“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(As noted at the end of the last session, I had two questions for Seth:

[...] I note the event here because Seth comments on it this evening.

[...] As Seth remarked, nothing is tightening up.)

[...] Seth commented on my Stella Butts experience just as I was about to ask him to do so. [...]

[...] I suppose they could be summarized in the one I wanted Seth to consider above the others. [...] Since she hasn’t been walking much since we embarked on Seth’s new program on June 3, I wondered if her attempts to let go had resulted in some fear on her part. [...]

[...] Jane did pick up some bits of information from Seth on Monday night, however, and her version of them is attached.

[...] I saw her remarks as correlating with my primary question for this evening, since Seth has told us that her feelings of distress at such times result from her mental attitudes as much, or more than, physical circumstances.

(In any event, through our conversation before the session, we felt sure that Seth knew what we’d like him to discuss tonight.)

^* Both Jane and I belong to the family of consciousness that Seth calls Sumari. [...]

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

[...] As of now we have so far mailed the letter to Eleanor re Rich Bed; phoned the ad about a house in to the Elmira paper; obtained the paint for Jane’s workroom; put up new curtains in her room; begun inquiries about the duplication of the letter for readers who write to Jane; packaged the first six chapters of Seth’s book to mail to Tam at Prentice-Hall tomorrow; begun to check the galleys for Oversoul Seven—all of these being items on the list we made out a couple of days ago. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] I agreed that it was but my interpretation of that significance wasn’t as positive as Seth’s, I’m afraid. [...]

[...] We believe we are committed to delivering Seth’s new book, but after that....

(During a class experiment to find the reality of our own probable selves, Seth came through.)

[...] Seth returned:)

(Following a discussion of everyone’s experience Jane explained a new tenant had moved in and as it was late she would relate what Seth would say.)

[...] She had not felt Seth about. [...]

[...] We were standing beside our Christmas tree when Jane took off her glasses and began to speak for Seth, in a voice somewhat stronger than usual. [...]

[...] “Come on, Seth, for Christ’s sake,” she said, with unintentional humor. [...] Her eyes were very dark now when she stared at me as Seth.)

(Louder, when I asked Seth to repeat a phrase:) I believe that man runs the mile much quicker now (by about 12 seconds) than he did, say, thirty years ago. [...]

[...] Now Seth came through with a couple of paragraphs of material for Jane, here deleted. [...]

[...] After a few comments about Jane’s and my belief systems, Seth said good night at 10:40 P.M.

After supper Jane said that Seth might talk about reincarnation, schizophrenia, and possession, tying those subjects together. [...]

1. Seth’s material on schizophrenia is an extension of his discussion on Monday evening, which is why this session is given here.

(Whispering: “Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] (Pause, as Seth stared at me with some amusement.) A fond good evening.

(At the end of last Saturday’s session, I thought of two questions for Seth. [...]

[...] Seth had said that William James did, in connection with Jane’s book about him, and his interest in gifted mediums. [...]

[...] She wondered if Seth might comment on this question, as well as the show itself. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(For the record: This last material may have come through because I got angry yesterday when I discovered that Prentice-Hall had run a two-page ad in the NY Times Book Section, for Sunday, December 2, without mentioning any of the Seth books. Tam has recently told Jane that the Seth books outsell all P/H’s books except the Ozzie Nelson. So the Nelson book was pictured in the ad, along with a lot of others, but nary a Seth book.)

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] Thank you, Seth.”)

(“All right, Seth. [...]

[...] She said she had felt Seth trying to get some “new concepts” across—trying very hard to make it clear to us. [...] Jane also had images, but Seth never vocalized what they meant. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

The word shambalina (spelled by Seth at my request) connotes the changing faces that the inner self adopts through its various experiences. [...]

[...] She said Seth had considered that an artist could do, say, five paintings; each with different symbols but all with the same basic meaning. [...]

(Until she told me following the session, I didn’t realize that Jane was slightly discomfited by Seth’s remark about holes. I certainly wasn’t. I thought that her reaction itself was humorous; apparently Seth did too. [...]

(Before tonight’s session, she and I discussed the importance of Seth’s material on human sexuality and hoped he would expand it.)

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(After giving some material for Jane, Seth ended the session at 12:09 A.M.)

(Earlier today Jane and I had been discussing how best to go about writing her projected book on the Seth material. [...] We decided we would like Seth’s help with this problem, and so expected to hear him speak this evening.

(“Good evening, Seth.”

[...] She resumed in the usual Seth manner at 10:30.)

(“Good night, Seth, and thank you.”

(Last Saturday Jane received several brief flashes from Seth; we have been concerned lately with the best way to handle the problem of witnesses—that is, to familiarize potential witnesses with the material, and at the same time keep our sense of privacy, and also maintain control of the sessions. Jane rather angrily cut Seth off, feeling this is a problem we must handle ourselves.

(I made a list of these, added a quick sketch of the horses, and Jane’s Saratoga experience and ecstasy experience, pages 65 and 66; all with the idea of quizzing Seth about them at tonight’s session. [...]

(Last Saturday we bought an extra tape to have on hand for Seth’s promised party session.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] The letter of February 16 to F. Fell was referred to by Seth in the 135th session.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(This appreciation of concepts is, according to Seth, the using of some of the inner senses, and he has mentioned this many times. [...]

(Groping for words, Jane explained that she feels as though she is “wresting” material [not implying a struggle however] from Seth or some other source with a deep part of her consciousness that is below her ego consciousness. [...]

[...] I mentioned what Seth had said about her father in the last session, and asked her if she thought material on her mother might help. [...] But I didn’t want such material to interrupt whatever Seth might be planning for tonight.)

(I should note that Jane seems to misunderstand my attitude here: the aim is not to use halting work on Seth’s latest book as a curative device, but to at least keep things from getting any worse. [...]

[...] Therefore, how could publication of the next Seth book help?)

(I grinned at Seth. [...]

(As to why Jane hasn’t dreamed of Seth himself, although she has dreamed of the sessions, etc. Seth states he doesn’t dream of Jane, either.)

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(As Seth states in closing, the impressions tonight are legitimate, but too far removed for our purposes. [...]

[...] This because we had been discussing Seth’s apparent success in regulating the height of a candle flame on various occasions. [...]

(We’ve also talked over Seth’s answer in the last session about why the subconscious doesn’t back off when it’s obvious that it’s gone too far in a protective role, say. [...] Since in numerous cases throughout the species’ history, I added, this hadn’t happened, I thought there could be important insights there that we might learn from Seth. [...]

(The two dreams Seth referred to took place on April 24, 1978. [...] A copy of Seth’s interpretations from this session is attached.)

(“Thank you, Seth.”

[...] As we talked, Jane said that Seth wanted to return for a moment. [...]

[...] It had been Leonard’s illness that had triggered a set of symptoms of my own, which Seth has been treating in these recent deleted sessions. [...] Seth also comments.

(“Thank you, Seth.”)

[...] Naturally, Seth’s material about a physical regeneration makes me think about other parts of the body regenerating itself—and Jane’s too. [...]

(I said I was most curious that Seth comment, since what the movie showed was so at odds with his material on early man in Dreams. [...]

[...] She’d already told me she thought Seth would comment on the movie.)

(“Good afternoon, Seth.”)

[...] I was particularly glad to get Seth’s encouraging words about her own condition, for she’s still impatient for more improvements to take place.