“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You will (to me) particularly since Ruburt makes his way from his own dark age. One of these developments will occur in our sessions, one in particular through Ruburt outside of a session, I believe, and another should take place initially Joseph through you. [...]

We are getting more of this sort of information because Ruburt allows it now, but since it involves yourselves we are learning personally to get through such information, where with others we have progressed to some extent beyond that point, you see. This represents progression on Ruburt’s part, but he must still learn lessons that he has already learned in giving such information to others. [...]

[...] First, Ruburt’s decision not to speak to Dr. Freudenberger’s class was a good one at this time (underlined). [...]

Another improvement, a considerable one, can shortly be expected in Ruburt’s physical condition, and I believe rather unexpected word concerning a book.

These things vary with personality; with Ruburt, while the ego cannot directly or immediately participate in such, shall we say excursions, it nevertheless must be kept up to date, and give consent. The concentration of energy on Ruburt’s part is increasing. [...]

There is no real need to fret or worry concerning Ruburt’s experiences of today. [...]

[...] For a week Ruburt should try no outside experiments of any kind. [...]

[...] Ruburt has been in enough of a trance as it is. [...]

You were at that time slim and disciplined to some degree, ending up however with four children and a wife who became an invalid, the wife being Ruburt’s present mother. Ruburt has blocked this in the past. [...]

[...] When Walter met Ruburt’s mother they also disliked each other instantly in this life, since they quarreled over the same man, and you were that man. [...] In other words you wanted Ruburt’s present mother.

I do not know how much further Ruburt will go along with me. There was one illegitimate child as a result of your affair with Ruburt’s present mother. [...]

Ruburt has used his reserves of energy for the night, attempting to block me. However quite a bit of good information came through and so I must say good night, this time for Ruburt’s sake, as he is blocking Walter Zeh or Z-i-a-k-a material most strongly.

[...] We shall indeed have you, Joseph and Ruburt, working in your sleep, as Ruburt earlier remarked, and you shall be glad of it. [...]

[...] Ruburt uses his critical faculties supremely well in scrutinizing my activities and nature, so I have no doubt that he can also apply them to the job at hand.

[...] When you are awake, as Ruburt himself has written, you cannot find the dream locations that have been so familiar to you only the night before.

Incidentally, joking aside, some time in the future it would not be a bad idea, if it ever could be arranged, to take Ruburt’s blood pressure before, during, and after sessions; also his weight.

(See the last two sessions.) There are various ways in which Ruburt’s abilities can be used, and various purposes they can serve, according to circumstances and conditions. As I told you, I was present, though in the background; Ruburt’s tutor—and it was I—who showed him how to return when he felt it desirable. [...]

[...] Ruburt knows when he is on to a poem. The same psychic directional sense can be perfected, so that as he roams over fields of experience Ruburt will know when he is on to the proper signals.

[...] Ruburt is just beginning to learn how to handle different conditions. [...]

[...] (Seth promised to do this last session.) I prefer we wait a short time, since our friend is only too willing to return and speak his own piece, and Ruburt has had sufficient experience for a fortnight.

Ruburt is still recovering from the emergency-room experience of last Friday. [...] Ruburt felt strongly against keeping the appointment. [...]

[...] The sharpness of the encounter made Ruburt come to the decision then and there that he would not use drugs to combat ahead of time conditions that may or may not appear at some future time. More than that, the interview —friendly enough, good humored enough, as it seemed on the surface, made Ruburt realize in an immediate practical fashion the limitations of medical science. [...]

Many conflicts naturally begin to resolve themselves in your relationship as you handle Ruburt’s changing conditions. (Long pause.) Your massage today, for example (after Hal Williams), was an excellent translation of love and comfort, felt directly at one level of your own being, to the level within Ruburt where it was most needed. [...]

[...] I will have more on this later if you want it, but I have given you the pertinent material that I hope will ease Ruburt’s condition now, while also paving the way for healing experiences, (long pause), healing experiences that will happen indeed almost magically (intently) as Ruburt relaxes and allows his natural motion to express itself more and more.

[...] Our friend Ruburt was bound to come to this point. [...]

It was indeed intuitive and psychic connections that brought me here, and it will be intuitive and psychic connections that finally cause Ruburt to accept me wholeheartedly.

[...] (Pause.) There was some question as to what would happen to letters from Ruburt, and others. [...]

Now the incident either occurred in Miss Healy’s dining room, the one with which Ruburt is familiar, or in a room very similar, in color and markings and period. [...]

Those implications are the kind of things that trigger in Ruburt worries about meeting scorn or criticism, worries that then set up their own chains of reactions. [...] Ruburt’s abilities lie outside of their realm, and they know it. [...]

