“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I asked that Seth comment on my tooth-extraction hang-ups—involving the attendant soreness and my reactions to the whole affair—as well as the mouth-breathing difficulty. The latter is much improved, incidentally, and the gum is healing okay as far as I can tell. Yet I still wondered whether I wasn’t asking that the healing take place too rapidly, considering the large cavities in the gum to be filled.

The individual either exists for the sake of the society, or the society exists for the sake of the individual. So it seems. Either road, however, brings its own difficulties. An enlightened position would be somewhat different, for a reasonably free individual will automatically want to aid his fellow man, and you will have a society of individuals fully functioning, and that would mean you would have fully functioning social organizations.

(With some amusement:) You are both experiencing what should be a natural time of rest—not a low point. Had you been working on “Unknown,” you would have had far less difficulty with your extractions. Your mind would have been on the book, and the extractions considered distractions—annoying and to be put aside.