“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Carol left the physical class (early), but still participated at that other level of reality in the entire proceeding. Pat (Arnold), who has not attended lately, psychically is present. In that dimension therefore Ruburt was aware of both presences. He was perceiving the greater dimensions of the physical class event. In those terms Pat, who did not attend the physical class, attended a probable one; and Carol, who was not present for the end of the official class, was a participant in the probable one.

Now: the student, Larry Carp, does have extraordinary energy, erratically and explosively used. He does not know how to use it as yet, so it appears not as a steady but as a rambunctious and sometimes distracting quality. He has not learned how to ride it, for example. Ruburt recognizes this. Ruburt was then using Larry’s, knowing that to some degree it would pierce both levels, and he hoped to compare what Larry said in each reality.

Many of the students are embarrassed by Larry’s behavior, and his piercing laugh, but Ruburt recognizes the energy involved. Several things were operating. Ruburt was out-of-body, as he knows, and in that state he was perceiving the greater dimensions of the class event, and trying to correlate this with ordinary class perception. You were also out-of-body, but do not recall the situation.

As Ruburt looked out the window he was using all of his abilities, but he could not physically keep both events going at one time, or rather his awareness could not contain all of the perceptive information.

Part of the landscape was blacked out. There the full light of consciousness did not shine. He alerted himself through the use of the hallucinatory radio, that made him question why the lights were off. Here he reverted however to ordinary conscious behavior, thinking, “There must be a storm,” and that a weather report would tell him its course.

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.

Ruburt’s own late insights are correct. He became frightened that even though he changed beliefs and intentions, that he had gone too far, so that the body could not right itself—that despite desires for freedom, the legs simply could not straighten.

The body can indeed right itself. The strength and ability is there. That knowledge is all, now, that he needs.

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.

And this is important. Again, to some degree, you are each hypnotized by effects. It is highly important that Ruburt realize that his body can perform naturally. It will not automatically perform with utter ease. Time is involved. In that framework however his legs will now support his weight. The muscles can relax and lengthen. He can get up and down far easier physically. This is now possible—but he has not believed it, and to a lesser extent you have not.

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.