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[...] He too is upset that Jane is obviously much more uncomfortable these days than she used to be — than two months ago, say. He doesn’t want her to suffer. [...] [It didn’t.] Jane has a traveling infection, he believes, and he hopes it doesn’t get into her bloodstream. [...]

(Jeff suggested that we do nothing at the moment, while he monitors Jane’s condition. [...]

(Smile.) The new conditions in your sessions unsettled Ruburt to some extent, so that he was the more dependent upon any other small established procedures you had between you. He thinks my friend a cold fish (humorously) but then, he was never a fin.

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

[...] Ruburt is not good enough yet to change his channels quickly, but he is learning. [...]

(To my surprise last Friday, October 21, I received a call from an old friend, Bill Ward, with whom I used to do comic books about 1940-2. He asked me to help him, probably on a regular basis, with some work, and I said yes. [...] Wendell Crowley is a boyhood friend of Ward’s, and also an old friend of mine; he was my editor in New York City for some years after World War II. [...]

[...] He is well on his way now. And yes, he did allow his old shoes to adopt a certain symbolism, and I should have mentioned this.

He then mentioned your name when an opportunity for you was presented. [...]

[...] He could end up as a Dutch uncle, as you say, if you continue with this sort of endeavor.

[...] He spent the next hour reading back material. He also brought two questions, one personal and the other very technical, from people he works with at Corning Glass.

As far as Ruburt is concerned, he did correctly receive a short message recently from me, and I will go into this now.

[...] In it Seth compared our idea of space travel to traveling from the basement of a building to the top floor; and for a building he used as an example the ancient Tower of Babel.)

[...] It goes without saying that mankind is not alone in maintaining the physical universe, and in giving it continuity as he projects and constructs his own physical image; and as this image is the direct result of his own inner psychic climate, and as it reflects most faithfully his own inner joy and illness, and as this joy and illness shows itself physically in his image, so also do all living things construct their own images, and help to maintain the physical properties of your universe.

[...] The artist, since he isn’t any kind of a scientist (even though he might be interested in science in general), attempts to grapple with the statement as best he can, in light of the feeling he has for what Seth is trying to say. At the same time he realizes that from his artistic viewpoint he may not be able to understand the paradox of “contradictory” motions.

2. Long before this, Seth was concerned that Jane said I might feel insignificant once we attempted to grasp the endless ramifications of consciousness as he was explaining them to us. As he said in the 29th session for February 26, 1964: “Later I will attempt to show you where the boundaries are — though (with a laugh) there really are no boundaries — that form a variety of such planes [realities] into a sphere of relation in which, to some extent, cause-and-effect operates as you understand it. [...]

(Pause at 10:36.) Ruburt is at this moment feeling massive.* He is experiencing several things. [...]

1. In several of the sessions he delivered in 1970–71 for Seth Speaks, Seth explained how atoms and molecules phase in and out of our physical system. [...]

[...] The earthly viewer attempts to correlate what he sees with what he supposedly knows or imagines possible, in the little he knows of the universe.

[...] He was a makeup personality—that is, through Frank Watts I had to make up for past errors. [...] I should not make light of Frank Watts, since almost literally he redeemed me. [...] He has absolutely no sense of humor.

[...] Bill Macdonnel should be good in seance sessions, though he is somewhat like mercury, changeable; at times he may not do well, other times good. [...]

What he sees is something between a horse and a dog and resembles neither. [...]

[...] He had been sleeping on the couch but as Jane rose to begin Willy leaped down to the floor. Half crouching in the middle of the room, he looked all around with his eyes round and his ears drawn halfway back; it is a pose we have often seen him take when on the alert.

[...] He is however rather acquainted with me now. It takes a while for Ruburt and I to get together so to speak, and at that time I was diffused and he was confused.

[...] At 8:45 she had “no idea what he’s going to talk about tonight.” [...]

[...] After so many sessions I would think that he would be reassured.

(“You’re saying that to some extent at least, he still feels that he isn’t free to move and walk. [...]

[...] Robert, the male nurse, had taken her blood pressure, and had to stop and readjust her position to a more comfortable one before he could proceed.

[...] He or she can learn to make choices once again, and thus to choose positive concepts, so that they become as natural as negative beliefs once did.

[...] Tell Ruburt to remind himself again that he is free to move and to walk normally.

(9:30.) Now (underlined): When he dreamed—when he dreamed (underlined)—man actually returned to a state prior to waking, from which his physical life itself had emerged—only now he was a new creature, a new kind of consciousness, and so were all of the other species. [...]

[...] When he was asleep man could take advantage of the information banks contained in the units of consciousness that composed his very flesh.

[...] It is not simply that man has a soul that is somehow blessed while the rest of him is not, but that in those terms everything [he knows], regardless of size or degree, is made of “soul stuff.” [...]

