“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The appearance of confidence, the engaging social self, is indeed a cover-up, adopted to give him time to acclimate to new circumstances of this sort. As you well know, he lived in close supervision with his mother, and until his late, very late adolescence his whole life was literally spent within the confines of fifteen blocks, except for very short excursions.

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.

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.

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.