“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

2—Improvement: Doing dishes right arm reaches out further. Ligaments right neck releasing. Still some easier walking—knees feel more flexible.

1) To bedroom, john, do dishes, make coffee.

9:30–10:30: Copied James, then did dishes, had snack. [...]

Answer some mail PM, dishes, etc. [...]

[...] The simple change of dish routine shows you how a change of attitude can break a negative pattern overnight. The pattern was actually broken by the simple remark that you made earlier, that led Ruburt to think of the stool for dishes.

[...] Ruburt’s previous position about the dishes was black or white. [...]

[...] That kind of stimulus, encouraged, and not forgotten or let go, will set up a new set of mental habits, and literally with no effort, as suddenly he finds enjoyment doing the dishes.

(9:43.) He can help out with the cooking, or make special dishes or whatever (as she did today). [...]

10:50–11:30: Dishes, john, snack.

[...] (Then do dishes, etc.)

[...] While I was alone in the kitchen, doing the dishes, I found myself wondering if Seth might “come through” and comment on the letter. [...]

I gently put down the dish I was washing. [...]

[...] I could reconcile a mental voice as a valid and quite safe mechanism of the creative subconscious, as I liked to call it — but an image next to me in the kitchen while I did the dishes? [...]

[...] The dish towel was still in my hand. [...]

11:30–11:45: Do dishes, make coffee, get coffee cake, feed cat & go to john before sitting down. [...]

Your remark about the dishes was most creative, despite the way the remark was put: “Soon you will be able to stand and do the dishes, and just enjoy the task.” [...] You did remind him of the joy he used to take in that activity, however, and in an important way a conflict was resolved: he enjoys the dishes now, and he can say “Before I know it, I can enjoy it standing up also.”

[...] Jane thinks it possible it took us about 14 weeks to acquire the set of dishes of which the salt and pepper shakers are a part.

(We acquired the dishes through trading at a certain supermarket and obtaining so many pieces weekly, through coupons. [...]

(There is also a father connection here, as Seth explains with the salt and pepper shakers and the new set of dishes to which they belong.

[...] He had vainly daydreamed that his father might send unexpected money, with which he could complete that set of dishes to which the pepper shaker belongs.

Stop, do dishes after typing an hour. [...]

[...] Get up, to john, bedroom, do dishes, go through living room without holding onto things, sit down. [...]

[...] Jane said this is a reference arising out of the set of dishes shown on the page 12 side of the object. It concerns the fact that we are buying a set of dishes of our own at Loblaw’s supermarket; Jane said she was determined to get a set of dishes adequate for our needs. The disadvantage however is that obtaining the set in this fashion is much more expensive than she had figured on.

[...] The dishes advertised on the page 12 side of the object are also white dinnerware with a blind embossed, or raised, decoration around the border. [...]

[...] The dish photo on the page 12 side of the object contains round shapes, for instance, but in shades of gray and in black only.

[...] They all added up to a steady barrage of self-criticism and fear of not writing, of perhaps doing the dishes instead, or cleaning the house, of making more work for me, of time spent answering the mail—whatever it might be. [...]

[...] Next she got on her stool to do the dishes. [...]

[...] And I’ll often get things like I did the first part of this session, when I was busy with the dishes. [...]

(“I finished the dreams and did the day’s dishes. [...]

[...] moisture or easiness is now in both legs so I feel I’m moving all together more; go to fix coffee, hoping I can get out of kitchen before laundry boy arrives; do dishes, and the kid comes. [...]

[...] Your remark about doing the dishes, and Ruburt’s subsequent use of the stool, led to the breaking up of associations earlier connected with dishes. [...]

[...] Do the dishes and check the mail, then I’ll try.... [...]

[...] The small instance of Ruburt’s doing the dishes this morning is a case in point – and that emerged as the result of those abilities mentioned in our last session.

(This morning, for the first time in well over a year, at the very least, Jane spontaneously decided to do the dishes after breakfast while standing up at the sink.)

“I had all kinds of sudden flashes about this when I was doing the dishes (less than half an hour ago) — about Seth’s book, and that in a strange way it was difficult for me to get this book material. [...]

[...] We were going to have company; the dishes were to be done; I wanted to change clothes, etc. [...] She insisted on doing the dishes for me; she wants to buy friendship basically or make sure she is needed or some such.