“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The meeting with your Seagull friend was significant for many reasons. Symbolically, Seven (Oversoul) was important because the book showed Ruburt the wedding of psychic ability and creative ability, emerging as fiction and art form, and his baby.

The connection between the two was securely made. The meeting with your Seagull friend however also helped cement this realization on his part. The acceptance from another writer, simply on that level alone, was important: But the meeting with someone who also shared psychic and writing ability was vital.

Ruburt realized that he had held back psychically. We have discussed this. The dream book manuscript, again, represented that dilemma. At one point he tried to insist upon the dominance of the conscious mind, and became pedantic. Seeing that his own ability is greater than our Seagull’s—in certain, now, important areas—he realizes what can be done when he does go ahead.

His reading for Richard was also symbolic. It represented the acceptance by another writer of his psychic abilities as well as himself.

Now some connections between Ruburt and Nebene are obvious, though perhaps not apparent. Ruburt always knew from childhood unconsciously of the strength of his personality, its potential, and his ability to sway others.

He did therefore develop a strong conscientious self, so that these abilities would be put to good purposes, and not frittered away. Until he was absolutely certain that he was on the right track, he would hold back, as indeed he has—but only to a certain degree, as indeed he has.

There are reasons, reincarnationally, for this caution. Nevertheless, the point has now been reached where he does realize that the basic self is good, and the abilities are being put to good purpose. The realization has to do with results from the sessions mentioned, and the ensuing events.

The mother had been particularly given to the mutilation of prisoners, and hence chose the physical condition finally—not, now, as punishment, but to understand the experience—and to develop abilities under those conditions.