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The individual is made to feel powerless, at the mercy of doctors or nurses who often do not have the time or energy to be personable, or to explain his [or her] condition in terms that he can understand. The patient is therefore forced to transfer his own sense of power to others, which further deepens his misery; this in turn reinforces the sense of powerlessness that initiated his condition.

(Pause.) Love, as it is often experienced, allows an individual to take his sense of self-worth from another for a time, and to at least momentarily let the other’s belief in his goodness supersede his own beliefs in lack of worth. [...]

[...] In many cases the belief of a doctor in a person who is ill revives him and rearouses his own belief in himself. The patient’s confidence in the doctor will then reinforce the entire medical procedure, and he may then be filled with faith in his recovery. [...]

She had been going from psychic to psychic, dabbling in automatic writing and seeing little of her husband, who was involved in his own business affairs. [...]

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. Certain necessary developments are taking place that will appear in Politics, and they are developments that will now be within his reach.

[...] To some extent however they represent the weight of your own beliefs that Ruburt added to his own symptoms. [...] Your work with the pendulum, again, is important, for it assures him that you believe enough in a safe universe to encourage his freedom, and your own.

[...] The physical release will bring him into a closer contact with his psyche, in which he will find it safe to progress even further in his studies and development.

[...] Jane spoke to John Nelson this evening before the session; he called her from his place, after failing to reach her this afternoon. [...]

(Leaning forward, speaking intently but half-humorously:) I have memories of being Ruburt — but the Ruburt I was is not the Ruburt that Ruburt is in his reality. He surprises me, and his reactions alter my past. In his terms I am a future self, with far greater knowledge, yet he uses that knowledge to alter his present reality; and when I was Ruburt I did not have that knowledge. [...]

5. Point 5 at the start of this session contains my note that later I added to Appendix 18 a few of the comments Seth made in last night’s ESP class, concerning his connections with Jane. Seth obviously elaborated on that material here, but instead of quoting it in Appendix 18 also, I thought of letting the reader first come across it in this session; and so, to whatever tiny extent, this additional information now alters each reader’s present reality by changing his or her conception of that Jane-Ruburt-Seth relationship.

(3. On his life as a minor pope in the fourth century A.D.: “I was a petty, religious politician.” [...]

(4. Seth also said that it would be “not practical” and “boring” for him to relive his life as a pope, then added: “In those terms, many people do choose to reexperience what you would think of as a past existence in order to change it as they go along.” [...]

[...] He would follow in his father’s footsteps. [...] His position was a poor one, yet its freedoms and limitations were known, and his value, whatever it was, was accepted as his station in life. [...]

The peasant was poor because he was basically brutish as a result of his parentage. The gentleman was accomplished because a certain refinement came into his blood because of his royal—or nearly—parentage. [...]

[...] A man proved his worth as he moved through the new society’s levels—an exhilarating experience after centuries of a stratified society. [...]

In many past societies, soothsayers, dream experts, poets and artists were the most revered members, for they constantly replenished man’s creative abilities, allowed him to see his position within society and in the natural world with fresh eyes. [...]

The individual therefore reacts to his interior environment or psychic environment in the same way that he reacts to his physical situation. And as he changes his physical situation through reacting to it, so he changes his interior or psychic situation as he reacts to it.

As a personality is molded by his exterior circumstances, so is he also molded by the dreams that he creates, and which help to form his interior or psychic environment. [...]

If the personality handles his dream activities capably, then the problem action finds release. [...]

[...] Consider however a situation in which the personality needs to express dependency, but feels that such an expression is not possible within his waking experience. [...]

[...] This time, however, he decided not to call his friends, and he went about his business. In about a half hour the same mental activity returned, and, finding himself struck by this, Ruburt mentioned the episode to Joseph and again cast it from his mind.

[...] Now the visit and Ruburt’s earlier feelings and thoughts were part of the same event, except that his subjective experience gave him clues as to the inner processes by which all events take place. [...] More is involved than the question: Did he perceive his information directly from the minds of his friends, or from the letter itself, which had already been mailed, of course, and was on its way to Ruburt at the time?

