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Ruburt’s strong feeling was correct, his compulsive feeling that you should leave Sayre. At the time a trip to Florida would have been fine, although a meeting with Ruburt’s father on prolonged terms was not a good idea. Had you left Ruburt’s father for Miami you would have done well. Had you, Joseph, offered an alternative to going with Ruburt’s father, Ruburt would have accepted it and you would have done well.

Had you stayed any longer with Ruburt’s father the circumstances would have been tragic. A meeting would have occurred between Ruburt’s Mr. Burrell and Ruburt’s father in a bar in Marathon, in which Mr. Burrell would have fatally wounded Ruburt’s father.

[...] The table around which Ruburt now walks senses Ruburt even as Ruburt senses the table. [...]

[...] Nevertheless lest Ruburt thinks he is getting off scot-free, let me remind him that the tree’s bark is quite necessary, cannot be dispensed with—but I will get into that and into Ruburt at a later time.

Ruburt is only learning now not to scold and badger his subconscious. [...] It is the intuitive, spontaneous and psychically exuberant nature of Ruburt’s whole entity, for one thing, that makes it possible for me to communicate with you both.

[...] This is a very simplified version, but I must, so to speak, therefore journey through the various areas of Ruburt’s whole self, or inner self, until I reach a point where entry into your consciousness is possible. This happens to be the third undifferentiated layer of Ruburt’s subconscious.

We find here a situation this morning in which Ruburt achieved excellent communication with his own personal subconscious, spoke with it, giving it credit for being as important to the whole personality as the ego.

[...] Ruburt’s results are evidence that his training is bearing fruit. [...]

Now, the crucial mother identification is passed, and Ruburt is left with a system of habit, still based on some but relatively little mother identification. Ruburt did receive my message correctly. [...]

[...] Ruburt has been using this part of the self automatically in the pendulum sessions, and in giving suggestions. [...]

[...] I mentioned this to Ruburt today, but he thought the idea his own.

When Ruburt’s mother went to the hospital in his high-school years, he had a symbolic way of ridding the house of her psychic presence, and to add to his own sense of inner freedom. [...]

[...] Ruburt would indeed perceive withering looks on such occasions. [...] But Ruburt would immediately panic.

Ruburt must see that the more he does physically the more physically agile he will become. [...]

[...] Because of the material given the other evening, and Ruburt’s own background, this is what happened in the past: he would manage to show some improvement as your attitude became more loving. [...]

The difficulty showed itself in Ruburt in keeping with the style of life that you were both accustomed to. [...]

That accelerating activity is natural, as it appears in Ruburt’s writing. [...] Left alone now, Ruburt’s thoughts are more positive, and the worries not as frequent. [...]

Ruburt was correct: your spontaneous creative self dwells in Framework 2. There, your nature is intimately known, with all of its unique characteristics and capabilities. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s walking is a case in point. [...]

Before too long, naturally, without effort, Ruburt will find himself visualizing himself outdoors, or in a restaurant, and the physical facts will follow. [...]

Ruburt feels that he has a dragon by the tail. [...]

Whenever Ruburt opens to the dream state, physically he is specifically worried about out-of-body travel. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s answer therefore is to go ahead with his own nature freely, practically. [...]

You however also expected Ruburt to put on brakes, and for some time acquiesced, as he did. [...]

[...] You should both read tonight’s session, book dictation, with Ruburt’s situation in mind. [...] You are still both afraid—Ruburt primarily, of course—of really trying for fear you will be disappointed, and worried at the disruptions that might occur—again, Ruburt primarily. [...]

[...] Today’s visitor (Josette) came in response to Ruburt’s need, bringing him appreciation and a new encounter—but tonight’s session dictation can be of considerable benefit to you both. Ruburt simply drops the issue for a while—and then he feels panicky—at times a quite normal reaction to a sense of powerlessness. [...]

[...] Ruburt is often afraid he has little control over the situation. [...]

[...] Again, in the session there are strong clues, but you—or rather, Ruburt primarily must take advantage of them. [...]

