“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In your mind you creatively envision the ideal—the sanity of some future culture that, hopefully, our work and others will bring about: if not tomorrow, some “time.” On the other hand, you face the evidence of today; almost, though not quite, it seems, the worst picture possible, the antithesis of what is desired. And it seems to you that your money is being used to prolong those conditions.

The money is being achieved or accumulated as a result of your search for the ideal, so it appears twice as ironic to you that the funds for taxes be used to pursue national goals bent, it seems, upon the most gross, shortsightedly practical conditions. This is, if you will forgive the term, beautifully and cleverly connected in your mind with “Unknown” Reality—the book. Here again you find yourself often in a dilemma of your making, between the ideal and what seems to be; if not the grossly practical, something close to it.

Now: as Ruburt often imagined the worst possibility, and thought that he was being practical in doing so, in terms of his physical condition, gums and all, so you do the same thing in these given areas.

As an artist alone your purpose is expression, which involves disclosure, the difference between the ideal and actual. Be reckless in the expression of the ideal, and it will never betray you. Treat it with kid gloves and you are in the middle of a battle. You demand the best circumstances, the proper conditions, and only then will you face yourself.

Your joint ideas of the ideal, its expression, and feared closure, was in the past also largely responsible for your joint embarrassment over Ruburt’s physical condition, your joint shame over his appearance.

His mental patterns have undergone obvious, very important alterations. His condition was his individual reaction to general mass beliefs of a negative nature. You see those results in all the individuals you know. False teeth, eyeglasses, sacrificed organs or whatever, poverty, poor relationships. Some people are blighted to some degree in all areas of their lives.

(11:15.) Ruburt’s approach with the gums is a good one. It can work if he changes his beliefs quickly enough, since the overall physical condition is vastly accelerated. His impressions earlier this evening are very significant, as you will both shortly see. Do not consider your own symptoms as weakness, or as something to be ashamed of in the face of the ideal of perfect health.

If you have difficulties again, speak to the concerned areas gently, in a calming fashion. Tell them that you are working on the problems that have caused them stress. This will help, but the conditions now should vanish with your understanding.

Postscript: certain conditions have already changed for Ruburt, so that he can express energy more exuberantly. He can collect it, and yet let it flow through him with greater strength.