“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(One of the questions concerned Seth’s material on page 218 of the last session, when he referred to the feeling that Jane and I have, that we had “an even more unfair advantage” without children—this, as he’d stated earlier, on top of our already being set apart from others because of our creative gifts. “It’s like you’ve got to atone for being “better” or different than others, according to that kind of thinking,” I said at 8:10. “It’s the sort of thing I think is rooted in Sinful-Self stuff, on both of our parts—you’re not going to feel guilty about the gifts of nature unless those feelings have a pretty strong base in the psyche, somewhere.... Why can’t we feel glad about being gifted instead?” I added that as I’d said this afternoon, guilt about superiority would make a lot of gifted people miserable if they paid attention to such thinking. And I’m afraid that history contains numerous examples wherein that very reaction has taken place. I realize that the very handicaps adopted could also be part of the given personality’s overall plan for life—contending with that as well as the gifts.

Give us a moment please.... (a one minute pause at 9:06.) There is some reincarnational influence, in that you and she were acquaintances (long pause), of a minor variety, however—once in your Roman soldier existence, and I believe in the Denmark one. (Long pause.) You were on the periphery of each other’s attention. Perhaps for that reason Debbie herself was not present (in the dream). Ruburt was not involved with Debbie in the past, however.