“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I am doing my best to explain. I do not want you to think I am without compassion. Novelists create heroes who must overcome obstacles. Some such characters are brave and upright; some of your heroes are scoundrels. Then there are, say, the hunchback of Notre Dame or Frankenstein. In your living you literally bring your ideas to life. You form the story of your life. You are involved in a study of the full dimensions of experience, in the interpretation of events themselves. You are involved in a living process—but one of such multidimensional activity that sometimes you see of course but one chapter in a saga whose full complexion is far different.

He does not have a nine-to-five job. He is constantly in midst of drama, fleeing for his life. The system supports him, and it would not do so under other conditions. He has some financial sustenance, then, some freedom, as he understands it, and he is the hero, the good guy who is, however, seemingly at the mercy of his enemies.

Any purpose is better than none, and any intended personalized threat is better than an existence in which no life is important enough to be individually threatened, so these imagined threats serve to convince our young man that his life must have meaning or purpose—otherwise others would not be so intent on destroying him. He is clothed and fed. He lives with adventure, threat, and must forever be on guard. He sees himself fleeing across the continent—again, a hero in a vast drama, a romantic picture. He does not want allies, for he dramatizes his isolation.

Ruburt is correct: he could be a hero of a short story, and so he appears to himself. It is his way of gaining stature in a world he believes is meaningless. He is afraid that he has few abilities of any kind, so he must of course take steps to see that they are never put to the test in the physical world—hence, some disaster or another always prevents the great creativity that he says he has to offer.

“MESSAGES” FROM GODS, DEMONS, HEROES,
AND OTHER PROMINENT PERSONS — OR,
MORE CONFLICTING BELIEFS

[...] This imaginary personage may say that it is God, or a famous hero from the present or the past, or Jesus Christ, or Mohammed, and the personality involved will be quite certain that such is the case.

Donald, for example, may hear the hallucinated voice of the god or hero. [...]

[...] Even in Augustus you find the hero and the villain, separate and diversified. [...]

Now, dictation: So, therefore, can a family be so divided, and one member always appear as a hero and one the villain or the demon.

[...] Both the villain and the hero will be in trouble, however, for each are denying other legitimate aspects of their experience.

[...] He will emerge as an eternal hero in the external religious drama, as the inner self is the eternal hero of the interior religious drama.

[...] Many — not all, now — criminals possess the same characteristics you ascribe to heroes, except that the heroes have a means toward the expression of idealism, and specific avenues for that expression. [...]

[...] Our hypothetical director will know which actors are free, which actors prefer character roles, which ones are heroes or heroines, and which smiling Don Juan always gets the girl — and in general who plays the good guys and the bad guys.

[...] You are quite familiar with the events of your own life, for you are of course your own main hero or heroine, villain or victim, or whatever. [...]

[...] But the term Israel still stands for one individual, along with its multitudinous parts, and all of the colorful, feared, anguished or enticing heroes of the bible represent elements of each person’s soul, personified, set momentarily alive in myth. [...]

When our Wilford dramatically cries out to his mistress: “I am afraid my wife will learn of our affair,” then the symphony playing on another station becomes melodramatic, and the sports program shows that a hero fumbles the football. [...]

In their own ways, these are heroes representing the detective who is out to protect good against evil, to set things right. [...]

[...] He might then come on himself in the guise of [the hero detective], but enlarging upon the characterization, adding more dimension to the plot. [...]

[...] Who did they emulate then — how did they fill their lives, with what heroes and heroines? [...]

The hero, represented in a statue, had once been a cobbler and came from a place that sounds like Guatemala, though that is not precise. [...]

[...] “I got the heading earlier for the next chapter: “‘Messages’ From Gods, Demons, Heroes, and Other Prominent Persons — or, More Conflicting Beliefs.”)

[...] There were, however, a score of men in the same general area, physically, who responded to the inner psychic climate and felt upon themselves the attraction and responsibility of the religious hero.

According to conditions, such a person could be a member of a small cult or the head of a nation, a criminal or a national hero, who claims to act with the authority of God. [...]

(Pause.) You have always been a hero, and yet a mystery to your brother Dick, a source of pride and yet of embarrassment. [...]

[...] (Pause.) The hero, represented in a statue, had once been a cobbler, and came from a place that sounds like Guatemala, though this is not precise. [...]

[...] Christianity has believed in a heaven and a hell, a purgatory, and reckoning; and so, at death, to those who so believe in these symbols, another ceremony is enacted, and the guides take on the guises of those beloved figures of Christian saints and heroes.

I cannot promise you that you have been a king, or that you will be one (humorously), nor a story reading in which you are a hero... [...]

Then earlier I got (Jane said), that when we’re interpreting dreams, we should also look over groups of them, over a period of time, to see if you see yourself as a hero, a victim, a victor, bravely grappling with problems or whatever.

[...] They were also accepted home as heroes, and while many certainly were disillusioned, in the whole framework of the country’s mood the veterans were welcomed.

[...] Only a simple change of clothing was required for our hero, Mr. Kent. [...]