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[...] Here man attempts to externalize a division he feels within himself, individually. He is a son, and then a father, and always within him he feels that part or inner self which cannot be seen by another, which is neither father nor son, but which is within him while he is father, and while he is son.

This of course being the Holy Ghost, or rather that which he thought of in such terms. When he attempted to further formulate his God concept he then projected upon it those mysteries of self.

[...] She said she still feels “a little odd when I don’t have any idea of what he’s going to talk about, or anything.” [...]

[...] At times he did them too quickly.

[...] I explained that I’d become quite interested in the Fred Conyers thing because I’d been reading a couple of pages a day of one of the manuscripts he’d left us: The Rule Book of Love: A Seth Book. I thought the title intriguing. I also thought portions of the manuscript itself were intriguing, quite acute, mixed up with Fred’s obsessions and compulsions, his personal life and family, his far-out ideas, his attempts and frustrations as he tried to use the manuscript as a vehicle toward understanding himself as he attempted to uncover the secrets of his personality: He thought them locked away from his understanding by the very device he had chosen of speaking for Seth. [...] I’ve also learned that Fred has a wife, Heidi, and at least one daughter, and that he did—does —live in Denver, Colorado. [...]

[...] It is true he needs quite constant reassurance on that point, however—for letting go is something he would not do to any extent earlier in the same fashion. [...]

It can be frightening, but he is conquering that with your help. [...]

[...] (Pause.) You have been most helpful in your reassurances, and they are indeed paramount, and he is holding himself well under those conditions. [...]

He dared not fall sick until the final night of the play’s run, although the attack almost occurred just before the first night of the play. Ultimately he will have to get out on his own. It is almost necessary that he realize the way his mother is dominating him, and understand his own dependence. Otherwise he fights phantoms and uses up valuable energy that he now desperately needs.

Ruburt by all means should confine himself to using his best energy for his daily creative work, not draining it by worrying about material which he has sent out into what he considers the cold world.

If he were more concerned with the quality of daily material and less with outer success and recognition, he would not be in such a mental turmoil and emotional turmoil over material that is being submitted to publishers. [...]

[...] He takes out his aggression against editors upon his own body, which is highly ridiculous. I would also suggest that he return to the back exercises. [...]

[...] And it was he, regretfully explaining that Billy had died an hour or so before. [...] When he returned he found Billy dead in his cage. He didn’t know why the cat had died…. [...]

[...] He thought he did not feel like having a session at 9:30 P.M. to try to solve the world’s problems. He just wanted to watch television and forget it all, and hidden in that crankiness is a good point: The sessions are an expression of your private and joint curiosity, a high and excellent curiosity about the nature of reality, a result of your desire to know; to know whether or not the knowledge can be held in your hands like a fruit, whether or not the knowledge can be dosed out to an ailing world as medicine.

[...] He was no better when I returned, and as the morning passed we came to realize that he had a urinary problem. [...]

(Seth also touched upon the question while dealing mainly with Billy’s death in the next three sessions, which are also private, but this evening he was more specific. Even though he didn’t call this 840th session book dictation, we’re presenting part of it here because the material fits in so well with his themes for Mass Events.)

Now, before your husband became more willing to communicate, before he made an effort, you had fallen into your own rut. [...] He then tried to relate to you. He did try to make up for lost time,and he began to grow and to understand.

[...] I thought that he would be home and we could...uh... he’d have more time to farm, and we could work something out, but I was really relieved when he went to, had to go to work at night and I could read and study by myself.

[...] In your mind, that is a romantic gesture, and when he makes a comment about fire, there are several unconscious implications that you make, and that in the past have been understood by both of you at an unconscious level. [...] You interpret his remark about the candle to mean that he is rejecting deep, romantic feelings of yours, and needs; and also that the fire means that these needs are dangerous—his fear of fire being a symbol for “Danger!”. You think, unconsciously, he is saying to you: “These romantic needs are dangerous. [...]

He is much more open in that regard now than he was, and he understands his own emotional behavior better, as well as yours.

[...] Above all, he’s insisted upon the exuberance and “rightness” of the physical world. He put the same idea across beautifully, of course, in Session 725 without ever using the word “shit.” [...]

(In Session 725 Seth discussed the spiritual aspects of our biological nature, and in Note 4 for that session I presented brief excerpts from the material he’d given in ESP class the night before, on the truly limitless “ceilings to the self” or identity.

[...] He began the session by telling the students that they also learned as they attempted to answer the questions asked by correspondents. [...]

