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Ruburt has always had a difficulty—if he will forgive me—in integrating the various abilities that are his. [...] The duty he imposed upon himself this time was to integrate these two strong aspects of himself, and he has had his difficulties in doing so. [...]

Now briefly, we will continue while Ruburt learns how to manipulate his controls. [...]

[...] I was, forgive me, his mother. [...]

[...] For indeed I have no wish to burst his lungs apart. [...]

[...] He seemed to have some difficulty with a lung, or his lungs. [...]

California was in his mind strongly, also. [...]

[...] Also he sent a telegram I believe, either to someone, or he will send one to his mother.

(Apropos of this question, in ESP class eight days later Seth had this to say about Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution:

He was on his way to the holy lands. His shoes had been stolen as he slept. [...]

Asia was where you saw him though he was in many other places, traveling in his middle years (Jane dictates:) doing penance for his sins according to the customs of the age.

(The ink sketch I did more than a year ago represents man bound by his senses, yet peering out through the wires trying to see more.

It is true that the Sinful Self carries with it a group of patterns or reactions; methods of dealing with problems, and so Ruburt’s beliefs along those lines have colored his reactions, his plans, his dealings with you through the years. [...]

(Long pause.) He is learning to create whole private and public worlds that directly correspond to his own states of mind. [...]

[...] There is a certain rhythm to these sessions —that is, to this particular group—so that certain elements are strongly presented for his consideration. They serve as focal points of his interest, of course, and initiate various physical and psychological responses. [...]

(I told Jane at 8:39 that I didn’t know whether or not Seth was through with his Prentice-Hall material, and she said that we’d gotten to the heart of it. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s forgotten dream was a clear psychological statement in which all of the elements in his personality momentarily joined not only for a discussion, so to speak, but blended their forces, exerted their energies, and set up a firm intent to clarify the entire situation, and to exert all of their energies in a successful healing venture. [...]

[...] Some difficulty with his throat, or his wife’s throat, on the left side. [...]

[...] The individual in physical life shows his surface face, so to speak, outward. [...]

[...] (Pause.) I believe that he should have kept to his original course.

The projection of the man’s anima, or hidden female self, upon [his] relations is quite natural, and allows him not only to understand them better but to relate with the other female existences of his own. [...]

[...] More often than not, true awareness of the situation often becomes almost conscious, and just beneath awareness the individual knows the source of his authentic material.

[...] The reasons have to do with the particular way in which mankind has chosen to evolve and use his abilities; and I will have more to say regarding this point, but it does not belong in this chapter.

[...] In that universe the individual has little hope for he will return to the nonexistence that his random physical creation came from. [...] And the individual has no control over his destiny for it can be swept aside at any point by random fate over which he has no recourse. [...]

[...] I have a warning for you—Ruburt is about to let his hair grow. [...]

(To Dennis.) I meant for him to allow himself expansion, both mental and physical and do not let him get bound up in his problems. [...]

[...] I want you to be spontaneously happy with him and to allow his spontaneous happiness to come across to you, and do not be a bitchy old dog. [...]

[...] Seth devoted the first delivery this evening to material for her, then began working on his book when break ended at 10:07.)

Now: Dictation: There is a constant give and take between each individual and his or her society; the divisions and characteristics of any particular civilization will be a perfect exterior representation of the overall attributes of the people within it, as they relate to one another and as they see themselves.

[...] He thinks of it still to some degree as his book, rather than mine, and was worried that it would not do as well.

[...] Tell him to let his body alone in the same fashion. [...]

[...] They are also painting a highly prejudiced view of reality, leaving out all matters concerning man’s heroism, love of his fellow creatures, his wonder, sympathy, and the great redeeming qualities of the natural world itself. [...]

[...] Again, however, the individual must make his or her own choice, and without facing the additional burden of worrying whether or not the soul itself will be condemned for such an act.

The sinus became aggravated again Ruburt did the presentation for Eleanor, and to his way of thinking was, at least, immediately put off by Eleanor—no decision in official terms.

All of the fears are based of course on the belief that Ruburt must write to justify his existence. [...]

[...] These should be on the idea of his basic worth as a being, apart from what he does. [...]

No man can look in his son’s face,
What was done to him he does in turn,
For he carries the hate in his blood.
Ghosts of days forgotten,
Tragedies unseen, unspoken,
Wait in the past’s proud flesh,
And nothing can shake them off.

