“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Ruburt’s creativity not only involves that kind of behavior, but the mystic elements of the personality, meaning that the inner activity is very intense, so that Ruburt learned from a young age to develop a certain kind of secrecy. [...]

[...] If you recall, Ruburt could chatter quite well, and carry on in a more or less normal manner while brooding deeply about something, and saying nothing. [...] In that respect, most individuals do not stand alone, and, in that respect Ruburt feels that except for you he does, and must meet the world “head-on” when there is such conflict.

[...] Ruburt used to feel as a child threatened by crowds. [...] In a way the symptoms are a statement of the distance Ruburt wanted to maintain from public life, because he felt equally that he should go out into the world in a public manner, and “tackle it.”

[...] Ruburt began to concentrate upon them, however, and also feared that the classes might turn into more public endeavors as they became better known—one of the reasons for dropping them.

[...] Seth’s entity name for Jane is Ruburt—he, him, his.)

[...] One small note here: at those times when Ruburt wears sweaters to bed, you see, they serve as reminders of his mother’s bed jackets. [...]

Affection on your part, Joseph, is as you know very highly effective, giving all the portions of Ruburt’s personality simultaneous support. [...]

[...] A point here involving Ruburt’s hands and his mother’s sweaters: he knew that knitting was a therapeutic measure suggested in the past to exercise his mother’s hands. [...]

[...] Here we have a legitimate occasion, in which Ruburt projected to your room, and I acted as his guide. You saw me and you did not see Ruburt. [...]

The Wisconsin material will develop shortly… Involve Ruburt’s work…

[...] Look after Ruburt.

The cigarette was your own construction, representing your inner realization that the cigarette-smoking Ruburt was there but not present. [...]

Ruburt’s mood is such that it is rather difficult for me. [...] I will therefore begin with the letter you received from Ruburt’s friend.

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. And in an unwary, emotionally upset personality, particularly if under stress, such a suggestion could cause a harmless and protective nodule to be changed by the strong powers of adverse expectation, or rather expectation poorly used, into the form of what is feared; as a slight but harmless irregularity of heartbeat, with the unthinking suggestion of a doctor, can become through the patient’s fears an actual functional disorder, so could suggestion turn a relatively harmless formation like Ruburt’s into an arthritic condition.

[...] It was from this dream that Ruburt picked up the information connecting her friend with water.

In the friend’s dream Ruburt played a small part, and this served as a connective.

[...] Certain houses repel you and Ruburt. [...] Quite simply, Ruburt finds carpeting sinful if it is expensive, unless it is in the living room, where he might accept it. [...]

[...] The house is set itself atop its own knoll, which to Ruburt at least gives a fortress feeling, in that he can look down and see who is coming.

[...] Ruburt’s response is very healthy for him, since it involves the acceptable use of exuberant and aggressive energy, and the sense of power in the physical realm.

There are points to be considered also in the Levine affair, for our bemused Dr. Levine would cut out all of nature, you think, if he had the chance, and as Ruburt said, sterilize the neighborhood. [...]

[...] When Frank asks Ruburt frankly—if you will excuse the pun (amused)—“Are you working? Am I bothering you?” and Ruburt smiles sweetly and says “No, that is fine,” then Frank is faced with Ruburt’s smiling countenance, while his intuitions tell him something else entirely.

Ruburt’s body is becoming more alive. [...] Your love for each other is coming to new fruition, and that, sensed by each of you, will give you an even greater impetus, for Ruburt creatively and physically; and for you this will bring about real breakthroughs in your painting and in your writing.

[...] Naturally, then, Ruburt’s eyes are changing. [...] You should have received enough evidence, and fine evidence thus far, to show you that there is nothing intrinsically wrong with Ruburt’s eyes, per se. [...]

Now Ruburt used his poetry also to exert independence from his mother—which implied, he thought, a certain kind of rejection of Marie. [...]

Ruburt, dear Ruburt, has been besieging me with protests because your kitchen is small. [...] I have no intention of disrupting your household, nor as Ruburt feared was this suggestion merely a trick of his own subconscious. [...]

The seemingly unfortunate suggestion that I made to Ruburt was made for your own benefit, not mine. [...]

The fact is that regardless, Ruburt, of the smallness of your kitchen, it simply is not physically sanitary or even psychically healthful to keep food in a bathroom. [...]

