“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

To one extent or another in your society you are taught not to trust yourself. There are various schools and religions that try, in distorted terms, to express the self’s validity, but the distortions have smothered the basic validity of the teachings.

Ruburt, in those terms, started from scratch as a member of your society who had finally thrown aside, as you had, the current framework of belief. For some time he was simply between belief systems, discarding some entirely, accepting portions of others; but he was mainly a pioneer, and this while carrying largely unknowingly and invisibly the one basic belief of society that you cannot trust the self.

There were frameworks that could have offered help, but he saw that they were not intrinsically valid and so did not depend upon them. There are spiritualistic frameworks. Give us a moment.... He was afraid of using his own power completely for that reason; and then he became afraid that it would not work if he did.

You form your private and joint realities. For various reasons you have not really focused on solving the problem, but you have focused upon the problem, and there is a vast difference. Lately the body has again made attempts to cure itself, as left alone all bodies will. I will see to it that you have material to follow, but a change of attitude will be necessary. You must each believe—Ruburt more than you, obviously—that a complete cure is possible. But think in terms of his expressing various gradations of freedom, rather than of freedom as an absolute.

On the most mundane level, but highly important, a walk each day, if only around the house, and suggestions as given morning and evening.

The workings of consciousness, however, may seem mysterious to you both, but the decision to continue the book means that Ruburt is ready to accept the power of his being, this will indeed materialize with his health. The health is there, and neither of you quite understand the nature of his and your achievement, despite your backgrounds privately and in relationship with your culture. There have been tragedies that did not occur in your life and his because of your understanding.

I bid you a fond good evening—but I want each of you to sense your own power, and the weakness of the beliefs behind the symptoms. Trust yourselves.

Another note: if you truly hold in your minds the sense of your combined powers for but a few moments a day, you can work miracles. This is the one area in which separately or together you have not used those abilities. Your own work is bound up with it here also. It represents the invisible area, where Ruburt’s symptoms are visible. You have made ground there.