“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(8:27.) He should have no trouble with the thyroid extract, but should begin to experience some sense of bodily accomplishment. You should have your own program, since you now have a medical one. [...]

(I should also add that Jane’s Doctor K. wants her to return to the emergency room there this Friday to see Dr. Sobel from Ithaca—provided he’ll be there, of course. [...]

[...] You should each start the day with a few suggestions—suggestions that are meant to realign your moods and purposes. [...]

(Long pause.) The entire magical approach is indeed at your command, and with your strong impetus now, you should be able to put it to use in far better fashion than you have before. [...]

An effort should be made to help the client understand that errors of thought and belief are responsible for the condition — and that the removal of those erroneous beliefs can relieve the situation. The therapist should make it clear that he understands that the client is not lying, in ordinary terms, when he reports hearing voices from the devil.

You should be able to see, in fact, that the problems we have been discussing begin by limiting the field of available choices, and thus curtailing the range of expression. [...] All of the constructive beliefs mentioned throughout this book should be applied to all of the instances in this chapter. [...]

According to the particular case in point, the therapist should then try to point out the errors of thought and belief involved, and also to explain their more or less habitual cast.

[...] The therapist should also assure the client that on many subjects and topics of thought and conversation, the client operates quite well. [...]

You should desire good health because it is a natural state of your being. You should trust in the innate intelligence of your own being... [...]

[...] or should I be seeing that man within a framework of, just as we were talking about health as just being a stepping stone, should I be seeing this man with a viewpoint towards what this can mean for helping other people be part of a constructive arrangement?”)

[...] [Tom:] “My interpretation of what he said is that (1) good health is a natural part of ourselves, and so we should naturally desire it, and (2) good health in itself is not the objective at all. [...] It is what we are able to do through it, that we should really be aiming at. [...]

[...] And if you travel too quickly and too far, you will not have confidence, for in the back of your mind you will think: if I do not feel secure in physical reality, then why should I feel secure here... [...]

You should desire good health because it is a natural state of your being. You should trust in the innate intelligence of your own being—which produces good health. [...]

([Theodore: ]“But the point is—I guess the question I’m asking is: Am I really more interested in the certain possibilities of status, and that would not be the positive way of looking at things—or should I be seeing that man within a framework of, just as we were talking about health as just being a stepping stone, should I be seeing this man with a viewpoint towards what this can mean for helping other people be part of a constructive arrangement?”)

[...] [Theodore:] “My interpretation of what he said is that (1) good health is a natural part of ourselves, and so we should naturally desire it, and (2) good health in itself is not the objective at all. [...] It is what we are able to do through it, that we should really be aiming at.”

[...] For in the back of your mind you will think: If I do not feel secure in physical reality, then why should I feel secure here—and you will not have the daring that is necessary, nor will you have the peace of mind—and the peace of mind is the key to the door. [...]

[...] All suggestions as given should be continued. I will not give you definite recommendations as to what you should do now. There should be some alterations however, changes simply to mark the end of one era and the beginning of another, even if it is but a brief vacation, or series of small trips.

Ruburt should try, again, not to concentrate on the walking area. [...] The soreness that sometimes occurs in joints is due to their activation, will not last, and should be accepted in that light. [...]

[...] These are following their own course, but some exterior improvement in that area should very shortly be showing.

The area of concentration now however should be not upon the body but upon daily living, his writing and your plans. [...]

The number of remembered dreams should be much higher than your present system allows. [...] I will not tell you much about them however, since your own minds should be free, and you should come to your own conclusions.

Unknown characters within the dream action, persons unknown to you in everyday life, should be given careful attention also, and the roles which they play within the dream drama. The primary colors of a dream should be noted. It certainly goes without saying that all remembered dream events should be checked against reality, as you have been doing, so that any clairvoyant dreams are clearly checked and recorded.

Particular notice should also be taken of characters and settings, and the approximate period of history in which the dream action occurs. If a dream seems to occur in no specific location and in no particular time, then these facts should also be noted.

[...] You should however try both methods, and discover which works the best for you. By all means, if at all possible, the recorder, Joseph, should be in your bedroom. [...]

