“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Truth is not like a specific prescription. It is an aura that pervades all reality. Ruburt is upset on two levels. He loves the pursuit of truth for its own sake, and the pursuit of truth is basically a playful creative endeavor, in which children indulge all the time.

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.

The story in the paper rearoused those old conflicts. But truth involves insights of a most peculiar kind, for they cannot indeed be truly specified, and the more specific you try to make them the more you distort them, or the more you dilute their original power. You make your own reality. You cannot force an individual to live, nor can you force him to die, through the use of the truth. One and one is two—that is a fact in your world, and you can use that fact in millions of ways, but it involves no truth.

Man lives through the desire for life. That truth is a far more important realization. People can use our books, but the greatest use is a kind of mental, spiritual, and psychic acceleration that allows them to use all of their abilities better—but they must decide how they will use truth.