“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(At about the same time Emir was mailed, Jane sent Richard Bach “a crazy poem” that she’d written a couple of days earlier. Sunday, Richard called us from either Nevada or California. He gave Jane the excellent news that wherever he went the Seth books were known, and that Jane truly was changing our society through her work. This sort of news always surprises us, I guess, because we must be more isolated than we know; also, the sales aren’t all that great, so I always wonder just what the person bases such statements on when making them. But Dick’s message was certainly a heartening one, and one I’d say that Jane could really use to good effect.

He is moving out of one house. He is no longer on dead center, wondering what kind of treatment he might receive at another house—and so he is moving at important psychological levels. He was willing to take a chance, therefore he was not quite as determined upon safety above all. He allowed the impulse to surface initially, and then he allowed himself to act upon it, in a sense “throwing caution to the wind.” That is, he was not going to have Emir cut in two, period, even if it meant, as he hoped it would not, that he must ship it around to many other places.

The impulse allowed Framework 2 to operate, pulling in new probabilities. They are not “old” probabilities. No probabilities are old. No matter how far into the past they may seem to go, they emerge freshly and newly at the point of activation. For Ruburt in a way it was an expression of daring, partially the result of your suggestions, and his growing understanding that he had become not too spontaneous, but too conservative. Our sessions also helped.

No one in his childhood, in his 20’s, or in your early relationship, ever warned him that he could become too conservative. It certainly did not seem that he was being overly cautious in any regard, and yet when his sexuality was perhaps most noticeable, he made sure he took up with a man, Walt, who could not take advantage of it—a very cautious step for all of its unconventional overtones.

So the affair with Eleanor is significant, particularly since the book was assured publication with Prentice. He has been concerned about Emir.

(9:49.) There are different periods when he will suddenly feel like walking without support, and will do so, and much more easily than before. His impulses will tell him when. In between, the healing process still continues, but the overall stage of development may not be such that will allow the kind of overall posture needed for walking without support.

The main issue is, again, maintaining the trust in the body’s processes, and in its intent to heal, and in its ability to do so. It is natural enough in your positions to become discouraged now and then, as Ruburt in particular does. When he feels that he is generally in such a mood for a day or so, he should definitely tell you about it. He is very seldom however in such a mood for any period, for each day now brings some definite feelings of release to his body.

It is only when a particular period of soreness bothers him (as now) that he falls prey, and even then he largely catches himself. The change in the point of power is also highly significant, for he is doing it now with a good sense of motion and imagery, and without any feelings of contradiction.

I told you that he was beginning to gain weight, and so he is. This does not mean he cannot gain more. The back area in particular is somewhat more noticeable, since the muscles are beginning to work more. The circulation is improved—veins and so forth show more—but he has begun to gain because even in the chair he moves his legs more, which has increased his appetite.

The body will gain naturally as he is able to handle more weight. Some additional arm exercise, for example, will also help, for the muscles simply then demand more food.

Beyond writing down his feelings, for a while at least let Ruburt make a list each day of the good things that happened, or the portion of the day he enjoyed. Have him see how many such things he can note, and this will automatically help him focus his attention in beneficial ways. It would not hurt to go over Ruburt’s notes once a week together.

Except for the obvious physical limitations, Ruburt is healthy, however—small boned—he should be for example wiry. And while he can indeed use more weight, your cultural idea of proper weight is somewhat exaggerated. So remember that also.

Dick Bach is correct: you are affecting your times far more than you may suppose—else how could you be so imitated, or how could there be so many instantly manufactured Seths? It seems that I spring like a genie out of each and every Ouija board. The quality of such material should show Ruburt by contrast the extent of his abilities, and he should not concern himself with any such matters, as far as worrying about them is concerned. They fall by the wayside because they do not have the strength to survive.

(“I have another question,” I told Seth before he could say goodnight. “It’s about my dream last Sunday morning, when I was climbing the church steeple that reached way above me into the sky. Only I couldn’t do it and came back down.”)