“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(As we were eating lunch today Jane said she thought Seth would discuss the question of good and evil, re our conversation on those subjects the other day. Before the session I showed her a copy of my dream for last Monday morning—one that had been so unpleasant that I’d avoided writing it down until after supper tonight. It’s on file in my notebook for August 7, 1978. In the dream I saw myself as a rather corpulent older individual wearing robes as they do in the Middle East; at an elaborate feast I watched mice being burned alive in a special gadget, before we skinned and ate their corpses. In the dream I swore off doing so ever again. The dream has stayed very vividly with me ever since I had it. Once I’d written it down, I saw that its subject matter fit in very well with the idea of good and evil, and told Jane I hoped Seth would use it in any discussion of his own.

(I had another question for Seth: What should Jane do about her walking on days when she doesn’t feel like doing so—as today? I’d told her to forget it, to trust that her body would know when it wanted to walk. She’s concerned, however, lest she find herself giving up on walking, at least to a greater degree than she now walks.)

The fire was supposed to burn away any disease, and mice were all too numerous. Acts which fit in with the good-intended universe, in which basically each life and detail, seeking its good, also works for the good of all others, bring forth what you call good acts—simple enough acts which are not well-intentioned in that light, toward the self or others “do not work right.” They are flawed, unpleasant. They bring pain, sorrow, or illness to the self or to others, and they are often called evil acts.

Acts not well-intentioned clash with the basic structures that form experience, and hence they do indeed appear in grotesque, fragmented or distorted form—often all the more reprehensible in contrast to their stated intent.

Now give us a moment.... As to Ruburt: first of all, he is at another stage, and one in which motion should be gently—persistently but gently—encouraged. His purpose and his psychological progress have led him to further activations, and as I have said several times, this means that sometimes he will feel like walking, and will do so with a relative amount of balance, and on other occasions, perhaps 20 minutes earlier or later, his walking might be uncomfortable and “worse” in performance.

The arms have again further lengthened, and the shoulder blades are pulling apart more. It is not just lengthening, however, that is required, for the released muscles must learn to operate in new ways—and this has to do with the joints as well. His physical progress then is excellent.

He has been exercising because he wants to. Let him give himself the opportunity, as he has been, to walk twice a day, as far as he wants, or as briefly. Just so he allows the opportunity, for his own peace of mind, but do not force the body. You will not need to. Now he tries to walk when you are in the kitchen so as not to bother you, but there will be times when he will want to, and can simply call.

You could have “meditated” upon it. You do not appreciate your own dream, or your appreciation of it is too remote—and yes, it does contain some reincarnational data, for it shows you a moment in a life when a decision was made, even though the emotional disgust that you felt at the time was separated from you—for the mouse at the time stood not only for itself but also for the victims of war, burned bodies you had seen while soldiers went about the remains to see what loot might be left.

One small note that occurred to me: for whatever reasons—I will not discuss them now—Ruburt did not feel particularly that you needed or wanted his physical help in matters that you could perform more efficiently by yourself. To the contrary, he felt that he got in your way, got under foot, and that you preferred to do without such “help.”

(10:15 PM. Again, Jane was surprised at the early end of the session. Again, she thought the length of the session, or the time involved, had little to do with the quality of the material. She’s had the same reactions following the last deleted session of Monday evening. She laughed. “I wonder if the sessions get better as I get better....”)