“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The concentration upon psychic phenomena in general, including his concentration in his book, has somewhat made him weary. [...] I am easy on him now, however, for the above mentioned reasons.

[...] I am to some extent therefore dependent upon him. It is up to me to train him, and tests such as this will help us in this endeavor.

[...] The idea of tests somewhat upsets him, but this can be overcome without too much difficulty in time.

[...] There is no doubt that the whole affair still seems strange to him, and he is acclimating himself to new conditions as they arise.

[...] I lunge for him, chase him to street. [...]

Remind him once again that the conscious mind cannot know of all of the body’s interior actions. And remind him once again of the material I gave him concerning the roles of the conscious and unconscious minds. Remind him also that the so-called unconscious mind is indeed highly conscious—but in a different area of activity—and it knows what it is doing. [...]

When you see Ruburt going too far in one direction, and see him trying to alter that direction, you can indeed exert your energy, leadership and direction there, for the two of you also operate jointly as well as individually. [...]

[...] The feelings of relaxation and mobility can frighten him—though they do so far less than previously, and less often. [...]

[...] You can coax Ruburt more and encourage him, and exert your power more in that direction. [...]

[...] Have Ruburt give himself suggestions that he will dream of his Turkish life, for there is information there that can help him now. [...]

Now overall he wanted an attractive package, of course, yet to him the book was in the copy mainly. (Long pause.) The Bantam photograph covers did displease him, but in a fashion he did not expect any more from the mass paperback situation. [...] He felt loyalty to Tam, who he felt was loyal to him. [...]

[...] By all means let Ruburt continue to express his feelings to you about the situation, however, and reassure him of his body’s competence. [...]

Later editors did not see eye to eye with him about his work. [...]

[...] He felt that in the beginning Tam stood up for him at Prentice several times. [...]

[...] The condition catches him frequently when he attempts to breathe deeply. He was afraid the chapter would catch him up, just when he was ready to relax and let go, a deep breath signifying a breath of relief. [...] But he was afraid to grant himself that release for the old fears of rejection stop him.

In the face of possible rejection, which old attitudes now and then make him expect, he adopts a rigid rather than flexible stance. [...] Again, the point is that he covered up the fear of rejection, and tried to minimize the place of importance that the chapter has for him.

To him in this case an attitude: “I can take it, in case of rejection.” [...]

Now he did a good job on the chapter, and it will help him if he imagines the entire book to be a young beautiful sapling that moves easily with each breeze, the nerves like tiny unseen branches, soft and flexible, going even out from his body.

[...] Then: “I feel him around now, at least—I guess I’ll be ready in a second....”)

[...] He had an unfortunate marriage behind him when you met. [...]

[...] His physical problems to some extent—do not overemphasize this point—put him in the role of the dependent woman. [...]

You also give him much more attention than you used to before the emergence of the symptoms—attention that he believes he deserves. [...]

[...] Seth on various occasions has claimed this painting, along with one other, to be likenesses of him. [...] This evening Bill commented often that the painting in question had a peculiar alive quality for him. I told him the lighting was flattering, but Bill insisted there was a different quality in the work, and that he did not believe it was due solely to suggestion.

[...] I made no notes during the evening, but Don took down the data pertaining to him. [...] Don never did see about the job he was thinking of, in December, because his present employment kept him too busy during the winter months. [...]

[...] Seth told us he knew how “their minds worked,” and that when they thought they had him pinned down as a secondary, he would have a surprise for them, a demonstration. [...]

[...] The place he visited that matched Seth’s description has made him an offer of employment.

[...] “I’m sort of confused,” she said now, “because the stuff I got from him is kind of difficult, and I don’t know whether I’m up to it or not…. But I feel him around. [...]

2. Just for my own study, I later inserted “[almost]” in Seth’s sentence because I hadn’t been quick enough to ask him to elaborate upon “the end result of an infinite series of sequences” when Jane delivered his material for him. [...]

It requires that Ruburt forge imagination and reason together in a highly accelerated fashion, and at levels obviously not conscious in usual terms—levels that propel him into my domain. [...]

[...] Tell him I said this. [...]

[...] That is, because you imagined that he would be a contemporary in age, you saw him on a bicycle, a child’s method of transportation, but because he was born earlier the vehicle carries him past.

This is why you saw him as a woman, and why you did not recognize him. [...]

A familiarity must be gained by an individual with the general nature of his own dreams first, as Ruburt now has some knowledge or intuition that enables him to distinguish between dreams that originate in areas having to do with past lives, and those which originate in other areas, though he is not yet able to further differentiate.

