“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Then he realized that his body was sleeping. He wanted to “awaken” and record the experience, so he had the radio blare until [it] waked him. There is more, involving the doctor and the monkey. The monkey was not free, but on a leash —the psyche’s interpretation, in other terms, of material involving the class discussion about inoculations. The monkey was not free because it had been inoculated with diseased tissue, yet the doctor hoped to keep the disease in control, or leashed, through measured inoculations. Ruburt saw a real doctor and a real monkey because he wanted to bring home the point that living animals were then involved who were then diseased, and that real men conducted the experiments.

Then listen to me. Do not automatically comb his hair for him in the back, in the mornings. Have him try to do it himself. If he cannot, he should feel free to ask you to do so.

Encourage him to go into the grocery store with you. Do not think you are helping him when you take it for granted he does not want to. If he honestly does not feel up to it, then he is free to say so, and you shop alone. But aim for the normal situation, both of you, in your expectations and in your mind.

He has become scared. The norm has become nonachievement, physically speaking. In the meantime the body is improving. Coming up the stairs the day before yesterday, he proved this to himself. He is, as you are, modest in a way, reticent. He does not want to show weakness. The stairs seem public. All he needs to know, however, and he is nearly there, is that the body is not restrained by past beliefs. Three weeks will see a literally spectacular change, for he is holding himself back to some extent until he feels you are free to move.