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Actual continued success on the other hand would have been a definite experience that you could have met together, say then another tour. He could have been reassured by your reactions. The slowdown however gave him ambiguous feelings, lest success on his part meant further time from your own painting, which you would resent; so that in that respect continued success at tours would be at the expense of your valued painting time.

In the past this was done completely at an unconscious level, with no conscious knowledge. He took no responsibility for his image. Since childhood, he expected later life to make up for any privations suffered earlier. Books were to bring instant success. The taste of limited success whetted his appetite during your tour. On the other hand he was afraid of it for the reasons given earlier, having to do with yourself.

Now. Rest or a nap in the middle of the day is the most literal and yet symbolic interpretation of a slowdown. Here on awakening he was confronted with the intuitive knowledge of what he had done, not only since the tour but to varying degrees before it. For to carry the idea through, he would have to stop completely.

[...] He felt that you would find tours, etc., highly disruptive. [...]

[...] Some of this did have to do with old ideas that you were angry at him for any success if you had not achieved your own—and more, that the success might take you on tours and further away from your own work, which would make you angrier at him.

He was afraid during the tour that you would feel put in second place, rather than as an artist being the star of your own show.

[...] In a way Ruburt was doing precisely what you would do on one level—not leaving the house, avoiding tours, simply working, cutting out all distractions, and again you approved—not of methods, but of everything else.

[...] When she returned home she used the pendulum to learn that she had been repressing reactions to a statement of mine of the other day, to the effect that I didn’t think she’d be able to get around well enough to go on tour for Seth Speaks, if Prentice-Hall asked us to. [...]

When you made the remark about tour, Ruburt repressed the fear invoked, wanting to show you that he no longer was so sensitive. [...]

[...] (To go on tour.) The feeling-tone colored his other activities.

A tour taken to the south, perhaps by boat and bus.

(“Did go to a nearby island [tour] by boat and vehicle referred to as bus, but it is to the north.”)

In a fashion, you consider the public arena of TV and tours in the same way that Joseph views the world of art galleries, shows, and auctions. [...]

(“When The Seth Material was published and we went on tour: did this revive or intensify his fears about leading people astray?”)

Then he realized that the coverage given on your tour, the people being reached, and so then again he wondered. [...]

After the tour, to his way of thinking, there was nothing. He was picked up by the tour and then dropped back. [...]

[...] In that case however he expected from the tour much better results. [...]

(“What did happen after the tour? [...]

[...] In fact, his lecture tour of the United States turned out to be a failure because of the hostile press reaction.

[...] In a north section though not strictly due north, and perhaps 125 for a tour.

[...] There is a dungeon there, but don’t know whether or not it had anything to do with missionaries and took no tour.”)

(This passage grows out of a very recent call from Betty Taylor, of the Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship group, to Jane, concerning a weekend visit to Pawling, New York in early December, and a possible lecture tour of the Northeast. Betty offered to book Jane on this tour, etc.)

Many people, I hear, have lived for years within New York City and never taken a tour through the Empire State Building, while many foreigners are well acquainted with it. [...]

[...] I hope to take you on a tour through the levels of reality that are available to you, and to guide you on a journey through the dimensions of your own psychological structure — to open up whole areas of your own consciousness of which you have been relatively unaware. [...]

[...] Ruburt felt for years that he should (underlined) become a more public person, do workshops, television shows, radio tours or whatever—that he should (underlined) nearly perform miracles in the psychic arena, that he should have a large class, that he should hold as many sessions for others as possible. [...]

[...] (All very intently.) You do not feel the need to go on tours, for example. [...]

As he began to understand to some degree that he need not be expected to do tours and so forth, he thought of the radio shows as alternate ways of fulfilling his responsibility. [...]

[...] You plan your own tours, in other words. As many people with the same interests may decide to visit the same country together, on tour, so in the out-of-body condition you may travel alone or with companions. If you are alert you may even take snapshots — only as far as inner tours are concerned, the snapshots consist of clear pictures of the environment taken at the time, developed in the unconscious, and then presented to the waking mind.

[...] (Bill is about to embark on a tour of the country.)

(“Do you know what I said to Jane yesterday — about our going on tour to promote The Seth Material? [...]

[...] The Seth Material was published in September, 1970, and we did go on tour.)

[...] On several occasions on your tour there was a name confusion, and this upset him for fear you would be hurt and put down. [...]

[...] Here Seth refers to my being called Mr. Roberts on occasion during the tour. [...]

So you take a psychic guided tour into other realities; the unknown seems known, so that you are not an explorer after all, but a tourist, taking with you the paraphernalia of your own civilization, and beliefs that are quite conventional.

[...] So there are psychic customs as there are physical ones, religious and psychic dogmas, guided tours of consciousness in which you are told to follow a certain line or a certain program. [...]

[...] You will believe the psychic tour books and go hunting for demons instead of tigers.

Ruburt had a reason for not going on tour, for example—one that was certainly acceptable enough in a world of conventional understanding. He was saved, so it seemed, from endless explanations; so with a kind of psychological economy that worked far too well for a time the symptoms served to keep him writing at his desk, to regulate the flow of psychic activity, making sure of its direction, and to provide a suitable social reason to refrain from activities that might distract him—from tours or shows, and also even from any onslaught of psychic activity that might follow any unseeming (underlined) spontaneous behavior. [...]

[...] They saved you both from making endless decisions as to whom you would see, or whether you would go on tours. [...]

(From September 7 until 19 Jane and I were on a radio and television tour of seven cities, to publicize Jane’s book, The Seth Material. [...]

(Two sessions have been held since our return home — to answer questions and handle other matters raised by the tour. [...]