“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.

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 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 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?

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....

—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.