“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(This noon Jane and I signed our wills, with, naturally, Bill Danaher and his wife as witnesses. While they were here, we received a call from Tam’s secretary, Nancy, who told us that she’d just mailed special delivery Tam’s corrected version of the letter to Ariston that I’d sent him on Monday. It’s Thursday night as I type these notes, and the letter hasn’t arrived yet. I hope to be through with the Ariston affair over the coming weekend, then.

For our friend. (Long pause.) The backs of his legs are stretching. This will allow for much greater manipulation of his feet. It is unfortunate that he does not know how to distinguish between, say, symptoms of disorder and symptoms of healing.

You can request before you sleep that you rest mainly in Framework 2. Ruburt’s body has been trying to relax all day. His legs stretched further during his nap.

He does, indeed, and he wants to walk, by the way—but he does not want to waste his time. Not being fully mobile has given him a built-in excuse to avoid distractions. You both thought of anything not work as distraction. In a fashion the symptoms are a result of overorganization—the distrust of impulses not specifically related to writing time. His writing itself is impulsive, and encouraging impulses of any kind will automatically lead to his impulses to write, and the quick, clear nature of his inspiration. The two do go hand in hand.

The natural person (number one) looks at the world and tries to see how his or her abilities can best be utilized and fulfilled. That person grows through its knowledge and experience with the world, as long as there is no attempt to make the natural self over to fit the world. When you make that kind of attempt, it seems you are always between selves, and always disapprove of the self that you are.