“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Give us a moment.... All of these processes, and the increased overall bodily activity, do increase Ruburt’s temperature at times. I am not saying that he has a fever, but that there are accelerations of energy that often bring local rushes of circulation and heat. In hot humid weather, that does become noticeable. The sweating is also the result of increased bodily activity.

I am not going into the reasons, again, for Ruburt’s condition. One of the primary attitudes, however, had to do with trying “to fight all battles at once” —a good many of them imaginary. He tried to escape from DISTRACTIONS—in capital letters—in a black-and-white fashion, making no distinctions at all. For a while anything that was not writing was a distraction.

Distractions can be easily dealt with, as they occur, by making conscious decisions. They do not require all of the effort and psychological technology of a nuclear war (with humor). They do not require then the full artillery of your defenses—a great waste of your time and effort that could, of course, be devoted to your work.

The men, working here (on Jane’s back room and porch), are distracting. They are not enemies. To Ruburt they represent the world at your door, yet he is seeing other people in a truer light as a result. They are not creatures to be feared, run from. They do not have guns. The larger threat was in his mind.

Regardless of your attitudes, perhaps, those men do not think you both strange for working at home. They recognize you as a different breed than themselves, with different interests and abilities that they rather envy. They even try not to disturb you. Ruburt’s room, in which he hopes to be highly creative, is being built by such people who do know their own kind of creativity, and salute creativity in others. While the affair is distracting, then, it is highly worthwhile on deeper levels.

Television, oddly enough, provides for many people an opportunity to leap over restrictive categories, and to identify in other ways, perhaps, than they would otherwise. The people who read will read, television or not. There are millions, however, who are not readers, and through television they do indeed enlarge upon their viewpoints.

In this life Ruburt knew his neighborhood as a child, and his feelings about people were not tempered by television programs showing normal families, or other ways of life. He believed that life was a life-and-death struggle, and having finally found what he wanted to do, his mode of survival, he brought out all of his artillery to protect himself while he did his thing.

In all of this he did not until recently realize, or want to realize, that he was not fully responding to his own life, or even that he was not fully functional, but “responsive” was the word. Also you tossed fears between you like a ball, so that when one was optimistic the other one was down. You do not have to be saints or prophets. Your beliefs in the power of the present, and in Ruburt’s recovery, as stated lately in these sessions, must, however, outbalance your doubts.