“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Joan sat tapping her foot nervously. There were no wisecracks. At the time, she was dating a man who drank too much. “His drinking makes me irritable and angry,” she said. “He’s my problem. He’s the one who makes me feel nervous.”

One of my students, a businessman, always gets worried when Seth speaks about spontaneity. He equates it with lack of discipline. Seth calls this man “the Dean,” with affectionate humor, because he’s one of my best students, and the others listen to his psychic adventures with a good deal of interest. But he’s very much a community man also, and the word “spontaneity” can be like a red scarf to a bull, at least as far as he is concerned! And I have to admit that many of us have the feeling that our inner emotions are too hot to handle.

“The idea that you must find a man that will love you is a cover to hide this deeper refusal to accept life on life’s terms. … You are saying, ‘Unless existence meets my terms, I will not exist,’ and no one has the right to so set themselves against their own innate vitality.