“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] His main consciousness was merged with mine in the session format; while in the waking experience his consciousness was in the normal image, which sensed the projected one. In the first experience then Ruburt projected an image outward and his consciousness entered it, then he had a session by the same mechanics we always use. [...]

[...] At another level however Ruburt was projecting a portion of his psyche outward, and from his own position viewing us at least to some extent.

His understanding had to grow to match, and so did yours. [...] In daily life this means that he finally understands that his negative feelings were methods that he chose to automatically keep the body in a certain condition. [...]

[...] (Yesterday afternoon, Sunday, August 10, 1975.) In a state between usual waking or sleeping he found himself giving a session such as this one, where earlier he had only heard my words in his head.

The soreness in his legs sometimes at night should be easily understood, for work can be done then when he is not on his feet. [...] His arms have been sore at night but he did not worry, and the results are easily showing. As he said many times, he does not walk on his arms. He is balancing on his legs and feet, however. [...]

Ruburt’s work with the contents of the mind, for example, is barely started, and I will include his exercises in my book (amused)—while giving him full credit, of course. [...]

His progress is excellent, for each release signifies in ways literally impossible to explain the disappearance of a small or large “negative” belief. [...]

[...] That exteriorized concept is a symbol for man’s fear of his own inner energy. [...]

[...] The ommm exercises, with his late understanding, relieved the body enough so that the excellent rune exercises began to work, on his mind as well as his body. He allowed his body, finally, to begin to demonstrate some action. This is because he suspended his self-disapproval for a while.

[...] His interpretation of your dreams should make that apparent. So he spoke of his new chair and the Wanda incident and the piece of jewelry (from Frank) in one breath. [...]

[...] In the back of your mind you questioned whether giving him a new, more comfortable chair to work in was or was not a smart thing to do: would it encourage him to retreat to his room and his writing, and simply serve to intensify old conditions? [...]

[...] You also wanted Ruburt to be aware of your concern, hoping that the concern would serve to accelerate his own determination and ability, and to trigger his resources so that a medical visit would not indeed be necessary.

[...] Sometimes at certain periods in his life schedules are good, focusing his energies in certain directions. [...]

This is for a definite schedule on his part for a while, that will channel his energy in creative goals, and also toward some physical goals—and incidentally away from the symptoms.

The trust in the nature of his own being is important. When it seemed you were rejecting him this aggravated his own doubts. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s personality shows in his writings and his individual interpretations; your personalities should always be considered as assets. [...]

I suggest that under the circumstances, this time Ruburt step aside and let Jim Crosson have his day. [...] He needs to feel, particularly after retirement, that he is looked up to and needed, and can hold his own and attract an audience.

Ruburt will do much better on his own in a program, but should definitely not shunt Jim Crosson aside, for he is very vulnerable to slights. [...] Better in fact than usual, and he, at least, will consider it one of the high points of his career.

[...] (Long pause.)There are some family problems on his mind. His wife is anxious for him, and the engagement will give him new impetus that would carry him for several years. [...]

[...] John attended it on Tuesday, October 19, and it was while he was engaged in this endeavor that Jane tuned in on his activities. John clashed with his superior at the meeting, and because of his outspoken actions had no thought of getting a raise.)

(John Bradley told us that when Seth mentioned his becoming aware of more inner communications in the future, he felt a twinge of fear. John said one of his favorite expressions has been that he had never wanted to be able to read tomorrow’s paper today. I answered that perhaps John was beginning to change his mind at least subconsciously.

[...] He had decided to see if he could postpone his business appointment until tomorrow. Before he left however, he described to Jane and me a plan that he had broached to his brothers and sisters, concerning the care of his invalid mother in Philadelphia. [...]

[...] He felt that mail awaited him, that the letter was from his district manager, and that it concerned a raise for him. Ego-wise, John doubted the whole thing, especially so since he had not been getting along too well with his superior recently.

[...] That person will soon stop his efforts. [...] He may write his name on a check, or scrawl an inadequate letter to a relative, and his very handwriting might even deteriorate. The writing ability is still there, though his performance is as impeded as Ruburt’s is in his walking.

Nothing would make Ruburt comply, of course, to the suggestion unless it met with his own acceptance, because of his own fears.

[...] Ruburt did not have to follow that suggestion either, but it also fitted in with his intents. He had his reasons for following it. [...]

[...] In a manner of speaking, you encouraged him to become more dependent in that way, while encouraging him to use his mental and psychic abilities. [...] He went along, you see, for it suited his purposes also.

