“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You tried hard not to think of your friend Leonard because his situation so upset you. At the same time you were concerned for him, of course. His illness brought up a million questions about the nature of illness and death, age, and so forth, backed up by your society’s negative beliefs, so you tried harder not to think of your friend Leonard, and of course you couldn’t relax.

Now: Had you been following your natural impulses, your body cells would have picked up that message easily. You received them in any case, because of your connections with your friend, your affection for him, and the years of association in the old apartment house. Had you been relaxed, following your impulses, and unhampered by the fearful beliefs that your friend’s condition also aroused, then those cellular messages would have been smoothly translated into an impulse to call Leonard, or to have Ruburt call. Your fears got in the way. Whenever you thought of Leonard, you told yourself to forget it.

Your affection for Leonard is strong. Your desire to be in contact with him was greater than your fear. What happened was that the communications were forced to take another route. You experienced chest discomfort. Now that chest discomfort immediately reminded you of your friend, and was meant, again, to tell you that he was in some difficulty. By the time we had our session last night, the difficulty was largely over. Your own feelings, however, exaggerated the signals to begin with, and to some extent prolonged them.

(1:52 PM. Jane’s delivery had been quite fast. She said that Seth had carried the material further than that she’d received from him this morning. She was pleased.

(According to this material, I told her, if one paid attention to this sort of thing, good evidence for telepathy could be achieved. But one would have to train oneself to meet such situations and take action upon them, rather than hiding from them, as I tried to do. “It never occurred to me,” I said, to actually call Leonard and check up on him.”

(In the call this morning, Jane learned that Leonard had overdone his physical activities at the house, and suffered some discomfort as a result. His doctor told him to take it easy, as did his sister-in-law. The errand he needed doing involved purchasing a thermometer. He told Jane it hadn’t occurred to him to ask me to get it for him; instead he’d called another friend. So did Leonard pick up my own fears about his situation, and avoid calling me because of them?