“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Before, relatively speaking, each portion of the body reinforced the position of each other portion in such a manner that little leeway was possible. Ruburt now is at the stage where each portion of the body takes a more positive, active position, and gently nudges each other part to greater freedom. In other words, the new changes do not meet with such resistance, but now the definite improvements can begin an overall acceleration.

(9:56.) Give us a moment.... I want to point out that the Seth groups throughout the country are far more significant than you might realize, for they are not formed as a result of any kind of promotion. They arise spontaneously, and despite the fact that you do not actively encourage them, or even pat them on the back.

You must do what you want because you want to do it, and if the authorities listen, well and good, and if not it is their loss.

The ideas will grow in any case. Whenever possible then outside of normal considerations, both of you should concentrate upon the creative, intuitive elements of what you are involved in. Forget such things as impressing the authorities so that they somehow will change the world. Do not expect the books to sell like novels, as I have told you. Free yourselves from such considerations, with their implications.

Those implications are the kind of things that trigger in Ruburt worries about meeting scorn or criticism, worries that then set up their own chains of reactions. Don’t be bothered that parapsychologists are not knocking at your doors. Ruburt’s abilities lie outside of their realm, and they know it. They are doing the best that they can in their framework, but you do not fit into their framework.

(10:28.) In Ruburt’s case such considerations make him feel set against the world, where actually that social world has rather agreeably enough allowed you room and a certain platform on its stage, through your readership. You have a considerable number of people, considerable, in all walks of life who wish you well. There is no need for Ruburt to anticipate scorn. There is no need either, however, for him to imagine that he has any responsibility to go out into that mixed social arena to do tours or appear on television.

He anticipates scorn if he did so. He would indeed meet a large range of reactions. Scorn would be the least of them. He would meet honor, belief, respect, disbelief, anger, love—and some scorn. Such a career addition would be bound to change, of course, the foundations of your lives. I do not believe you are willing to meet people on that basis.

(“Would you mind doing that?”)

Do you want me to go on the Johnny Carson show?

Ruburt’s body is geared for full recovery now, so keep that joint determination in mind. Trust your nature, and then you will see that what you consider mistakes are simply insights that come out of place, so to speak, and that has to do with your remarks before the session.

As you read this session, however, try to see how those attitudes that I mentioned do clutter up your minds to some extent. You set yourselves, if you will forgive me, eternal goals. Along the way your livelihood has been provided for, and you have a framework in which to work. Many people hold you in respect and regard. In larger terms, however, your goals are not temporal, so do not become overly concerned—overly—with temporal considerations. They impede your private psychic experiences, for they add stresses you do not need.

(Recently Jane was told that a complete set of class tapes, with transcripts was being offered by someone on the West Coast for around $255.00 for 55 of them—$5.00 or thereabouts a tape. During a call to Tam this morning, he advised Jane to “put a stop” to the affair before it went too far—to at least write the people involved a letter. Jane has asked Sheri Perl for the names and addresses to do this, and plans to write a letter. We think the quality of the tapes must be very poor. There’s also copyright infringement, since some of the class sessions have been published. Jane is against the whole thing on esthetic and invasion-of-privacy grounds, not monetary ones so much, and I guess my feelings about it all are too ambiguous. At the same time, it all sounds familiar, as if we heard about someone doing the same thing last year, say.

At the most a letter from Ruburt. My framework is different from yours. I do not see how such people can hurt you in any way. If you wanted to make money from the tapes, you could have. If they make money from the tapes, you do not make less.