“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Timothy Foote arrived by plane from New York City at about noon, and left at 4:30 PM, driving to Saratoga and Skidmore College to see his daughter. Timothy Foote, Jane and I got along very well; seemingly we all liked each other. Timothy Foote was very interested in Jane’s abilities, and said he would like to return for a session with a recorder. He is to write to us.

(As it was, Seth spoke very briefly to Timothy Foote at about 3:00 PM, discussing some remarks all of us had been making about Freudian psychology. It wasn’t recorded or noted. At the time I thought the brief appearance a little odd, but when it developed that Timothy Foote wouldn’t be staying for supper, as we had planned, Seth’s appearance made good sense.

(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.

Part of our message of course involves the use of all abilities, and Ruburt’s own writing ones serve to make that point. His abilities were not to be merged or to disappear, perhaps, into psychic work in those terms.

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.

Your positions are in the process of changing drastically, as mentioned. (See the deleted session for October 2, 1972.) My material and books, and Ruburt’s, and your paintings, will affect the world as you know it. Through Ruburt there was never an in-between. His characteristics were such that his energy would carry him beyond in all areas, if they carried him at all.

This could not happen until all layers of his personality—

Eleanor’s and Richard’s acceptance of Ruburt, and of all his abilities, was important also. I told you that your own work would show greater development, and so it will. And in its own way it will also deliver the same message, and there will be a gallery connection for you.

And our book will really take off, and that is all I will tell you now. (Emphatically.

My answer is that the myths in their own way try to hint at answers that are basically nonverbal, and at concepts that are themselves the fountainhead from which the earth and all existence springs.

(9:35.) Is there a God, or is there a being, or a source behind all reality? You know the answer as well as anyone else does. You are as alive and aware as anyone else, and the secrets of your being are also the secrets of being.

Your concern with it, the question, is quite practical, whether you know it or not, because your ideas about the nature of reality will color all of your actions within physical experience.