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[...] Rob sticks his head in doorway, says money is “there”; he’s busy, difficult for me to turn to see where “There” is; he has to say “on cabinet.” [...] I feel he’s irritated, but I tell myself I chose that condition with its resulting humiliations in the past and now I am choosing to be responsive; to be more alive; and those incidences will soon BE past. [...]

Stopped writing these notes; getting some more good ideas for my preface— but the good feelings in my leg and foot continue; I want to call out to Rob and tell him, but feel constraint; he’s working on Unknown; I’ll disturb him ... [...] Do I think he’ll be annoyed—he might be—my foot feels joyful—quite a change! [...]

[...] In any case, he has told me that he is treating me like a goody in that he does not feel you appreciated our last session. And so he tells me I should only come through and give you my greeting. [...] I am kinder than he is. [...]

[...] Our Areofranz (Matt) read you quite well and that does indeed include the interpretation that he gave concerning your malady (The malady: Rachel’s ailing foot). [...]

Whatever program he works with for that time is important, for it is his manner of changing beliefs. He will understand what I mean. [...] The negative aspects are usually not there—not because he omitted them: the book itself helps bring the positive experiences about, because, again, it represents conscious attempts to alter experience.

[...] When he does not do so therefore, this is a sign of acquiescence to present conditions, or being hypnotized by the unpleasant current aspects.

[...] For when my friend Ruburt looks at a person he sees a mind and he automatically grades it... A, B, C, D, E, F and if you fail the grade he washes his hands of you. [...] He is too intuitive, however, and, indeed, too good. [...]

[...] Do not worry that he be led on, with questions, so that I speak. [...] He is stronger than he looks. [...]

[...] I make him work hard because he has the ability and is working. [...]

[...] And he will know what I mean. [...]

[...] “Not in the next couple of sessions, but he’s heading that way. He’s given all he can — or wants to — on the negative beliefs we hold as individuals and societies; he wants to start his next book [my emphasis] on how to positively work our way out of our challenges and create a much better world…. [...]

Then in the 861st session itself — which was not for Mass Events, as stated — Seth briefly mentioned the material on ideals and impulses he’s been giving in recent book sessions. [...] He certainly sounded as though he’d decided upon his next book:

[...] They left late enough so that Jane decided to skip the session, even though earlier in the day she’d written notes on material that Seth had mentally informed her he’d cover.

(“He’s doing very well.”)

[...] He is now in a period of rest after an exhausting lifetime situation. [...] He has not died in the past because he was still tied to your mother. He will not die at least until he sees her again.

He has found your location, and he will be here. [...] If so he will announce himself. [...]

If it had not been for her vitality and the force of her will, he would have died years ago. He wanted out from an early age, and yet there were karmic influences that were not finished, between the two of them.

[...] He may appear as a pyramid form of lights, according to various conditions.

[...] He does not consider it a weapon (humorously). He is not jealous of his father’s love for the mother, for he understands quite well that her love for him is just as strong. He does not wish to possess his mother sexually in the way that adults currently suppose. He does not understand those terms. He may at times be jealous of her attention, but this is not a sexual jealousy in conventionally understood terms. [...]

[...] He seeks to emulate him; he seeks to be himself as fully as it seems to him that his father was himself. He hopes to go beyond himself and his own capabilities for himself and for his father.

As a child he once thought that his father was immortal, in human terms — that he could do no wrong. [...]

Now: In some historical periods it was desirable in practical terms that a man have many wives, so that if he died in battle his seed might be planted in many wombs — particularly in times when diseases struck men and women down often in young adulthood.

[...] He said he’s worried about reports he’s getting that Jane isn’t as comfortable as she used to be. [...]

[...] Although he lacked that characteristic mark of speaking for a superbeing, this was because he frequently regarded himself as the superbeing. [...]

[...] Obviously, then, the affected individual was thought to be speaking for God when he gave orders or directives. [...]

[...] Put very loosely, the dogma says that you must love God or he will destroy you. [...]

Though he does not see the connection he has learned some important things this last weekend. [...]

[...] At other times he experiences them as limiting. [...]

