“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

Your approach has been the correct one. Here is something objective that signifies what Ruburt once thought of as the threatening world. Fanatics differ from other people obviously only in degree. They are extreme versions.

Those people then can be seen for what they are. Regardless of appearances at sometimes, fanatics do not rule the world. Otherwise there would be none—meaning no world. These are not authority figures putting Ruburt down, or our work. They are sick people. While you are ahead of your times, therefore, it is very important that you realize that the world is not against you. It is not out there ready to pounce.

The world is composed of individuals. It is therefore unrealistic to expect, say, wholesale criticism—or, for that matter, wholesale praise. It is a give-and-take world. In those terms, now, there is an open forum, and within it you make your own reality. No one is going to mistake Ruburt for a fanatic, or a psychic nut, or whatever. He can see through this experience how such people behave. He cannot remotely be considered in that framework—except by fanatics, who are already within it.

(9:57.) The world is not leaping to listen to those people. In a news-hungry city, they will remain without headlines. Quality is respected more than you realize. If you try to retire from the world in whatever fashion, then it is easy to exaggerate such threats, while never encountering one, or giving yourself the opportunity of easily conquering it.

When ideals are set more or less artificially, greatly divorced from man’s nature, he cannot begin to live up to them. Usually these are, for one thing, too narrow and sterile. The ensuing guilt is the power that turns such a person into a fanatic. I hope to teach you a tolerance for others, for this will ensure the greatest development of your own abilities, and will also give you a more realistic view of the world.

At your level it is perfectly all right if you want to call those people nincompoops or asses. In those terms they deserve it. It is not all right to imagine that their kind speaks for the hostile world, or that they represent the views of many people. I am speaking now of this particular group. The homosexual episode mentioned the other day does represent a considerable number of people, in one way, for it shows them their own ideas, but exaggerated.

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.

The same applies to, whatever stance you take in the world. Do not be so afraid of failure or of making mistakes. Learning processes are involved, and relationships. If you do or do not like television programs, it makes little difference, as long as you understand your attitudes.