“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now you can do, that is any individual can do, and does, the same with the physical body. If his reactions cause a generalized overall poor condition, this is much more difficult to treat. But if this energy can be put into a specific form, one pimple, one pain, one ulcer, at least the problem is recognized, localized, and can be treated with somewhat less difficulty.

First of all, for Ruburt’s idea of an automobile. For his ideas are simpler and easier to explain. His mother could not leave the house. He always ran as a child to make sure that he could move at all. To him a car is an extension of that mobility.

It does not matter whether the car is old or new, as long as he has one, and it is for this reason that he fights any of your suggestions that you do without one. The car is also to him a complementary image of his father, who was always on the move, more so than most men, while his mother could not move at all. A lack of a car also makes him fear a return to poverty, since in his neighborhood any car at all was a sign of luxury.

Now your situation is not only entirely different but contrary, for to you a car represents, because of your father, an image on one hand of perfection. Your father insisted, because of his work with batteries, upon perfection. An old car hardly represents this image.

(I am 46. As a young boy I used to watch my father make automobile batteriesby hand. He had his own business in Sayre, PA, and took great pride in the excellence of his work. The business began to fail when batteries became mass produced, and the great depression finished it.)

There is also a lesser connection here with the garage in which your father spent so much of his time, for you picked up your mother’s anger that he was so often there. One small remark and you may take your break: Ruburt, for the reasons mentioned earlier, also liked anything with wheels that moved, roller skates for example. Anything that offered hope of mobility.

One note: Your father felt ineffective and a failure when an automobile did not work right, because of his connection with them, and you picked this up. Which is highly ridiculous, as you can see, since your own interests lie in other directions.

A snag. Perhaps some difficulty in his hypnosis experiments which had been going so well. For some reason however there seems to be better chances in his ESP card experiments, though not of as spectacular nature as those earlier achieved. (Pause.)

(“and with objects seen from above.” This is speculation: Loren’s model railroad layout is built at waist-high level in the cellar of his home in Tunkhannock, PA. Thus while standing before it one looks down upon the small models of trains, etc.

Now Ruburt may have his cigarette.

The positive suggestions that he used today were excellent, however. This evening I specifically mentioned the incorrect impression to set him straight. This also represents a fine distinction however on his part.

Now Ruburt grows unsure as far as Dr. Instream’s tests are concerned, when we are asked for a specific object, and this does hamper us. However this feeling will vanish as we continue, and again, it is a natural reaction on his part so he should not blame himself for it.