“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The following material is from the 830th session. Break came at 10:25, after Seth had delivered material for his book on the mass psyche. The notes that follow were written during that break, and would usually be presented with the regular session; however, since they’re more personal than usual, they’re given below instead. Jane’s quotations in them do apply, however, to material Seth had given as dictation for Psyche.)

(10:25. Jane was rather unhappy when she came out of trance. She said she was “mad”—an adjective I’d heard her use several times earlier today as she talked about her own physical state, beliefs, control, etc. I asked her now to dictate to me exactly what she wanted me to record: “Now he’s telling us that to take conscious control of your beliefs and life and everything does involve a new manipulation of consciousness, where I’d been knocking my guts out thinking it should be something you can do real easy. So how come I’m so dumb, I’ve been thinking. After all these books he tells us that. All of this is my interpretation,” she said, “based on what I remember I said in trance.” She was more than a little upset. “Like now he’s saying ‘Well, there are a few difficulties involved,’ where before it all seemed so easy. A little bit tricky—”

I may have slipped up, but I do not think so: I do not believe I gave the information about you and George in book dictation (for “Unknown” Reality), in order to keep the material simple enough for the reader. But you and George are and are not counterparts. You do share psychic memories, and hold in common the memories of other selves who did live in the time of the Roman-soldier incident.

He became afraid of trying again to disrupt the old patterns. You of course do give tacit consent, and give up whatever role of leadership you possess in that area, which is far more considerable than you allow yourself to admit. Ruburt is often afraid he has little control over the situation. This prevents him of course from breaking the patterns.

You tell yourself you have little control over his actions, or that your feelings make little difference in the face of his actions, but that is the other side of the same coin. He begins with the pendulum and drops it, but neither do you encourage him to persist.

(11:00.) The lack of persistence simply shows that in large measure your way of life suits you both, regardless of its consequences. You are obviously dissatisfied, however. Again, in the session there are strong clues, but you—or rather, Ruburt primarily must take advantage of them. The pendulum is excellent, particularly when you do it together. It can be used to advantage, particularly together, in the mornings for suggestions. Only a brief time is required. The intent is the important thing—and then for another short period to search for current reasons behind behavior. There should not be a concentration upon the problem—as a problem.

You are in the middle of a learning process. Do not think one portion of the personality is sabotaging another portion. Instead, one personality is working with a system of beliefs, and trying to attain an overall synthesis. That is all for tonight’s session. My heartiest good wishes and a fond good evening.