My mention of the tree in the kitchen was made because I happen to enjoy seeing it when Ruburt makes his twice-weekly journeys up and down the living room floor. [...]

If Ruburt had done the same thing from the dream state, this could have resulted. A very slight amount of physical weight was lost on Ruburt’s part. [...]

Ruburt is far more cautious than either of you suppose. When you become overcautious, this can at times, momentarily at least, hold you both back; because you do not count upon this less apparent but quite definite cautious part of Ruburt. [...]

You are not aware, or Ruburt is not aware, of the direct inner perception. [...]

[...] (One minute pause, eyes closed.) The girl’s emotional condition the other evening acted indeed like a psychological bridge, over which Ruburt could pass. [...]

[...] He is confident Ruburt will produce a good book, and while busy attempts to keep in touch with him. He has written Ruburt for example more than Ruburt has written to him. But with Ruburt’s mind, it had to be more an all or nothing affair.

[...] Together at least several times a week, for a month, read the sessions that Ruburt has on his clipboard. [...] Encourage Ruburt toward motion, and have him encourage himself the idea should be “I can do more, and more easily.”

[...] Have Ruburt verbalize his fears in whatever way you choose. [...] You should discuss plans in Ruburt’s terms with each other.

Ruburt became frightened in the past, and long before our sessions. [...]

[...] You have been distrustful to some degree concerning Ruburt’s fidelity to the sessions, precisely because the sessions have become important to you. Ruburt at this time would not dispense with the sessions, although it is true that he sometimes consciously resents the discipline involved in their regularity.

On a conscious level you, Joseph, are much more given to regularity, and therefore more concerned when Ruburt shows signs of irregularity. It is however with him, as with you, the peculiar mixture of discipline and regularity with spontaneity that makes the sessions possible; and this quality in Ruburt, even of rebellion, that allows the sessions to continue.

[...] If you were in Ruburt’s position, you would be more willingly regular than he; but my dear Joseph, your critical sense would block me much more than his, particularly in details. And in your position Ruburt would not do as well as you do.

The inner discipline, the inner utilization of energy, the inner channeling and direction of energy on Ruburt’s part in these sessions, would have been impossible but a few years ago.

As long as you rely upon Ruburt’s physical condition to say “no” for you, then Ruburt is still using it to avoid facing such issues or making decisions in that regard.

Now: the new policy of writing down Ruburt’s feelings is beginning to pay off, and is leading him to an understanding of the feelings, to a recognition of his impulses. [...]

The material on impulses was indeed from me this morning, and in a way that material, coming through as it did, was the result of Ruburt’s dawning understanding that his own abilities can indeed help him solve his difficulties when he allows it. [...]

[...] Ruburt does not need to apologize to anyone for his less-than-perfect physical condition, nor feel that his physical lack of mobility—relatively speaking—casts aspersions on the sessions or on our work. [...]

I am not, therefore, a product of Ruburt’s subconscious, any more than he is a product of my subconscious mind. [...] I have seen to it in fact that all portions of Ruburt’s personality are benefited, and their integrity maintained and honored.

[...] Ruburt could not express them, and so they must be leveled out into linear expression if they are to be communicated. [...]

[...] In these communications, therefore, Ruburt’s consciousness expands, and yet focuses in a different dimension, a dimension between his reality and mine, a field relatively free of distraction. [...]

Ruburt makes his verbal knowledge available for our use, and quite automatically the two of us together cause the various words that will be spoken. [...]

Now: it is the effortlessness, the spontaneous relaxation, that worries Ruburt, in that it is not specifically decided upon at any given point, but seems to happen by itself. [...]

Ruburt’s body is allowing itself to relax, particularly on the couch when his back is supported. [...]

There is no doubt, however, that at times Ruburt becomes quite frightened, and the fear of course represents the fear that still lingers concerning the nature of spontaneous action. [...]

(Long pause at 9:04.) There is no doubt that differing portions of Ruburt’s body are quite comfortable, and far more flexible, when he relaxes in such a fashion. [...]

[...] Now remember that Ruburt’s mother used words like “I hereby disown you,” or “You are hereby disinherited,” or “I consider you no longer my daughter.” Such a situation increased Ruburt’s sense of not being safe, of course, and yet also reinforced feelings of independence, for he did not have to feel as dependent upon Marie as he might otherwise. [...]

