“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

When it is so materialized much of the creativity is automatically expressed (pause), the individual being aware of only that ability that the mind can understand. Most individuals therefore do not contend with larger portions of their own reality. An individual sets for himself those challenges that lie within his realm at any given time. He does not tackle challenges that in his terms are too great to be solved.

Now. (Slowly.) Through the years (pause), Ruburt has been more and more aware of other kinds of psychological realities and structures than those usually experienced. He was born with that capacity, having chosen the course. The capability was there then long before it showed itself.

Earlier he experienced high accelerations of creativity and consciousness (pause). These accelerations and the capacity activated the thyroid gland, not the other way around. He sensed the energy, of course, and considered it one of his characteristics, but it frightened him. He had definite ideas of the ways in which energy should properly be used and channeled.

He was afraid of going too far too fast, and worse, of going alone. Controls were applied as he learned to experience and use his growing abilities. The fears about being an official psychic were to see that he did not fall into the temptation of allowing all the dogmas to be tacked upon the phenomena, so that he would not operate within old frameworks, and therefore tacitly give voice consent to them.

In all of this you also acquiesced. It was known that only by presenting the material in writing, and eventually in books, that his personality would accept it. He would also be driven to critically analyze the phenomena (hyphen)—and in books, because he is a writer—before he felt free enough to simply create (period).

The critical writing and the symptoms went hand in hand. They were both cautionary procedures, symbolic and literal, that he felt necessary. Until his own understanding of his nature and the nature of consciousness progressed, he needed those tactics.

Now until Ruburt’s psychic experiences and the beginning of this expansion of consciousness and abilities, he was used to relying upon other levels of trust. He identified completely with his body. Afterward he could not identify with his body in the same way. A whole new orientation became necessary, and it did involve a time of stress.

(10:23. Jane’s trance had been very deep. Her delivery had been very deep, especially on the last page. “He’s still got a whole bunch of stuff,” she said, “and I have a vague idea of what’s going on.... I’ve got an awfully funny feeling, too—I’m waiting to see if you get it also.”

Old stray patterns of thought therefore, or depressions, became more readily materialized, as did more positive ones, to your way of thinking. Both positive and negative elements were more quickly creatively materialized. It is almost (underlined), at least symbolically, as if Ruburt were born at age 36 into a world with new rules, to which he had then to acclimate himself.

The expansion of consciousness is large enough to become a different kind of consciousness (dash)—if it as allowed freedom. He held back in the ways given. You held back from many of the experiences that you could yourself encounter, and you are now ready to begin an acceleration of our own that will be largely interpreted through your work, if you allow it.

Ruburt must do his own creative work in his writing hours. He must for his health’s sake take at least 15 minutes a day to relax in any fashion he chooses—but mental and physical relaxation. This is not diversion such as television, you follow me.

He is not to feel at the demand of letters, people, calls or otherwise. He is to feel free of those demands. They are not a part of his work. My book is geared specifically to people. When he realizes he need not be at their demand he can be freely grateful for his mail, and not resentful.

An honest, warm letter will be dictated by me (louder), to be sent out. This absolves him from such responsibility neatly, and it is important that he be so absolved—not only for his own benefit but for other work, from which such demands detract.

For now class should be continued. Your social life should and must not be allowed to deteriorate. You both need that contact, but free you see of the demands he has felt from, say, correspondence. Nor need he feel at the beck and call of anyone who wants to come here for a session or otherwise.

Nor need he feel a responsibility to allow people to come to class from afar—but that might, generally speaking, represent his contact with others psychically. He should speak to Hugh, as he mentioned, and that is important.

(11:08. “He isn’t done, I can tell you that,” Jane said after she’d come out of a deep trance. “I can sense other stuff coming—I don’t know what I’m going to think when I read it.” When Jane got up she could barely move about her chair. She sat down heavily, then said she had to get up to go to the john—which she did, slowly.

There are to be some recommendations for diet. Some changes in his tastes have already occurred, to his surprise. He no longer enjoys raw steak as he used to, or even steak particularly, for example.

He finds himself naturally wanting grains such as rice and cereals, and has a yearning for potatoes, baked. His diet, and yours, should follow the following patterns: for him particularly, except for bacon which is dried, very little pork. Steak, if you will excuse me, only on rare occasions.

The peanut butter he instinctively seeks out, but he should get in the habit of eating other kinds of nuts—cashews particularly. And as he suspected lately, sunflower seeds are good. Cottage cheese with lettuce he likes, and both are good for him. Olives are an important corollary, and he likes them.

Now. The creative writing class has served its purpose, provided you keep up your social life. It should be dropped. He needs the time, and it has become a method of helping people.

All of these suggestions will release both of you in important ways. He was never meant to give his entire conscious concentration to (in quotes) “psychic” work. The freedom of his own creative work will enhance those abilities, but also free him for some further expansions of consciousness that are meant to follow. The same applies to you, and in these endeavors you must work together.

My books are meant to give you some financial framework in which to operate in practical terms, besides their other purposes. There are roadways open that Ruburt has been afraid to follow for the reasons given this evening, to which he is now acquiescing.

He now realizes that growth cannot be held back. Now later, but not in a distant future, your nap periods will be utilized for joint out-of-body work. The further developments latent since our sessions, are now ready to proceed. The feeling of accomplishment and peace will give you a feeling of greater time available within your daily framework. And as soon as the (Xmas) tree is removed, the badminton.

You should make all efforts to move by spring. In the meantime Ruburt should “bless” (in quotes) the bed in whatever way he chooses, because of old aspects picked up when you were ill.

(12:16. Again Jane’s trance had been very deep. She told me she’d gotten the feeling from Seth that we’d have a significant dream tonight—of the kind he had talked about a long time ago. She had the feeling the session was “a big thing, significant.” I seemed to be more reserved.)