“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(8:29: “Boy, I don’t know when I’ve been this relaxed.... I feel that he’s ready —all he has to do is get me in shape for the session....” Jane burped loudly for the second time. “You don’t have to put that in.”

(Once again it was a very warm evening —about 80 degrees, and we had the fan on. Actually it was very pleasant in the house, with all the windows and doors wide open. The evening paper had noted that thundershowers were a possibility.)

First of all, many of your correspondents’ “predicaments” appear particularly disheartening, upsetting, or otherwise psychologically incomprehensible because your general (underlined) belief systems are not flexible enough, and do not reflect many important issues concerning human behavior, motivation, emotion or feeling.

Their definitions in fact squeeze human motivation into an impossibly small tube of action. (Long pause.) When that tube of motivation is all squeezed out, the tube is supposed to then become empty. The wide range of actual human experience is far too great for such small packaging. The belief in the struggle for survival so super-pervades that anything but the most competitive, determined, super-valiant, compulsive desire to hold onto life appears to be cowardly, a cop-out, at best an unexplainable, erratic, unnatural response to life’s conditions.

(8:43.) In that framework it almost seems as if the most natural wish would be the wish to live one life for some kind of eternal duration. In that framework it seems as if people are cut down in their primes often, despite their own wishes, desires or intents, and it is taken for granted that death is the undesired, unwanted, unsought victor over creatures whose natural desires lead them to fight for natural survival at all costs. Certainly this suggests an almost unbearable cruelty, thrust upon nature’s framework. (Long pause.) The impulse toward life is indeed strong, brilliant and enduring. Each individual knows, however, that more than one lifetime is involved, and carries within it—as indeed the animals do—the knowledge that earth’s existence is in time and space, meaning that a certain turnover is necessarily implied.

(9:38 PM. Jane said that after she did the mail today she got a few quick insights that Seth went into much more. “Then I gave myself those statements as I went to bed for my nap. I could feel a certain amount of resistance, to varying degrees, to some of the statements. You can’t verbalize it, but it was illuminating and helpful. I suppose because you thought you could overcome it, and it was afterward that I got so relaxed. But in this case I felt that Seth could lay it out for me better than I could. I’m glad I held the session after all.”)