“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

It upsets Ruburt when you talk of moving, but make no actions to do so, because subconsciously it reminds him of the deep uncertainty and insecurity he felt when he was in the orphanage. Never knowing when he would go home or not, he kept himself in a constant state of readiness to leave. Various dates were given and then his leaving was postponed several times.

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.

All right. Ruburt automatically thinks of the productivity of land, when he thinks of land. He would do very well in the future in buying real estate—and there will be money to buy it. He would not do as well with stocks and bonds. They are meaningless to him.

Tangibles are important to him. I am simply trying to explain attitudes. Money in the bank does not emotionally excite him, though he realizes its benefits. It does not bring about his creative nature. Now real estate would, and he could double his investments easily, for he has a good idea of people in relation to dwellings, and of population movement. He is not aware of this.

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.