“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.

(10:29.) Ruburt becomes worried when he thinks of the many people who write or call, asking for help. You are in the middle of a learning process. Objective answers given to people are not true answers. Questions that help individuals search into their own experience can bring out answers that literally cannot be given. You cannot write psychic prescriptions, for then you begin to structure inner experience. You are traveling yourselves out of an unsafe universe into a safe one. There are steps along the way. Ruburt’s are observable. The race tries to improve the quality of its experience through probing different kinds of probabilities. In a way each individual tries a different course for himself and for the race as a whole.

The body has a certain shape. It is maintained more or less as a species develops. Yet each change or alteration in the physical species is the result of many individuals trying out a particular biological course, which then later in your terms becomes the accepted one. In those terms the species has dealt mainly with physical manipulation. Largely unsuspected, however, the mind has been literally assimilating data at an accelerating rate. Each individual experience adds to inner social comprehension. The inner overall consciousness of the species then makes decisions way before any alteration occurs in physical reality. The species can decide to change its course, and set certain actions into history that will change the future, seemingly against all probabilities apparent at the time. This is occurring.

The more unsafe the world is felt to be, then the more important protection is, and the more threatening, expression. Repression becomes the order of the day. The species however will always react against repression, no matter what its source, and so will the individual. On the whole the species is beginning to change its psychological sense of selfhood. There are periods in history when this happened before, and a new kind of civilization resulted. The earliest Jewish traditions represent one such change. The beginning period of the Egyptian civilization another, the birth of Christ another, and the beginning of the scientific age.

The world, however, was seen as unsafe to one degree or another in each. Each era set up various methods meant to protect man against the environment itself, or against the gods. In terms of physical existence man’s consciousness has not progressed enough along the path it had chosen, so that it could afford to admit the oneness of inner and outer reality.