“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

These ideas were not inaccessible. You believed them, and you did not examine them, except when you brought to the surface of your mind arguments that reinforced them. Do you follow me?

I have told you of Ruburt’s energies. Released now in that direction, and convinced he is “right,” you will be astounded at the financial benefits, and material ones. You will also be astounded at the amount of work that will be produced, and is now latently in production, now that he sees that he can be artistically creative in his terms, mix and match the psychic and the creative (dash)—designations. These are still somewhat (underlined) separate to him, yet his ideas of doing good, being right, creating artistically, are now combining.

Your impulses and tendencies, physically speaking, your desires to go out to do things, are better developed now than his, now. So let your normality serve as a sounding board for him. When you play this down, thinking it either useless or at best not profitable, then you deny him the advantages of your better wisdoms in that area.

If you try simply to spontaneously express your own normal feelings in terms of going out, etc., he is now more able to follow your lead. That is, do not inhibit your own feelings. You do not help either of you when you do.

I counseled you not to move for six months. You will be much better equipped to do so at that time. Ruburt did put himself through what he considered a necessary period of stress and training. He does now realize that there were unfortunate side effects.

I want your ideas concerning sex and its part in your lives written down with the others, and honestly faced. I also want you each to consciously know what you think, secretly, about the ways in which Ruburt’s symptoms keep you from doing certain things, both of you.

If you do not want to do these things, and you are sure you do not, then admit it, without relying upon the symptoms as a handy excuse.

(“I do. Thank you, Seth.”)

—so change your habits. Set up your life situation about a normal pattern, and because Ruburt has lost a clear idea of what this is you can help him here. Your financial situation is increasing beyond your early dreams, because of a change in belief—so begin acting as if the normal pattern exists. Set your life up in that way and it will be. Even you do not realize how it is restricted.

(4:16. During break I mentioned two questions to Jane, without insisting upon getting answers this afternoon. One had to do with the meaning, or information available, concerning the portrait I had recently finished. I had just framed it, and it sat on the bookcase behind me now. Jane could see it from her chair.

(The second question had to do with Seth’s ideas about our appearing on the David Susskind show, TV, in New York City, should we be asked. The publicity department at Prentice-Hall told Jane last week that this program was thinking of asking us to be on the show, and that possibly we’d be contacted this week.

(A note: Publicity at Prentice-Hall also told Jane that Newsweek Magazine might do a story or review re Seth, and that this might take place within two or three weeks, etc. Jane evidently wouldn’t have anything to do with this venture.

Now about your painting, I will speak later. And I am not telling you what to do. You do as you like about the show.

My advice is, stay away from it. There will be other shows, more advantageous. But do not use the symptoms as the reason for not going on the show.

(The first day after Jane got the call, we thought of all the reasons we didn’t want to do the show—including the material on the show and Susskind in Daniel Logan’s book, The Reluctant Prophet. The next morning, I arose with the thought that all our stewing was after all academic—Jane’s symptoms would prevent us from being on the show to begin with —we couldn’t see her physically negotiating airports, taxis, hotels, studios, New York City, etc.)

That is a habit, one of the areas where the symptoms can be counted upon for an excuse. Do you follow me?

—as a rock bottom answer, that both of you can use to escape doing what you do not want to do. So the answer would be simply that you do not feel the show would be advantageous at this time.

Give us a moment...There will be other shows, and he will be in a physical position to handle them. But you must understand that in your mind—now, you, Joseph—have thought of the symptoms as the reason why the answer (in the negative) would be given—and that is using the symptoms as an excuse. Do you see the difference?

Now. Beliefs: you felt that the discussion was needless because Ruburt could not make it anyway, physically. (The TV show.) Ruburt could make it physically—maybe not in the condition you would like, but he could appear on the show. Do you see the difference?