“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now, this is the basic problem. The basic reasons for both Ruburt’s symptoms and the holdback in your own work, and the answer to both lies in learning how to release yourselves to yourselves, to let your own emotional natures relate to each other. You must get over the hump therefore of being afraid of your emotions, both of you.

Much of what you discussed today was discussed by me a good deal of time ago. (True.) The suggestions I made at that time were not followed. Others were not, for both of your reasons, because the situation served both of your purposes to some extent.

Because now you fear that the situation may become a way of life, you are finally both willing to take more direct action. To some degree you have both been avoiding each other. You made a pact not to discuss troublesome, frightening or critical problems, particularly those which did not seem to have an immediate solution.

You both felt that the most innocent of caresses could destroy the foundation of your lives. [...] It drove Ruburt at times to try to deny womanhood, to assure you and herself that her body would not betray you both. He would not have his periods—thus he would show both of you, symbolically, that you need not fear his body, since it obviously was not functioning as a woman’s should.

Ruburt’s physical system has felt the strain simply because both of you feel that it is his body that would be the threat in the child area. You both become panicky therefore in two main areas—both that would affect your primary directives, to devote yourselves to artistic and psychic work.

[...] Both of you decided that you would give your lives to creative work. Both of you decided that you would have no children, not only because this fit in with the first goal, but because the energy connected with family life would go into your creative productions, would be saved and available when you began to embark upon the psychic work for which you had also planned.

[...] You should both be able to sense that power, however, more than others, and to direct it where you want it, both together and individually.

Released tension in the head area can also change both Ruburt’s depth perception and head pressure, as it lessens. [...] Concentrate upon your creativity, both of you, and your power, with the morning suggestions I gave you, and the library. [...]

[...] Overall, you are both doing well. In your painting, remind yourself of reincarnational selves, for there are more portraits ready, and in your nap time, beside rest, both of you give such suggestions:

[...] Added to this are certain attitudes of your own, that is attitudes both of you have. Both of you have the same attitude, which means that they are magnified, doing double duty.

Whenever the word is used it has a negative connotation to you both. [...] Granted Ruburt exaggerated where you made adjustments, but both of your emotional attitudes are the same at that level.

[...] Both of you enjoy a sense of moral superiority in the presence of your brothers’ families, that they eat so heartily while you refrain. Both of you now prove that you are not sunken in materialism by being thin. [...]

[...] You both feel hampered in love-making. [...] You both resented it.

[...] While you were at Artistic you both used that as an excuse. [...] That is, I think, enough for you both this evening, so I bid you a fond good night.

(After supper this evening both Jane and I did a lot of griping and complaining about her symptoms, and our inability to solve the problems involved. [...]

[...] You have had quite a bit for one night, but each of you can creatively use these problems, and turn them to your advantage, and this is a learning process in which you are both involved. It is not always an easy matter of saying no, and I do see both of you handling your situations well. [...]

This is your friendly marriage counselor—and you had better listen to me, both of you. [...]

First of all, you have both been living in your own isolated universes, and this applies to my friend over here with the bare feet on the couch. [...]

[...] Except for our sessions there has been little freshness in your environments because you would find it, both of you now, threatening. In other words you have preferred to place the problem, both of you again, upon Ruburt in physical terms, rather than face the inner issues with initiative and daring.

Now you both thought that Ruburt’s symptoms were a solution. [...] Ruburt’s symptoms you thought gave you both time. [...]

[...] Now you are both afraid of making a move, but it is much easier for Ruburt to adopt the physical symptoms of immobility, because of his own background. [...]

[...] He felt that his obvious femininity was almost a threat to both of your works, that he had no right to look sexy and tempt you both when spontaneous love play, for example, would not occur. [...]

[...] Spontaneous love-making for example would cut into the work schedule that both of you had evolved.

If you both continue these sessions will continue. [...]

You both did very well up until that point last evening, and afterward Ruburt in particular did well, though both of you managed to avoid pitfalls that might otherwise have occurred. When you left yourselves alone, as you did generally speaking, during the week, you not only attained some peace of mind, but definite improvements in those areas that concerned you both. [...]

Since our last session, you both made considerable efforts, so that you momentarily managed to suspend self-disapproval for some periods of time. [...] It was obvious to both of you, I believe, that at times Ruburt would stand a good deal taller. [...]

I would like to give you an explanation for last evening’s events, presuming you are both interested. [...]

[...] I said pivotal because the dressing brings together both the idea of mobility and womanliness—both past areas of mistrust. The sexual area also combines both the lack of mobility and the womanly aspects, so freedom and the “as if” game in these areas is doubly important and vital.

Up to now you both have been playing the illness game strongly, in your imagination both creating symptoms, imprisoning Ruburt within them in the present, seeing them in the future, and examining future events in the light of present symptoms.

[...] This release on Ruburt’s part will also release you both in other areas that have been inhibited. Open expressions of warmth are extremely important, on both of your parts in your daily life, and are also connected with your creativity as well as your health. [...]

