“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

He responds to the totality of stimuli that reaches him, regardless of the way in which any given stimuli is received. Quite adequate protection here can be given if he gives the daily suggestion that he will only react to constructive suggestions.

Some symptoms are indeed caused by telepathic knowledge. He reacts to it as he reacts to other information. Personal associations are generated, and so forth. The affair with Muriel was known to him, though again he is not consciously convinced. (Muriel is the daughter of Marian and Jimmy.)

Now, here is a certain connection that he well knows. Marian Spaziani has some, though slight, trouble with arthritis and it was her daughter who became ill mentally. Marian did not approve of her daughter’s companions. And Ruburt’s mother did not approve of his.

He will automatically react to such information whether or not he consciously admits that he receives it. Ignorance is no excuse, for I have told him. The whole psychic development can and should, and was meant, to provide exactly what was needed, and its timing was no accident.

In Ruburt’s years with Zeh, there was severe splitting of the personality. It is not a new thing with him to push aside the subconscious at all. In all cases when he does, an explosion of one kind occurs. His subconscious intuitive self, you see, is extremely vital, alive, and unusually insistent for expression, even for the subconscious which is known for this.

His ego however is also very strong. His mother taught him to be extremely fearful of his subconscious, and the rigid ego became a protection from it and her. As he grew older he thought of the ego as a balancing agent against an inner spontaneous self that always, it seemed, got him into trouble. Now I would like to continue here, but I imagine your hands are tired.

Then, the strong conflict between the ego and subconscious was the result of home environment. He allowed himself no spontaneous expression at home with his mother. This denied, his normal spontaneity exploded when it was allowed opportunity, sometimes in unfortunate circumstances. In panic, the ego then tripled its defenses. He was not capable of loving Zeh or anyone, later. They both knew this and counted upon it. With Zeh, again, Ruburt denied the spontaneous self in normal daily interaction with him; with Zeh. And this denied spontaneous self exploded when and where it could.

Now give us a moment. (Pause.) The psychic work offers the personality a perfect method for development and unification. The hands and feet are part of the mother identification and are also important in another connection. Ruburt blames himself for running from difficulties in the past. This way he cannot run, you see, symbolically. He is forcing himself to face his difficulties, but thus far his hands are tied, you see.

The hand development came last when the personality realized that the problems were not being solved, and that symbolically, his hands were tied. He was left in a dilemma. Having decided not to run, yet finding he was not getting anywhere either. The answer, symbolically, is that movement can be toward, and not away from.

The conflict between the ego and subconscious, as given, was symbolically expressed in the tying of the hand symptoms. He was tied in knots, hence the swollen joints. There is a line from a poem of his, written years ago, in a period of stress, “If I can’t move one finger, how can the whole soul rise?" from his dance floor poem.

There is always some clairvoyant material to which he is reacting, generally speaking, even as you do. There is a man it seems, somehow three times removed, but not related with any symptoms on Ruburt’s part. Proper suggestions should indeed be given before bed, along with the request for further therapeutic dreams and dreams that will give insight.

He reacts favorably to the color green as I told him. It has a healing quality for him. The cod-liver oil should not be renewed, although he was told it is a protection against arthritis; the word itself operates with each dose in a negative way.