“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Ruburt is not fully familiarized with the material. He must be indeed fully committed to the experimentation and work in which we are all involved. He should be clear in his mind as to what I have said about myself, and what I have not said.

Put it this way if you prefer, for the simplest analogy: Ruburt operates as an excellent wireless, and brings in messages from beyond those usually received. Now to distort these by coloring them with lesser ideas, ideas incidentally that he did not have when we began our sessions, is unfortunate.

Now. Ruburt’s students have helped him, strangely enough, because they helped reinforce his faith in me. He saw that I helped them. I have spoken to them in terms that they could understand. His reaction to their needs resulted in added confidence on his part as he sees them helped.

(Before this evening’s session I had said that publication of the Seth material could help many more people than Jane [called Ruburt by Seth] could help personally in her ESP classes, and that too much energy expended in the classes took away from that available for the theoretical material available to us in our regular twice-weekly sessions. I had also said that now that her ESP students were quite used to Seth speaking during classes, the absence of this would be resented by them.)

Now often in such circumstances you can help others and not help yourself, use your abilities to help others but not yourself, simply because you erect barriers. Whenever distortions appear in the material it is indeed a tip-off of a given area that is particularly touchy to Ruburt personally, or represents an area in which he is not sure; a lack of conviction.

In the past I did indeed avoid using the word God. It has appeared in our sessions of late because it was the term Ruburt thought should be used, and on occasion because it was the word most comfortable for his students. The word itself hardly approximates the true reality it tries to portray however.

I have avoided it in order to steer clear of a stereotyped image. It was when Ruburt began reading other people’s material that the word began to appear. This does not mean that a God did not exist. It means that use of the term automatically limits the reality of All That Is by its very connotations.

Because Ruburt is at times so literal, he then did become bothered by thoughts of setting himself up, or thoughts of misrepresentation; and all of this because of the interpretation of the word spirit, or spiritual, and highly colored interpretations at that. Then he felt guilty because he was not living up to other people’s interpretation of the word.

He was outraged by A A, because he persisted in considering him as a “spirit”, in quotes, with all the connotations the word arouses in him. A A is no longer a physical personality, and that is all. He is not a personality fully developed in those larger terms of which I speak. He is a personality however, and he is not Ruburt’s.

Give us a moment. (Her eyes open, Jane picked up the letter from Prentice-Hall briefly.) This is the direction toward which you should move. (Now Jane touched the carbon copy of the manuscript of her dream book.) The energy in this book was not wasted. It was not used as wisely as it could have been. What is preserved of it will be in exact proportion to the amount of perception Ruburt had as to the direction in which it should move.

You should indeed, and may at once. I suggest that this summer Ruburt become much more familiar with the Seth material. It is his touchstone.

He is privately enthralled, but business-wise overly cautious. This is why his firm is small. The woman (editor for F.F.) has no feeling for the material, as you know, but is interested in Ruburt as a property; and as a property has no idea of how to handle him. She is afraid of me.

I can tell you, as you personally supposed, that this is the direction in which Ruburt should move. It is a direction now in which he wants to move, but he has been afraid that it was not a financially profitable direction, for he received no encouragement from Fell, no real encouragement, concerning the material; and he did not try elsewhere.

You may choose the point from which you would like me to begin again, and I will do so; or I will initiate a beginning again—it makes no difference. Shake that Ruburt loose from the influence of others in the, quote, “field.”