“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Today I read the deleted session for June 24, 1973—one of those in the 1973 deleted book that Seth suggested I read, in the last session. I was dismayed to realize that some four and a half years had passed since that session had been held, and that we were still struggling with the same problems—indeed, that Jane had lost much ground physically in the interim. I read the material and it plagued me through the day. I explained my feelings to Jane as we sat for the session, and as I talked felt myself sink into a deep depression. Once again, I wondered what we’d been doing while all that time passed.)

Ruburt read it, and is reading it, looking for those feelings that allowed vast improvements to occur at the time—and for once he did not look into the past with his usual self-disapproval. To some extent he began to recapture some of those feelings. With what he has learned, and with that emotional touchstone, he has indeed made good strides, which are quite obvious for both of you to see. .

Ruburt recaptured that sense of acceleration, at least momentarily. In Personal Reality I stressed many of these points for our readers, but you yourselves forget to apply them in that one important area of your lives. The last sessions managed to rearouse your faith, but you yourselves must tend it, as indeed, Joseph, you tend your plants. Do not identify with what you think of as past failures. The point of power is in the present, and when you believe changes can occur, they do indeed happen.

If Ruburt is showing improvements, then let these rise to your attention. The material in the last two sessions explains why it is so easy to feel disapproval. To some extent the same attitude applies to whatever you do physically, for you compare it to what you think you should be doing that is perhaps more vigorous. You can break those habits of thought. Ruburt certainly has made some strides of late, and so have you.

Those thoughts bring you precisely what you say neither of you want. I suggest you read the late sessions again, and I imagine that by our next session you will both be in a better frame of mind, unless you allow your discouraging feelings to predominate, which would be a vast mistake.

To some extent the perspective one, two, three material is related to Frameworks 1 and 2, for the symbols of your mind grow in their own fashion, changing shape and form, but following the emotional content rather faithfully. If you truly understood what I am saying, you would realize the importance of encouraging optimistic, jestful feelings of faith, of cultivating them—for it is far more important to collect them than money. They represent far greater security, defense, and strength. They are far more practical than any negative considerations, regardless of how realistic those might appear at any given time.