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(4:30. Suddenly Jane began to lift her entire left leg again—an inch—then two inches—off the mattress. Her belly was tense with the effort. “Safe, safe, safe,” she kept repeating to herself. Then she raised the foot three inches off the bed, flexing the foot at the same time at the ankle. Then even a bit more, breathing loudly, head going back and forth against the pillow.
(4:33. Foot down at last. She’d kept it in the air for at least three minutes. I told her. Terrific, her best yet by far. Then the foot began flexing again. It went back up in the air a good amount. “Safe. safe. safe,” Jane cried out. The whole leg moved up and down, though the knee didn’t flex.
(4:00. Jane began another set of generalized movements of her whole body. She was also noisy about it, telling herself “Shhh.” It was sort of humorous. “I didn’t know what the hell I was doing,” she said again. But it’s safe to say that her right leg is definitely showing signs of moving more. The sponge I place between her legs when she’s on her back keeps slipping loose.
Under the banner of the structure of which I have spoken, he is perfectly safe and supported. The motion is taking place under the auspices of the session, to reintroduce him to his own agility.
If you choose a safe universe then you may indeed find some old habitual ideas, thoughts or beliefs, coming to haunt you. [...] When you change your affiliation and find yourself now and then encountering such feelings; and they are always one way or another feelings of insecurity—then admit to yourself that while they made sense in the unsafe universe, they do not belong in the safe one. Literally, such feelings make no sense in a safe universe. [...]
[...] At the risk of repeating myself, you live in a safe universe (loudly). [...] You cannot live in a safe universe and an unsafe one at the same time. [...]
All of this is occurring because he is beginning to understand that you do indeed live in a safe universe. [...]
[...] If you thoroughly understood what that means then you do indeed live and experience a safe universe. [...]
[...] You cannot say “I live in a safe universe, but—” —but anything. You cannot say “I live in a safe universe, but I am threatened by the economic problems of my state,” move to Pennsylvania, or to Timbuktu (humorously intent). [...]
When you begin to realize that you do indeed live in a safe universe, these patterns of reaction begin to break up. [...]
In your world, however, and according to your beliefs, some “realistic” events had to prove out the practicality of the safe universe in publishing terms —so you have a creative conflict.
The material on the book just given is pertinent: you live in a safe universe. [...]
[...] The better known he became the greater the belief that he must protect himself, and the greater his feeling of unsafety, for now he became known in a world in which it was only safe to hide. [...]
When he is proficient with the bathroom routine, which you were very wise to begin, we will start some other simple new routines, one at a time, instilling appropriate body reaction to a safe universe. [...]
(9:37.) Ruburt needs your help once again to reassure him that relaxation is safe, that it is safe to let go, that he will not fall into darkness, that his muscles will actually become stronger as they relax, and that his creativity rises to the surface when his body and mind are more relaxed. [...]
Traveling from one shore of it to another becomes a vast learning adventure, in which both sea and sky are observed in all of their moods and nuances while you are safely ensconced all of the while. [...]
When you have your stomach difficulties you insist, however, upon looking overboard and saying “Those waves are dangerous and threatening,” while forgetting momentarily that you are indeed quite safe aboard your craft. [...]
Until an individual gains enough confidence in the concept of a safe universe, he or she will hang on to many of those attitudes. [...] If you are convinced that your world is not safe then it seems sensible to protect yourself in questionable areas by expecting the worst so that you will be prepared. [...]
[...] Through testing “fate,” death-defiers try each time they perform to prove to themselves that they are indeed safe, that they can overcome life’s most dire conditions. [...]
(Long pause at 4:16.) Only when they pursue some death-defying career do such individuals feel safe enough to relax otherwise and live a fairly normal life outside of their death-defying careers.
You stop, each of you, and think “Actually, how safe is this universe in which we dwell?” The money, or the need of it, in your particular situation, becomes merely a symbol for an inner sense that the universe is not safe, and so money becomes a needed security. [...]
You live in a safe universe. [...]
[...] You must completely accept the fact that you do indeed dwell in a safe universe—one in which you are free to develop, say, your painting abilities to the fullest, without fearing that that development will dull the weapon that brings you money.
If you thoroughly understood that you dwelled in a safe universe, you would need no such concepts. [...]
You might add very briefly to that material, one or two suggestions following what you have—that stress expression: “Do I feel safe to express physical vitality?” Or questions as to whether or not Ruburt and his “subconscious” feel safe enough to progress, generally speaking, into an area of psychic, creative, and physical expression.
[...] Your help, again, with the suggestions is invaluable in terms of your loving active aid—but also because you are convincing yourself that you live in a safe universe, so that Ruburt does not feel that he must battle for himself and for you. Your sexual encounters are very important, for if you do not feel you are safe,then even animals have difficulty expressing corporal sex. [...]
[...] If, under conditions naturally safe in the terms of primary experience, you become overwhelmed by unsafe signals from secondary experience — that is, from your reading or whatever — you show a lack of discrimination. You are not able to differentiate between the physically safe present situation, and the imagined, which is perhaps unsafe, calling forth the alarms of danger.
If you are safely ensconced in a comfortable room, in no present danger, your senses should accurately convey that information. [...]
Your body then might say you are safe, and your senses show you that no danger is present — yet you have begun to rely so upon secondary experience that you do not trust your creature reactions.
Because of man’s great gift of imagination, however, the alarm signals not only invade a safe present moment, but go jangling into the next one and the one following, and are endlessly projected into the future. [...]
[...] Here scientists, many being science-fiction buffs, can safely channel their own intellectual questioning into a safe form. [...]
[...] It is quite safe, therefore, to criticize them in that regard, to see how a story or a painting is constructed—or more importantly, to critically analyze the structure of ideas, themes, or beliefs, that appear behind, say, the poem or the work of fiction.
I bid them a safe journey