[...] He looked at one student and said:)

Anything you gave him was more than he had, and much more than he ever expected. [...] That is why at times she suspects that Ruburt is in league with you against her, as indeed he is.

The core of individuality, then, is the individual’s expectations, for he will truly get what he wants, individually and collectively.

In your field of art you could do better now than he is in science fiction, since you are more sure of how you get your effects, and he is still not. [...]

[...] He fears that it will be taken away, and therefore is afraid of having it to begin with. This is a highly ridiculous notion, caused by an infantile interpretation of events in his grandfather’s life, and also by the fear that his mother would steal him blind of anything that he possesses.

“When he said, ‘You can have The Christ Book when you want it,’ I think he was just stating his willingness to comply. Maybe he knows that really wanting it might take a while, at least on my part. [...]

(9:49.) Because man has not understood the characteristics of the world of imagination, he has thus far always insisted upon turning his myths into historical fact, for he considers the factual world alone as the real one. [...]

[...] Man’s imagination can carry him into those other realms — but when he tries to squeeze those truths into frameworks too small, he distorts and bends inner realities so that they become jagged dogmas.

[...] If time (as much as 40 days) did elapse between Christ’s resurrection and ascension, where was he physically during all of that period, other than on the few occasions cited in the Gospels and in Acts, when on various occasions he revealed himself to the women who discovered his empty tomb, to the apostles, and to some others? [...]

(A note: I must write that not only was I surprised that Seth opened the session with an analysis of the dream, but that I was even more surprised with the generous connotations he ascribed to it: I may love my fellow man, but often times feel that that feeling is compromised by events in our world, even though I fully acknowledge my own part in helping create that world in the most intimate detail. [...] He may also be taking the larger view, as Jane often says he does. On that basis his material may very well express the content of that dream; from that wider viewpoint, I would feel the compassion he describes more openly. [...]

He still does not have all of the implications of the resolutions, but they will come to him. It is important that he and Eve not feel martyred, taking in the father, but I believe they both understand their positions there, and recognize they are forming their own realities and considering an act of kindness for its own sake.

The husband does not want it to seem that he is giving up too soon, however, which he seems to think would involve a loss of face. [...]

[...] Behind all of his carryings-on there was a strong quality of compassion that he found most difficult to express.

Now, again in those terms, he is an entity who appears time and time again within your physical system, but he has been recognized on only two occasions. [...] He appears and reappears therefore, sometimes making himself known and sometimes not. He was not one personality, as I have told you, but a highly developed entity, sometimes appearing as a fragment of himself.

(Ten sessions after this one, Seth told Jane and me that we had been Speakers also, although he said nothing about dates or countries, or whether Jane, Ron, or I might be renewing acquaintances made in other, perhaps very ancient times. [...]

[...] He elaborated upon some of Seth’s data; later, I checked portions through various reference works. [...]

[...] (Pause.) In those terms — and, again, this is important — in those terms only, he appeared at the time of Atlantis, but the records were destroyed and forgotten except in the memory of a few who survived.

[...] He thought of asking you to take a snapshot of the table with your camera, showing the partially-opened front door, so that later he could paint the scene. Your camera could not take in all of that, a fact he never thought of. [...] Ruburt had also been thinking newly about the magical approach from ideas in your own notes² that he had just read. [...]

In terms of Ruburt’s condition, he often thinks that he is “faced with the evidence” that his condition is not improving, that it is growing worse, that all the evidence says such conditions do deteriorate rather than improve. He sometimes thinks that he is being realistic with such thoughts.

[...] Ruburt picked up your own camera activities because he was in correspondence with you. He must be in correspondence with the evidence of mobility that his body tries to give him, so that it can build up a new picture of his body.

“The statue of the deer represents that idealistic image of the past; finding it broken in Brenner’s yard connects its real environment where Rob lived as a small boy [on Harrison Street] to Wilbur Avenue where he lived later; meaning that he’d idealized both backgrounds. [...]

[...] Our rich man just mentioned may suddenly realize that his belief is limiting, in that he concentrated upon it exclusively so that money and health became his sole aims. [...] Yet through the illness he may be led to areas of perception he had earlier denied, and [he may] be enriched in that particular manner.

The shifting of belief may then open him to question his other beliefs, and he realizes that in the area of wealth, for example, he did very well because of his beliefs; but in those others, perhaps deeper experiences opened by his illness, he learns that human experience includes dimensions of reality that had earlier been closed to him, and that these are also easily within his reach — and without the illness that originally brought them forth. [...]

(Seth’s clever, somewhat humorous stresses in the above paragraph were intended to make certain points to me personally while he continued work on his book. [...]

