“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

July 6, 2000. It’s with much feeling indeed that I try to write briefly about the 16 private or “deleted” Seth sessions, ranging from numbers 367 to 387, that aren’t included in this Volume 8 of The Early Sessions. This is the first group of full-length sessions to be omitted in all of the volumes of The Early Sessions so far. Jane held only five “regular” or public sessions while delivering this large group, and those five are presented in Volume 8.

Not that those personal sessions in Volume 7 represent the beginnings of Seth’s efforts—always with Jane’s and my permission, indeed encouragement—to offer his understandings of our challenges. Such material began to come through the Ouija board as mostly reincarnational data way back in the second session, for December 4, 1963. See Volume I of The Early Sessions. (Only then a personality fragment of Seth’s, named Frank Watts, was speaking to us. Seth himself didn’t announce his presence to us most definitely until December 8, in the fourth session. I deleted some of his early information for us from Volume I.)

For the most part over the six years and 510 sessions covered in The Early Sessions, from December 2, 1963 to January19, 1970, Jane spoke for Seth in her own creative yet also objective manner. A way that, although still very emotional at times, allowed us the freedom to encompass this most unusual and continuing adventure in as easy and conventional a manner as possible. Unusual? Yes. Surely her intuitively-chosen manner helped us acclimate to the highly original and creative fact that Jane was learning to speak in a dissociated (or trance) state for Seth, a disembodied worthy who called himself an “energy personality essence.” (I’ll bet that he still does, 16 of our time-bound years after Jane’s death!) Jane’s method was her very individualistic way of developing her great, yet consciously unsuspected powers.

In 10 of the sessions between the numbers 314 and 325 in Volume 7 we see how, with Jane’s need and consent, Seth was reaching into deeper, more penetrating material involving her conscious and unconscious lives. And mine, too! (I’m correcting the page proofs for Volume 7 now.) We had never called those sessions in Volume 7 deleted, though, and I’m happy now to trust that they may help readers gain insight into some of their own challenges. We deeply appreciated Seth’s insights and suggestions about Jane’s and my visible and invisible psyches, the challenges we had chosen to create for ourselves in our present lifetimes. With the publication of Volumes 7 and 8 I’d like to hear from readers about benefits they may have derived from experimenting with Seth’s ideas. The two volumes are to be published at the same time in 2001 by Rick Stack, the proprietor of New Awareness Network, Inc. Rick has of course published the first six volumes of The Early Sessions.

(10:25.) Some of the experiences known by early man would seem quite foreign to you now. [...] Early man, again, perceived himself as himself, an individual. [...]

Now: In your terms, speaking more or less historically, early man was in a more conscious relationship with Framework 2 than you are now.

As Ruburt mentioned in Psychic Politics, there are many gradations of consciousness, and as I mentioned in The Nature of the Psyche, early man used his consciousness in other ways than those you are familiar with. [...]

[...] It is far more complicated — and yet early man, for example, became aware of the fact that no man was injured without that event first being imagined to one extent or another. [...]

EARLY INSTANCES OF DEATH OR DISEASE
IN RELATIONSHIP TO FURTHER
REINCARNATIONAL INFLUENCES

Before we discuss other varieties of health and illness as they more ordinarily appear, I want to bring up the subject of more or less extraordinary conditions — dilemmas of body or mind in early life that often seem to have no cause or meaning.

Next chapter: “Early Instances of Death or Disease in Relationship to Further Reincarnational Influences.”

[...] An understanding of these issues can greatly help throw light on the question of early deaths and diseases, and spontaneous abortions.

Today at 9.40 AM a telegram from Anne Healy informed me that Blanche Price died early today. [...] I’ve forgotten some of it, and am not sure of some of the early sequence.

[...] The basis of early society was cooperation, not competition. [...]

[...] So it is fashionable to believe that early man did not understand the connection between intercourse and birth.

[...] Early man was hardly more ignorant. [...]

Now: Historically speaking, early man in his way understood those connections far better than you do, and used language as he developed it to express first of all this miracle of birth. [...]

I’m tremendously pleased that Rick Stack, the proprietor of New Awareness Network Inc., is publishing the eight-to-ten-volume set of The Early Sessions. [...]

[...] Rick’s publication of The Early Sessions, then, is a very important advance in the marvelous journey of discovery that, I think, each one of us is inevitably involved in, that each one of us has chosen to create, in whatever way and for whatever purposes.

The Early Sessions are also very important for the sheer preservation and distribution of the Seth material. [...]

A note about the photographs of Jane on the cover of The Early Sessions:

Unless otherwise indicated in the early sessions, the pointer gave yes and no answers by moving to the appropriate word printed on the board, rather than by spelling out the answer letter by letter. [...]

[...] Early in November/63 we had several sessions in which we received only gibberish, and rather lost interest. [...]

As for the question of distortions in the material, and the obvious contradictions in the early sessions as far as dates, etc., are concerned: The reasons for these are dealt with by Seth as the material unfolds. [...]

[...] Children possess this natural ease at a very early age. [...]

As a result, many people feel out of sorts with themselves, or cut off from some dimly remembered paradise of early childhood. [...]

