“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Seth discussed generalized sinful-self material in only one of the five private sessions Jane has held since she came through with the 931st session for Dreams three weeks ago.¹ In some respects lately she’s felt a bit more at ease.²

[...] It took me some time after she’d started delivering the Seth material to realize that in spite of her outgoing, friendly nature, Jane is as much a private person as I am.)

3. I see correlations between Seth’s material here and my speculations at the end of the 922nd session (for this chapter), concerning his apparently unlimited capacity for oral history.

[...] Of that last total, she devoted 13 sessions to material on the magical approach to reality, and 27 to the subject of the sinful self. [...]

[...] We talked of illustrating Jane’s book on the Seth material, which she is now writing.

(We did not press Seth for an item-by-item interpretation of the rest of the impressions. I had prepared this test envelope for last Wednesday’s session but did not use it then; the session was witnessed by the Gallaghers and the test was shoved aside by other developments, notably the impromptu discussion between Seth, Bill and Peg. [...]

[...] Seth referred to this in the last session briefly. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] Even in this immature work, which she produced 11 years before she was to initiate the Seth material, her mystical nature was asserting its innate knowledge.)

(From September 7 until 19 Jane and I were on a radio and television tour of seven cities, to publicize Jane’s book, The Seth Material. We found the experience stimulating and educational; Seth spoke on television in Boston, and was very well received.

[...] (As Seth, Jane delivered this material vigorously, her pace rapid.) The great power and energy of love and creativity is apparent in the mere fact of your existence. [...]

[...] I told her that, according to Seth, each personality making up an entity could manifest itself physically as often as it chose to. Seth then interrupted us at 11:40.)

[...] Now with this work taken care of, Jane was eager for Seth to resume work on his book.

[...] 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:)

(Seth’s pace had been increasing, and my notes began to fall behind. [...] While doing this of course I lost some material from Seth, but Tam and I agreed that Seth recapitulated any lost data during the rest of the session.

[...] Tam, the editor at Prentice-Hall who is in charge of the book Jane is writing on the Seth material, has been reading the book in manuscript today.

[...] Seth’s pace was rapid.)

([Tam and I:] “Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] Dr. Menahem very favorably compares the Seth material with a number of psychological disciplines, and I told Jane I hoped his feature would show her that the general validity of her work would continue to grow. [...]

(“Good afternoon, Seth.”)

(4:44 p.m. Jane had been interrupted twice within three minutes since last break.“Gee, I felt these great big chunks of material there,” she said. [...]

[...] 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. [...]

[...] John wasn’t alarmed because of the Seth material. [...]

Now, you shall celebrate with a Seth session. [...] My greetings to our friend, Philip (Seth’s entity name for John).

(John Bradley attended this session; most of the session contains material relating to him. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”

(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. [...]

[...] The Spazianis have known about the Seth material from the beginning, and have read some of the earlier sessions; indeed, it was Jane’s borrowing Jim’s Ouija board in November 1963, that led to the flow of the Seth material.

[...] She said that while she was delivering the above material on one level, she also received the thought from Seth “on another level” that she should sleep for three-quarters of an hour after supper on session nights. [...]

(I would like to remind the reader here that when Seth uses the term “area,” he means what up until recently he has called a “level” of the subconscious. [...] Seth has mentioned this at various times.

(Thinking the session now over, I then brought up the thought that I suspected a distortion in Seth’s interpretation of the first dream, where he stated that before being born I saw my brother Loren as a woman. I thought I recalled Seth stating many sessions ago that Loren had been three times a man, but never a woman, and had a woman’s life ahead of him.

[...] 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. [...]

1. See Chapter 19 of The Seth Material.

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(Seth’s impressions do appear to be far-ranging, in connection with the old bureau and its label. Jane and I can make some connection with some of the material, but in the light of what follows we decided to wait. [...]

(Tracing from my note pad of our title suggestions for Jane’s book on ESP and the Seth material.)

(Jane, as Seth, smiled as she referred to Dr. Instream. [...] Many sessions ago, as many as a hundred or more, Seth told us that animal pets would reflect the psychic health and concerns of their owners.

(Many sessions ago also, Seth told me that my Christmas doldrums stemmed from something that happened to me many years ago. [...] Seth promised to go into it but we became sidetracked on other matters last year. [...]

[...] I told her I think the Seth material touches upon those fears, but doesn’t eradicate their emotional content and force. [...]

[...] In ordinary terms her behavior is an extreme — and I added that when I asked Seth about this, he countered by talking about the extremes of poverty in Africa, say, but he said precious little about Jane per se. [...] I have no plans to resume, for I always ended up feeling that without my pushing, Jane — either with or without Seth — just would never deal with them. [...]

[...] I repeated my old comments that I’d have been more than willing to chuck the whole psychic bit years ago, if she wanted to, for I’d seen signs of trouble way back when she was producing Seth Speaks. [...]

[...] When Seth began saying that Jane would resume walking in reasonable comfort, I at first believed him, but soon came to not believe him, for I saw no sign of such a change even beginning. [...]

[...] You do not thoroughly appreciate emotionally your part in the production of our material, or realize that its direction and so forth must be, and is, colored by your own unique characteristics as well as Ruburt’s—and that at certain levels, the Seth material, as it exists, is a product of your lives together. [...]

(I had several questions for Seth, which had grown out of the talk Jane and I had after breakfast. [...] They’re noted here, although I think that at least a good portion of tonight’s material stemmed from remarks I made after supper, when I talked about not using my own abilities as much as I might have over the years.

[...] (Pause.) Do you want this material?

Now I want you all, as Ruburt said, to reread the Seth Material and get out your questions, but more than that reread The Seth Material and imagine my telling it to you. [...]

([Bette:] “Alright, I won’t with you, Seth. [...]

[...] Following a discussion of the last part Seth came through.)

Now you may have a Seth break and a Sumari break and I’m sure Ruburt is ready for a class break. [...]

(Jane had been having trouble writing her book on the Seth material with her old spontaneity, and both of us were concerned. [...]

[...] Jane began speaking for Seth in an average voice, with pauses, eyes open often, etc. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] I was especially concerned that Jane wouldn’t be able to surmount the problems, so explicitly delineated by Seth, above, and so eliminate the symptoms. [...]