“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The initiating reasons behind those beliefs have been challenged. That is why they are not now significant. They led up to the resulting body beliefs, however. These are met most immediately in Ruburt’s most intimate contact—body meeting world. They are the most concrete-seeming evidence, you see. It is in this area then where the physical evidence most strongly appears, and it can seem overwhelming.

In areas where he is doing well, such limitations, and resulting limiting behavior, do not occur to him. In the Air Force situation, for example, he did not say “I cannot possibly deny physical laws, or know what is going on in another place, or even at another time.” He enjoyed defying the physical evidence accepted by the scientist and others.

In his situation however he has largely felt powerless to alter the conditions. Part of this is personal, but part is also cultural, and shows the one area of cultural beliefs from which Ruburt has not freed himself. At times it has seemed at best Pollyanna, even to you, in the face of Ruburt’s daily situation, and your intimate experience with it, to pretend playfully that it did not exist.

In any area, an attempt to alter an unfavorable circumstance will always find you, at one stage, flying in the face of all physical evidence to the contrary. Do you follow me?

Again, since you are culturally taught, to accept physical data as your criteria for physical reality, this is to some extent quite understandable. Ruburt in most other areas has discarded that concept, however, and in so doing has enlarged the experiences of his consciousness, and confounded those who accept such principles unthinkingly, as the Air Force personnel.

To some extent this belief of his is quite shared by you, and if his symptoms seem so self-evident to you, imagine how self-evident they seem to him. You form your own reality. You are learning how to do this more consciously. Those areas in which you have doubts are of course the challenging ones. Give us a moment....

—sadly, and with a nostalgic remembrance, because you do not believe that Ruburt can change his beliefs enough, and this, you see, is precisely what he fears. It is, however, most probable simply because the evidence is before you in all areas of your lives—that his energy, when it is directed, is most effective. We simply want it now directed in the physical area.