“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

People act as they do for their own reasons, yet each person also is to one extent or another an example of certain kinds of characteristics.

(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.

Though the fanatic may make much noise in the world, he is actually isolated from all of the world’s ideas except his own. Anything else is seen as a threat. He does not allow the development of his concepts or beliefs, for example. They stop at one particular point—and at that point he wages his battle against reality.

He fears that the admission of one defeat or error of judgment will bring his world crumbling about him.

A man may be a fool, so to speak, in his spiritual or political judgments, as a father or as a brother; or in perhaps only one relationship he may be an artist, bringing out in that other person the greatest abilities and potentials.

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.

As-yet-sometimes-unsynchronized new motion has been responsible for the eye “difficulties.” One eye moves faster. James explained some issues of greatest importance. You are dealing, however, from your perspective with ideas that have the potential of reorganizing the society, yet your backgrounds have been those of your world. I am aware of your efforts to put these sessions into practice.

(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.