“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Ruburt’s work with the contents of the mind, for example, is barely started, and I will include his exercises in my book (amused)—while giving him full credit, of course. Such expansion reacquaints the known self with the great energy that supports it, therefore bringing an individual to a point of understanding in which the concept of a safe universe makes sense. The idea of a personal universe will be emphasized.

We are doing certain kinds of work that can be done by no others, as others are doing work we cannot do—but rest assured that you are adding your voices to those of history, making your contributions. So is the man who wrote the book (Powers of Mind)—Adam Smith—interpreting in the only way he could for others who will later be led to read other books—that is, he helps awaken hunger.

It seems to Ruburt that he has not been working on his book, but of course he has—Politics and other books as well.

The soreness in his legs sometimes at night should be easily understood, for work can be done then when he is not on his feet. There are numberless small tendons being released, joints and nerves being reactivated. His arms have been sore at night but he did not worry, and the results are easily showing. As he said many times, he does not walk on his arms. He is balancing on his legs and feet, however. Key parts have been released in the knees, feet and ankles, but again these improvements trigger other improvements, while they remain operationally invisible for a while so that balance is maintained.

Your ideas about the psyche are at the basis of your civilization. If you cannot trust the self, then you will see social and civic organizations primarily as ways of directing the self in certain areas, prohibiting its full power. Any work, even inconsequential work, will be seen as beneficial, to “take up the self’s time.” Your governments are set up because you do not trust the self. This does not mean that governments in the future cannot exist for the fulfillment of the self and the society.

Ruburt may waken in the night, feeling fairly alert, physically rested, yet his programming says that you should sleep. It seems morally wrong—not so much to work at night as to sleep till noon (as Jane did today; although she hadn’t worked last night). If natural rhythms were followed the greatest amounts of physical work would be produced to the greatest benefit for society at large. Even biological testing shows a false picture, for to a far greater degree than realized your biological activity follows your beliefs.

You can quicken your own psychic experiences if you stop thinking of impediments, physical or otherwise, that seem to distract you, for example, during a nap. Ruburt should get up when he feels like it, and whether or not he feels like working.

You cannot consistently ignore your own rhythms and expect your best performance. You need light for painting—but you would find the nighttime good for psychic experience, and for writing. Even more than Ruburt, however, you are programmed otherwise. Society would be restructured if the self were trusted, yet more work would be produced.