“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now, as to your York Beach images. Here aggressive and destructive energies were unconsciously projected outward, given a pseudoreality and a temporary physical validity. There was a protein loss on your own parts.

Such images are constructed of emotional energy, but they also are partially formed from the chemical structure of the individual or individuals behind such productions. The physical body then must work overtime. The impetus is emotional, and the pseudoframework is formed of emotional energy, but the image itself must be built up in part of physical components, and these must come from somewhere.

Unconsciously, the physical methods at hand are used, then, in such endeavors. It is highly unusual, but possible, according to the strength of the psychic discontent, that the consciousness could then split itself up, some residing in the new image.

Now. Physical illness is not a natural condition. It also necessitates additional work of this same sort, hence often the physical vitamin deficiencies that occur. In many cases they do not cause a disease, but are the result of it. In the same way that the body’s proteins and chemical structures can be used to form various kinds of images, they may also be utilized in a lesser fashion to, say, form an ulcer, a goiter, or to affect other changes.

Again, the body is overworking. Here particular emotions are dissociated, denied. The individual does not want to accept them as a portion of himself. Instead of projecting them outward, as you did into such images, they are directed to a specific area in the body; or in other cases allowed to wander, so to speak, traveling troublemakers, through the entire physical system.

Definite energy is needed to sustain them. We will not go into an entire discussion, yet you should be able to see the connection between some kinds of images and ulcers, or other growths.

The images you saw were of older, weary selves, the lines of frustration and bitterness clearly written in the features, and apparent in the bodies’ bearings.

You used your own bodily reserves to produce the images. You faced the bitterness head on, and saw it objectified. You then for the first time, completely accepted it as a portion of yourself. At this point it returned to you, and lost its explosive, isolated importance. It became merely an emotion among others.

It was the beginning in your case, of recovery. Telepathic communication between you and Ruburt was also involved. Ruburt realized that as you changed, so would he. Now, this same sort of deterioration over a longer period of time can occur in the original physical image, when the energy is not projected into more or less independent structure. Do you see?

He is in the process of freeing himself, but the assurances from you can quicken the process considerably. The working schedule will help also, for as he sees the product of his spontaneity, he knows he can trust it. The body worked overtime in quelling spontaneity, and used needed reserves to maintain the symptoms. The same reserves, you see, can be used to construct images. When images of survival personalities appear, they must also utilize such properties.

A note... Tell Ruburt to think of the comparison between the images and the extra hands added to...

...hand formations. Then, have him simply imagine those extra portions disappearing as the images did.