“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Symptoms still lingering should not be ignored, of course, but attention should be paid to advancements, and symptoms should not be overemphasized. Ruburt should attempt more and more to break out of these patterns he allowed to build up about him as a result of symptoms. He should tackle the back stairs more frequently, until they lose what negative significance they gained, you see.

He should imagine himself, before he sleeps, indulging joyfully in the next day’s activities, and should not concentrate on his symptoms, even if it is to wish they disappear. These dreams should be rather specifically requested.

His attention while walking has been centered upon his progress. He should think of other things, even he counts trees and looks about him. Activity is good for him now, you see. I emphasize the therapeutic dreams again. Whenever possible, attention should be directed away from the symptoms. This does not mean he should pretend they do not exist, but they will vanish to the extent that he directs energy away from them.

Now, the crucial mother identification is passed, and Ruburt is left with a system of habit, still based on some but relatively little mother identification. Ruburt did receive my message correctly. While the overall stability of working hours and arrangements should be largely maintained, he should make an effort to vary his activities and routine. This will generally help in the breaking up of habit patterns.

The sleeping room should always be separate. The food preparation centers should always be separate, and you do have room for those facilities in one place. [...] You are extremely well off in this respect and the room should be a place of cleansing and even of rest. You do not understand pollution or growth well enough yet, but food simply should not be allowed in this room. I should think that with your educations you should have known this yourselves, and I am quite honestly embarrassed for having to tell you this.

(She was also concerned because she thought her subconscious might be playing tricks on her, using the Seth approach to problems she or we should solve on our own. [...]

[...] This short session would not even be necessary except that I was not sure if you would consider the suggestion as legitimate if I did not give it in a normal manner, or should I say a formal manner.

[...] Naturally the refrigerator should be kept in one place. [...]

Earlier suggestions given by me should be heeded. He should try and see himself walking winningly down the street. [...]

[...] It should not involve pity, for this reinforces the symptoms, but should involve a confident assurance, particularly when he is fearful—an encouragement on your part, of constructive activities, a comforting but not overindulgent attitude, you see.

[...] There are at least three different kinds of projections that you should experience in the dream state, that will facilitate waking experiences. You should give yourself projection suggestions now as a matter of course before sleep.

[...] Ruburt should know this. [...]

Ruburt believes he should be a TV personality, a healer, a writer, an excellent psychic versed in all of the most esoteric traditions, a magnetic personality. He believes he should be objectively intellectual, cool and calm, and spontaneous at the same time. He should be in glowing health—glowing—and shine amid the multitude. [...]

Your achievements, singly and together, have not brought you the joy they should, because you think indeed that your achievements should lie elsewhere—or that, in the face of the selves you think you should be, your realized selves are almost shoddy versions. [...]

That entire situation however “ideally” should have passed some time ago. Ruburt’s individual and your joint fears, however, prolong his tension, lengthening what should be a transitory period.

[...] His feeling that his work pattern should be like yours makes him worry when he becomes very relaxed. [...] It should be easy for you to see that when Ruburt was ready you were not, or vice versa.

[...] It is now on the mend, and he should experience no further difficulties. He should automatically now give himself the suggestions mentioned in this session, before he reads a letter from his mother. [...] Your cat should be inoculated. There is no great danger here, but since you know he is not inoculated, it should be done. [...]

[...] You should not accept a barrage of illness as natural, however, for it is not. On the other hand neither should you blame yourselves for various small and separated indispositions.

It was your reactions that should have been changed, as it was Ruburt’s reactions concerning his book that should have been changed. [...]

You should have made a positive and enlightened effort to help Miss Callahan, once you realized your predicament. [...]

[...] Ruburt has endeavored to speak to Pete and explain to him how his ability should be used and should not be used.

[...] Briefly however, psychic development should lead to overall personality development. It should not be used in order to make things easier in physical terms, though I understand indeed that this is a temptation, and an understandable one. [...]

[...] You must simply take my word for it, that it would be highly disadvantageous to your development if I told you what you should do now, and what steps you should take.

Julie, Steve, and Pete—You should all read any books you can find concerning parapsychology and psychic phenomena. [...] For each individual has inner senses, whether or not he knows that he does, and these should be developed.

