“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.

Ruburt’s intelligence was not one to follow blindly, and so his marks were not outstanding. Even in school, both religion and science teachers found him troublesome in that regard. Writing poetry is hardly extremist behavior. Neither did the circumstances surrounding his college dismissal come about as the result of any extremist behavior.

Now, what would that extreme behavior consist of “at its worst?” He felt that if he were a person given to extremes, then to use his abilities he must apply due discipline so that his head was not turned, so that he did not become a victim of fame, as many other writers and artists did—or so it seemed. It certainly should be obvious to Ruburt now that his personality contains some quite conservative aspects—a marriage going into two decades and more does not exactly make one worry about promiscuity. So many old fears were based upon misconceptions on the part of the personality that in younger years found itself to be quite different than its contemporaries, and gradually began to set up defenses against them.

The soreness that he does experience sometimes at night is of less intensity than before, and it happens when the body is in the middle of one of those overall processes, so that a large number of muscles and joints are being exercised at one time.

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.

Tam’s answer is generally a good one. Many people rushed out to buy the book at once, and are impatiently awaiting Volume 2. Many booksellers ordered “Unknown”, sold many copies, and then returned large numbers. Reasoning that when the second volume came out, they would reorder and have both together.