“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Pause.) People’s actions, again, are primarily determined by their systems of belief, for those systems set up the patterns of behavior and define the potentials and limitations that are accepted usually as literal fact.

The various, numberless individual human abilities are part of your, say, gene pool as a species, so the drive to creatively use individual abilities is a spiritual and biological necessity. The Freudian, Darwinian dictates quite emphatically degrade man’s capacity for “greatness,” for heroic action in those terms, and greatly devalue the entire meaning connected with an individual self. Psychology’s emphasis upon the average norm, as mentioned previously, made people think that one individual should almost be a carbon of any other individual. Idiosyncrasies were frowned upon, and signs of creative ability were suspect in direct proportion to the strength of those abilities.

In the old system also, any physical problem is seen as naturally remaining or worsening. In our system of belief, you see, that is not the case. In the old system, you must almost fear personal improvement, lest you become self-deluded—another irony in that old system. Ruburt’s body is responding because his main affiliation—main (underlined)—is changing, so that actions necessary in the old system do not any longer apply.