“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now: while Ruburt acquiesced to his condition, his own rituals were reassuring. He believed he should not get up. The rituals are more obvious now, and to some extent he becomes more impatient. Recognizing rituals as rituals will be of benefit.

The man who was bothered by epilepsy did Ruburt a service and Ruburt definitely helped him; but there in dramatic fashion Ruburt saw how beliefs operated, and through helping the individual also saw the best ways he could help himself and others as well. The man had his reassuring rituals.

All is progressing at its own rate, however, and tell Ruburt to trust this. The rituals will be abandoned, but gradually, slipping away. The inner self knows what it is doing. Ruburt is being released. There is no doubt of it—but in a safe, natural, and ever-accelerating rate both for his body and development.

[...] There are countless small daily rituals that can break or reinforce such attitudes. [...] It was the ritual involving your can opener.

[...] There are other small rituals that can be avoided, and as they come to me I will give them to you. [...] Small changes made in his morning ritual will help bring about some morning improvement.

[...] The ritual involved in opening the cans was a constant habitual negative reinforcement.

[...] Even small changes in your habitual ways of doing things will initiate further feelings of freedom, and let you see that many of your taken-for-granted timely actions are highly ritualized.

Some environmental influences of a real but not profound nature can be cleared up by the simple process of the housecleaning ritual. [...]

[...] In Ruburt’s past compulsive behavior was established at a rather early age, the ritualized activity serving as a substitute security framework.

[...] The desire to move furniture at times represents an attempt to break highly ritualized behavior on his part, and is constructive. [...]

[...] Tribal life became a series of ritualized activities. [...]

[...] To some extent your acts become ritualized, as those of our tribesmen mentioned earlier.

[...] 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 their own way symptoms frequently operate, actually, as repetitive neurological ritual, meant to protect the sufferer from something else that he fears even more.

[...] But those involved with native initiation rituals knew far more what they were doing, and understood a framework of beliefs in which the outcome — success — was fairly well assured.

[...] It was built around a religious ritual. [...] Their rituals were as strict as they are in your church and they were as religious as they followed them. [...]

[...] This can apply to actual work on a manuscript, intellectual excitement, or intuitional discovery, but a humdrum creative ritual is defeating for him. [...]

The concept of original sin was a very poor, limited and distorted one, but at least along with it went rather simple procedures: Through baptism you might be saved, or through certain words or sacraments or rituals redemption could be found. [...]

[...] The few rituals possible required years of analysis, which only the very wealthy were privileged to experience.

(It was all part of the ritual, Jane said later as we went over the booklet together in 330. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Throughout the centuries there have been various ceremonies, rituals and so forth, meant to activate the magical approach. [...]

I suggested a change in the morning ritual, and suggest you both consider this. [...]

[...] And yet they come in your system within a highly ritualized and disciplined manner. [...]

[...] Right after she’d finished eating, Jane began to ramble, talking about making impossible verbal rituals that she had to carry out before she could eat her ice cream for dessert. These periods were contrasted with examples of lucidity: “I’m going to make it,” although such periods were far in the minority compared to her ramblings about performing these rituals before she could perform any meaningful physical act like eating dessert. [...]

[...] In a fashion that particular approach, for all of its reliance upon “sorcery,” is not actually true to the magical approach at all, because it insists so fervently upon the impediments that stand in man’s way, and stresses the importance of rituals and methods, and the almost superhuman effort that is required (pause) in order to meet the “magical ends.” [...]

[...] During these episodes I could follow the meanings quite easily; ritual was involved, as well as passion. [...]

[...] All that are immediately salvaged are the inner organs, which Ruburt symbolically washes clean in a ritual indicative of washing away old beliefs, and of washing the inner organs clean—the act of inner cleanliness. [...]

[...] There must always be a balance between necessary conditioning, ritual and habit, and spontaneity, freedom, and what we will call instantaneous psychic relaxations.

[...] This resulted of course in an overemphasis upon dogma — rules and the ritualization that had to be colorful and rich because it would be the one outlet allowed in which creativity could be handled. [...]