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Comments. This may sound very simple, but perhaps at times you forget: people show their main characteristics very early in life. They make multitudinous minute decisions at a much earlier age than is believed, as their own natures seek expression, and as those natures interact with the mental, emotional, and physical environment of the times in which they were born.

For a while your beliefs, ideas, and artistic ability merged at one level. You moved out of that level. Millions of people consider that the ordinary, accepted mode of existence. The story lines that went with those cartoons amused the people. You did your best to illustrate those stories. You could have stayed in the field. But even from the beginning you knew it was a transitory part of your development.

Many novelists, say, of some considerable ability in writing, flesh out those same stories with characters only a bit more mature, and are considered quite serious artists. But you did have a fling at meeting your times directly, and of reaping those rewards, personally, socially, and financially. Your parents were pleased. That was an acceptable way of using your abilities, but your adolescent mentality was the usual adult mentality, and so you grew out of the framework.

This was not one decision, but involved multitudinous small issues in your lives from childhood on, and represents aspects of your personalities that you must recognize and honor. When I say honor, I mean that it is futile to wish your natures were other than they are.

You have to be fairly intellectual to read Ruburt’s books. You think my books require much effort, and people often say so—yet you get letters from people who are nearly illiterate. This is nothing against Ruburt’s books, for they are excellent—but people become frightened sometimes because they do not want to compare themselves to Ruburt. They want to think that I spring automatically into your lives, as Superman. They did not question Superman. Only a simple change of clothing was required for our hero, Mr. Kent. They want to endow me with an authority that will make up for the authority they are trying to be free of. They do not want Ruburt’s inquiring mind to intrude.

At the same time I work with a level of Ruburt’s personality that is his, that to some extent uses his knowledge of the world and its people, but I am far freer in my overall understanding and comprehension of people. I bear no human rancor, you see (with a smile), as Ruburt to some extent must.

Now: I have said this before, but it is of the utmost importance. Part of your stomach difficulty, and part of Ruburt’s troubles, result from poor habits.

You imagine what might happen to future books. You do not suitably live in the present. This does not mean you need wear blinders—but when you are not suitably reacting to the validity of the present and immediate sense data, then to some extent you are putting on blinders of a different kind.

(Amused:) I do not want to alarm you. But your individual and joint condemnations of your fellows hides a deep love for them, and it would help considerably if you understood this. Do not be blind to the good intents of your fellows. You judge them often by the difference between their intent and their performance. Do not make the mistake of becoming self-righteous.

Practically speaking now, all of my suggestions should be followed, given in the last sessions, and they should be read again by each of you. The loving encouragement, again, is highly important, for here you must change habits, both of you, of conditioning. I do not think you believe me yet, but I must repeat: (After a long pause:) I am searching for a new way to explain this....

Any improvements Ruburt shows are considered insignificant, unimportant—or worse, deceptive. They are not trusted. They become lost. It is not that they are considered unimportant so much as they are considered to be not trustworthy. You are so afraid to trust them, either of you. Not only are they not taken advantage of then, but when they do not continue this is taken as proof that they are deceptive.

(2. How will “Unknown” Reality do? Seth’s material this evening was making me wonder if my notes were going to be detrimental in that work. But I was also simply curious about whether “Unknown” Reality was going to do as well as the other Seth books.

That adds to anxiety, and the anxiety helps keep the position the same, and brings about a hopeless feeling in which nothing but an instant, complete healing would be trusted.

The trouble with the left eye has to do with changes in the left leg and knee. The towels will help. The entire ear-sinus area is changing. Congested passageways are opening. The eyes felt the change of pressure and congestion. This caused, the initial eye difficulties, and unequal working of the eye muscles. Short periods of deep breathing will help, but mostly it is the confidence in his own body that is important. Otherwise you have the anxiety of believing that any symptoms have the worst possible connotations, and that the body does not know what it is doing.

I expect you to write your own book, and I believe you are too tenacious not to. You will think “I will say my piece and it will serve them right.” But you have been practicing to write it for some time now. Do you have other questions?