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(Long pause at 10:35. This turned into a one-minute pause.) The public arena (pause) is not so frightening. It is more factual to say that it goes against the grain as far as Ruburt is concerned. On top of that, however, you have the unconventional aspects of his own work that involves at least some controversy. (Long pause.) If Ruburt wrote other kinds of books—mysteries, for example, or straight novels—he would of course have no trouble explaining them in the public arena. But he would not find that arena anymore to his overall liking.

Added to that you have the issue mentioned earlier, of my relationship with him and vice versa, and his idea of an idealized self. Now it is that idealized self he is seeing in his mind that should find it so easy and natural to triumph in the public arena, solve people’s problems, always be compassionate and understanding, and certainly not critical of mankind’s foibles.

In that area of thinking, any one interview that is offered becomes a testing ground. The news broadcast (for ABC) for example: Suppose he did say yes, he has thought, and even managed to get by with it in his present condition—how many other such interviews might then be offered? With Sue’s book there have been other opportunities—people who wanted the story from the horse’s mouth, so to speak, and the talk from Prentice of a new campaign publicizing Ruburt’s work. Ruburt didn’t feel free to simply admit that he did not like the public arena. He felt he needed excuses, or in his own eyes and the eyes of others he would seem to be a coward.

Now this idealized self was primarily Ruburt’s—but to some extent also you contributed to it, feeling that anyone as gifted as Ruburt, if he were sure enough of himself, would indeed want to go out in that arena and press forward. You both felt a sense of schism between Ruburt’s physical condition and a hypothetical image of Ruburt as someone getting my material and ideally embodying it, so that if not perfect at least the main aspects of the life were smoothed out without contrasts. (Long pause.) In that regard indeed Ruburt felt as if he could not live up to my creative work—as if his physical being must embody all of the knowledge that came to him through our sessions—another important point.

[...] His beliefs, for the reasons you are uncovering, led him to believe he was inferior in the physical arena, and so he withdrew from it.

[...] It has been very important that that arena was left clear to some extent.

Now any other physical arena of that kind, opened, is highly beneficial because of that literal-mindedness, and each time this happens the predominating beliefs are to that extent weakened. [...]

[...] Simply deciding on a conscious level to reenter that arena, in his present state, shows in itself a change of belief, for before he did not want to try, and considered it a threat to his work.

Now: every individual alive is intimately concerned at certain levels with all of the national and global challenges in the political and social and religious arena.

[...] Those will appear in the private lives of citizens and in private dreams and in national events, or global ones, so that both arenas of activity are always intimately involved. [...]

[...] It is only of late, relatively speaking, that some of those issues have begun to rather clearly show themselves in the arena of public events, however. [...]

[...] Those private and public arenas became connected, however. [...]

[...] In the nonpsychic arena these correspond with your doctors and nurses and even to, say, social reformers. [...]

In a fashion, you consider the public arena of TV and tours in the same way that Joseph views the world of art galleries, shows, and auctions. [...]

People in the sports arena also often encourage the concept that sexual expression is somehow debilitating to the male, and can weaken his constitution. [...]

[...] In your arena of events, obviously, one man’s good can be another’s disaster. [...]

The political arena was the practical working realm in which those ideals were to find fruition. [...]

[...] Nothing wrong with that of course but we’re still in the same arena only our explanations are better than official ones. [...]

[...] Briefly, the picture is “shown” in the invisible arena where flesh and spirit meet. This arena is not a place, of course, but an inner state of gestalt consciousness. [...]

[...] In the vast arena of those numberless probabilities open to you, you do of course have some guidelines. [...]

[...] It is not that plants understand your ideas in usual terms — but that they do indeed pick up your intent, and in the arena of world survival, they have a stake.

[...] For that reason he examines the public arena, and devotes a good deal of material to Three Mile Island and to the Jonestown mass suicides as well. [...]

[...] Yet those lives are lived in coexistence with a mass arena of events that brush against us gently at times, or drastically affect our days on other occasions. [...]

[...] You encounter events in the arena of waking consciousness. [...]

[...] It is not a psychological arena composed of crime and punishment. [...]

[...] The overabundance of cancer cells represents nevertheless the need for expression and expansion — the only arena left open — or so it would seem.

[...] I’m quite aware of the contradictions in our own behavior, too, as I told Jane after the half-hour conversation was over: We put our work out into the arena where it’s available to anyone, and hope they’ll pay attention to it. [...]

[...] People are forced to look beyond their own families, cities, and even countries, to that clearly illuminated arena of the world.

[...] These are flashed before a consciousness that momentarily focuses upon the inner rather than the outer arena of reality.

Ruburt does not need to feel that he would naturally, left alone, go out into the world, into the arena, and convince the world of our ideas, or think that with his energy unimpeded that would be part of his natural mission. [...]

[...] I explained that I’d included material in my intro for Dreams that echoed Seth’s comments here as to why we became involved in the medical arena. [...]