You should be comfortably warm, but not overburdened with blankets. (Long pause.) A note to Ruburt: he should keep a robe handy. [...] As a preliminary to the instructions I have given you, for 7 days he should give himself dream suggestions, and on several occasions, though not every night, tell himself that he will awaken after a dream and record it.

[...] This should not be a haphazard affair, left to chance.

Two evenings a week specific suggestions should be used and attempts made. [...]

If he only sees your physical body then he should address you, announce his own out-of-body state and invite you to join him. [...]

Later other such Eastern exercises should be added. The walks should indeed be systematically continued. Deep breathing should always be adopted during such walks. When the walk entails an errand the walking itself should be the important matter. You should attempt to feel yourselves a part of the environment through which you pass, and attempt to enter into it rather than feel yourselves as observers.

Ruburt should drink no more than five cups of coffee daily at the most. If he is not giving up his cigarettes, then as you suggested moderation should be used. The present fifteen a day will do for now, but this should be reduced to ten when it is feasible.

[...] The isometric exercises, for now, are excellent and should be followed by both of you. The two Eastern exercises, done occasionally by Ruburt, should be adopted by you both as a matter of routine daily.

This should be done every night during your season, and will immeasurably help you. The same suggestions should be given by Ruburt for the sinus condition. [...]

[...] When you seem to suffer in contrast to the development or situation of any other specific or generalized persons, it is when you are trying to live up to artificial pictures of yourselves—of people who should have been as knowledgeable years ago as they are now, and who therefore now should be at much greater stages of development. [...]

Ruburt should read that session (for October 22, 1973) and ones immediately previous. [...]

[...] Be aware, however, of the sudden reassurances from Framework 2. (Also at Prentice)—The news program invitation (from ABC), which places you in a context, however small, of national interest—an invitation that you did not court; these, plus many excellent letters of late, should show you of course the beneficial aspects of your work that you can at times overlook (with irony). [...]

[...] Your own relationship is itself quite extraordinary, precisely in the light of your own backgrounds—not as you think those backgrounds should have been, but as they were. [...]

When it is possible, the shoes should be replaced, pair by pair. Whatever stockings or winter legwear he has should be discarded. The black boots should not be worn next year. [...]

The cupboards there should particularly be repainted; the ceiling is not important, do as you wish. [...] The soap dish in the shower should be replaced. The bathmat should be put away for some time. [...]

[...] The bathroom should be redone, and gaily. [...]

[...] All energy should be directed on his part into making the classes a success.

[...] No portion of the body should be spoken about in secret, hushed tones. Each child should be told that his body, or her body, is a precious private possession, however, so that it is easy to build up a desirable feeling of bodily privacy, without any hint of shame or guilt.

It goes without saying that parents should hold the bodies of their male and female children in equal favor, so that one is not considered inferior to the other. Each child should be educated as early as possible by their parents, so that the youngsters are repeatedly reminded of the body’s natural resources and healing abilities.

[...] It should be noted that before today’s session, she read yesterday’s session very well, indeed — fast and easily.)

[...] You will not only shove down ideas that seem negative, however, you will also shove down feelings of generosity, particularly toward people that you do not like, feelings of joy because you feel too guilty to think you should feel joy. You will shove down all kinds of impulses, and so you will not know yourself, and you will block off impulses that you really should accept, recognize and admit as portions of yourself. [...]

[...] There was a reason why there was no session last evening, and if you listen to the conversation, and if you understand the nature of suggestion as thoroughly as you should and must, then you will understand the reason. [...]

[...] Now in your position, you of all people, should recognize feelings within yourself, the effects of others upon you and be even more vigilant of the effect of what you say upon others. [...]

[...] This you should understand. [...]

[...] Recommendations: one half-hour a day, at any time, should be allowed specifically for clear physical activity, where that impulse is encouraged, and where there is no conflict. [...] In fact, he should not, for I want him to have a simple feeling of achievement. [...]

It should not upset him unduly then if it seems to him that he makes “the wrong decision” at any given time, for the process of becoming aware of the impulses is now the important issue, and then to decide between them. [...]

He thought he should write, and he wanted to. [...]

In such cases, however, and with your understanding, he should feel free to call on you, regardless of what you are doing. [...]