[...] Two other sailors leaped to your defense, not out of great kindness of heart, mainly because they disliked him. [...]

Psychological experiments as whole present him with an excellent means of using his energies. However at times we must, as now, cut him down. [...]

[...] The experience was exhausting for him, and such experiences are to be avoided.

I did indeed attempt to tell him to use caution, immediately after his last psychological time experiment. [...]

As for you, Joseph, you were extremely helpful to him, because of your presence and your understanding. [...]

[...] Would you feel the same kind of forgiving spirit for him and acceptance for him that you seem to for me now? [...]

([Bette:] “I didn’t give a damn about him.”

([Bette:] “Because he started to—He just didn’t have any gumption to him. [...]

[...] I felt fine towards Joel the first night because the minute you started talking, for weeks I had been coming to class, when I would see the war paint on him I would get a terrible pain in my head. [...]

[...] It surprised him because he allowed it to. [...] But the body does not hold a grudge, and so it has begun to respond to Ruburt’s new attitude—and the new attitude allows him to allow the body’s expression.

(9:45.) Ruburt’s fears gave him a black-or-white attitude; he must be public or private. There are many gradations between the two that would suit him quite well. [...]

A few old hangovers, simply to be aired so they do not remain underground—this is old material—but Ruburt’s mother used to tell him that he destroyed everything he touched. [...]

[...] I will indeed help him to some degree, but I will not do all the work for him.

Smoking represents among other things, to him, a blanket of insulation, not only between himself and exterior reality, but a blanket between himself and interior reality. He is fully capable now of operating without such insulation, and it will be most beneficial for him to dispense with it.

[...] I have left him alone in this respect for too long. [...]

[...] The emotional activity, the contrasts of today, exhausted him, not one thing alone.

(10:00.) This often stimulated him to new accomplishments. [...]

[...] To that extent, Ruburt does speak for both of you (as Jane said this noon), and in your own way both of you rewarded him for creative material, and withheld approval for any tendencies that ran counter to those mentioned attitudes.

[...] And if that happened, he feared that you might retaliate, either by becoming ill, or by becoming eventually cool to him.

If you remind him of that when the circumstances warrant it, it will be most helpful.

The idea of Mother’s Day made him half resentful and half sorrowful because of the poor relationship between him and his mother (long pause), and he had hoped for further improvements in time for his birthday.

[...] 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 is a friend you have known in the past, and you can trust him, and I know him well. It is a definite step that you are able to perceive him. [...]

[...] Do not think of yourself as an adult relating to him. [...] Then you will find there are many similarities and that you can understand him and not feel frustrated sometimes. I want you to be spontaneously happy with him and to allow his spontaneous happiness to come across to you, and do not be a bitchy old dog. [...]

(To Dennis.) I meant for him to allow himself expansion, both mental and physical and do not let him get bound up in his problems. [...]

[...] All right, you project upon him. [...]

For various reasons, and because you did not understand, you held it against yourself that once you accidentally killed him, and then when he was a child you gave him away. You gave birth to him however when you did not have to, in order to give him this reentry. [...]

Your child, in a past life, this child was an uncle, and in an accident you killed him. [...]

[...] But subconsciously you wondered what social environment your child would really (underlined) encounter, and whether or not you deprived him of the social and economic benefits that you have convinced yourself, consciously, you do not need.

[...] Your father simply preferred her because she did remind him of his wife. [...]

[...] The letter in any case made him think in terms of responsibility again, but this session should set him right. [...]

[...] Have him imagine shrugging his shoulders. [...] He does still need you to remind him of the safety of relaxation now and then.

[...] It also made him think, however, that he was not changing the world in any way that mattered in any important degree—that those in authority did not even read them, and that even my latest work (Mass Reality) would make no inroads. [...]

[...] Christ, as you understand him historically to be, spoke in parables and symbols. Men often took him literally, but his message was that the spirit of God was within each person—in terms of the symbolism, each person being a child of the father who dwelled in heaven. [...]

For centuries, priests of one kind or another have been put in charge of “reading God’s messages,” and interpreting them to the rest of mankind, just as in later times the scientists have been put in the position of interpreting man’s own world to him—in terms quite as esoteric as those of any religion. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s dream about the reincarnational room told him that he had decided to concentrate in each life rather exclusively upon certain issues. [...]

The dream meant, also, that he was not alone in a different fashion, for the self that he knows is supported by strong and vigorous other portions of the psyche, and other aspects all ready to help him—inner friends he can count upon.