“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane and I almost had an argument over the setup, though, for I had mistakenly assumed that she’d be glad to see everyone at once and get it over with, so we’d be free the rest of the day. Instead, Jane was counting on being free for the day and didn’t want to see anybody except Sue. I decided that henceforth I would turn visitors away, since I didn’t see how I could know in advance whether she felt like seeing anyone or not. I mention these details to show something of our situation re Seth’s last deleted session on “intruders” when we want privacy. We haven’t resolved such dilemmas then, obviously.

You, Joseph, were initially annoyed by Lady Caroline (from Arizona), who came in the taxi. You felt she intruded. Quickly, however, you felt sorry for her. Conventional attitudes began to speak: you should be kind to guests. The woman had come from so far away. Your original feelings of intrusion represented your own attitude, and your instant recognition of her character. Your original feelings were the correct ones, so to speak.

Ruburt’s were the same. Each of you felt that you should see the woman regardless of your feelings. The woman would have accepted a no. She halfway expected it, as you both unconsciously realized. A yes to her would mean far more than yes to a brief interview.

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.

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.