“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(2. I repeated to her the question I’d come up with about Dialogues at the end of the last deleted session. Why didn’t it sell—did readers avoid it because it was Jane’s own book, or poetry, or both? I said that I thought the implications here, that Jane’s “own” books didn’t do well, were pretty poor for anyone trying to build a career. I was angry that our readers weren’t helping out by buying the book.

(10:44.) Now we come to Dialogues (with much humor)—in a brilliant connection of material—for Dialogues presents an intuitive odyssey. It is a book telling of interior events. It is highly rational, but it is not the type of rationality that people are familiar with. The interior events are not “structured” by the use of drugs. Which could explain the events for many people. Under drugs anything can seem to happen.

The use of drugs even offers a pseudo-scientific explanation for interior events. Ruburt deals with the interior world the way most people deal with the exterior one. People find that in Dialogues disconcerting. In Ruburt’s other books his critical prose frames interior events, but in Dialogues there is no such frame. And the language is that of poetry. The form alienates many people because they are afraid of leaving the structured language of prose behind.

Our books, all of them, make immeasurably greater impact upon the world than many books that are best-sellers—for many of them are read and forgotten.

Many are indistinguishable from others in people’s minds, but our books literally do change people’s realities, and ultimately their lives and all of the people with whom they come in contact. In that regard the books are powerful, and their impact cannot be ascertained in mundane ways. You are, then, using your point of power to affect your world—a point you should each remember.

Ruburt is used to dealing with subjective events. He examines them. For him it is important, more than for many others, that he choose events with some discretion. When his mental event is, say, a book, he becomes engrossed in it, and this is positive. When he becomes overly concerned with his symptoms, however, the same event occurs, the same process, but with negative results.