[...] Then he became aware that those particular thoughts were intrusive, completely out of context with his immediately previous ones, for only a moment or so earlier he had been congratulating himself precisely because he had made no plans for the day or evening at all that would involve guests or other such activities. [...]

[...] He remembered the vividness of his feelings at the time, however. [...]

[...] The second group of his experiments should find you in the heightened period of psychic activity that I mentioned this autumn, and then circumstances should be excellent. Do not attempt to approach him simply because there will be unstable elements and a fine balance to be maintained, his visual appearance being dependent upon many conditions. [...]

[...] His mother and Ella (his sister) are with him. [...]

His mother is helping him now. She was the only one who could ever help him find his way. [...]

[...] After for example his book is done.

[...] He seeks to emulate him; he seeks to be himself as fully as it seems to him that his father was himself. He hopes to go beyond himself and his own capabilities for himself and for his father.

To the male child, the penis is something that belongs to him personally in the same way that an arm or leg does, or that his mouth or anus does. [...] He is not jealous of his father’s love for the mother, for he understands quite well that her love for him is just as strong. He does not wish to possess his mother sexually in the way that adults currently suppose. [...]

[...] The father contributes his share in each case. [...]

Now: In some historical periods it was desirable in practical terms that a man have many wives, so that if he died in battle his seed might be planted in many wombs — particularly in times when diseases struck men and women down often in young adulthood.

(Long pause at 9:16.) Have him keep his recorder at handy reach out there also. Energy exercises and imaginings must become part of his day. When he is in his room, let him begin to court his creative self (leaning to her right, eyes closed....)

I simply want you to know that you are beginning well—for you are really beginning with a new resoluteness a program, a program on Ruburt’s part to trust the energy of his being, the motion, inspiration and vitality that gave him birth and continues to sustain him. [...]

(Long pause.) Ruburt should indeed now go into his back room once or possibly twice a day. [...]

[...] Ruburt should make an effort to follow through on whatever suggestions I give, for they are meant to facilitate his good spirits and recovery. [...]

His own work will go well this week, and his energies be refreshed through his usual activities, and also through painting if he finds time. [...]

(I remember Doc Kiley best from my grade school days, just as I do his sister Helen. [...] I remember his last years were tragic ones; he killed a woman while driving, and became an alcoholic. [...]

[...] Indeed, that details have appeared is evidence of increased confidence on his part.

As for example Freud added a dimension to your world with his discovery of the true subconscious, as far as he was able to perceive it.

When Ruburt does not see people, his reasons are sometimes much like yours, topside. [...] So it seems to him that he does not see people because he is ashamed of his physical condition.

[...] That evening he followed his impulse. [...] A feeling of peace filled him as he enjoyed the evening, and he forgot his physical problems. [...]

[...] JP is to send us a transcript of the session, as well as an advance copy of his interview..

Ruburt allowed himself to act according to his nature, in the circumstances as they were presented. [...]

[...] However it also meant “losing”, in quotes, a portion of his own consciousness, for it was within that portion that they were held in bondage. [...] While he thought of these individuals as his creations, he held them as part of himself and refused their actuality.

[...] And with curiosity and yearning, All That Is paid more and more attention to his own dreams.

[...] He gave consciousness and imagination to individuals while they still were but within his dreams. [...]

In his massive imagination, he understood the cosmic multiplication of consciousness that could not occur within that framework. [...]

Ruburt can tell himself that the same energy that writes his books and that moved his foot up this afternoon can indeed heal those other portions of his body. [...]

[...] He does feel it when his foot moves as it did this afternoon, or when other portions of his body move easily and automatically. [...]

[...] The ritual of the dressings and so forth, and the general concentration upon those portions of his body have, in the past, helped prolong the condition. [...]

In Section 4, then, Seth has more to say about CU and EE units, cellular consciousness, ancient man, evolution, space travel, and other seemingly disparate subjects as he continues to develop his thesis that “biologically the species is equipped to deal with different sequences of time while still manipulating within one particular time scheme.” The reader is invited to experience his or her own “unknown reality” through the study of dreams and practice elements, and to try for psychic travel into other realities. [...]

