“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(“Well, taxes come up this week,” Jane told me, “and every time they do your stomach starts up. You’re sure the pendulum said there wasn’t any connection?”

(“Who knows? It told me once that this time taxes weren’t involved. I didn’t keep asking it. The best answer I got was when I laid Through My Eyes aside to work on Mass Events I felt bad about doing that. Not that I resented working on Mass Events. I wanted to do both at the same time, and figured I couldn’t manage that. So I felt guilty—I thought—about not concentrating on Seth’s book. Painting wasn’t involved either....”

The coming taxes are involved—but only because they serve as a springboard—as your family visit did—the springboard that rearouses feelings of disapproval.

(“It’s bound to,” I snorted. “That means that four times a year, then, I feel lousy because of those damned taxes.... What a dumb position to put yourself into.” Then Seth returned.)

Now: You would be better off saying to yourself: “Everyone has their foibles. Every time the taxes come up I feel poorly, but no one is perfect. To hell with it.” That attitude would be better than disapproving of yourself because of the difficulty. Do you follow me?

Now: I had many dealings with taxes. I paid the piper, as the saying goes. On some occasions I wheeled and dealed, as you say. I was cynical on occasion (pause), but I had the good sense to know when I was well off—and I did not make my poor belly pay in its corporal innocence. So free your body from distortions of disapproval.