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All the improvements necessary are indeed happening at various levels of activity within his mental and physical experience. Following as he has been, he will indeed be able to stand on his own two feet, and to walk with some confidence. [...]

Ruburt did very well with his mental exercises — unusually well except for a few instances, when he did allow self-pity to grab ahold. [...]

[...] He invited me to a late supper with his girl, Lisa. [...]

His overall improved condition leads him to anticipate even greater changes. This is mixed of course with strong surges of desire, and the release of that desire is all-important — for now he truly wants (underlined) to walk normally, and is willing — more than willing — to give up any fears or doubts that have stood in his way in the past.

[...] Again, it is important that Ruburt realize that his impatience is now a mental and physical, natural aspect of the healing processes themselves.

That is why I emphasize a new (underlined) beginning, for it is from that viewpoint that he will be structuring his life from now on.

[...] He does not have a responsibility to sit constantly at his table, as if creative ideas could only find him there. This does not mean, again, that there is anything wrong with his sitting at his table five hours steadily if he wants to, but that he must loosen his beliefs about work and responsibility. [...]

[...] Ruburt in one moment is often mulling over and mentally arranging his time. [...]

[...] So poetry lately, again, does not fit in, for he must have a certain number of pages to show “that he has used his time properly.”

[...] Poetry, painting, and out-of-bodies are quite as much a part of his “work” as anything else he does. [...]

[...] In other words, each individual from birth on forms his own counterpart from built up, individual, continuous electric signals. At physical death his personality then exists in its complete form, and of course escapes the sort of ending that it would suffer if it were an integral part of the physical system.

[...] The individual seems not to know where the thought comes from, because he does not recognize the characteristic mark of his brain upon it. [...]

All of these influences have a part in the formation of the physical individual, and his existence is dependent upon a balance being maintained. [...]

[...] I am very pleased that Ruburt is keeping his dream notebook. [...]

[...] In it Seth mentioned developments to come within John’s family, involving his mother particularly. [...]

[...] May I personally thank our Dr. Instream for his recent letter. [...]

Ruburt’s own experience was also specific, in that his description of the place at which the Gallaghers stayed was highly accurate.

[...] Ruburt is therefore able on his own to pick them up, so to speak, when conditions are good. [...]

[...] Natural “mystical” experience, unclothed in dogma, is the original religious therapy that is so often distorted in ecclesiastical organizations, but it represents man’s innate recognition of his oneness with the source of his own being, and of his own experience.

[...] An artist loves his painting. In physical terms it is completed when he puts down his brush — at least for him, though its effects continue. [...]

A painter does not look out of his creation’s eyes into the room upon whose wall the painting hangs. [...] It is the framework in which you have your experience, created by you as the artist gives his paintings their dimension.

[...] In one way, a state of grace or illumination happens where there is the greatest poised balance of the conscious mind with other levels of the psyche and body — a biological and spiritual recognition of the individual’s wholeness within himself and his relationship with the universe at large.

The pacing back and forth has always been a symbol and a manifestation of his insistence that he stay on his feet, this of course relating to his invalid mother; also a manifestation of control on his part as far as the sessions are concerned. [...] He is merely shifting focus from one level to another, and allowing me to speak in this manner, because he now realizes that I am no threat to any portion of his individuality as a self.

He is also however somewhat anxious to develop his abilities, and if he is to do so we must progress. For future reference, Joseph, and I repeat future, you should not probably need this for awhile, the words “All right Jane, you’re back now,” will always suffice to return Ruburt to his more usual condition.

Ruburt’s idea of writing down his daily predictions is an excellent one, and will help him develop his abilities. [...]

[...] The affair frightens him nevertheless because, as mentioned earlier, he identifies strongly with his own bodily tensions. [...] Some of these have to do with an erroneous idea of relaxation in general, of course, with his father, and with spontaneity. [...]

[...] (Pause.) I will in time, along with your questions, give some material, again, on Ruburt’s attitudes toward both of his parents as these relate to his difficulties. [...]

[...] He’s already alluded to this notion through a rather recent reference to the fact that he “toned down” some of his material for Mass Events in order to make it more acceptable. [...]

[...] (Pause.) He has indeed of late made a decision to let go of a good deal of his bodily armor. [...]

Though the fanatic may make much noise in the world, he is actually isolated from all of the world’s ideas except his own. [...] He does not allow the development of his concepts or beliefs, for example. They stop at one particular point—and at that point he wages his battle against reality.

[...] Ruburt was working beyond such authority, and yet his own sense of safety and value had not grown sufficiently so that he could depend upon his own newer beliefs, either. [...]

[...] The fanatic is usually also a person whose vitality is blocked in important ways—yet he manages often to summon great energy, so that even in his denunciations he shows many people who are more timid the demonstration of personal exuberance and energy, however misdirected.

He fears that the admission of one defeat or error of judgment will bring his world crumbling about him.

[...] The doctor and his wife accepted the invitation, contingent upon whether his office was still busy at session time, and whether they could get a baby sitter.

Since the individual constructs matter, and indeed constructs his own physical universe, he can improve these constructions; and his expectations are intimately connected with the subconscious mechanism of construction itself.

(Willy dozed in his favorite chair. [...]

[...] He was then in his late fifties, and left two women. [...]

[...] If a dream object or event does so straddle what you call not only time but space, and if as I say dream objects and creations maintain some independence from the dreamer, then you must see that although the dreamer creates his dreams for his own purposes, selecting only those symbols which have meaning to him, he nevertheless projects them outward in a value fulfillment and psychic expansion.

