“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.

(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.

(All of the above was delivered in a very emphatic manner.)

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.

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.

(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.

Like the woman who was suddenly appalled at her recovery (from Hodgkin’s disease), you might find yourself suddenly faced with your own reluctance.