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I would like him to keep Ruburt informed. [...] I know that he knows this, and I do indeed commend him. I do not want his abilities to run away with him however.

[...] We want our friend to have a strong and healthy overall personality balance, for this will allow him to use his abilities well, and then the abilities themselves will further add to his own development.

[...] Our friend (Tam) is in contact with another layer of his personality, and as I told him over the infernal machine (a humorous reference to the telephone), a dependable layer. [...]

[...] It is only that I want him to progress at a steady rate, with the overall personality in good balance all the while. [...]

[...] You did him a service by going out with him that evening, although you may have not realized it. [...]

[...] Therefore you saw him as swinging free. [...] The other part was represented by your concern for him, for although he was not as directly affected as you, he would still be involved.

[...] Jane and I said nothing to him about his girl; we liked her very much. [...]

[...] Nevertheless your young brother, this previous weekend, rather suddenly displayed an inclination to say no when he felt that needless demands were being put upon him.

[...] Sensing of course the bitterness that he felt because she was not a boy—incidentally this is a strong subconscious motive—this caused her to bear him three sons to help allay his bitterness. She gave him these three sons as a gift or sacrifice; and when it seemed he would not accept them as such she turned against him, made too much of the sons to pay him back. [...]

[...] You are right in supposing that I ran after him, grabbing his shirttail so to speak, in our beginning sessions. And yet, you see, it was easier for him to make contact for me in the beginning than it was for me to do it myself. [...]

[...] As I mentioned earlier, she did marry a cavalry officer, and bore him many children.

[...] However she holds strong resentment against him from that earlier treatment.

[...] I’d also called our optometrist and asked his secretary to have him return my call so I could ask him a couple of technical questions about a note I’m writing for Session 901 for Dreams. [...]

You are correct about Ruburt’s impatiences: He is to use it (underlined) as a tool, however, and not let it use him. [...]

[...] There are excess energies now that act as magnets, drawing other positive energy to him in such proportion that the entire gestalt becomes in effect a psychic helper.

[...] This is a form built up by him unconsciously in a realm other than the physical, and it is gaining in strength and expertise.

[...] His late feelings of joy and release and the refreshment he is finding in nature, released him from private circles of nervousness, and opened channels through which positive energy did accumulate.

It will also be able to guide him in a highly personal manner, again, as it continues to develop. [...]

[...] We see each other on rare occasions, and once in a while I will hear some news about him through my family or a friend in Sayre, which adjoins Waverly. [...] Nor have I heard anything concerning him during this time, to the best of my knowledge.)

[...] He saw then an infinity of probable, conscious individuals, and foresaw all possible developments, but they were locked within him unless he found the means.

[...] The means then came to him. [...]

Now, I will try to make contact with him in his astral excursions. [...]

[...] For example, Ruburt leading you in one, and you leading him in another area. So utilize those (underlined) characteristics creatively and openly and unashamed, by actively encouraging him to go out, as today.

[...] Our session, the August 2 one, helped lead him to that understanding.

(Re the sentence by Seth about a book for Macmillan Co.: Richard Bach, of Seagull fame, and his editor from Macmillan, Eleanor Friede, are to visit us on Tuesday, September 19, according to a note Jane has received from him.)

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 ... [...]

[...] Kid tries door; it’s locked; I don’t think I can unlock it and get out of his way quickly enough without asking him to wait for me to move, feel humiliated again, know Rob is busy with the book and why can’t I handle it? [...]

[...] At the same time this expansion did put him in situations that he had avoided before, and so the contrast between his physical situation and that of others was apparent—and to him, frightening. [...]

[...] I suggest that you hear his morning as well as evening suggestions, and that you take a few moments, perhaps no more than 5 a day, to impress upon him the fact that these new beliefs can be inserted in place of the old, and will bear results. [...]

[...] You always encouraged him in our work, and he knew this. [...]

[...] But in his own way, and no matter how misguided, he was trying to pace himself and his temperament with yours, to play up those mental writing abilities that would help his career, and in which you took such pride—and while doing that, play down qualities that might distract you from your own work, by encouraging physical activities—parties, vacations, travelings, that would further take up your time, when you were already taking time away from your art to help him in psychic work.

[...] In his mind he sees people looking at him. [...]

[...] In the meantime, you (strongly) have never made such a suggestion, nor attempted to arouse him. [...]

