“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The morning and evening suggestions should be given, and as mentioned in the last session. Beyond that he should leave himself alone—as far as specific suggestions are concerned.

[...] For your vacation there should be a balance of rest and activity, dancing for example, and an interchange with others.

There should be sunbathing, but also activity, you see.

(Perhaps it was no coincidence that before supper tonight Jack Joyce visited to discuss how much we should pay quarterly on our estimated NY State tax for 1981 — another success story that must be paid for? [...]

[...] Dr. Werner added that he felt Jane should get attention, since help could lengthen her life span through muscular relaxation. [...]

[...] An overconcern (underlined) about the mechanics of publication, or the necessity of publication, or the wheres and hows of publication, or a sense of responsibility about the work, can indeed cause difficulty, but the basic creative expression—which has been impeded in the past by fears—should still be encouraged. [...]

[...] Once a day an exercise in the utilization of healing energy should be used. [...]

[...] The arms should now begin to release. They have been connected with a feeling of helplessness, mainly centered around his feeling that he was not contributing financially what he should. [...]

[...] I am not saying of course that you should not be as kind and considerate as possible, but that you not try to take your father’s place at your mother’s demands.

[...] Work on the dream book should now be added daily however, and the suggestions read before the work is begun each day.

If he works on his dream book daily now, for at least two hours, this plus the benefit from his classes should give noticeable improvement. [...]

(Pause.) This material should be read in conjunction with the sessions just mentioned, dealing with his ideas about work and creativity. [...]

[...] All of this goes back to ideas that existence must be justified, and Ruburt’s early ideas that writing would justify his life—but writing should express life, and is an expression of being, an expression of spontaneity, an expression of emotion, of body as well as mind (all intently). [...]

His early writing, and his best later writing, spring alike from that realization, when he forgets ideas of our work’s responsibility, or how respectable he should appear, and simply does it because it is a natural expression of his being —one expression among others. [...]

[...] You should both be more spontaneous (whispering) with loving touches and conversations, and see even your difficulties existing in rich environments of being, in which you are not isolated. [...]

(We talked briefly after a late supper.While washing up, Jane told me after she was finished, she “got” that she was worse in Key West because she should have stayed here and worked today. [...]

[...] I thought that probably the feelings should be allowed to come out violently, but we were inhibited by our surroundings, and probably fear, etc. [...]

[...] Now you spend half of your time trying to figure them out, and what is wrong with Ruburt—time that you should be working. [...]

[...] I rage when neither of you work as you should. [...]

There are actually several new twists in this material, as you should see when you read it over. [...]

(I should also note that today, with a bit of a struggle, I carried in to 330 a large vase containing long hollyhocks and irises. [...]

You should try willing yourself into another room. [...]

If possible, you should make an effort to conquer the fear involved with levitations, for the fear prevents you from recalling such experiences. [...]

You often travel together in projections, and you should be able to recall these in time.

I do not mean that Ruburt should not read the material, but he should not read it immediately before a session. [...]

[...] It is regrettable, and yet I can give you a checking method that should be used in the future, to check any material in which you find distortions of any kind.

You should not, and I repeat this, grow panicky at the thought of distortions occurring, simply because to expect no distortions is just as unrealistic, and would send you flying headlong against an eventual wall of disillusion. [...]

[...] This certainly should not be strange to you, since you know that even your present personalities can to some extent escape from clock time through the use of psychological time. [...]

[...] Not because you should, or feel you should, but because you want to. [...]

[...] If nothing is done then you should wait until March.

You should take care in noticing the people that appear in your dreams. [...]

Patience rather than coercion should be used. [...]

Ruburt’s spontaneous self should not push. [...]

[...] It should be remembered that the overly conscientious self is also responsible for lifelong continuity of purpose, giving direction to the spontaneous self.

The two sessions, one immediately following the other, you see—both should be highly beneficial however.

[...] Our idea was that our receptive state might make it possible for one of us to speak for another personality should one be present, or for another level of the self. [...]

[...] Seth reinforced this by saying that in the future I should be careful if I did not want it to happen again. [...]

I would sit with you now as a friend at the party and converse, but it is a trifle difficult as you should understand. [...]

As you should know here, I do not speak in terms of payment, I do not speak in terms of suffering, of making up. [...]

[...] The half-hour limit should always be maintained, however. You should be able to experience now, directly, the sort of distance to which I have referred.

[...] But our discussions concerning the electrical universe should have led you into intangibles.

It should be easier now for you to understand this vitality, since we have already spoken in terms of reality existing by means of intensities. [...]

[...] Nor, as I said earlier, should this seem so strange. [...]

Before we discuss other more significant aspects of our friend’s condition, these physical matters should be taken care of, for the physical and mental are so dependent one upon the other. Plain water should be taken often, a glass three to five times daily. [...]

The physical matters mentioned should be taken care of immediately. [...]

[...] He still has drugs in his system, and they should be discontinued, all kinds, completely.

[...] (Pause.) Within three months time there should be a noticeable improvement. [...]

“These sessions themselves involve the highest levels of creative productivity, at many levels, so he should refresh himself painting or doing whatever he likes, for that refreshment adds to his creativity, of course. [...] He should follow the rhythms of his own creativity without being overly concerned with the time. [...]

[...] That should make Ruburt feel better (with amusement), and give us a moment. [...]

2. I’m presenting the private portion of tonight’s session for two reasons: Seth comments a bit upon the creative production of the sessions, and he shows how we can habitually impose upon our physical selves our conscious ideas of what we “should be doing”—not paying enough attention to our impulsive, natural, bodily messages.

“When you mentioned his ink sketches he instantly wanted to play at painting again, but felt, guiltily, that he should not. [...]

[...] We should change the name of the class and simply call it a class in communication and direction of energy. [...] There are distortions, and you should expect them, and there is no perfect state of consciousness. [...]

[...] You will learn to examine it, but more than this you will learn to cherish it as you should cherish all the states of consciousness that you discover in yourselves and in others. [...]

Now if you take any number of layers of consciousness and layer them in this manner, you should realize that each of them has adjacent levels of consciousness on either side, so to speak, so that it is not simply a matter of going up and down as if you were playing with scales. [...]

[...] You should particularly make sure that you allow him psychic freedom and not emotionally bind him. [...]

[...] On occasion you increased your own noncontact behavior when he did not react when you thought he should.

[...] The two of you instead now should concentrate your efforts upon forming a generalized, comfortable center, and maintaining that. [...]

[...] It should be flexible enough now for both of you, and not the formation of one rigid point. [...]

[...] Some rather simple, but they should be mentioned.

[...] It will also help him to understand and appreciate my own unique reality, and this now-growing belief should result in a greater familiarity. He should be able to perceive me to some degree before too long.

We should perhaps differentiate between thoughtwords and speech, or spoken words. [...]

[...] I should end the session here, and leave you with that one, but I will explain what I mean.

[...] The letter should be mailed however. [...]

[...] He should not be worried if a freedom shows one day, then, and not the next. [...]

Ruburt should continue reading the sessions he has picked out, every other day or so, plus my current personal material. [...]

[...] You should not be afraid of making errors. If you follow physical reality as a commandment then you will place your guilts in physical reality instead of getting rid of them as you should. [...]