(I was thinking that Seth was on his way to saying that part of Jane’s own trouble was her conscious struggle to go her own way with her unusual abilities, in spite of her early conditioning—religious and otherwise. [...]

[...] But the real conflict could be that her early religious conditioning especially forbade her working with her natural abilities to their own specified degrees. [...]

An early acceptance would have tempted you to rely upon the facility before the inner spontaneity even began to grow to maturity. Your early comic book work should have told you that. [...]

(I was very facile—so much so that a large part of my early work consisted of finishing off the work of others so that it would reproduce well. [...] I also made a lot of money at an early age, in those days before high taxes. [...]

[...] Some of Ruburt’s early poetry about the two of you was a reflection of that knowledge.

[...] We decided to turn Jane on her side early, so I could feed her before leaving for the dentist’s at 5:45. [...] It did come early, though, just as though we’d asked for it, so Jane had eaten most of her supper before I left.)

(Through the early afternoon of a very hot day — over 90 degrees — a storm had been trying to manifest. [...]

The sensitivity to sneakers was activated because of these connections with the mother, the children’s work hung upon the wall—this is another connection with his own past, you see, with early grades, and so is the colored girl, Dagmar, as Edward Briscoe was the only colored boy in his early grades.

It just happens, you see, that when Ruburt’s mother was coming down with arthritis, Ruburt was in the early grades—a kindergarten room with blocks and small stools and cloak room. [...]

Many early morning symptoms of a few months ago were direct mimicry of the mother in this identification, but these particular ones have vanished.

At the same time the early beliefs were there, and were mentioned to some extent along with other issues. [...]

[...] The fears of time, the early fears that made him want to escape poverty, the feeling that all eggs must be put in one basket, and his reaction to you and your circumstances—these were all connected. [...]

I want it understood that money was not the primary goal, that his early drive to escape his environment was based on the false idea that worth was dependent upon your status. [...]

[...] If parents believe that the body is somehow an inferior vehicle for the spirit, or if they simply view the body as unreliable or weak and vulnerable, then children will at an early age begin to consider good health as a rarity, and learn to take depression, poor spirits, and bodily aches and pains to be a natural, normal condition of life.

[...] Each child should be educated as early as possible by their parents, so that the youngsters are repeatedly reminded of the body’s natural resources and healing abilities.

(Just before the session tonight I wondered aloud what the present Chapter Thirteen would have been like if Jane hadn’t begun to read, early this month, the anthology containing the long section by Carl Jung, the Swiss psychoanalyst. [...]

[...] In the early days of infancy, there is not a steady focus of the personality in the body in any case.

[...] A crisis, particularly in very early or very late life, may so shatter the personality’s identification with the body that he vacates it temporarily. [...]

The hold of the personality over the body is tenuous in the early years, and grows stronger. [...]

[...] Even at an early age, children joyfully explore all of the possibilities of all sensations possible within their framework — pain as well as joy, frustration as well as satisfaction, and all the while their awareness is propelled by curiosity, wonder, and joy.

[...] Before they can even see, children are already aware of what their parents expect from them in terms of health and disease, so that early patterns of behavior are formed, to which they then react in adulthood.

Parents who are aware of these facts can start helping their children at an early age by asking them simply the reasons for their illness. [...]

[...] Early man did act in a more spontaneous manner, more automatically, in your terms, but not mindlessly. If you remember the early portions of our latest book (Mass Events), then this information should fall into place, for consciousness emerged from the inside outward. [...]

Early man, for example, spontaneously played at acting out the part of other animals. [...]

[...] Early artists drew pictures to share the images they saw in their dreams. [...]

[...] It’s an excellent point, I said, that in her ability to tap into a seemingly endless amount of Seth material, she strikes a parallel with early man and his capacity to carry all personal, cultural, and historical information within himself. As early man functioned on his own, without writing or any of the other modern conveniences of communication that we have, so does Jane function through Seth. [...]

[...] Next we talked about early man in Palestine, before 3000 B.C.

[...] Early man was in that same position, and his inventions—his tools, his artistry, and so forth—came into being from the inner, ever-present realm of the mind, triggered by his unconscious but quite real estimation of his position within the universe at large, and in regard to his own environment.

1. See Chapter 6 of Adventures in Consciousness for Jane’s description of how she became aware of “Helper” early in November 1971—a little over nine years ago. [...]

This early man (and early woman) regarded the snake as the most sacred and basic, most secretive and most knowledgeable of all creatures. In that early experience it seemed, surely, that the snake was a living portion of the earth, rising from the bowels of the earth, rising from the hidden source of all earth gods. [...]

[...] These all give signs in modern times of some very important evidence in man’s early relationship with the world and with himself.

[...] In view of all of those early enjoyable events she’d had, I suggested she try focusing on them in times of stress, instead of the negative ones we usually talk about. [...]

[...] I’d left the house so early and quickly I hadn’t had time to plan for anything to wear more formally. [...]

[...] I told the Bumbalos I’d call if anything came up early in the day. [...]

SLEEPWALKERS.
THE WORLD IN EARLY TRANCE.
THE AWAKENING OF THE SPECIES

[...] The World in Early Trance. [...]