“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(At suppertime tonight we read a newspaper article about a 27-year-old man from Philadelphia who’d committed suicide in our area by having himself decapitated by a railroad train. Jane said the first thing she thought of when she read the article was that the stranger might have been on his way to see her for help. I thought this a very meaningful projection, reflecting her exaggerated feelings of responsibility to the world because of her psychic abilities. I asked that Seth comment.

Give us a moment.... The creative artist can be in somewhat of a quandary, according to his beliefs, for he wants to preserve the precious moment, the fleeting thought, the daffodils, the perceived insights. At the same time he often feels the need to stand apart from life, from the fleeting thoughts, the daffodils or the insight, so that he will not be lost completely in the moment, but able to form almost a second self with a larger viewpoint, who can then more clearly examine and understand the thought, the moment, or the insight.

You do, however. Ruburt does also in his writing, for he then becomes another self who watches the creative self. So both of you form subjective extensions that you must one way or another put together in physical time. (With gentle humor:) My books represent vast creativity, and yet you perform your own additional subjective leaps, forming subjective platforms that then deal with the circumstances of the books.

You determine the time you want to spend with “Unknown”—time you want to spend, say, in the yard. For now the pendulum sessions are involved. You do not need to worry about hurting your friends or neighbors, who will understand quite well. You have only to firmly state your position, and they will follow, expecting this of you.

On the other hand, he becomes upset if people cannot make truth work in literal terms. He is very touchy on that point, and yet he becomes very angry if people try to make truth too practical. Why can’t truth make people want to live? Why can’t truth be used as a prescription? The suicide story bothered him simply because it reminded him of Will (Ives), who had attended classes, and of a friend of Venice’s, who committed suicide many years ago, although a session was held for her.