“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(10:59. I raised a hand to Jane in trance, signaling her to be quiet. For the second time I heard a gentle scratching-rapping at our front screen door. It was a humid night and our living room door was wide open. A young man who had hitchhiked from Oregon stood in the darkness. “You’re too late, man,” I said. On the lawn behind him lay a guitar and a heavy backpack.

I suggest that first of all you ask yourselves what you really want, and what you really believe. (Amused:) I will tell you what you want, my dear friend: you want the books to sell very well, and the message to go out clearly to all. As long as you are not bothered, as long as you do not have to mix with fools—the same fools who compose the various psychological, scientific, or medical societies—the same fools whom you sometimes say do not bother contacting you as long as the Enquirer, that rag, does not annoy you for interviews, and as long as people are not personally affected enough to bother you in any immediate fashion.

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.

(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.

(We laughed about it. At the same time I was thinking over Seth’s material in this session so far. I remarked to Jane that if we paid attention to that material, then instead of turning away the people who would be influenced by the newspaper notice, we might be able to influence some of them to buy Seth/Jane’s books.

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.

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.