“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Like the entire American hostage affair (in Iran), any physical event serves as a focus that attracts all of its probable versions and outcomes. [...]

[...] A few “natural” milkshakes with ice cream, or sodas, such as you purchase in any American drugstore (with much amusement), can be quite beneficial at times, even though they would be considered quite antinatural by the natural-food organizations. [...]

2. Today is day 95 of the taking of the American hostages in Iran (on November 4, 1979). [...]

(One of the letters, from a doctor in Canada, referred us to an article in Scientific American in which a discussion of the many-worlds view of quantum mechanics clearly vindicated a number of Seth’s ideas. [...]

(In my original and unpublished notes in Session 520 in Seth Speaks I listed three chances for the fruition of Seth’s prediction: The mention in Cosmopolitan of Jane’s ESP book for April 1970; Tam’s news about New American Library being very interested in the Seth material book; or Jane’s contract for the dream book being in the mail from Prentice-Hall.)

[...] Our young man hates the Americans. [...]

(“Well,” I said to Jane after class, as we discussed the Chinese-American situation cited by Seth, “I don’t know about counterpart relationships in other kinds of realities, but it’s certainly obvious that at least some physical counterparts can hate each other …” So the larger self, I thought, would be quite capable of seeking experience through its parts in every way imaginable. [...]

[...] This was just another version of the American male’s conventional role.

[...] Last February some 70 Americans were taken hostage when a mob of Marxist-led Iranian fedayeen [or sacrificers] overran the United States embassy in Iran’s capital, Tehran. The captives were quickly freed by secular negotiators loyal to the Iranian clergy, but certainly that kind of virulent anti-Americanism can happen again. [...]

In Mass Events, along with TMI Seth had discussed the tragedy of Jonestown—where in November 1978 over 900 Americans had died [by murder or suicide] for a religious cause in faraway Guyana, South America. [...]

[...] On that same day—day 367 of the hostage crisis—Iran demanded a quick reply from the United States to its latest set of conditions for the release of the 52 American hostages. [...]

(In this noon’s mail Jane received from her editor, Tam Mossman, an early printer’s proof of the book jacket for The Afterdeath Journal of an American Philosopher: The World View of William James. [...]

(By this, Bill meant American Indian artifacts, and had in mind stone tools, etc. [...]

(Today Jane had been reading Experimental Psychology, by C.G. Jung, first American edition, published by Jung’s heirs in 1968, etc.)

Rather ironically, not all Moslems want the Americans to leave the Middle East, as the terrorists have announced they must do. [...] country, is pragmatic enough to join it in a very efficient exchange of large sums of money; these transactions, in part to settle business claims against Iran, are a portion of the arrangements made last January to free the American hostages.

Yet American specialists on Iran do not believe that even those two severe decimations of its leadership will result in the collapse of the Iranian government. [...]

The American Society for Psychic Research will give you greater benefits I believe than the people at Duke, in this particular instance. [...]

[...] Why did you say it’s better to send this material to the American Society for Psychical Research, rather than to Duke?”)

[...] And forgive a bit of gentle—gentle—sarcasm, but to your puritan American soul, art for its own sake, or contemplation, still somehow goes against the grain. [...]

[...] A combo, South American. [...]

[...] Those who work the American working hours, for example, could sleep between four to six hours an evening, according to individual variations, and nap after supper. [...]

Within their native framework, some American Indians use peyote in their own way — but not as gluttons, stunning and annihilating their systems. [...]

[...] Here Seth referred to the American Medical Association.)

There are unknown gulfs that separate the private experience of a poor Indian, a rich Indian, a native in New Guinea, an American tailor, an African nationalist, a Chinese aristocrat, an Irish housewife. [...]

10. This note is as much for my own edification as it is for anyone else’s. The definitions are from Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language, Second College Edition, © 1970 by The World Publishing Company, New York and Cleveland: