“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(It follows that Jane did keep her tooth during the women’s visit, losing it while still in bed early Saturday morning. Strangely, she could eat and chew better with the tooth gone than while she still had it. I’m very sensitive to tooth troubles, of course, and probably project some of this upon others; but Jane’s losing the tooth reminded me of Seth’s very recent declaration that she might lose more teeth because of the relaxation taking place in her jaws. We’ll see whether she can retain her two front teeth, which shifted their position at once after the eye tooth dropped out.

Those experiences may at times be quite jarring, tragic, frightening, but they will happen within a framework provided by the accepted suggestions of the society. People may question the precepts, but generally speaking they live and work within organizational frameworks, each one ruled by various assumptions or suggestions.

Those who come here often are questioners of it. They certainly are not ready to go all of the way, as you are. They may appear quite bizarre. They may form odd theories, but they are between worlds.

It is highly important that you do keep up your communications with each other, and that you begin each day in one way or another by stating your faith in the body’s processes. This would take but a few moments. It is also important, now, that you concentrate upon your own creative works, both of you—Ruburt particularly, so that he takes his mind off of his body, and focuses elsewhere. Since you are doing this alone, more or less, it is natural to be upset at times, but when your confidence is greater than your doubts, Ruburt always improves.

I will not keep you long—but you need this session.

When you go against those feelings you cannot be satisfied with any decision. There are issues involved that you are unconsciously aware of—concerning, say, the people. The knowledge will merge with your own conscious feelings at the time. You are tinged by conventional ideas and judgments—natural enough, but they often contradict your intuitive feelings, and make you act counter to them.

When you do not trust your inclinations then you must indeed make rules to follow instead. It takes but a moment to check with each other, though so far you usually answer the door, but state your feelings to Ruburt clearly, then ask for his, and make your decision jointly. One of you may want to talk to the person involved, or both of you, or neither. There is no strain that should be involved. The affair is taken care of in a few moments.

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.

(Loudly again:) Now: had you not taken this route, you both would have been in far greater difficulties. Of course, you would not be the same people—but your understanding and knowledge has drastically changed the future that could have been expected, say, from your backgrounds in this life, now.

To some extent the York beach images held what might have been expected of you. In the terms of which we’re speaking, now, having attained a certain but quite limited artistic career that you felt was more of a prison that no technique could help you escape.

Ruburt would have been stifled, unable to find a writing niche, having written out early personal, autobiographical material, but not able to make the new important creative leaps that were actually taken.

(11:33.) You are trying out highly creative, innovative, imaginative, and truthful concepts—not just theoretically and artistically, but applying them to your lives. You have again fallen into the habit, negatively, of considering your achievements in other areas as insignificant—(louder:) in light of Ruburt’s condition as if they caused his condition. They did not. His condition was caused by a set of beliefs, and so was everything else in your lives.

Luckily, those beliefs allowed the possibility of achievement even if they did also permit experience most dismaying. But watch the center of your focus. We are setting up an alternate framework. Your focus must be upon your abilities, your achievements; the realities—all of them—of the moment. You both have great powers of concentration and energy. I want those directed toward the issues just mentioned. Reinstate the library, together. Only your poor habits and lack of confidence stand in the way. When you worry all day then the library goes out the window, and so does your feeling of creative adventure, in your own creative hours, both of you.

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.

(A note: The woman from Arizona sent Jane a telegram late Saturday afternoon, asking that Jane see her again, saying that she would wait several days at the Holiday Inn. etc. Jane called her at the Holiday Inn. only to be told.< that the woman had left. She must have done so soon after sending the wire. A change of heart? We had been out earlier Saturday, but evidently the woman had not been here. In any event, Jane was prepared to tell her that she would not see her again.)