“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Try as we would, Jane and I could not recall what I had said at last break to bring on Seth’s outburst concerning mediums, etc. [...] I now remarked that I wondered whether Seth even wanted us to publish this material, since this might also be regarded by him as using him. [...]

[...] Seth proceeded at an especially deliberate pace, with many pauses, yet in spite of this we seemed to gather as much material and within the same time limits.

(“How are you, Seth?”)

[...] Jane said she felt Seth wanted this material to be very clear to us, and so was proceeding step by step. [...]

(As Seth states, Jane did have a dream about the idea the following night, September 11,1963. [...] As mentioned many, many sessions ago, however, her poem The Fence, written in May 1963, clearly foreshadows the Seth material, dealing with [but not always by outright name] such subjects as reincarnation, dreams, unperceived worlds, etc. [...]

[...] Howard wanted to look at some paintings, and of course some conversation ensued involving the new director at the gallery, who was discussed by Seth in the 74th session.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(Jane will now write to Marie to see if Seth is correct; if not, or the data is distorted, Jane will try to learn from Marie what association she could have been involved in with water. [...]

[...] As we sat at the board preparatory to greeting Seth, Willy jumped up on it; from there he vaulted up on the bookcase, knocking the sketch to the floor. As I retrieved it Jane began to receive Seth within. After Seth spelled out his greeting, Jane rose and began to dictate. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(At this moment I had a mental picture of the sign outside the shop; I was wondering whether Seth could now tell us more about it.)

[...] I had, for instance, no clear recollection of what Seth had just said.)

[...] Jane reports that when she pauses for Seth, during a delivery, that she can sense the whole concept of whatever subject is being discussed. It appears to hang over her, but since it is too much to handle at once, she feels Seth withdrawing it, to release it to her a little at a time in the form of connected words.

[...] We sat at the board; as soon as our fingers touched the pointer it spelled out Seth’s greeting.

(“Good evening, Seth. [...]

(During break I also mentioned that I hoped Seth would discuss my sensations of last Saturday evening. [...]

(Seth added a few lines for Jane, then described a method by which I could help her work with her own beliefs.)

(“Good night, Seth.” [...]

(Once again, Jane’s Seth voice was good, with the usual pauses.)

(“Good afternoon, Seth.”)

(“Thank you very much, Seth. [...] 12:12 A.M. Jane said that just as Seth said good night she sensed “a miniature book” off to her left. [...]

(This little session came about in the same way yesterday’s had, and in it Jane—”Seth”? [...]

(Once again, Jane spoke for herself with, I presume, Seth’s assistance. [...]

[...] “You’ll be lucky to get a session out of me,” she laughed, but at the same time she felt Seth around. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(Very perceptive on Seth’s part. [...]

(“No, Seth.”)

[...] However, she’s also learned some things about the eye condition through using the pendulum, and Seth comments.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

It is easy perhaps at times to have regrets, to wish that curiosity, the love of learning, the desire for knowledge, and yearning to help your fellow men (was Seth a bit amused here?) had not gone quite so far, and to imagine that had it not Ruburt would be in excellent physical condition, and no one would miss the work that then would not exist.

(“Thank you, Seth. [...]

(Seth opened the session by finishing his Introduction to Jane’s The World View of Paul Cézanne, which Prentice-Hall will publish later this year. In that piece Seth has come through with an excellent capsule explanation of his theory of “world views.” [...]

(Tonight we started the sessions up again after a three-month layoff: During that time I typed the final manuscript for Volume I of Seth’s “Unknown” Reality, with Jane’s help, and we’ve just mailed it to her publisher, Prentice-Hall, Inc. [...]

[...] Seth gave a page of material for Jane and me, then ended the session at 11:12 P.M.)

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] Jane’s trance had been deep, although she recalled parts of Seth’s adventure. [...]

[...] While Seth was giving the data, Jane said, she wondered what an Arab would be doing in Turkish Constantinople in those days. [...]

