“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(She was again very relaxed today. She’d also been picking up from Seth through the day some quite amused comments on a variety of subjects we’d mentioned, ranging from “carpets and health” to the “nature of the law, the connection between the law and ideals and their actualization; the reactions of Tam Mossman to our feelings about Fate Magazine,” etc.

(Last Thursday night our guest was John Beahrs, a psychiatrist from the Seattle, Washington area. Now I’m in the process of writing a long letter to Larry Dowler, of the Yale University Library, and this activity showed up also in Seth’s bleedthroughs and comments.)

“The importance of definition” is our heading for this evening—at least for a starter.

(9:57. Jane laughed as she came out of trance. “I couldn’t do it, but I have the feeling that he could go on all night. You know, tie it all together. The law, Prentice, health, the poor and nationalized medicine, our ideals—and start doing it from any point you wanted him to.”

Pat was chosen symbolically, yet stands for a definite situation, when you two visited Boston on tour. At that time, Ruburt saw Pat, who is a teacher, and was traveling through belief systems with the greatest of ease, converting to Judaism and then out of it, and so forth. I spoke on television, and you were both appalled at the gulf between what you saw as the idealized message of our work, and the ludicrous (pause) lack of integrity of the environment in which that ideal was expressed. I am referring to the other performer, et cetera—the circumstances which you know well.