“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The personal matters, questions, affairs of daily concern, that may be mentioned because Ruburt’s emotional image triggers their inclusion—these will always be used as examples to give you material that you would receive in any case.

You do direct the focus of the material in that, again, your emotional interests are important. They automatically reach out in certain directions. I respond to you as any personality responds and do not consider you simply as scribes, ready to write down my words of wisdom, regardless of your own interest.

Your personalities, in a symbol now, form the two sides, the two banks, of the stream through which the material flows. The bottom represents the underground connections of your own past lives. The interworkings of your personalities form the various currents within the stream. The material is that which flows through the stream. I am the source of it, for your practical purposes. (Smile.) I am the land from which the two banks are formed.

This allows you to take full advantage of knowledge you did not have when the sessions began. Let him, whenever possible, include along with the material on any given topic, my personal comments. It should be obvious in the book that the material is not disembodied but sifted through the personality that is mine. For this is part of the message.

The personality characteristics therefore will in themselves be adequate proof to all but nincompoops, that a fully independent and highly articulate personality is behind it. If I may say so myself my personality does much (amused) to lift any pseudospiritualistic elements from this affair.

In other words, the inclusion of my personality characteristics with the material will take away any long-white-gowned spiritualistic connotations, and put the survival personality thesis in a more proper light. As any good writer should know, tell Ruburt he need not explain my characteristics; simply include excerpts that show them.

If he does this to the best of his ability, he will consider his excerpts from two standpoints—what to say, and how I say it, so that the personality and the material are clearly shown together. It will make it lively. (Long pause.) The personality is action, and as I have shown myself to you in sessions, this has added to the action of the sessions.

My personality is what makes the material unique, for it is information sifted through an individual that is unique from all others. Ruburt therefore should not attempt to disentangle the material from my personal characteristics. It is perfectly proper, beneficial and legitimate for him to make any intellectual investigations he chooses, concerning differences in perception in our sessions, and when he is psychically involved on his own, and all other, intuitive or intellectual studies of this sort he has in mind. But he should not present my ideas as if they come from thin air, for this is to rob the material.

I say this out of no misguided egotism, but because the essence of personality is the only meaningful basis behind idea. Any other approach would rob the material of rich dimensions, for I am the proof in my own pudding, you see. This is not the Cayce material, with information seemingly coming from some vast storehouse of knowledge. In those terms no such storehouse exists.

Knowledge does not exist independently of the one who knows. Someone gave Cayce the material. It did not come out of thin air. It came from an excellent source, a pyramid gestalt personality, with definite characteristics, but the alien nature of the personality was too startling to Cayce, and he could not perceive it. (Pause.) I am giving you the material through a personality that you can understand; one that is mine, one of my favorite selves. (Smile.) In this way the point is made so that it is clear.

Now. There are creative strains in your own personalities that show themselves in all your endeavors. You do not always see these in perspective.

Now in many ways this applies to Ruburt also. The two of you seek refreshment together, then plunge into your inner realities. He is more emotionally attuned than you, in that it is easier for him, when coming out of his private world, to rush toward you with spontaneity. You are both equally dependent however, basically, on this necessary emotional refreshment. You both drink it in, and it sustains you for some period. It is used in your work, and in your joint work. It forms an inner framework of which you are sometimes aware. (Smile.) Without your feeling toward Ruburt and the resulting urge to emotionally actualize yourself to another personality, your background could have prevented even artistic development. (Pause.) Rather than serve as a springboard for creativity.