“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(We had several questions for Seth, including the one noted at the end of the last session: Why didn’t the unconscious realize it was going too far in its protective role? Why didn’t it back off? Jane wrote the question up on a separate list, so that we’ll make sure the inquiries that develop are taken care of by Seth. Two corollary questions I came up with yesterday are these: Does the unconscious know there is a physical body? If it does, what is its conception of that body?

(As we sat for tonight’s session we made two important connections; 1. When the refrigerator turned itself off I expressed relief at the sudden quiet. But Jane said the silence bothered her—the kind of remark I’ve always heard her make. Then she said that as a young child she was always uneasy at home when it was too quiet—that those were the times when she worried about what her mother was up to. When Marie had been making noise, involved in noisy activities, Jane had felt much better, safer. 2. This insight led Jane to an obvious one neither of us had ever made before: that when she gets a letter in which the writer threatens suicide if Jane doesn’t help him or her, this is like Marie threatening the young Jane that she will commit suicide.)

(Along in here I had an insight as I wrote, no doubt triggered by Seth’s material. It was that although Jane’s eye condition might be caused by my delays with getting “Unknown” Reality to the public, another reason was also involved: namely, that she saw the revealing notes I did for “Unknown” as a threat also.)

(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.

(Jane was getting that “slightly sicky feeling in my stomach” as we talked about fears. I got her a glass of milk. “I’ll do what I can about the session,” she said. She was yawning again and again. I reminded her of my two questions from Monday’s session, plus the one about my reaction to the mail today. Seth didn’t go into the first two, but the following material did have to do with reactions to those who wrote us. Resume at 10:27.)

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.