How many distractions do you honestly feel are automatically cut out because of Ruburt’s condition? [...] How do they automatically cut down on ordinary give-and-take with neighbors and friends that Ruburt might otherwise engage in?

Ruburt’s symptoms help provide the isolation. [...] Ruburt equates spontaneity with emotionalism, therefore he imagines that his spontaneity will threaten your art.

Before we get down to Ruburt’s particulars, consider the fact that you are presently a part of a species that is specializing in the development of various kinds of consciousness, embarked upon an adventure that sees consciousness not only trying out new directions, from your perspective, but also trying to “perfect” and advance particular attributes.

Now: I want to speak directly about Ruburt’s written statement of today.

[...] You got there first and helped Ruburt. This means that in your inner self you have a clear idea of the goals which Ruburt, for many reasons, some quite legitimate, hides from his practical self.

Ruburt needs you to do his best work, and the support that you give him. [...]

[...] Even then Ruburt wondered about them. [...]

[...] Ruburt wants to put up the window so that a porch can be added to living space. [...]

Ruburt’s student Venice must have her weight, or she fears destruction. Ruburt must have his failure, and relative poverty, or he fears destruction.

It is a great help then for Ruburt to write his poetry. [...] Ruburt asked me for help today, and this is my answer and my help.

[...] In the 350th Session for July 6, 1967, is a sentence which has stayed with me— when Seth said: “Ruburt has an unfortunate sense of unworthiness, without which the situation [Jane’s symptoms] could not have developed.” [...]

[...] It was unfortunately a cue point, and itself the time bomb of which Ruburt spoke. [...]

Ruburt’s father was very bound to his mother. [...] (Del died at 66, very suddenly, of a cerebral hemorrhage.) He was very uneasy about Ruburt, until Ruburt met you, and he then turned Ruburt over to you.

[...] You may possibly be aware of Ruburt’s father before he is. He would be afraid of frightening Ruburt, regardless of Ruburt’s work.

On another level she encouraged Ruburt in his own development. As Ruburt knows she was a Christian Scientist and a reader. [...]

Ruburt is indeed out of the basic feeling-tone that brought about his malady. [...]

[...] Through Ruburt’s books we can reach and help many individuals. [...] Our friend Ruburt himself has not understood the meaning of our classes sufficiently. [...] Our friend over here (Theodore) has Ruburt’s back. [...]

Now, what my friend Ruburt does not understand is very simple, people. For when my friend Ruburt looks at a person he sees a mind and he automatically grades it... [...]

What Ruburt—someone had better take this down, or my friend will have nervous conniptions. [...]

[...] And note to our friend, Ruburt—there is no reason why truth must necessarily be given in high intellectual tones. [...]

You have ambiguous feelings about Ruburt’s garden for this reason. [...] This annoyed you greatly, but now to some extent you identify with those leanings, and look down upon the garden when Ruburt does not find his way to follow the gardening rules.

[...] Ruburt for example will enjoy and make use of whatever land he has, be it only the dirt in a window-sill plot. [...] You have not been able to take advantage of the yard or the ground available as positive things of joy and refreshment, and have therefore been denied an extra advantage from this place, and the conditions that Ruburt has enjoyed.

[...] (Humorously.) This is not to say that one of you is completely right and the other completely wrong, but I will tell you this: you can count upon Ruburt to recognize immediately and intuitively cases of such overly charged behavior on your part.

[...] (To me:) You are largely the one to be satisfied, for Ruburt will find joy in almost any environment that he considers his own; you see he personifies in a way that you do not; any place he is in is his place, to his mind, as this is his yard. [...]

Only poetry seemed Ruburt’s by right. [...] Ruburt grew up then without daring to ask for anything. [...] The college scholarship was not Ruburt’s by right, but could also be taken away.

[...] You, then, say what naturally comes to mind, and encourage Ruburt to make any questions or comments. Feel free to say what is on your mind; again, discuss Ruburt’s interpretation.

[...] They are fairly important and play their part in Ruburt’s attitudes. [...]

