“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(After supper tonight she walked twice—both times much faster than she has in years—a very surprising and heartening sign. This shows the body can do it. She was exhilarated. She also had other rapid bodily movements, in a more extended fashion, in the arms and legs. Seth said that when the body began to recover, it would be an overall development. At the same time, Jane has been exercising a lot lately, and I’d rather she didn’t overdo this activity.

(Last week the second and last installment of the Village Voice article came out. Everyone agreed that it was much better than the first of the two, so that’s taken care of. I think both of us had some excellent quotations in the piece, and I’m happy that a lot of people at least had the chance to read them.

It shows itself particularly in any kind of obsessive behavior, mental or physical. It is the overly developed, exaggerated, “unnatural” need for safety. Such an exaggerated need for safety is quite rampant in your society. It leads to the setting up of barrier after barrier, to protect the self both against the self and against the outside world.

There is no doubt Ruburt has made a breakthrough—and so have you, in terms of your ideas—for what I call illustrated Seth material. For you will find that you are uniting abilities, so that writing and painting no longer seem “opposing” abilities, with a distance between them. You will find that they are both creative arms of your basic psychic being, and that both abilities will be sharpened and fulfilled as a result.