“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

This does not involve projection. (Which we had wondered about this afternoon.) There were other issues, having to do with Ruburt’s own mental characteristics. Now it is true that generally speaking, material of an emotional nature actually has a stronger vitality, and is easier to perceive. Beyond this however Ruburt has no(smile) love for detail, and will always use detail as a clue to see where it will lead him. He would not be content simply to give the details on the snatches of paper as you gave them. This is fairly automatic, this tendency, and the nature of his mental life. We use this, I hope to advantage, in our sessions in other ways, and I will have more to say concerning this.

The page was whole to me, regardless of the portion of it used as an item. Ruburt did fairly poorly on those test items that were without meaning, comparatively speaking, as far as your results were concerned. He did however leap out from the meaningless data for quite valid information connected to it, though often you could not check this out.

(Pause, one of many short ones, etc.) Now I was teaching him, and I went along with his natural interests and inclinations. The antagonism he had for testing came not from the idea itself so much as from the idea of focusing upon detail for detail’s sake.

Only at such times, during that kind of a test, did he become antagonistic. Do you have questions on this material?

(Smile.) You might tell him that although he does not know it, he has a fine subconscious understanding of detail, which he then puts together and synthesizes. (Pause.) If he understands the creative uses of detail, then he will not be so consciously antagonistic to it. Now. Have you any questions on this?

(By this I meant to ask Seth if he planned to dictate a chapter, or at least a few pages, for Jane’s book on the material. Jane and I have talked about this before. But it can be seen that Seth doesn’t directly answer the question.)

There are many areas of knowledge in which any given individual is uninterested. He will not bother to use normal perception to obtain it. Much of the material dealing with perception that I have given makes this point quite clear. (Pause.) Ruburt is correct. I give him access to large fields of focus, I help him change the energy that he uses in perception into other directions, to turn it inward. I made information available to him. Then according to his basic characteristics, he used that information accordingly. I gave him nudges to lead him in the proper direction. Do you have questions?