[...] These periods can be extended as he progresses; that is, the psy-time.

Tell him immediately about my suggestion, for he has played around with the idea but not initiated it—the schedule is what I am speaking about here.

[...] His closest connection to magic would be his comics experience when he drew Captain Marvel — a magical character. [...] In the dream he sees himself returning to the comics, only the Sunday edition (special), and the superhero character is much more prominent than the comics would ordinarily have it; the smaller head representing, I think, the idea that the intellect’s place is smaller or of a lesser nature than he earlier supposed. At dream’s end Rob says that the head was almost too youthful for the body he’d drawn — maybe a reminder that the natural person is younger in ways than the intellectual self. I think that Rob is himself in the dream, represented by the super character as the magical self; and also that he is the assistant who had prepared the figure’s head.

[...] I want to note, again, that Ruburt earlier decided to bank on his intellect as a child, rather than upon beauty, as he felt his mother had. In his case also, as given in the past, he felt that the feminine qualities were those opposed to intellectual development. (Pause.) He was gifted intuitively and intellectually, however, and naturally was propelled toward growth in both areas — areas that he felt stressed contradictory rather than complementary characteristics.²

One note: Do have Ruburt tell you how he is doing moodwise, for now you can help him there. He must realize that relaxation is also a part of the creative process. Left alone, he would do “the right thing.” [...]

(“Seth, of course, not only dictates his magical material — the session — but must keep the whole session in mind while doing so, so that each sentence as he delivers it makes sense compared to its predecessors, and those to follow. [...] Seth has no script to go by, nor can he refer during the session to my own notes to check up on what he’s already said.

(Back to the present: “Oh — he comes forward, then retreats, oscillating real fast. [...] Now he’s turning around, this miniature Seth. He’s walking away, out of the chute and into this great big Seth who’s like a statue.

(“I had the feeling that Seth was in this chute or tunnel, in miniature, and that he looked like he does in your portrait of him, only in full length.”¹

[...] There wasn’t anything in my thought patterns that he could make words out of to express what he wanted to say. [...]

[...] “He’s found something in my thought patterns he can use …” She sat with her head down. [...]

Quite rightly, he did not interpret the event in conventional terms, and Joseph did not suppose that James himself was communicating in the way usually imagined (but see the opening notes for this session). Joseph did recognize the excellence of the material. [...] Ruburt picked up on James’s world view, however, as in your terms at least it “existed” perhaps 10 years ago.⁶ Then, in his mind, James playfully thought of a book that he would write were he “living,” called The Varieties of Religious States — an altered version of a book he wrote in life.

He felt that the soul chooses states of emotion as you would choose, say, a state to live in. He felt that the chosen emotional state was then used as a framework through which to view experience. He began to see a conglomeration of what he loosely called religious states, each different and yet each serving to unify experience in the light of its particular “natural features.” [...]

[...] It carried the stamp of James’s own emotional state at that “time,” when he was viewing his earthly experience, in your terms, from the standpoint of one who had died, could look back, and see where he thought his ideas were valid and where they were not. [...] In Ruburt’s “present,” he was able to see this world view as expressed within James’s immortal mind.

[...] The gist of our attitudes is that we find it most difficult to believe that “Socrates” — wherever he is and whatever he may be doing, in our terms — is willing to drop everything to give very garbled information to a well-intentioned, really innocent person living in, say, a small town in Virginia. There must be other things he wants to do! [...]

[...] As Rob looked down to take his notes, he realized that a vocal metamorphosis of some kind was taking place. He wrote as fast as he could, so he could also look up now and then to see what was going on. Now I stood almost in front of him, the un-Jane-like open eyes staring at him as if to make sure he understood what was being said.

Again, on reading the notes we were fascinated by the material, particularly since Seth told us that he was going to explain these Inner Senses more fully, and teach us how to use them. He was as good as his word, for as you will see shortly, he did give us instructions and we were to have all kinds of new experiences as we followed them. [...]

Rob asked for a break, but then he urged me to end the session before my voice gave out. I knew that he was concerned about me, but also tremendously interested in the material Seth had been giving. [...]

