“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You tell yourself you have little control over his actions, or that your feelings make little difference in the face of his actions, but that is the other side of the same coin. He begins with the pendulum and drops it, but neither do you encourage him to persist.

The winter doldrums always affect him, but are of course reinforced. Today’s visitor (Josette) came in response to Ruburt’s need, bringing him appreciation and a new encounter—but tonight’s session dictation can be of considerable benefit to you both. Ruburt simply drops the issue for a while—and then he feels panicky—at times a quite normal reaction to a sense of powerlessness. Neither of you have persisted with the Framework 2 methods.

(11:00.) The lack of persistence simply shows that in large measure your way of life suits you both, regardless of its consequences. You are obviously dissatisfied, however. Again, in the session there are strong clues, but you—or rather, Ruburt primarily must take advantage of them. The pendulum is excellent, particularly when you do it together. It can be used to advantage, particularly together, in the mornings for suggestions. Only a brief time is required. The intent is the important thing—and then for another short period to search for current reasons behind behavior. There should not be a concentration upon the problem—as a problem.

[...] Ergo — if the not-eating persists, it will have extremely serious repercussions. [...]

[...] You will end up if you persist, and I imagine you will persist, first in either a position as fourth man down from the top, or in four positions up from where you are.

You will end up in a position of dominance in the company if you persist, but this is not today or tomorrow, and the company will have changed. [...]

You cannot accept it otherwise, and you are not willing to start over with a new organization, for those creative talents within you persist in using what clay you have, and then you want to turn the clay into gold. [...]

(10:55.) Ruburt is too persistent to die young. [...]

[...] They exist as a kind of faulty sentence construction in a paragraph of living experience that you keep going back to, persistently trying to improve it. [...]

[...] You are in the middle of a “matter-concentrated system,” surrounded, so to speak, by weaker areas in which what you would call “pseudomatter” persists. [...]

If you perceived the constant change within your body with as much persistence as you attend to its seemingly permanent nature, then you would be amazed that you ever considered the body as one more or less constant, more or less cohesive, entity. [...]

If an individual is hampered in that attempt strongly and persistently enough, then the dissatisfaction and frustration will be translated into a lack of physical exuberance and vitality. [...]

[...] And I suppose that if someone persisted long enough, he or she would find the holes in the stories.... [...]

[...] Consciously and unconsciously signs are passed and given to the effect that symptoms are persisting now and will continue to do so.

[...] Ruburt fears that he has a condition which will persist indefinitely.

[...] As they have rather often recently, the phenomena had persisted in varying forms through her sleeping and waking states. [...]

[...] But the four-fronted counterpart self’s own sense of continuity is not broken up; it persists outside of space and time, while its parts — the individual selves, or counterparts — live in space and time….”⁶

(Now for two concluding paragraphs of commentary and reference: Jane’s statement that the four-fronted counterpart self persists outside of space and time implies a contradiction, of course — but this situation is one that we, as physical creatures, will in some manner always have to contend with when we encounter certain of Jane’s and Seth’s concepts [including that of the four-fronted counterpart self]. [...]

(10:45.) Now: despite all that is going on, Ruburt’s condition is persistently improving. [...]

[...] The suggestion itself can lead to all kinds of nervous symptoms, however — panics, or stomach cramps — that can persist well into adulthood.

The consciousness of the personality has not left too soon, or unusually soon, as in your father’s case, but stubbornly persists. [...]

He left for your middle brother (smile) a stubborn persistence that will help him if he uses it correctly. [...]

[...] I was afraid that once the symptoms persisted for another day or so, I would have a cold or some such thing to handle, and that days could be spent clearing it up. [...] I wanted out after a day of unease, but her symptoms had persisted now for several years. [...]

[...] This feeling of ease persisted to a marked degree for a couple of hours. [...]

[...] This pattern has persisted for a number of days now. [...]

[...] In the beginning these suggestive events just stretched our imaginations and thoughts, but later they became numerous and persistent so that we had to take them into consideration as we made normal decisions.

[...] His creative abilities have not deserted him, but it is that fear that they will if they are not consciously, persistently exerted that bothers him. [...]

His rejection of the foods for this length of time persisted as a symbol that he was still not facing his beliefs. [...]

[...] But beyond this, the species itself possesses the possibilities for adaptations that allow it to exist and persist in the physical environment under drastically varying circumstances. [...]