The man is using his own energies less effectively, since so much of them are being consumed in nervousness. He has not learned to conserve his energies, but to use them at all it seems that he must allow them almost to explode, so that there is little reserve. [...]

There will also be suggestions given as to needed adjustments on the part of the personality during his business hours. In other words, there are small but important adjustments that can be made within the framework of his present working life. [...]

[...] 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.

[...] It will depend upon his desire to be cured. [...] It will depend upon, in the last analysis, the individual’s own ability to mobilize his own energies, for only these will effect a cure.

[...] By all means let Ruburt continue to express his feelings to you about the situation, however, and reassure him of his body’s competence. [...]

Later editors did not see eye to eye with him about his work. He learned that his work must be sold in the marketplace if he wanted to continue writing. [...]

[...] Ruburt signed for the book but had difficulty with his presentation, and it represented his indecisions, so Tam respectfully at first suggested large alterations. [...]

[...] Overall Ruburt felt quite competent, however, even in battling away at his advances two-thousand dollars at a time. He valued the relative permanency of the association, judging it in his mind against other situations in which time might otherwise be necessary to find a different publisher for each book, or an agent with whom Ruburt might feel rapport. [...]

He is himself a person who brought about a vital breakthrough in his own knowledge, an acceleration of creativity quite extraordinary, that led to these sessions, and these sessions have literally expanded the realities of many, many people. His abilities and powers of concentration are not ordinary. He has however thus far not nearly utilized the information that he has, and in the meantime he became frightened that his will had little power to change the course of events.

[...] The ideas, for example, in Personal Reality are exactly those that will resolve his doubts and remove his fears, and the techniques given do work.

[...] Fears should not he inhibited, but encountered, and yet behind all of them, in your time at least, lies the feeling that the individual is powerless against the conditions of his body or the events of the world.

Intuitively Ruburt blazed through such beliefs—intuitively—and his books and mine are evidence of that. [...]

He took these steps for his own reasons, but you have come together in a joint reality, so his situation is teaching you things that you wanted to learn, and you are learning through his example. [...]

[...] He differed from you only in that he carried your own ideas and his further in certain respects. [...] Ruburt did not know that his abilities could ever bring him money.

[...] Nebene has his existence in his own now as himself, and there are many others. [...]

[...] His physical difficulty has involved then his ideas of economical action—the cutting out of waste. [...]

(9:52.) He has switched his attention from the target, of course, completely. He has projected upon the present event the picture of his fears, rather than the picture of his original intent. His body, responding to his mental images and his thoughts, brings out actions that mirror his confusion.

[...] When the erroneous belief systems and negativity connected with so-called rational reason apply, then it is as if our person sees the target, but instead of directing his attention to it he concentrates upon all of the different ways that his arrow could go wrong: It could fall to the left or the right, go too far or not far enough, break in the air, fall from his hand, or in multitudinous other ways betray his intent.

The individual is, again, a stranger, almost an alien, in his or her own environment, in which he must struggle to survive, not only against the “uncaring” forces of the immediate environment, but against the genetic determinism. He must fight against his own body, overemphasize its susceptibility to built-in defects, diseases, and against a built-in time bomb, so to speak, when without warning extinction will arrive. [...]

(9:23.) It is not just that each person has his or her source in a “magical” dimension, from which his or her overall life emerges, but that the private source itself is a part of the very energy that upholds the entire planet and its inhabitants, and the overall construct that you understand as the universe.

(10:02.) Paul (Saul of Tarsus) had his vision. Now the vision (in which Paul not only saw the light of Christ, but heard his voice) happened in the world of fact. It occurred—but Paul did not see, or communicate with (long pause), a person of divine heritage, sent by his father to earth, who lived the life of the official Christ, and who was crucified. Paul had a vision in response to the needs, desires, and dictates of his own psyche as it was connected to the world of his time, following the patterns of stories about Christ that he had heard that had begun to release within him a great yearning that was, in that vision, then, expressed.⁴

(Long pause at 9:44.) It is probably almost impossible for man to see that he forms the idea of historical context through his own associations and focuses. The heavy, specialized use of so-called rational thought has often caused him to narrow even his neurological recognition of other kinds of experience that might enlarge his view. [...]

On November 4 our country’s president lost his bid for a second term. [...] Iraq invaded Iran on September 23; on November 4 also, the president of Iraq proclaimed that his country is prepared to fight a long war for the recognition of its “rights” by Iran.

