“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane said her eyes were feeling much better, although “full of moisture,” and that the copying work she did on James, following Seth’s suggestions in the last session, went well. Her legs and ankles still felt “itchy,” as described before, and at times she had similar feelings throughout the body. General improvements, then, seemed to be under way.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(Seth’s material earlier this evening, about responsiveness to the world, in whatever form one chose, reminded me of an idea I’d mentioned to Jane last week. I’d dropped it because I became unsure of the reactions on both of our parts. The idea involved our concentration for just five minutes a day—say when we lay down for our naps—on sending out suggestions to the effect that we’d hear from people we wanted to hear from, either/or by letter or in person. Obviously the people would be well-enough known for us to have heard of them. But I’d been thinking that it might be a way to break our habits of retreat. I became concerned, though, about whether our beliefs had changed enough to make such contacts possible, or welcome to us if they did materialize.

(“Thank you very much, Seth. Good night.”

(11:32 PM. I didn’t realize it at the time, but upon typing this material I’d say that Seth didn’t directly answer my question on page 298. I was more interested in information on our reactions to the books selling well, and the resulting publicity, than in the question of guests, per se. The meeting of people, of course, is a part of the question, however, so in that sense Seth did consider it.