“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

As you mentioned, you are outside, not fitting into any acceptable mold. The general public, moreover, in those terms does not know how to respond. Many, picking up those paperbacks, do so on impulse, and are unfamiliar with any such books. They cannot laugh the matter off. The books require personal questioning. Some people are frightened. They are also intrigued. But many put off spending more money, say, for a hardcover book, because this would involve a commitment involving the ideas themselves.

The books are immediate in a way, for example, that the Castaneda books are not. Castaneda speaks of what is really exotic behavior from your cultural viewpoint. We are saying that changes can be made from within the culture. You do not have to be an Indian guru, or appear and disappear at will, so the books invite instant challenge. People do not feel silly buying such a paperback, but many of these people, in the general public now, have to make certain mental adjustments before they will spend more. Spending more means that they consider the ideas to be worthwhile.

The paperbacks are important, regardless of sales values, because they appear in the ordinary marketplace, out of esoteric cubbyholes. You have a loyal core of readers who were already acquainted generally with “occult” books—but to a larger overall extent, that is a steady but dead-end road. It can be counted upon, may grow slightly, but will not affect the overall culture to any considerable degree.

Many of these people also are generally not book readers. Ruburt (Jane) mentioned that. Many are not culturally advantaged. They do not naturally go into bookstores—but they will.

(10:22.) Give us a moment....The paperbacks will not go out of print except for short periods. They will not build up quickly in sales, but they will, and they will provide a dependable income. In ways the entire picture will change.

The paperback Personal Reality will be highly important in the ultimate changes that do take place. You are in an in-between period. If you went out in a grand manner, publicizing the books, appearing on shows, you could indeed quicken the pace—but in so doing other intangibles would also be altered. There is a great difference between keeping the people always in mind, and playing to the crowd for whatever reasons, but there would be a tendency for purposes to be altered.

It is not that those challenges would not be met, but in meeting them you would end up with a different kind of work and experience.

I have nothing against bestsellers, and as I predicted the books will succeed financially beyond anything you would have thought—but over a period of time, in a dependable fashion, and in a way that will also best be suited to the temper of the times. That is, the books will have a strong active part to play over the period of your lifetimes, rather than for example selling in the millions in a year or two, then vanishing from the scene.

There have been in the past some improvements of note, but no overall straightening of the legs, for example. There have been relaxations and he felt better, but now we are dealing with overall definite changes in which the ligaments are being extended. Muscles have been relaxed in the past, while still not lengthening. They were relaxed while maintaining “unnatural” poses. Those relaxations —which were pleasant—led to a situation in which the “unnatural” poses, that were operationally dependable, began to vanish.

The ligaments and the muscles are in motion now. To some extent the old, dependable stance does not work. The new, sought-for natural stance has not yet been accomplished, but it is now actively in the process of being attained.

What can appear as disquieting, as for example his behavior on occasion at the garageway, is instead the body’s abandonment of past dependable but limited action, and its attempt to initiate new response. The process is well along, and will lead to various temporary, better, but in-between stages as his stance gradually corrects itself.

It is understandable that he feels strange at times, for he has given up an old, dependable but limited framework. The only way now is ahead, and accepting those natural body changes that are a part of that healing process. These are the final stages necessary so that a new stance is achieved, and again, soon you will not need to go on faith as you do now, because enough adjustment will have taken place all over so that the results will show an easier motion, and in definite, beneficial alterations of stance and walking ability.

From then on noticeable changes will be fairly automatic and accelerated, but you are now finishing up the groundwork. The mouth and jaw is also in a constant state of change for the same reasons, so that the area will be sometimes comfortable, and sometimes most bothersome.