“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Trying psychological time on Tues. 8/4, 8:15 PM, I had no results. I missed trying on Wed, 8/5. Jane had nothing to add to the record. Both of us feel we are at low psychic ebb yet.

Ruburt might benefit from sketching, as he planned. You, Joseph, might find it most beneficial to sketch for future paintings. Sensuous pleasure will do you both much good during your vacation, a sensuous and psychic immersion into the patterns of nature will refresh you both.

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.

Nevertheless it has drained you both to some extent. Luckily it will not be at all difficult for you to spring back. Psychically, you are much more resilient now. Another small point. From your small circle of friends you do receive a very beneficial exchange of psychic energies and comprehensions.

This has been lacking with Mark, for one, presently away. It is not Mark, necessarily, only that the unobtrusive but frequent, informal exchange between you and Ruburt and a close friend from the outside world has been lacking. This sort of relationship with someone you both find congenial is a psychic breath of fresh air, in that it provides outlets and psychic interchanges that are extremely important.

I meant to mention this earlier. Of course within bounds, nevertheless a congenial friend or friends represents a basic need for psychic interchange, and even a safety valve for built-up pressures. The psychic interchange is the important aspect.

You will have to strike a balance. Too many influences of this nature would be distracting, but some are definitely necessary; and again now, I would suggest that you invite a few congenial visitors to your home. Telepathically and through the inner senses, you pick up extremely valuable and diversified data in this manner, that is enlightening and helpful to the subconscious, and broadens the psychic base of awareness.

This is a most enjoyable and beneficial way of psychic relaxation and renewal. Do not be concerned with physical time. Do not overdo. Come home before you are tired. Forget if possible all personal egotistical considerations, feeling only psychic unity. You will be amazed at how this will help.

This sort of experience is much more practical when used before you are really driven to it, and you are not at that point by any means. Things then will fall into place. There is a psychic give-and-take here that will partly compensate for the present lack of congenial friends.

The psychic exchange I have spoken of concerning congenial and fairly regular visitors such as Mark, is subconscious, and you all benefit. Even the regularity, when not overdone, is a strong asset, and in its absence some sort of compensating steps should be taken.

While your relationship, that is the relationship between you and Ruburt, is extremely helpful to you both, you have a tendency, each of you, to become ingrown; and psychically you do need a variety, influx and the diversified data subconsciously obtained from others, as you also add to their influx.

A psychic openness is difficult to achieve certainly, and yet it will greatly progress your work. Ruburt will work with new energy after vacation, and even the sessions will show new progress.

One day as an absolute minimum, preferably two a month, should be given to animal involvement with the elements, and this will balance your psychic lives and increase your perceptions and your work.

You will find that the sort of focus, the particularized focus achieved in the free contemplation and enjoyment of nature, is a welcome change from the dissociated focus aimed at to some degree in psychic pursuits. If possible I suggest that Ruburt forget until after vacation all problems, concerning his job or a new one.