“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The chores that both of you think of are nothing compared to the chores of others. Only because you think of them as chores are they bothersome. Your time is your own. You choose to use the freedom of your time in certain ways, and you are always free to choose. You have the freedom to add varieties to your schedules, to alter some of the time in which you work, but you do not take advantage of that freedom.

Thinking of the idea of freedom will make you more aware of freedom. You do not have to wait for example until this book is done. Even small changes in your habitual ways of doing things will initiate further feelings of freedom, and let you see that many of your taken-for-granted timely actions are highly ritualized.

Your freedom, or the lack of it, exists within yourselves. In your situations and compared with others you can hardly complain of a lack, as far as impediments from without are concerned. So the impediments or the feeling of a lack of freedom comes from within.

Within Ruburt’s present physical situation there is a degree of freedom for the trip and for enjoyment—an opportunity for manipulation, and understanding this will add to that freedom. You are each concentrating on negatives when you ignore the freedom that does exist, and denying yourselves pleasures that could help enlarge that freedom. [...]

The fact that he plans a trip means to him that he is free to go, and that there are some gradations of freedom physically in which he can operate and use as a vehicle. Now: your idea that you are not going freely, with freedom, is in those terms an absolute. It means that within the gradations offered you will not have a good time, but will compare what you have with a “perfect” freedom that Ruburt now does not possess. [...]

[...] There are many things, including this trip, that you both can actively enjoy—but not while you are insisting upon absolute freedom, while at the same time concentrating upon those elements in your experience that seem to keep you from it. Then your main concentration is not upon freedom at all but upon the lack of it, so that the freedoms that are available, even physically to Ruburt in his condition now, become minimized, and both of you suffer.

[...] If you find your consciousness aware of other things, then follow those things but allow it its natural freedom and use it. [...] But whatever it is follow it and allow yourself the freedom to do so. [...]

[...] Allow yourself the full freedom to do this. [...] But in the meantime take advantage of the opportunikty to allow your consciousness its freedom. [...]

I would like all of you to give yourself full freedom as far as perception is concerned. [...]

[...] Use the freedom that you have, and it is multiplied. [...] The feeling and belief in freedom must come before its physical manifestation, and this regardless of any beliefs to the contrary.

If you act upon a belief in freedom and exert it, then it will automatically show you by contrast that the prior belief in lack of freedom was not in basic terms realistic. [...]

[...] You are not using the freedoms that you have. These freedoms used, particularly in view of Ruburt’s literal-mindedness, would do much to weaken the beliefs in powerlessness that exist.

Do you want to know what freedom is? [...] Freedom is the inner realization that you are an individual. That you do create your reality, that you do have the freedom and the joy and the responsibility of forming the physical reality in which you live. [...]

There is a beauty and a strength and a joy in looking within yourselves and a freedom from bondage. And I hope that when I am finished with you all, you will taste some of that joy and freedom. [...] You will find this joy and this freedom by learning to look inward and by realizing that you create the reality that you know. [...]

[...] When you realize and accept the fact that you form your physical reality, you can change it instantly—and that is your freedom. [...] It is yours for the taking—freedom of action—it is yours, accept it. [...]

[...] Allow the child freedom and allow yourself freedom. [...]

[...] Allow yourself freedom. [...]

The whole purpose of what I am trying to teach is to allow yourself inner freedom to develop. [...]

You do innately possess that freedom in your painting—as Ruburt innately possesses that same freedom of bodily motion. [...] As in art, so in life—then both of you possess that childlike and yet wise spontaneity and freedom. [...]

[...] Laughing at the freedom of motion. [...]

[...] I knew I’d attained this great freedom after years of being too cautious and inhibited. [...]

Beside at least walking around the house, Ruburt is to do five minutes of exercise a day, of his choice; but devote it to the idea of expressing freedom for his body—not absolute freedom, but to experience that feeling. [...]

[...] He is barely, again, beginning to sense that feeling of freedom, and the body is always ready to respond. [...]

He believes that freedom is possible, meaning physical freedom. [...] But freedom should not be thought of as an absolute, but as a process of fulfillment that will take place naturally because he wants it to, and believes that it will. [...]

He realizes that freedom is within him. [...] He must want freedom as strongly as before he wanted to repress it, and this is in the direction in which he is now moving.

