“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The day was very rainy, foggy, temperature 45 degrees. Jane had received three excellent reports on her physical condition this morning, she told me not long after I got to 330. In hydro, the therapist, Wendy, who checks both Jane and her chart weekly, told her that she was doing well, that the knee was coming along great. Terry, who puts Jane through the hydro bath, told her she looks well and was easier to move. And Mary Ann, who changed Jane’s dressings in room 330, said the bedsores look much better in their healing.

(I told Jane that I’d had a half-remembered dream of my own last night, involving my going back to work for Stu Komer of the old Artistic plant. I was working on a new kind of greeting card that could, I think, actually be quite successful. If I had time I’d make a dummy of one to show Jane how it works, for it utilizes two pieces of embossed paper and messages to deliver its import. Quite original, I think, a creative accomplishment. I said I wouldn’t mind Seth commenting on the dream.

(Jane described her own vivid dream of last night, which I can only approximate here. It involved Jane washing the internal organs of a woman who’d died and had been well-known to a group of people—someone like Jane herself. Involved also was a puppy and other elements. I thought the dream very positive, and showed that Jane was shedding old beliefs and starting anew with new ones.

(3:09. Then we had more good news. Jane started reading aloud yesterday’s session—and did very well indeed. Like she’s been doing recently, she started a bit slowly, then began reading faster and faster as she went along. I was very pleased, and so was she. She said she still wasn’t up to normal speed—maybe 80%—but I certainly thought she was doing a lot better than that. This time the improvements in her vision are definitely holding much better than they have in the past. Great.

(Jane finished the session in some 10 minutes—very good indeed. As I began working with the mail she told me to get my paper ready. Her Seth voice was average.)

Ruburt was correct. The meaning of the dream is as follows: In the beginning you and he are about to lecture or address small children, which means that you were both invoking the spontaneous, creative portions of yourselves, which in the truest sense are childlike. Later, a woman dies who is well-known to a group of people who are with Ruburt. The woman represents Ruburt’s old beliefs, the woman that he was, so to speak. All that are immediately salvaged are the inner organs, which Ruburt symbolically washes clean in a ritual indicative of washing away old beliefs, and of washing the inner organs clean—the act of inner cleanliness.

Later he finds a pyramid-shaped pile of dead puppies, representing the death of old beliefs that had lingered from his childhood. He then discovers a newly-born puppy, fully alive, and this represents his finding and claiming the new spontaneous, creative portions of his being. He is on the way to register the puppy and claim it at a local police station, which means he was introducing this portion of himself to all other parts, and legitimizing it with the authorities—meaning that he was accepting it wholeheartedly under the auspices of the new authority of the self. The police usually stand for discipline, the puppy stands for spontaneity, and that spontaneity and order are united.

(Carol came in after knocking to take Jane’s temperature. She was gone in a minute or so, after not noticing anything.)

You should not insist, however, or demand, that a given suggestion take root—for then you might be disappointed if it did not, rather than realize that perhaps it was not time for that particular suggestion to work. Simply allow that mental flexibility, overall suggestions for motion and healing are of course excellent, since they leave it up to the body to do the inner work involved.

(3:56. Jane had a bladder spasm, even though she’d had her catheter changed recently. She’s had a number of these, and is still passing a lot of gas. She passed gas at the end of the session. I told her I was about to ask Seth what he thought about the compliments she’d received from three different people this morning about her improving physical condition. Resume at 3:58.)

(4:00 PM. Jane passed more gas. I told her the session was excellent. “I’ve been wondering when people would start noticing something,” I said. Someone, Jane said, had also remarked about her modest weight gain today, but she couldn’t recall who it had been. I thought she’d told me earlier that the incident had taken place in hydro.

(4:15. After rest and a smoke Jane’s left foot began going. The exercises built up. “Something’s going on inside the right leg,” she said after a few minutes. “You can’t see it, but I couldn’t have done it last week.”.’ Heavy breathing. I could see her hips moving, though, which was in itself unusual.

(4:25. LuAnn stopped in to say hello just as Jane was going good again. Two minutes later Jane began to work her lower jaw up and down and around in an almost grotesque way, so that she couldn’t speak, only make guttural sounds.

(As soon as Carol left, Jane’s hands began to hurt and rotate in a new way at the same time, as if the palms were trying to turn up. “They haven’t been able to turn up in years,” Jane said. It was another great sign, I told her. Her right arm lifted and rotated. I hated to interrupt her new motions by turning her on her left side, but she was ready to go. She said the fingers on her right hand are trying to loosen, as I massaged them with Oil of Olay. I went over her body as usual, dehypnotizing it.