“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(As Jane and I worked with the pendulum on Thursday morning, May 8, I thought of two questions for Seth that we’d never asked him before. 1. Since he is presumably dead by now, what does Dr. Instream think about psychic phenomena? Does he remember Jane, etc? 2. What about the young psychologist we met at Oswego during our visit to see Instream? What does that individual now think about psychic phenomena: Does he remember Jane, etc? Has he heard of her? Why did I get to talking with him in the conference room on campus, then take him to our room, where he proceeded to so upset Jane?

(Last night Jane had a dream she didn’t like. She couldn’t recall it clearly, but it featured her talking to a man, objecting to him that he’d told her something he’d given her would be painless—but that it was instead quite painful: a suicide pill, or something like that, she said. “You told me it wouldn’t hurt...” I was there as a bystander. Jane had agreed to do something that wouldn’t hurt, but it did. I asked that Seth comment.

(This morning Jane and I worked with the pendulum on the question of inspiration, and discovered that there was much there to be learned and clarified in her attitudes, and mine too, for that matter. The three pages of questions we devised are on file. We learned among other things that Jane felt she had to hold off on new inspiration while we fulfilled existing commitments—schedules and contracts, etc., and that she wanted to help type “Unknown” Reality, Volume 2, presumably, I thought so that she could get it out of the way so she’d be free to go on to other things. I hadn’t anticipated her doing that kind of “work,” though. This afternoon she did type on the first session for the book, though, and said she felt much better. We asked that Seth comment on the whole idea of inspiration for her, beyond material he’s already given.

Ruburt “works” intuitively. The results appear quickly sometimes effortlessly. He uses a different kind of organization. That organization is holistic, so that it deals with large issues. He begins there, and the details necessary fall into place. You might quite properly say that much “work” is involved, but it is of an interior, concentrated, intent and largely invisible nature. Often only the results show.

When Ruburt becomes consciously aware of those results, then he is inspired. That is, he encounters a fresh flow of new perceptions, or of perceptions suddenly appearing in an original manner, so that he is seized with energy, and has merely then to let the intuitive information flow. That is the way he operates. The same applies—in different degree, now—in his painting.

Ruburt has always rather envied your approach. His, relatively speaking, is a fiery approach. He is quite unaware, consciously, of doing any work for these sessions. He does, of course, for our communications do not just happen, and my voice (much louder, briefly) like his, is an inspired one.

(10:05.) Give us a moment.... Ruburt has tried to pace himself to you, because it seemed your way was the more practical. He does not think of jobs to be done. The use of the word means one thing to you and one thing to him.

Now let us look at the dream, and also at today’s activities. The dream told him that he had agreed to deaden himself to a certain extent, and that he did not think deadening yourself would be painful. He would just slow everything down. He was confronting the part of himself that decided upon the course to which the other part agreed, while you stood by, watching. He discovered that trying to deaden yourself is quite painful.

The dream initiated your pendulum work on inspiration, for to Ruburt to deaden yourself is to deaden inspiration, which to him is the quickness of life. Now he did this because of his ideas of work, and of jobs to be done, and effort.

When he thinks of work in that fashion, then feelings of responsibility, respectability, scorn or criticism emerge, to thicken the picture. He felt that inspiration was providing so much material that it could not be handled in time. He also felt that his inspiration threatened you with more work, which, it seemed to him, was not particularly pleasant for you, since you often spoke about your difficulties in doing the notes, and only lately have you begun to say when you are doing well.

Often my sessions are meant to lead him somewhere, or to stimulate him in certain fashions. Today he felt like acting actively with “Unknown.” Both of you there have concentrated upon impediments, and suddenly, finally, his desire led him to begin typing the book. He began thinking in terms of what he could do, so that now we see that he is not only physically desiring to do more, and trying it, but also mentally stimulated, and with a new sense of purpose as far as “Unknown” is concerned, and a desire reawakened to play with Seven.

Ruburt can use a particular though brief encouragement in the morning immediately upon awakening, but overall the body is responding beautifully. He can perhaps try to walk a bit more now.

I believe he is teaching, or taught, in a midwestern university. You approached him because of your own quite conventional feelings, that because he was comparatively young he would be broadminded. You also sought to form a contact with someone more or less a contemporary, who was in the psychological field.