“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(A long pause, well over one minute; eyes closed.) His poetry copies were in a room predominantly blue, light blue, and pink. (Pause.) The file cabinets were beneath another piece of furniture, or a top board of some kind. (Pause.) There was some question as to what would happen to letters from Ruburt, and others. [...] (Long pause.)

[...] (Long pause.) The remark made by Blanche had to do with death—something to the effect, quote: when I’m dead you’ll be sorry. (Pause.) The word freedom was said or implied; death giving one or the other, then, freedom from a situation.

There was a Saturday afternoon on a November or December 2nd, (pause) that Blanche Price deeply regrets. [...]

[...] There will be a chapter on the religions of the world, on the distortions and truths within them; the three Christs; and some data concerning a lost religion (pause; one of many), belonging to a people of which you have no information. [...] Their memories (long pause), became the basis for the birth of religion as you now think of it. (Long pause at 10:15.)

I am working on some other material just now that you will be given (pause), and so you must bear with me for a few moments. (Pause.)

(Jane began speaking for Seth in an average voice, with pauses, with her eyes open and very dark much of the time; many and varied gestures, etc.)

[...] Her family name (pause) … I hear it, you see, but I do not see it (pause)… You will have to work phonetically: V I S W A (repeated), from some place near Bordeaux in France.

(Pause. Jane paused often while giving this material.) We will try here… Joseph… The name of the town was either S A C O (spelled), or this formed the main body of the name, you see.

[...] (Pause, eyes closed.) These are simply impressions. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) John was the man with whom the daughter left. (Pause.) Now. (Pause.) John’s wife loves him, and has been made subconsciously to see the good points in his personality. [...]

[...] She began speaking in trance in a quiet voice, using many pauses, her eyes opening often as usual.)

[...] (Pause.) Now, we have strong electrical brain discharges, in disorganized patterns.

(Pause.) Now, you see that I am a friendly chap (smile), indeed an old dog with a long leash. [...] (Pause.)

[...] (Long pause.) The name in the order seems to have been Aerofranz Marie (my phonetic interpretation). [...] (Pause.)

[...] (Long pause at 9:36.) Death (pause), as you engaged in a skirmish. [...]

(Pause, eyes closed. There followed a three-minute pause as Jane sat quietly in the rocker with one hand raised to her eyes.)

[...] (Long pause.) Beside him a table and a golden goblet. [...] (Pause; pace slow.)

[...] As it developed Seth spoke the entire evening, in a voice about as usual, with pauses, eyes open often.)

(Pause.) Now, a moment. (Pause.)

[...] Initiated in part (pause) by your parents’ situation, and in pure annoyance at the dilemma we have been discussing. (Pause, eyes closed.) Give us time.

(Jane began speaking for Seth in her usual manner; voice on the quiet side, a few pauses, eyes open often, etc.)

[...] (Pause.) Consciousness handles more and more activity. (Pause.) Feeling then is allowed to directly (long pause; hesitant) activate. (Pause.) We are not getting this concept through as clearly. (Pause.) Thought instantly becomes as real as your physical universe is to you.

A psychological existence presupposes experience, experience in terms of value fulfillment (pause) and the emotional manipulation and direct knowledge of subjective states. [...] (Pause; emphatic delivery.)

(As usual tonight her eyes opened often; with pauses.)

[...] (Long pause.) The other system is the inside of the inside. [...] (Long pause.)

[...] (Pause.) This simply cannot be explained in words. (Pause.) They form energy sources. [...]

[...] (Pause.) Though I do not mean this week or this month. (Long pause.) Ruburt is coming out of his dark ages. [...]

[...] (Pause, voice much quieter.) This will apply to our friend Philip. [...] (Long pause.)

[...] Pauses as usual.)

[...] (Pause.) Ruburt has only now begun to take those necessary steps that lead to total commitment. [...]

[...] (Pause. Note: not all pauses are noted.) The inner will to live must be revived. [...]

[...] Jane began speaking for Seth, in trance, in a quiet voice broken by many long pauses, and with her eyes closed. [...]

[...] (Pause.)

[...] (Pause. [...] (Pause.) You can step out, so to speak, you can allow yourself to rely upon the integrity of spontaneity as it applies to your painting and to your talent.

[...] (Pause.)

(Jane now began to pause more often. [...]

[...] Ruburt’s overall condition has to some extent impeded us, (pause) and because of a distrust of his own abilities he will sometimes doubt my legitimacy. [...] (Pause.)

Now give us a moment. (Pause, hand to eyes.)

[...] You did indeed see your father (as my pendulum told me) not as a man who failed in several important areas, but as a failure in all areas: as a husband, breadwinner, father. (Pause.) You identified with him however out of fear of your mother’s emotionalism. [...]

[...] Van (pause) Elder. (Pause.) Dane or Norwegian, domestic scenes, 1700’s. (Pause.) Straggly grass scenes and small mounds of ground, brownish foregrounds. [...]

[...] Built up then cleverly with (pause) transparent ochre which he had, and a particular green, muted. [...] (Long pause.

[...] (Pause, head down, hair disheveled.) Now as the clouds’ construction constantly changes—tonight you watched them (and sketched them after supper) so the forms of objects constantly change. (Pause, head down, hair disheveled. [...]

[...] (Pause at 9:07, before the 75th Dr. Instream material.) These are impressions.

[...] (Pause.) The object is rectangular, and for stone fairly uniform. [...]

[...] (Pause.)

[...] (Long pause, eyes closed.) She and Ruburt chose a relationship that would terminate, so the two would go their separate ways. (Long pause.) His mother actually found in the nursing homes a certain kind of comradeship. [...]

(Long pause, one of many, at 9:36.) Ruburt’s background formed its own relative uniqueness—the household was charged. [...]

(Long pause at 9:41, eyes closed leaning back on the couch, the ‘coons chattering away in the fireplace.)

(Long pause.) To some extent it means that you try to live your lives in accord with a philosophy not yet completed, methods not yet completely achieved or stated, and this of course involves you with uncertainty. [...] (Long pause.) He suggests that others follow their own intuitional material, while at the same time holding on to the established frameworks upon which most people depend. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) There is no doubt that for many reasons given he feared the dependability of your love (long pause, eyes closed), if his actions did not please you. [...]

(Long pause.) Now, regardless of many objections to the contrary, Ruburt’s condition still has served your own ends as well as his—and into the present. [...] (Long pause.)In a fashion they produced their own kind of certainty. [...]

[...] (Pause.) The other books you see already exist, and wait only to be given physical form. (Pause.) Your own masterpieces exist, and only wait for you to find them and give them physical form.

[...] (Pause at 9:26.)

[...] (Pause.) The nervous system reacts to the information even as it translates it. [...]

(Very long pause at 9:37.) Give us a moment.... [...] The creative abilities join the creator and created (long pause) in a behavior in which for example, now, the painting that is to be affects the creator of it before its inception and before its form, so that the two are connected in a kind of behavior in which at deeper levels the ideas of cause and effect can have no meaning. [...]

[...] In a fashion (long pause), the entire structure of reality (long pause) results from “divine characteristics,” and levels of relatedness. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) I told you that at certain levels contradictions would certainly seem to appear, but the us-ness of the self represents an important psychic characteristic. [...]

[...] Fear we understand, however, as a barrier thrown up in panic; and it is of tremendous force (pause), it’s intensity having nothing to do... (pause), we are not sure of the word... [...]

In (pause) certain (pause) activities you join your forces together. [...]

[...] Jane began with eyes closed, many pauses.)