“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I would like to make a few comments regarding “programs”—that is, certainly it must seem to you both that you begin many therapeutically designed programs only to have them disappear. There is a rhythm to such programs, however, and it is natural for the self to rouse at certain times, begin such activity, then apparently (underlined) discard them.

In your circumstances, in one way or another you have to build up that feeling of trust or confidence, often, again, in the face of old conflicting beliefs. (Pause.) Therefore Ruburt’s idea of a new program is a quite natural therapeutic one.

Reading the sessions of the Magical Approach with some consistency is now in order, where for example I might counsel at another time that they be set aside for a while. In this case at this time, however, they can serve as valuable springboards to release from your own creative areas new triggers for inspiration and understanding, and hence for therapeutic development. That should be a part of the program, in other words, regardless of what Ruburt intends to do bookwise with those sessions.

You cannot know what would have happened, for example, had it not been produced, or distributed, so the question might seem moot. In the same fashion, the publication of my next book, or rather the one we are working on, is bound to bring you greater advantages than disadvantages. Expression is far preferred of course to repression, but more than this, the matter of repression cannot be solved by adding further repression as a therapeutic measure. That is, the problem would have popped up in a different fashion regardless of the apparent trigger.

(Long pause at 8:48.) If the apparent trigger of a difficulty is a creative accomplishment, then the difficulty itself is “loaded” also with its own natural therapeutic solutions. I am trying to make this point as clear as I can to you, because I know it has concerned you both.

Now in chronic disorders each new program may seem to be somewhat effective, ineffective, or whatever. Some may show exciting signs that then it seems are only abandoned. In all cases, however, therapeutic benefits “pile up” at other levels, so on occasion only one small trigger here may then release or make effective the very therapeutic benefits that have not shown themselves in practical terms to that point (intently).

(9:04.) The main issue, again, must be away from a concentration on the proposition that Ruburt’s condition constantly worsens. Any alternative, small or large, of daily habit is also quite effective, and should be mentioned as a part of such a program. In such ways you allow yourselves the largest possible areas for creative expression and creative changes. In the overall, again, the reasons behind Ruburt’s difficulty should be encouraged to rise to the surface of the mind, where they can be encountered—but the idea is not to concentrate upon those reasons but to let them be one part of a larger therapeutic motion or movement in which they show themselves in order to be orchestrated away.

As it naturally occurs to him, Ruburt should read over material he has of the Sinful Self, and it will with its own rhythm lead toward further therapeutic adjustments. You should begin such a program as soon as possible, regarding it, however, as not a last desperate approach toward an unsolvable problem, but as a proper step of development in your understanding of the magical approach to life.