Among other information in Section 5, Seth gives considerable material designed to help the reader achieve psychic travel; related here is his session on dreams and dream photography. [...] Seth also offers major material on his theories involving “counterparts.” [...]

[...] Seth finished his part of the second volume over a year ago, and since then I’ve carefully gone over my original notes for it; I’ve rewritten almost all of them (often many times) in an effort to get them just right, in my view. [...]

[...] For instance, he lets his ideas about reincarnation and counterparts lead into another main concept — that of the “families of consciousness,” as he calls them. [...]

Ruburt has embarked upon his own journeys into the unknown reality. [...] In his own new book (Politics) Ruburt has his personal way of explaining what he is experiencing, and since he shares the same reality with you, then you will be able to relate — perhaps better, even — to his explanations than to mine.

[...] It carried the stamp of James’s own emotional state at that “time,” when he was viewing his earthly experience, in your terms, from the standpoint of one who had died, could look back, and see where he thought his ideas were valid and where they were not. At that point in his existence, there were changes. [...]

[...] But for now let’s say that Jane knows of James and his work; she’s read parts of his Varieties, for instance, but seemed rather put off by it, where I reread passages from it frequently.

[...] When Seth returned, he delivered half a page of material for Jane and me, including this passage: “He [Ruburt] has made an extraordinary leap into his [psychic] library, and it is freeing him physically. [...] Seth finished his personal material at 12:10 A.M., and we thought the session was over. [...]

[...] It would be better for now (underlined) that he concentrates upon this—his work and full activities. Then in alpha, easily and naturally, let images play into his mind of health and happiness. Your active support, as with getting up, is of great benefit, to reassure him that you will add your own strength to his.

[...] He does need help in redirecting his thoughts in this fashion.

[...] That freedom would quicken your other activities, so that “Larry’s work” would be his and yours more truly, and be speedily accomplished. [...]

[...] He is following his inclinations. [...]

[...] The dreams restate on other levels his conscious decision to be flexible.

[...] His natural inclinations, followed, allow for exercise when it is needed, and rest when it is needed, so that the natural resiliency of the muscles can be expressed without strain. [...]

(On Saturday January 8 Jane and I received a letter from Dr. Instream, asking that Seth do his best to give data on but one object during tests. Dr. Instream also mentioned his difficulty in attempting to repeat an experiment with ESP cards, involving odds of a million-and-a-half to one. [...]

He can also remember it from any viewpoint in his future, if he chooses. He can give this information about this event to his own image as it existed in time before the contact was made. [...]

[...] Take for example then the house in which Ruburt spent his childhood. [...] For each observer quite literally created from his own subconscious energy an approximation of a house, a general shape then perceived as a house, and further embellished by personal judgments.

[...] First of all, I advise Ruburt along these lines: it is best if he not work at his own writing or records up until the last moment or so before a session.

Then he contrasted his present position against the idealized desired one, all of which served to lower his mood, and intensify his susceptibility to the heat, chair pressure, and so forth.

[...] They are not esoteric methods, but you must be convinced that they are the natural methods by which man is meant to handle his problems and approach his challenges.

When Ruburt finished his project (God of Jane), he found himself with all of that time that was supposed to be used (underlined). He also became aware once again of his limitations, physically speaking: There was not much, it seemed, he could do but work, so he took the rational approach — and it says that to solve the problem you worry about it.

[...] He should also vary his nightwear more. [...] It made him realize how limited his activity had become, and again following the prescribed rational prescription, he worried about it.

Ruburt received ideas about his on his own this week, and wrote them down. [...]

As long as he trusts the body’s improvement, he is better off to concentrate upon his poetry, Aspects, and other areas of his life, and to enjoy increasing physical activity. [...]

[...] A new synthesis is taking place concerning Ruburt’s ideas about his writing and life, so that particular session will simply insure that the old ideas are sufficiently broken up so that the new synthesis can form.

[...] His system does not need that white sugar, and yours would be better off without so much of it.