“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(2. I found myself wondering if my own attitudes might have strongly influenced Jane’s early psychic behavior in ways neither of us suspected—that she may have inhibited certain elements of her abilities because she feared my own ideas about distractions, time, failure, etc. Perhaps, Jane had wanted more physical and psychic activity all along, I thought—more tours, TV, publicity, fame, money, whatever—but all those things she held back on because of my own negative attitudes. I speculated about whether her sitting on such desires, not daring to admit them, say, might have surfaced as fear of scorn and criticism, and so forth. If such factors operated, they’d be the opposite of those we usually hold accountable. I do know that Jane has the abilities to perform all of those activities, and this almost idle realization recently may have triggered the more concrete question.

(Jane has written down her feelings each day since we began the new program, and we’ve then discussed them. The system seems to be working very well. We also use the pendulum before bed, with very good results. She hasn’t walked a great deal lately, but our emphasis is now on trusting the body’s own wisdom as to when it wants to perform, and what it wants to do. We seem to know a new kind of peaceful understanding, at least to some degree. Jane reports a continuing series of physical changes throughout her body—from the legs and ankles to the shoulder blades, elbows, ribs, etc. As Seth remarked, nothing is tightening up.)

In your society, work has many connotations. It usually involves spending a certain amount of time at a job, for which you receive financial payment. Most work involves consecutive thinking, in terms of time. If you do not have a job you are lazy—so that work becomes of course a virtue, as well as, usually, a necessity.

The paper Ruburt wrote was excellent. He should do a follow-up on it. For some insights in this area I would like to come through his own experience of direct feelings. The entire issue, however, involving both questions, I would like to save for our next session. Hopefully, Ruburt himself will have insights in the meantime that will make my material pertinent.

The body itself is further changing, and in the most beneficial of ways, so that reminder is important. The evening suggestions have been shorter and to the point—and to some extent took effect almost immediately. I do, however, want some material from Ruburt before I cover that material myself.

(“Thank you.” 10:49 PM. Seth commented on my Stella Butts experience just as I was about to ask him to do so. I’d forgotten to remind Jane about that experience before the start of the session. A copy of the experience can be found in my dream notebook.

(We’ve already reorganized and condensed the morning suggestions, as Seth recommends our doing in this session, and find that they’re now much more effective. Jane has been sleeping well.)