“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now: this is important to yourselves, but to others also. Your suggestions about a safe universe are finally taking effect. As mentioned, however, the idea of an unsafe universe automatically initiates a certain kind of thinking. The particular versions of such thinking will be highly individualistic. In certain areas, however, invisible beliefs may operate for some time because they are accepted as reality within the framework. For these there seems to be no reference for comparison.

They can often be recognized as attitudes, however, before they are seen objectively as beliefs. In an unsafe universe as given protection is necessary, and certain attitudes are accepted, coloring many areas of life, spreading out to assure that protection.

(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 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.

Man wanted to separate himself from nature, but in so doing lost the animal’s great trust in it. At the same time he forged a new kind of consciousness. That, combined with nature’s knowledge of itself, will lead to the new dimensions of experience necessary. In your private lives you see many of the results of the unsafe universe. In the mass world you see far more.

Ruburt’s condition has vacillated through the years, yet always contained within it the great thrusts toward health, and the improvements. These did not become official, meaning they did not triumph. Neither did their evidence disappear. The habit patterns, the attitudes, connected with the unsafe universe persisted, even as Ruburt became aware of the concept. Individually, however, in those terms he is well ahead of the species’ development.