“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I was already beginning to study my own psychological behavior, though, and the question of Seth’s independent reality came more and more into my mind. Since I “become” Seth in some fashion, I’m never able to see myself as Seth in the way that Rob can, or that my students can in a class session, but I do know that he makes a definite impression on others. [...] What was there about Seth that so convinced him that Seth was more than a dissociated part of my own subconscious?

[...] After it, we knew that we were committed, and to us the session really marks the beginning of the Seth Material, the end of the preliminary data.

For nearly three hours I spoke for Seth, striding up and down the room, joking, pausing now and then for Rob to catch up with his notes, and delivering this monologue, using gestures and facial expressions, verbal expressions and inflections, entirely different from my own. I spoke steadily, without hesitation, breaking up serious philosophical material with jovial comments, much like a professor at a small seminar. [...]

When the material given above was finished, Seth stayed around, as if to emphasize an informal social period. [...]

1. According to the Seth Material, one chair is perceived by 5 people as

2. You ask Seth about life. [...]

3. Seth says the childlike self is

[...] Seth says

(Actually, the affair is a perfect example of much of the material Seth has been going into in his latest book on the mass culture and mind. To Jane and me, it seemed as if his material was being enacted in real life as the ideal demonstration of Seth’s material. [...] We also think that these books-to-come will not manage to penetrate the forces behind the phenomenon nearly as well as Seth could, but that Seth won’t be carrying out such a project, either.

(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. [...]

(Jane wanted Seth to discuss her own progress—which continues, if too slowly for her. [...]

(We also speculated that Seth might refer to what may be called the “Jonestown Affair,” or something like it. [...]

1. Jane referred to the concept of living information from another angle in her quoted material at the beginning of the 694th session, in Section 2. Also see Seth’s material on units of consciousness at 10:06 in the 682nd session, in Section 1.

In Personal Reality, too, Seth tells us: “Information does not exist by itself. [...] Your consciousness attracts the consciousness that is already connected with the material.” [...]

(10:36.) Give us a moment … A photograph is to some extent a materialization of an idealization carried to a certain degree. At another level, your body and your experience is a far richer fulfillment, a living, presently experienced materialization. [...]

Good evening.
 (“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] The messages represent (pause) philosophies and ideas (pause) that the Seth material and his work will change. The dream is personal and yet more than this, these messages and philosophies will be buried not only by the material but by psychic awareness on the part of many individuals like yourselves.

(This is the type of data my question had intended Seth to give—information of a more general application to many. Seth has also given Sue and Carl some reincarnational personal data in an ESP-class session.)

[...] Jane had delivered the above material almost without pause. Her trance had been good, and she remembered little of the material.

(Sue Watkins told us that before Seth began answering my question, her unborn child had been very active—kicking, etc, within her. When Seth started to consider the question, the fetus became very quiet, Sue said, almost as though listening ...)

[...] At this point, the Seth sessions themselves had only been going on for a month and a half. We had had no instances of clairvoyance or any evidential material except for that provided in the early séance, and we had both decided that we weren’t ready to try anything like that again for some time.

[...] “The Seth material could be coming from some deep inner source, an intuitive bank of inner knowledge available to everyone if they only look for it,” I said. [...]

I was really quite tired, yet after the session, I was astonished to discover that Seth had dictated an excellent exposition on the physical senses and had begun a description of the inner ones. [...] Seth began by speaking about the physical senses.

Had I been using Seth’s “inner senses” in the Bronson experience? [...]

[...] Speaking as Seth, Jane now delivered two pages of material for herself and me. [...] Note Seth’s heading for this Section 5, for example.

1. The reader can also refer to Seth’s material on dreams in chapters 8 and 10 in Seth Speaks, and chapters 10 and 20 in Personal Reality.

(Just as she had this afternoon, Jane “picked up” a little material from Seth at 9:00 this evening. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(Jane’s remarks were in reference to Seth’s material, given in his book dictation earlier in tonight’s session.)

(The following material is from the 770th session.

