“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(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?

(Pause.) Fanatics exist because of the great gap between an idealized good and an exaggerated version of its opposite. The idealized good is projected into the future, while its exaggerated opposite is seen to pervade the present. The individual is seen as powerless to work alone toward that ideal with any sureness of success. Because of his belief in his powerlessness [the fanatic] feels that any means to an end is justified. Behind all this is the belief that spontaneously the ideal will never be achieved, and that, indeed, on his own man is getting worse and worse in every aspect: How can flawed selves ever hope to spontaneously achieve any good?

(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.

(10:23 P.M. But, I told Jane with some humor of my own, I also knew that that knowledge wouldn’t stop me from occasionally inserting what I think is a particularly good and appropriate nonbook session into whatever project Seth may have going at the time. She laughed.)