“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now first the house.

Give us a moment.... You both seem informal, yet your informality exists within its own rather formal structure. The places so far have had a certain formality. Within that formality, then, in contrast, you are informal. Development homes also represent, to you both, now, undisciplined, unthinking, sloppy behavior. You disapprove of it.

Even you, however, will feel more secure with a place of your own than you would with the money drawing interest in the bank. It is a different kind of security. Your daily environment is very important to your work, and to Ruburt. The money in the bank is helpful, but if your daily environment is not conducive to your work and peace of mind, then the money security is meaningless. You will have plenty plus your house. An expensive house as such is not required. Your own ideas however of privacy and so forth in your society requires a certain amount of cash. There is nothing wrong for example with the south side. You also possess an esthetic sense, however. You require certain things of your art, and therefore you want the same things in your environment. Once you had it here, for all of your criticism. Now it is gone, and you are different.

Give us a moment.... The hill house, again, has good aspects because of the location, the view and the proximity of nature. The dining area is better, as it is now. It would require little work.

Now: once I gave you a recommendation, and you did not really take it. I can foresee probabilities, but you make your own reality, and I will not take the responsibility. Taking that for granted, and knowing your characteristics, I have more to say. You may not like it.

Now: the hill environment has open nature. The trees will tempt him to walk about, and he knows it well. The environment demands exploration. Nature there is sunny.

The sunny nature and the open quality—regardless of what Ruburt thinks now, will help him creatively and physically—but the house represents a decision to face the world, while maintaining certain necessary and quite reasonable conditions. It provides privacy yet openness.

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.

(11:21. Now Seth diverged to give perhaps a page of data on the family of consciousness that Sue Watkins came up with in 1971 or ‘72. That material, with Sue’s notes, will go into The “Unknown” Reality, possibly in the notes for the 738th session in Section Six.

On the house: now Ruburt could quite cleverly see Dr. Sam as he tried to shut nature out, and be at the same time relatively opaque in understanding his feelings toward the Foster Street house—his own feelings.