“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

It was no coincidence, however, that you plunged into reading the New York papers during your stay in bed. Not that it is intended that you should close your eyes to world events, but that in your particular case there are times when, to you, such concentration upon world evils becomes extremely unwholesome.

Such newspapers as you read do a definite service, that should not be overlooked or thoughtlessly condemned.

Such dire conditions cannot be pretended out of human existence, nor should they be. But in your case, you are aware of man’s inhumanity to man. It is well that you are, but you must not allow this knowledge to weigh like a mountain upon your being, so that you are pinned under and your energies sucked away. This is the danger for which you must be alerted.

I am aware that you would prefer that I continue with my discussion upon action. But indeed we have here quite a practical application, and I intend to go into other earlier symptoms that should have, and did not, give you warning.

His nature is independent, but the independence is blunted when he is not sure of what he is dealing with. You felt his reaction to your attitude strongly, and you should have questioned yourself at that point. Ruburt was able to counteract the temporary but overall negative storm by his own creative energies, and focus strongly to protect you both.

You of all people should realize that when valid concern for world problems turns into an obsession with world injustices that wipes out all, or threatens to wipe out all personal enjoyment, then trouble is on the way. For enjoyment is a weapon. The man who is capable of joy is capable, to a large extent, of changing his world. Joy is not a weak spineless idiot either. Its backbone is stronger than bitterness.

There is one matter that I should clear up.

There is much to be said along these lines, but you still need preparation, in terms of information, before you can benefit as much as you should. We come here for example into many questions. The future, in your terms, is not foreordained, and is at no moment fixed.