(9:01.) This is like a kind of backup system, biologically pertinent, that always operates of course to an important degree, but that can now come more to the forefront of Ruburt’s experience. [...] For it puts Ruburt on top of those old bondings, while still giving them their recognition as issues that can indeed be creatively reconciled. [...]

[...] Such encounters provide an emotional support that cements feelings with your fellow beings, and that in a fashion helps minimize in the present some of the defects of Ruburt’s childhood relationship with his mother. [...] There are indeed clues in the seemingly innocuous material that Ruburt intends to note down, involving the soda, the cookies, and so forth. [...]

First of all, some of the ideas in the Magical Child book are excellent, and though he has not read the book thoroughly by any means, some new understandings have been reached through the use of those ideas and his own recent experiences by Ruburt.

The Mafia dream (of March 16) based on the gangsters’ series, for example, served to bring into conscious awareness not just the information, but Ruburt’s feelings about the dominant male role in your present culture. [...] The same applies to Ruburt’s feelings in the religious area. [...]

Now: we have been having a rather concentrated group of sessions, and it is quite natural that Ruburt should want to take some time out as he has, so that he can assimilate the material. [...]

Our late sessions helped bring about several important dreams that I have mentioned, and also activated other therapeutic layers, so that different kinds of messages have been received while Ruburt was in the sleep or dream state. [...]

(9:32.) That process has been strengthened as far as Ruburt is concerned once again. [...]

[...] When Ruburt’s psychic abilities began to show themselves, however, those same beliefs made both of you even more cautious than before, and more worried about reprisal from others — and as far as Ruburt was concerned, more worried about criticism or scorn. [...] Ruburt felt some guilt in expressing psychic abilities in such a marked fashion, when it seemed that the male of the relationship should be the most highly talented, and by far the most successful financially (intently). So your roles in that manner upset both of you at times.

I can say that overall I agree with your decisions, and with Ruburt’s interpretation of Karder’s visit. Some of the material that I have just given will help Ruburt find greater release. [...]

Now both of you were saturated with those beliefs — Ruburt because of his poetry and writing, and you because of your art. [...]

Ruburt, as a young woman, felt that writers were on the outskirts —

[...] Ruburt was not aware of it, specifically, as he began to limit, say, the range of the eyes’ motions, for that happened inconspicuously enough as the head motions were restricted. [...]

The body’s latest efforts to heal itself, Ruburt’s strong intent to become flexible, and your own help and encouragement, have led to a situation in which all of those tensions, exerted over a long period of time, are in the process of rather speedily being released. [...]

[...] The improvements themselves are learning processes, as Ruburt learns to trust the body, as before he did not.

[...] Ruburt sits down more easily, for example. [...]

[...] Before, Ruburt’s fear prevented him from even acknowledging many such impulses to act. Ruburt’s assessment of your dream and its conditions is another case in point. The inner organizations immediately trigger all the necessary actions required, from Framework 2. This applies to any issue – but again, your creative abilities, used on behalf of Ruburt’s physical condition will give him a normally cooperating body.

The young woman, Frances (Gardella), who wrote Ruburt, with no evidence was certain she would be followed—tomorrow if not today. [...]

[...] Ruburt does not have to fear that he must give up some creativity for physical freedom, for the two go hand in hand.

[...] The small instance of Ruburt’s doing the dishes this morning is a case in point – and that emerged as the result of those abilities mentioned in our last session.

[...] When Ruburt’s symptoms are a thing of the past you will see how insignificant they were in the overall scheme of your lives. [...] Ruburt has been given abilities. [...]

[...] Such a venture would also help Ruburt feel that he was holding his own financially in the universe. [...]

[...] It will be good for Ruburt to throw himself into this. [...]

Now for many reasons your success, both yours and Ruburt’s, will come later in your lives than those who achieve it in their young adult years. [...]

The spontaneous love-making is an improvement, and important, and Ruburt’s remarks to you today were pertinent in that regard. If Ruburt tries to do physical things the ability to do them will come. [...]

[...] Humorously:) Censored material: in a matter of days you effectively helped Ruburt to largely overcome a problem that had bothered him deeply—the bathroom situation.

[...] Ruburt was to go to the bathroom, period. [...]

[...] Ruburt moves about faster at night because the patterned behavior of the day is not present.