(10:28.) In Ruburt’s case such considerations make him feel set against the world, where actually that social world has rather agreeably enough allowed you room and a certain platform on its stage, through your readership. [...] There is no need for Ruburt to anticipate scorn. [...]

Now: tell Ruburt I said “Happy birthday.”

[...] Ruburt’s new and more ambitious movement about the house, using the chair, has activated the body’s motion, of course, so that massaging-like effects occur. [...]

[...] Ruburt attempted too much last evening for one night’s work.

[...] Ruburt has talked of some renewed work, and I heartily suggest that you concentrate strongly at doing joint out-of-body explorations.

In the beginning it will be up to Ruburt to aid you, and with concentration and application he can do so. [...]

[...] Ruburt already knows how to leave the body, using several methods from the sleep state and immediately before it.

Ruburt suddenly found himself then exploring very strange grounds indeed—and without the earlier sustaining hope. [...] Ruburt tried to put his understanding to practical use in terms of daily life, your relationship, work, finances, his classes, yet he found himself with definite physical hassles. [...]

Ruburt felt that he needed protection. [...] Ruburt was also tinged by those concepts, so if he had to make a choice, he chose the writer’s cramp.

To some extent Ruburt is beginning to move in that direction now, in Psychic Politics—particularly with his codicils. [...]

Since it is formed by beliefs held by natural creatures, culture is, as Ruburt states, as natural as your physical environment. [...]

[...] He helped out in Ruburt’s household, therefore Ruburt feels that he should be extremely pleasant and helpful to any Negro, for this other boy’s sake. [...]

So Edward and this Negro owner of the gallery became entwined in Ruburt’s mind. He knew that it would be quite an occasion for this young man to visit informally, so to speak, with the mayor, though he would vehemently deny it; and yet Ruburt did not want the man in the house, therefore denying him such a privilege at least in thought.

I decided to mention this since he is at the point now—I am speaking of Ruburt—when he will not accept the superficial reasons given by the ego for many reactions, but seeks to discover deeper causes. There was also some other problem here, in that Ruburt feels, as you do, and quite rightly, that Mark is in over his head, psychologically speaking.

The June event did refer to Ruburt’s swollen gums, which were very painful. He feared most strongly that he would have to visit Colucci, and went to the doctor rather than see the dentist—although Colucci was out in the yard, and Ruburt saw him, as he will now remember.

[...] You obviously did not fall for that to the extent Ruburt did —and all of this must be considered also in the light of the religious and scientific views, with Ruburt particularly, in which the spontaneous self was considered the psychological villain of the society and the individual. The spontaneous self is the guardian—that is what Ruburt is learning.

[...] You can see how Ruburt’s body responds when he suspends self-disapproval, and when he allies himself with his nature, and when you both suspend your sense of hopelessness in that area. If you continue as you are, you can indeed expect quite startling improvements—but you are not to compare, either of you, Ruburt’s condition with the Gallaghers’ skiing, anymore than they could compare their attempts at subjective journeying with Ruburt’s inner soaring. [...]

[...] Ruburt accepted that idea, believing he must make a choice. [...]

[...] To some extent the same applies to Ruburt. [...]

[...] I am not Ruburt. Ruburt is not me. Ruburt is me. I am myself … You are death and you are life … Ruburt can do many things that surprise me — that I did not do in my past, for remember that fresh creativity emerges from the past also, as in [Ruburt’s novel] Oversoul Seven. My memory does not include a predetermined past in which Ruburt exists. [...]

(Leaning forward, speaking intently but half-humorously:) I have memories of being Ruburt — but the Ruburt I was is not the Ruburt that Ruburt is in his reality. [...] In his terms I am a future self, with far greater knowledge, yet he uses that knowledge to alter his present reality; and when I was Ruburt I did not have that knowledge. You can say then that I am altering my own past, but Ruburt’s present experience also changes my present experience — and so there is an unending interchange.⁵

(10:52.) Give us a moment … In certain terms, for instance, I am a future of Ruburt, but the “past” is always freshly creative. Ruburt’s life as he knows it is not in my memory — because I did different things when I was Ruburt. [...]

[...] Ruburt is exploring time as he probes the reality of his own psyche, then.

[...] I know you far better than Ruburt knows you. [...] The personalities behind the people that you paint now run about that room of yours, and you try to put them into your paintings, and to make yourself strong enough to contain their reality, and you feel that Ruburt does not understand this. [...]

In some respects your work is lonely, and in some respects Ruburt’s work is lonely, but you react to it differently. Ruburt lately has looked for spontaneous release in anonymous social situations—the beer in the crowded bar. [...]

[...] Ruburt has not. [...] Although your reactions at times may be different, and although you may not agree with me, still Ruburt will rarely be unrealistic in understanding or in utilizing methods that are highly practical, though neither of you may understand them as such.

