“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Ruburt is working well with his beliefs, and seeing them reflected in all portions of his life as mentioned, Dialogues, some other thoughts he had only beginning to be expressed in Tim’s (Foote) letters and his work, are working together in a therapeutic framework.

[...] He believes he should be working, yet also that he should be more physically active. [...] As you have told him, there is nothing wrong with working all day, and all night, as long as he is physically free, and is not working under enforced conditions.

Now Ruburt is working on Aspects, under contract, with his “deadline.” [...]

If he did, freely now, work as long and often as he wanted to, without worrying about going out, or housework, then naturally the period of intense mental activity would bring about a desire to go out, and be physically active.

Some of this has to do with current mass beliefs, based on the idea of the mechanics of the body being more important than the thoughts behind the body’s working. [...]

(“This leads Ruburt, now, toward a connection with the woman with whom she works.” [...] Jane’s present working situation is much like that she worked in at the gallery in July-August 1964. Now, as then, she worked with a woman superior. [...]

(The object itself also refers to a situation where Jane worked closely with another woman—namely Caroline Keck, when doing conservation work at the gallery in July 1964. [...]

[...] A walk or outside activity on those days when he does not work outside. [...]

[...] This leads Ruburt, now, toward a connection with the woman with whom she works.

[...] He was never meant to give his entire conscious concentration to (in quotes) “psychic” work. The freedom of his own creative work will enhance those abilities, but also free him for some further expansions of consciousness that are meant to follow. The same applies to you, and in these endeavors you must work together.

On the other hand you must at the minimum (underlined) work 4 and ½ hours a day at your own painting. [...] The same applies to Ruburt at his work. [...]

(It also seemed that both of us had made the decision to confine the psychic work to sessions only, which I thought would at this time automatically shut down a lot of possible developments. [...]

(I thought at least that Jane could use the psychic awareness as intuition, etc., in her work, as everyone else did, do her “straight writing,” and let it go at that. [...]

[...] Once again, however, with the experience of the last few days, you are both astonished by the magical ease by which work — real work — can be accomplished: events perceived out of place and time and so forth.

[...] The rational approach works quite well in certain situations, such as mass production of goods, or in certain kinds of scientific measurements — but all in all the rational method, as it is understood and used, does not work as an overall approach to life, or in the solving of problems that involve subjective rather than objective measurements or calculations.

(9:05.) Such a cultural time works well overall for the civilization that concentrates upon partialities, bits and pieces, assembly lines, promptness of appointments, and so forth. [...]

Ruburt culturally has felt, for many reasons that have been discussed, that each moment must be devoted to work. [...]

[...] Often in the past you worked against each other unwittingly. [...] Two of you working together can do seven times more than one operating alone. [...]

(Before the session, in line with our new way of thinking, Jane and I said that we could have six main categories in our lives: work; finances; living quarters; health; mobility; spiritual contentment, which would include helping others. [...]

[...] Do not then look anxiously (underlined) about for buyers, to check whether or not this is working.

[...] Do not think in a negative manner “This is good work. [...]

Ruburt did not have, again, those influences working on him that worked on you to prolong the situation. Danger signals only too apparently showed with you as soon as you accepted full-time work. [...]

[...] After working one day, Ruburt expects instant results. [...] As you begin to make your own work plans, and work, this will also generate results. [...]

The basic discontent colored your other attitudes, both toward your environment, your own work, and other people. [...]

[...] A concentration upon your individual and combined work, your practical plans in that direction, will promote an enthusiasm that you have not felt jointly or individually in years. [...]

[...] Your house is perfectly set up, however, so that if you wanted to it can be expanded to suit further needs: the large center portion (gesturing) serving as your communal living quarters—this area—and with some creative extensions you could have quite appropriate separate working wings at either end, providing you both with more work space, feelings of privacy, and esthetic pleasure. [...]

(I decided to rebuild it, so Saturday morning I went to the lumber yard for the supplies, and spent the day doing the work, including cutting down the chair even more. [...] The new chair worked much better, but Jane had trouble keeping the cushion in place. [...]

