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[...] Rob and I had never met his wife. Nor was he a close friend, merely a good acquaintance who lived out of town and visited Elmira only when his business required it, about once every six weeks.

[...] Mark sat there fascinated, Rob told me later, his salesman’s smile replaced by bewilderment and determination. [...] He was to recall Seth’s warning to cut down on drinking because of his predisposition to gout; he came down with gouty arthritis.

The session went on as Seth gave Rob some excellent psychological insights into his own behavior, and tied this is with early experience in this life, and with relationships with his present family in past life existences. [...]

[...] While the individual suffers and enjoys his given number of years, these years are but a flash to the entity. [...] As you give inner purpose and organization to your dreams, and as you obtain insight and satisfaction from them, though they involve only a portion of your life, so the entity to some extent directs and gives purpose and organization to his personalities. [...]

[...] A “perfect” society, idealistically speaking, would provide these qualities by encouraging each individual to use his potentials to the fullest, to revel in his challenges, and to be led on by his great natural excitement as he tries to extend powers of creative potency in his own unique way.

[...] A man who believes his actions have no value seeks out situations in which he uses his power to act, yet often without worrying about whether the action will have a constructive or negative effect.

[...] Ruburt needed the experience in order to gain added faith in his own abilities. [...]

Again Ruburt “tuned in,” altered his state of consciousness, and was told not to take them. [...]

(10:22.) Now Seth came through with some material for Jane and me, including his interpretations — in his usual acute manner — of three of my recent dreams. [...]

[...] He was subconsciously but never consciously aware that next month marked the time of his grandfather’s death, and subconsciously he knew his grandfather’s age at death.

[...] We had his identification with his grandfather momentarily, and the subsequent distortion.

[...] I also think that you will find his attitude from now on an improvement over his past attitude, as far as our experiments are concerned, and this will be of benefit to all of us.

[...] Dr. Instream feels that something has been misrepresented to him professionally, I believe, on the part of the university or in connection with his work there. [...]

(Now John had finished his chart in the studio. [...] I pointed to a pad and pen I had laid out in case he wanted to take his own notes. But John shook his head and settled down on the couch. [...]

[...] Whereupon John surprised us both by telling us that he was already actively considering such a hobby, had set aside a room in his home for it, and had acquired some equipment. [...] A copy of his signed statement follows.)

[...] He also wanted to borrow my studio for an hour to make up a chart for one of his medical displays. [...]

[...] John arrived at 8:35 with his materials and a bottle of wine. [...]

They were not only his private religious beliefs, but those of his contemporaries generally—(louder:) and the foundations upon which your present civilization was made. [...] I will have more to say in my own way to him in the dream state this evening, and I will shortly explain his experience with my voice.

Your idea of helping him has been to remind him of the hopelessness of his condition, to impress upon him his dependence and dire straits. [...]

(12:30 AM.) Since you are talking to Ruburt from your outside, and telling him what to do, when you are not personally saddled in the same way that he is, then how often have you ever reassured him that he could indeed walk properly, get up easily, or joyfully tried to reinforce his confidence?

[...] (Jane’s head drooped) His activities will cause a near-(underlined) crisis situation at the paper. [...] There will be repercussions at his home first, and signs appearing there first.

[...] A stout man who either wears glasses, or has worn them, with pale eyes; or the lenses of his glasses are extremely pale. [...]

An incapable gentleman with a crew cut, brownish hair, precisely in the middle of his organization. [...]

[...] He has not utilized suggestion, however, to any significant degree as an aid in controlling his symptoms.

It was left to man to translate his inner information with a free hand. [...] He puts his sciences and religions, his languages, together in multitudinous ways, but there must always be a translation of inner information outward to the world of sense. [...]

[...] A small note to our friend — again — to trust the great power of the universe that forms his own image, to trust his spontaneity, and his body’s natural urges toward relaxation, motion, and creativity, as these show themselves in their own rhythms.

(I’d just finished typing the last few pages for Monday night’s session, and I asked Jane what she thought of my final note: I’d speculated about any reincarnational connections that might tie her abilities to speak for Seth, without help of any modern kind, to the abilities ancient man had displayed, when, according to Seth, he’d been able to carry all of his history with him mentally. [...]

Therefore, a kind of momentary gap appeared between his life and his living of it—a pause and a hesitation (pause) became obvious between his life and what he would do with it, as his condition showed just before the hospital hiatus. [...]

For all of his and your complaining, you understand in rather good measure the decisions and actions that motivate your lives, so that Ruburt is more than usually aware of the manipulations that psychologically and physically lie just beneath the material usually carried by what is ordinarily called the conscious mind. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Ruburt is now far more willing to make certain changes in his life than he was earlier, and he sees himself more as one of a living congregation of creatures—less isolated than before, stripped down from the superperfect model, and therefore no more under the compulsion to live up to such a psychological bondage (all with some emphasis). [...]

[...] He is returning to activity at his creative, naturally therapeutic pace, no longer afraid that he is going too fast—or will —but shown only too clearly that activity and motion represent the only safe, sane, and creative response. [...]

[...] As much as possible, let Ruburt follow his body’s feelings during the night. He is still overly concerned about waking you too often, but his body often is expressing its need for motion and change. [...]

[...] He has been doing his own kind of energy exercises, involving the particular “sore” (the ulcer on her coccyx; it’s slowly closing), but I suggest that he does one of those exercises faithfully every day, and that both of you simply see the area healed. [...]

