“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I hadn’t actually asked any questions of Seth; his material after break came through following my joking remark that I was half afraid to ask any, my reaction stemming from his discussion in the last deleted session, regarding Jane’s dislike of details, etc.

(At break tonight I’d explained to Jane that I still thought the 14th session contained some excellent material on Seth’s awareness of “something resembling time” to him—and that it was “still a reality of some kind” to him. [...]

(Seth’s material offers some new insights, I think, as I type this session, concerning his reality. [...]

(We had no questions for Seth in particular, hoping that he would just continue where he’d left off last session. [...]

[...] Seth’s material, especially that given around 9:34, was quite apropos in light of an amusing incident involving Jane shortly before the session. [...]

(During break, I wondered aloud if she might have selected the book because she intuitively knew Seth was going to discuss its kind tonight — or did Seth use the incident, once it transpired, to make his points in a fresh way? [...]

(Lately I’ve been asking Jane if she thought Seth would give at least a short dissertation on probabilities for this book. [...] [A note added later: Seth kept his word. [...]

(Resume in the same fast material at 10:05.)

[...] Seth’s material on Cézanne was excellent.)

[...] I doubt if I’ve ever heard Seth do better. I think that already the material has helped. [...]

Those sketches of his, it seems, do not stand up as creative products as a great sculpture might, but they stand for a truly creative originality in which a consciousness played with internal material, and projected outward many of the material properties that then simply did not exist. [...]

(Yet finally, as she talked about it, Seth came through—and earlier than usual:)

[...] I’m sure Seth knows this, but it’s obvious that he wants us to maintain a light rather than a heavy psychological touch. [...] Recently we received an excellent, rather lengthy paper about our work in which the writer, a psychologist, discussed among other things the import of Seth’s material, as well as various explanations of his origin. [...]

I know that Jane is interested in the book in question, but also a bit afraid of it: “I don’t want to be so influenced by it—or by any other book—that it starts coming out in the material,” she’s said more than once recently. [...] I’m not concerned that anything she reads will unduly influence her—or Seth.

[...] After supper I suggested that if she had a session tonight Seth could comment upon her current series of relaxations. [...] Now she was nervous, for she felt that Seth was ready to dictate his Preface for Dreams.

I especially liked the first sentence Seth offered for his latest book. [...]

(Another point I want to mention in connection with Seth’s material earlier in the session on psychology: His reference on page 3 to “evolutionary science” stems probably from our reading lately an article on Robert Jastrow, an astronomer connected with NASA. [...] A note: Seth gave an excellent answer to Jastrow’s kind of thinking two years ago in either chapter 7 or 8 of Psyche.

(Jane had no questions, relying instead upon Seth to come through with pertinent information about her present physical condition, which continues to show improvement. [...]

(Seth goes into a couple of other topics also, which I’ll do notes for at the time of mention.)

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] What follows is a reasonably accurate reconstruction of Seth’s material. [...]

[...] After an hour or so of this, Jane decided to call on Seth. [...]

[...] Jane finally switched on a light, saying that Seth was gone.

(I had thought Seth would stay, to say something about why results had not been good, but Jane said the session was over. [...]

(Seth’s material on Paul O’Neill’s cottage came about because of our conversation with Paul this noon as he checked Jane’s lower teeth here at the house. [...]

[...] I understood Seth’s material on the subject, and even agreed with it, I told Jane after the session. [...]

[...] This afternoon as she worked answering mail she began to get “stuff pretty strong on it from Seth.” At the same time, she rather wished Seth would forget about it—probably because she knew what our reactions to it would be. [...]

[...] Those gorgeous children struck home with me for many reasons — partly because of Seth’s material, and partly because I think at my own age [65] I’ve come to appreciate more and more the truly creative act that being a parent is. [...] I wouldn’t mind Seth commenting on my own evolving views of parenthood sometime.

(“Good afternoon, Seth.”)

[...] It also reminds me of something Seth said many years ago — that when Jane passionately wanted to get rid of the symptoms, she would do so. [...]

[...] Seth’s material upon resumption stems from the fact that Jane, housecleaning lately, had switched our bed from a north-south axis to east-west. [...]

[...] My fourth question asked for the content of the horizontal lettering mentioned by Seth. Seth named both horizontal lettering and red before in the data. [...]

(Before the session Jane said she had no idea of what Seth would talk about. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”

[...] Seth came through several times, delivering beautifully organized little dissertations to Dr. Guy on how he might relax enough to allow the psychic signs that he’s so interested in to come through. [...] We didn’t use one either, and so for the first time in a long while Seth’s material disappeared as rapidly as it was given—an odd experience for us. Seth also discussed with Dr. Guy the practice of, and the motivations behind, the art of magic. And in return for Seth speaking, Dr. Guy staged his own little magic show for Jane and me—to our amazement and intense interest—as the three of us sat around the living-room table.

