“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Some environmental influences of a real but not profound nature can be cleared up by the simple process of the housecleaning ritual. Disinfectants and the symbolic chase after germs—these simply serve as a symbolic but helpful aid in ridding the atmosphere of the idea of illness.

If possible next weekend, air your clothing upon the line. Ruburt should brush his animals; all of this for its symbolic meaning, but symbolism reinforced on the sense data level.

He often projected these onto his mother, so that she became the symbol of all evil, at various times in any case. This regardless of the harmful qualities of her own nature, the mother’s.

Some extra care as you plan then will also serve to liven the spirits of the spontaneous self. Ruburt’s particular personality can also find refreshment at his job; as the earlier, still somewhat lingering but largely vanishing sensitivity vanishes, it can be a source of refreshment. It is less symbolic in a negative manner, you see, than it was. While he insisted upon this rigorous discipline for himself, he was caught between trying to inflict it upon the children, and by his natural tendency to enter into their spontaneous ways. This largely contributing to the difficulties after work, as a result of the tension.

There is no deeply symbolic meaning here, the stairs having simply become a transitional point between the outside and the inside. Although going down is somewhat significant, representing to the ego the fear of going down into the self.