[...] When I have information for you from him, then I pass it on. Since he seems to keep you in mind sufficiently enough to give the messages, you can presume that he will continue to do so; and when he clearly communicates with me, then I will question him in that regard.

(Jane talked to Don Wollheim of Ace Publications on the phone today, and he requested that she send him her book on dreams. [...]

[...] As you seem to approach different dimensions however, then you seem to approach a personality who exists at the time of your perception of him.

[...] Assurances were given to him in the dream state that this was satisfactory and recommended.

He has been doing exceedingly well, for him, in that regard, following impulses to houseclean and so forth—trusting the entire shape of his nature. He simply then for a while bumped into some of the old beliefs again, worried that his impulses would not lead him to write sufficiently. [...]

[...] His creative abilities have not deserted him, but it is that fear that they will if they are not consciously, persistently exerted that bothers him. [...]

To him Dialogues served at least to initiate those purposes. [...] In many ways then the book represents for him a triumph, and serves as a memento of your joint purposes.

[...] Ruburt knew that the adventure required a finesse, a juggling of realities, and he felt a maturity or wisdom that his years had not given him. [...]

[...] Let him think simply of Politics and its ideas and reality—then his experiences and the book will flow once again.

Peter [for his own reasons] may decide that his body is out to get him and punish him, rather than, say, the FBI. [...] Any public service announcements, so-called, publicizing symptoms connected with his sensitive area, will immediately alarm him. [...]

[...] An examination of unprejudiced sense data at any point would at any time bring him relief.

[...] The obsession to have him grows precisely in proportion to your inner realization that you do not want him, but only the excitement involved in searching for him. [...]

[...] You chase him precisely because you were fairly certain you would not have him, for it was the search, again, that was important. [...]

[...] The man will be connected with an organization, or you will meet him first as a representative of some kind of an organization or bureau.

[...] No one would have him because of his daughter. The girl, when she could, defied him. [...]

[...] No one would have him. He had no one now to talk to, and he hated his daughter the more, and railed that she had forsaken him in his old age, after he had cared for her through the long years.

[...] Here he was a woman of some artistic ability, the mother of two sons, one who had been connected with him in the past.

[...] (Pause.) John’s wife loves him, and has been made subconsciously to see the good points in his personality. [...]

[...] It, if followed, would do him good however. It would be most beneficial for him to do some sketching at the riverbanks. [...]

Since he finished his ego has held him in a tight clamp. [...]

[...] You did well Joseph, teaching him discipline, but as he never goes halfway, so sometimes he learns his lessons too well. [...]

[...] Wait until an idea presses him for expression.

The experience however shocked him, hence the shock later on when he turns this into a dream. [...] He was not to have recalled its true nature, and it was hoped that he would elaborate the experience into a dream which would be composed of the constructive elements which the experience had given him.

[...] This was an attempt to build his confidence, and to show him how clearly reception can be if his abilities are fully utilized.

Instead the experience frightened him, although only momentarily, for upon immediately awakening his mood was one of joy, and the earlier fear was forgotten. [...]

He would not accept the responsibility that he felt such ability would put upon him, and so he looked for an outside source of the voices, and dreamed the sequence in which the voices came from a radio, and not his head. [...]

Also she loves Philip, and would not consciously want to dominate him if she could. He senses this subconscious need of hers however to hold him, and resents it vigorously. She attempts to dominate him in her own way, and on a subconscious basis, and it is indeed by appealing to him through helplessness. At the same time she does not want him to give in to her.

[...] We shall have some remarks later that will pertain to him.

[...] Seth has advised patience here; John said this is difficult for him but that he is carefully considering the advice. [...]

Ruburt is not particularly pleased with what he knows I am about to say, but I am not held by the same social rules that hold him in this particular matter, and I know Philip perhaps better than he does.

I was really excited to think that a psychologist would do his own experimentation with projection, and I wrote him. [...] He never made me feel that I had to prove anything, which was pretty tricky of him actually, since he wanted to satisfy himself as to the authenticity of the Seth sessions.

[...] Yet Seth not only took him on, but in some way I still don’t understand, he used Gene’s own terminology and jargon to beat him at his own game—and with humor and grace.

[...] It was Bill’s uneasiness that kept him from calling earlier, and I didn’t want to call and prompt him.

[...] Once I laughed to myself and thought: “I’ll have to send him a telegram.” [...]