“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane isn’t sure of the title, Heroics, yet, or how she’ll put the book together. “It’ll have a lot of poetry, though, stuff I’ve been saving for years. My God, the whole morning changed when I got that idea. Everything looks charged, or new or something….”

Women make a grave error when they try to prove their “equality” with men by showing that they can enter the armed forces, or go into combat as well as any man (with more amusement). War always makes you less as a species than you could be. Women have shown uncommon good sense in not going to war, and uncommon bad sense by sending their sons and lovers to war. Again: To kill for the sake of peace only makes you better killers, and nothing will change that. In any war, both sides are fanatical to the extent that they are involved. I am quite aware that often war seems to be your only practical course, because of the set of beliefs that are, relatively speaking, worldwide. Until you change those beliefs, war will seem to have some practical value — a value which is highly deceptive, and quite false.

(“That I don’t worry about things like that anymore,” I repeated. “I discovered I don’t want to spend the time being concerned, so I’ve changed my beliefs. I can’t do that any longer.” Whereupon Jane loudly and humorously returned as Seth, leaning forward for emphasis, her eyes wide and dark:)