“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

AUGUST 16, 1977 ROB’S NOTES

[...] That evening Rob and I checked the material with both Peg and Bill and I took notes of their answers. [...]

ROB’S DREAM

[...] The phone rings and at first I can’t tell if the ring is really here or from the radio, and when I answer the phone the voice is distant; it asks for Rob. [...] Rob turned off the radio so he could hear on the phone…. [...]

The comical series of events involving Floyd, one of his sons, and another helper had started this noon: “Hell, Rob, it’s a coon!” a surprised Floyd called down to me from the roof of the house, after the beam from his flashlight had illuminated the black mask across the animal’s face and made its eyes shine as it crouched at the base of the fireplace chimney. [...]

[...] When Seth introduced this idea, this is one of the first questions Rob and I thought of. Seth’s attitude toward cause and effect will become clear enough in his later explanations of the true nature of “time,” but when Rob first asked the question, Seth answered:

From what Rob said later, Doris sat there red-faced and somewhat embarrassed. [...] Seth went on citing examples from Doris’ early life of which Rob and I knew nothing. [...]

During our break, Rob mentioned several questions that he thought Jon would like answered, or that might come to his mind as he read the session. [...]

“You can ask questions,” Rob said.

[...] My vision would change minute by minute; I walked some faster but felt so light on my feet that I called Rob... [...]

[...] When you say nothing he uses this as an excuse, thinking, “Rob has said nothing, therefore he must agree with what I am doing.”

[...] When we began, neither Rob nor I really suspected that there was a separate dream dimension in which dreams happened. [...]

This section of the book will include excerpts from Seth’s manuscripts on the general nature of dream reality, dream investigation and recall and will be followed by a series of chapters on various kinds of dreams captured by Rob, my students and me as we checked out Seth’s theories, as far as we were able. [...]

[...] Rob was used to this, but Bill and Peg attended sessions only infrequently, and to Bill it was a constant source of amazement. [...]

[...] “A fantastic theory,” I said to Rob.

“When Seth listed the families of consciousness last January,³ but didn’t include the Grunaargh, Rob asked him about it in the 738th session. In Jane’s final class, Rob read Seth’s explanation having to do with family ‘mergings.’ Right away, right there in class, I knew what was behind the feeling I’d had about this family: Members of the Grunaargh, and I personally, were involved in the invention of movable type. [...]

[...] “Rob and Seth started us on a new program and though we’ve hardly begun, I do feel some relieved more peaceful,” she typed in part on the morning of the 5th as she sat at her new low table, “yesterday i felt the place clicking about me. [...] I don’t feel any flow in these notes but I do feel a submerged flow rising and i do feel… centered, more content… as I get this far I feel a definite block of expression and some mild enough panic but recognize the fact that a feeling of repression came as I decided to do my notes… writing down at once and will tell rob.”

[...] The smell of the heat coming out of the air ducts is faintly comfortable as it blends with the still lingering odor of Rob’s varnish. [...] Rob it seems to me is utterly silent in his studio. [...]

[...] I’d planned a consecutive story line book including some of robs dreams with interpretations yet feel strain there now, showing how this detail or that one fits the picture, this noon it came to me that the approach seemed to rational at this time; i wanted one that was lighter in tone, quicker yet more expansiveso if anything the books technique would be magical itself…. [...] a possibility came to me of a part 1 consisting of the original abridged sessions one after the other with robs notes included but nothing of mine at all. [...]

[...] [Nor is her handwriting as steady as it used to be.] As she typed on December 3: “Rob just made a new wooden typing table, right height, etc, and I am trying it out now. [...]

ROB’S DREAM

Rob and I are on vacation, perhaps only for a weekend, in a collegelike atmosphere, a town, with water nearby. [...]

As we sit talking I notice some mail on a room divider, am surprised, and think that it must have come before Rob left for work, as it has been opened. [...]

(I told Rob these feelings. [...]

(Additional note by Rob regarding 12: Jane also had an impression of dark hair in connection with the arthritis data. [...]

One night before our regular Wednesday session Rob and I were pretty upset over the state of the world in general. We sat talking and Rob wondered aloud why we behaved as we did. [...]

Rob asked Seth once if he was always available to us for a session, and Seth’s answer shows clearly that we have more than a simple one-to-one relationship. [...]

“As I have told you, projection is involved to some extent, both on my part and Ruburt’s. Your [Rob’s] own presence is also important, whether or not you are present at any given session. [...]

“That’s nice,” Rob said dryly.

[...] Of the last few months or so I spent at my mother’s house—when she called me time after time during those spring and summer months of 1950: she wanted her pillows turned, she cried out in rage and pain—and here I was some 30 years later, calling out to Rob (voice breaking) to move my pillows or raise my head. [...]

[...] I really don’t know if it’s such a good idea to go over such memories or not, but since they came to mind I decided finally to have Rob write them down for me. [...]

[...] Rob awakened me here.

Comes to me today that years ago I got scared when I thought anyhow that Rob’s parents “shit on us” when we were broke; before I hadn’t worried about money—just writing . [...]

(I read this statement at 11:40 AM, Sunday, July 20th, though Rob told me about his experience earlier this morning. [...]