“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I never really know what to do about such offers, and have answered several such lately. Then today I opened a package that contained a book of trance material similar to Seth’s. I guess I’m supposed to say thanks and that it’s great, to the publisher and the medium. Actually, I think those two people removed their material — which talks about All That Is — too far from its human source, its everyday contact with human personality, and thus produced just another psychic book. You could take six of those books, I thought, shuffle the names of the mediums around, and never know who produced what. I can only think the mediums involved must be afraid of the emotions and implications involved.

(Jane ate a good lunch. Then she told me to get the mirror, lipstick, and eyebrow pencil. When she looked into the mirror she smiled briefly, and showed her teeth — a lot better than yesterday, when we didn’t do it at all.

(It came to me that what bothers me about the kind of book I opened today is their limited viewpoint. As limited in its way as a book on geology or clothing or any of innumerable others. There’s no questioning mind at work, no new ideas or theories — merely the familiar rehash about All That Is, love, reincarnation, and so forth. Valid enough, perhaps, but lacking original insight and individuality like the Seth material has.

(I told Jane of my dream of the night before last, in which she and I and Leonard Yaudes — who had been our downstairs neighbor at 458 — moved into an apartment together at 458. In the dream the rooms were larger and better kept than they really are. I told Jane I suspected the dream grew out of my meeting Leonard at the new Super-Duper market the other night, when he’d joked around and repeated several times how good he felt physically, after his heart operation. Jane said she thought the dream meant that the three of us were all embarked on a journey into better health, a better outlook on life.

(3:42. After Shawn took her temperature — 97.2 — Jane began reading her third session for the day — that of January 14 — and did even better on this one, fast and easy, I felt. She was interrupted by staff giving her eyedrops and taking her blood pressure, and finished that session at 4:02. She said the type has been “as good as any I’ve ever seen — it cleared up amazingly at times.” This after I’d realized she was indeed doing very well reading.

(4:05. She had a cigarette, and told me that both hands were still improving and changing. “I’d like it to be quicker, but I know they are.”)

(With humor:) Dictation. (Pause.) If any of you, my readers, are in poor health, or generally unhappy, no one is asking you to pretend that those conditions do not exist. I hope to show you that even those unfortunate situations were created out of a misdirected good intent. In this book we will keep reminding you, however, that exuberance and high spirits are a natural part of your heritage.

We also hope to allow you to recapture those feelings, if you have lost them (long pause), and to give other ways of keeping those emotions fresh and intact. Readers will benefit in various fashions, according to their own conditions and intents, but every reader will benefit to some degree or another — and each reader will become reacquainted with those inner springs of vitality and well-being that are so important in human experience.

It is because Ruburt now has more vitality that he sometimes becomes quite impatient with his progress.

He feels more energetic, and of course wants to become much more active. (Long pause.) His food is doing him more and more good. He assimilates it far better, and this does allow the healing process to quicken. At the same time there is often that unevenness, as all portions of the body start up again, so to speak. The eyes today showed what I mean, as on occasion he could briefly read far better than he has so far, then seemingly go back to a previous level, and then back and forth between various stages.

The advice I recently gave must particularly be followed — so that he concentrates upon the joys that he possesses, keeps his goals in mind, and trusts the infinite intelligence within him to bring about the desired results. This frees his mind and allows his improvements to continue without interruption.

I may or may not return, again according to those rhythms of which I speak — but know that I am present and approachable. My congratulations on the new edition of Seven.

The interpretation you discussed is a good one. Leonard expressed his good health, and you are taking good health as a neighbor.

(“I hadn’t planned on asking about this this afternoon — but lately I’ve noticed that my close-up vision without glasses isn’t as sharp as it used to be. I don’t think the cause is physical. I think something’s been bugging me lately, and it’s coming out that way. It’s nothing drastic, but enough to be bothersome at times. I haven’t spent much time trying to figure it out —”)

Give us a moment … It’s your version of worrying that desired effects may not be brought into the present — that is, will not come into your close vision. When you feel that way, close your eyes, if only for a moment, reassure yourself that you can trust your vision — mental and physical — and that indeed your goals will be brought into clear focus.

(“Thank you, Seth,” I said at 4:32 p.m. His advice was as excellent as always. I felt relieved, and will try the technique. I plan to type it separately where I can keep it in view in my writing room. Maybe on the desk itself. I told Jane I thought the question had been triggered by the session material today, especially that concerning Leonard.)