For out of a seemingly endless number of possibilities, our individual dreamer actually discriminates with great care, choosing only those dream objects or symbols that have meaning to him; and those dream objects that can best serve his purposes. [...]

[...] For the dreamer a contraction occurs as he is finished with the events or drama for his own purposes, but energy cannot be taken back.

[...] Therefore, when the dreamer contracts his multi-realistic objects backward, ending for himself the so-called dream that he constructed, he ends it for himself only. [...]

The stranger who bent his head to our car window was Rob. Ed had recognized my husband’s car and followed us, asking us to go to his house to meet his new work partner, Rob, when I was finished visiting with my mother.

[...] 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, he mentioned the episode to Joseph and again cast it from his mind.

Why didn’t Rob pick up the inner information and begin the discussion instead of me, since they’re his paintings? [...]

[...] Surely they all applied to Ed’s letter in which he mentioned his Alaskan ski trip, and friends he had when he and Rob did the detective comic strip.

Man desired in one way to step out of himself, out of the framework in which he had his psychological existence, to try new challenges, to step out of a mode of consciousness into another. He wanted to study the process of his own consciousness. [...] On the other hand, it offered a new creativity, in his terms.

[...] In the most real terms, religion should include all of the pursuits of man in his search for the nature of meaning and truth. [...]

[...] To the extent that a man feels that his religion expresses such inner experience, he will feel it valid. [...]

[...] God behaved exactly as an enraged child would, had he those powers, sending thunder and lightning and fire against his enemies, destroying them. [...]

(Jane now told me she thought the “two people” referred to by Seth in the 2nd envelope test in the 180th session, were Dr. Instream and his wife Judy. [...] We now know, of course, that Dr. Instream and his wife were in York Beach on the night of the 180th session.

[...] Dr. Instream also noted that on the evening of August 23,1965 he and his wife stopped overnight at York Beach, ME, while traveling. [...]

[...] Therefore the characteristic ways used by any given personality, in connection with his or her physical image, will also be used in the construction of dream images.

[...] Your experiences at York Beach had such a reality, and having met you, not Dr. Instream but his wife unconsciously picked up this connection, and responded to it.

[...] Coué was a pioneer in the study of suggestion, and wrote a book on the subject in the 1920’s. His ideas were well received in Europe at the time, but weren’t in this country to any large degree. In fact, his lecture tour of the United States turned out to be a failure because of the hostile press reaction.

(Just before 9:45 Jane told me I could have material from Seth on the glasses idea, or on his book. [...]

In connection with material in this note, I think it quite interesting and revealing that several millennia before Darwin, man himself began playing the role of a designer within the framework of nature, through his selective breeding of animals and his hybridization of plants. These activities certainly represent evolution through conscious intent, guided by the same creature who insists that no sort of consciousness could have been responsible for the origin or development of “life,” let alone the “dead” matter of his planet. Not only that: We read that even now in his laboratories man is trying hard to create some of that life itself. [...]

[...] Through the habitual (and perhaps unwitting) use of naïve realism, he projects his own basic creativity outside of himself or any of his parts. [...] Only man would think to burden such pervasive parts of his own being, and those of other entities, with such negative concepts! [...]

In Note 7 (also see Note 5), I wrote that for centuries now — most of them obviously preceding Darwin — man himself has been playing the role of a designer through his creation of certain breeds of animals and hybrid plants. [...] Those urges are creative even when, as a designer, he goes against his own Darwinian concepts that there is no conscious plan involved in the design of his world.

[...] In that session Seth gave us his interpretations of some of the basic laws or attributes of the inner universe, but it will be quickly seen that he was really discussing space and time,² as those qualities are perceived in his reality and in ours. [...]

[...] He’d stopped by on his way home to give me my old lenses, since he’d forgotten to do so at his office four days ago, when I’d had them replaced in my favorite old frames by the new, weaker lenses. I told Jane I felt that regardless of John’s evocative visit Seth would have mentioned my eye phenomena tonight, given his subject matter for the session. [...]

[...] On his own levels also, Ruburt is (underlined) undergoing rather accelerated healing processes—you might say at microscopic levels.

One point before I close for this evening: He was quite correct in his interpretation as he watched your expression one evening while you slept—and it was no coincidence that he awakened to see it. [...]

Ruburt’s sense of disorientation is also partially the result of healing processes within his own body, and altering relationships—again, at intimate microscopic levels—which send their new “healing tremors” upward through the various formations of matter, so tell him to enjoy it.

[...] The day before Willy (One) died, his expectations were no different than they were when he was a kitten. His illness made performance more difficult, and yet in periods of rest he would start out again expecting to make the same leaps, and so often he did.

The individual is working with his nature, and with nature in general, rather than against it. [...]

[...] All of Ruburt’s improvements, however, spring directly from the fact that he is freeing his desire to walk, stating it in Framework 2, where it is being brought to pass.

I want Ruburt to relax now, and will utilize part of the energy for this session in my own way to further his psychic faith and physical improvements.

(From Session 921 for October 8:) Tell Ruburt to relax, and to encourage and trust his body when it is undergoing so many changes, for the changes are all for the better. [...]

(From Session 922 for October 13:) Tell Ruburt to change his pillows more frequently. [...]

There is a definite connection between his desire to stop smoking, and the fact that he has found silver threads among the black. His ego image, or in this case Jane’s ego image, is that of, among other things, a black-haired young woman, and that of a woman writer who smokes.

[...] Tension arising, oddly enough, from the realization that his book will indeed be published. [...]

Perhaps you might rub his back before retiring. [...]