“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(With pauses:) Ruburt is truly beginning to understand that the Magical Approach is indeed the natural approach to life’s experience.

(Long pauses.) You do not have to worry in an overly strained way about putting the new principles of life into practical experience at once. You do not need to worry or deride yourselves for stupidity if it appears (very long pause, eyes closed, at 9:04), looking over the long annals of work that we have done together, that it should have been obvious that our ideas were leading in certain directions—for not only have I been trying to divest you of official ideas, but to prepare you for the acceptance of a new version of reality: A version that could be described in many fashions. It has been during the annals of history, but many of those fashions also indisputably, and with the best of intentions, managed to give a faulty picture: you ended up with your gods and demons, unwieldy methods and cults, and often with the intellect downgraded. I hope of course that our “model” avoids many of those pitfalls.

(9:24.) You should understand that the approach is the best one to use in life, generally speaking, but it will improve all conditions, even if you still have difficulties in certain areas (pause), and that its use cannot help but promote the overall quality of your lives. That recognition takes the pressure off, so that you can to some extent relax your old attitudes enough so that you allow the magical approach (long pause) to work in those areas that have been a bone of contention.

(Long pause at 9:37.) In a fashion, all of the material that I have given you in the annals of our relationship was meant to lead you in one way or another to a place where the true nature of reality could at least be glimpsed. You are at that point now. In a manner of speaking Ruburt’s physical condition represents the bruises, the wounds inflicted upon any individual in his or her long journey (long pause) toward a greater comprehension of life’s experience. In religious terms you begin to glimpse a promised land—a “land” of psyche and reality that represents unimpeded nature (again all intently.

(Now very slowly—that is, with many long pauses until the end of the session, eyes closed often:)

Can I enter that land is not the “proper” question to ask. The land is here, where you are, and it always has been. The methods, the ways, the beliefs, the modes of travel to a destination create the destination itself. (Over a one-minute pause.) It is impossible for you to operate without beliefs in your present mode of existence (another minute), “for beyond” those glittering packages of beliefs, however, there exists the vast reservoir of sensation itself, the land that does indeed exist “beyond beliefs.”

(10:05 PM. “Gee, that was pretty weird in some fashion,” Jane said as soon as she was out of trance, “to sense all kinds of things that were really different.” She paused. “I want to put my finger on it. I didn’t expect anything different tonight, but I have a feeling that whether you can take advantage of it or not, it represents a kind of turning point....”

(Jane said she did know she was taking the very long pauses. At first she was “alarmed, wondering if I’d gone to sleep like that. It was a lapse of consciousness —that’s what bothered me. I was aware of each one, but after I came out of the first one I felt something else was involved, but I’m not sure what. I seemed to go someplace while speaking for Seth....”