“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You helped Ruburt form his. You have not taken my suggestion before for a very simple reason: part of you, Joseph, was not ready to reassure Ruburt in such a fashion, for you were not certain that it was safe to relax in such a world, and you did not want to lie to Ruburt because you believed the newspaper world so thoroughly—with all, now, of its implications, as Ruburt did.

All of these things to some extent stand in the way of Ruburt’s recovery. They point precisely to those areas in which both of you heartily agreed, though Ruburt’s way of getting work done was not yours. [...]

Unless Ruburt does, no one will remark about this young man. [...]

I am trying to induce Ruburt to drop his muscular armor. [...]

[...] “The exasperation comes because your good psychologist almost undermined the confidence I managed to give Ruburt in our session with your friend, Phillip. I tried to build Ruburt’s confidence, and some stranger tore it down. [...]

“As far as Ruburt is concerned, there is no danger. [...] I may make bold to remark that I am more stable than you or Ruburt or the fine psychologist.

[...] It should be apparent that my communications come through Ruburt’s subconscious. But as a fish swims through water, but the fish is not the water, I am not Ruburt’s subconscious.

[...] I wanted to show you that telepathy did exist, and I wanted to show Ruburt that more than his own subconscious as he knows it was involved. … Now Ruburt assembles me or allows me to assemble myself in a way that will be recognizable to you, but regardless of this, I exist in an independent manner.”

Now this idealized self was primarily Ruburt’s—but to some extent also you contributed to it, feeling that anyone as gifted as Ruburt, if he were sure enough of himself, would indeed want to go out in that arena and press forward. You both felt a sense of schism between Ruburt’s physical condition and a hypothetical image of Ruburt as someone getting my material and ideally embodying it, so that if not perfect at least the main aspects of the life were smoothed out without contrasts. (Long pause.) In that regard indeed Ruburt felt as if he could not live up to my creative work—as if his physical being must embody all of the knowledge that came to him through our sessions—another important point. [...]

[...] It is more factual to say that it goes against the grain as far as Ruburt is concerned. [...] (Long pause.) If Ruburt wrote other kinds of books—mysteries, for example, or straight novels—he would of course have no trouble explaining them in the public arena. [...]

[...] With Sue’s book there have been other opportunities—people who wanted the story from the horse’s mouth, so to speak, and the talk from Prentice of a new campaign publicizing Ruburt’s work. Ruburt didn’t feel free to simply admit that he did not like the public arena. [...]

[...] As Ruburt mentioned, years ago in Sayre he would find someplace in your apartment that seemed somehow secret for his workroom. [...]

[...] A new synthesis is taking place concerning Ruburt’s ideas about his writing and life, so that particular session will simply insure that the old ideas are sufficiently broken up so that the new synthesis can form.

Ruburt received ideas about his on his own this week, and wrote them down. [...]

[...] Ruburt has experienced the slight soreness as rigidity in those areas begins to loosen. [...]

[...] These are vital and they are rather swiftly occurring as Ruburt’s habitual thoughts begin to change.

The sessions, dream activity, Ruburt’s writing of books, his poetry and his painting—these states by themselves contribute to his health. [...] (Pause.) When you see yourselves as being primarily in direct opposition to the ideas of the world (pause), then Ruburt feels the need also to overprotect himself from it. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s symptoms have always been a cautionary and protective measure. [...]

[...] Ruburt has no one in that same manner. [...]

[...] Ruburt has been doing well and is heading in the proper directions, particularly with the ideas of effortlessness and informal self-hypnosis. [...]

[...] Ruburt must indeed prime the pump, as they say.

[...] On the other hand Ruburt was spontaneously religious.

[...] The intimate relationship added to Ruburt’s sense of safety. [...]

[...] Ruburt is at the tail end of these inner problems that have been there in this life since childhood.

(Long pause.) Ruburt has at times gone overboard in a feeling of responsibility toward those who write in need. [...] (Long pause.) Ruburt is not responsible at all in such areas to hold sessions for others, or to provide that particular kind of individual help. [...]

(9:42.) All of this finally led Ruburt to feel that he had little room to move in. [...] Frank’s gadget can now serve as an excellent natural physical therapy, particularly useful at this stage, sending the message also that Ruburt is willing to let such relaxation occur. [...]

