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[...] I lunge again, grab his arm. He begins to disintegrate until he’s just a hulk of a hand, shooting the gun at me, which now I’m holding—since his body is gone. [...]

He sees more than you do, or more than his mother does, because he does not yet realize that you only accept certain patterns and reject others. By the time he is born he has already learned to accept his parents’ idea of what reality is. [...] He is only recognized and his wants satisfied, when he focuses in one particular reality. [...]

[...] When the infant is born, he still hears these sounds and voices, but again, they do not answer his physical needs, nor bring milk when he cries, and gradually he discards them.

(Joe Bumbalo came back into the hospital this afternoon in preparation for his fourth dose of chemotherapy. [...] Joe expressed concern about how long he would live with his cancer. [...] To me it sounded obviously symbolic of his fear of death and his battle against surrendering to it. [...]

His temperature has returned to normal. His feet are returning to normal coloration, and his urine is cleansed.

[...] “So if you followed his stuff,” I said after supper, when I was getting ready to leave, “you wouldn’t have taken the antibiotics, and the body would have taken care of itself.” [...]

Ruburt’s own experience, in maintaining his own identity independently, while also allowing me to speak through him, will be to his benefit. It is, you see, quite possible for an individual in his dream travels to visit other planetary systems, of the past, present or future. [...]

[...] A meeting with a stranger, a man, in his office, and some connection with Detroit. A group of four guests in particular, men I believe, to his apartment. [...]

[...] Jane feels subjectively sure that here the meeting between us and her father, Del, and his third wife, is referred to. [...] Jane and I planned to meet Del and his wife, who were already camping at Saratoga Lake, there, and spend a few days with them before going on to Maine. [...]

[...] We did not see Nate Goldsmith or his wife on the first visit, and the reasons we did not see either of them on our second visit are given in our data interpretations.

[...] Now, even in his scientific studies he discovers that his senses have often misled him, his precious solid objects for example found to be solid only to his senses, an appearance given by the limitations of his sensual perceptions.

[...] He has always attempted to objectify, to separate whatever realities he could from himself, to hold them in his hands, so to speak, so that he could observe and study them.

Those things, those realities which were most intimately connected with himself, those realities which he could not objectify and hold in his hands, he feared. [...]

[...] Therefore man must take his abilities and travel inward, since going outward will not allow him to perceive the inner portions of himself.

The first (in Sayre), mentioned far earlier in “Unknown” Reality, you thought was definitely sold, and today you discovered that the sale was not that final.¹⁰ As you discussed these issues a rather important main point escaped your minds: The man who owned the first house (Mr. Markle) was a dealer in antiques and precious stones, utterly devoted to his work and engrossed in it, considering it his art. [...] He had his office downstairs and he often worked at home. His art came first.¹¹

Seth’s material on Mr. Markle’s feeling for his art, however, is his (Seth’s) own. [...] Although I remember my parents talking about Mr. Markle, I have little idea of how much they may have understood — or misunderstood — his basic life-style.

[...] Mr. Stein, incidentally, teaches in Elmira — hence the decision by him and his wife to move here and so eliminate his workday traveling between Sayre and Elmira.

An artist expects his paintings to be good — or, if you will forgive a jingle: at least he should. [...]

His characteristic posture worked for what it was, and it was locked together in all of its parts. [...] In that process, and only at times, there are periods when it seems his body, or certain portions of it, are less dependable. [...]

What can appear as disquieting, as for example his behavior on occasion at the garageway, is instead the body’s abandonment of past dependable but limited action, and its attempt to initiate new response. The process is well along, and will lead to various temporary, better, but in-between stages as his stance gradually corrects itself.

The shape of his face is changing. The tenseness of his jaws held everything else in certain positions. [...]

[...] The two areas resulted in his stance. [...]

[...] Music of his preference will be an excellent aid to his work, and it reinforces his discipline.

His bursts of nervous energy usually begin in January and are somewhat the result of chemicals that appear in the air at that time. Much of this energy is channeled into his work, but when there is trouble or a lag, then look out. [...]

Your television repairman has 3 children, a kind heart, and something wrong with his left foot. This is not noticeable but something is wrong with his left foot. [...]

[...] This same energy is used in Ruburt’s writing and is extremely strong, powerful and stormy often; and he is not, Joseph, trying to get out of his room as I believe you mentioned earlier.

There has been one rather remarkable improvement in Ruburt’s performance: getting to his feet. [...] Again, bodily efforts are as magical, as creative, certainly, as the writing of a book or a poem (intently) — but Ruburt in the past trusted his creative abilities as if they were something he had to guard from his physical self.

