“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I am referring of course to his “black thing” in quotes, and the struggle. The energy behind the thing was the energy of hidden fears, but such a thing could be formed by anyone, for there are fears in every man. Ruburt tried to isolate them, give them form, and fight them all at once.

It did have a reality therefore. Ruburt leapt back to his body to safety and normal consciousness. The thing therefore dissipated, for when Ruburt ran home he automatically withdrew his energy from it. Give us a moment. (Pause.)

The suggestions he gave himself as to healing, you see, were connected here. He formed a poor creature with the purpose of destroying it. The symptoms were worse following the episode because of the impact with which the creature’s energies were withdrawn and then reabsorbed. They had been already isolated from other aspects of Ruburt’s personality, so the fears flew back in with an explosive impact.

Now in the first place the symptoms are not evil nor his enemies, but methods of instruction that he has himself chosen; and if ever he imagines them isolated in such a fashion, they should be imagined instead as being projected out from him into the whole of the universe where they are absorbed harmlessly, and their energy used to the greater good.

The rigidity was in his mind however and not in yours, and he knows this now. Give us a moment. (Pause.) You are to him in this existence a figure for lover, father and child, but he is also a figure to you of mother, mistress and child. And all of this energy in both of your cases unconsciously understood, is then at its best, joyfully bound together and projected into your works.

The very impetus and charge of the energy propels you both in to new byways in your arts and in our work. Were the energy and emotional impetus materialized instead for example in parent-child relationships, with you as parents, in your particular cases it would be lessened in your work.

You have chosen to divert and use tremendous charges of energy in your final reincarnations, and your own art will make its way for this reason. (To me.) What seems to you as inner difficulties or problems, or lack of success, like Ruburt’s desolations, serve as the very impetus to development.