He can and should have excellent health and flexibility, in order to carry out the work that he was meant to carry out. [...] You can take it as slowly as you like to begin with, but the step should be taken.

The suggestions he has written down should be read twice at a time, three times daily, morning, noon and before retiring. [...] For a while when he feels tired, or when he feels a definite resistance against work, he should do something that he enjoys doing. [...]

He did arouse himself for battle yesterday (at my parents’, especially noticing the poor condition of my father), and this was effective, but this state of battle should not be maintained as a daily thing. [...]

[...] He should understand this. [...]

His imagined exploits should definitely include such vigorous pursuits with the accompanying relaxation. His physical day should include as much of this as possible. [...]

Your exercises following the book should be much concerned with images of spontaneity, exhilaration and freedom. [...] You should make the effort (smile) to speak before thinking on occasion. [...]

[...] With Ruburt we should work toward the development of contrasts —deep relaxation and fast heating motions. [...]

[...] He should in his exercises imagine strenuous exercise, running very fast for example, until in his mind’s eye his muscles are fully relaxed.

She should be assured that she is loved, but basically free. She should be assured then that love is not a bond, to hold her down. [...]

The husband, now, should follow this exercise three times dail: He should imagine the energy and vitality of the universe filling his wife’s form with vitality and health. [...]

If possible he should touch her during this exercise, and it should be done morning, noon and evening. [...]

The mental attitude, the deep and true mental attitude, of everyone involved, should be altered if possible to one that is more hopeful. [...]

[...] There should always be this balance. The personality, being intuitively strong, should apply some of this intuition outward toward other human beings. If solitude is achieved through living alone, then the personality should so be able to relate itself outward.

This discipline however should be followed rigorously only with a program of ego orientation, in which the ego tries to discipline itself in the most difficult manner, for this particular personality, toward freedom. He should express himself when he feels a diverse opinion, when he feels wronged. [...]

I am not suggesting for example that five sessions, or four, be held in a week at this time; only that sincere requests should not be automatically denied because they do not fall within the scheduled time. [...]

Knowledge on your physical plane must be applied in human terms and human values, or the possibility of helping someone else either through the sort of a session we held last time, or through a more regular session, should not be ignored.

[...] They should be recognized for what they are, and he should (underlined) definitely express them to you when he feels that way. [...] This does not mean that he should concentrate upon them, of course. [...] Love-making, expressions of loving support and encouragement should come higher up on your lists on both of your parts than before. [...]

(Long pause.) Tonight’s assurances in that area should themselves encourage him. [...] Nor should such decisions be made through the auspices of personal fear. [...] You should be free to make your decisions with a fairly clear mind. [...]

[...] You should make no absolute decisions in the latter, say, of other services. [...]

[...] Certain attitudes should be clearly expressed. [...]

When this is working well the emotion will diminish as the image fades; an episode such as this latest one should be considered as a local condition, and not exaggerated. He has had an intensified condition in the knee, and it should be considered in this light, using the methods given. [...]

[...] He should not identify with it to begin with. [...]

[...] He should realize that he is not defeated but that he has a mood of defeat. [...]

The jump from a local condition to a statement like “I am a mess,” should be avoided. [...]

[...] He should not spend any day entirely inside, as you know. He should imaginatively see himself using his body properly, for these thoughts alone activate it. But the whole idea should be “I am free, to clean the cupboards, to get down on my knees, to get up.” [...]

His mental attitude should be “Of course I can feel fine in the morning,” and instead of imagining himself dragging down the stairs, he should playfully imagine himself ahead of you, as if he were playing a game. [...]

[...] Now concentration should be upon the desired solution. [...] Both of you should look for, and mention, any new freedoms. [...]

The negative thoughts can and should be recognized and plucked up as they are encountered, but you do not need a shovel to pluck up one weed at a time, nor hit yourself over the head with a sledgehammer for finding a weed in your garden. [...]

[...] You should have produced much more and much better art than you have. [...]

It seldom occurs to you that you might be fulfilling your purposes quite beautifully despite all of your convictions—for they are indeed convictions—that you are not doing so, or that in some way or another each of you should be different in important ways than you are.

