“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(10:21.) To one extent or another you both believe your world is hostile. You (pointing to me) do not believe that nature is hostile, nor does Ruburt, but you both accept the concept that there are hostile elements against which you must protect yourselves, and that the artist or writer, or any sensitive wise person is at a great disadvantage against a system in which he is born, and that he is to some extent at its mercy.

Therefore defenses are required in direct proportion to the “hostility.”

Now only a belief in hostility would justify such behavior. The behavior also says “Look at me. You can’t attack me because I am in such poor shape. It would not be fair play.”

(Pause at 10:40.) Put together beliefs in a hostile world and an untrustworthy self, and you end up in difficulty if you are working with other concepts that tell you that spontaneity is good and that the self is to be trusted. For in the old framework those ideas make no sense. If you do not challenge them then you never come to the point of conflict. You do not even know that you have been taught to fear your own being. It never occurs to you to trust it! You go from expert to expert in whatever field of difficulty arises, and you have far more problems than you two have. Still, things seem to mesh together, for everything is the same color gray.

The codicils are important because they offer a framework in which hostility is not taken for granted, and in which such behavior is not necessary. Ruburt is like a tree, growing up surely toward clear spaces. So are you. The deadwood must be cleared away, however—the old beliefs that still linger.

(11:09.) You can decide that you like to work alone—that you do not want to do tours—not because the world is hostile, but simply because that is your way. When the phone rings it is the hostile world out there, so it seems. That was what your father (to me) thought when his phone rang.

Do not project hostility upon your neighbors. Humanity is lively, curious and capricious, creative and exuberant. So neighbors can be curious without any hostile intent.