[...] The natural flow of the sessions has never run in that direction, nor has Ruburt’s own natural inclinations. [...]

[...] So it seemed to Ruburt that the books were not considered to be enough: he was expected to do all of those other things beside. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) An animal in Ruburt’s physical condition would simply be resting, perceiving body alterations and odd states with patient acquiescence, doing what it could physically and forgetting about the rest, trustful in the body’s capacities to heal itself. The more Ruburt relaxes the quicker his body will show the improvements that are now developing. [...]

[...] Have Ruburt make sure he begins to follow all of the suggestions given therein. [...] Again, Ruburt’s body is changing, and for the better. [...]

(Pause.) Ruburt’s depression-part of today represented, again, his recognition and expression of feelings that before were to a large degree buried in the symptoms, or translated into them. [...]

Ruburt receives esthetic pleasure from looking at the clean rugs or windows—a pleasure which actually encourages his creativity. [...]

[...] The impressions which were given by me through Ruburt, in Ruburt’s (Jane’s) own voice, were correct, however, and I believe he will attest to this.

Our results with him were good as far as the tests were concerned, though there was considerable distortion simply because Ruburt’s (Jane’s) abilities had not been sufficiently developed. [...]

[...] I had a session for him at his wife’s request when he was ill, and in Ruburt’s files his answering letter attests to the correctness of my interpretations and impressions.

(Pause.) Ruburt can give you whatever business statements you require concerning the sale of his books. [...]

[...] Ruburt did not want to face such issues. [...] When Ruburt has typed those small later poems, the path will seem much clearer to him. [...]

Ruburt is still dealing with spin-off material following or resulting from his Sinful-Self data, and this material generally follows the lines of development that are fairly obvious in the poems and notes that have followed since that time. [...]

I will have further pertinent material myself to add to the overall category of Ruburt’s situation, but I am simply making this evening’s session to give him a sense of immediate direction, and in his case to break the ice, so to speak. [...]

[...] The solutions lie in Ruburt’s case in all of those areas with which you are normally concerned—the mail, the sessions, the psychic abilities. [...]

(9:17.) It was therefore beneficial when Adams gave the “diagnosis” on Ruburt’s eyes. [...] The certainty of a more or less dependable environment, and Ruburt therefore valued, and values, the certainty that existed for many years with the Prentice connection. [...]

(Long pause.) Now, regardless of many objections to the contrary, Ruburt’s condition still has served your own ends as well as his—and into the present. [...] It is not necessary that you learn to gush endlessly about your love for Ruburt, but it is important that you do express it, and you have indeed been better in that area. [...]

[...] Ruburt for example feels obligated to tell correspondents with health difficulties to see the established authorities, certainly those with serious illnesses. [...]

[...] Now in matters of personal health, this is bound to add to the uncertainty: you are trying to live your lives according to new rules that are as yet not completely given, so to that extent it is somewhat natural that Ruburt and you become at times uneasy, wonder at times about the personal material, wonder if it is distorted in those areas, or whatever—and there are no known ways to check such material—the material itself is that original. [...]

[...] The telegram may or may not be received by you, but having to do with family, yours or Ruburt’s, I am not sure. Or it will be received by one of your family or Ruburt’s. (Pause.)

Ruburt is particularly now ready and able to start anew, and he has already done so. [...]

[...] Ruburt was simply kicking up a fuss last night (with Jane’s back cramps). [...]

[...] It now no longer exists, but they still resent the breaking up; and Ruburt’s yells, quite involuntary, represented in fact the death throes of the symptoms, and the part of the self who had accepted them as an attempt to solve problems.

[...] And as Ruburt told you earlier you were involved with a group before the time of Atlantis and you have been together often. But many times you have been too exclusive in your relationship, again as Ruburt told you. [...]

(To Edgar) Now, and I say this with utmost kindness and good nature, you can tell Ruburt that you have no feelings, and you can tell the class that you have no feelings, and you can tell others that you do not care what is said or done to you, but do not tell me. [...]

[...] I am not speaking now only to you (Maria), but to everyone in the room, our friend, Ruburt, included. [...]

