“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] We also agreed on a letter to him. [...]

A while earlier this evening Ruburt read something that made him wonder whether or not he had, or could develop, healing ability. [...]

The nervous cigarette habit does not help him however, for it diverts his energies. [...]

[...] I am not able yet to give him a visual image during a test. [...]

As a result there are bursts of communication, followed by an urge for secrecy, as if he could lose himself through these communications to others; as if with each word energy escaped from him so that he would want to hold it back in protection.

He realizes—and will more so—he realizes that the inner self need not be so heavily guarded, that his identity will not escape from him like a dog who leaves the leash.

It is surely a sad sight to think of this poor monk, trying to find his monastery, and prayer only betraying him indeed as he falls into the stream. [...]

(Again Tam said Seth knew him well psychologically. [...]

Ruburt’s physical performance this afternoon should certainly show him that his body is indeed capable of normal motion. [...]

Only fear and distrust have held him back. [...]

This afternoon’s physical performance does indeed represent another important breakthrough, for he felt within him that ease and motion, that release of tension that is so vital for his body’s normal, healthy performance. [...]

[...] Reason does not have to tell him how to do this.

In the same way, simply and gently, let him address his legs, telling them his intent to walk again. [...]

(Pause at 4:35.) At this particular time, it is indeed a good idea for him to imagine himself walking, almost in a detached manner. [...]

[...] There is no need for him to punish himself now either, because he did not take full advantage of his psychic opportunities. [...]

He did feel that you had withdrawn from him as far as his writing was concerned, and he has a need for warm daily affection, which he felt you had also withdrawn, for varying periods, and that you did not care that he was feeling poorly. [...]

He compares himself unfavorably with what seem to him to be more spiritual psychics. [...]

[...] She talked him out of his nuclear-arms policies, and out of the devil — and evil — idea. [...]

[...] Those feelings are also meant to be used as impetuses to lead him in the proper directions, so that indeed those desires are fulfilled. [...]

Again, have him almost as nonchalantly as possible imagine himself behaving as normally as possible in the future. [...]

[...] I make no attempt to dominate Ruburt’s private life nor, indeed would I expect him to allow it. [...] I have helped him in that his personality operates more effectively. [...]

“In our experiments, often, I will give him an impression, and he will automatically translate it into visual terms … There is sometimes at his end a last tug and pull, so that the vocal mechanism will finally speak the correct interpretation. Of course Ruburt’s own associations are used by me, up to a certain point, to lead him to the proper subject or image … When we are successful there is a divergence from his associations so that he says the correct word, even though for him personally it may be the wrong word.

There is no danger, and I will repeat this: There is no danger of dissociation grabbing a hold of him like some black, vague and furry monster, carrying him away to the netherlands of hysteria, schizophrenia, or insanity … Withdrawal into dissociation as a hiding place from the world could, of course, have dire consequences. [...]

[...] We met “Dr. Instream,” as Jane called him in The Seth Material, but once, a few weeks after I’d written him in the spring of 1965 about Jane’s growing psychic abilities. [...]

[...] My notes at the time show that I was also distinctly surprised by Seth’s comments on his emotional behavior at his own “level of activity,” but I soon understood my reaction as a sign that we still had things to learn about him, as well as ourselves. In one passage Seth referred to some health difficulties, now resolved, that had bothered me just before our sessions with him began.

[...] These will be points to ask him about if I decide to explain the envelope material to him.

[...] Ruburt here thinks of the photographs taken in your studio, of him.

[...] Neither of us have met Wendell’s business partner, Mr. Taylor, or know anything about him—not even if he is still living.

[...] Wendell’s letter of May 26 was in answer to a letter I wrote him last February. [...]

[...] That belief generates certain actions or events, so that practically speaking, while he sees the flames, and perhaps smells the smoke, the heat of the fire will have no effect—because for him its character is changed. [...]

For him, the area taken up by the fire becomes “dimensionally neutral.” [...]

[...] Actually, what I can only call an invisible shield protects him from the flames, so that his feet and ankles are surrounded by an aura that repels the fire actively. [...]

[...] He is simply acting according to another belief, but he is being true to his nature, which in this case led him to the desire for such an achievement. [...]