Ruburt did not have to do anything in particular, for example, of a conscious nature, except to state his intentions, and the body’s healing mechanisms immediately quickened. [...]

(We laughed again when we considered that Seth had tempered some of his material for Mass Events. [...]

[...] Ruburt is psychically working out some of his concerns over reincarnation in his novel, coming to grips with the subject creatively, and in ways that have deep meaning, not only for himself but for others.

(Before the session tonight Jane told me she thought Seth was getting ready to start another book of his own soon. [...]

[...] In the same way that all individual can (underlined) know what is happening in another place without any physical communication, so he can know about his other reincarnational existences.

Oversoul Seven and Cyprus do exist, though in different terms than he may imagine them, and the whole episode allows him to work creatively with fiction, and creatively with his psychic abilities.

These are simple enough examples, but the man who possesses interests considered feminine by your culture, who naturally wants to enter fields of interest considered womanly, experiences drastic conflicts between his sense of personhood and identity — and his sexuality as it is culturally defined. [...]

[...] Included in it was a discussion of his relationship with us, and the place of his books in our lives. [...]

[...] A male who does not feel himself fully male, therefore, does not trust his identity as a person. [...]

[...] Midway through this process he tried to catch himself, but he believed that his body could not handle the heat — and that belief outweighed his intent to change his thoughts, so they kept returning for perhaps ten minutes.

[...] He told himself that the prediction might be wrong, and he began with his intellect to pile up evidence that could in one way or another bring about a different, more beneficial experience. [...]

[...] The sensations in his buttocks of heat, even burning at times, and in the legs and feet, all represent additional motion and beneficial activity. [...]

1. In October 1979 Jane and I saw, to our dismay, that the Dutch publisher of the translation of Seth Speaks had violated his contract with Prentice-Hall by making many unauthorized cuts in the book. [...]

[...] His present mother was a very jealous older sister. The doctor charged 3 shillings for his final call.

[...] Your present father secretly admires Loren’s apparent easy sociability, not knowing that Loren is forced to laugh and shout loudly, just as your father is more or less forced by his own personality to sit silent and sullen.

[...] You had visited your father in his shop of machines of some sort. [...]

[...] He had jacks in his hand. [...]

[...] As always, Seth had done his part, and more, as the record in The Way Toward Health shows. [...] There were no protests on his part, no recriminations about his voice “being stilled forever,” for example. [...]

[...] You loved her greatly in this life …” The priest promised to send me a copy of his eulogy.

12. Seth’s ideas in this paragraph and the one just preceding it are consistent with his material in a number of sessions for Volume 1. In sessions 681 and 684, for instance, he discussed the on-off fluctuations of our physical universe and everything within it, moment points, probabilities, Jane’s sensations of massiveness, the basic unpredictable motion of any wave or atom, and much more. In sessions 682–83, he stressed the nature of his CU’s, or units of consciousness. Then in Volume 2, Seth likened his own identity to that of a wave formation; see the excerpts from the 775th session in Appendix 18, with Note 35.

That one Seth was endowed with his own inner blueprint. The blueprint gave him an idea of his potentials, and how they could be best fulfilled in earthly terms.³

[...] In his own Psychic Politics Ruburt has presented from his (psychic) library some information concerning official and unofficial numbers.⁸

[...] In his inner vision these appeared as identical, simply so that he would identify them as portions of myself. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s exercises are important because of his intent in doing them; a vital, beneficial change of attitude there, and because of that his body is responding.

There is no reason why Ruburt cannot work on his own book simultaneously, and from his viewpoint. He should return to his poetry however, and his painting as a hobby. These are his strong points, and the painting represents more than he realizes, for he has a talent for it from previous experience.

[...] Jane’s pace had slowed considerably by now.) Ruburt could if he chose, add his own notes and comments, for his experience in our sessions is vastly different from mine. [...]

Such a book would be written during our sessions however, dictated by me, for our friend Ruburt would not let me inside his own writing hours.

(Long pause.) Ruburt felt that his writing, and writing abilities, justified his existence — that it, the ability to write should make up for all other deficiencies. His mother helped make him feel unlikeable, but his abilities seemed to be his saving grace — and therefore to be encouraged and protected at all costs.

Care then should be taken to concentrate on the daily matters at hand—his writing, and to avoid conscious concentration upon the state of his health or the progress of healing. Any positive improvements that you notice, Joseph, or any positive statements concerning his appearance or performance, should be stated. [...]

[...] First of all, the “prayer” in quotes that I gave for Ruburt is tailored to his own needs, and will therefore be quite effective. [...]

This applies to you then in your way, as well as to Ruburt in his way. [...]