“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now. Ruburt is obviously afraid that he will have not only his own negative tendencies to contend with, but yours as well.

This applies to both of you, although Ruburt would be more open about initial encounters if he had your support. In this you do identify to some degree with your father’s attitude. I am sure you know this.

Now do not look down upon the importance of personal encounters, or the effect of personality. Ruburt’s personality shows in his writings and his individual interpretations; your personalities should always be considered as assets. To some extent they have also been affected by the material, and to that extent they are testaments of it.

There will be developments and friendships that will emerge that will directly concern our work in general, and help spread the material. Over a long period of time such contact will serve you well. One man in particular whom you have not yet met, will give Ruburt an idea for a book, through his questions, that will be most remarkable.

Despite all your own tendencies to avoid such contact, you are bringing it about through our sessions, and the importance of the material—the inner self placing you in a position where such contact will come about. This is for your own good, and the same is true of Ruburt.

Now. Give us a moment. As mentioned earlier, Ruburt must come to his own decision. I have a suggestion, however.

I suggest that under the circumstances, this time Ruburt step aside and let Jim Crosson have his day. He needs it badly, and I have a note for Miss Taylor: it will hurt Jim Crosson badly if he does not have a part in the program. He needs to feel, particularly after retirement, that he is looked up to and needed, and can hold his own and attract an audience.

Ruburt will address the group in any case (pause), and many times in the future. Jim Crosson does not have that much time. (Pause.) Ruburt should make no future hard decisions as to what he will and will not do, but give the intuitive self freedom in such cases.

He will not make a practice of contacting the departed for their relatives. It is not his forte. Otherwise he should leave himself open. If probabilities continue as they are now, there will be some considerable relationship with the group Miss Taylor represents through the years. It will work to Ruburt’s benefit as he meets other psychics with excellent abilities. He can also learn from the experience.

Ruburt will do much better on his own in a program, but should definitely not shunt Jim Crosson aside, for he is very vulnerable to slights. He will also do very well, lecturing on that occasion of the 20th. Better in fact than usual, and he, at least, will consider it one of the high points of his career.

Miss Taylor and I will meet in any case. You will find her a welcome member among your friends. I suggest that again Ruburt invite her here, for she will come, and we will have a session.

(Pause.) The entire future involvement with that group was incipient on the day that Jim Crosson read Ruburt’s first book.

Ruburt should make it clear that he will accept another engagement however. You may take your break and we will continue.

Now. Ruburt will meet (Arthur) Ford, and they will have much to say to each other. (AF being very well-known for his psychic abilities.)

(Long pause at 10:30.) There is another man who could share the program with him, the one mentioned in our earlier session (the 496th), that was thought not available. Ruburt would take the program away from Crosson quite without meaning to do so. Do you follow me?

Again: Ruburt will address the group many times throughout the years, and so may I. (Humorously.) Ruburt and I together would need a full program.

From the beginning we have been dealing with the nature of reality, beneath its many guises. The intellectual concepts will be enlarged in all areas—the scientific, metaphysical, psychological and psychic. These are the areas in which you and Ruburt are so personally intrigued.

I want you to take a break, but I want also to comment on the dream that has been bothering Ruburt, so take your break and we will continue briefly. At your next session I hope to get back to our material, but this is also legitimate and of benefit.

The divorce was a distortion (pause), not of memory but of interpretation, representing a psychic separation that occurred between you, not in 1964 but later, when Ruburt became ill—and to some extent (underlined) you did hold him back, as you know from the work with the pendulum that you did. You were for that time divorced from each other in attitude, and lacked communication.

This was the knowledge that the woman had of Ruburt’s past life. Ruburt interpreted it in literal terms as a divorce. Now give me a moment. (Pause.) This obviously was the second dream.

Ruburt did see the Buffalin man. The wife in astral form was also here. Ruburt followed Buff to another layer of existence, (pause), with many who had died that evening. Ruburt formed the prosaic background himself however.

I was the guide he was searching for, and they were looking for me, though they did not know my name. This was a clearing place for personalities leaving the physical plane. In their astral forms they adopted their normal dress, hence the varying costumes. They realized that Ruburt was still physical. This is why he was told he could travel no further. He was afraid momentarily there would be no physical world to return to—simply his personal reaction.

Now that I know that Ruburt is actively ready, I will be more close by. Your first dream will come when you are ready, as Ruburt’s did. Do you have questions?