“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

So much of a man or a woman shows to others. So much of a person shows to the person, but much of an individual’s world view is hidden. It is hidden because people pay attention to the official areas of life.

Your aspirations are a part of your world view. But they exist also amid your attitudes concerning the culture, your age, and the time that it seems must be involved with painting. Your world view includes your attitudes toward your parents, and toward their parents. It also includes your own attitudes toward your parents’ aspirations, and your views of your brothers and their families. Your world view must include your beliefs about the body and the mind, about religion, history, and philosophy—and you stand as an entity, a psychological entity, in the center of this inner world.

You threw out conventional religious ideas first, and then conventional scientific ideas, so while these may be a part of your society, they are not a part of your personalized world views. Some ideas fall by the wayside easily. Others either escape your notice, or do not seem vital enough at any given time to question. It is rather futile to ever wish that you were both “at one with the world,” or to imagine yourselves following its beliefs blindly, but in blissful ignorance.

That would mean that you were wishing away your own intelligence, intuitions, and wit. There are strains connected with the route you have chosen, but at least you have the hopes of accomplishment—and, if you will forgive me —the creative joy of an honest pursuit. Those who follow the official lines of consciousness right now have no such support to fall back upon, while the results of their course becomes more obviously muddled.

The improvement can come by casting aside as facts even more of the world’s mental baggage. You understand many issues intellectually, but have not gained their emotional comprehension. My last session in particular mentions those issues. They sound simple enough, and yet they are right. Worry does not lead to action. In fact, it inhibits the intuitional insights that allow constructive action to occur.

You must be more understanding and compassionate toward yourselves than you have been. The matter of a bad tooth, or teeth, is not to be overlooked, but it should not be an occasion to put the self down, the cause of self-accusing thoughts, or bring about unfortunate feelings of inferiority.

People have difficulties with their teeth in modern times, particularly, for many reasons—but mainly because it is one accepted area for the difficulty to show itself, and because the dentist’s cosmetics can indeed repair the appearance. At least in some historic periods, people kept their teeth longer, knowing that nothing could be done to repair the damage.

Ideally—and this is a big ideally—there would be no such damage to the body. Your attitudes have been along the lines of self-accusation at any such problems. Any health difficulties will flow into the pool of your beliefs—but the body is not meant to be more than the reflection and materialization of your inner reality as it appears in space and time. Its problems are the results of your own inner ones, and meant to lead you toward inner comprehensions. In the same way, the Jonestown suicides lead the society to face its inner problems.