“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You are used to “trusting your physical perceptions,” taught to accept physical evidence above all as the mark of reality. This is a part of your culture. Ruburt, involved in highly avant-garde work, always tried to make sure he had both feet upon the ground—in his terms, to be fairly objective. When he finds himself in such physical circumstances then it is difficult for him to fly in the face of such “physical evidence.”

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.

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.