“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.

When man really intensified “rational” thought, and developed the electric light, he lengthened the time of waking consciousness to some extent. Those abilities were concentrated upon. The importance of symbols was minimized, and intuitive thought to some extent, went out of style.

In the past, again, poetry was an important method of communication, but the “rationally” tuned mind suspects it. There is often nothing to be checked in it against physical reality in a concrete manner, for the message is intuitional and internal. People like poetry as a rule in your society only when it is dealing with conventional subjects, or directly with nature, so that in a way, now, the intuitions are used “to a rational end.”

Now: there was a point I wanted to make.

Alienation in small doses can be a stimulus for achievement, but overdone it is of no help at all. Your feelings, so brief this evening as you looked outdoors, were therapeutic, rewarding, positive. Your cells were even aware in their way of your emotion. The summer night was here, present to your senses. Had you at the same moment instead thought, for example, about Prentice-Hall in a negative way, or about any other negative event of the past or probable future, you would have responded to an event that in an important way was not immediately a part of the facts of the natural world.

Ruburt’s head was the very earliest portion of the body affected in terms of sinus. The tightening of head muscles, congestion, tightening of the jaw—that area is finally trying to correct itself. Deep breathing, even only a few moments twice a day, will help.