“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

There are all kinds of like suggestions, all meant as preventive measures, but based upon the idea that ill fortune can be most likely expected, and means must be taken to avoid it. In many ways, and important ones, the two of you managed to avoid many complications encountered by others because of such measures. Until very recently, however, Ruburt did not recognize that he often placed the worst kind of connotations upon, for example, his own condition, or behavior in certain manners. This was invisible because the pattern still made sense. Your talk about the dentist did trigger such recognition.

(10:42.) At one time man did not know about the existence of any country outside of his own. Now he lives on land and travels across the oceans and in the air. There are other psychological mediums, however, other lands of the mind that will open up experience far more than seems possible.

The knowledge of the last few days, however, is bringing about a further alteration of consciousness that allows him to progress, and in all cases the alterations of consciousness happen first. In the meantime, with the Cézanne material and the painting, he is opening up other areas that will make certain portions of my new book possible, for certain levels of understanding are acquired on his part.

Personally, Ruburt understands however that he exaggerated the negative elements of his condition, thinking that he was being realistic. He did not realize that before. When you look at the world and interpret its condition in the same way, you end up in an impossible situation as a people, for your learned coping mechanisms themselves reinforce the situation.