“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now, you mentioned some important issues pertaining to the books yourself this evening, having to do with their particular nature.

If you remember, it took a while for The Seth Material, with Prentice, to do well. It was distributed to bookstores and areas specifically involved with the conventional occult field. Even though such people are familiar with the general area of our work, still the book did not fit into a general mold. It took a while, then—though not too long— before the book began to sell well. The other books quickly followed with, to that degree, a now built-in sales advantage.

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.

Moreover, from this other general (paperback) market, you will consistently pick up a newer group of readers. To some extent you have been “hitting the underground movements.” Well and good, and important. You are competing now, as you were not before, however, in that general market with all of the conventional cultural goodies. As mentioned, you are not packaging our material either in such a way that it builds upon the cliches of the occult field believed in as the public sees it.

We are hopefully educating people, and this does not give you a bestseller overnight, even when my humor is added to amuse people. You will be more than financially comfortable—far better off in the future—though not necessarily in the near future, like next year, than you are now.

The paperbacks in the meantime are .picking up new readership that will broaden your base. Saleswise, then, you would more or less be in the same position now, whether or not the books had been sold to mass markets. The advantage, however, has not yet shown; for the people are still immersed in the books they have.

If you have further questions on this subject ask me now or later.

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.

This entire area (with gestures to the hips and thighs) here and here tightened the knee area and held it. The knee joints were then restrained, held in. The two areas resulted in his stance. These have to be corrected while he maintains balance. The thigh areas and all of their parts are activated now, usually in an alternating pattern.

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.