(“All right, Seth. [...]

In fact, I believe that a good amount of Seth’s material this evening was inspired by my struggles with that note. Such interchanges among Jane, Seth, and me—and among books—often take place.

2. Seth should have said that light can be defined as being made up of waves or particles, but he didn’t put it quite that way, and I let stand what he did say. He gave me a knowing, half-smiling look while delivering this paragraph, for it was obvious that his material was related to a note I’d shown Jane today—one I’m finishing for Mass Events. In it, I’m trying to deal very simply with both the uncertainty principle and the complementarity of light, among other tenets of physics. [...]

[...] Now Seth gave a few paragraphs for Jane, then said good night at 10:10 P.M. Even with the many pauses she’d used this evening—most of which I didn’t indicate—Jane’s delivery had often been quite intent and meaningful. In their own way the pauses served as additional punctuation and emphasis for some of Seth’s information.)

3. Seth’s “fields of consciousness” sounds like an elaboration of field theory in physics. [...]

[...] Jane’s publisher has written requesting some photos, drawings, etc., in connection with the book Jane is now writing on the Seth material. [...]

[...] See Seth’s psychological-bridge material on page 14.

(Seth began on this material in the 13th session. [...]

[...] On page 24 Seth stated that when Jane receives images, the psychological framework between Seth and Jane is operating; in these instances Seth is not giving Jane envelope data by way of concepts, directly and telepathically. [...]

[...] It was on normal typing paper and requested, first, some further work on the book — either an outline of a projected book to include portions of the dream manuscript, but stressing Seth, or some sample chapters — before a contract would be signed. One sentence read, “Or better, send on some notes from the original Seth material, and maybe we can consider that as advance work for a contract.”

On May 5, I received a letter asking for a prospectus stating Seth’s views on various topics and strongly suggesting that this would be considered a basis for contract. From the letter I took it for granted that I’d have to go through the forty or so notebooks of Seth Material that we had then, and find sections dealing with various topics. [...]

In the end, I combined portions of the dream book manuscript into a new book called The Seth Material, which was published by Prentice-Hall in September, 1970. [...] Seth’s interpretation of that first dream, some three years ago, had been correct. [...]

[...] Seth says no — that time is being changed at each point. [...] The following two chapters on probabilities and dreams contain some of the most intriguing material Seth has given us — and precognition must be seen against this larger perspective. [...]

(Jane said she had been working quite happily on the book dealing with the Seth material, and on one about dreams. When she got the burst of energy on the poetry book idea however, she took advantage of it, and felt certain the material would be published. [...]

[...] In the early sessions he exhibited some drastic behavior at Seth’s presence and/or arrival. At times he would attempt to entangle himself in Jane’s legs as she paced about the room while speaking for Seth. [...] Seth told us this was because the cat’s very acute senses detected his arrival on our plane. [...]

[...] Jane began speaking while sitting down and with her eyes closed; her eyes then began to open frequently after a few paragraphs of material. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(Jane still reads Seth’s material on his book. [...]

(As far as we knew, Seth would resume dictation on Chapter Three of his book this evening. A minute or two before the session began Jane told me that she had a “glimmer” from Seth — a few sentences. [...]

(9:27.) The intensity determines both the strength and the permanency of the physical image into which the thought or emotion will be materialized. In my own material I am explaining this in depth. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(11:40 P.M. I was surprised at Seth’s remark, since it seems to me that my energy has been “good” for as long as I can remember. And it developed that I did quote portions of Seth’s material on evolution and time in Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality. [...]

[...] Although they aren’t book dictation, we’re presenting here some of Seth’s own comments about the dream, since they have a general interest and also fit in with his earlier dream material.

[...] This came about because of a note I’m writing for Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality, and I may quote part of Seth’s material on the subject in that note.

[...] Jane’s delivery was very slow with this material. [...] What Seth had to say about the spontaneous beginnings of life, in our terms, surprised me….)