He was referring, of course, to some reincarnational data he had given earlier. [...]

Quick physical action, such as that he involves himself in, even in housecleaning, is beneficial. An idea he had earlier this week along those lines was intuitional, but he did not put it into practice.

He is receiving larger doses of energy due to the season, and his own natural reactions to it, but he is not acting or reacting with the spontaneity that is natural to him in early springtime. [...]

He is doing as well as he did a month or so ago in his reactions, but now that is not good enough. [...]

(I am not sure that Seth’s statement on page 150 constitutes a distortion, when he mentions that a communication between our universe and the universe of negative matter is possible. In the 63rd session, again, he deals with the two companion universes to ours, calling them a beforeimage and an afterimage, and lumping them under the general terms of negative or antimatter. [...] Perhaps the point here is what kind of a “meeting” he was referring to in the 63rd session. He is referring to a psychic communication in the present session.)

Allegorically speaking, from the inside he reaches outward, his hands full of inwardness, but it is you who form the inwardness. [...] And he was afraid of what he considered the frozen nature of the inwardness, once formed.

[...] The painting always struck the personality deeply, reminding him, because of the face portrait and the background, of the bare and ancient land from which he had once come, and to which he returned.

When Ruburt attempts his paintings he tries to catch the inwardness before its moment of construction, with the form not yet fully in appearance, but between. It is for this reason that he has so much difficulty with his perspective.

[...] He will snap back more quickly after a treatment. There is one good benefit however: He rested the full amount specified (one hour) this time because he felt it necessary.

[...] The particular way in which he does so, can tell him much about his own reincarnational background in which he operated as a female. [...]

The same applies to a male when he over-identifies with what he believes to be male characteristics, for whatever reason. [...]

[...] He did not elaborate. [...]

He could not verbalize it, nor did he have a suitable pattern to contain it. He received it, however. His painting of late is no coincidence, for he is dealing with nonverbal information, organizing data in another way, and thus activating other “portions” of the mind.

This type of perception cannot be described until he forms suitable verbal patterns that can come only with further experience. [...] He accelerates mentally to a certain degree, and that puts him in touch with me — an additional energy source. He activates certain portions of the brain that connect it to another mind, that people do not as yet realize they possess.

[...] If he did, what was his dream state like? Tonight at 9:00 she told me she thought he’d answer her questions by weaving them into the book session.

[...] He received this “automatically,” writing down the words that came almost too quickly for him to follow. [...]

His appetite has improved, and he is assimilating his nourishment better than he did before. [...] Tell him that he can indeed see his way clear (intently). [...]

Again, remind Ruburt to say now and then to himself that he can see clearly, that he can see his way clearly, knowing that the inner self has the clearest of vision, and that vision can be recreated physically. [...]

[...] Ruburt has been to some extent afraid of hope, for fear that he would be let down. [...]

Now: Ruburt should remind himself that he has good blood—thus negating his mother’s statement that his father had poor blood—

[...] We talked about how Seth has said he wasn’t a poet, way back at the beginning of the sessions in 1963. “That was probably because he didn’t want me to think he was challenging me,” Jane said. “Of course he’s a poet. [...]

[...] He told her she’s having blood work done tomorrow morning, so the level of thyroid medication can be checked, as it is monthly. He said she’s still getting quite a lot of the Synthroid for a person of her body weight. [...]

[...] “The funny thing is,” Jane said, “I thought that that was coming from Seth—that is, he was speaking the words, though he usually doesn’t do things like that.... [...]

[...] He frightened himself into returning to his body for he had been away from it too long. He was dilly-dallying where he did not belong, and he was getting into realities that did not concern him. He was like a truant so he caused the hallucination so that he would return to his body. [...] He used his own fears to cause the hallucination. He was not discriminate. He was not using his common sense. He knew it was time to return to the body, and he decided to stay out of it despite the nature of inclination to return, and so he made a nightmare for himself to frighten himself home like the errant boy that he was. [...]

(Rachel had been discussing a story on astral projection which told of a man seeing a black shape trying to sever the silver cord so he could not return to his body.)