“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Topside, those people see themselves as a tiny group crying in the wilderness, unrecognized, unheeded, prophets to whom no one will listen. To some extent the murderer in whom they are so interested (Son of Sam) sees himself in the same light. These are pseudo-intellectuals all, murderer included—people with some abilities, however, but pretenders to crowns. They are seeking for a positive cause to rally about, but their beliefs and self-deceptions make this impossible.

The whole affair can and should be used by you as an opportunity to examine your own beliefs. Those people, for example, do not represent the world or any fundamentalists in particular. They do not represent New York City. They are a tiny band of alienated, frightened people who strike out against anything they cannot understand. They see threats everywhere.

This affair can help you both understand the way negative projections work, so that you can be on guard against them in any area. The affair can be like a flashlight thrown upon your own individual and joint feelings about your beliefs and the world, and the stance that you take.

(10:42.) Give us a moment.... I am hopefully leading you along a road, and I believe that you have each examined your beliefs more lately than you have in some time. Ruburt’s condition is definitely reversible. That fact follows all of the other information I have ever given you philosophically. Your individual and joint feelings about threat have to one extent or another made Ruburt believe that he needed that protection.

We are trying to undermine all of the reasons behind the condition. You must, however, realize that it is reversible. Ambiguity everywhere surrounds you, so that it can seem that few issues are clear-cut, or can be directly acted upon, and in those areas your experience of course confirms those beliefs. You have each been afraid to really exert all of your energies to rid yourselves of this problem.