“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

Please remember that many people get in physical difficulty. They are indeed the norm rather than the exception. People who are not questioning necessarily the nature of life or of reality, creative people, unimaginative people, dumb people, athletes—all get in physical difficulties. What I am saying is that questioning the nature of reality does not cause physical difficulties per se. You cannot justifiably say, then “Had we not taken this route, everything would have been hunky-dory (loudly).” You should know better than that.

He might have died of heart trouble by the age of 40, for literally his heart would have been broken, and communication between the two of you would have quite fallen away. His heart is as strong as an ox (definitely). Do not think then that your creative endeavors have caused you difficulties, or that without them life would have been a bed of roses.

(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.

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.