“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(11:40.) Now give us a moment. A good one.... This is not dictation.

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.

Now: distorted as it is, and it is distorted, the science of mind book, coming from outside of himself, in those terms, is valuable, for it reminded him of his own power. He was afraid that despite his efforts he could not get better. Now you also have shared that belief strongly enough in any case so that your joint beliefs merged. His symptoms represent for him the one point of vacuum, comparatively speaking, where the acceleration that has otherwise occurred has not as yet clearly penetrated; and jointly they represent the area in which your combined beliefs have not caught up to your knowledge.

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.