“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

His eyes are changing. They are not protruding as much, and they will far less. Nor generally will they be as red. They are still not fully synchronized, however. There are long periods where he can read properly. He can copy James then —an hour at a time—however. In other periods he can work on his preface and his own to notes for the book, and leave himself open to new inspiration.

Now I hope before too long to get on with our book, but I am also highly interested that you put our ideas to work to better your own daily lives.

Part of the book will deal with mass suggestions and their effects, and benefits. If Ruburt had gone to a doctor, he would have been a different person after a certain point in his life—so in a way it is meaningless to ask what would have happened. Had you insisted that he go to a doctor, you would have been a different person also.

The general acceptance.... First of all, our books would frighten many people. They run directly counter to the many beliefs by which the masses live their lives. Our ideas will filter through the masses. Directly, however, in a manner of speaking, our books are subversive. They will sell continually through the years, and the readership will grow.

College people in particular will promote our ideas. Many people who seem quite strange or cultish, bizarre, and possibly offend you, read the books because they are often acutely aware of society’s lacks. They try to show their dissatisfaction through highly individualistic or strange behavior. Since on their own they are not creatively gifted enough to find other expression.

The books also find their way, however, to the serious questioners within the establishment itself. Often they are not in high positions—because they are questioners. Yet they deal with the young quite directly, and with the arts and sciences in unconventional ways, but within the system.

There are also a core of individual thinkers who straddle all social or academic categories, who follow our books. There is no overall general reaction, therefore, in the terms of your question. But the effects will be, and are being felt. Cézanne, for example, will reach some people who have not read the other books, and some historians will read James, and hence be led where otherwise they would not go. Psyche will mention my ideas about sex, for example, and will be bought by some people because of that subject alone, who will be again led to the other books.