“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Seth repeated several times that he felt in fine form, and Jane’s voice and manner so indicated. [...] It was indeed in my Denmark existence, he said, “the life of which you are now so ashamed.” [...] This reminded me that Seth had given similar data for our friend Bill Macdonnel; he too had been a sailor in a Denmark contemporary existence, but as I recall I did not ask Seth whether Judy and Bill had known each other in that life. [...]

(Seth began by stating that he had been with us throughout the evening. He said we had chosen a poor method of experimentation, if we did not want to contact him, since Jane has been conditioned to respond through him when we sought contact with discarnate entities. [...]

[...] Ruburt, because of the change in our practice, has been somewhat uneasy, and for this reason the more friendly atmosphere that he had enjoyed earlier had deserted us. The state which he has achieved this evening, with your help Joseph, allowed us to achieve that informality to some small degree.

[...] He was from a good family. He was however cruelly-natured in many respects. [...]

[...] He set himself this main goal at a very young age. He did not know why he had the writing ability, nor what he was to do with it. He will work out the best way of doing this, for it will be a natural development, an alchemy, resulting from the nature of his own writing talents, which are considerable, his own intuitions, and the material. [...]

[...] He is not imprisoned within this pseudoimage, since he forms it, but the energy used is misdirected and largely futile.

[...] Existence is not a game in the terms spoken of by our Mr. Watts, though he is often on the right track. We do not have a static god, recreating himself as he is in various guises. [...]

[...] He is fully ready for the combination of psychic and physical mobility. He is on the move again, and we can all be grateful.

[...] He is indeed on the right path. He was on the right path before, but consciously he did not recognize it. Now he does.

[...] He has made an extraordinary leap, and it is freeing him physically. [...]

He can expect definite physical improvement, and you can expect your own breakthroughs. [...]

[...] Each time he spoke to me, I saw him all alone, as on a large milky-white screen. [...] Each time he spoke, he seemed to lean into view on the screen from the lower right, and remained leaning somewhat as he spoke. [...]

[...] He works best on a job when he is more or less left alone, in charge of given functions to perform, as when he acted as salesman. [...]

[...] It is true also, as he knows, that the Florida incident frightened him enough so that he will not leave a job unless he is almost forced into it.

The demand for greater, and if you will permit a personal opinion, sometimes needless attention to detail, he also construes as a hampering or further restriction, added upon the personal supervision that he is now under.

[...] Ruburt was just, as he understood justice. To some extent he felt it a comedown to be born as a woman (as Jane). He also played down physical abilities, for toward the end of that life he became hungry for knowledge, and wondered at his own unbridled use of power.

On those occasions when he improved, and you did not become negative, then he instantly became frightened and negative himself. On other occasions, when he improved, you began with a variety of assorted symptoms of your own, as if to say “One of us must do it,” and he would think “Well, I had better keep things as they are. [...]

[...] As we waited for tonight’s session, Jane said she thought that Seth was organizing material about the four of us, our years together at 458 West Water St., and the flood of 1972—but that when we decided upon the questions listed above, Seth changed his tactics: he began to organize that material instead—“reorganizing what he’d already planned, in order to put it all together,” as Jane put it. [...]

You were the man again, so for some years he was confused because he felt himself to be, as a woman, in an inferior position to you.

[...] He is a computer service technician whom Jane and I had met but two or three times some months ago, before the sessions began. We became acquainted with him when he was a TV repairman. He is also a ham radio operator and a science-fiction fan; thus the three of us got along well from the beginning, when we met Jim as he called to service our TV. [...]

These abilities have manifested themselves in various ways, and he has often taken upon himself tasks also of a sacrificial nature. In past lives he never enjoyed the fleshy nature with which you Joseph, and Ruburt, and Mark were so outlandishly endowed. He was in almost all cases an esthetic personality, four times a woman; two of these times a priestess, and once as a nun in the Middle Ages. [...]

[...] He chose to be born under rather poor circumstances, and until the near present made little real or rather effective attempts, but only halfhearted attempts, to seek better conditions for his present personality. He was not an only child, and yet he felt himself to be an only child.

[...] He was involved with esoteric religious ceremonies and concerned with certain religious, scientific, and psychic experiments long before your continent was civilized. He was a priest 4,000 years ago.

The present notes he has written to himself are highly effective, and he should follow them and the procedure they suggest. What he felt this week, and in beginning his book, was the rousing of his energies. Then he can direct them. Now when he feels a sense of exhilaration—he knows the subjective feeling I refer to—then have him direct it, that energy, to his arms. [...]

Often you can help each other quite effectively, direct your energies toward the other, and bypass those impediments that help prevent you from using your own psychic energy as well as you should in your own behalf; so that you can help Ruburt in some areas where he is weak, and he can help you in some areas where you are weak. [...]

Then he should think, it is done—that is, straightened, and let it go at that. [...]

