“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.

As each species of flower has its place in the natural world, so, in terms of this analogy at least, the fool and the scholar, the fanatic, the timid, the weary and the exuberant, the greedy—all of these also have their place.

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.

Grudges and old hatreds and old alliances that could otherwise really erupt, say, into wars or bloodshed in your country, are instead given normal, periodic eruptions so that free speech, of whatever nature—even inflammatory —serves to bring such issues into the open.

I am in my way rather pragmatic about the world. I do not expect all people to be wise. I do expect all people to be different, to display abilities and characteristics of a highly diverse nature, and to be highly creative. They try to be creative.

Whenever you reinforce the ideas of threat, defense must be built up. Some threats are realistic and some are not. If you concentrate upon your daily, natural prime events, you will not live under a constant sense of threat. There are too many periods of safety, if you take advantage of them.

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.

They depend upon conventional authorities for relief. Ruburt was working beyond such authority, and yet his own sense of safety and value had not grown sufficiently so that he could depend upon his own newer beliefs, either. To that extent he carried a double burden, or accepted a double challenge. The entire condition, regardless, was caused by tension of a steady nature. Its original beginnings were in the head area. That is where the tension began.

The important point, however, is that if you are not honest with your own feelings and beliefs, then you feel victimized by the society who will not buy your books. You feel more apart from it. Ruburt imagines himself more isolated, and at the same time threatened. You are always better off building bridges to others, in whatever way is natural to you.

(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.