“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I am however directing this particular discussion toward Ruburt. As far as his overall personality structure is concerned, creativity is a must. Without it he does not feel secure. His identity is strongly connected with his creativity. The financial success of his book is extremely important to you both, incidentally, on a conscious egotistical level.

Such financial success is therefore important, and has its place, but when Ruburt allows himself to become overly concerned with this, then he identifies too closely with the ego alone. There are obvious financial moves he intends to make. Well and good. These moves are not however basically important to the personality as a whole. They should be taken simply, but the overall energies should be used in creativity. When he identifies too closely with the ego he loses inner direction.

Now. Ruburt is simply lucky. He responds to the autumn, and the system will automatically adjust itself.

If he first of all focuses his abilities in his creative pursuits, then everything else will follow. He will have the energy to do whatever else he should do. But he must primarily focus his energies in his creative pursuits, for these give him the exuberance that makes other pursuits possible.

When these symptoms show themselves, then he should look out for health difficulties. There is nothing seriously wrong with his system, nor do I foresee any serious difficulties. However he has his own pattern. The symptoms are these: Poor memory, or none, of his dreams; no poetry; a consistent lower-than-usual level of exuberance. These are the main ones, and I am speaking of perhaps a two-month period here.

If these persist for this period, you see, only then can they be considered in this light. For if they endure for this time they will almost certainly give rise to physical symptoms. Readjustment does not lie, in his particular case, in the present, with soaking his foot for example; but with a return to some definite poetry schedule, to finishing one book now at a time, to renewing the dream suggestions which he has discarded. These will take care of the physical symptoms.

He has finally decided to make financial steps. Now, I do not believe they will be necessary. Both of you do believe them necessary. Therefore you see to you, or to Ruburt, this becomes a necessity. He is now ready to accept this rather than brood, and this will be of help, for the brooding drained his energy. The brooding however, rather than the necessity, you see, was the difficulty. The energies and focus must be directed away from the physical symptoms. He is reinforcing them inadvertently. The creative energy, properly used, will drain away the energy that is now forming the symptoms.

(One image Jane had while speaking was of Barbara’s boyfriend Dick, and of the very colorful plaid sports jacket he wore. Jane saw Dick wearing this today. This is a legitimate connection, since the image served to bring up the idea of Barbara, who sent us the card used as object.