“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Seth immediately began a short discussion of a dream Jane had last night. [...] Since this fits in with Seth’s chapter here, I’m including his comments:)

(While we were out for a drive in the country yesterday, Jane abruptly wondered aloud if Seth ever dreamed. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(“Thank you very much, Seth. [...]

[...] After she finished the reading, I began reading the old sessions to her—just the Seth material portions. [...] When I’d arrived she had over her the cloth sent her by Reudi Anner’s group from the Seth conference in Geneva, Switzerland. [...]

(“Good afternoon, Seth.”)

[...] She said she didn’t know if she was up to any free-association efforts — “though I do intend to try it, as Seth says.” [...]

(“Good afternoon, Seth.”)

(“Good afternoon, Seth.”

(In mentioning my “sportsman self,” Seth referred to information he’d given about three of my probable selves in a private session on January 30, 1974 — just a few days before starting “Unknown” Reality. [...] But even without Seth’s help, interesting results can flow from an awareness of the probable-self concept: The reader can begin to intuitively consider his or her own probable selves, or those of others who may be closely related psychically or physically. [...]

(Here’s Seth to me in that January session:) You, for example, could have excelled at certain sports, where Ruburt had no such inclinations. [...]

(Seth’s delivery was very friendly here. [...] It also gives me an opportunity to do some writing on my own in conjunction with Seth’s own data and this I enjoy greatly.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(Seth was quite emphatic here, and half humorous. [...]

(Seth-Jane looked at me, pausing, with a half-comical, half at-last expression that again made me laugh.)

[...] Seth. [...]

(See the 833rd session for the proper connections with some of Seth’s material here. [...]

[...] Small portions of three of them contain Seth material for herself.

On October 30 Sue Watkins called to tell us that she’s finished writing Volume 2 of Conversations With Seth. [...]

[...] She’d mentioned this morning that Seth might resume work on Dreams, and because of that feeling spent part of the day reviewing sessions for the book. [...]

[...] We’ve been quite discouraged at times lately, yet Seth has had a different story to tell. [...]

(I made a quick mental count of the planets we now know to be in our solar system: Mercury, Venus, Mars [not counting the asteroid belt], Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, for a total of 9; the same total mentioned above by Seth. Naturally Seth’s data gave rise to many questions, but tonight wouldn’t see them answered.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(Just before break ended Jane said: “I just got a whole chunk of thought from Seth.” [...]

[...] I was not sure of the word Jane or Seth used and didn’t press the point beyond one question, which wasn’t answered.)

(Jane asked that Seth comment on her fear about time, a question we’d uncovered recently with the pendulum. [...] Actually she wanted Seth to comment on her overall condition, what was happening, etc.)

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] A copy of Seth’s analysis of my John Wayne dream is attached to the dream in my notebook.

(Our exploration of “flamboyance” came about through Seth’s use of “extravagant” in this session, as I scanned the original notes this morning while coming up with some new questions. [...]

[...] We wrote out a series of 14 questions for Seth, and planned for a session tonight. [...] As expected, some of Jane’s beliefs at least partially answered some of the questions we had for Seth, but we still desire him to consider the questions.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] (The Seth III episode, etc.)

[...] Thank you, Seth, and good night.” [...]

(Before the session I described to Jane my dream of Wednesday, December 6;and the second vision I had, of another painting, on the evening of Thursday November 30; the first painting vision being the one of Bill Gallagher on November 28,1967, and discussed by Seth in the 382rd session.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] As I wrote, I looked about the room in hopes I might see something unusual— Seth etc., but noticed nothing.

[...] Now you (Jane pointed to me as Seth), for a very brief time, close your eyes and see if you experience anything. [...]

(Actually, the session might better be called a Jane/Seth session, in that Jane’s own consciousness was often uppermost, riding upon Seth’s underlying and steadying influence. [...] As we sat at the kitchen table discussing her work, Jane felt that she could go into a trance state that was her own for a change, instead of being in “just” a Seth trance. [...]

(Certainly we hope that as he continues with Mass Events Seth will comment extensively on Three Mile Island, just as he’s in the process of doing about Jonestown. [...]

