“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Some of these feelings are also projected upon the apartment house at large, and mask your deep love of your studio, despite all disadvantages.

There is simply a deep difference. Ruburt for example will enjoy and make use of whatever land he has, be it only the dirt in a window-sill plot. He does not have ambiguous feelings to supercharge his reactions in this particular area. To you this apartment house and its grounds are considered in terms of land, and dwelling. You think of the land you do not have. You have not been able to take advantage of the yard or the ground available as positive things of joy and refreshment, and have therefore been denied an extra advantage from this place, and the conditions that Ruburt has enjoyed.

You should both have learned enough by now however to sense the psychic vitality or atmosphere of a dwelling. There are advantages and disadvantages in living in a house alone. Everyone in this apartment house is seldom in a bad mood at the same time, for example, so to some extent in periods of normal depression you are sustained by others, close by, who are not.

You are also of course open to negative moods of others in the same way. In a house you saturate the atmosphere until the air actually becomes almost an extension, electromagnetically, of your mental and psychic states.

You would indeed benefit from larger quarters. You do not need me to tell you this. I have not mentioned such matters since my early suggestion that you purchase the house you did not purchase. It was a probability that you did not follow.

Ruburt’s ideas about a house for example are actually far more positive than your own. He automatically believes that your income would rise to meet the new demands, and he is quite correct, as long as you believe it fully. He also thinks in terms of making such a venture pay, however, of ventures financially rewarding and enjoyable, while yours are negative in this regard.

You need not fear, then, that he would not follow wholeheartedly, say, in moving to a house for example, for the tangible element and the land would rouse those instincts. If you have no questions we will resume dictation, or what was the beginning of chapter 9 (of Seth Speaks.