2 After the session I wanted to tie in Seth’s material on infinity with mathematical ideas of that concept, but my reading soon convinced me that such an idea was too involved a task for a simple note like this. However, I told Jane, in his own way Seth had incorporated mathematical ideas in his material: I saw correlations between his probable realities, his intervals, and the concept of an infinite number of points on a line—and that some mathematical definitions of infinity are considered to be more basic, or of a greater order, than others. Actually, in various branches of mathematics, from the works of Euclid (the Greek mathematician who flourished around 300 B.C.) to modern information theory, I found many relationships with Seth’s ideas. I do think that Seth’s material on the “origin” of our universe can be termed an “ideal point,” embracing our mathematical systems, and that his concept of All That Is has no “limits” in mathematical terms. [...]

[...] She recalled that back in her 20s—some 15 years before she initiated the Seth material—she’d written a series of poems about our species returning to the earth from space. “And here’s Seth saying that it’s actually happened that way—at least in some probable realities,” she said. [...]

[...] Yet when Seth came through his material certainly sounded like book work to me.)

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] They’re also interested in the Seth material. [...]

(It wasn’t until I was typing up these notes at 9 PM on the same day, that Jane realized she could have been in at least a light trance while giving the material; at first she thought she had not been, but then realized she retained only a hazy idea of the material’s content—just that it was optimistic. [...]

[...] Our Associate Editor, Mr. Charles Chintala, will be in touch with you soon regarding this material.

[...] Jane closed her eyes, concentrated, and gave the following material which is very nearly verbatim:

For one year, twice a week, Seth gave his impressions as to Dr. Instream’s activities. [...] Dr. Instream wanted Seth to concentrate on naming a particular object, though, upon which he would be concentrating in the distant town in which he lived. [...] Seth did give material pertaining to objects also, but he was more apt to give specific information on Dr. Instream’s daily life.

For the next eleven months, the Seth sessions dealt mainly with test data of one kind or another. At 9 P.M. as usual, Seth would begin with the theoretical material in which we were increasingly interested. [...]

[...] We went over the material with the Gallaghers on their return. [...] Seth had correctly described a nightclub they’d visited, then went on to mention that there had been a “nuisance there.” [...] Seth also said that there were eighteen shrubs out in front of the nightclub, but Bill had to admit that though there were shrubs out front, he hadn’t thought of counting them.

Now we could concentrate on the Seth Material. [...] If I’d had more faith in Seth’s abilities and my own, I could have saved myself a lot of trouble. [...]

^* Both Jane and I belong to the family of consciousness that Seth calls Sumari. [...] See her material on Sumari in Adventures in Consciousness.

[...] See Chapters 6, 7, and 8 of The Seth Material.

(Before the session we discussed the one séance we’ve ever tried, and which is described in Chapter 3 of The Seth Material. I said that the spectacular results obtained had seemed to come straight out of Framework 2. We also discussed the long essay on early man in Time for November 7, and I remarked that I’d like to ask Seth some questions about the state of our present “knowledge” about our heritage.

(Jane had no special questions, beyond saying she hoped Seth would continue with material on Frameworks 1 and 2. She was very relaxed, and expressed qualifications about having s session; she did want to try, though.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] That portion is taken into consideration, along with the same portion of all other dreams, so that the raw material for future events is processed. [...]

[...] Seth gives her the information visually; it is then up to a part of Jane to correctly interpret this. Jane believes that in the early experiments her failure to appreciate this, to interpret correctly, led to many errors in the material; that actually, through Seth, she had received the correct data to begin with, but needed the practice in fine discrimination to even be aware that the problem existed. [...]

[...] I began to wonder if I was responding to the material Seth was presenting; I had found it very interesting.

(We wondered if Jane’s feeling was due to suggestion. During the week she had been referring to the 68th session as she did some work on the book on the Seth material; these sessions have to do with the construction of physical matter by each individual. [...]

(Bill’s drawings of Seth show an extremely high cranium—according to Seth Bill’s graphic translation of Bill’s feeling of high intelligence on Seth’s part—and a pointed chin. [...]