“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I lit a cigarette for Jane. A note about the bedsore suggestions given by our nurse, Peggy J: Last Wednesday afternoon during her regular visit Peggy told us she’d talked to her boss, Roe—also a nurse—and that Friday Roe would meet her here to look at Jane’s bedsores. Peggy talked about being relieved of the “responsibility” for the bedsores, which obviously worried her. I’d told Jane to use suggestion so that she wouldn’t be bothered by whatever Roe might say, but suspected that Roe would want Dr. Kardon to examine the bedsores, and probably this would lead to a demand that Jane would go back into the hospital. [I didn’t tell Jane the hospital part of my suspicions, though.]

(On her regular Friday-afternoon visit, Peggy and Jane and I waited for Roe, who was scheduled to visit—but Roe, mysteriously, never showed up. Could she have picked up some sort of message from Jane and me? We don’t know. When Peggy came on Monday afternoon. Roe didn’t show up either, and Peggy didn’t mention it, nor did Peggy dwell on Jane’s bedsores. In some strange way it was as if the whole episode, with its obviously negative implications, never had even been mentioned. I didn’t ask Seth to comment, but should have.

(10:39.) Now: when you work through such an episode as this weekend’s bout, then you gain an individual but also joint confidence in your ability to do so—a very important point, a very intimate and vital way of dealing with your joint reactions. Some such feelings could be expected, naturally enough, since you do not live in a perfect world. It can be understood that they are transitory, however, and in the entire picture they begin to dissolve easier and easier. Various things can spark such feelings, according to the circumstances, while at another time the same kind of stimulus may not apply at all.

There is no doubt, however, that the bedsores with their problems will dissolve, and almost go unnoticed as they do, if you play down their prominence. You do not have to pretend they are not there, but know that the increased motion, and new psychic motion, will take care of the situation.

(“I had something from him [Seth] earlier,” she said, “but you weren’t here....” She struggled to stay awake. “Watch me—I’m afraid I’ll fall asleep. Maybe we better just look stuff over instead.”

(“Yeah, in a minute,” Jane said. But that was it. I read the session to her.