[...] He is allowing himself freedom by degrees, letting down repressions one by one.

[...] To some degree you both decided that you would ration your freedom. You cannot ration freedom—you have it or you give it up.

[...] You cannot cut down physical freedom without inhibiting creative freedom, so to some extent Ruburt’s methods have inhibited his creativity. [...]

[...] In the past you have been in the habit of putting off “distractions” until this or that book was finished until you were sure that you could cope with freedom. [...]

[...] I talked to it, offering reassurances, saying we didn’t require it to leave us, but merely to understand our need for freedom. The physical freedom symbolized creative freedom, I said. To us freedom of motion meant creative freedom. [...]

[...] Apparently I must allow you more freedom, but you must use the freedom to do what I want you to do.

(I hoped the portion of her consciousness that had contacted us would now let her have her freedom. [...]

Now freedom, a sense of freedom, has been emerging, which has led you toward a desire for larger work. [...]

[...] This gives the inner self freedom. [...]

[...] This lets him take his conscious attention away from psychic matters and allows them freedom. [...]

[...] Now, the hand also represents freedom. [...] One of freedom as the hand, as a hand being able to rise. And the other, lack of freedom, as for example, the hand not being able to move. [...]

(To Florence.) You can, and listen to me, allow yourself more freedom. Now, as with Ruburt, oftentimes you believe you are allowing yourself intellectual freedom and being your most intellectual. [...]

[...] That is all right, allow yourself the freedom to do so. [...]

[...] Ruburt was on the verge of realizing his freedom this evening in many areas beside the physical, and the strong therapeutic process is at work.

There are some things to happen that I am not telling you about along those lines, but you must both take it for granted that freedoms exist now to be expressed.

[...] Now you need not close your eyes but if you listen to your own inner voice, and if you allow yourself the freedom, and if you understand the nature of probabilities, then as I speak and as you listen you can indeed, to some extent, perceive the other reality, the specific reality of which I am speaking in which you also exist as a group. [...] I would like you to allow yourselves the freedom of feeling that reality. [...]

Now you are all constrained enough in your waking state so I expect you to show some freedom in your dream state and to appreciate your freedom. [...]

[...] If you would allow yourselves the freedom to meet, not some great teacher, not to run from teacher to teacher, but if you could meet the vitality within one cell, even one molecule of your body, you would have no need for questions. [...]

This desire for freedom from worldly concerns is a characteristic in your family on your father’s side. It has not been given any creative fulfillment except in your own case, for they have been thinking in terms of freedom from rather than freedom for. They did not have anything that they wanted to do with the freedom, but only escape. [...]

[...] Your mother would never think of it as freedom, but as slavery, so she had no use for either of them. She never understood the desire for freedom from worldly concerns that is part of your father’s nature, and of all your natures. [...]

[...] But they were very free in their own way, and your father’s family never forgave them for this freedom.

A work schedule is necessary for your peace of mind, Joseph—you work well that way, and use the freedom it gives you. Keep the household rules then, but within them Ruburt is to have freedom on his part while not intruding on your time. He is to write then three hours a day—more if he wants to—and is to exercise his freedom as a person the rest of the time.

He must see that the writer’s freedom and ability is dependent upon his being a free person. [...]

[...] Definitely some freedoms must be achieved to compensate for the freedoms that the house would have provided.

He was certainly encouraged, and by his mother, to pursue the ways of inward intellectual freedoms, up to a point; but he was early inculcated with the expectation that the outside world meant danger at the least, and tragedy more probably.

Actually however, physical extension in space, in terms of even short journeys, will help to expand your psychic and mental horizons, and will help compensate for other freedoms that your house would have provided.

[...] (Pause.) The further agility and freedom he is allowing himself psychologically and psychically is now leading him to the greater physical agility he desires. [...] He is beginning to understand that bringing greater freedom to habitual physical thought patterns forms strands of consciousness that you can then follow.

Such negative patterns in childhood cause adults to be frightened of freedom—because freedom seems to imply a threat to life and to health. [...]

People yearn toward freedom naturally, as the plants do toward the sun. Without a healthy dose of freedom and exuberance life itself seems to lose its meaning. [...]