[...] Ruburt can picture, mentally, your straight penis, more easily than he can his own arms. [...]

[...] He is thin, with a white shirt that is not fully buttoned. He does not have a beard but his face is prickly and dark. He smokes and his fingers are long and stained with nicotine. His trousers are somehow strange, and he wears white shoes or not shoes, but his feet appear lighter, you see. There is a light behind him also and he stands at a partially opened door, and our friend the Jesuit speaks to him. [...] The stranger lives on the island and he wears a ring. He may also have on other jewelry.

[...] There is a large wooden object that he is taken with, like a totem, fatter it seems though, and not so tall as one. He speaks with several male natives and an American man, from Minnesota, who deals in a business that is connected with salt.

[...] A native who is dressed in clothes that do not belong to him: he is performing. [...]

[...] He wanders far off from the others, the Jesuit.

He felt hampered because of Eleanor’s friendship. He wouldn’t let another editor hold a book on such terms for such a time. When he decided not to do Adventures (a week or two ago) the book became more important in both literary and financial terms.

[...] At this point proper suggestion given by you while he is in a light hypnotic state will help. These should be on the idea of his basic worth as a being, apart from what he does. [...]

You think such fears foolish; Ruburt does, so he tried to talk himself out of them while at the same time pretending that they do not exist. [...] He is ashamed then to discuss them with you also.

Another note: He would be better off, you see, if he yelled and screamed in a quite undignified fashion. [...]

[...] You look at him on some (underlined) occasions—far less than in the past—with great impatience and disapproval, as far as his physical condition is concerned, so that he feels he would have greater dignity alone on his knees than trying to walk with you with that look in your eyes.

Now for some time he did not see that look, and you were doing very well, but you slid back just at a time when he was trying to put the advice in my book to use.

[...] Now he is very much in love with you, so it is difficult to get some of this data through. He does not like you criticized. [...]

Yours were freer, more constructive, and he finally understood this, so you helped him. You did not realize however that you projected also (underlined), that if he harbored resentments in one area you harbored them quite as stubbornly in another.

This session should help to minimize that discomfort, which is often so apparent during your visits — precisely when he wants to be at his best. In other words, he is trying too hard. Each of his activities can indeed flow easily one into the other, and he should remind himself that the inner intelligence within him is indeed on its own always seeking his best interest, and always of itself working on his behalf.

If he wants to, have him imagine this inner intelligence as a beloved parent. This will also dull the edges of any resentments he may have regarding his own parents.

He does not have anything new “wrong” with his body. Such fears show that the distrust of the body is still to some extent present, so he should refresh his memory on the connections between femininity, his physical body, and health.

Ruburt’s recent discomfort is partially caused by the fear that his body will not be able to completely heal itself, even if he does uncover all of the reasons for his predicament.

(Pause at 8:30.) His fears have to a strong extent come out into the open: the fear that he will not be able to go ahead or of blockage, that fear being physically translated—but again, it stands for an inner fear that he has creatively blocked, or psychically blocked, that he has learned—that his own fears stand in his own way and cannot be resolved, or that he is at an impasse. [...]

[...] Last week he’d said himself that Jane’s eyes were good, that she had no eye disease, or glaucoma, etc. [...] He decided against using prisms to unify her visions because of frequent problems people had with nausea, etc. Instead he measured her for new reading glasses, and these alone evoked an enthusiastic response from Jane, since she could see to read much better with the test lenses. [...]

(Jim Adams also suggested that Jane see a medical internist to get at the root of the muscular difficulty, and gave us the names of three local doctors he recommended highly. He also promised to call an ophthalmologist friend of his, to explain Jane’s case to him and hear what this individual—a Dr. Werner—had to say about Jane’s double vision. [...] Dr. Werner added that he felt Jane should get attention, since help could lengthen her life span through muscular relaxation. [...]

Because of the Prentice situation, and because of the decision not to work on our book for a while, he felt blocked, not knowing how or when to move ahead (underlined). For all of your own regrets and recriminations about Prentice, for example, he was himself pleased by Tam’s letter today, that that bridge toward motion had not been severed. [...]

[...] He will succeed, and do well. [...] It goes without saying that he must concentrate his energy in that direction in order to achieve the best possible success. He is doing very well. I believe he will have two more students between now and the 10th of October.

[...] He assumes an attitude that he does not feel, because of a particular situation. He pretends something. [...]

The abilities had been developing but he did not have sufficient energy to use his growing proficiency. I did indeed begin as usual in the Gallagher session, and then I retreated more to the background, so that he could become more familiar with the immediacy involved in going after such data.

I told him that at the end of the summer he should have 7 students, and so he has.

[...] He felt the impulse to do the floors with your sweeper (while I was mowing grass) and because of our Saturday session he ignored the arm difficulty enough to do the kitchen. [...] For that time, he enjoyed the activity. Several times he felt like walking, and he walked for brief periods three or four times. [...] He felt somewhat physically competent.

