“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Each such incident is like, now, a small morality play, with a lesson to be learned, and therefore each such incident is a step ahead in terms of progress and understanding. Almost immediately after your chair suggestion, and with the work you are both doing, Ruburt’s mind and body began to respond. Mentally he began to think of doing things that previously he had simply put aside. The definite improvements are therefore the result of Ruburt’s determination, and your support, but also of the body’s resiliency when it is allowed to follow its natural impulses.

He takes new interest in what food is in your cupboard or refrigerator. The interest propels him to look. Today through such activities he found himself, if in a simple fashion, taking a few steps without his table to get where he wanted to go. I am going into this material because it shows how desire works in any area. His thoughts were on what he wanted to do, though he very definitely had to consider the means, the getting about.

Now many beliefs that are unfortunate, in your terms, are worked out through creativity at other levels, so that dreams, intuitions, and mental processes work together with bodily expression toward a resolution. Some of Ruburt’s exaggerated fears, for example, become minimized automatically as he realizes that he can do some activities that he had given up.

The fears are not hidden in the past, but are obvious in each day, remaining buried only when you choose not to challenge them. Your work with the pendulum brought them to notice. The feedback allowed the subconscious to question the data it had been given in the past. The species is much more plastic in its nature than you imagine. Its “instincts” are not as set as with the animals. Children have to be taught, because the abilities of consciousness in human terms cannot be held to such dictates.

You had a period of acceptance under your belt, in comics, that you left. Ruburt did not. (An important point to remember.) He was determined to go his own way. His being demanded expression through the use of its abilities, and despite his need to be accepted by others he began to exaggerate the threat of their disapproval into scorn. When he began to sell his work, he felt to some degree, now, dependent upon the acceptance of the others in the world—for if they did not accept him at all they would not buy his books. Your own feelings about the world did not help in that regard.

(11:07.) His creative abilities will see to it that Seven is finished. He enjoys doing it, for that matter. Thoughts of work, however, do not work. You are not to compare yourselves with people who have jobs, or to say “They put in so many hours”—for you set up comparisons that do not apply, and that hamper your creativity.

You might feel like applying yourself to “Unknown” Reality, and you might feel like writing steadily for many hours. Well and good. I am aware of your difficulties with time, practically, and yet freeing yourself of the ideas of work as you have begun to do lately with “Unknown” frees your creativity, and you concentrate better and more clearly. This applies in double fashion to Ruburt.

The increased activity and the release of impulses with these sessions, and your pendulum work, are once again arousing Ruburt’s body and mind, and your own, so that you have an excellent chance now for Ruburt to recover. Do not let issues go underground. There are improvements, and considerable ones. You want more. Remember what I said about muscular activity, so that when Ruburt does have a sore day, say, you do not become discouraged.