“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

What neither of you realized is the acuteness with which you choose the situations. You have not gone to establishments where dancing is the usual thing, where a dance floor is available. Granted there are other reasons for it, nevertheless you choose to begin with a situation in which dancing is not the norm, where it requires on anyone’s part particular effort, and a spotlighted situation.

There is a significance in your dancing dilemma that neither of you have come to grips with—having to do with each of your natures and characteristics and ways of looking at a situation. Of course projection is involved, on both of your parts, and not therefore simply on Ruburt’s . He to some extent (underlined twice) recognizes his projections, is consciously aware of them, and tries to deal with them, but in that particular situation you do not recognize yours, though you understand to some degree your different individual reactions.

If you shy away from dramatic public exhibitions of emotionalism under the best circumstances, then here you are faced with a situation in which you see it thrust upon you by someone you love, and in your eyes under the poorest of circumstances. The physical conditions, the floor, the act of dancing when others are not, these circumstances are not to your liking. Beside that Ruburt, you feel, is not at his best physically speaking. The situation then is highly charged.

(8:52.) Now that situation, plus the mental strains of the crisis condition, brought about the present situation. The physical situation will change in any case, and for the better (long pause), but the crisis situation itself helped rearouse Ruburt’s lack of trust. [...]

What you want is not a crisis situation, but a therapeutic situation—so change the statements of your thoughts. Your intent now is to create a therapeutic situation. [...]

Now some people deal with critical situations, and it is in the nature of their temperament. This would involve many in various categories: they run from one crisis situation to another, using such crises as impetuses. [...] In chronic situations you often have a steady drainage, say, of energy. [...]

(Slowly at 11:46:) Ruburt’s condition involved a situation in this life. [...] In larger terms, such focusing in particular areas can involve an entire life situation, reincarnationally speaking, where you choose ahead of time, so to speak, to concentrate your attention in certain areas rather than others; you may pick for yourself a body that does not perform normally, or a mind that is not up to par in usual terms.

Your given situation at birth, therefore, is one in which you cannot manipulate adequately in whatever way you have chosen. If you have decided upon a situation in which a critical organic lack or disability is involved, and are born with a severe disease, for example, then that is the context in which you will experience this particular focus in corporeal reality. [...]

This material is highly important to many of you who find yourselves in situations with which you are not pleased. [...]

[...] In both instances the situations will be caused by your own beliefs, even though this may at first seem most unlikely. For the purposes of this particular chapter, we will discuss illnesses or situations that have arisen since childhood, so we are not including birth defects or very early life-endangering childhood accidents, or most unfortunate childhood family situations. [...]

[...] Whatever your situation is, it is a good idea to ask yourself what you would do if you were free of it. [...]

Obviously this hypothetical situation is a quick example of what I mean, with no mention of the innumerable other beliefs and half-beliefs that would encircle the man’s and the woman’s relationship.

(9:32.) As he resumed “normal” consciousness Ruburt found himself wondering about the great violence involved, and the entire situation in which such people placed themselves. [...]

[...] The situation is one of danger, yet is chosen by those involved, and is not inflicted upon them. [...]

[...] From the outside it seems impossible that anyone would choose such a background, such a highly restricted or even painful situation in which to live. [...]

In facing the situation in your parent’s house, he faces and conquers the situation once existing in his mother’s house. [...] The situation does not gobble him up. [...]

In a new crisis situation, in facing a present crisis squarely and dealing with it in adult terms, he may indeed free himself largely; for the present situation through association brings up highly charged emotional energies that have been stopped up and causing difficulty.

The old panic is being dispelled through the present situation with your parents. [...] Both your father and your mother subconsciously know your position and Ruburt’s. Subconsciously they both know that this good is coming from their own situation.

[...] While such situations as Peggy’s illness are chosen by the entity, the individual is always left to work out its own solution. [...] The general situation is set up in response to deep inner involvements.

Such a situation allows John’s present wife to telescope the experience needed into one life-situation, to delve deeply, and face at once problems that could otherwise take several existences.

[...] One does not choose illness, per se, for a life situation. [...]

In his situation however he has largely felt powerless to alter the conditions. [...] At times it has seemed at best Pollyanna, even to you, in the face of Ruburt’s daily situation, and your intimate experience with it, to pretend playfully that it did not exist.

He must project that same sense of freedom and understanding into the physical situation, and fly as freely in the face of that situation. [...]

[...] He needed the confidence, which is why he accepted the situation.

All of this had to do with past conscious decisions and responses to situations that, in your terms, no longer existed at the time of the flood. [...]

[...] The situation did become so serious that for a while they did fear for their survival.

(9:51.) In those few moments they saw their life situation clearly and brilliantly in symbolic focus; for they were isolated, with nearly ten feet of water rapidly ascending, and carrying with it the odor of fumes that could be combustible. [...]

