“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You certainly frightened our rabbit Ruburt this evening. He is far more timid in his relations with the outside world than even you perhaps suppose.

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.

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.

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.

You seem to go to extremes. Either Ruburt has the house filled with people, or no one comes at all. It goes without saying that a good deal of your resistance in this area is caused by fear. There is a necessary resistance that speaks for isolation, and some is certainly a necessity.

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.

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.