“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] This session is prefaced with my notes of two pendulum sessions I held with myself. [...] Suffice it to say here that Jane’s own pendulum agreed with it in toto, and we spent a good deal of time discussing it. [...]

Your pendulum data was indeed correct. [...]

[...] The answers given by your pendulum also apply to my book, and to some (underlined) of our missed sessions in general. [...]

(“The pendulum insists there’s nothing wrong physically in the side-groin area, but I’m beginning to wonder. Pendulum tells me the side bothers because I’m not working on Mass Reality, which will get us money, whereas Through My Eyes is a less-certain project, would take longer, and the time I spend on it is time lost on Mass Reality. [...]

(“Tonight the pendulum says just what it did yesterday—that I feel poorly because I estimated a high income when we don’t have it in sight; that I think I should be working on Mass Reality instead of Through My Eyes because the former will bring in sure money; that I think I don’t contribute enough financially; that I feel lousy because I want something definite to work on —that at this time I’m not contributing enough. The pendulum also says I think I deserve the symptoms for the above reasons.

(“The pendulum says I don’t think I’ll get money for Through My Eyes, that it’s a waste of time, that I don’t want to work on it. [...]

It is not advantageous for you to work with the pendulum over a half-hour per day. A daily routine involving a half-hour’s work with the pendulum will do you good.

You have indeed been trying too hard with the pendulum, which sets up its own kind of resistance. At your present stage of development with the pendulum you get a reaction that could be compared to a closed circuit, where the energy is directed into the past, into the personal subconscious too abruptly, and too intensified, and is not yet allowed the release of discovering full causes, which would then release not only that energy, but the energy that has in the past gone into the formation of various physical ills.

[...] The effect was something like an allergy or cold, although the pendulum told me it was neither. [...]

(“Well, with the pendulum I’d arrived at the idea that my stomach bothered me because of a conflict between painting and writing—the time I have for each. [...]

[...] But I got off the track with the pendulum. [...]

[...] He repeated that my mother would be against using photographs of her—something I’d never arrived at with the pendulum. [...]

[...] I had already received some insight on the problem by using the pendulum, but by tonight, Wednesday, felt exhausted by the symptoms.

(My pendulum related the symptoms to my decision to paint an oil from a small pen-and-ink sketch I had made in 1969. [...]

(The pendulum told me that I was bothered by the idea of the possible lack of permanency of the panel I had chosen, and briefly that I was somewhat aware of the change in this picture, as far as handling of form would be concerned, from my usual style of working. [...]

(My own pendulum sessions lately have told me that I was feeling my own guilt because I thought I should have helped her more in the past. Just this morning my pendulum^* for the first time said that I no longer felt guilty. [...] I’ve taken to using the pendulum in the morning after breakfast and last thing at night before going to bed. [...]

(It will be recalled that I had my excellent pendulum session last Sunday, November 5, pinpointing the part I played in Jane’s symptoms. Using the pendulum each day since then, I have been surprised to note a rapid change in some inner attitudes. [...]

[...] You have been able to reason with your subconscious, of late, and get through to it, because with the pendulum and through our sessions we have been able to unscramble the uncertain state in which it found itself. [...]

[...] I then wondered aloud at the apparent suddenness of the breakup of symptoms, just three days after my pendulum session of last Sunday, and two days after the session with Seth on Monday, November 6. This brought Seth back at once.)

(As Jane and I worked with the pendulum on Thursday morning, May 8, I thought of two questions for Seth that we’d never asked him before. [...]

(This morning Jane and I worked with the pendulum on the question of inspiration, and discovered that there was much there to be learned and clarified in her attitudes, and mine too, for that matter. [...]

The dream initiated your pendulum work on inspiration, for to Ruburt to deaden yourself is to deaden inspiration, which to him is the quickness of life. [...]

Try not to use the word “symptoms” in your pendulum work from now on. [...] Always end your pendulum sessions with the new beliefs you want to instill, reinforcing whatever you have learned from that particular session. The idea of those pendulum sessions should not be to find out what is wrong, but to discover Ruburt’s feelings and beliefs, and to ascertain how they can be changed to bring about more favorable conditions.

