“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Through the years the personality, for example, tries different methods of interrelating, while the overall characteristics are still maintained. You had your fling relating to your times, and of speaking to them, when you were a cartoonist. You used your artistic abilities. You enjoyed the work. To an extent you reached millions—and as a young man.

Many novelists, say, of some considerable ability in writing, flesh out those same stories with characters only a bit more mature, and are considered quite serious artists. But you did have a fling at meeting your times directly, and of reaping those rewards, personally, socially, and financially. Your parents were pleased. That was an acceptable way of using your abilities, but your adolescent mentality was the usual adult mentality, and so you grew out of the framework.

This was not one decision, but involved multitudinous small issues in your lives from childhood on, and represents aspects of your personalities that you must recognize and honor. When I say honor, I mean that it is futile to wish your natures were other than they are.

Give us a moment.... To an important extent, you disdain the opinions of your age, of your times. At the same time, to some extent, you act as if you court them. You purposefully go against the conventions and beliefs of your times. You even stay out of the various “underground movements” that have some following, and would embrace you. With all due regards (amused), I speak to your fellow men and women in a certain democracy of spirit. I do not restrict my words or my works to those who in any way or terms may be considered stupid, or dumb, or greedy, or incompetent or silly. My books carry no such prejudice—or they are addressed to those portions of the personality that exist inviolate.

There are certain elements within the human personality that exist apart from any such terms. There is an area of being where a person simply is not intelligent or dumb, greedy or not greedy, where the essence of personality simply is. It is that level I address. To that degree I have the advantage.

At the same time I work with a level of Ruburt’s personality that is his, that to some extent uses his knowledge of the world and its people, but I am far freer in my overall understanding and comprehension of people. I bear no human rancor, you see (with a smile), as Ruburt to some extent must.