[...] Sensuous pleasure will do you both much good during your vacation, a sensuous and psychic immersion into the patterns of nature will refresh you both.

[...] Both of us feel we are at low psychic ebb yet.

When a belief in an abstract term seems to negate another abstract term, it may simply be because your acceptance or expectation is not expansive enough to include both.

[...] Both of you constantly question the world, and both of you in different ways protected yourselves, so that you would not be tempted by the world’s usual ways.

It often seemed safer, even, to keep a certain distance from the material, lest you accept it too uncritically, and Ruburt’s critical stance was usually simply an unneeded defense, so that he could keep footing in both worlds at once. [...] Ruburt should ask for another reincarnational dream, and it will help both of you if you consider your situation from a larger context – for that context will throw illumination upon those areas where your comprehension is less than it might be (with quiet amusement).

[...] For my presence and the sessions both do indeed imply a promise of knowledge beyond what is generally known, and, hopefully, of wisdom beyond that which is generally possessed. [...]

[...] I want all the exercises done that he tells others to do, and I want both of you to consider your beliefs about the world as beliefs. [...] I want you both to discuss together the ideas in the book, and to literally begin a program in which your purpose is to put those ideas to use where you need them. [...]

[...] Both of you found it quite necessary to take a strong conscious, critical look at the material from the beginning, for your trainings told you, in the terms that you understood them, that the “subconscious” could be very misleading, though creative, and that therefore you must critically examine any intuitive productions that profess themselves to stand as truths rather than as creative fictions in your world.

[...] Both of you have a tendency to concentrate upon the ills of the world—and so that applies also to the mail, for you remember the letters of those who are in difficulty far more than other letters—and Ruburt thinks that he is simply one more person with a problem that seemingly cannot be solved. [...]

[...] When Rob two and Jane two are overemphasized, then you both add to each others difficulties. [...] Your ideas jointly about time, for example, add to both of your difficulties. [...]

[...] Both of us have been making pronounced efforts—although that’s not the right word for it—to trust that our challenges will be taken care of in Framework 2. I think I’ve had some good success there.

[...] In Framework 2 both of your intents and natures are known. [...]

[...] This has been a highly formal, ritualized behavior pattern, a psychological dance, so formalized on a subconscious level that it left little leeway for spontaneity, and threatened to freeze you both in highly unconscious regimented behavior. [...] You were to keep you from getting too close, and when certain automatic points were approached you both went into your act. [...] The spontaneity was gradually squeezed out to such a degree that it lost its workability, and both of you were beginning to consider making adjustments. [...]

Within that area you will both find greater freedom, warmth and creativity. [...] It should be flexible enough now for both of you, and not the formation of one rigid point. [...]

For a while then you were willing, comparatively speaking, to let Ruburt express the spontaneous, strongly spontaneous, elements of both of your personalities; with the joys and perils involved, and denying him the responsibility of learning how to temper and use spontaneity. He was willing to let you express the reasoning, deliberate qualities of both of your personalities—the deliberating elements, and to that extent not permitting you to fully express your own spontaneity. [...]

As he became known, they served to keep the world away for both of you. [...] They saved you both from making endless decisions as to whom you would see, or whether you would go on tours. [...] They were Ruburt’s version of health foods, abstinence, and so forth, in the Nearing’s way, and to all of this both of you to some extent acquiesced.

Of course, to some degree the condition involves you both in your social dealings with the world. [...] You both knew you were different, and whether or not the sessions ever began, your minds were uniquely explorative. [...]

[...] And again to some extent, both of you acquiesced.

[...] The cat senses both of your moods immediately. It is psychically very close to you both. [...] As a rule you both radiate strong constructive energy. [...]

Now I will leave you both, and I hope you will see that I have done you both a service, for this is my intention. The storm with Ruburt has passed, and you have both learned much because of it. [...]

[...] When all this is out in the open as it is now, you will find that both of you can deal much more effectively with the outside business world, and you will not be hampered as you both have been.

You both had existences in which you combined the traits of each in medieval Europe. [...] Some of those experiences led you both to desire a certain privacy while remaining in the midst of a community, and here again Ruburt’s condition came into service, giving you a built-in reason for not going out into the world.

(11:30.) Ruburt became the spontaneous one to both of you, therefore the one who must use controls. You became the disciplined one to both of you, which meant of course that you also impeded your spontaneity. [...]

[...] On purposes you both agreed. [...] This is why improvements are occurring, and because you each are beginning to realize that there is a natural world out there for the world of nature to which both the soul and the body relate. [...]

The basic discontent colored your other attitudes, both toward your environment, your own work, and other people. [...]

Your discussion this evening was beneficial and showed a point in progress on both of your parts. [...]

The change of environment has been and is good for both of you in ways you may not presently comprehend. [...]

[...] The walk to the river is an excellent idea for you both. [...] You will both find it effective and refreshing.

[...] You will both be better off however for this evening’s session, and I think you will notice an assured, calm, yet sure increase in Ruburt’s energies. [...] I bid you now both a fond good evening. [...]

[...] This would work out very well both for him and the book. [...]