[...] His steps by the couch are (underlined) firmer. His back begins to arch more naturally. [...]

His abilities are considerable in the healing line, and again for this reason it is extremely important that he is understanding of himself as well as others. His ego is (underlined) a kind one, but the structure of any ego is such that it considers, or can consider easily, psychic ability as a sign of its own power; or feel possessive of the ability, and overly proud of it, even when it knows it originates in other layers of the self. 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.

[...] (Small smile.) The extent and potential of his healing abilities are considerable. It is therefore all the more important that he always try (pause), to use discipline and caution, that he think in terms of helping other individuals, and that he not glorify his own position egotistically, thinking, “Since I can heal you, I am therefore superior to you,” even though the idea is partially hidden from his own consciousness, and even though he feels kindly—put in here that I smiled—while feeling so superior.

[...] He must also make sure of the integrity of his motives, and learn to recognize his own motives. [...]

[...] She said Seth could have continued for an hour, etc., in his excellent mood. His presence had been immediate this evening.

[...] Tell him to think lovingly of his hands, as he has been doing with other areas of his body. [...] Tell him he is handling his affairs well now.

There have been changes in the past month, extremely important in his mental and spiritual condition, and along with this the release of mental and psychic energies, and healthy concentration in all areas of his work, with reasonable and optimistic plans for the future. [...]

[...] Ruburt should tell himself now that all other tensions can leave through his fingertips, not back up there you see but go completely outward. [...] His idea to have long hair (smile) at this particular point is beneficial, for it means to him the luxury of both sexuality and sense, sensual extravagance. [...]

[...] His nature is such that the experience had to be given outward to others, and he knew that in order to do this he had to come to terms with it himself. [...]

[...] His intuitive knowledge however will become a part of his present personality. [...] This is one of his secret worries, you see. [...]

[...] His writing ability has always been based on intuitive leaps. [...] This is why his most effective and publishable fiction was in the form of fantasy.

[...] He does, I believe, realize how his have been collected together and directed because of his association with you.

[...] In his own way he has tried to be true to this, but his own critical faculties threatened to disunite 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.

(This session was held for John Pitre and his wife Peg of Franklin, LA, following John’s telephone call to Jane earlier this evening. [...]

(John reported that his wife was very ill, had been in the hospital recently for several weeks, etc., and had not entered into a very deep trance state during sessions with a hypnotherapist; Seth had recommended Peg see such a professional. [...]

He lost his own wife, and was left with a highly neurotic and completely crippled daughter, for whom he cared for many years. [...]

[...] John baptized Christ at the beginning of his ministry in A.D. 26 to 27, when he was about thirty. John was already active in his own ministry, and often called himself a “forerunner of one who would be nobler and stronger.” [...]

Paul needed the strongest egotistical strength because of his particular duties. He was far less aware consciously of his role for this reason. [...]

[...] Before his conversion, he knew he had a purpose and mission, and flung himself with all the passion of his being into whatever answers he thought he had found.

The Lord of Righteousness, so called, was such a person, but his over-zealous nature held him back.

[...] His purpose and his psychological progress have led him to further activations, and as I have said several times, this means that sometimes he will feel like walking, and will do so with a relative amount of balance, and on other occasions, perhaps 20 minutes earlier or later, his walking might be uncomfortable and “worse” in performance.

The gentle encouragement and the gentle stretching of the legs in his chair is excellent. They will gradually loosen and take his weight. [...]

[...] Once I’d written it down, I saw that its subject matter fit in very well with the idea of good and evil, and told Jane I hoped Seth would use it in any discussion of his own.

[...] The development of tools gave man options in the way and manner of killing his prey.

A stranger stood there, a man with thinning hair, deeply set dark eyes, a pudgy face, perhaps in his late 40’s—I’m not sure. His hair was black and straight. [...] I could see that his pointed shoes looked rather worn. [...]

Standing outside the screen door, Fred closed his eyes and dropped his head down to his chest. [...]

[...] He sat in the back seat very docilely, in his white shirt and dark-colored tie. [...] Even in his drastic situation, I thought at the time, our society in some fashion had a way to take care of him, hopefully. But would society—could it—transport him all the way home to Denver, were he telling the truth about his origins? [...]

[...] So would his manuscript (not a bad title, that), although we couldn’t quote it. [...] All of his behavior was consistent with his beliefs, I’d say. [...]