To voice any dissatisfaction to you verbally was highly difficult, for you could then take away your love and affection, as his mother did, for she would not stand, in Ruburt’s eyes, for such voiced aggression. [...]

[...] Ruburt has learned, the hard way, that the physical image is a direct materialization of the inner state of mind.

You have been told but you have not taken the information seriously because you were not ready, as earlier Ruburt was not ready to. [...]

[...] On several occasions Ruburt has followed these and your wants have been fulfilled.

In the past Ruburt helped you generate such negative ideas, but he has been making an attempt to combat them. [...]

[...] In the long run this procedure will take less out of Ruburt, and we of course will not exceed our usual regularity. [...] And even now, woe to me if I make a wrong move, for Ruburt would most certainly rise up in arms.

Ruburt’s idea of writing down his daily predictions is an excellent one, and will help him develop his abilities. Within a short time Ruburt will give me more freedom, I believe. [...]

[...] Ruburt may return now, and we will close our session. One note: I hope in the future to be able to add in dimension now and then to our sessions, opening up vistas to Ruburt to illuminate other avenues to complement any given discussion. [...]

[...] I will in no way press for Ruburt to go further than is beneficial for him.

[...] Both you and Ruburt have had a hangup, so to speak. [...] (Loudly:)You even more than Ruburt—and that is saying something—have connected creativity and time in a way that is detrimental. [...] Ruburt has struggled with that, but so have you. [...] This has to do with Ruburt’s symptoms, for he felt that he must be at his desk so many hours, whatever the number, and you became so obsessed with the amount of physical hours that you had to devote to painting that you began to divide up your psyche in terms of time.

[...] You have been experiencing this disquiet just as Ruburt has begun to show some steady signs of improvement. To some extent Ruburt’s symptoms served to keep the unsafe world at bay; while this was his private construction, you also took advantage of it, in that at least it served certain purposes.

[...] You would not have a wife who had Ruburt’s particular kind of symptoms unless for your own reasons they served your ends as well—though of course to a lesser extent by far than they served Ruburt’s purposes.

[...] Ruburt’s symptoms, dismaying, nevertheless provided a certain kind of steady, reliable framework. [...]

[...] Ruburt can save the majority of his teeth. [...] In certain times people lost their teeth, when they did, as Ruburt has, and in a natural fashion. [...] Lucky ones like Ruburt went on chomping merrily with the teeth that were kept, and with the gums between that became quite adequate for the necessary procedures.

[...] You understood what Ruburt had been working through—at a much lighter level, of course, and at least to some degree Ruburt could feel that he was helping you physically. [...]

Ruburt is not going to be satisfied with such a state, however, nor would you, for in your society it does not work that way. [...] Ideally, Ruburt can regenerate the gums overnight. [...]

[...] You remembered doing Ruburt’s Dialogues drawings, and Adventures diagrams, and those thoughts crowded your present. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s will allow him to make his breakthrough. You must see how the problem acclimated responses leading to not moving, etc., on both your parts and continued Ruburt’s condition. [...]

I told you that you would be faced consciously with many attitudes that you had put into the background, when you decided to move, so Ruburt has been meeting some of his own. [...]

[...] Ruburt is on the right track with his ideas today, particularly in concentrating upon the moment. [...]

[...] Your response to my suggestions regarding Ruburt has been excellent. [...]

(9:04.) The main issue, again, must be away from a concentration on the proposition that Ruburt’s condition constantly worsens. [...] In the overall, again, the reasons behind Ruburt’s difficulty should be encouraged to rise to the surface of the mind, where they can be encountered—but the idea is not to concentrate upon those reasons but to let them be one part of a larger therapeutic motion or movement in which they show themselves in order to be orchestrated away. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Therefore Ruburt’s idea of a new program is a quite natural therapeutic one. [...]

[...] That should be a part of the program, in other words, regardless of what Ruburt intends to do bookwise with those sessions. [...]

[...] I mean to make clear here that regardless of any complications that may seem only too apparent to you, in the production and distribution of my last book, and Ruburt’s, Mass Events—the benefits far outweigh any disadvantages. [...]