It may seem that the question of services (like the lawn) is a mundane one, yet it is connected of course with your attitudes toward work and daily life. [...]

[...] In between, while it may seem he is not being as creative, inner work is being done that will later appear in a new burst of creativity. [...]

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

[...] Physical work or activity, almost indeed to the point of exhaustion, will be good for him, for the muscles will react with deep spontaneous relaxation.

Your own symptoms have been caused also by an inner indecision, a refusal to come to terms with yourself and your work.

[...] Trust yourself to plunge fully into large endeavors in your work, and do not be afraid of making errors.

[...] He grasped at it tenaciously, and added it to the then unchallenged work to which he had, until then, devoted his main attention.

[...] He constantly worries about his work, then, and all it entails.

He would not drop the psychic work. [...]

(10:00.) The feelings prevented him from going ahead far enough to allow his psychic experience to answer some of his doubts, yet he was too convinced of the validity to drop the work.

You must work that out for yourselves. That is an important part of the class framework, and if you are ready to work it out for yourselves you do so. [...] And as you all know in this room when you feel ready to accept new experience and work it through, you will do so. [...]

[...] I do want to comment on your experience and your work thus far. [...]

So you are embarked upon valuable work and experience. [...]

[...] Otherwise you would not be working with the light. [...]

[...] He must show that he produces so much work in a given number of hours, so that others will know that he is diligent and filled with the good male attributes of a provider. He is very concerned about the opinions of others, and he wants to see the effect of his work upon the establishments of the world. [...]

That “work,” however, is in your case the natural gift of the first man described—and he, it seems, must work under the demands of the second man, taking all of his ideas of time, sexual roles, and social demands into consideration. [...]

[...] I think if I get well I won’t buckle down to work on Mass Reality.

(My side hurts because I’m afraid all of Jane’s work won’t be—and isn’t—appreciated. [...]

If he feels that he has not done enough that day before his nap, he then compares himself to those who come home from work around five, after “putting in a good day.” If he has worked enough in his terms the comparison is not so bothersome. [...]

[...] Not that we wanted or needed conscious control—but why didn’t we have the conscious visual knowledge of the workings of our various bodily parts, be they heart, liver, or whatnot?

Now: in answer to, in partial answer to, your question concerning conscious knowledge of the body’s workings, I have several things to say.

[...] More than that, however, your question of course reflects your cultural beliefs and assumptions, and so you do not realize that in some ways such conscious knowledge of the body’s workings might limit rather than expand concepts and experience of the body and the self.

[...] Jane has already learned that she doesn’t want to do merely psychic, Seth books, like the Edgar Cayce series, for instance—from her own work on the creed. She wants to, and needs to, do work in which she is her own creator, and goes through the creative process from start to finish consciously, etc. [...]

The idea of permanence in your mind is strongly connected with more representational work. You think of the old masters for example, the figure work. [...]

(The pendulum told me that I was bothered by the idea of the possible lack of permanency of the panel I had chosen, and briefly that I was somewhat aware of the change in this picture, as far as handling of form would be concerned, from my usual style of working. [...]

(I felt much better while out working Wednesday morning, but the symptoms returned again Wednesday afternoon when I again tackled the project in the studio. [...]

[...] The inner work had been going on. He will of course have other and more extensive such experiences, but overall the mental work is now beginning to be strong enough in your framework, so that more and more results, in your terms, will show themselves.

Each such event, again, is indeed connected with your own overall intents, and may be working toward them, but in a way that appears disruptive. An encounter, for example, that is a nuisance today may suddenly spark a new insight tomorrow, or appear in your own work in an entirely different form that you do not recognize, simply because you are not used to looking at such distractions in this kind of creative light.

[...] In that view, it will be seen that all events work toward your purposes—when you realize that they do. Otherwise you run into the old problem of contradictions, and if you believe that distractions are simply that—distractions—in competition with your work, then they will certainly seem to be in your experience.

