“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(We were preparing to have a suggestion session this afternoon at naptime, when I became upset as a result of our conversation. We didn’t carry through, but slept instead. As we waited for tonight’s session Jane said she “got sort of down” because of this, yet added that there was no doubt her right leg was doing good things about straightening more. She also had more freedom in that she could swing her arms up and down, further out from her ribs.

Give us a moment.... In historical times as you think of them, pre-industrial man had no need of those particular devices. He dealt with reality differently. It is not necessary to say his way was better, but it was vastly different. Some of this is most difficult to explain in any terms that will make sense, because the entire belief system of your times bears physical evidence of course, that such inoculations work.

(“It was for tetanus, after I stepped on a rusty nail,” I said. Jane, as Seth, nodded.)

(10:25.) Give us a moment.... I am going carefully, because much of this could be misunderstood. In a way, modern medicine has brought about many of the complications that now assail it. When women had too many children in the past, many did not live to adulthood. In the larger scheme of reality, this provided a framework for individuals to taste infancy or childhood without growing to maturity. It seems like the most heartless lack of compassion to say that such a situation was the most natural, and in the long run for all, the most advantageous. And yet that can be said, for the framework worked, individually, and fit in with the goals of the species. The quality of life is all-important. There were fewer suicides, for those who survived, survived because of their own intent, their own desire, and the young died when it seemed natural to them. They died naturally, that is, and wholeheartedly, and were not torn between life and death.

Try to do your mutual suggestions when you feel you have a good rapport with Framework 2. You were wise not to do so today. Ruburt did try self-hypnosis then, but he was so overly concerned whether or not he would meet with results that for a while he simply exhausted himself with worry and concern. He held the session regardless, however, and allowed himself breathing space.

Your own late dreams gave you the message. The creature that disappeared or wilted when you attacked it was doubt. You triumphed when you refused to be at the mercy of your doubts. There is a passage Ruburt read somewhere: “Do not take counsel from your fears”—an excellent piece of advice.

(11:28 PM. Jane’s pace had been good throughout, and I thought the material excellent. It is after supper the next day as I type these notes. Jane wants me to add here that she has had many improvements today, in the eyes as well as other parts of the body. We went driving and shopping today, for Christmas, and she enjoyed the trip very much. After supper, sitting on the couch, she experienced what she called a “profound” relaxation—a term, she said, that she seldom used in relation to her condition. She was obviously extremely relaxed, yet did manage to get to the john, then out to her writing room.

(She told me it was hard to describe, but she has a different sensation of weight in her body, as though she’s relating better to the floor. The feeling is much like that she experienced following our first suggestion period, she added, where my suggestions produced a different, better sense of bodily weight, even in the soles of her feet. It appears this evening that those suggestions are still operating—or Jane has simply learned from them, and her body is responding accordingly.)