When he feels like exerting himself he should do so, and when his body seems to want relaxation, then he should follow that line. [...]

[...] The last session should be read whenever you feel yourselves falling out of balance with these new ideas. [...]

Your individual and joint psychic activities should also begin a new expansion for the same reasons. [...]

Ruburt should relax for the rest of the evening, however, and once again I will add energy that would otherwise have been used for the session. [...]

Care then should be taken to concentrate on the daily matters at hand—his writing, and to avoid conscious concentration upon the state of his health or the progress of healing. Any positive improvements that you notice, Joseph, or any positive statements concerning his appearance or performance, should be stated. [...]

In the particular case for example you should have called your neighbor while you were being annoyed. [...]

[...] For you again now the word should be abundance. [...]

Always ask yourself “Am I reacting to this present event only, as I should, or am I reacting to this event and five others in the past to which I did not react?” Soon you will find yourself with responses in proportion to present events, and will be free from old habits.

Both of you, remembering the article you read this evening (about Picasso), should keep in mind the immense energies of the inner self to solve such problems, to set the personality aright, and literally get it back on its feet. I have said this often, yet I cannot overemphasize it: Emphasis should not be upon the problem but upon its solution.

The little habits that have been built up about Ruburt’s condition should be abolished. [...] It does mean that habitual limiting tendencies of his should not be continued.

[...] This fear itself should be faced for what it is, and dealt with like any other fear. [...]

[...] This should be admitted.

[...] (Her eyes open, Jane picked up the letter from Prentice-Hall briefly.) This is the direction toward which you should move. [...] What is preserved of it will be in exact proportion to the amount of perception Ruburt had as to the direction in which it should move.

[...] He should be clear in his mind as to what I have said about myself, and what I have not said.

He has the idea at times that he should accept me in conventional terms, from the books that he has read. [...]

[...] It has appeared in our sessions of late because it was the term Ruburt thought should be used, and on occasion because it was the word most comfortable for his students. [...]

Reading this material and understanding the nature of this attack should end it. [...] He should be drawing gratitude and health from this thought reality. [...]

The dreams he had tried to give him warning of probabilities, and he should have questioned me or used the pendulum. [...] Positive suggestion should be used, a practice he began and discontinued.

He should not attempt at this time to write anything more than a friendly letter to his mother. [...] Ruburt should read this many times.

[...] He should remember here that he is not the person who lived in Saratoga now, unless he chooses in a self-limiting way to be so. [...]

[...] But we should be in one, and know it, and know ourselves in it. Or we should be in the other and know ourselves in it; and finally, while we are in one reality, we should be able, even in it, to hold our knowledge of the other. [...]

The symptoms of such a semitrance state include the sleepiness and drugged feeling with which he was afflicted; though these were only mildly disagreeable, they should be taken as signs that orientation is inefficient. [...]

[...] When you operate within it you should indeed experience it completely, in as many phases as possible, and be it to a much greater degree than is usually achieved, the conscious mind using itself then in experience, and thus knowing itself. [...]

The inner senses therefore should also be used as fully as the outer senses. [...]

For some years, to varying extents, Ruburt and you also to a lesser degree became motivated by ideas of who you should (underlined) be, what you should (underlined) be doing, and what your responsibilities were. [...] In Ruburt’s case the idea of responsibility became far more pervasive, resulting in what I have referred to as being almost a superself image—an image composed of his ideas of the kind of person he should (underlined) be in his position. [...] He felt he should do many things, for example, that he did not really like to do at all. [...]

[...] Ruburt felt for years that he should (underlined) become a more public person, do workshops, television shows, radio tours or whatever—that he should (underlined) nearly perform miracles in the psychic arena, that he should have a large class, that he should hold as many sessions for others as possible. [...]

[...] Later his ideas of responsibility told him he should be working—not because he wanted to be working, but because he should be. [...]

(Upon thinking it over—it’s now Sunday afternoon as I finish typing the session—I now believe that I should have said little or nothing, and I became concerned lest I undid, or tried to, what progress Jane has managed to achieve lately. [...] It made me question what we were doing generally, that such an obvious response should escape our notice. [...]