“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

For Ruburt: you do not lead people anywhere. You cannot force them to change their beliefs. (Long pause.) No most hypnotic fanatic leads any group of people astray. You make your own reality. The people use the materials of the world as they come into contact with them, in their own ways and for their own reasons. To imagine that you or anyone else can lead large masses of persons astray is a highly erroneous conception.

If you believe that your own great energy can lead others astray, you are actually saying that others have no power of their own. Ruburt has been extremely cautious in the past, wanting to make sure, as mentioned, that he was not leading others down the proverbial garden path. He did not feel the same way about his poetry, which largely in its way states the same messages that our own books do.

The books are different, however, while the poetry carries the more clearly recognizable stamp of his accepted identity, so he was afraid that I would lead people astray unwittingly perhaps, through the energy and power of our communications. That worry persisted, regardless of what kind of status he assigned to me. The relationship, of course, is unusual: very few people have such issues to contend with. Ruburt discovered how basically easy it was to have our sessions. But also how basically easy it was for his, say, Cézanne and James books also, for creatively he moved very quickly.

The search for truth and the fear of leading people astray are the primary points here. [...]

[...] This adds fuel to the fear that he is indeed leading them astray.

[...] He had been taught the dire consequences in church terms of losing your soul, and he was afraid of leading people astray whenever religious areas were approached. [...]

Spiritually he felt that he might be leading people astray.

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

As Nebene, while attracted by Ruburt, and in love with her, you considered her evil, and your attraction to her as a weakness on your part, a debasement: so now you find yourself in the position of helping Ruburt understand that his basic nature is good, that he is not leading people astray, as in that life you thought he was.

He was at one time possessed of a great desire for power, and led, in those terms now, many astray. [...]

[...] He felt that he had led, in the second existence, a whole people astray, for a cause in which he had once completely believed, and given entire allegiance.

[...] It became his duty to repress spontaneous feelings that might lead him astray. [...]

[...] They had to do with my religious upbringing, my joy and appreciation of my creative abilities, and my fear of using them at the same time, lest they lead me astray—or lead my followers astray. [...]

[...] They can tell you, to some extent, much that you do not know, but unless they really know who and what they are individually, they can lead you astray. [...]

(She also thought of a chapter in Seth’s new book, one that was titled “Food and You” — then found herself stewing about saying something wrong in the book and leading people astray — more signs of old habits. [...]

Beside this, people were reading our books, so to the Sinful Self Ruburt was leading those people astray (deliberately). [...]

[...] In this particular instance the root agreement or assumption simply leads you astray.

[...] Whenever you feel that you have not used your abilities fully, you are doing two things: you are disapproving of yourself as you are, taking it for granted that you have gone astray in an important fashion, and you are also projecting that disapproval and “error” into the future.

[...] You had both gone astray, and you are making necessary corrections. [...]

Again this is an analogy, for in several respects it could lead you astray if you took it too literally. [...]

[...] Religions have gone astray, of course, by insisting upon the literal interpretation of symbolic material. [...]

[...] Most predictions are made in a highly distorted fashion; they can lead the public astray. [...]

(Jane said she knew she was going astray in the data when I asked about the family group, although the envelope objects do mention family groups. [...]

This time your question led us astray. [...]

[...] My truth must be the real truth, for I do not want to lead others astray.”

[...] Hence, she’s continually examining Seth’s revelatory material — and her own — with very critical eyes to make sure she isn’t “a self-deluded nut leading people astray.” [...]

[...] The prestige and money, tied to your mother’s hopes, could have led you into other channels of commercial art that would have led you completely astray as far as fine art is concerned.

[...] Most predictions are made in a highly distorted fashion; they can lead the public astray. [...]