Actually, Ruburt had thought of calling before, but also did not for fear of aggravating your own situation. He was even tempted to not tell you the entire situation for the same reason—and that entire process is a conscious version of what you did at other levels. [...]

The situation is basically as I described it to you (last night), caused by frightening beliefs and suggestion. [...]

You tried hard not to think of your friend Leonard because his situation so upset you. [...]

[...] The telephone situation as it occurred on two occasions lately brings up in both of you a beautiful case of beliefs, conflicting beliefs, on both of your parts. Whenever such charged situations happen they are always the result of beliefs not consciously examined. [...]

[...] (Gestures to include the whole body.) A cold is something that comes and goes, and is not permanent, and he is to see his other symptoms in that same light—not as he saw them earlier, as a permanent-like situation.

[...] “I will give myself this, and get rid of it, and then apply what I have learned to this other situation that has been bothering me.”

[...] He did not idealize the situation, in other words. The entire situation, however, bothered him deeply, since he felt of course a great sense of loyalty to you even when he did not share a your particular beliefs at any given point. [...]

All of this existed, of course, in a situation in which the aspects of Tam’s position and the Prentice situation were themselves changing and uncertain. [...]

[...] make that situation worse. [...]

Ruburt’s situation is not fated to get worse. [...] (Long pause.) You have each of late allowed yourselves to see the situation in its poorest light—and that of course is part of the problem. [...]

[...] In that regard the Sinful Self, then, is not pleased with its situation. [...]

[...] That kind of situation will soon be over, for it is a reaction —quite natural—on the first reopening of that door into past feelings. [...]

[...] During break we discussed the situation at the gallery where she works part time. [...] of Dee Masters as director, a new director is trying out for the job; the situation is thus unsettled, and Jane is not in favor of some of her new duties and is thinking seriously of leaving the job. This situation has also interfered with our consideration of house-buying.

However, you have both learned how to deal with annoying situations, and you are better equipped now. [...] At this stage personal blocking of this sort is stronger during such situations, and this is entirely natural.

[...] Ruburt will definitely benefit, and so will you if after reading this material you give him your idea concerning the situation. I have given you both an understanding of the basic situation, so that you will have it at hand to form your own decision.

[...] A man relieved of duties because of a severe health situation. And then after the health situation (gesture) policies or events from the past will make sense, but there will be a shocking element involved.

The situation will appear sudden. [...] Then the superiors who will have already suspected the man’s compulsive behavior, will see the true situation. [...]

[...] Peg felt the situation was building up to some kind of climax; she spoke of small matters like limits being placed on personal phone calls, etc; various economies being instituted; the dissatisfaction of employees.

[...] To some extent trying to help the world is a larger, expanded attempt to address such situations. Again, he was in no way responsible for his mother’s condition, however, or for her unhappiness, nor is he in those terms responsible for the unhappy situations of other people. [...]

[...] I realize, however, that this is extremely difficult to do in your situation. [...]

Ruburt is not in a life-threatening situation. [...]

At one level Ruburt did allow himself to participate in a very difficult health situation. There were many questions he asked himself about his mother’s condition in particular (Marie is a bedridden arthritic), and about such situations in general, and he did indeed allow himself to go along on one level to provide an extraordinary impetus that he felt would be needed to conquer such extraordinary conditions.

[...] She’d become upset as the time passed, for our conversations more and more stressed the fact, without our overtly laboring the point, that our situation is, in our minds at least, rather hopeless. [...]

[...] “Yeah,” I said, “but how tough can a session be, compared to your daily situation laying in bed in the hospital? [...]

In any case the “troublesome” material remained (long pause), relatively inactive more or less—unless and until certain situations arose, unless and until his curiosity and ability led him to actively challenge those ideas while also in a situation where the natural fear of abandonment might be implied or suggested. [...]

The point at which such a situation happens is of course internal, and it may or may not have anything to do with the quality of material, but with its nature. [...] 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. [...]

Now Ruburt had only one parent available most of the time (long pause), and he did not feel secure in that relationship—a situation chosen ahead of time, now. [...]

The individual therefore reacts to his interior environment or psychic environment in the same way that he reacts to his physical situation. And as he changes his physical situation through reacting to it, so he changes his interior or psychic situation as he reacts to it.

[...] There are ways which we shall discuss that will enable a personality to deal more effectively with the dream situation, and to use it more effectively with the dream situation, and to use it more effectively.

[...] Consider however a situation in which the personality needs to express dependency, but feels that such an expression is not possible within his waking experience. [...]

[...] You are not but you fear that your family situation, your parent situation, could put you in a like condition.

[...] All of them involved myself in situations of rather drastic physical stress or outright peril. [...]

(The last in the series took place last night, and since it dealt with extreme situations concerning my own death, Jane and I thought it wise to inquire into it. [...]