“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Give me a moment. (Pause. ) Your own tendencies (to me) are general ones, against personal encounters, before such encounters are made. They are initial defenses, and oftentimes they are highly negative. However, once a personal encounter has been made, then you accept it for what it is, and respond positively. Do you follow me?

Now do not look down upon the importance of personal encounters, or the effect of personality. Ruburt’s personality shows in his writings and his individual interpretations; your personalities should always be considered as assets. To some extent they have also been affected by the material, and to that extent they are testaments of it.

You are not to hide your heads in the sands. You will be asked to go out among men at times. This will also benefit your own personalities, which left alone could be far too solitary for your own overall stability and development.

Your own personality, Joseph, has a beneficial effect upon others. You speak well for the material. You are not afraid of meeting people. You are afraid of the idea of meeting people. Now give us a moment.

You will do a series of portraits of one man, each one depicting a different materialization of his personality in various existences. This will be true portrait work—the personality as seen in more than three-dimensional terms. You will meet both men at parties in New York, and one man directly through the Miss Taylor who called this evening.

From the beginning we have been dealing with the nature of reality, beneath its many guises. The intellectual concepts will be enlarged in all areas—the scientific, metaphysical, psychological and psychic. These are the areas in which you and Ruburt are so personally intrigued.

I was the guide he was searching for, and they were looking for me, though they did not know my name. This was a clearing place for personalities leaving the physical plane. In their astral forms they adopted their normal dress, hence the varying costumes. They realized that Ruburt was still physical. This is why he was told he could travel no further. He was afraid momentarily there would be no physical world to return to—simply his personal reaction.