“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Both dreams are on record in my own dream notebook. Jane herself wrote up the Stamp dream and its many connections. Most interesting... Now she told me that Seth’s recent prediction that her eyes would show noticeable improvement shortly has evidently come to pass; she wanted me to note that here. Her vision, while not normal in all respects yet, has greatly improved. And consistently, to her delight. Jane is also recovering from the tooth challenges very well.)

You cannot be alive without faith, yet faith can be distorted. There is faith in good, but there is also faith in “evil.” In usual terms faith takes it for granted that a certain desired end will be achieved, even though the means may not be known. In usual terms, again, there is no direct evidence, otherwise you would have no need for faith.

When you fear the worst will happen, you often are showing quite real faith in a backwards fashion, for with no direct evidence before your eyes of disaster, you heartily believe it will occur—you have faith in it (with emphasis and irony). That is, indeed, misplaced faith.

The young woman, Frances (Gardella), who wrote Ruburt, with no evidence was certain she would be followed—tomorrow if not today. I want to point out that faith is not all that unusual, but a prime element in your life. You can have faith that you will be ill. This should be obvious, because for example there are healthy people also, with no evidence of any disease, who have utter faith that disease is hidden within them, or swiftly approaching.

Since you did not clearly state your intents for, say, normal walking and flexibility, and had little faith in it, then you feared that improvements could not be trusted, for in your experience they went so far and no further. Yet any poor performance was taken by Ruburt, particularly, as evidence in the other direction. You were caught between the ideal and a very poor performance, one contrasting with the other.