“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

He has been searching for a key of that nature, something about which he could rally his forces. The moment came insignificantly enough—as Friday evening passed with your company on the porch (the Gallaghers, the Blumenthals.

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.

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.

The body can find no firm stance in such a situation, for the artificial conditions blot out the natural realities of any given day. It is the duty and challenge of the conscious mind to ascertain cultural reality—but cultural reality cannot supersede natural reality. Or you run into difficulty.

In the past in your moments of expansiveness, you did two things. You tried to give expression to a natural desire to meet other people who were seriously involved with matters that concern the soul, the body, and the political and cultural life of man—for those are your concerns also.

The shoddy, superficial, popular novelist is acclaimed. The original creator is scoffed at. Ruburt could not stand ridicule, and so took a proud retreat. He now understands that retreat denies the responsiveness natural to the body, mind, and spirit.

Unexpected visitors are something different entirely. For they require no conscious decisions on your part ahead of time. I am not saying that you should wait at all until Ruburt walks perfectly normally. The situation of attracting the people that you want, will come quite naturally as Ruburt feels more and more competent.

I also want to give you time jointly to explore how deeply you want such contacts—if you want them at all. Much of this, however, and further understanding, will follow quite naturally. In the past you gave yourselves no leeway.

(11:18.) Give us a moment.... Rest your hand.... You have made no attempt to form bridges out to others. You did not believe it worthwhile. To the contrary, you stressed your differences always. Again, the return to the natural world reinforces feelings of creature brotherhood, and serves to connect you with your kind, even while you admit the vast differences in beliefs, customs, religions and so forth.

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.

I am more concerned that the ideas of responsiveness be followed now, and that you apply your feelings of creativity to the situation. When Ruburt does not feel ashamed to meet guests, it will seem to him that this is because he is so physically improved. Actually the improvements follow and are the physical materialization of his responsiveness to himself, and to the natural world.