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[...] Above all, Ruburt is not to worry, but instead he must resolutely shove such thoughts away whenever he is aware of them. [...]

[...] These were definite but very fleeting, she said. [...]

[...] I may or may not return, again according to those rhythms of which I speak—but know that I am present and approachable. [...]

[...] But then, Seth said Jane doesn’t have arthritis—so that’s what we’ve been going by. [...]

[...] Jane’s vocal difficulties have been minimal, but her handwriting hasn’t been too steady as she answered mail and worked on some poetry. [...]

[...] We’re glad to try to answer questions like that, but our correspondents cover many topics and express many viewpoints—and some are hard for us to handle. [...]

[...] Note that when he uses the pronoun “you” this evening he refers not only to Jane and me in particular, but to readers in general.)

(9:30.) I do not, therefore, want you to concentrate your efforts in memorizing methods of perceiving other realities, but to realize that such insights are everywhere within your grasp. [...]

First of all, a note to Ruburt: tell him not to put off free association in regard to his fear about his body’s performance, but to discuss this as openly as possible with you.

[...] Children believe not only that there will be a tomorrow, and many tomorrows, but they also believe that each tomorrow will be rewarding and filled with discovery.

[...] It is bad enough to anticipate that most unfortunate situations will worsen rather than improve, but it is foolhardy indeed to believe that mankind is bound to destroy itself, or that nuclear destruction is nearly inevitable.

[...] It is important, however, that you do not strain too hard to achieve results, but allow yourself some leeway. [...]

[...] There is order, but within this order there is freedom — the freedom of creativity, that characteristic of All That Is, that guarantees its infinite becoming.

Now in that infinite becoming, there are states that you would call perfected, but had creativity rested within them, all of experience would be destined to grind to a halt. [...]

[...] Within that framework, individually and as a whole, mankind may seem to make errors, to bring ill health, death or desolation upon himself, but he is still using those abilities to create a world.

In your wars you are using creativity to create destruction, but you cannot help being creative.

The ego itself in many instances cannot experience directly certain intuitions and psychological experiences, but it can experience them insofar as it can be aware of them on an intellectual basis. [...]

This will then allow us to proceed into the relationship between the waking and sleeping personality, and discover the many ways in which the personality’s aims and goals are not only reflected but sometimes achieved in and through the dream condition.

Here the ego cannot go, but it can benefit from the information that is given to it, and perhaps in time even a shadow of the ego may pass through that strange land, and feel in some small way at home.

[...] But she was sure she was aware of this while she was speaking.)

(We’ve been having but one session a week while I’ve been typing the finished manuscript for Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality. [...]

[...] Other beliefs are not allowed to intrude, and even those who are firm believers, but not fanatics, naturally prefer the company of their own kind.

Since this “one God” of Carter’s, however, can obviously have such different ideas, saying one thing to one nation and the opposite to another, then men will begin to check their nationalistic lists of divine instructions, discovering that to one extent or another this God would seem to have told several different groups of people that they were chosen above others, that their enemies would be vanquished, and that they might indeed defend their divine rights through whatever unfortunate but necessary means.

(Jane has mentioned her idea for new suggestions to me, but I haven’t seen them yet. [...]

(I felt a bit tired, but thought the malaise was more psychological than anything else. [...]

(Pause at 9:10.) Many of Ruburt’s beliefs have changed, but the core belief in the Sinful Self has been very stubborn. [...]

[...] Many will now surface most likely on their own in response to current events, as per this morning: the memories will not be frozen, but will move naturally into present experience, and take their natural place. [...]

[...] Actually I had many questions, but wanted to give Jane a rest.)

[...] Not only the cells, but the atoms and molecules that compose them contained a positive intent to cooperate in a bodily formation, to fulfill themselves, and they were then predisposed not only toward survival, but with an idealization leading toward the best possible development and maturity.

[...] “Maybe I got tired this afternoon, working on the Intro for ‘Unknown.’ I’ve had messages from Seth the last few days about the book stuff for the session tonight, but what we got doesn’t fit any of them…. [...] But the flow just ended, so break came.”

[...] It is not simply a neutral dimension, therefore, but contains within itself an automatic predisposition toward the fulfillment of all patterns inherent within it. [...]

[...] Perhaps, Jane had wanted more physical and psychic activity all along, I thought—more tours, TV, publicity, fame, money, whatever—but all those things she held back on because of my own negative attitudes. [...]

[...] She hasn’t walked a great deal lately, but our emphasis is now on trusting the body’s own wisdom as to when it wants to perform, and what it wants to do. [...]

[...] He may or may not sell his paintings, but the difference between the artist and other people is his or her way of being—a difference in the style of existence. [...]

Your own ideas suited your temperament, but many of them did not particularly suit Ruburt’s. Again, I will elaborate on all of this at our next session.

