“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Timothy Foote told Jane he would review Seth Speaks for the magazine. We didn’t ask him to do this. He told us his review for Richard Bach wouldn’t “be hostile;” he didn’t particularly like the book. Jane, liking Timothy Foote, told me later that had he stayed for the evening she would have had a session for him; yet we feel there were reasons he didn’t stay, and that things worked out for the best all around.

Ruburt is beginning to get the picture, as the saying goes. And of course it is no coincidence that Timothy Foote, being the kind of man he is, came here, and is doing the Seagull’s story.

For he is a kind, well-intentioned, intelligent man, searching to make sense of the nature of reality by using the yardstick of available beliefs. His kindly inner skepticism is the same as that that is within many of the magazine’s readers. They will (in quotes) “want to believe” Seagull and its story, for example, but they will not come from any homogenous background of acceptance, necessarily. Do you follow me?

This has to do with his personal characteristics and inclinations. It is not meant as a reflection on Seagull therefore, but on the various ways in which different people will receive such information.

Do not overlook the Saratoga connections of Timothy or Eleanor (Friede): for Ruburt this also provides a sense of continuity that had been lost, and a focus point in his life, a gathering-together point most necessary, that will serve to collect and even regenerate his energies. He will be known as an excellent writer in his own right, and as one who produces our material, which he will be in a position to give freely to the world.

It is true that all spring from the same source—creativity—but the divisions between his personality’s use of those abilities, and my use of them, was not to be broken down. He had to be free to do both. There was a period while he learned to readjust, of course. He was learning.

(To me:) Your attitudes had something to do with it, but there is also an inner harmony, in that events happen when they are ready. Your leaving Artistic was also an element. Otherwise your attention would have been too divided. The message is now clear enough and securely enough established, so that it can ring out freely.

(9:25.) Each of you are playing parts that you accepted. Richard, Eleanor, Tam, Timothy, and yourselves. Each taking the roles that you can do best, and developing your own potential in so doing.

It is only because you tell yourself that you do not know the answers that they seem unavailable. This is very briefly the beginning of an answer to a question that of itself initiates other questions, and should in your own mind.

(Added Note: Timothy Foote also told Jane and me that he’d like to do a feature story on Jane, Seth and me for Time Magazine, but that it probably wouldn’t ever be done—the magazine being “too secular”—Timothy Foote’s words. I don’t know whether he meant cover story, a la Dick Bach.