“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

What of your letters and visitors lately? For one thing, the number of excellent, well-meaning letters, and the birthday cards (and telegrams) were meant to show Ruburt that he was regarded with affection and honor and not held up in scorn.

The young man (from Maryland) with his gift, represented his generation, in a way, and so in bringing his gift he brought it symbolically for others. The longer visit, with the cheesecake woman, was meant to give you a closer look at the kind of person who gives lectures about us, and so forth—so she was symbolic of others. The young girl was helped by her visit here, and symbolizes many others who are helped by the books alone.

The neck area mentioned is also largely responsible for the arm angles and all of that is now beginning vital release. This is an overall body process, then, and you are both handling it now very well. It is quite natural that Ruburt becomes irritable at times. He should not pretend otherwise, for such irritability is short-lived, if expressed, and usually directly related to a particular difficulty in manipulation, or whatever.

Try to respond more clearly, each of you, to the moment, for you have a tendency otherwise not to see given events as clearly as you might otherwise. It should be obvious that comparatively speaking Ruburt feels quite well sometimes. He will be chatting, or yelling at his painting, or whatever. He is quite open often, say, to making love, as you know now, but earlier you colored your reaction to him often through the pessimistic cast that both of you had allowed to slip over your perceptions.

He felt quite maligned earlier tonight, when you did not realize that he was not grunting with exertion as he walked to the bathroom several times today. You did not realize that. It was of course apparent to him, but this is an example of the way in which unthinking habits of reaction can inhibit your perception.

Now: Ruburt himself hit upon the “heroic impulses”—and what he meant was this: that ideally speaking the individual’s impulses were inner directional signals that, followed, would automatically lead to the greatest fulfillment and development.

He thought of that term before our Framework 1 and 2 material, and his idea was that the impulses came from a part of the self that automatically knew the entire picture of the self’s environment and potentials. He was quite correct, for those impulses arise from the larger self’s immersion in Framework 2, and those impulses led Ruburt to his intuitive inspirations, experiences of psychic events, and to the books. When he becomes overly concerned about writing as work, or with psychic development as something he should do, then he tangles those impulses, and becomes worried that he will not be suitably inspired again.

To some extent he feels abandoned at such times. Oversoul Seven 2 began from inspiration, and whenever he turns back to the manuscript he is inspired again. He enjoys the book, yet it has become entangled with his ideas of work and publishing schedules.

He wants to be inspired. On the other hand he thinks “What if I am inspired with new material when I still have Seven to finish, and when besides I should be helping Rob with “Unknown”?

The reasons behind such behavior are given in the sessions on work. He has been inspired, but to paint, because his impulses are quite correct; the painting of flowers leads him to contemplate beauty for beauty’s sake, frees his mind, and also allows for certain kinds of muscular motions that are now beneficial.

(10:29.) The idea is for him to play with Seven, to let his mind freely play with ideas, and to follow his impulses. He paints as he writes, furiously involved, in bursts. The psychic experiences, intuitional developments, and dream activity—these refresh him and lead precisely to the kind of inspiration he wants. So the library idea that you had is an excellent one, but it should be done playfully.

I gave the three-hour recommendation because at the time he was worried that he could not correlate the new physical impulses with his other activities. He has done very well there, however.

Everything that I have said should further help Ruburt, so that he feels more at ease. Remember the use of the playful creative abilities, because again they can lead you to further ideas that would trigger unanticipated positive results in Ruburt’s condition, as per your chair idea, the table in the kitchen, and so forth.