[...] Ruburt need not feel so responsible in such cases.

One, the personality of the mother offered needed experience for Ruburt; and two, the paganistic personality of the father was in some degree like his own past personalities though in a much more vague and watered-down way. A miscarriage later on the part of Ruburt’s mother represented an entity who changed his mind so to speak. [...] Ruburt’s present shape is something he has been working for. [...]

The panic itself will not be as severe as Ruburt faces it and realizes the connection with a gulping of air. I know about the book on autohypnosis, and believe that this will be a big help to Ruburt along these lines, as it will enable him to bypass many of the ego’s objections. [...]

[...] The old stormy temper is now seen in Ruburt’s deep grudges. The personality of Ruburt’s mother was not close to him in any other life. [...]

First, naturally, I have a few comments to make that will not only tie in Ruburt’s smoking habits with his present personality, but also to some extent tie in his present personality with past personalities.

Ruburt instinctively likes your tree painting. It represents a certain state of consciousness — an in-between threshold dimension of awareness, in which the imagination and the senses are almost caught in the act of putting an object together, or of bringing the world into a sensed reality, brand-new, from the realm of the inner mind: a very evocative state of consciousness, and one that as I believe Ruburt mentioned, you could also use in connection with faces.

Ruburt’s body is then magically and naturally repairing itself in a function just as creative, of course, as the inner work that goes on in the production of a book or a poem — a fact he is finally getting through his head. When your proofreading is over, and Ruburt’s recovery even more fully demonstrable, we will return to a book session a week, and continue this series the other [weekly] session. [...]

Ruburt’s body is repairing itself now at an excellent rate.

It is doing so because Ruburt is giving it different “orders.” [...]

[...] You may indeed get only our friend Ruburt. But then you may get more than your friend Ruburt. [...]

[...] you, as Ruburt would say you are looking for it! [...] The portrait is a portrait of Ruburt as a woman in one of the past lives mentioned... [...]

[...] You (JB and SW) used your energy like a ball that a child plays with, both you and Ruburt. [...]

[...] And our friend Ruburt is quite correct, you (WL) learn the nature of the inner self first....and then we shall help you in the development of your own abilities. [...]

Ruburt was well prepared for the call by then, and for the visit. Now the visit and Ruburt’s earlier feelings and thoughts were part of the same event, except that his subjective experience gave him clues as to the inner processes by which all events take place. [...] More is involved than the question: Did he perceive his information directly from the minds of his friends, or from the letter itself, which had already been mailed, of course, and was on its way to Ruburt at the time?

One morning last weekend (Saturday) Ruburt found himself suddenly and vividly thinking about some married friends. [...] Ruburt found himself wishing that the friends lived closer, and he was suddenly filled with a desire to see them. [...]

[...] Ruburt noticed them and forgot them once again. [...] In about a half hour the same mental activity returned, and, finding himself struck by this, Ruburt mentioned the episode to Joseph and again cast it from his mind.

[...] Ruburt and Joseph ate lunch, and the mail arrived. [...] been so much in Ruburt’s mind. [...]

(Pause.) Ruburt has felt too responsible to develop his psychic abilities, to produce another “psychically inspired” work of his own. [...] Therefore, left alone, Ruburt writes freely, and in an inspired nature because that is (underlined) his nature. [...]

[...] The idea of the public image coming through the correspondence, and as it was interpreted by Ruburt, further deepened the feeling of responsibility. Certainly “a great psychic teacher” had a responsibility of some weight (ironically humorous), and therefore it seemed imperative to Ruburt that he not make errors, that he live up to the characteristics generally ascribed to such an image. [...]

Ruburt made gestures of unconventionality. To go on public television, join the workshops and so forth would not be Ruburt’s way, even while he felt that such a course was expected of him. [...]

[...] Ruburt writes because he loves to write—the activity of itself is intriguing, again, it is a method of discovery and accomplishment, of celebration. [...]

Ruburt paints as a hobby. [...] Ruburt has been wondering about the contents of the mind, curious as to what information was available to it. [...]

Ruburt’s love for Joseph, his own purposes, and his growing questions, along with his interest in painting in general, triggered exactly the kind of stimulus that broke through conventional beliefs about time and knowledge. Ruburt tuned in to Cézanne’s “world view.” [...]

Ruburt’s Cézanne material therefore comes very quickly, taking a bare portion of the day. Yet its quality is such that professional art critics could learn from it, though some of their productions might take much longer periods of time, and result from an extensive conscious knowledge of art, which Ruburt almost entirely lacks. [...]

[...] Hopefully in that book, through my dictation and through Ruburt’s and Joseph’s experiences, the reader could see the greater dimensions that touch ordinary living, and sense the psyche’s magic. [...]