“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane’s Tuesday paper on her feelings is evidently a very important one, representing some excellent insights on her part about her repressed impulses, her fears about my reactions to various events, her private nature and public appearances, and related topics. I’d say that to some extent at least its content flows from the proposed interview with a reporter from The Village Voice, a contact made with the business manager at WELM in town, and so forth—hardly accidental, we think, that these events connected with publicity, her work, etc., come into our awareness at this time. They seem to be like small test cases, meaning that our reactions to them, how we handle them, will show rather clearly where we’re at these days, as they say.

Be that as it may, Ruburt began to withdraw from the world, and in important ways denied himself the experience of dealing with others in those respects. He is gifted in dealing with people. He has the capabilities that allow him to hold his own very well, blocked only by fears and hesitations. He does have a very strong private nature, along with an ability to communicate to others—and as my material stated this morning, a greater understanding of his impulses would lead to a natural balance. He might not want to see anyone for months, in which case his impulses would be to refuse any interviews or whatever. Then the impulses might change overnight, leading to a more sociable time.

(10:41.) Give us a moment.... The material I gave this morning is especially important, and should be studied. The medication (a stronger aspirin) is all right for Ruburt. He is using it as an aid. The soreness that he experiences at times is a physical result of mental ideas, generally, that it will hurt to face the world, for example, and this new knowledge of impulses, and of his feelings, should help there.

That was important privately. But in your own searches you are literally leading millions of people, many who will never write you, and effectively inserting ideas into the society, that will in their time come to flower also.

That challenge was difficult, but offered, and still does offer the opportunity for a kind of personal exploration of reality to which few have access. In certain terms, such new understanding can also bring its own stresses and strains, simply because such individuals must of necessity find themselves ahead of their times, and in a different position than they were in before with their normal accepted reality.

All of this information should help accelerate his improvements. It is significant that he has of late felt like standing unsupported, even if only briefly, for this means that he is beginning to sense a point of balance. He should encourage those impulses whenever possible, of standing unaided, even if the time is brief.

(“Well, it’s certainly no accident that the interview thing with The Village Voice came along at this time.”)