“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Some people write to you in their triumphs and in their despairs, giving you, all-in-all, a library of unique, private reading matter, capsule biographies of the people of your time and country. This provides you with a far more comprehensive picture than, for example, any TV series could, or any neutral, scholarly study of hypothetical human beings.

They represent people’s deepest yearnings, exaltations, and hopes. They are meant as samplers, spread out before you, examples of the varieties of present human experience. Most correspondents do not really expect you or me to solve their problems for them—but the hope is there that somehow the problems can be solved, and that the problems themselves are important.

People felt depersonalized beneath labels, so that they were told: “Oh, yes, you are a victim of ulcers, or anxiety attacks, or whatever,” while the very personal suffering portion of their beings was ignored. So to some extent many people write for an acceptance of their individuality—even if that includes severe problems—and you both must indeed be struck by the vitality and uniqueness of human nature. It does not mean at all that you should concentrate upon the problems people write you about. Yet even those serve as a stimulus to these sessions, and spur you to seek further answers.