“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Fanatics certainly serve a purpose, and actually they help maintain overall equilibrium of society by serving as examples to others, who often have some of the same beliefs but are of a less explosive nature.

(Since I liked him—Michael— as we talked, I sat on the front steps for a few minutes with him. Our neighbor Marian came by, looking for her dog; she stopped to talk to us. By then over half an hour had passed. I gave up on the session. Jane laughed inside the house. We invited our guest in for a beer. He was from Port Arthur, Texas. He was quite intelligent, a musician who had written an “opera,” he told us. Like a number of our other recent callers, he was traveling around the country, seemingly free of all ties, doing odd jobs on occasion, but living on little money. In a way I envied them. Michael had no place to stay, regardless of the weather.

(He stayed until about 12:20 AM, then left, bound for where?.... Jane said the next day that we should have offered him shelter, but I didn’t feel any compulsion to do so. I did think that practically all of our unannounced visitors were young people because the Seth material attracted them much more easily than older generations. I thought it a good sign, actually, since these young people would one day be playing roles in society; at least, I thought, they’d have been exposed to what we thought were good ideas in their formative years.

The varying and various fanatical groups, such as, for example, the anti-homosexual Florida contingent, are in a way quite natural and necessary in your country. They serve as focus points for others who have the same ideas but are afraid to really face them or admit their beliefs. A former Miss America does it for them.

It is beside the point to become angry at those who buy the Seth books and not Ruburt’s. Those people do the best they can. Their understanding goes so far at this time. Some of them will go into Ruburt’s books. I said it was beside the point—but beyond that it is somewhat self-defeating. They need encouragement. They act, of course, from their own reasons. Yet your attitudes jointly can telepathically tempt them to Ruburt’s books—or help reinforce their own reluctance.

I mention this so often because, again, I do not want either of you to become self-righteous, for such an attitude narrows any road. The fanatic becomes engrossed in one overall issue. To a lesser degree those who become too concerned with the world’s shortcomings can begin to see nothing but a one-sided one.

If you worry about probable future threats, you lose some of that natural safety. If you do that as a matter of course, you not only lose the safety, but project threat into the future. Sometimes in extreme cases no threatful situations are even necessary. To some extent or another, with the beliefs of your society, people react in just that fashion, and have physical ailments or mental anxieties of one kind or another.

It is now being released in stages. The odd sensations of mobility are experienced as odd because the release of one area does begin to move other areas with it, but with varying degrees of unsynchronized motion. The quickness is beginning to return. The knees will release in that fashion. There is nothing wrong with the knees. It has been an overall measure.

Give us a moment.... You were correct: the people that are most affected are the young people. Many of them, beginning professions in a few years, will start with far better beliefs than in the past. It does little good in certain terms to affect the current power structure (somewhat humorously)—but instead to anticipate the future makers of the world.

(10:20. Before the session I’d torn a page from the New York Times for June 22, 1977. It contained an article about early man in the US. I showed Jane the article now. Just below it she found a notice that I’d missed completely: a rather large advertisement from the phone company, for Jeanne Dixon’s Horoscopes-by-Phone. I attached the ad to this session, but lost the ad later.

(But louder:)We will not have a minute Seth session by phone, for example. You are connected through spiritual, biological, natural webworks with all of your fellows through the reality of the natural world, regardless of cultural, political, or religious frameworks.

I understand that you can feel annoyed by guests. You should not realistically feel threatened by them. You can feel irritated, angry at times even—but if you feel threatened, your feelings are based upon beliefs of an overexaggerated kind. It is simply a matter of discrimination.

(10:40.) They have done you one important service that should not be overlooked: they understood you to be reticent. They did not try to turn you into performers. They are not, indeed, a greedy house. They are not really the greatest business-oriented house, either—but houses who are would have exerted pressures upon you that would far outstrip or outweigh any disadvantages coming from Prentice.

I am not saying there is not room for improvement, but I would like the picture to be seen in a more realistic light.