“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Long pause at 9:41.) Your religions have been largely patterned from such self-disapproving bases. The thrust of your civilizations has been concerned with manipulating nature. Your latest snowstorm is an excellent example. Not only of nature’s power and its effects upon civilization, but it also provides you with a very small hint of the other side of the picture, for man despite himself has not lost entirely that identification with the elements. People still feel a part of nature’s power. Storms often, oddly enough it seems, bring out a feeling of adventuresomeness and neighborliness, because people are united—not against nature, as they may think, but by it. The good skier feels a part of the snowy hill, yet most skiers feel that the hill must be conquered. When you take a walk, you usually think of walking through nature, not realizing that you are a part of the scene through which you walk. The loss of a real, sensed, appreciated identification with nature has been largely responsible, however, for man’s attitude that self-disapproval is somehow a virtue.

Ruburt’s entire body has stretched noticeably in the last week and a half, the legs in particular. He has implemented that stretching so that he is indeed taller walking. The lower back is becoming more elastic, and that allows for a greater loosening of the knees. Those back muscles are strong and vigorous, but they were tightened in order to hold this lowered pose (with gestures).

The yawning is excellent, and also helps the entire head-neck area. Ruburt does not like to take his new teeth out. Taking them out at night, however, would give the jaws greater leeway for relaxation.