(“I remember he — Seth — even helped me out with stuff on the Christ drama in there,” Jane said. [...]

1. Sue has to do a considerable amount of research for Conversations With Seth, incidentally, especially locating, then interviewing — in person, by telephone or by mail, as the case may be — numerous class members. [...]

[...] I told her I’ve tried Seth’s suggestions about enhancing my close-up vision, given in a recent session, and that they’ve worked very well. [...]

(“Good afternoon, Seth.”)

[...] “I don’t know why,” she said, “but as you read that I got the feeling that my father is looking out for me …” I said that was certainly implied in the session, and that I’d wondered about it as Seth spoke. [...]

[...] Frank had been involved in one of those, too, in the dream state, and Seth had explained how I’d picked up his concerns about age and sexuality and worth, and so forth. [...]

(I added that I hoped Seth would eventually discuss such questions in his book.

(“Good afternoon, Seth.”)

(After supper I read to Jane the passages from the session of the day before that Seth had referred to. [...]

(I also think it quite evident that Seth began to go into those attributes we’re born with in light of my comments about current psychological dogma that the infant is born without any impetuses …

[...] I was most interested tonight as Seth discussed the implications of the letter, along with two thoughts Jane had picked up from him a week ago Monday, on the day she held the 915th session: “Alone, reason finally becomes unreasonable. [...] I wrote in the closing note for the session that I was disappointed because Seth hadn’t brought up those two points in the session itself.)

[...] Jane had also been doing very well on God of Jane, and chose not to be distracted by working on anything else—even Seth material. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] I’ve often had the feeling that Seth’s material parallels Jane’s own situation, whatever that may be at that moment. [...] Large portions of it could be Seth’s material for her alone.)

(“Good afternoon, Seth.”)

(4:41 p.m. Jane said, “I have the feeling that whenever Seth gives exercises like that, that he’s giving them just when I need them, and the reader too. [...]

(Jane said she’d like a session as soon as we’d finished a late supper—by 7:20 PM—and expressed the hope that Seth would deal with her immediate situation—sort of an emergency treatment. [...]

[...] I was upset because I felt it was all true, and because I’d felt like interrupting constantly as Seth was giving his material. [...]

(I nodded good evening to Seth. [...]

(I should take a moment here to note that Seth has said this before, and that Jane has referred to it also. [...]

[...] I speculated about my painting of the Italian woman, as I call her, and about a passage I read recently in Seth Speaks; in it, Seth had mentioned that he’d been a black in Ethiopia. [...]

[...] There followed a rather complicated discussion between us about the idea of questions for Seth—why I seemed to have them, but Jane seldom did. Much of Seth’s material to follow these notes deals with the topics of our discussion. [...]

(Neither of us had any questions for Seth.)

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(12:15 A.M. Seth ended the session as abruptly as he’d started it. [...] She said the session stopped because I asked Seth to repeat the word “vital” — just above — which I hadn’t understood the first time.

[...] [In the note she’s making for her Introduction to Seth’s The Nature of the Psyche, Jane describes a world view as “…a living psychological picture of an individual life, with its knowledge and experience, which remains responsive and viable long after the physical life itself is over.”]

[...] Now she prefers to formally sign for a book only after she — and/or Seth — has finished most of the work on that project.

(Seth abruptly came through without greetings:)

2. I underlined the word story (like this) in Seth’s material just to remind the reader that the Christ figure symbolizes our idea of God and his relationships. According to Seth, the man we call Jesus Christ was actually composed of three individuals who were the physical manifestations of the same nonphysical entity: John the Baptist, St. Paul, and a man historically known as Christ. [...] Seth discussed the Christ story in various passages in The Seth Material and Seth Speaks, and has at least touched upon it in all of his succeeding books.

(In Note 1 for the 817th session, which was held on January 30, I wrote that Sue Watkins had recently delivered the last of the typed manuscript for Seth’s The Nature of the Psyche. [...]

(11:47 P.M. Jane’s delivery for Seth had become even slower toward the end of the session.)

3. Seth referred to the latest scientific ideas concerning “selfish genes” — a subject Jane and I had been talking about today. [...]