“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You do not fit any of the current patterns, and you make no effort to—nor do you offer any face-saving devices for scientists of high stature. Anyone of the highest stature will come to you if you offer them personal readings. They will not come to you when you say “You create your own reality” in the same fashion.

Flattery is no social crime. It is a psychological art of its own, taken for granted in all circles. You do not flatter others in personal encounters. You make no effort to cultivate the kind of characteristics involved. Ruburt has them, and ignores them. Some important people, in your terms, do not contact you personally except on rare occasions. Those who bang at your doors are the antisocial, the drifters, the troubled, or those so enthusiastic that they also ignore all social rules, in which case you two rise up in arms.

There are publishing games also, and you do not play these. If you play those games and do poorly, you at least have a right to shout “foul” now and then—and I will tell you something: Prentice looks out for your interests in the person of John (Nelson) far more than you give him credit for. He likes you.