“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(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.”)

(For the record: On June 1,1965 I mailed to Dr. G. H. Instream a letter explaining something of Jane’s ability and the Seth material, plus a list of the inner senses, a list of the basic laws of the universe, and copies of sessions 138, 141, 142, 149, 153 and 154. [...]

[...] Publicity material on the symposium wasn’t enclosed with the letter as stated, so on June 9 we wrote asking for this.

(Jane and I wondered whether Seth would mention the letter from Dr. Instream during this session, but he did not; just as he did not discuss my recent clairvoyant dream. [...]

(“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.

[...] During the long layoff Jane and I worked on Seth’s book, editing, rewriting notes, etc. [...] Jane called the publisher today, and learned that The Seth Material is due in paperback probably in January, with Seth’s own book to be published next October.

[...] I am aware, for example, of your Seth and of your Seth II. [...]

(Jane said she finally became aware of “half-formed words, or something like that,” from Seth, as we waited for the session to begin. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(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. [...]

[...] In Chapter Nineteen of The Seth Material you gave a list of the inner senses. [...]

[...] I hoped Seth would comment tonight.)

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] Seth paused, so I asked, “Can she try it now?”)

[...] She began reading the sessions—just the Seth material itself—from the first one for October 9. She did as well as she had done earlier today. [...]

[...] “I’m just laying quiet for a second, although I don’t feel him around [Seth],” she said.

(“Good afternoon, Seth.”)

[...] I wanted any information from Seth I could get. [...]

^* An illustration of this painting appears in The Seth Material. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] (Jane, as Seth, directed an inquiring look at me.) Unless you have any preliminary questions…

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(Jane asked that I read her some Seth material, so I picked the last nine sessions — starting with our new resolve and intent on July 30, after the long layoff since July 4. They’re all short sessions, but now carry all of our hopes for the future, and so far have been paying off. [...]

[...] As I massaged her with Oil of Olay I told Jane that I’d stopped giving her body specific suggestions—say, that a hand could open up—because according to Seth’s material the body had its own order and schedule for showing improvements, and I’d become wary of giving suggestions that might conflict with that schedule. I suggested asking Seth about this tomorrow—a good question, I think. [...]

(“Good afternoon, Seth.”)

In this deceptively simple but moving poem about her magical childhood responses to the world she lived in, Jane foreshadows from that viewpoint the innate knowledge she was to express a quarter of a century later in the Seth material. [...]

[...] In one way they’re like casual jottings that she left half finished and unseen in her journals, until I found them when I began searching for fresh material for the frontmatter of this Volume 2 of Dreams. [...]

[...] I remembered Seth’s material on why the stomach acts up, and ascribed my upset last night to further worry over Jane. [...] The mere suggestion and information from Seth himself has already helped a great deal. [...]

[...] I reminded her that yesterday Seth had said the right leg discomfort was only temporary. [...]

(“Good afternoon, Seth.”)

[...] Now at my request Seth gave over a few paragraphs to what I think is a very perceptive interpretation of a dream I had had last night. I’d told Jane this morning that I knew the dream was quite significant in connection with the work we’re doing with the Seth material, but that I was unable to adequately decipher it. [...]

(Jane has really made an effort to recognize, study, and follow her impulses since Seth began emphasizing them two sessions ago in Mass Events. [...]

[...] “Seth’s been telling us to be alert for negative Freudian and Darwinian beliefs — and suddenly I’m surrounded by my own. [...]

[...] With the Black Thing, those of you who remember the Seth Material and the Black Thing, which was representative of my fears at that time and that I had created them and reacted to them. [...]

[...] And I’m saying good night for Seth and that means class is over. [...]

(As I told Jane today, a study of the affair would be fascinating in many ways, particularly as it would have to involve Fred’s behavior and beliefs as associated with the Seth material. [...]

[...] I explained that I’d become quite interested in the Fred Conyers thing because I’d been reading a couple of pages a day of one of the manuscripts he’d left us: The Rule Book of Love: A Seth Book. I thought the title intriguing. I also thought portions of the manuscript itself were intriguing, quite acute, mixed up with Fred’s obsessions and compulsions, his personal life and family, his far-out ideas, his attempts and frustrations as he tried to use the manuscript as a vehicle toward understanding himself as he attempted to uncover the secrets of his personality: He thought them locked away from his understanding by the very device he had chosen of speaking for Seth. [...]

[...] Considering her sleepy state of a few minutes ago, her Seth voice was very good, her eyes open and dark, pauses as usual.)

[...] For the first time in a long while, I’d say, her delivery and manner was much more like the Seth of old —firm and amused and emphatic in turn, and free of tremor, with pauses as usual. [...]

[...] Now we have an idea for our own type of “disclaimer” for the frontmatter of Mass Events, based upon a very apt quote from Seth’s material that we found late in the book. [...]

(We hadn’t asked that Seth discuss the Prentice-Hall situation this evening — but when Seth came through with a rather ironic smile. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] Seth’s amused reference was to manuscript page 457 in Mass Events. [...]

[...] I arose with several questions that I wanted answered in a session tonight; the trouble with steps, why she took a turn for the worse after the tour for The Seth Material, etc.?

(She said she thought Seth was trying an experiment, that it was better to do it this way. She could feel Seth about, but he was letting her go ahead on her own.)

[...] Seth thought you would find this direct statement even more informative than his indirect description of it.

(Jane said she was in an altered state of consciousness as she delivered the material, yet was aware of what she said as she said it. [...]