“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Ruburt directed his will in certain areas. Your will is your intent. All of the power of your being is mobilized by your will, and your will makes its deductions according to your beliefs about reality. Each of you use your will in your own way. Each of you has your own way of dealing with challenges. Ruburt used his will to solve one challenge: he was determined to find the kind of mate that would best suit him, and his own unique characteristics. That intent was in his mind.

When that challenge was met he used his will and mobilized all of his power to fulfill his abilities, and to bring about conditions in which he hoped Joseph could also fulfill his. The will, again, operates according to the personality’s beliefs about reality, so its desires are sometimes tempered as those beliefs change. Ruburt always concentrated in his own way upon one challenge at a time, boring in, so to speak, and ignoring anything else that might distract him.

He wanted to write, to use his creative and psychic abilities to the fullest, and so he cut down all distractions. His literal mind led him on the one hand to a rich diet of creativity and psychic experience, and to a situation in which he and Joseph could finally be financially free and not in that way threatened.

To his way of thinking he cut out all excess baggage, so he had a spare diet, physically speaking. Because the body has its own sense there were always periods when it rebelled, when physical improvements showed. But the power of Ruburt’s will was not directed in those terms. The power of his will said “We are not ready yet. We are still working on one challenge,” so it seemed, finally, that he was powerless or helpless to alter the rigidity of his body.

Yet when he improved he felt that he did not want those “new distractions,” and so the power of his will still kept the body down. The power of his will is amazingly strong. He is not one to work in many areas at once. Each person lives by their intent, which brings about the force of their being. In all of this probabilities are involved, so in all points of the past he touched points of probable healings. No one can be healed against their will. There is no such coercion.

Ruburt does not like the physical results of his plan on the one hand. On the other hand it was part of his method, a way of intensifying focus, increasing perception in a small area while also insuring safety, so that inner excursions would be balanced by a constant worrisome body that would urge him to return.

Until today he did not realize that the intent of his will was purposefully directed to keep the body down. In larger terms, you cannot say that this was a good or a bad method. In your terms it seems like a poor one.

Creativity would have to be involved. You were also intrigued, determined to travel into the nature of reality, and at least glimpse a vague picture of what it could be. For all of your talk you envied Ruburt his concentration. In one probability you did the same thing yourself. In this one you provided yourself with a background that included sports and the love of the body, knowing it would sustain you.

One of the beliefs then was a strong joint one that you had to protect your energy at all costs, and block out any worldly distractions. Ruburt with his practical mind interpreted this more literally than you, and physical restriction was a part of his natural early environment, as it was not in yours. You were half scandalized, yet half approving, for some time. In the physical area in the meantime, Ruburt lost the connection between will and body. This was a natural result of his method.

There are reasons why he “relapsed,” but the point of power is in the present, and this material and its understanding by Ruburt is more important than “past” causes. I have said this it seems literally thousands of times, but there must not be a concentration upon the problem. Instead there have been a series of challenges that Ruburt has met through using the power of his will, and this is simply the next one to be conquered.