himself alone, and the troublesome thoughts that seem so natural now are the results of acquired mental patterns as he began to distrust his own nature, as given many times.

(10:35.) Now give us a moment.... Any of the pills are all right, taken now and then—but the stronger ones provide overstimulations when taken often, and these caused Ruburt’s difficulties. The less the better. He is also unused to taking medications. And that had something to do with the side effects. Otherwise, all I can do is to stress what I have said before. His desire to walk in the kitchen is excellent, and shows new determination.

The material just given has also been given for that reason—for trusted, his mental life would blossom overnight. He became overly cautious because he thought he should be that way, though he was not by nature. He thought it was not mature or reasonable to trust people. He was afraid he was too vulnerable. He was afraid, too, of his own spontaneity, as I have so often said—when of course his spontaneity is the best insurance of protection, for the mind and body know when there is danger and when there is not. Forget then, both of you, imagined dangers of any kind, and all such projections.