“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(We’ve learned a good deal about Jane’s symptoms, working with the pendulum since Monday’s session. We’re keeping a list of all questions, with the daily answers, and are now seeing some notable shifts in answers, indicating improved communication between her conscious and unconscious selves.

Now: a private session.

I want to begin, however, by making some rather neutral but important points. You age of communications has significantly altered public and private life, so that for example by mail Ruburt might receive as many petitions as the king of a country in times past. People of no other age, historically speaking, have had to contend with the dimensions of public exposure that are now possible.

Now, to some extent, in pragmatic terms, you must look at your backgrounds. Your father greatly distrusted the public and public events. When his battery shop closed and the public turned to the new inventions, that made his livelihood passe. He disliked the public from that moment on, and felt resentful toward those whose pictures he took, that his livelihood would be at the expense of their favor.

(10:15. I told Jane about my insight, involving her eyes and “Unknown” Reality. She agreed. We’d finished with Volume 1 in early 1977—February, say, and she recalled that by March she’d started having eye trouble. But what’s the connection between eyes and the threat of exposure? I told her she didn’t have to answer the question now. It should be listed, though.

Now: Ruburt has had nearly enough for this evening, considering today’s activities, but I will get to all of your questions in the very near future.

In a strange fashion because of his fears, now—and these particular fears can be countered with communications with the unconscious, and with understanding—he was afraid simply that so many people knew of his existence. To some extent that would have been involved no matter what field of endeavor he chose, if he became well-known.

Now you are exceptional people, and exceptional people in your work are quite simply exceptions. You deal with relatively rare, different kinds of achievements and challenges. Many of your correspondents are quite average, though to you they seem deplorable. They are not used to dealing with imaginative concepts, or conceptual thought, or of applying the intelligence to the realm of the imagination. Often they cannot discriminate between good work or poor work, artistically. They are drawn to what emotionally arouses them or offers them hope, even though they may only be able to put a small portion to practical use. They deal with emotional realities that are rather apart from your own concerns.