“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Those people enjoy the reassurance that others give that reinforces the way of life that they have chosen. The houses themselves have a quality, a life, that is picked up by potential buyers. Certain houses repel you and Ruburt. They will however positively attract others, so the qualities in the houses that appeal to you are precisely those qualities that have turned others off, and prevented their sale. Quite simply, Ruburt finds carpeting sinful if it is expensive, unless it is in the living room, where he might accept it. It speaks of too much luxury.

Give us a moment.... The people who have lived in the Foster Street house, and the hill house, have to some extent already conditioned the rest of the neighbors in a certain way. There are alliances and understandings in neighborhoods—signs for others to read. The little house on Cobbles East also has its own aura of privacy that no garage on the other side can disturb.

At this time of your lives it is important that you act. I am telling you that of the houses in your mind it really makes little difference which one you choose. Neither house is perfect. You would find yourselves quite hampered in such an idealistically perfect environment. You need some give-and-take (period).

You would end up eventually making a studio in the attic, which would cost you more money, which you would have to spend. In the summer there would indeed be annoying children’s voices that reminded you that others lived differently. Ruburt would end up ripping away part of the carpet—good expensive rug—and changing the rooms about. And you cannot put a money value on what you would get out of that house.

The hill house does not. It represents a kind of challenge you have not thus far accepted. A kind of living in the present that has frightened you both. As given however it still possesses qualities that do go in with your natures. Foster Street represents an elegant secretive past, and you would both try to hide within it. Ruburt hates to give it up for that reason, but to a lesser degree so do you.

Give us time.... When you live in a house that belongs conspicuously to another age, you are to some extent avoiding the contemporary nature of life. Ruburt may find himself furnishing the place more formally than another, yet the open quality of the air is the kind of air that you do not hide in.

It will automatically tempt him to walk about. The two levels of the house are good. The stairs will be a part of living. There is privacy, but it is tempered by the open air of the hill, yet still the distance is maintained that is necessary for each of you. It is not claustrophobic privacy.

Now Ruburt feels to some extent that a nice place is permissible if it is decadent. That had to do with Foster. There is no need to be ashamed of your money, or to fear there will not be more of it. You need an intimate give-and-take with the land. The hillside is not yours, yet it is your view. And it has strong evocative connections with your creative lives.

For your purposes the house is worth the price. In the market, in Frank’s terms, the house is worth perhaps $38,500, or $39,000. That price will also go up. Though the rooms are smaller there is in a strange way greater manipulability, psychically speaking. A definite change in living patterns will result, and of attitude, that would not happen in the Foster house. This also means that greater adaptability is required, but it will be to the good. The whole difference here is the quality of nature as it surrounds both houses. The one invites you to roam, the other to hide. Both houses have Sumari characteristics, but in different combinations. You both need the sun.