“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In the past in your moments of expansiveness, you did two things. You tried to give expression to a natural desire to meet other people who were seriously involved with matters that concern the soul, the body, and the political and cultural life of man—for those are your concerns also.

You hope to cast understanding upon man’s soul, his body, and alter his concepts of his cultural reality. At the same time you both made sure that you reinforced your own beliefs, so that the people who came did not altogether click with you. You could say “Well, that is that—we made an attempt,” and drop the entire issue (which is what we did say and do).

Your black-and-white beliefs have often led you both to either expect scorn, misunderstanding, or on the other hand to expect too much of others who come here. It is good, however, to suggest that “your definition of important people” read the books, to suggest that the books fall into the proper hands, in those terms.

If you continue to understand your own attitudes, the entire problem of who to see or not to see will be taken care of easily and naturally. Then—underlined three times—you will find it easy also, amazingly easy, to find some format for seeing others—I imagine small groups, sometimes of professionals, at comfortable periods of time throughout a year. That will also follow naturally.

(Amused.) Do not be so concerned, either, about so-called important people. Many of the unimportant youngsters who write you will be important people in the future. When you change your beliefs and attitudes so that you no longer expect so-called important people to ignore you, they will not. I do not share your concern about important people to begin with.

(After the session I told Jane that my concern wasn’t so much with meeting important people, as that their interest in what we do would imply some sort of acceptance or understanding on the parts of those who occupy dominant positions in society, the arts, or whatever. And I think we are well aware that many of the young people we do hear from will occupy those positions of power in tomorrow’s world. I see nothing amiss with us having some fun on our own in the meantime, though—provided we’re both willing, and understand the terms of the “games.”)