“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I am speaking overall—making no divisions here between Ruburt’s books and mine.

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.

From this let me lead into Ruburt.

Your need for defense exists in direct proportion to your feelings about the world, and your feelings about your own strength or power. For reasons given, involving sexuality, unconventional abilities, and so forth, Ruburt felt more vulnerable than you.

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.

We will have a session tomorrow. I like Ruburt’s habit, now, of inserting his day’s summary in the record where you can both keep track of it. Keep up your concentration upon my suggestions, so that nothing important is allowed to slide.