“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(10:15.) Of course the personal material did threaten him, with his beliefs, for how could the person responsible for such a weighty lifework have any weaknesses? Certainly the weaknesses said that the material was not true – because when he emphasizes work over creativity he becomes overly conscientious, overly concerned with responsibility, and puts himself in a situation where old fears are indeed triggered.

You asked the question about the subconscious this evening, before the session, and Ruburt immediately interpreted it in the light of the following: the weight of the responsibility it carried for all those psychologists, and all of their patients, and his responsibility to obtain, in capitals, the answer, not only for himself but for all those other people. [...]

(The next day, before I began typing this session, Jane outlined material she’d picked up about her eye condition this morning, evidently in response to the question of the night before. [...]

Television becomes a threat because he feels he is being asked to prove the unprovable, and yet since this is his life’s work he feels responsible to do so.

[...] You never felt a responsibility to go out, but a responsibility to stay home and work.

To tell Ruburt he has a responsibility to go out is a new idea. Instead, reignite the normal spontaneous desires he had to go out, despite the responsibility he felt he had to stay in. [...]

The stimuli encountered outside will automatically meet response and bring up other reasons for going out. [...]

Let Ruburt remind himself that his birth was not responsible for his mother’s incapacity. [...]

[...] He is not his mother’s murderer, then, in any fashion, nor responsible for the breakup of his parents’ marriage.

[...] How could a three-year-old child, standing in the snow on Middle Avenue in Saratoga Springs, be responsible for hurting anything — or anybody?

Tell Ruburt he is in no way responsible for killing his grandmother or the housekeeper.

[...] He has a strong sense of responsibility and loyalty. [...] I am digressing here to bring you another issue: the strong responsibility he always felt toward his writing ability, he naturally felt toward the psychic ability—but without the necessary sense of discrimination, since he didn’t realize what such activities involved.

As a writer for example, alone, he does not feel a responsibility (underlined) to write every kind of book possible: gothics, mysteries, science fiction, poetry, essays, straight novels. [...] So he need not feel that he has a responsibility to be a psychic healer, a clairvoyant, a medium, a psychic psychologist, and so forth, though he has the ability to be any of these.

He did however feel that responsibility. Conflicts arose because his responsibilities clashed. [...]

[...] Because he felt a responsibility to the work, and because of another publication—a hardcover book—he consented to The Seth Material. [...]

There is no time when the sessions should be held merely from a sense of responsibility, and the sessions could not be held merely for that reason.

[...] I would hardly then impose responsibility as opposed to joy upon Ruburt. [...]

[...] Ruburt need not think in terms of grim responsibility. [...]

[...] Responsibility, in a certain sense, always got his back up.

[...] Background: Last PM Seth gave a session for me and this dream seems to be in direct response to it. [...]

[...] I may have picked up a feeling of responsibility to do just that, back when we knew Gridley.... [...]

[...] If you hold to it and do not examine it, however, you may find that the word “responsible” is quite loaded, and collects other ideas that are equally unexamined by you. What is your idea of being responsible? [...]

The idea of being the responsible parent, for example, may lead quite easily to other psychic structures involving responsibility, so that data is accepted on its own value. [...]

For example, here is a seemingly very innocent core belief: “I am a responsible parent.”

If responsible means, “I must be a parent twenty-four hours a day to the exclusion of everything else,” then you may be in difficulty, for that core belief might prevent you from using other abilities that exist quite apart from your parenthood.

You do not have the responsibility to change the world for the better. That is, changing the world for the better is not your personal responsibility. [...]

If you think that it is your personal responsibility alone to change the world, then you are always bound to feel a burdening sense of failure. [...]

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

Now, perhaps I do not use the correct approach with you (Florence) when I speak of responsibility, but you are responsibility oriented. But a flower does not feel the responsibility to bloom in the sun, it blooms because it is natural to bloom. [...]

[...] You are not fulfilling your responsibilities to yourselves simply by coming here once a week. You are fulfilling your responsibilities when you go within yourselves every day. [...]

[...] You also have the responsibility to discover who and what you are. [...]

[...] To some extent he overexaggerated your response to emotionalism as he came to think of it, during your illness. [...]

[...] Some of your early unfortunate responses, for example with Rebellers, were highly charged, you see, because of the circumstances. [...]

[...] On the side of consciousness, it is a tale symbolically representing the birth of the conscious mind in the species as a whole, and the emergence of self-responsibility. [...]

[...] A part of him very naturally yearned for that primeval (louder) knowing unknowingness that had to be abandoned, in which all things were given — no judgments or distinctions were necessary, and all responsibilities were biologically foreordained.

With the birth of this consciousness came conscious responsibility for the fruits of the planet. [...]

[...] His call reminded me finally of his letter and my response that I wouldn’t be able to see him during his trip. [...]

Most of the material disappeared instantly, like some dreams, but I did remember that Seth told me to stress pleasure over responsibility and that thought was in my mind as I fell to sleep Friday PM.

Enjoyment instead of responsibility: I determined to try that out Saturday, and I did enjoy myself writing a new poem; the theme—pleasure! [...]

It seems under those conditions that only pessimism can be an adequate response, so that any private or global condition of an adverse nature, left alone, will further deteriorate. [...]

The natural person can be evoked, and its responses elicited, particularly through touching and through statements of love and affection. [...]

Ruburt was not responsible for the housekeeper’s death when he was in high school. [...]

[...] Many will now surface most likely on their own in response to current events, as per this morning: the memories will not be frozen, but will move naturally into present experience, and take their natural place. [...]

Your dreams affect your cellular reality, even as that reality is also largely responsible for the fact that you dream, in your terms, at all. [...]

(9:53.) These events and responses continue to operate, however, particularly in the dream state where they do not intersect directly with full physical experience, as waking events do. [...]

[...] So even in forming sentences you deal with probabilities, and to some extent or another your body mimics, say, the various muscular responses that might be involved with each unspoken sentence.

[...] Computations are made so that the body’s entire response can be ascertained ahead of time, and the advantages and disadvantages weighed. [...]

— to begin dictation: Physical existence is valuable for many reasons, one being that the flesh is so responsive to thought and yet so resilient. [...]

[...] In what may seem to you to be an odd analogy I will compare your thoughts with viruses,¹ for they are alive, always present, responsive, and possess their own kind of mobility. [...]

[...] It is natural for your thoughts to be as quick, responsive, and alive as viruses. [...]

(“Well, how about his response to the hot weather?”)

I would not dare to comment, if it were not that he is curious enough to court my response.

[...] Remember, however, that your responses may change at different times. [...]

The problems arise in response to ideas that you once accepted as facts of life —ideas that have indeed exerted great sway—ideas that are responsible for much of the world’s woe. [...]

Now: for Ruburt: a major tension block has begun to release itself—one that physically was largely responsible for the difficulties on the right side, and the lack of true body alignment. [...]

[...] The release however then of muscles previously tight can be initially unpleasant, but this soon passes, as other groups of muscles relax gradually in response. [...]

[...] You are responsible for the sunrise... you are responsible for the tides... you are responsible for the wars and the starvation. [...]

[...] And through your creations shall you realize your abilities and your responsibilities even as we. [...]

[...] That you do create your reality, that you do have the freedom and the joy and the responsibility of forming the physical reality in which you live. [...] Every other nation, every other people form their own violence and is responsible for their own miserable condition, but my people—they are right! [...]

[...] You must take the first step and take the responsibility for yourself and then you have the freedom to change it. If you do not accept the responsibility, then you do not have the power to change. [...]

[...] It brings with it not only responsibility, but joy such as you have never known. [...]