[...] She began speaking for him in December 1963, and shows no signs of slackening her output. [...] According to him, these “entity names” mean only that in our present lives we identify more with the male aspects of our entities, or whole selves — which in themselves are neither male or female, but contain within them a number of other selves [of both sexes] to whom we’re related, or a part of, reincarnationally and otherwise.

(I also think that Seth himself could have some pretty funny things to say here to Jane and me — some day I’ll ask him — words with which he’d humorously caution us not to take the whole affair too seriously, to leave room in our daily lives for the simple, uninhibited joy of creative expression and living even while we study his unending outpouring of material. [...]

[...] So tell Ruburt not to judge himself too harshly, and in all of this have him try to remember his sense of play….”

[...] I’d also forgotten to remind him to do so. [...]

I intend to speak more concerning your friend, we can initiate a program for him. [...]

[...] Also perhaps an adjustment here on the woman’s part that will aid him.

[...] If he can see that he is indeed responsible for the condition of his physical body in the most practical manner possible, then it will be much easier for him to picture his own cure.

[...] He has caused the illness, whether it be organic or otherwise, and only suggestion will rid him of it.

You are aware of the nonsense connected with artists and poets and so forth—that they are too sensitive for the world, that great talent brings spiritual desolation, and that a man’s genius more often destroys him than fulfills him. [...]

[...] Remind him to walk at least twice daily, and to add to that when possible. Have him forget his ideas of the exclusive expression of creativity, mental or physical. [...]

[...] It gave him a professional respectability, a feeling of worth and merit. [...]

[...] I could have helped him further, but I was [part of what he was investigating] …

(Seth continued:) He also began to see two poles in society one highly conventional and closed, in which he would appear as a charlatan; and another, yearning but gullible, willing to believe anything if only it offered hope, in which his activities would be misinterpreted, and to him [would be] fraudulent … There was a middle ground that he would have to make for himself … to make a bridge to those intellectuals who doubted, and yet maintain some freedom and spontaneity in order to reach those at the other end. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) The chute landed on top of him, never fully opened. [...]

[...] All I have here are the letters (spelled out) D E L. Someone connected with him has a sister in Spokane. [...]

I told him some time ago, before sleep, to see himself in highly flexible forms of activity, running, jumping or dancing, and I repeat this now. He should also begin again to suggest that his own subconscious will help him in the dream state, for the images he encounters there can be most beneficial.

[...] The encouragement of your presence is of psychic benefit to Ruburt, and the exercise in working with the personal subconscious is of help to him also. [...]

(I got really mad at him, and told him off in no uncertain terms, threatening, I believe, legal action if I didn’t get that car back that he’d promised me. [...]

[...] I believe I told him off once or twice. [...]

[...] I was most interested tonight as Seth discussed the implications of the letter, along with two thoughts Jane had picked up from him a week ago Monday, on the day she held the 915th session: “Alone, reason finally becomes unreasonable. [...]

(9:02.) Man, then, has sometimes stressed the power of the imagination and let its great dramatic light illuminate the physical events about him, so that they were largely seen through its cast. [...]

I do not mean to idealize him either, or others of his kind, but to point out that you can use your imaginations and intellects in other fashions than you do. [...]

[...] It confused and haunted him, since his inarticulateness applied also to thoughts within himself. [...] But to him nature did not include his fellow human beings. The solitariness that besieged him—because it did besiege him—is dangerous to any personality unless it comes after identification with the human race.

(“Why was Jane so attached to him when she was a child?”)

[...] He considered that he aged as a tree will age, but perversely he felt that others aged to spite him.

[...] I have not assimilated him completely but you can believe me, I intend to.

[...] I would also suggest that you visit your younger brother much more frequently than you have in the past, and indeed that you do not let more than two months go by before you visit him for a weekend. Unlike you and Loren, he does not have a strongly developed ego core to protect him. [...]

[...] Jane felt that Seth wanted to go on, but had so many points of departure to choose from that he couldn’t decide which to pursue first.”I can feel him buzzing around,” she said just before she resumed dictating at 9:50.)

In drawing up his list of so-called natural laws, I have said that man decided that what appeared to be cause and effect to him was therefore a natural law of the universe. [...]

Man’s ego causes him to interpret everything else in the light of himself. [...]