“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The condition itself, then, and his attitude toward it, have complicated issues. There are a variety actually of methods that can help him—various ones at different times, according to his circumstances.

While these suggestions may appear on the surface quite different from others I have given, if you look closely you will see that they are another method of encouraging spontaneity, and methods most suited now to his circumstances. In a weekly period, for example (rather than a daily one), these suggestions if followed will show him his own rhythms and patterns, so that he may feel like going out impulsively because he wants to, after a bout of writing, rather than feel that he “should.”

Apropos of your joint discussion on Monday: it was advantageous. One point Ruburt missed, however. He knows when he spontaneously wants to go out, or to a joint, or whatever. When he tells himself that he must go out every day, then that feeling goes directly counter to his feelings that he may know quite well he wants to write and not go out. The symptoms then are intensified because of the conflict.

For Ruburt, spring and fall are periods when all of his energy rouses at a highly creative level, and insights are particularly valuable at such times. The period before an individual’s birth is enacted again symbolically, but in new ways, each year. The seeking toward birth is a spiritual stimuli that is then re-enacted, but in new creative ways: so that Ruburt in winter, particularly in late winter, is on the one hand working toward new births of energy and creativity; and on the other is aware of the very need for such new birth, that would be implied in a before-birth situation.

There is much more, generally speaking, and one day I hope to give you much material for its overall benefit. Since infancy for example Ruburt’s hormonal output has always increased in spring and autumn, and all of the important affairs of his life are initiated then. There are periods of quietude, flux and change then, in each individual’s life, that are to some extent connected with the point of emergence into space and time. They are simply various kinds of patterned behavior, swirls of interactions as the soul meets space and time.

The purposes were there. The methods were left open. You were correct in assuming that Ruburt would not let the situation go beyond a certain point. I said that the methods were left open, and at one time you contemplated for yourself the same kind of situation, but turned aside from it after a taste of what it meant, or could mean.

You have been deeply concerned in other lives also with the human condition, and worked in many areas. One of the reasons you chose not to have children was to devote yourselves to that end now. For your particular purposes you also needed to be free of many strong emotional attachments—not because such attachments are not good, but because for you and your purposes they would blur the issues.