“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

It is natural and healthy to yearn for a comfortable body if you are in health difficulties. The body, however, is not an assumed facade, but the physical materialization in your world of your inner being. All of nature is responsive, pliant, changing, each part connected with each other part. It is quite natural, then, that during a lifetime you experience various assorted periods of temporary illness.

In the world as you know it, it is quite natural to feel sad, or even despondent at times. These are portions of the emotional reality that are native to your kind. These are not negative states on their own, any more than twilight is less natural than dawn. They are not even unpleasant states on their own. It is natural, then, to feel depressed at times. No one constant emotional state is meant to prevail. There are gradations and nuances of feeling and sensation that sweep through your own experience, the result of quite natural variations. Your overall beliefs, however, can be so exaggerated in a negative manner that finally some people accept as valid the most negative picture of the world.

The gentleman who wrote you from Canada (Vincent Vycinas)—the writer—is living out his cultural agony. (The name of VV’s book is Our Cultural Agony.) In his case the drugs are being used so that they can be blamed for a malaise that is spiritual. They give our friend the excuse physically for a retreat from the world. He feels that he has lost his power, because he does not believe that the individual, with all his capacities, really has any effective power in the cultural world.

I said that the body’s resiliency is far more important than any other consideration. You live in a cultural world. I cannot make decisions for you, based upon your social mores. Ruburt can save the majority of his teeth. Now in certain terms that would be considerable—that is, an achievement. In certain times people lost their teeth, when they did, as Ruburt has, and in a natural fashion. They simply dropped out of your head. The unlucky ones had to have them pulled, by the most torturous of processes. Lucky ones like Ruburt went on chomping merrily with the teeth that were kept, and with the gums between that became quite adequate for the necessary procedures.

All of the physical apparatus necessary for normal walking is being activated. Problems that existed in the past will not be encountered in the future to anything like the same degree when Ruburt begins his encounter with the world again—for his and your feelings and beliefs have changed enough.

Now: your visitor (Andrija Puharich) is a good man—a scientist and a child; an actor of a sort, searching for wonders. The consciousness of the world is changing. Various people know it and participate in different ways. (Uri) Geller is important, because your civilization believes so in the integrity of physical matter. It confounds and outrages the conventional to see objects behave in a way they have been taught to believe is impossible.

This had much to do with the way you faced the world. It was not so much that Ruburt could not make it to a bar, or in the store. He obviously could not walk well. He obviously had difficulties, but you were both ashamed of those difficulties, so that he was ashamed to go into the bar or the supermarket, regardless, and to some extent this still applies.