“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I must transform certain mechanisms within Ruburt’s physical mechanisms. I must play upon them as a painter plays with color or a musician plays with notes and keys, and he (Ruburt) must acquiesce and join in this creative activity. [...] We use Ruburt’s nervous mechanism and we change it creatively, as to a lesser extent we hope to change you all creatively. [...]

[...] Now you should realize that this endeavor is indeed a highly creative one, for you have here at the least, at the very least, two personalities, my own and Ruburt’s, and we dwell entirely (in) different dimensions. [...]

For your information I can taste the wine and fortunately I am not affected by the wine, although Ruburt may be. [...]

I will ring my bell and awaken our friend and if you can hear it, then I can hear it and I will return if you promise to give Ruburt no more rumolade in candies. [...]

[...] Never think that you and Ruburt do not have children, for you are closer to many individuals than their parents, and you provide an emotional creativity that will enable physical parents to communicate far better with their offspring.

Now to Ruburt and you. [...]

[...] Ruburt does not realize the release in the right arm, for example.

[...] To some extent Ruburt held back physically, not wanting to bother you while he thought you were concentrating upon the diagrams and drawings. [...]

[...] And incidentally: Ruburt’s hard-headedness and egotistical dragging of feet so far, hampers me in a beautiful little demonstration. I see the office of your precious Psychic Society, and your director, but Ruburt fears to make a mistake, and he blocks me.

Without your confidence and intuitive affirmation, much of this material would be blocked on Ruburt’s part, Joseph, and Ruburt depends strongly upon inner strengths that you possess, and of which you are mainly ignorant. [...]

Ruburt in many ways was more often than either of us, more receptive to what could not be seen or touched. [...]

[...] Ruburt recognizes it now, and he is no scientist or psychologist. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s book ordinarily would have taken him, at the very least, four months with ordinary efficiency. You notice that Ruburt did not specifically request that a book of poetry be produced, nor was a book even mentioned.

We shall, then, take a very brief break for Ruburt’s benefit, since I always give him one after this sort of material.

Then I will speak briefly concerning Ruburt’s book of poetry, for this is an excellent example of how suggestion can be used to utilize energy for conscious purposes.

Ruburt’s ego now contains elements that did not at one time belong to it. [...]

[...] You both want Ruburt to walk normally now, and you are seeing results in terms of body releases and improvements. [...] If Ruburt were better completely tomorrow, would he suddenly want to disrupt the whole applecart before “Unknown” was finished, and go to Florida?

You have used your own abilities, both of you, and done well with them despite your overly protective attitudes toward them, and despite methods you used, Ruburt in particular, to insure their use. You cannot cut down physical freedom without inhibiting creative freedom, so to some extent Ruburt’s methods have inhibited his creativity. [...]

[...] Ruburt recognized that no one can teach you to write. [...]

Ruburt’s reading in college, and his friends there, led him to believe that the artistically gifted were not too well equipped to handle normal living. [...]

[...] Your psychological growth is not something you can look at in the mirror, yet it is that growth that is also responsible for your painting and writing Ruburt’s books and his connections with me. In a fashion Ruburt’s symptoms are caused because he tries to understand his abilities and his life in a too-limited context, with definitions still too narrow. [...]

For example: You were pleased, Joseph, with the portrait you did and showed Ruburt, remarking, however, that you wished you had done such work earlier, and on other occasions you have made similar remarks. [...]

[...] The same applies to Ruburt. [...]

[...] Ruburt does beautifully with people, individually and with groups—particularly for someone who is (underlined) largely so given to solitary work. [...]

[...] For some time, as you became involved with the hospital and medical habits and people, Ruburt in particular grew very frightened. [...] Ruburt became very frightened, however, as he saw where such a trend could lead. [...]

[...] The organization of the material comes almost in packages, you might say, hopefully to be delivered at the best possible time, so have Ruburt keep his eye out for sessions in the day sometimes, at least for starters (as I have suggested also). [...]

Ruburt is doing well under these circumstances—I am referring to the last few days—with the help from you that he did indeed so need. [...]

I will indeed end the session, knowing that the session adds to Ruburt’s reassurance, and that the session alone, on its own, releases certain kinds of highly beneficial energy. [...]

[...] You served to help Ruburt find in this life direction. [...]

[...] You knew that one of Ruburt’s purposes would be to insist upon the expression of your emotions to him personally. [...]

[...] Because of the tensions and the challenges, however, and for other reasons having to do with this existence, Ruburt became worried that you would not relate to him in the emotional way that his nature demanded. [...]

[...] You have, you know, done well with Ruburt since our last sessions. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s exercise today however represented exactly what I spoke of, and in that way should be avoided—the paper that you read this afternoon, that he wrote—and when each of you review your joint past, do so looking for your accomplishments. [...]

[...] The five minutes by each of you, plus the physical action as mentioned, and Ruburt encouraged to take action in the present.

Specific suggestions for Ruburt.

[...] For several evenings, see yourself in the environment of Ruburt’s dream as given. [...] Now Ruburt should do the same exercise.

Now, Ruburt has had the first of the seven dreams. [...]

(“I don’t think Ruburt thought of the dream that way.”

Subconsciously Ruburt knew that the dream was important. [...]

I will not here take credit for Ruburt’s novel outline. [...] He will now, that is Ruburt will now, do very well.

