“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The use of drugs even offers a pseudo-scientific explanation for interior events. Ruburt deals with the interior world the way most people deal with the exterior one. People find that in Dialogues disconcerting. In Ruburt’s other books his critical prose frames interior events, but in Dialogues there is no such frame. And the language is that of poetry. The form alienates many people because they are afraid of leaving the structured language of prose behind.

Your portrait of Ruburt, for example, appealed to many people who did not appreciate your abstracts. Those who appreciated your abstracts did not appreciate the portrait. Poetry will sell if it is conventionally religious, or conventionally arty, or conventionally sentimental.

(11:42.) Now Ruburt has been concentrating upon the symptoms, imagining this or that, often not responding to the moment as it is, but to imagined future events and moments filled with threat or difficulty. Three hours of free writing time are not supposed to be three hours of worry. His state of anxiety must be lessened. The eye condition would disappear, and much more quickly, if he would think of other things, and follow the instructions I have given.

Ruburt’s head was the very earliest portion of the body affected in terms of sinus. The tightening of head muscles, congestion, tightening of the jaw—that area is finally trying to correct itself. Deep breathing, even only a few moments twice a day, will help.

What I said to you about your moment with the evening, my remarks about responding to the present moment—these all involve ways of dealing with basic attitudes in your individual and joint behavior. I have given Ruburt physical and mental suggestions that should relieve stress and produce motion and creativity.

Ruburt is used to dealing with subjective events. He examines them. For him it is important, more than for many others, that he choose events with some discretion. When his mental event is, say, a book, he becomes engrossed in it, and this is positive. When he becomes overly concerned with his symptoms, however, the same event occurs, the same process, but with negative results.

I want to add a note about dream programming, however, very brief: have Ruburt tell himself that healing can be accelerated as he sleeps, and “that help and inspiration can appear at all levels of his experience.”