“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane relied on her impulses and Framework 2 for her decision—actions that she would have probably found very difficult to carry out earlier. “I still can’t believe I called up a publisher and told them to send back a book they wanted to publish,” she said more than once. “You can’t say I wasn’t spontaneous,” she added, “or that I was cowardly or wishy-washy....” Actually, a string of events, evidently out of Framework 2, were involved, and would make a most interesting study of how Framework 2 aids one in making decisions or bringing about events they want to see happen. Oversoul Seven is also involved in some fashion, especially the movie aspects —for when Jane called Eleanor Friede to offer her Emir, Eleanor told Jane she was about to call her about Seven, the call having to do with possible motion picture connotations, through a well-known screenwriter; that is the kind of event intertwined with the whole affair; nor have Jane and Eleanor contacted each other for probably a couple of years.

(More developments took place today, before I began typing this session. Tam called Jane to inform her that Eleanor called John Nelson [which Jane already knew] —but that Eleanor and her screenwriter friend had the money to do a movie for Seven. So we’ll see what develops in this continuing saga. Clare Townsend of 20th Century-Fox called Tam today and asked about seeing the manuscript of Jane’s second Oversoul Seven book, which Jane has just begun typing. Townsend is involved with Alan Neuman, of course, who also wants to do a movie of the first Seven book, etc. A chart made of all the events to date would show an interlocking pattern of lines, I believe, like a spider’s web. Hardly a “coincidence” that it all begins to develop at relatively the same time.)

The feelings of trust are definitely taking hold. There will be no problem with the walking, and in a short time these complete processes will be at a point where he will consistently want to do more walking on a day-by-day basis. Thus far, his impulses have been correct, and forcing the walking at certain times would not be advantageous.

The personality is always pleased with its abilities. If those abilities are extraordinary, or if they do not fit into the social structure, a personality can approve and disapprove, use the abilities, and yet feel the need for protection. I want to erase, however, any ideas that either of you might have that Ruburt is an extremist. He is far too tolerant, for one thing. Extraordinary ability may seem extreme behavior when compared to the mundane lives of many people. A mountain-climber is not necessarily an extremist; an extremist goes from one kind of extreme behavior to another.

I do want you to find the sessions on self-approval, and to read them—both of you.

Do you have questions?

He interpreted it thusly. It was a statement of fear, and fear’s resolution. Your father was the symbol of yourself. You were afraid that you were doing everything backward—specifically with “Unknown” Reality, and that the affair would be a disaster—or the car would crash.

The dream was meant to do two things: point out the fears that were still present, and to show you that though present, they were groundless. The car, which was the vehicle of expression, would not crash. It was not going backward. The backward motion referred to time, and how much time you felt existed between the book’s dictation and the delivery of Volume 2.

Now (humorously), I am here, more or less in a recording or in the original, whenever you want me—but I do want to reassure you both that you are indeed doing well.

A second-volume book can often work in such a way. But Volume 1 will do excellently as soon as Volume 2 is in the offing. And before that there will be other spurts, as those people who are now reading the earlier books will begin to look for Volume 1. There is a lag there.

(“What do you think of Prentice’s reaction to the Emir thing?”)

I am letting Ruburt handle that for his own experience—not that I do not tip the scales now and then at other levels.