[...] Ruburt is not good enough yet to change his channels quickly, but he is learning. (Pause.) Since you do appear less bouncy than usual, you may end the session; but I may stay a while now that I am here. [...]

[...] He is more directly the receiver, but the communications pass through you also.

[...] But you feel there is.”

[...] He thinks my friend a cold fish (humorously) but then, he was never a fin.

You’ve been largely operating from a base that isn’t naturally yours but was taken on as a result of your sympathy for the world and for the problems of others. But that base doesn’t provide the kind of springboard or the thrust you need or your abilities require. [...]

[...] Said she’d originally thought of it as a song, but hadn’t mentioned that to me before.)

[...] (I can write in Sumari, but Jane has to translate it for me — and I’m always surprised at the results.) My wife has a powerful singing voice. [...]

[...] This is not the now-familiar sensation of swelling in the fingers and the palm, but rather one of actual physical increase in size. [...]

[...] Upon leaving the state of psychological time I forgot this sighting, but remembered it while in the state of psychological time the following day.

[...] I mentioned how the atoms and molecules combine to form cells, while each individual atom and molecule does not give up its own uniqueness, but forms rather a gestalt, so that a cell is indeed a psychic gestalt given physical construction through the capacity that exists within each individual component.

I will have more to say along these lines, but suggest your first break. [...]

(I’ve received various answers from the pendulum on the background causes for my upset; not really contradictory, by and large, but signifying to me that in spite of my concern I hadn’t been willing to buckle down and really work at uncovering the beliefs causing the unrest. [...]

[...] We thought the session was over at this point, but Seth did return a minute later for a little more material related to the body of tonight’s session. [...]

[...] I think that because of the Easter weekend coming up, an extension of the tax-paying deadline until next Tuesday the 17th is permissible, but I don’t want to wait that long. [...]

[...] Not the best, but she got along with many halting attempts as I wrote these notes. [...]

[...] It is a temptation at times to use more specific scientific terms, but these would be as confusing as the various definitions and classifications (with humor) that you read in the dictionary, so overall we try to hit a “happy medium.” [...]

[...] Now I may or may not return, again according to those rhythms of which I speak, but know that I am present and approachable.

Know that within your physical atoms now the origins of all consciousness still sings and that all the human characteristics by which you know yourselves still exist within the eye of all our consciousness never diminished but always present; your individualities never diminished... not only never diminished but gaining in experience.

[...] But the terms are meaningless to me, for he is what I was in your terms.

Ruburt may have no idea, but I have several.

[...] In the past he has accepted it but not understood it, nor known how to recall it. [...]

[...] The system will automatically pace itself, but he must learn to demand that he himself use the energy. [...]

This is nothing you do not know, but he should be reminded.

[...] That is, if once he disliked crowds, a new purpose and understanding should let him rise above such nonsense—but there has always been a kind of singularity there (long pause)—a characteristic need to go his own way. [...] He likes encounters with other people, naturally, but he does not like crowds nor speaking to a kind of mass mind, directly encountered. [...]

Moist heat will also help as an aid, but mainly the entire idea of the body’s good intent and support. [...] A lighter hand, however, on Ruburt’s part: We are not looking for realms of negative feelings in particular, but for the honest expression of feelings, whatever they are. [...]

[...] Jane continued, “but at the same time I enjoyed talking to him. [...]

[...] Finally: “I guess I’m about ready, but I think it’ll be short....”)

[...] But before that focusing occurs, children, particularly in the dream state, enjoy an overall version of events that gradually becomes sharper and narrower in scope.

[...] The brain itself is never satisfied with one version of an event, but will always use the imagination to form other versions in an activity quite as spontaneous as play. [...]

[...] Such attitudes not only drastically impede any artistic creativity, but the imaginative creativity necessary to deal with the nature of physical events themselves.

[...] Just before you sleep, see yourself as you are, but living in a past or future century — or simply pretend that you were born 10 or 20 years earlier or later. [...]

[...] Violence will always be used creatively, but if you do not understand this—and at your present rate of development you do not—then any violence is violence against yourself. [...] Despite all man does, he cannot really work any destruction—but while he believes in destruction, then to that extent he minimizes what he is, and must work harder to use creativity.”

[...] They also accused Iraq, with whom Iran is at war, but it’s almost certain that one of the dozen or more Iranian underground revolutionary groups is responsible. [...]

[...] Even though they too worship but a single God and the Koran, the Bahais are too liberal, too heretical in their peaceful and progressive ways; they are called unpatriotic and secular; some Bahais are attacked, dispossessed, lynched or executed, it seems, every day.

[...] Some such dreams were extremely direct, others were clothed in symbolism according to the style of the dreamer, but in any case the dream was understood to have a public significance as well as a private one.