“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Earth experience, even in your terms, is far more varied than you ever consciously imagine. The intimate life of a person in one country, with its culture, is far different from that of an individual who comes from another kind of culture, with its own ideas of art, history, politics or religion or law. Because you focus upon similarities of necessity, then the physical world possesses its coherence.⁵

In greater terms, these experiences all occur at once. The black woman followed nothing but her own instincts (and very vividly, too). I do not want to give too much background here, and hence rob our Joseph of discoveries that he will certainly make on his own — but (louder) the woman bowed only to the authority of her own emotions, and those emotions automatically put her in conflict with the [British colonial] politics of the times.

And added later: Jane presented my account of the Maumee episode, as well as portions of the 721st session itself, in Chapter 12 of Politics.

2. And eventually Jane did describe her day’s work in Politics. See the opening pages of Chapter 11.

3. Both Jane and I think Seth’s statement, that in another probability “Ruburt … learned all there is to know about science …” is pretty strong, but since it came through that way we let it stand. However, as Jane wrote later in Chapter 11 of Politics: “Finding out what’s happening to electrons, say, is something I really enjoy. I admit I feel much more free than I do when I have people’s emotions to deal with. I’d rather ‘find’ a lost electron than a lost person any day, for example.”

11. With some humor, Seth borrowed the word “eccentric” from Jane’s own Psychic Politics. In her book she uses the term in connection with personality, to mean that each physical self is a creative — and unpredictable — version of an inner “heroic” model.