“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Particular suggestions given in a group of closely allied sessions for him are geared to his condition at that time, and to the circumstances. While the reasons and beliefs as discussed in such sessions will still be valid, the suggestions that I give will be geared toward their application in given circumstances.

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.

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.

He has been telling himself that he must go out in the face of some other tendencies, then, that ordinarily, in a good state of flexibility, would be relatively unnoticed. That is not a particularly important point, but given here simply to give you an idea of other issues that operate, having to do with a personality’s natural leanings toward certain seasonal conditions.

Ruburt wanted to have a strong emotional nature in order to relate with other people, and yet also wanted to control and focus that nature so that it would also be directed toward his purpose. The symptoms also served that end. At the same time they allowed him to relate to those who were ill and unhappy in a way that he might not, he felt, have otherwise allowed.