“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Last Wednesday Jane had the last of her extractions done; she is recovering very well indeed. This week she has experienced many more small but important physical improvements throughout her body, all adding up to a considerable change in her physical condition as far as sitting, walking, etc. This is all very encouraging; her improvements to date of course mark by far the longest period of sustained improvements that she’s shown in many years. I seem to feel an unaccustomed excitement about it all; this hovers offstage, one might say, at the chance that she’ll make it after all.

In a manner of speaking, the man’s feet touch the ground but they do not touch the fire. The man believes his feet will not be burned. That belief generates certain actions or events, so that practically speaking, while he sees the flames, and perhaps smells the smoke, the heat of the fire will have no effect—because for him its character is changed. He ignores the evidences of his senses.

If you have a light bulb lit, it is bright and hot. If you turn the light off, the bulb is still there. Its light and heat become latent, but practically nonexistent. To your hand a light bulb that is not turned on will be cool. To your eyes it will not be bright. The bulb is still there, but its power is neutralized.

You live in a world of root assumptions, to which all agree. They are the ground rules of your reality—but not the ground rules of all realities or of all probabilities. Your firewalker inserts another probability, and hence reacts to and with that reality of the fire in ways that are not considered normal. I have said his feet touch the ground but not the flames. Actually, what I can only call an invisible shield protects him from the flames, so that his feet and ankles are surrounded by an aura that repels the fire actively. This is a definite force, a psychic force field, if you will. This ability is quite ancient, though little known.

They program the interactions within the body, so that certain effects always appear inevitable, when such in basic terms is not always the case, necessarily. You can intrinsically walk on fire, or thrust your hands into the flames, and be unburned. I would not suggest that too many try it, however. The mind and its beliefs are the basic determinants. That firewalker shares his reality with nonfirewalkers, in general terms, but in this one instance the firewalker superimposes a strong counterbelief, and it works

The rules of physics are no more than gentlemen’s rules of the game but the firewalker plays a different game, with different rules, and they work also.

Give us a moment.... In Framework 2, as mentioned, existence is also organized in a completely different fashion than you are used to. In that Framework, the best possible overall conditions for growth are available. Your firewalker seems to be breaking a natural law. He is simply acting according to another belief, but he is being true to his nature, which in this case led him to the desire for such an achievement. In Framework 2, therefore, the nature of each individual actively seeks out its own greatest potential, in the world of Framework 1, practically speaking, in the world where time and space are realities.

Imagine, say, a young woman named Sally. She deals with people very well, exceptionally well. She has a mediocre voice, though pleasant enough. For whatever reasons, she decides that she wants to be an opera star. The desire is not in keeping with her own abilities. It may have been triggered by envy of another person, or for the sake of fame, but it does not fit her abilities. She may ignore the fact that her talents lie in having an excellent rapport with others. She puts into Framework 2 a desire that is not in keeping with her own best development. She may train her voice, take lessons, while yet she is thwarted at auditions, until it seems people are against her.

(To me, in answer, evidently, to some of our conversation before the session:) You are already writing a book—you— in Framework 2. It simply waits for the proper conditions here. I do not want to overstress, yet again it is important that Ruburt use the words “normal walking” without comparing that desire to his present locomotion. But it must be the goal, clear and distinct.