[...] Perhaps Seth’s example had caused the reaction, I thought, but she didn’t seem to respond here either. [...]

(It will be remembered that in the 140th session Seth suggested Jane avoid psychological time for a while, after she had unwittingly gone too far, too fast. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(Since Seth began discoursing on dream suggestion and health in the 172nd session, both Jane and I have been experimenting with these ideas. [...]

(It might be interesting to digress a moment to discuss the point raised by Seth in the last paragraph. [...]

[...] By late 1967, Seth was also devoting some sessions to helping strangers who had written us, as mentioned in The Seth Material.

[...] Now we feel that we have a twice-weekly appointment with the universe, and certainly this attitude developed during those projection sessions when we tried during the day to follow the instructions given by Seth. [...] So even space-wise, there seems to be a connection between those earlier sessions and the present ones in which Seth is dictating his own book.

[...] The Seth Material, on the other hand, is more like a map, vitalized through Seth’s personality, and as we follow it, we do become aware of other realities that had been unknown to us earlier.

As I mentioned in The Seth Material, my waking projections and the spontaneous ones in the Seth trance yielded enough evidence to convince us that I was legitimately out of my body and perceiving another location — and not just out of my mind. [...]

(She told me that Seth would soon be going into the effects of our beliefs upon our environment, explaining how our racial mental climate is responsible for our exteriorized “weather.” [...] [See the notes for the 613th session in Chapter One.] Seth, Jane added, would say that as a species we’ve grown used to thinking of ourselves as being outside of nature — so much so that we’ve forgotten we’re really part of it.)

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(As Seth, Jane pushed her hair back over each ear. [...]

[...] Once again, Seth started enlarging upon the material Jane had written during the early morning hours of May 3, after receiving it in the sleep state. [...]

(It will be recalled that in the 68th session, page 221, in relation to Bill’s projected trip, Seth had stated that he saw Bill meeting an older man “with prickly hair,” and that he saw a rowboat with a symbol on it. An older man and a boat both are mentioned above, and when Bill returns from Provincetown, Cape Cod, which is indeed on the ocean, it will be interesting to compare Seth’s material with what Bill actually saw and/or did.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(See the 59th session, page 134; in which Seth deals with quality-depth, value fulfillment, etc.)

[...] During break I mentioned that I wondered whether Seth could tell us what Bill Macdonnel was doing on his vacation on Cape Cod., since we’d had but one card from him some time ago. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth. [...]

(Jane, as Seth, pointed to our kitchen door. [...]

[...] As Seth she was most amused while she stared at me.)

(“Thank you, Seth, and good night.”

[...] Jane grew very relaxed as she sat there at that quiet hour—yet she wanted to hold the session anyhow; she called me early; she felt Seth around….)

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] Seth stared at me for a long moment.)

1. I suggest that in connection with this note the reader review the 891st session for December 26, 1979, in Chapter 3 for Volume 1 of Dreams, where Seth referred to the American hostage affair as “a materialized mass dream.”

4. Right away I began to wonder when Seth stated that “There were no prints to be passed around….” [...] However, my reading indicates that Seth was probably right about prints being unavailable to the “poor peasants” of those times.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(“Yes, Seth. [...]

2. For a brief description of Jane’s encounter with Mrs. Steffans, see Note 13 for Session 744, in Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality. Seth, and Jane and I, described a number of our house-hunting adventures in the two volumes of that work. [...]

[...] I didn’t realize it at the time, but upon typing this material I’d say that Seth didn’t directly answer my question on page 298. [...] The meeting of people, of course, is a part of the question, however, so in that sense Seth did consider it.

(Jane said her eyes were feeling much better, although “full of moisture,” and that the copying work she did on James, following Seth’s suggestions in the last session, went well. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(Seth’s material earlier this evening, about responsiveness to the world, in whatever form one chose, reminded me of an idea I’d mentioned to Jane last week. [...]