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The shifting of belief may then open him to question his other beliefs, and he realizes that in the area of wealth, for example, he did very well because of his beliefs; but in those others, perhaps deeper experiences opened by his illness, he learns that human experience includes dimensions of reality that had earlier been closed to him, and that these are also easily within his reach — and without the illness that originally brought them forth. [...]

[...] The person who accepts it completely, though, will be wealthy and in excellent health, and everything will fit in quite well with his beliefs. Yet the idea is still a belief about reality, and so there will be invisible gulfs in his experience of which he is ignorant.

[...] Our rich man just mentioned may suddenly realize that his belief is limiting, in that he concentrated upon it exclusively so that money and health became his sole aims. [...]

(Seth’s clever, somewhat humorous stresses in the above paragraph were intended to make certain points to me personally while he continued work on his book. [...]

[...] But he [or she] is discouraged from identifying with the blood of his physical being, so that even his own blood seems alien.

[...] There’s much discussion now of the additional stresses and frustrations encountered by those in the medical disciplines, aside from personality traits or conflicts that can lead an individual to take his or her own life; the suicide of a doctor, for instance, may be triggered by his inability to fulfill the role society expects of him.

[...] He cannot divorce himself from the reality of his patient. [...]

Give us a moment … The complete physician would be a person who learned to understand the dynamics of being, the soul-body relationship — one who was healthy in his or her own body. [...]

(Seth began explaining his source and the source of this material in the very early sessions. In the 15th session for example he likened his state to the dream state of a physical individual. [...] By the 63rd session he was explaining his state as energy not materialized into mass; this after telling us in the 54th session that Jane, Seth and I had been part of the same entity once; he could not tell us this earlier, he said, because Jane and I would have immediately jumped to the conclusion that he was part of Jane’s subconscious mind.

[...] We have heard of Dunne, of course, but have yet to read any of his works; for some reason the library here has none of his books.

[...] If Dunne were able to write another book now, on his time theories, he would be able to correct several of his well-intentioned errors.

(Seth gave his first lengthy dissertation on the above theme in the 12th session, of January 2,1964. [...] He spoke on the idea for several typewritten pages; this was his longest delivery by a wide margin at the time, and Jane and I were quite surprised. [...]

[...] You will also be astounded at the amount of work that will be produced, and is now latently in production, now that he sees that he can be artistically creative in his terms, mix and match the psychic and the creative (dash)—designations. These are still somewhat (underlined) separate to him, yet his ideas of doing good, being right, creating artistically, are now combining.

The psychic work will also enlarge his personal creative endeavors. This is affecting you, releasing your own creative energies, for his holding back in the past reinforced your own tendencies in that direction. [...]

He is growing to new understanding, and he will, as my book progresses, make sure he does not concentrate upon what still needs to be done, but upon his successes and his recent physical improvements.

Your impulses and tendencies, physically speaking, your desires to go out to do things, are better developed now than his, now. [...]

[...] If it makes Ruburt nervous to have his picture taken, it does not bother me, and I welcome you (Rich and Diane) to our session. [...] It seems to me that by now he could learn to trust his impulses. [...] Tell him that I told him not to intellectualize in such instances, but to follow his original impulses.

[...] Seth did most of the talking as usual; and more and more his attention became riveted upon Rich as the latter buzzed around, taking photo after photo, with flash. [...]

[...] I will also see that all the proper information is given in time, and I will try to see to it that Ruburt has the experiences that he should have in order to write his own next book. [...]

[...] Tell him that he is as stubborn out of his body as he is when he is in it. [...]

[...] He had a sick feeling in the pit of his stomach. [...] He felt as if the whole thing was out of his hands. He sat there in his paint-stained khakis, a man almost forty, brave, cowardly, cocky. Before he spoke he tilted his brown-gray head at an earnest angle and stared at her with his usually severe face now wreathed with smiles. [...]

[...] It is as if the personality in sleep projected out of himself bits of himself, of his own physical matter, thinned out, stretched into an amazing plasticity; plastic properties that can change instantly from one form to another. [...]

[...] Because Ruburt is not at his best I am going to close our session, and give you this material at our next regular meeting.

(His wife was drinking a cup of coffee in the kitchen. [...]