[...] The effect of events in Framework 2 is constant, but there are moments in your terms of particular acceleration, where “work” done there seems to quiver the edges of your reality in Framework 1. This is such a time.

[...] When you are creating a product or a work of art, the results will have much to do with your ideas of what the product is, or what the work of art is — so your ideas about your life, or life itself, will also have much to do with your experience of it as a living art.

[...] I thought Jane might consider such a book project along with her other work. [...]

I have said that acts of creativity best approach the workings of Framework 2, for [those] acts always involve leaps of faith and inspiration, and the breaking of barriers.

Again, the writer or the artist also brings more into his work than the simple ability to write or paint. [...]

My suggestion will be, therefore, that Ruburt do his own work in the mornings. [...] Afternoons, instead of working at the gallery, I would suggest that he busy himself with my book. Seriously, as he does with his own work, and that you continue to record our sessions.

[...] The act of faith, the act of expectation involved in what I suggest will make the difference between work that is not selling now, and work that will sell, and no magic will give the same result.

(This morning while I was at work, John Bradley stopped by briefly while on a hurried business trip to give Jane some information relating to a prediction of a narcotics scandal that Seth had predicted for Elmira in the 63rd session, of June 17. [...]

(This evening after supper, while busy with other material, Jane received the thought that it was time to begin work on Book One of The Seth Material, a project we had discussed sometime before vacation. [...]

[...] Consciously recalling the dreams is excellent, since the subconscious data is at least to some extent consciously assimilated, and in the dreams aggressive tendencies are indeed released and worked out in an actual manner, as satisfying to the subconscious as if they were worked out within the physical field. [...]

[...] You are both progressing in your work. Creative work does not grow in even ways, but in seeming sudden bursts of activities, and in seeming wastefulness, which is not waste at all.

(Jane was upset about her work this evening, so much so in fact that she would have missed the session had I not been too lazy to go dancing. [...]

Without Ruburt’s now and then, really rather petty explosions, the stability of his working habits and the stability of emotional reactions would not be nearly as regular. [...]

[...] On the other hand the moving of the bookcase to divide the work area showed even before his novel idea that his spontaneity was emerging fully within his work again, and that the work area was therefore to be separated from social activities.

[...] He is now free enough so that the spontaneous method of working on our book came to him, and he began working upon it in that manner today.

It is no coincidence that he also began working upon a novel idea, and no coincidence that further insights appeared to him this evening, and that the physical organism was almost immediately relieved. [...]

At the same time in his mind, the work area was enlarged, since before he considered it to be composed psychically of his table area alone. [...]

(Jane’s sessions have been very irregular also, and she hasn’t worked on Seth’s latest book for some months now. [...] This has always bothered me to some extent, but I usually told myself that was Jane’s way of working, and to forget it. It did make for some tricky work writing notes for Mass Events, say, to explain these long periods in between certain sessions in the book.

(I didn’t fully grasp the significance of these interludes while working on Mass Events, not until I reread the other night Jane’s paper of December 27, 1980. [...] In it she tied her eye trouble and other symptoms with her fears about public reactions to her Seth work—her fears of its rejection, etc., and that she might—indeed, has—found herself outside the accepted realms of science, religion, etc., because of her psychic work. [...]

[...] In them Seth briefly explained how Jane had created her symptoms as protection against the spontaneous self going too far: this fear was the real reason for the symptoms—not, as we usually thought, her fear that she would do other things besides work if she had normal mobility. [...] And to me, as I began to put all of this together, it meant that although she did the Seth books, which we think so highly of, she also drags her feet in resistance with each one—hence the long intervals of non-work that crop up during the production of each one. Again, without checking, I think that an examination of our records would show that her symptoms flared up, indeed worsened, as she worked on each Seth book, and that behind her labors on each book there lay this fear that she was going too far with each one she produced. [...]

[...] That is, we can work on it if we want to, but with no thought of deadlines or signing a contract, which would commit Jane to additional public exposure. The idea is that she’ll be free to do what she wants with the Seth material, for as long as she wants to, without our adding fuel to her fears until we’ve had a chance to work things through. [...]