“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(We’d wanted to read over some of the late sessions today, but didn’t do it. The time seemed to fly by. Jane slept until about 10:30. She hadn’t done badly, and I’d rubbed her legs before we slept. She had some right leg sensations—strong enough to notice but not nearly as strong as before, and she’s had them “off and on all day, particularly in the knee and lower leg. I haven’t had any feeling there for I don’t know how long.” She’d maneuvered somewhat better in the bathroom this morning, and said her right hip worked well.

Ruburt is doing very well under the situation. The feelings in the leg and the knee do indeed signify new motion, and the willingness to move. Again, the feelings of panic will naturally subside, but they are important for they are in their way the signs of the child crying—and earlier, Ruburt as the adult would not listen.

(Long pause at 8:58.) The Sinful Self obviously is not a burden that Ruburt carries alone, but one inherent in your civilization. Unfortunately its values have in their way appeared throughout your culture. (Long pause.) In terms of goodness, you can certainly tell the Sinful Self that health and vitality are indeed not only good, but in their way they represent the spiritual attributes. No self really needs a baptism. It is already blessed by All That Is before its birth, and its desires, impulses, and characteristics are also inherently good, meant to insure its own fulfillment, to bring out its best characteristics, and to help the rest of the world as well—all very important issues.

(Pause.) Ruburt might have one or two imaginary conversations with the Sinful Self. This can be quite advantageous, and will certainly speed up communications. Ruburt will probably begin to experience the refreshment I mentioned, and relaxation, more and more, but it was also important that he be aware of the subjective state that had been causing the difficulty. That state can then dissipate through expression.

This will indeed be a brief session, but I did want to give it to you before you seriously began studying this group. Do you want to ask a question?

(“I’ve been wondering lately about how much of a role his psychic abilities have to do with the intensity of his reactions to his childhood experience. I know you’ve gone into aspects of that before, but—”)

The creative abilities after a while were themselves suspect. The Sinful Self was taught to distrust its own nature and expression, believing that that nature, by virtue of original sin, was flawed—but in a tragic fashion—literally damned by God, of course, because of the sins of the forefathers.

(It had rained hard after supper, but slackened as session time drew close. As I turned on a couple of additional lights in the living room, to see to write by, our friends in the fireplace began to sound off —adding a new sort of whistling or crying sound—and Jane made what may be a good point: light may leak past the closed damper enough that the raccoons respond to that stimulus. But they became much more quiet as the session progressed.)