“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In the face of possible rejection, which old attitudes now and then make him expect, he adopts a rigid rather than flexible stance. There is no reason to expect such rejection to begin with. The point is, it has been his habitual response. In the past the reaction would have been much stronger however. Again, the point is that he covered up the fear of rejection, and tried to minimize the place of importance that the chapter has for him.

In other words, his back is up, you see. (Gesture, again.)

Now he did a good job on the chapter, and it will help him if he imagines the entire book to be a young beautiful sapling that moves easily with each breeze, the nerves like tiny unseen branches, soft and flexible, going even out from his body.

The change in his subjective life is considerable, as the psychic work and his easy manner in the chapter clearly shows. A psychic and spiritual openness will now help on his part. He did not want to admit the importance of the chapter, although he knows it is good. He did not want to send it out for fear it would come back—underline back.

When we are finished with the discussion we have begun (on time), there will be many dealing with the subject, not necessarily connected however with your own situation. Ruburt’s psychic climate has indeed changed for the better, but in periods of physical symptoms beyond his present norm, you can greatly assist in such a manner, for these are simply—or not so simply—miniature pitfalls. He gets out of them with much more rapidity, and they are not as deep but you can give him a boost. (Humorously.)

His own clairvoyant abilities have taken a leap forward. You, Joseph, at the least several times a week, should make an effort to embark upon more psychological time exercises, for your own abilities have also grown; but you have not realized it.

Say that you are going to try to see Prentice-Hall’s reaction—will they accept the manuscript or not? Then imagine the blank picture as if you were going to paint it in your mind. Either see Ruburt painted in with the expression on his face as he reads the significant letter, and instead of the title the date of the letter.

Another method: pretend you are painting Ruburt with a picture of the book in his hand, then the details as to the publisher and so forth would be painted in for you. I suggest in your case therefore an approach using imagery, although there will be several ways of trying to get given information, as you see.