[...] He gets upset and irritated with the chair, because now he is getting around the house more, and realizes that walking would be the natural way to do so—where before he was content to be in one place.

[...] He followed the impulse to nap, but when he did not instantly find a perceivable “good result” afterward, he began to doubt himself again.

[...] Early man’s identification with the natural world so led him to feel a part of it that he did experience a kind of being-with the universe in a personal manner or context. He did not think of impediments in that manner.

[...] He became overly cautious because he thought he should be that way, though he was not by nature. He thought it was not mature or reasonable to trust people. He was afraid he was too vulnerable. He was afraid, too, of his own spontaneity, as I have so often said—when of course his spontaneity is the best insurance of protection, for the mind and body know when there is danger and when there is not. [...]

(We also discussed a letter Jane had received today from a young man who’d visited us unannounced a couple of months ago; he thinks he’s being bugged by nasty voices from outer space; before that he’d insisted that Seth was speaking through him. He still refuses to consider that his problem is a psychological one, instead of disembodied, outside evil voices picking on him. [...]

[...] It seems to Ruburt that his thoughts are negative a good deal of the time—naturally—and that he must take effort to change them. Of course, instead it is the other way around: his thoughts are creative and exuberant—naturally—when he leaves himself alone, and the troublesome thoughts that seem so natural now are the results of acquired mental patterns as he began to distrust his own nature, as given many times.

[...] He is also unused to taking medications. [...]

The soreness in his legs sometimes at night should be easily understood, for work can be done then when he is not on his feet. [...] His arms have been sore at night but he did not worry, and the results are easily showing. As he said many times, he does not walk on his arms. He is balancing on his legs and feet, however. [...]

[...] After years of relating to his body in one way, he is changing that relationship. [...] It seems highly impractical in that system of belief to tell an individual that he or she knows the best patterns of behavior to follow, to suggest that each person knows how much sleep he or she needs, or that left alone you will pick a correct diet—a diet geared to you. [...]

[...] When he left he took with him a contract signed by Jane for Oversoul Seven, plus two more Sevens, should she ever write them. [...]

[...] So is the man who wrote the book (Powers of Mind)—Adam Smith—interpreting in the only way he could for others who will later be led to read other books—that is, he helps awaken hunger.

[...] He found himself at that age not having as yet produced what he thought he should; because of other reasons given earlier he wanted that creativity to pay financially.

[...] He deals with mechanics. He deals with them well. [...]

[...] Frank, who was expected at noon, did not come until later, because unconsciously he was also aware that something of that nature was occurring. He brought you gifts that were replicas of ancient power sources.

[...] He approved of his mind. For many reasons given in earlier sessions, he related mentally. [...]

[...] It is perfectly proper, beneficial and legitimate for him to make any intellectual investigations he chooses, concerning differences in perception in our sessions, and when he is psychically involved on his own, and all other, intuitive or intellectual studies of this sort he has in mind. But he should not present my ideas as if they come from thin air, for this is to rob the material.

If he does this to the best of his ability, he will consider his excerpts from two standpoints—what to say, and how I say it, so that the personality and the material are clearly shown together. [...]

If the emotional actualization and refreshment is withdrawn for too long, he obviously will show the first signs of difficulty. You will also feel them, but he will be instantly aware of them, and show them.

He will feel rejected, as you know (pause), and this can lead to resentment. If your periods are not synchronized, these periods of which I have spoken, and you are not ready for this emotional actualization, and he is, then there can be also resentment of your part. [...]

[...] Later it will make no difference if he progresses, as I believe that he will. [...] He is concerned too much about the object which your friends are using for the other test, and for now I am afraid that he will unwittingly distort this material in this respect.

[...] He should think of other matters at least briefly, and concern himself with innocent pleasures so that he may be renewed.

It was far from inevitable that he turn to this field but the innermost portions of his personality were drawn to it, and within this field he can develop his abilities, mature, and contribute. [...]

[...] He is quick to learn however, once he makes up his mind and is willing to learn.

(Then a minute later: “Another thing I just got was that when man was with other men in the physical world, he could point to stuff to share descriptions with others, but that he learned to really speak when he tried to describe dreams. It was the only way — speech — by which he could share data that couldn’t be seen. He could point to a tree and grunt, but there wasn’t anything in a dream he could point to. He had to have a method of expression to describe invisible things. Inventions could have come about when he tried to tell others what he saw in his dreams, too.”)

[...] He lived too much in the moment for that. In one season he dreamed of the others, however, and in dreams he saw himself spreading the seeds of fruits as he had seen the wind do in daily life.

[...] Seth had indicated that he had available a vast amount of material on the body consciousness, and that he could give it to us at any time. [...]

[...] She had no questions for Seth, but expected him to continue his material of last Wednesday night, when he’d started an answer to my question about the relationship between the host organism and disease. [...]