“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] She remarked that she was certain that as Seth she could see better without glasses than she could see without glasses as Jane. Explaining, she said she felt she could see as well, as Seth, without glasses, as she could see as herself with glasses.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] I had forgotten the conversation, as had Jane, and we hadn’t asked that Seth discuss it this evening.)

(This is very true, and quite acute on Seth’s part. [...]

(Seth II:)(Words lost)...observed then realize that we are highly interested in such experiments as Seth is conducting, and that as we observe you, so do you, though unconsciously, observe other realities in your sleep state. [...]

[...] Now if this were not the case you would be dealing with my friend, Seth II, all of the time so you had all better watch out. [...]

Now some of this is, indeed, a translation or, again, you would be speaking with Seth II, yet what I am continues to exist. [...]

([Ron:] “If we didn’t interpret ego-sensitive ourselves you are saying that Seth II could speak more directly and nonsymbolically to us?”)

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

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

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(“Good evening, Seth. [...]

[...] Seth came through with some very interesting material on the relationship involving the three of us, as well as the communication between his reality and ours. The session contains just the kind of insights we’re always looking for as we seek to understand the whole ambience of the Seth experience, and when we receive such information we want others to know about it too. We hardly expected Seth to discuss Framework 3, though, since we’re still assimilating his material on Frameworks 1 and 2.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(“Thank you, Seth. [...]

2. Jane and I plan to eventually ask Seth to explain to us, in ways that will let us at least approach an understanding of them, some of those other realities in which he exists and “speaks.”

(“Thank you, Seth. [...] But Seth returned at 11:30.)

(“Good evening, Seth.” [...]

[...] John could offer us no confirmation on Seth’s data concerning John’s home office in Chicago. [...] John recalls no one fitting the rather general description given by Seth.

[...] She hadn’t really thought Seth would say that her dream and psychological time data were correct; she didn’t think, moreover, that Seth would ever come out with such material, no matter whose death was involved.

(Seth also stated at that time that John will have to take strong measures if he wants to achieve certain goals. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(It appears to Jane and me that a distortion has already appeared, since Seth states that I wanted the sister I did not get, yet also married her. I will ask Seth about it in a future session. [...] Too, Seth has previously stated that distortions are most likely to appear either in the beginning or at the end of a session; and this one cropped up close to the end.

[...] I take Seth’s reference to a friend’s apothecary shop to mean the one operated by our friend in this life, John Bradley, who has been a witness to several sessions. According to Seth, John in his immediate past life ran such a shop in Boston; he moved at that time in the outer circle of our acquaintance. [...] In that life Seth states John died in 1863, which helps determine the time Jane and I lived in our immediately past life also.)

[...] She felt Seth was searching her vocabulary in order to express himself as best he could. Here she thought that Seth was dealing with a concept that was not suited for expression in words, nor was it meant to be expressed in words. [...]

(Seth’s point here is certainly well taken, and Jane and I have often discussed her phenomenal physical performance during sessions. [...] But Jane, while thus engaged, is also busy translating Seth’s messages and speaking them aloud. [...]

(During second break I had wondered if there was much similarity between the various manifestations of the Eve egos, and the relationship between Jane and Seth, when Seth was temporarily dominant. I now asked Jane if Seth might not talk about this, rather than deal with our interpretations of the envelope data. [...]

(During break I wondered aloud if there was much similarity between the various manifestations of the Eve egos, and the relationship between Jane and Seth, particularly when Seth was temporarily dominant.

[...] Seth answered thus to my first question. [...] Here Seth connects the picture with photograph. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] When Jane began speaking for Seth while sitting down her eyes closed; she evidently is just now ending this phase, or at least modifying it.)

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] Seth returns after break, briefly, but doesn’t add anything to our own connections with the envelope data.

[...] Since this house plant also is developing a brown cast, Jane could know this easily enough once she, or Seth, picked up the idea that the envelope object represented a begonia.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] I had thought it okay to ask the next question, since Seth had taken a rather lengthy pause.)

[...] We were able to make some, and Seth did not help us out after break.

[...] Seth hints at another possible meaning later, but we believe the stamp is the object referred to.

[...] A scientist there wondered if Seth could describe him or one of his associates. Jane and I both felt that Seth would not comply, at least at this time. [...]

(Our doctor friend, last week, had half-jokingly suggested Jane and I see what Seth would have to say about the market. Jane and I were so sure Seth would turn thumbs down on the idea that we had not asked the question.)

