“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Incidentally, Andrija’s call came late Sunday morning as Jane and I were eating breakfast and reading the paper. Jane picked the phone up after the first ring. As the phone rang, I was tempted to say to her, “That’s going to be a very important call for you.” At once afterward I thought that such an event was quite unlikely on a Sunday morning. I told Jane about my “hunch” immediately after the call; hence, long before her very successful voicing of Seth, Sumari, etc. Later in the day. I was curious after the call to see how we’d react to the visit.

(Whispering humorously:) I foresee, with your joint approval, a series of shorter books on specific subjects, involving simple prose. The procedure itself, the format of the sessions, will no longer need to be stressed, so that more energy can be given to the presented material itself. Until now, however, it was very important that the mechanics of the procedures were described, for the session format is of course part of the message. This is for the future, however, and again with your permission.

At the same time, you could not enjoy such enforced idleness—far be it from that—so the period was highly unpleasant. This was to help you save face: you didn’t take time out because you wanted to, but because you were so miserable that you could not work—and then yelled out in outrage that the body so betrayed you. The body’s resiliency gave you the breathing space that you needed, and would not take consciously. It was responsive to your own desires and needs, where you consciously were not.

At the same time however other issues were served, already mentioned. You understood what Ruburt had been working through—at a much lighter level, of course, and at least to some degree Ruburt could feel that he was helping you physically. You also together solved the other problems mentioned, where he did not panic, as he might have in the past, but continued his own improvement.

I have little to say otherwise, except that your own attitudes have changed for the better, for you took your strengths for granted, for once (re AP’s visit), and did not concentrate upon those areas that you once felt were so shameful. For Ruburt’s condition is not shameful by any means—yet both of you felt that it was.

This had much to do with the way you faced the world. It was not so much that Ruburt could not make it to a bar, or in the store. He obviously could not walk well. He obviously had difficulties, but you were both ashamed of those difficulties, so that he was ashamed to go into the bar or the supermarket, regardless, and to some extent this still applies.

Your visitor will help spread the word, so to speak, but the books will make their own way irregardless. The interview was important because it dispelled some of your visitor’s erroneous beliefs about “mediums,” and the utilization of energy.