“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Because you were born in this culture, it is not surprising that you still fall prey to lack of trust in yourselves, or in the body’s abilities to cure itself. Teachings to the contrary have been deeply imbedded. You do have something extremely valuable when you realize it, though this is often lost to you in practical terms because of your fears and negative projections. The large majority of people are confused, besieged, and struggling without any clear idea of why they are in such a state, and with barely a hundredth fraction of your insight or understanding, unable to form their own framework, yet aware that the conventional one is sadly lacking. Your sense of direction may be far more obvious to them than to you, because they sense it so vitally in contrast to their own condition.

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.

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.

The career would have fallen into conventional pattern for money’s sake. Your understanding, stretched somewhat by earlier ideas, would have fallen backward, so that you ever strained against it. You would have had physical difficulties of quite important natures.

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.

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.