(We’re still working with the pendulum six days a week. [...]

[...] Much of this appears in your pendulum work of late, but you both then project those ideas upon the world, so that you think of your readers as overly credulous, or of critics who are overly critical. [...]

(Late yesterday afternoon my pendulum told me that Jane’s symptoms stemmed from her feeling that she had failed to become a successful “straight” writer—a novelist, poet, essayist, et al.; that she felt she had failed as the serious writer she had always dreamed of becoming, that the psychic work represented a turning down a wrong path; that actually, basically, the psychic work represented failure to her rather than success. [...]

[...] I was somewhat puzzled that I hadn’t asked my pendulum this specific set of questions before—or had I? [...]

(The data in the session sums up our discussions following the pendulum session. [...]

(I felt relief after the pendulum, and much more at ease through the afternoon. [...] I’ll use the pendulum again, but may ask Seth to comment tomorrow if it persists. [...]

[...] I used the pendulum briefly in the bathroom while Jane was having a cigarette, and learned that the bothersome effects were caused because I hadn’t been working on Dreams as much as I felt I should. [...]

[...] We’ve already obtained some interesting pendulum answers, this morning, about the event, concerning emotional factors that lead to physical restraint. [...]

[...] The pendulum work was important because of the togetherness it entailed, the joint determination it symbolizes, and Ruburt’s decision to uncover any or all fears rather than hiding them.

[...] This morning’s pendulum session, while helpful, for the general reasons given earlier, was also however more of an exercise in what is wrong, again, and was not followed by any constructive suggestion at all.

[...] Her new release began this morning as we worked with the pendulum, and she can attach her report to this session if she wants to. [...] I made a brief note about the three words on a sheet of our pendulum questions.

(Jane asked that Seth comment on her fear about time, a question we’d uncovered recently with the pendulum. [...]

(All of this sounds very simple in the telling, of course, but was opaque to us until we’d gone this far with the pendulum work, evidently. [...]

[...] When she returned home she used the pendulum to learn that she had been repressing reactions to a statement of mine of the other day, to the effect that I didn’t think she’d be able to get around well enough to go on tour for Seth Speaks, if Prentice-Hall asked us to. [...]

[...] Jane said the pendulum session helped. [...]

[...] I suggest that in a joint pendulum session you address Ruburt’s conscientious self with this in mind.

(The pendulum told me Jane did not feel this way, and after the session she agreed. Nevertheless the pendulum told me I felt some anger at myself on this score, hence the stiff neck. [...] She did not know of my pain in the neck, or that I was using the pendulum.)

[...] By 8:45 it was quite bothersome, so I returned to the studio in the back of the apartment, to use the pendulum for a quick check to see if I could learn the cause. [...]

[...] Nor did Jane know I was using the pendulum. [...]

(Our daily pendulum work continues, and continues to get good results. [...]

[...] That, plus your pendulum work, prevents fears from going underground again. [...]

[...] For now the pendulum sessions are involved. [...]

From your work with the pendulum you understand some points. [...]

You will get further information through the pendulum, and you may try automatic writing. [...]

[...] I’d obtained what I thought was some good pendulum material on the problem, and wanted to see if Seth confirmed it. [...]

[...] In a more penetrating way, Seth enlarged upon some of the pendulum information I’d picked up.)

He pulls out part of the thorn but not all of it, working with the pendulum, in some cases. [...]

[...] See it as a form, then as you work with the pendulum close the eyes and see whether the form or the shape is disappearing. [...]

[...] He should not overwork with the pendulum. [...]

Your pendulum sessions have been of benefit, and one reason is because they represent a united, joint and determined effort on both of your parts, and Ruburt feels your support. [...] The pendulum method is simply a technique that is effective because of your beliefs, and brings to light your own quite conscious ideas—those that you might not approve of, and so conveniently appear to forget.

[...] At the same time, I do think we’ve made some progress through our own work with the pendulum.)