“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

They were also meant to show appreciation for your work, jointly, when it seemed you needed it, and therefore to revive both of your spirits. The same applies to your guests, and particularly to the two young boys from the Sunday school, hopefully showing Ruburt that all conventional churchgoers were not closed-minded, but were also seeking out new knowledge.

These were interruptions, and because of your attitudes you thought of them as troublesome interruptions: surely you would have sailed through your work otherwise, or performed chores that you wanted to accomplish; and so because you still do not really understand the effectiveness of Framework 2, those visits added to your sense of concern and hassles with time. Framework 2 knows of all of your purposes, as I have mentioned. The visitors took Ruburt’s mind off of his condition, provided new stimulus, provided reassurance, and allowed his body to continue its improvements.

Neither of you really, however, took full advantage of the reassurances those visits were intended to give each of you. You have a right to refuse guests, of course, and yet if you learn to work with Framework 2 with greater faith you will find that other issues are usually involved than those immediately apparent.

You might make a small sign: “Beloved stranger: we are working. Please do not disturb us.” You could add to that “Please write a note,” and buy yourselves one of those contraptions for your door. (A mailbox?) Or you might decide yourselves upon some hour of the day or evening when such a guest would be least bothersome. You could decide never to see a guest during the day, for example, and inform such people to come back at such and such a time.

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.

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.

Give us a moment.... You are both apt to have rather absolute ideas at times. These sessions now are helpful. There is no reason, however, why in the future you cannot freely take a month off from sessions in order to quicken your work on “Unknown”. That would not mean, for example, that Ruburt was not using his abilities. As far as impulses are concerned, most likely Ruburt could have three or four excellent sessions a week at certain periods in your lives, and there would be periods of vacation also. Often, however, you both have a tendency there to think in black-and-white terms.

It is advantageous from many standpoints to alter your hours, and some alterations do have the advantage of automatically providing solitude. You both seem to like regular hours and habits, however, so any such alterations, to be effective in a large manner, would have to be worked out so that you had a definite framework to rely upon.

I merely want to mention various possibilities that can offer advantages. Ruburt’s point of power is progressing well. You own attitude could hardly be better, as far as Ruburt is concerned, since we are not looking for saintly behavior (amused). Some definite decisions about guests, however, will relieve your minds, and allow you to work more freely. Remind yourself, again, of “Unknown’s” completed form, and if you do so its pattern will transpose itself upon your thoughts as you work, so that you will be tuning into its model in that respect.