“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(See the attached material that Jane received on February 6. It’s very good, of course, and as far as I can tell contains the key to Jane’s problems. She’s received more on her own like this material, yesterday and today, but hasn’t typed it yet from her notes.

(No session was held last night, obviously, because Jane was so relaxed. She’d felt better through the day, and had slept well the night before. She also slept well last night, and felt better today. Earlier she’d mentioned having a session to make up for last night, but as 9 PM passed I thought she’d decided to let it go once again because of her relaxed state. Once again she was very comfortable on the couch after supper, watching the news on television; in fact, for some days now she’d had her best times, as far as feeling better go, while relaxing after supper.

(Note that tonight’s session refers to the notes I wrote “on inspiration” at the end of the last session, for February 11. These concern my insight—a simplistic one to be sure—that one of Jane’s hassles results from her fear that Seth would take over if given the chance. My notes bothered her somewhat when she first read them, and she’d mentioned them several times since. Note, however, that I wrote that she feared Seth would take over—not necessarily that he would if given the chance—a big difference. But Seth seems to lay to rest our concerns here this evening.

(At the same time, Jane also liked my concluding material in the notes, regarding the integration of each portion of the personality into one whole, and so thus attaining the freedom to follow any chosen course of action in the world.

(I mentioned black and white thinking in the notes, and Seth has also used that phrase several times recently. I remarked to Jane today, then, that what we need is more insight into the phenomenon of such thinking itself—for after all, that approach to life’s challenges has led to our problems, it seems to me. I meant, of course, that all of us indulge in such black and white thinking at times, on some subjects, and I added that I periodically have to catch myself when I overreact to certain events. The question is why the personality would choose to use black and white thinking to begin with, when the results are so often deleterious to the whole personality, if we can just dissolve such approaches.... I’d like Seth to comment.

(Once again Jane said the session would be short; she began speaking for Seth at a good pace.)

(10:42 PM. “Well, I’m glad I did that,” Jane said. “I sat there thinking about it for fifteen minutes before I called you. I thought I should be doing the dishes.... I really want to read that one—I think there’s stuff in it that will help me right away....”