“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.

(Upon waking from her nap this afternoon, Jane again felt blue, deserted, and alone except for me in the world. Feelings about writing were also mixed in, and time, she said. Again, I wanted Seth to comment.

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.