“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Largely, he has stopped projecting negatively into the future. There are a few lapses, but overall he is changing that habit—and the point of power has helped him considerably there. He is discussing his feelings openly with you. That, plus your pendulum work, prevents fears from going underground again. He is quite importantly beginning to change the viewpoint from which he previously viewed his reality. There is a line in the point of power material to that regard.

He has not as yet changed his viewpoint to that of a normally flexible person, but it is vastly improved from the one he had only a short while ago. It is true that he is quite aware of his bodily conditions, and yet overall he is not concentrating upon them, or regarding them negatively. The new viewpoint, with its new attractions—helping with work, helping with house chores—these automatically take his mind elsewhere, and act as further stimuli. And remember, they are the result of loving creative inspirations, again, the table and the chair, you follow me?—

The weekend brought new activity in that neck area, bringing discomfort, but also new releases to the shoulders and the rib portions, loosening the stomach muscles. It was natural enough that he has periods of disorientation walking—but overall he has handled this well. The released ligaments can feel unstable, particularly when they first relax. There are other times when he definitely feels like putting his weight upon his legs, and walking, and he should be very faithful about following that impulse. As the muscles change, there can be some difficulties with depth perception regardless, since the muscles are used to reaching out only so far, and must change their orientation.

(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.

Give us a moment.... The creative artist can be in somewhat of a quandary, according to his beliefs, for he wants to preserve the precious moment, the fleeting thought, the daffodils, the perceived insights. At the same time he often feels the need to stand apart from life, from the fleeting thoughts, the daffodils or the insight, so that he will not be lost completely in the moment, but able to form almost a second self with a larger viewpoint, who can then more clearly examine and understand the thought, the moment, or the insight.

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.

Ruburt can begin now with his three hours, this to be a free creative time for thinking, or writing. He likes to paint, but he does not regard that in the same way, so let him allow himself an hour a day for painting, or so many hours a week—whatever he wants.

The library takes little time, but he should turn his focus more toward his timeless encounters, and toward the playfulness of his creative and psychic abilities.

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.

The story in the paper rearoused those old conflicts. But truth involves insights of a most peculiar kind, for they cannot indeed be truly specified, and the more specific you try to make them the more you distort them, or the more you dilute their original power. You make your own reality. You cannot force an individual to live, nor can you force him to die, through the use of the truth. One and one is two—that is a fact in your world, and you can use that fact in millions of ways, but it involves no truth.

Man lives through the desire for life. That truth is a far more important realization. People can use our books, but the greatest use is a kind of mental, spiritual, and psychic acceleration that allows them to use all of their abilities better—but they must decide how they will use truth.

Ruburt’s feelings after his nap involve the material given earlier, primarily on two lives in one, but also are based upon old feelings you are now handling in your pendulum work, that are in the process of being resolved but the strong time elements are strongly involved.