“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(This morning, while working on Chapter 18 of Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time, she’d abruptly felt the impulse to move into another room; she wanted to get away from the sunlight glaring through the thin drapes covering the sliding glass doors of her study at the back of the house. On her way out of the room she picked up a loose-leaf notebook that contained, she thought, her entries in her daily journal. In the living room, Jane discovered that instead she’d chosen her notebook on “Heroics.” It holds many of the notes on the heroic self, and heroic impulses, that she’d discussed in chapters 25–27 of Psychic Politics, which had been published in 1976. It also contains a number of ideas on heroics that she’d written after finishing that work. “When I looked at those notes I knew all of a sudden that I was to do that book — Heroics — that I was to keep on looking for the heroic self I’d written about in Politics,” she told me as we ate lunch. “Now’s the time for it.”

(Yet she’s not really sure why she gave herself the message to begin Heroics at this time. We speculated that her creative self, knowing the completion of Seven is in sight, wanted her to have another project underway. She trusts her insight, though, and has already written a few pages for the new book. The irony of the situation is that she’s been doing very well on Seven; just yesterday she’d remarked that she intended to begin typing finished copy for the chapters she’s completed so far. But now she’d laid Seven aside — for who knows how long?

(10:08.) There are periods in which it certainly seems to some that all standards vanish, and so they yearn for old authorities. And there are always fanatics there to stand for ultimate truth, and to lift from the individual the challenge and “burden” of personal achievement and responsibility. Individuals can — they can — survive without organizations. Organizations cannot survive without individuals, and the most effective organizations are assemblies of individuals who assert their own private power in a group, and do not seek to hide within it (all very emphatically).

(Then louder:) Yes, Ruburt has started up again. He is on the right track. He has his [new book] project, and you are doing well, and I bid you both a fond good evening.

(“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:)