In the terms in which I am speaking here and tonight, it is a delusion to believe that you should be other than you are in any important manners. [...]

[...] But the condition began when he began to believe that he should be different than he is.

The book should cover your version of our joint experience — your own philosophical explanation of it, the questions it arouses within your own mind, your observations of Ruburt as Jane and in our trance states. Other portions should explain your own ideas concerning creativity as you feel it in yourself — the differences and similarities between your experience when you paint a picture from “usual” inspiration and when first of all you perceive the psychic impression that leads to a painting. Some illustrations from an initial sketch to a completed painting should be included.

Now: The book title should be: “Through My Eyes,” and it should be your own book, covering in your own way many important areas. [...]

[...] You should go into your own ideas about the people you paint, and why, being fascinated with portraits, you often do not use models.

[...] The book should be fun to write besides, and combine your writing and painting abilities. [...]

[...] Along with them, however, again, Ruburt should remember the playful, spontaneous attributes of the creative self. Preparing Oversoul Seven gives him a good point of concentration, yet beyond that he should allow himself the leisure and pleasure of playing with concepts, with poetry, and even with painting. [...]

Your ideas (about seeing people), mentioned earlier, should definitely be acted upon—that is, you do both need some personal communication with others. [...] Only your habits and attitudes have prevented this, but the idea should be practically put to work.

[...] You should discuss any daily issues that seem troublesome when they occur, or check them with the pendulum—one or the other. [...] He should also read the last few of our sessions, and I have listed my suggestions this evening for his more convenient use.

[...] Impulses should be acknowledged, and according to their nature acted upon—or not—but expressed.

Later this will not be necessary, though it should be a frequent pattern in your relationship, and you should feel quite free to discuss your fears then also. [...]

[...] The treatments do serve as an aid however, but he should not expect (underlined) the retracing effects, for there is no reason why they should operate in his case.

This does not mean that the emphasis should be upon fears. [...]

If possible these discussions should end with the reassurance that you can work out the practical aspects of your life together, and that you are large enough to understand your fears and use them creatively. [...]

[...] Because you have no set hours in that regard, Ruburt has filled all of them with “I should do this,” or “I should be doing that,” or “What should I be doing now?” —and that alone blocks creative flow. [...]

[...] (Pause.) In a strange fashion he does not feel a responsibility to write poetry—he doesn’t use the ability because he thinks that he should. In fact, sometimes he writes poetry when he thinks that he should not be doing so, but instead doing something more responsible. [...]

(Pause.) You had some time ago an old newspaper article you had saved, on the dangers of using the words “should” or “would” too often—and there is perhaps nothing else you could do that is as detrimental to the true development of the natural self. [...] The idea of responsibility, as described here, blocks creativity, hampers natural psychic and physical flow: “I should be doing thus and so.” [...]

It seems to him as if he would—if he were using all of his abilities as he should—be a public figure. [...]

[...] You should be near water. You should not, however, be on low ground. You should not buy a house, even with much land, that is not near water, for it will not content you and you will give it up. [...]

[...] Knowing the reason for these feelings should help you in recognizing their distant origin, and should make you more willing to be satisfied with less.

You should not go into debt. That is, though I am no banker, you should not at this time pay more than six thousand, even though a higher figure might make more land possible. [...]

[...] However, the child had playthings that belonged to another child, and any toys should be discarded. Any children’s balls should be discarded and not given to the cat to play with.

[...] The toes and fingers should be visualized as lengthening also, easily and slowly, and then returning to normal position. The joints should be imagined as moving easily. At the same time, he should dwell on the idea of flexibility and freedom, mental, spiritual, psychic and physical flexibility. [...]

When resting, and in a tranquil state of mind, he should simply imagine the limbs slowly stretching out, becoming somewhat longer, and then slowly returning to their original length. He should then imagine the neck revolving easily and normally three times in each direction; mentally here doing the yoga neck exercise that he recalls.

It will do good also if during the day occasionally he imagines the exercise as he goes about his chores, but he should not do this willfully, with an intent to command physical performance. The whole thing should be done with a mental lightness, more as if it were a children’s game, and he must remember this for it is the whole point of the procedure.

You should recall that I told you that this one would occur.