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. [...]

He has been getting up in the night because his body wants to exert itself fairly regularly, at this period of time. 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. [...]

When Ruburt allows his body to relax, it uses the opportunity while it has it, so that the relaxation seems exaggerated. [...]

[...] Part of his discussion deals with the broken-glass episode. [...]

Once more, it is extremely important that Ruburt keep his mind on his goals, and not burden his conscious mind by trying to figure out circumstances and conditions that are best handled by the infinite intelligence that is within his own subconscious mind. [...]

The dream accentuated Ruburt’s determination to achieve normal motion, and his insistence in the dream that he depend upon his own mobility, rather than, say, a vehicle or conveyance. [...]

[...] His response was to hide. The better known he became the greater the belief that he must protect himself, and the greater his feeling of unsafety, for now he became known in a world in which it was only safe to hide. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s spontaneity escaped all of his “language,” in other words. His physical mobility will result from the body’s spontaneous creativity. [...]

[...] As he said once, he does not walk on his arms, so the improvement in the legs takes place in such a way that balance can be maintained. [...]

[...] Intimate awareness of relaxation and of tension will prevent any such buildup after his recovery, and has already led to a certain monitoring. [...]

[...] It is highly important that Ruburt realize that his body can perform naturally. [...] In that framework however his legs will now support his weight. [...]

[...] Do not automatically comb his hair for him in the back, in the mornings. [...]

[...] I also thought portions of the manuscript itself were intriguing, quite acute, mixed up with Fred’s obsessions and compulsions, his personal life and family, his far-out ideas, his attempts and frustrations as he tried to use the manuscript as a vehicle toward understanding himself as he attempted to uncover the secrets of his personality: He thought them locked away from his understanding by the very device he had chosen of speaking for Seth. [...]

His energy is being reasserted, however, as the relaxation helps free his motion. [...]

Have Ruburt read his letter again. [...]

[...] I have yet to even unwrap his other manuscript, The Christ Book. [...]

[...] His, relatively speaking, is a fiery approach. [...] He does, of course, for our communications do not just happen, and my voice (much louder, briefly) like his, is an inspired one.

Very briefly: Instream is astonished at his own opaqueness in life, and the chances that escaped him. The younger man was, when you met him, afraid himself of schizophrenia, and had a great need to establish his own sanity at the expense of anyone who showed any but the most conventional characteristics.

[...] The same applies—in different degree, now—in his painting.

[...] Now he did this because of his ideas of work, and of jobs to be done, and effort.

(Rembrandt copiously achieved this effect in his later works, especially the last ten years or so of his life. [...]

[...] He is against them on principle however, and very straightforward in his approach. [...]

Now apart from that, Ruburt has his own feelings, which are somewhat exaggerated, but he also usually tries to disregard them emotionally. [...]

[...] Sundays were the days he could not escape his mother. [...]

His unconscious communications will also follow this same pattern. This of course includes his dreams. [...] His mind continues this activity even while the conscious self goes about its daily chores.

[...] She said: “I did seem to see him standing with his mouth open in a characteristic pose, with a drink in his hand.” [...]

[...] On a subconscious basis the individual is drawn to others who have had similar experiences to his own. [...]

Ruburt will find that his own work will now improve. [...]

[...] He was not sure enough of his new world; he was still enough a part of the old one so that he often saw his life and abilities through the eyes of the “old world inhabitants” — the others who might scorn him, or set him up for ridicule.¹³ They represented portions of his own psyche still at that level of consciousness, not having quite assimilated the greater knowledge or experience, so he felt he needed protection — the protection that would … cleverly … serve all of his purposes, allowing him to go ahead as he wanted to … that would keep him at home working, and yet also serve as a control against too much inner spontaneity until he learned that he could indeed trust the new world of experience.

[...] Hanging up, he closed his eyes and imagined energy being sent out from a universal source through his own body, and directed toward the person in need. When he did so, Ruburt mentally saw a long “heavy” beam extending straight to the west from a point between his eyes. [...]

[...] In class last evening Ruburt “picked up” messages that seemed to be too slow for his neurological structure. [...] He experienced some strain, feeling that each vowel and syllable was so drawn out, in your terms of time, that he must either slow down his own neurological workings to try to make some suitable adjustments. [...]