As Jane commented afterward, LeRoy Guy said not a single word to us about his reaction to Seth, although I’d watched him pay the same rapt attention to that personality as had many others. [...] For that matter, we hadn’t even asked him exactly what Dr. Camper wanted him to find out about Jane and Seth—or even me. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

1. Seth’s material on schizophrenia is an extension of his discussion on Monday evening, which is why this session is given here.

10:26 P.M. I told Jane that the session is another excellent one, “I do believe he’s going to go on with that material,” she said. I hope so, for it appears that Seth is far from carrying his discussion through to the subject of reincarnation. [...]

After supper Jane said that Seth might talk about reincarnation, schizophrenia, and possession, tying those subjects together. [...]

(Whispering: “Good evening, Seth.”)

(Seth’s material on page 204 agreed with what I had learned myself by using the pendulum, both today and earlier in the week. [...]

[...] Tonight I asked Jane if Seth would discuss the Instream object that ordinarily would have been named Monday.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] I explained it to Jane at break and hoped Seth would comment as to any clairvoyant elements in the dream.

(I’d felt sad, staring down at the striped brown, black and white body, and remembered Seth’s material about how both parties in any death share the experience. [...]

(When Seth came through Jane’s Seth voice was the best I’ve heard it yet. [...]

[...] “I can feel Seth around, but every time I do, I start moving again.” [...]

(“Afternoon, Seth.”)

[...] The material that had come through was quite unexpected. Evidently it had been inspired by our conversation after the last deleted session, about Seth’s material on animal-man and man-animal. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(“Thank you very much, Seth. [...]

(Jane read some of Seth’s material on Alpha I.)

(And I’d say that Seth’s material on Jane and me represents a probable reality for us—that those things DID happen elsewhere….

[...] I found this very discouraging, and once again began to question the whole bit about symptoms, recovery, Seth, etc.

[...] I arranged that both women would meet here at 4:00 PM to talk with Jane for an hour before supper time; Sue Watkins was also due that afternoon with some typed material for Psyche—which is why I made the arrangement to begin with.

[...] I mention these details to show something of our situation re Seth’s last deleted session on “intruders” when we want privacy. [...]

[...] Seth’s material this evening was making me wonder if my notes were going to be detrimental in that work. But I was also simply curious about whether “Unknown” Reality was going to do as well as the other Seth books.

(2. From a discussion Jane and I had the other day: Why do Seth’s books sell so much better than her own? I’ve always been upset by this, and several recent visitors have admitted reading only the Seth books. [...]

[...] For myself, I listed the following before the session, as I’d promised Seth last time I would:

(3. More on Jane’s eyes, since I know she’s worried and frightened by that condition of strain, as Seth described it in the last session.

1. Seth’s material on dying and the nature of consciousness immediately reminded me of what he’d said at 11:20 in the 801st session: “Dying is a biological necessity…. [...] I’d been thinking about those passages, and when Seth returned to the subject tonight I decided to have some fun with our accepted social and scientific establishments by writing this note.

(Ever since she began dictating Mass Events for Seth, Jane has felt like having book sessions but once a week — on Monday nights — and doing other things in between. So she’s been working on her own James, writing poetry, painting, and helping me out with Seth’s Psyche by doing some of the work I usually do when he’s finished a book: typing sessions for the manuscript, checking my rough notes, rewriting some of them and making suggestions about others. [...]

2. Seth and Jane have both referred to faster-than-light effects in earlier books. Seth did so while discussing his CU’s, or units of consciousness, for instance. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] It contains Seth’s material on the present point of power; I came across it while checking out a reference for Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality. [...]

[...] Both of you found it quite necessary to take a strong conscious, critical look at the material from the beginning, for your trainings told you, in the terms that you understood them, that the “subconscious” could be very misleading, though creative, and that therefore you must critically examine any intuitive productions that profess themselves to stand as truths rather than as creative fictions in your world.

The material in Personal Reality, however, contains psychological and psychic truths. [...]

If the material does not work, they can always blame Ruburt, you see.

(From my own notes as the afternoon progressed: Seth’s material on Jane’s dreams was just what I hoped it would be—another sign that her body is awakening, and that it knows what to do and how to do it. [...]

[...] If Seth came through, I said, I’d like him to comment on her reading difficulties, the dreams, and the two leg wounds. [...]

[...] Her Seth voice wasn’t loud, but it had a lot of quiet energy and a deeper tone that I could feel quite noticeably. [...]

(No sooner had I made my comments about being interrupted during a Seth session than it happened: Carol knocked on the door then came in. [...]