And when I looked around me, it seemed that for all of man’s good intentions, he only transmitted the errors of his race; that each man or woman unknowingly perpetuated the peculiar sins and failings of their families. [...]

Old hates lie in wait for the infant
As he grows into a man,
Then they leap upon him
When he puts his father’s coat on.
When the father’s bones drop into the grave,
The lice flock up as the dark earth falls
To feed on a son’s guilt love.

[...] So while this book is devoted to Seth’s theories on the nature of dreams and his instructions on their use, it is not meant to be a definitive statement. [...]

[...] You give constructions their appearance of continuity by continually creating them in line with your expectations, based upon among other things, previous constructions in the apparent past; and these expectations are the result of psychic communication between yourselves and others, particularly from parents, who give the child his first conceptions of the environment which, indeed, his parents have created.

[...] Our friend accepted the invitation, with the proviso that he would come to the apartment providing his office was clear of patients by 9 PM. [...]

[...] By 8:55 Doc Piper had not appeared, and from my studio in the back of the apartment I could look across backyards and see his office lights still on. [...]

[...] She is of the opinion that Seth likes to deliver his material in batches, whether they be long or short.

[...] They well understood the evils of violence in earthly terms, but they would have denied the individual’s right to learn this his own way, and thus prevented the individual from using his own methods, creatively, to turn the violence into constructive areas. [...]

As a child is physically protected from some diseases for a while after he emerges from his mother’s womb, so for a brief period is the child cushioned against some psychic disasters for a short period after birth, and carries within him, still for his comfort, memories of past existences and places. [...]

[...] He has a responsibility to and for the civilization in which he has each existence, for he helps form it through his own thoughts, emotions, and actions.

[...] Until very recently, however, Ruburt did not recognize that he often placed the worst kind of connotations upon, for example, his own condition, or behavior in certain manners. [...]

(10:42.) At one time man did not know about the existence of any country outside of his own. [...]

[...] In the meantime, with the Cézanne material and the painting, he is opening up other areas that will make certain portions of my new book possible, for certain levels of understanding are acquired on his part.

Personally, Ruburt understands however that he exaggerated the negative elements of his condition, thinking that he was being realistic. [...]

[...] You are jealous in that regard of what you consider his spontaneity. You envy him his pleasure while feeling you should not feel envious. [...]

[...] Imagine, the interrelationship, for example, between his hand and the particular portion of your body that it is touching. [...]

[...] Let yourself be lost in the wonder of his hand upon your thigh, of the heat between the hand and the thigh, and forget the word or thought of sexual orgasm. [...]

When his lips touch your hand—if you do it in the sense of play and allow your native awareness to function.

(Jane continues:) In a sense the present individual in any given life could be called a fragment of his entire entity, having all the properties of the original entity, though they remain latent or unused. [...] The image that your friend saw was, as I said, a personality fragment of his own. [...] This type of personality fragment is of different origin than your friend, who is himself a fragment of his own entity. [...]

Seldom, but sometimes, an individual may send a personality fragment image into another level of existence entirely, even without his own knowledge. [...] Sometimes the individual is not even capable of assimilating this knowledge, or even recognizing his own returning personality image. [...]

[...] His emotions were not creatively—if you’ll excuse the term—destructive. [...]

Ruburt received certain kinds of knowledge by taking various jobs throughout his early adulthood, including factory work or whatever. That knowledge was used in all of his writing. [...] When he sold Avon he was hearing the questions that his own work would later try to answer. [...]

[...] To a lesser degree, Ruburt’s agility, his performance as a dancer and so forth, gave him the feeling that even physical achievements carried an ease that many did not possess. [...]

[...] Ruburt was astonished, and became more so at the spontaneous nature of his own and my creativity. [...]

(10:12.) Now: Ruburt’s hearing is not impeded (long pause), meaning that he is not losing his hearing. [...]

Man, staying within the core of his arbitrarily designated selfhood, can in truth be compared to early physical man, cowering within his cave. [...]

(Also, glimpse of teen-age boy in light clothing and sneakers trying to crack some walnuts on a painted wood floor by stamping down on them energetically with his left foot. I heard or felt the thump of his foot on the floor. [...]

(This afternoon Jim Tennant, who was scheduled to be a witness tonight, called Jane at the gallery and told her he would be unable to attend the session because his wife is in the hospital.

[...] Any particular self theoretically could expand his consciousness to contain the universe and everything in it. [...]