[...] I am amused because Ruburt is so surprised. Didn’t you know, Ruburt, that I could be so magnanimous?

Sue represents a certain portion of Ruburt — the writing self, signifying that the “psychic” portions of Ruburt’s personality were helping out the writing portions, and letting them share in the psychic knowledge and experience.

(With many pauses throughout:) Ruburt displayed an excellent example of the mobility of consciousness in last evening’s experiences.

[...] (Long pause.) Ruburt’s experience, all in all, touched many of those levels, facilitating the healing processes at each given level. [...]

[...] In the very early episode, Ruburt experienced the healthy and joyful child’s body, with its innocent spontaneity. [...]

The state into which Ruburt fell as a rule allows no such focus in either reality, but a suspension. [...] This is aimed at Ruburt. [...]

I would have thought that my friend Ruburt would have realized what he was about.

The book which Ruburt has been reading tended to turn him inward. [...]

A plunge into the world of the outer senses will be immediately restorative; although I know Ruburt has no inclination to take a brisk walk this evening, I suggest that he do so.

[...] Ruburt did indeed hear me today.

[...] (Smile, eyes open.) Some beneficial projection is going on here also for a change, as Ruburt psychically projects outward the last of important inner disturbances onto the ghost images, which are then completely, altered into constructive and healthy images.

[...] As you know, your dwelling has always represented a temple to Ruburt, and the relationship between you. [...]

[...] They will carry you safely through in other words, or carry Ruburt.

(Long pause at 8:00.) In a manner of speaking, the Sinful Self created the superhuman self-image that demanded so much, and it encased Ruburt’s body as if in concrete. Well, that image cracked and crumbled in the hospital experience, leaving Ruburt with his more native, far more realistic image of himself. [...]

If earlier, however, Ruburt had the erroneous idea that he was going too fast—or would or could—and had to restrain himself and to exert caution, now he received the medical prognosis, the “physical proof” that such was not the case—and in fact that the opposite was true: he was too slow. [...]

(Long pause at 7:46, one of many.) If Ruburt once found himself imagining that he must be strong and perfect enough to help solve everyone else’s problems, now he found himself relatively helpless, and “undefended” —that is, his physical condition put him in a situation certainly where he felt helpless. [...]

(Very long pause at 7:50.) So contrary to its own beliefs, and helpless or not, Ruburt was holding his own. [...]

[...] Ruburt uses abilities that do not fit that known world’s categories—abilities that by their nature straddle many dimensions of activity, none of them normally conventional, normally established, none of them easily defined. As a physical person Ruburt can only actualize himself through the properties of his creaturehood, yet he is aware of those other tantalizing activities. [...]

Ruburt should do some small amount of writing each day—for his own pleasure and expression. [...] So Ruburt is not to be taken in by people who come here or write, expecting him to solve their problems in the flesh, or expecting me to do it. [...]

Now: Ruburt for a while should write his own impressions of encounters such as this evening’s, or such as the visit of the two girls (from Columbus, Ohio a few days ago). [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Ruburt is not responsible for other people’s conceptions of who or what I am, or who or what he is. [...]

(11:23.) Ruburt has decided that 45 is a landmark. [...]

[...] Ruburt must be himself, fulfilling himself, and those joyful, free, personal and intimate freedoms of his life. [...]

[...] Ruburt is beginning to understand, and lay down a burden. [...]

[...] Ruburt imagining himself on children’s swings, for example. [...] It can all come as playfully as Ruburt’s writing comes. [...]

[...] I have told you many times in the past that Ruburt did not have arthritis—and I still take that stand. [...]

[...] It is indeed important that you reread the sessions, and Ruburt’s improved reading status today (when Jane read yesterday’s session after lunch today) should at least give you a glimmer of the improvements that are possible—improvements that will indeed occur as you continue with our “program.” [...]

Now, to resume: Your idea of using the sponges is an excellent one, and for now have Ruburt use that same imagery once a day for a starter. [...]

In a waking state, Ruburt found himself in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., where he grew up, in what seemed to be a kind of mental projection. [...] Ruburt was bodiless on the one hand, and on the other he perceived some of the experience through the eyes of an infant in a carriage.

[...] That child grew up in that probability, and Ruburt grew up in this one. (Pause.) He touched upon certain coordinates that were neurologically shared, however, by both: He and the child were familiar with the carriage and the curb, the mother who pushed the carriage, and the house into which Ruburt felt himself, as the child, being carried.

[...] In Adventures Ruburt uses the term “prejudiced perception” — an excellent one — that is applicable here. [...] In the sleep state Ruburt became unprejudiced, at least to some degree, so that he encountered information that seemed alien or out of context with usual experience.

[...] (Pause.) From the standpoint of Ruburt’s official mental focus, and from the standpoint of the neurologically accepted present, that past environment had to remain off-center, or blurred. [...]

Ruburt took on the bargain later, where the symptoms could be used as a backup system, preventing him from going out and working, so adjustments were made along the way. [...] This is apart from Ruburt’s worries about revelatory material. [...]

Ruburt’s insights this afternoon are quite legitimate. [...] That is the connection Ruburt was trying to make. [...]

(8:47.) Ruburt interpreted one dream in particular for you. [...]

[...] I do want to stress the advantage of examining such events as your visit of the other evening, and the ways in which either or both of you use the framework of Ruburt’s symptoms, while urging you again not to overly concentrate upon such matters. [...]