Ruburt will want to know if the door is closed, so tell him because I want our friend over here in the bridal white (Maria) to realize that each of you should realize that the energy and strength and vitality that rings through this frail form now rings also through that form and that form and that form and represents the energy and vitality that belongs to each of you, and you all have it to draw upon. [...]

Ruburt’s own experience was also specific, in that his description of the place at which the Gallaghers stayed was highly accurate.

[...] Ruburt is therefore able on his own to pick them up, so to speak, when conditions are good. [...]

[...] When Ruburt tries too hard, he often blocks material by losing spontaneity; and when you try too hard, you interrupt any communication, or at least make it more difficult.

While we are still developing, the specifics that we have picked up in these tests with others show me that Ruburt is developing as I would like. [...]

[...] Particularly your comments concerning Ruburt’s behavior with the first husband. When the two of you have had any personal difficulties then Ruburt became twice as angry and fearful about your parents. [...]

Ruburt also has feelings about food, as you know—eating with strangers or with people he does not like. [...] She was very fond of food, and Ruburt now pretends to dismiss it. [...]

In the initial stages of Ruburt’s withdrawals, the exaggerated chatter also served to fool him, you see, as well as others. [...]

[...] This has been mentioned before but it is a good point, that retaliation against his mother was felt to be impossible, for she would then have an attack for which Ruburt felt responsible. [...]

In the particular instances when Ruburt heard me, I simply do not know whether or not you would have heard me, and there are several reasons for this. I impressed or affected Ruburt’s ear rather directly because this was the easiest procedure. [...]

Let me first make a few comments concerning the article which Ruburt has just finished reading.

[...] On those occasions when Ruburt has heard me more or less directly in his psychological time experiments, there has always been on his part a sound quite independent of himself, from outside of himself, of static. [...]

This was the result of my attempt to give the voice an independence, to form sound within your physical system without working through Ruburt’s vocal cords, but to impress your physical system kinetically.

Tonight Ruburt has evidence for the good intent of his natural self. [...] But the body does not hold a grudge, and so it has begun to respond to Ruburt’s new attitude—and the new attitude allows him to allow the body’s expression.

A few old hangovers, simply to be aired so they do not remain underground—this is old material—but Ruburt’s mother used to tell him that he destroyed everything he touched. [...]

Ruburt might go on television for example 50 times—to be met by applause, acclaim and understanding, but in his reality, imaginatively, he would be met by scorn and derision. [...]

(9:45.) Ruburt’s fears gave him a black-or-white attitude; he must be public or private. [...]

[...] Intuitive truths, as Ruburt should know, can also be revealed in other than highly intellectual ways. [...]

[...] Ruburt becomes intellectually scandalized when I speak simply. [...]

[...] There will be others, like Ruburt himself and like yourself, Joseph, who will be intrigued by those fuller developments and arguments given in the basic material. [...]

In the past because of Ruburt’s own difficulties, I merely hinted at future developments. [...]

[...] It insisted that other creative material come outside of Ruburt’s five-hour writing day. These beliefs generated their own emotions, of course, so that Ruburt would become angry when thought of as a “psychic” by others.

The day Ruburt received the “advance” information on bridge beliefs (see the last session), the obvious suddenly became clear. [...] It focused so defensively on its own material that it was hampering its flow of creativity, while the “unacceptable” aspects of Ruburt merrily went on creating other books, not even including my own.

(9:50.) This subject leads to what I will call bridge beliefs, and again Ruburt received some information on this topic ahead of time for his own benefit. [...]

Dictation: Since this book was begun, Ruburt has been working with his beliefs, and using methods in his own way as every reader must.

(Long pause at 8:53.) When it seems that left alone Ruburt’s condition will only worsen, you are following those old patterns of conditioned thought, projecting negative situations into the future, imagining the unfortunate outcome or outcomes, and acting as if you operated within a closed system. [...]

[...] As Ruburt begins to understand the “artificial” characteristics of the Sinful-Self concept, then those natural characteristics of the natural person will more and more emerge. [...]

It is true that the Sinful Self carries with it a group of patterns or reactions; methods of dealing with problems, and so Ruburt’s beliefs along those lines have colored his reactions, his plans, his dealings with you through the years. [...]

[...] I use the word “sinful” in Ruburt’s case because of the early church connections in particular. [...]