[...] By 8:45 she said she had no idea of Seth’s material for tonight, and that this made her nervous. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(As we prepared for the session I mentioned that I wouldn’t mind if Seth commented on a particularly vivid dream I’d had last night. [...] “I think Seth’s going to add a Part 4 to this book,” she said, “and he’s going to call it ‘The Practicing Idealist.’ And I want to keep changing it to ‘Practicing Idealism,’ because his heading sounds too much like it’s already been used. [...]

[...] Seth did discuss my dream of last night, explaining in some detail how I’d busily constructed a second dream self so that I could carry on a dialogue expressing creative impatience with myself: I was eager to embark upon new ventures in painting and writing, even while I was recording Mass Events for Jane and Seth, and preparing for publication.)

(Good evening, Seth.”)

(But I didn’t want Seth to go yet. [...]

(Through it all, however, we looked forward to our daily participation in Seth’s new book. Jane hadn’t looked at Seth Speaks for long periods during its production in order to avoid conscious involvement with it — but, she said recently, smiling, she plans to read and use this work session by session as she delivers it. [...]

(When Jane speaks to me as Seth her delivery is slower than it is during a class session, for instance. This, along with Seth’s own instructions, makes punctuation easy. [...]

(A number of events, foremost among them the death of Jane’s mother after an illness of many years, caused us to lay these sessions aside after Seth finished his preface on April 10. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] Good night, Seth.” [...]

(Since break Seth had taken to calling out more periods, commas, and other such indicia than he usually does, so I included a few examples. [...]

(For some of Seth’s earlier material on dreams, dream symbols and healing, nightmare therapy, etc., see sessions 639–41 in Chapter Ten.)

[...] When I asked her if she wanted to have a session she said she would try, and let Seth make the decision as to whether she continued. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

Good night, Seth.

[...] After a discussion of that, Valerie described a dream in which a face appeared, then Seth came through.)

(Following a discussion of the above Seth came through again.)

[...] Someone mentions that Seth would not sing)

[...] (Seth sang) I could not do it and they would titter and laugh behind my back. [...]

(Jane and I have talked to our landlord, Jimmy Spaziani, concerning the data given by Seth in the 100th session, concerning the missing cover to the thermostat in our apartment house. Seth stated that Jimmy inadvertently disposed of the cover “either someplace on his own property or in a public dumping area, whichever area is by a hill, and it is still there.” Jimmy states that with Seth’s reminder, he does recall cleaning out some rubbish from the house last spring; the description, according to Jimmy, matches that of Elmira’s city dump, which Jane and I have not visited. [...]

[...] I have not asked Seth about it simply because of the time problem. [...] Many times when we would like something at least mentioned by Seth, we mention it before a session in the hope it will be dealt with. [...]

[...] We made plans to hold the session as usual, provided Seth himself did not eliminate it or Jane had a change of heart. [...]

(Concerning Seth’s statements that Jane will soon make a writing sale, she has nothing to report yet. [...]

[...] Seth hadn’t put it that way before. [...] She agreed, having remembered what Seth had said while she was in trance. I interpreted the information as Seth’s way of telling us that those lagging portions of Jane’s psyche were now embarked on their journey to catching up with those other portions that were way ahead—meaning that the psychic abilities were the leaders in Jane’ case. [...]

[...] The massage is supposed to help her eyes, according to Seth. [...]

(“Afternoon, Seth.”)

[...] She gave no sign that she realized Seth was present. [...]

[...] See Note 1 for an excerpt from the few short paragraphs of personal material Seth gave us before saying good night at 9:35 P.M. Then see Note 2 for what is surely a pretty wild idea of mine.)

1. “The entire idea of the magical approach,” Seth told us, “is of itself sustaining.

This material very nicely supplements information I’d quoted from the second session Seth gave in his series on the magical approach to reality. [...]

2. I couldn’t help feeling sad and frustrated as I took down Seth’s words on dreaming, and Jane reacted in the same way when I read them to her after the session. [...]

[...] Seth had confirmed her reincarnational insight into my dream of July 17, but hadn’t given much data. [...] Note that originally Seth didn’t mention the reincarnational connections in his interpretation of the dream. [...]

(This afternoon while I was out doing errands, Jane had a rather strong if not lengthy experience that seemed to encompass an emotional understanding of Seth’s material in the last session [for Monday]. [...]

[...] I’d planned to write down some questions for tonight, based on Monday’s session, but had so many actually that I decided to let that project go, trusting that Seth will cover them in his own way.

(One of the questions concerned Seth’s material on page 218 of the last session, when he referred to the feeling that Jane and I have, that we had “an even more unfair advantage” without children—this, as he’d stated earlier, on top of our already being set apart from others because of our creative gifts. [...]