“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now, you were early given the idea that a portion of your personality was guilty and therefore you were relieved when you were told that there were methods whereby you could receive this guilt. You accepted, for example, the penances and so forth because as a child, given the idea of guilt, you wondered what punishment would befall you.

Now, a child is very dependent upon a parent. To the child a parent seems like God and, therefore, a child feels guilty, feels afraid that the parent will cast him out, particularly the mother, so the child then feels he will be completely abandoned. Now, if the guilt is severe enough, as unfortunately it often is, this pseudo-guilt, then the young adult will do almost anything to relieve it. He does not realize that what he actually feels is the early fear of the child of the parents’ abandonment. This is not in his conscious mind and therefore anything else is accepted with relief.

When you felt you had done enough penance, you did not know how to deal with the part of you you thought you had left. You were so used to thinking of yourself as guilty, and here you had a new sense to deal with. You were like a child with a new toy, and how could it be as good as you supposed and where was the hidden blemish, and so you have been looking for the hidden blemish. In the back of your mind also you wonder if you haven’t done enough penance, and so you worry and stew. You are making progress, however. You are looking inward and you are accepting the responsibility for yourself and your own development.

(To Gert.) Now, you must honor yourself and do yourself justice. Until you can honor and love yourselves you cannot honor nor love anything else or anyone else, and as long as you see yourselves as guilty, then you will see guilt in every other person you look at, and you will see evil in the nature of reality. The answers, you see, are within yourselves. It is only when you do not realize they are there that you have such difficulties. You have only to let go.

[...] If you are particularly proud of a given painting, and he does not emotionally relate to it, then he feels guilty, or afraid he will offend.

[...] He feels guilty when you are working if he is not, for fear you will think his success is coming too easily. [...]

(After she’d eaten and I was getting ready to leave, Jane said, “I really feel guilty at making your life so hard,” and added more words to that effect. [...]

[...] Just this morning my pendulum^* for the first time said that I no longer felt guilty. [...]

You may say, “I am overweight because I feel guilty about something in my past.” [...]

[...] Feeling somewhat guilty, we opted for the latter course — but as the material unfolded we were glad we’d done so. [...]

[...] Quite simply, you want to express through the sessions these ideas in which you so believe, and yet you feel or believe yourself guilty for doing so when you cannot describe the same ideas to your own parent.

So this evening you feel guilty in reaching others through transcribing the notes, when you believe that you could not reach your mother vocally. [...]

The law in your country says that you are innocent until proven guilty. [...]

Religious laws deal with sin, whether or not a crime is committed (pause), and religious concepts usually take it for granted that the individual is guilty until proven innocent. [...]

[...] He feels guilty that you do. [...] He thinks this should be granted to you rather than to him, to make up for your job, and so he has felt somewhat guilty about it, and punished himself by holding off. [...]

[...] To some extent he has always felt guilty at the work involved in your writing up the sessions, and when my book began he felt this twice as badly, you see. [...]

She also feels guilty at being in good health when he is so unhappy in his work, and has adopted symptoms out of sympathy.

[...] You feel guilty about taxes, because you feel that you have not contributed enough financially—therefore doubly angry that the money must be taken from Ruburt, and so forth.

Do not feel guilty about not following all that Seth says. [...]

[...] He feels guilty in your eyes if students owe him, because this does not seem practical. [...]

[...] Sometimes you feel guilty, feeling comparatively well off, while others have lesser advantages. [...]

As soon as you begin to compare what you are with some idealized concept of yourself, you automatically feel guilty. [...]

(Pause at 11:00.) Trust no person who tells you that you are evil or guilty by reason of your nature or your physical existence, or any such dogma. [...]

[...] I received the answer that I felt guilty over the conflict: when I wanted to do one, I thought I should be working on the other.”)

[...] He decided to do that, but felt guilty. [...]

[...] On June 22 the pendulum told me that my stomach bothers me not because I don’t spend enough time painting, but because I feel guilty at spending the time I do, in view of all the other work with Jane that I feel I should be doing: working on sessions, “Unknown” Reality, etc.

When you think that Ruburt is being taken advantage of then by the world, in any way involving money, then you feel guilty that you do not use painting to procure money.

[...] I feel guilty sometimes when I paint for that reason. [...]

[...] So I felt guilty—I thought—about not concentrating on Seth’s book. [...]

This is not to say that all such children should be cared for at home, or that parents should feel guilty if they are forced through circumstances to place their offspring in an institution. [...]

[...] I had not been helping Jane and felt guilty about it, and angry at the relatives. [...]

[...] There is no need to feel guilty since you meant very well as you made each choice — only the choices were built upon beliefs that were beliefs and not facts.

[...] To some degree he felt guilty, wanting the sweaters when he had already lost money, and when they were obviously meant to replace the sweaters of his mother.

[...] He also felt guilty because of your neck difficulties. [...]

(Then today, Saturday, my pendulum told me that I felt guilty about using painting time when I should be working on Seth’s “Unknown” Reality, since the painting wasn’t bringing in money, etc. This was a subtle but important change in my knowledge—for I saw that I wasn’t so much concerned about the amount of work I had to do on the books, as that I felt guilty about doing other things. [...]