“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Suggestions such as I have given you are meaningless if any improvement is faced by an attitude that says “Such a minute improvement is meaningless,” or “This has happened before, and gone nowhere”—and so I wanted those attitudes completely routed out. I also would greatly like the two of you to remember your own considerable natural creativity, innovative ideas, and usual independence of thought (all amused)—those are your assets. They should be applied with the idea of helping Ruburt to improve.

The freedom that the house and the money represent is extremely important to both of you. Ruburt did not put himself in poor physical condition to get those things. His physical symptoms were the result of methods or habits of dealing with himself and the world, and of attitudes that both of you shared for the greater part of your lives.

Since you both held those attitudes and saw those beliefs everywhere reinforced, naturally enough in your experience, then in the overall it would be most miraculously unusual if one of you did not physically retreat. Your nature allowed you to try. You found it intolerable, and recovered. Because of Ruburt’s other characteristics personally, he tried it on for size, and found it fit with considerable chafing. But overall that way of life, to some extent has suited you both.

You wondered in the secret depths of your mind how well-suited Ruburt was for the solitude you believed necessary to produce good work. You intend, both of you, having the cat fixed, so he will not be frustrated inside. Ruburt fixed himself, and fixed it so he could not go outside—because, according to your joint overall attitudes, you believed you must isolate yourselves against the world.

You can be quite happily surprised, not only by your changes of attitude, but by the quickness with which such suggestions are used and utilized.

Ruburt’s responsiveness will show physically. When he feels he can physically handle guests with some finesse, if not with perfectly normal behavior, you will know that his mental and emotional patterns have changed. You will also know that your emotional and mental attitudes in that regard have changed.

(“Well, sending out suggestions about selling books implies a change of attitude to some extent—”)

If you continue to understand your own attitudes, the entire problem of who to see or not to see will be taken care of easily and naturally. Then—underlined three times—you will find it easy also, amazingly easy, to find some format for seeing others—I imagine small groups, sometimes of professionals, at comfortable periods of time throughout a year. That will also follow naturally.

(Amused.) Do not be so concerned, either, about so-called important people. Many of the unimportant youngsters who write you will be important people in the future. When you change your beliefs and attitudes so that you no longer expect so-called important people to ignore you, they will not. I do not share your concern about important people to begin with.