(A note added after Seth had completed his dictation for “Unknown” Reality in April 1975: The 712th session was held on October 16, 1974. In her notes at the beginning of the 710th session, Jane described how she’d heard Seth’s very powerful voice in her sleep state during the night of October 5. I can write now that she has yet to have any subsequent, similar kind of encounter with Seth or his voice.)

Because his range was so large, your dissociated conditions simply met more easily than otherwise. However, once his attention was centered here, he turned his conscious attention to full focus upon what he perceived. [...] But he picked up fully your emotional recognition and fear, and these were translated or perceived by him in his own fashion, so that to him you appeared as a mass of varying colors, and as movement of severe intensity.

[...] In any case, whether it was lost or found, I see a navy blue scarf on the chair by his desk, in his office. Now; that is, in his office now.

(Seth referred to this bewildering multiplicity very early in the sessions, and dealt with it rather extensively in the 12th session of January 2,1964, in his first explanation of what he calls the fifth dimension. He has told us we could never cover even a portion of the numberless fields bordering even our own; some will be explained as they impinge upon our own in various ways; Seth also has mentioned his own ability to travel through a few other fields. [...]

[...] His dissociated states, for example, make up a much larger portion of his perception, and they are more vivid than mankind’s generalized dissociated conditions.

On the other hand, our young man sometimes dreams of being overweight, and it is one of his most satisfying dreams. Now those dreams are going to help him in his own manner, for he is already working on some concepts involving the planting of fields that will benefit the people in his village.

In his particular village, the elders believe that there is some merit to being underweight. [...] He believes that this is an opulent, luxurious, and wicked society, and yet he yearns toward it with all his heart.

(And so 11 years were to pass before Seth began his outright discussion of his very provocative concept of counterparts.)

[...] That is, the private person is here seen as interacting with others because there is, beneath our awareness, an inner “person-to-person” relationship connecting each individual with his or her physical counterparts, though they may well be living in other parts of the globe while sharing the same historical period. [...]

[...] Their spokesman told me that their dead leader had promised them that on his return he would perform one particular feat for which he was known to prove his identity. He asked me, then, to show by my actions that I was this personality, ready to take over his rightful position. [...]

[...] Seth makes this clear: “Each individual from birth forms his own counterpart from built-up, individual, continuous electrical signals that include his dreams, thoughts, desires, and experiences. At physical death his personality then exists detached from its physical form.”

Seth went on to say: “The evil that Ruburt imagined he was projecting outward does not exist, but because he believed it did, he formed the materialization from his fears. It was the shape of his recent depression. [...]

[...] Seth began his discussions on the nature of dream reality very soon after the sessions began, and they still continue. Until I learned from Seth to “monitor” my own dreams, and awaken my critical faculties, I was simply astounded by some of his statements.

[...] Somewhere along the line, however, man began to divorce himself almost completely and artifically from his own constructions. Hence his groping, his sense of alienation from nature, his search for a Cause or Creator of a creation he no longer recognized as his own.

[...] The shadow of time glimmers in his eyes as the still imperfected memory of past constructions lingers in his consciousness. [...]

[...] He has such a range of receptivity that it is impossible for him to construct all of his ideas physically. As his scope widened, a mechanism was necessary that would allow him to choose. [...]

Suddenly, time blossomed like a strange flower in his skull. [...] Now it stretched brightly behind him and also stretched out ahead — a road on which he always saw his own changing image.

(We had no real opportunity to talk with Dr. Instream until Sunday evening at his home, after the symposium was over. During our discussion Dr. Instream revealed that he had mailed the sessions listed above to his friend Dr. Gardner Murphy, at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, and asked for his opinion. Jane and I answered Dr. Instream’s questions as well as we could, and made an appointment to attend his Monday morning class at the college. [...]

[The other director] is too much concerned with his own personal image. [...] this is a personal concern of his. His ego is such that it makes him, in a strange manner, often prevent the sort of effects that he seeks. [...]

[...] He said that Dr. Rhine’s sweetness had led him into traps where his controls were not rigid enough during experiments, that his disposition was of the type that would not make him crack down. [...]

[...] The third man is a psychology instructor at the college, perhaps in his late thirties. [...]