“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Our daily pendulum work continues, and continues to get good results. Each day brings something new. Jane has been extremely sore in her arms, shoulders, rib cage, and so forth today, yet she was able to stand taller, by leaning against the bathroom door frame, than I’d seen her do in a very long time. It’s part of the rhythmic healing process going on in her body, as Seth described it recently, moving through different areas successively, followed each time by new releases. Jane said her knees felt very light and considerably looser.

The body itself is responding beautifully. Ruburt went in a very short period of days from doing relatively little physically to giving the legs rather constant stimulation with the chair. The leg ligaments have released and loosened rather considerably even since our last session. The ankles and feet are beginning to respond to the new requirements, and the knee joints themselves, now, are increasing their lubrication, and gently beginning new motion.

(9:30.) The gradations will be less apparent before too long, and Ruburt will be able to do more and more without such obvious changes in the body—that is, they will occur, but in this period, very important ligaments have been released, and they are bound to be felt.

Now obviously, if you cut down distractions, or all experiences, there would be little left to enjoy or examine. You both tried to find a framework in which you could have two lives at once in that regard—and putting those two together is taking some doing.

Since you set yourselves such a course, then you obviously have a certain responsibility to both lives. They are your creations, after all. Almost all of Ruburt’s difficulty with time, and your own, spring from this basic quandary. For most people do not try that hard to preserve the living moment, or to understand it, while they are still involved with time’s physical package. Hence, to some extent your difficulties with “Unknown”—that is, with the notes—for you are trying to fit one dimension into another. A bold venture, and one that fits in quite will with your intents jointly to understand and preserve fleeting reality, and one that conflicts with your attempts to do this in the context of one physical time that passes.

(9:50.) Most artists, painters now, are lost, so to speak, in the moment or moments of the painting’s creation. The painting becomes the creation, and also it is the passing time of reality. Most artist, painters, do not feel the need, then, to “later” examine the moments of creativity themselves, nor to form still another subjective platform from which to examine the creative process.

You do, however. Ruburt does also in his writing, for he then becomes another self who watches the creative self. So both of you form subjective extensions that you must one way or another put together in physical time. (With gentle humor:) My books represent vast creativity, and yet you perform your own additional subjective leaps, forming subjective platforms that then deal with the circumstances of the books.

I have a few suggestions for both of you. I am not speaking of schedules. You have a responsibility to time and to timelessness. I would like you to make a list of what you want to do in a day—that is, in a 24-hour period, and to think of that period, now, as a gift of time, to be used as you desire.

Do not think of breaking it up into segments, but rather as the rhythmic flow of desired activities. You will want to paint, to prepare “Unknown.” Now painting is in one regard timeless, though it will flow into time. “Unknown” is timeless, yet it will flow into time. Yard work is not timeless. It can be a joyful exercise of the body, the natural life being reinforced, and it can also provide feelings of timelessness, so that in that regard your love of timelessness can be combined with your love of the moment.

I want you each to make a list, then, of what you want to do in a day. You can quite properly decide, if you want, how many hours you want to devote to given activities, but do not think of schedules, but instead of the flow of timeless energy into time. When you have decided, and see where your prerogatives lie, then stick to them.

You determine the time you want to spend with “Unknown”—time you want to spend, say, in the yard. For now the pendulum sessions are involved. You do not need to worry about hurting your friends or neighbors, who will understand quite well. You have only to firmly state your position, and they will follow, expecting this of you.

Think of the entire 24-hour period, however. If the two of you stick together, there will be no problem, and particularly if you view this not as a schedule but as a way in which you want to mix time and timelessness, and merge the “two lives” that each of you try to live in the one life. Distractions may occur, but you can deal with them if your attitudes are clear, and if you see that overall you are doing what you want. Then any distractions will not be that important.