“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

It provides for the deepest spontaneous expression of the subconscious, gives the ego a directive and sense of purpose, and develops the overall abilities of the personality, which in the past were completely denied, for lack of training and out of fear. The poetry was always a part of the psychic nature.

The poetry allows for fullest possible creative expression in the full meaning of the word, art. It also siphons off, expresses and uses subconscious desires and moods and repressions, thus freeing the channels of the personal subconscious so that those deeper areas can find expression in psychic work.

In his case, the two go together and serve each other. The poetic creation, itself art, also serves to free the personal subconscious and to transform personal material into art. The subconscious is thus uncluttered because of the poetic expression, and this helps to make the psychic work possible.

The psychic experiences are then used as poetic subjects, and this cycle of creativity is always enriched as the whole personality continually develops itself and grows. Any undue tampering disrupts this function. The personality could not approach its own promise until the poetic nature led to the psychic development. When this occurred, some personality adjustments were required. The ego felt threatened in direct proportion to the strength of the newly felt abilities, and performed a huge trick.

This trick was this: it pretended to accept the psychic nature as part of itself and began a campaign ostensibly aimed at living up to its image, of adapting it. But it purposefully distorted the idea image so grotesquely that it knew it could not be maintained. It would get its own way by pretending to give in. Psychics were saintly, dignified, quiet, restrained. They were, it said, everything that Ruburt was not. Therefore, Ruburt must be changed. It knew the change would be disastrous and in fact, impossible.

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.

There is very little danger that Ruburt’s ego would be suppressed. Even in psychic work, though generally speaking, of course, the connotations frighten the ego. The danger is that the subconscious be suppressed, and this is the only real time that Ruburt runs into difficulty.