“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In a manner of speaking, the stability of that authority, however misguided, provided a relatively safe framework in which you could both grow into maturity. Many new versions of reality appear first in art or fiction, and in such a way new ideas are spread through a society, while no threatening advances are made upon the world of fact. In any society, as young people come to maturity, they begin to weigh their individualistic version of reality against the adult authoritative one, and in one way or another, as they attain adulthood, they change the system to whatever degree.

The authoritative world offers security and a certain amount of safety even in the spreading of new ideas, provided they remain in the artistic realm. Most people settle for following authority—particularly in the professional aspects of their lives, the community affiliations, and so forth, while here and there insisting upon a kind of private creativity that does not threaten the larger beliefs of the structure.