The Personal Sessions, book 3

The Deleted Seth Material: December 3, 1973 -August 22, 1977

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[In the quotes passages, Jane is referred to by her entity name "Rubert" and Seth refers to her as "he".]

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For lovers of these three individuals, this book is hard to read. It gives greater insight into the physical problems that Jane was dealing with and the amount of assistance that Seth provided to both Jane and Robert to help her get better.

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Ruburt’s physical condition is so noticeable and so has your joint attention, because it stands out alone as the one large negative in a period of positive growing achievement, abundance, and understanding. It is, therefore, the result of beliefs once helpful carried beyond their time —of defenses no longer needed.

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It also represents one area where neither of you truly believe that the point of power is in the present. In that one area you grant the power to the past. You look at the time involved that the symptoms have continued, and you grant more power to that past than you do to the present.

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[Notice that Seth coined the term “point of power” decades before Ram Dass coined “Be here now” and Echart Tolle coined “The power of now”.]

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Jane’s condition improved quite a lot in 1973, but because the recovery didn’t happen fast enough nor in the manner that Jane and Rob expected, she fell back into a really poor state. In one particular session, near the end of the book, Seth scolds them in a way he never had before. He seems upset that they aren’t taking his loving, very specific, healing advice to heart.

It is basically so simple—so simple—that your projected difficulties appall me.

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Jane and Robert even disregard some of Seth's advice (which I find astonishing)! Seth leans on them to trust the wisdom of the body and finally let go of the beliefs that continue to hold the condition in place.

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I want each of you to sense your own power, and the weakness of the beliefs behind the symptoms. Trust yourselves. Another note: if you truly hold in your minds the sense of your combined powers for but a few moments a day, you can work miracles. This is the one area in which separately or together you have not used those abilities.

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Your own work is bound up with it here also. It represents the invisible area, where Ruburt’s symptoms are visible. You have made ground there. A few clear moments of belief, again, on both of your parts will let unimpeded nature free Ruburt, and also release other abilities of yours which you symbolically see as Ruburt’s physical symptoms.

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In this book, we learn of the many beliefs that Robert and Jane held, individually and separately, that worked together to create the Jane’s condition.

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Beliefs are what create our reality, and when we learn all of the beliefs that they were dealing with, we understand how creative her solution was. The crippling physical condition was an incredible way of solving the many issues brought about by their joint and individual beliefs.

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You cannot equivocate. You have a will for a reason. When you are born that will is directed toward growth and development. You literally will yourselves alive. That will-to-be triggers all bodily activity, which then operates automatically, with the same power from which the will itself emerged.

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You cannot trust yourself and not trust yourself at the same time, without coming into some difficulty. The body itself single-mindedly seeks health. Ruburt’s will was divided in its intent. He is quite correct in his feelings, that now his forces are united; and the body unerringly makes its adjustments, and assumes a healthy course.

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In this book, like in all of his books, Seth covers a wide range of topics, dropping gems of insight all over the place. Talking about artists, he said...

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The individual feels the presence of great energy, and is unsure as to how to use it. Picasso let it go freely. Ruburt wonders how much wasted energy went into Picasso’s antics—that should have gone into his work. Van Gogh and Cézanne were afraid of their energy, and with all they did could have done far more. Picasso’s free flow of energy in all areas freed energy for his work, and did not detract from it. He kept his channels to energy open, therefore the energy flowed through his work freely, and in a short period of time he could produce a painting that might take years for another as gifted to produce, who husbanded his talent as a miser.

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Seth also speaks about the importance of finding the balance between the spontaneous self and the disciplined self, how allopathic medicine perverts the natural healing processes of the body (in most cases), and the connection between will and our beliefs.

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He also speaks about reincarnation, pointing out that since time is not linear all of our incarnations are happening simultaneously, he gives specific advice on how we can pull probabilities toward us with intention...

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Probabilities are not pulled in by mere whim, but through desire and intent.

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and he speaks a bit about what we’re really doing when we sleep, and how necessary it is that half the planet sleeps while the other deals with sensory data.

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In practical terms there is a dream consensus of opinion, where tomorrow’s physical events are decided upon. They will be physically checked when they occur.

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In ages past, the most proficient dreamers picked up ahead of time the news, and passed it on to others. They dealt with symbols, but the populace understood the symbols as you understand your newspaper.

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The alternate wake-sleep patterns of the world then, again, help pace the information. Some of those communications are cellular. You pick up broadcasts from all over, and literally on a million stations. The world mind needs all of that information in order to produce continuous world events. Because of its particular structure the work is divided.

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The world mind, then, in your terms, could not be conscious all at one time, and the varying graduated waking-sleeping patterns—the overlapping between the extremes you mention—provide overall balance and allow for smooth communications of an inner kind.

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Seth comments on how a dislike of our fellows actually hides a deep love for them, the danger of becoming self-righteous, why we think we sense past lives but not present ones, and he dedicates quite a few fascinating paragraphs to fanatics and extremists.

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…for all the fanatic's display of energy, he feels basically powerless… I said before that no man acts out of the desire to be evil, but has always justified to himself his action precisely by his own “good” intent. If envy is felt it is not acknowledged.

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The religious area in general, from time immemorial, has dealt intensely and sometimes one-mindedly with “the good ideal.” That ideal, however, different in one area than in another, was usually self-righteously applied with a vengeance and fanatical zest, so that all things outside it were seen as evil.

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The more narrow and strict your conceptions of the good become, the larger and more threatening the “powers of evil” seem to grow.

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They are a tiny band of alienated, frightened people who strike out against anything they cannot understand. They see threats everywhere.

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When ideals are set more or less artificially, greatly divorced from man’s nature, he cannot begin to live up to them. Usually these are, for one thing, too narrow and sterile. The ensuing guilt is the power that turns such a person into a fanatic.

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In this book Seth even comments on God.

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...the universe is not neutral. In the terms in which you understand the word, there is a God. Obviously I am not speaking of a personification of a Superperson. For that matter, in the terms of your language, and intellectual concepts, you will probably have to take it for granted that you cannot understand the nature of such a God. You will know God’s actions, however, through the manifestations of the universe. That God is not simply neutral energy, for example.

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The universe is supportive. There is a force, if you prefer, that actively loves each individual, each consciousness, and actively works to help that consciousness attain the fulfillment inherent in its nature. Despite all misinterpretations, therefore, the universe is caring, and so is nature.

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Jane and Robert seem to have understood a great deal over the course of this book. We see them buy a house (with Seth helping them make the choice), adjust the rhythm of their days, and completely shift their beliefs and understanding in some areas.

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Yet by the end of this third book in the seven book series, we get the sense that the effort they are making to correct Jane’s physical condition is a last-ditch effort. It feels a bit desperate as Robert confesses that he feels the ship has sailed on her recovery.

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My heart sank so many times while reading this one, yet I recognize that the situation was not really what it appeared to be. "No one can assess the quality of a life. The body in some respects has its own innocent life—a part of yours, but apart from it in certain respects. It will seed the earth, and so it knows its death is not death."

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Now: in certain terms, past, present, and future are all compressed in any given moment of your experience. Any such moment is therefore a gateway into all of your existence. The events that you recognize as happening now are simply specific and objective, but the most minute element in any given moment’s experience is also symbolic of other events and other times. Each moment is then like a mosaic, only in your current life history you follow only one color or pattern, and ignore the others. As I have mentioned, you can indeed change the present to some extent by purposefully altering a memory event.

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By the end of this book, Jane and Rob seem to realize they are at a crux moment in her healing. They either need to believe she can get well 100% or it is not going to happen.

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