[...] There is no doubt that Ruburt was deeply shocked by some of the doctors’ pronouncements involving his walking—but already there are signs of loosening in the knees, and in the leg muscles as well. [...]

[...] The give-and-take between any given individual and his or her society therefore are fascinating, as the individual and mass beliefs are reinforced. [...]

[...] It raised Ruburt’s hidden hopes of a larger apartment and then dashed them, building up his resentment. [...] This is extremely important in his makeup. [...] Need I say that his corner in your room must be felt by him to be his own.

[...] Although our house is separated from it by quite an expanse of lawn, our new neighbor is quite obvious as he walks back and forth before his picture window in his undershirt. [...]

[...] Here your simple spider is using his sixth sense, for these senses are the latent property of other living things, and not restricted to mankind.

[...] The spider has no intellect or outer ego, and his manipulations are the direct result of activities performed by pure and spontaneous use of the inner senses. [...]

[...] I am speaking now of the dream experience as it occurs, and not of the remnant of it that his ego allows him to consciously recall. As an individual creates his physical image and environment according to his abilities and defects, and in line with his expectations and subconscious and inner needs, so does he create his dreams; and these interact with the outer environment which he has created.

[...] After the boy had gone Jane said his knock stopped her delivery abruptly, but that she did not come out of the light trance quickly enough to go immediately to the door. [...]

[...] His discovery in the physical universe of domesticating fire was another such contribution to the dream universe.

Many concepts, huge advancements and practical inventions, simply wait in abeyance in the world of dreams until some man accepts them as possibilities within his frame of reality. [...]

Despite Ruburt’s understanding, his intellectual understanding of his fear of arthritis, he was thrown into an understandable and regrettable emotional state, with which he grappled with at least some success. [...] In such an instance and under certain conditions such an individual would have his deepest dreads, therefore, fastened upon him.

I am pleased that Ruburt has begun his psychological time experiments again. His results are better than they would have been if he had not heeded my advice and had continued demanding results from the subconscious.

[...] The automatic wrist motion that he regularly uses in his touch typing was knocked askew, the pattern broken, and he used an erratic pressure that induced strain. [...]

I would state furthermore that indeed Ruburt did have occasion to be angry at the chiropractor, since with an emotional fear unthinking suggestions such as his, made with only the flimsiest of evidence, can be most harmful and destructive. [...]

[...] However, if a person kills himself, believing that the act will annihilate his consciousness forever, then this false idea may severely impede his progress, for it will be further intensified by guilt.

(Seth has suspended dictation on his book for the last five weeks. [...]

(Now that we could relax a little, however, we had every confidence that Seth would easily resume work on Chapter Eleven of his book, even though Jane hasn’t looked at it for quite a while now. [...]

[...] There is one point I would like to mention here: In all cases, the individual creates his experience. [...]

My piece is naturally tailored to my own beliefs and needs, of course, and some of its implications may become clearer to readers as Seth continues with his framework material in Mass Events. But I’m presenting my effort as close as possible to its time of conception so that each interested person can keep it in mind, and eventually write his or her own version of it for personal use. [...]

[...] For in trance, Jane will once again be in accord with Seth in that nearly “timeless” environment in which he has a large portion of his being.¹

[...] We have asked him to discuss his Framework 1 and 2 concepts for it, though, and he’s promised to do so; he’s had a good deal to say about those structures in the nonbook material Jane has delivered since the 814th session was held.

[...] Today she’d reread his sessions for the book. [...]

He was blinded in his teens, an accident, boys playing with stones. The fingers were very sensitive, and since then he has always developed the ability to use his hands to advantage in nimble ways. [...]

[...] He certainly shows enough confidence in his own, though not in his psychic ability. [...]

[...] The personality stands in an anteroom, with all his knotted energies, in indecision, and will not open the door leading inward, and will not turn in the other direction, in the direction from which he has come, to the door that leads outward. [...]

[...] Therefore, when our visitor hesitates between his two doors, he is not motionless, but uses as much energy in indecision as should be expended in purposeful direction.

[...] Now Ruburt in his exercises has been imagining vividly his dream book sold, selling. [...]

[...] I recommended Maltz because his exercises are based on truths, even though he does not fully understand what lies beneath. [...]

[...] His own experience has proven to him that I was right in other regards. [...]

(“Why can’t his positive attitude override my poor one then?”)

(Pause.) In your terms man is of course still learning, and as he set up barriers between lands and formed separate nations, so he also set up divisions between aspects of his own consciousness and awareness, in his terms, so he could deal with them one at a time. [...]

(Wade Alexander and his son Brian visited us for 3/4 of an hour at supper time. [...]

[...] Your impulses, intuitions, and creative abilities have always innately provided open channels of communication through which man was guided toward those probable actions most beneficial to his private reality—and those actions would automatically, again, add to the best probable reality for the species as well. [...]

Ruburt believed he must impose a secondary kind of order upon his creativity and spontaneity. [...]

[...] It might help if now and then he imagines his walking taking place as easily and naturally as his thoughts come and go, and in ways as mysterious as the way his vision operates, when it is suddenly clearer, and he reads so much more quickly — for the quick reading will soon be the norm.

[...] Ruburt is not looking at his own eyes all of the time — so that mysteriousness is somehow taken for granted. [...]

The right leg is immediately before his vision, however — it is highly visible, so that he often compares its position unfavorably with that of the other leg. [...]

[...] Of course, the lipstick is an excellent idea, and the eyebrow pencil, so that he begins to care for his face as he used to. [...]