From all the available physical data of newspapers, television, letters and private communication, he or she will concentrate only upon those issues that “prove” that point. [...]

[...] However, once his attention was centered here, he turned his conscious attention to full focus upon what he perceived. Nor did he perceive your physical form as you know it. But he picked up fully your emotional recognition and fear, and these were translated or perceived by him in his own fashion, so that to him you appeared as a mass of varying colors, and as movement of severe intensity.

[...] She had our Marine friend in mind during the test, and he was engaged to be married at the time he went into the service. He is now married and a father.

(Seth referred to this bewildering multiplicity very early in the sessions, and dealt with it rather extensively in the 12th session of January 2,1964, in his first explanation of what he calls the fifth dimension. He has told us we could never cover even a portion of the numberless fields bordering even our own; some will be explained as they impinge upon our own in various ways; Seth also has mentioned his own ability to travel through a few other fields. [...]

[...] You have had no other experiences where contact was recognized both by you and the other individual from the other system, however; and he takes what he learned as part of himself now.

[...] He spoke, incidentally to his Father Trainor, and Lizzie Roohan together, while he was in the second form. He was then led by me into a further dimension of reality in which his third form was used. [...]

[...] Literally, he may or may not find himself in a physical-seeming environment. He will be in a form, however, and will seem so to himself also.

He did not alert his critical faculties however, and is consciously unaware of the experiences and the information. [...]

He will seem to have a physical perception. [...]

[...] He refuses to bear that weight any longer. There is no doubt that he worries about them. Yet he is determined to be free. [...]

[...] When Ruburt began Politics he experienced his “true tone” mentally and psychically; though he did not realize it, this gave him something to go by, so that now, having decided to be free, he is physically and unconsciously bringing about the physical equivalent of that true tone.

[...] This confirmed John’s belief that he is not understood. He would not feel it safe to be understood in an unsafe world.

What he terms “heroic impulses” were impeded because of his beliefs, and the whole concept will become much clearer to him in the very near future. He will become quicker in his motion at all levels. [...]

[...] Bill said that at first he thought he might have, but then discounted it upon second thought because the impression he had received had been so fleeting and faint; he could not be sure of anything.

[...] He did not feel well, and I was quite lethargic. [...]

I only suggest that you watch Ruburt as he moves; and I must remind you that upon other occasions when results had been achieved, your minds had been focused along these directions for a long period of time, comparatively speaking, and whether you realized it or not your psychic energies had been so focused. [...]

He is to realize that if he has any duty or purpose in life, it is indeed to express those very abilities (all very emphatically), since those abilities are so natural in his makeup, they also possess their own protective mechanisms. He must realize that he is free to express his poetic, psychic nature, and to follow wherever it leads — since it is indeed his natural pathway into existence, and his most intimate connection with the universe, and with All That Is.

(Very long pause.) He should also realize that pleasure is indeed a virtue. [...] Ruburt was not taught to love himself as a child, and thought of his talents as a way of justifying his existence — an existence of somewhat suspicious nature, he felt, since his mother told him often that he was responsible for her own poor health.

(4:45.) In other words, Ruburt was given strong creative abilities that he was determined to express — but at the same time early in his life he was given the idea that it was highly dangerous to express the very uniqueness that was inherent in his creativity. [...]

[...] He needs to realize that it is safe to express himself — and that expression will not bring about abandonment.

[...] As I drove John to the hospital, he said the date of my dream checked with developments Margaret had described. [...] He picked me up at 7:05. The weather is poor, and we had a couple of fairly close calls as he drove me home. [...]

[...] I dreamed he was taken very ill with heart trouble — that all he wanted to do was lay on his back in bed — I think in a trailer environment. [...]

[...] He wanted to borrow my car. His had just frozen up due to unsuspected overheating; he had to be at the Chemung County airport at 2:30 to pick up his sister Judy, flying in from the Midwest, then again at 5:30 to pick up Margaret and Joe. [...]

[...] He is only now learning again the knack of consciously directing the body in the way he wants to—at a certain level, for what he is really learning to do is change the directions he has been giving it, for those worked very well.

[...] Now, he ordinarily moves about before he goes to work at his table, and takes less time to arrive here. [...]

They resulted in such a “legitimate” picture of reality however that it was difficult then even when he wanted to step aside and alter the directions. [...]

He is in this territory, in a litter of pups, and in one way or another he may try to find you. After 4 to 6 weeks he may end up in your local shelter.

I believe (pause), he belongs in a litter born in approximately the same area that he died. [...]

[...] Your dog has been reincarnated, in his terms, looking much as he did before.

(“Where is he?”)