(9:52 P.M. Jane said she’d been pretty far out during the session—then added later while we talked that she was picking up from Seth information on the beginning of our own world, species and civilizations that he intended to give in the next session. [...]

[...] This will not work to our disadvantage however, for his cautiousness in these matters acts as a strong balancing mechanism, so that he learns to deal with inner perceptions stage by stage. [...] We have taken his ego into consideration at all times, so that he can consciously assimilate what he has learned, as is preferable. [...]

[...] By the 20th session he had mentioned many of them. By the 60th session he had gone into some detail on 9 inner senses, 11 basic laws of the inner universe, and 3 properties of physical matter, along with the many other subjects included in the sessions. [...]

(Yesterday we received Dr. Instream’s letter of October 11, in which he asked that Seth try giving data on one location and one object in the clairvoyant tests.

(Not having heard from her publisher yet, as he had promised she would by now, Jane wrote and mailed to him a pretty stiff letter. [...]

[...] He was changing jobs, and had to tell his employer that he was quitting. He did not look forward to it because of a variety of circumstances.

[...] The solutions which he makes within his dream reality are often, however, not the same solutions that he accepts within physical reality.

[...] Bill Gallagher, who has ulcers, drinks either coffee or tea on his visits, and he was present on April 15. [...]

[...] Seth states he doesn’t dream of Jane, either.)

Any scientist who believes that life has no meaning has simply provided himself with what he thinks of as an unfailing support against life’s vicissitudes. If he says: “Life has no meaning,” he cannot be disappointed if such is the case, for he is ensconced in a self-created cocoon that has meaning (underlined), because it provides a cushion against his deepest fears (all very intently).

To some extent, such a child symbolizes what happens when an individual believes that he or she is unworthy, that he or she cannot trust impulses, that choices present more problems than advantages. [...]

[...] We became intensely curious as to how Seth would explain the whole matter, and he gave us excellent information on it. [...]

[...] I also told Steve he could lose money on the deal, and evidently he’s finally beginning to see that it might be very expensive for him. [...]

The daily sessions, regardless of their brevity, help to keep his spirits higher, and are a protection against the kind of small crying bout he had this morning. He did, however, release a good deal of frustration in that experience. [...]

[...] He seemed generally satisfied, although he said Jane’s urine was “too concentrated.” [...] He said he’d try.

[...] He did not have to say that I said I was a spirit or I was some sort of a White God or that I was an illuminati. The term was simple and he could accept it. [...]

[...] Even our friend, Edgar, believes that he has a physical body. [...]

([Jane:] “I know that he did something, Mary. [...]

If the ant spoke, what would he say? Would he step on you if he were as large as you are? [...]

[...] What can he feel that you cannot? [...]

[...] He will not get out of his snug warm body until the sun shines brightly and warmly. [...]

[...] He was having a bone scan at the time. Margaret said he’s grown considerably weaker than when he came into the hospital, though evidently the prognosis is okay.)

[...] Bega is learning my material in our own classes, but he must also interpret this, and as I said earlier he tailors it for you, knowing you so well. [...]

[...] They had no questions for Seth prior to the session; Tom said he had been giving Seth questions mentally earlier today, and also earlier in the week. [...]

I simply meant that at times you still worried as to whether or not he was a subconscious fiction in the writing sessions; but you did not feel this as strongly in your psychological-time experiments, because of the mental activity of your own that they provided.

[...] Either there is an individual already in mind for that position, or the individual that would be chosen for it would not have the capabilities that it seems he would have. [...]

What he needs immediately at this point—which you have already been providing—are “bandages” of honest affection—for these help allay some of the original childhood panic, which rises in different form. He does seem to have it well within his head, however, that the time to change is now, and he is determined to do so. [...]

[...] There was also of course the event of St. Vincent’s. Also numerous small abandonments when Ruburt was still younger—but with your help he can indeed clear both mind, body and spirit, for he senses that relief, and knows it is at least within his grasp. [...]

(8:56.) He may need particular help this evening again, but as far as both of you are concerned, this will more than pay off. [...]

He needs to relieve himself with some crying. [...]

I told Ruburt that he wasn’t pregnant, so now I expect that our sessions will be a little smoother again now that he is relieved of the big question. [...]

[...] He was concerned with a camouflage idea, that of time, and clock time at that, the clock itself being a camouflage. Clairvoyantly he merely disentangled himself enough to ignore some camouflage in order to perceive camouflage that lay behind it, and this is a necessary first step.

[...] Ruburt “saw” (in quotes) the slip of paper, and he was not able to read the rest of it simply because your name was not mentioned again and there was no further information on the paper; merely names, and he had no more emotional incentive.

[...] Strangely I had never asked Seth for an explanation, so now I made it a point to remark that I hoped he would deal with it this evening. [...]