“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

As I told you a while back, Ruburt is left with body beliefs. The reasons behind those beliefs largely no longer operate. They are understood, and are no longer strong enough to cause such a condition. The body beliefs however have not been challenged.

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.

Earlier he did not want to use the body largely, for reasons he now understands and largely dismisses. As a part of that process he convinced himself that he could not use the body. Now those body beliefs have still to be tackled.

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.

He must project that same sense of freedom and understanding into the physical situation, and fly as freely in the face of that situation. You were correct, therefore: he must believe that he can indeed be normally flexible. And if he does so believe, he will be. The fear causes him to organize memory and behavior so that all physical evidence then correlates with his belief that he cannot get well.

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....

Give us a moment.... Since you understand so clearly the reasons for his problem, his lack of belief in the fact that he can indeed get well, then do your best to remind him that he can get well. And that you are not as hypnotized by his symptoms as he is.

I told you both to do certain suggestions together, because your belief in them and your effectiveness could help him revive his own body beliefs. The fact is that both of you are nearly hypnotized by the physical effects. While the main challenge is his, you can help by reviving your own beliefs that he can indeed return to normal physical behavior.

—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.

The same unconventional defiance of official beliefs shown in the Air Force affair can indeed be translated into other terms. Is want you, together, to do the suggestions again; but more, to assert individually and jointly, against what seems to be the physical evidence of Ruburt’s senses.