“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Ruburt’s students upset him considerably yesterday. They represented the behavior of even the well-meaning people of your society, given an overall set of mass beliefs. In some areas they do very well. Overall, however, you are everywhere surrounded by those beliefs, and the behavior of the two girls should serve as an object lesson.

Ruburt was quite instantly aware of his own reaction, and the several hours it took him to regain some sense of confidence. He gives himself however the same kind of suggestion often, when perhaps it is not so obvious, and you also act in the same manner. Such behavior is the result of ingrained learning, and also of fear patterns that are the result of medical beliefs in particular.

Many of the sensations or stages that are definitely considered negative at such times, and certainly appear so in your experience, are the result of misunderstandings because of ingrained beliefs about body behavior, or the result of your lack of confidence. When that continues, the improvements, which are often considerable, appear invisible—or, again, you do not trust them. Further anxiety results.

However, it is the belief that reincarnations are past that largely closes the door. Those futures in your terms so affect the present, however, that vast confusion would result with any mass knowledge. Yet many inventions occur in a strange fashion, as men do at times travel into their own futures and bring back the memory of, say, gadgets existing there, which then in this life they “invent.”