“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(We made some connections ourselves, and Seth elaborated on others. At times during the data I wasn’t sure who was speaking—Jane or Seth. Sometimes when Ruburt was mentioned, I thought it was Jane saying so, rather than Seth. [...]

[...] Ordinarily he pays no attention to the sessions, after his early displays when the sessions first began; at that time, according to Seth, he sensed Seth’s presence and reacted strongly. [...]

(I asked Jane to keep these questions in mind, perhaps to be answered by Seth later in the session: Was the survival personality aware of Jane? Can Seth be more specific about the location in Wyoming, and the group’s abilities?

(I now asked Seth to elaborate on the family group data. [...] Seth explains somewhat concerning why this data came about however.

(Since session time was near, Jane asked aloud that Seth interpret the subjective data she had been receiving. She wanted a clear and concise interpretation devoid of emotion, feeling there was little use in acting whatever the impressions said; she thought more objective data could be obtained through Seth. [...]

(My thought, based on data Seth has given, was that already the probabilities of any such accident had been considerably lessened, merely because the four of us now knew about it consciously. Jane and I hoped that Seth would come through with more information, since the evening was still young.

(“Good evening, Seth.” Seth affectionately calls Bill the Jesuit.)

[...] Seth spoke later.

[...] During that period we held the 737th session [on February 17], but since we weren’t consciously concerned with that particular place then, we neither talked about it nor asked Seth to comment; instead, on his own during the session, Seth discussed the house on Foster Avenue as representing a probability, and a pretty likely one, that we could choose to explore. Seth didn’t suggest that we buy that particular place, and had he done so I’m fairly sure we’d have rejected the idea. [...]

2. Now Seth began a rundown of the roles played by each of the families of consciousness as he’d listed them in the 732nd session. [...] Since Jane had already refreshed her memory of those psychic groupings before the session, and, presumably, would deliver Seth’s material on them in the proper order, I matched up their names with the successive blocks of data given in the session. Perhaps I should have double-checked by asking Seth to rename the families, in order, but I didn’t think it necessary.

(Seth returned at 11:19. [...] Seth’s information on the Foster Avenue place, and our present and potential relationships with it, was very illuminating. [...]

(Here’s one point brought out in that deleted material: Since Seth had told Jane and me long ago that the three of us belong to the Sumari family of consciousness,⁴ we were more than curious now when he declared that the woman who presently owns the house on Foster Street is also a Sumari: “[She] added Sumari characteristics of expansiveness.” But to go a step further: According to Seth the house’s previous owner for many years, a male now deceased, had also been Sumari. [...]

(In the 84th session, September 2, Volume 2, pages 329 and 331, Seth stated that Jane was blocking “a picture of Philip,” Philip being Seth’s name for John’s entity. [...]

[...] I thought the trappings might bring forth some rather pungent comments from Seth, but kept my own counsel. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(Seth began referring to mental enclosures, mental enzymes, etc., many many sessions ago, at the same time he began to give the information on the inner senses. [...]

(Yesterday marked the beginning of Jane’s third week home from the hospital, and lately I’ve been trying to gently encourage her to begin a series of private sessions in an effort to learn what we can about the whole hospital-health-establishment belief system, and our part in it through and with the Seth material. I was eager to get Jane started on a program of self-therapy through the Seth material in order to help her counter—or at least supplement—the standard rigid medical framework we’ve been encountering for the last month, or since she went into the hospital on February 26, 1982. [...]

(A note: Jane has mentioned several times since returning home that Seth may dictate a biography of her—presumably including her hospital experiences, etc. [...] “Every so often I get ideas about it,” she said, but not from Seth, at least yet.... [...]

[...] The arthritis diagnosis, Jane said, would be the only one the medical profession could offer, with its very limited insights and viewpoint—whereas Seth has insisted all along that she didn’t have arthritis per se. [...] Equally important, too was Seth’s idea that Jane no longer needed to try to be “the perfect self.” [...]

(I’m also trying to whip up some enthusiasm to begin work on Seth’s latest book, Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment, for which we recently signed the contract, and took money. [...]

[...] This led me to read her my notes on Seth’s delivery from 11:25 to 11:47, concerning beliefs in relation to body weight. Then after lunch Jane spontaneously wrote the material beginning in the next paragraph; she regards this data as supplementing Seth’s own information on weight. [...] The work is close to the way Seth would present it; it probably stems from her efforts last night, we think, to see what she could do with “book work” on her own:

(Apropos of the notes preceding this session, concerning Jane’s nighttime work on Seth’s book last week: the same kind of effects returned when she went to sleep after this session — but this time she decided to try an experiment. [...]

[...] This is still evocative material, even though she doesn’t know whether Seth will use any of it in his book: “For a ‘Power Chapter’: Each person has his or her own ‘psychic territory of power’ which is not to be relinquished,” she wrote. [...]

(“Thursday afternoon at desk, May 3/73, on Seth’s book:

(“Also the letters D O L, followed perhaps by another L,” Here is another instance of Seth trying something new in the way of association, as he did with the D E L for delivery data in the last envelope experiment. [...] Jane was quite vexed at break to realize the implications of this method, and that she hadn’t followed through as Seth evidently intended her to.

[...] Jane now said this word was Seth’s way of leading her to the price on the object, 50¢; she thought that if she voiced the word dollar, Seth might have tried to get the 50¢ through.

[...] I could see that Seth was in a fond mood. When she did leave trance Jane said Seth “spoke to us silently,” and debated as to whether to speak further this evening without notes on my part. [...]

(Jane said before the session that she had no idea of what Seth would talk about. [...]

[...] She was very reserved about Seth possibly delivering a message for them. [...] I thought Seth could comment today, but I expected no detailed response there either at this time. [...]

[...] When I got home from 330 last night I found in the mail a letter from Maude Cardwell of Reality Change, the Seth newsletter she publishes in Austin, Texas. [...]

[...] Instead my companion was assigned this job: Each day his task was to climb back out the window with perhaps three looseleaf volumes of the Seth material tucked under one arm. [...]

[...] Her Seth voice was slower than usual, and rather quiet.)

(Earlier this evening I reminded Jane of the conversation about cells, versus their components, that we’d had because of Seth’s material at 9:38 in Session 705. Some of tonight’s book work refers to the questions growing out of our talk I think, as does Seth’s brief clarification near the end of the session.)

(The 706th session was held as scheduled last Wednesday night, and our guest, Tam Mossman, did witness it — but since Seth didn’t come through with any dictation for “Unknown” Reality during the session, it’s hereby deleted.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] Next, Seth came through with a page of information for Jane and me. [...]

[...] Jane didn’t know whether Seth, or his entity, would speak. Shortly before she went into trance at 9:15, she whispered to me “The other one,” meaning that Seth’s entity would speak. [...]

We are Seth, and whenever we have spoken we have been known as Seth. [...]

[...] We adopt whatever personality characteristics seem pertinent, for in our own reality we have a bank of complete inner selves, and we are all Seth.

[...] We are therefore always a part of the one entity which is the Seth entity. [...]

[...] Seth went on to explain that great dimension would be given to the sessions as we progressed. He began to go into the inner senses more thoroughly and Rob really pricked up his ears, hoping that Seth would mention his three recent experiences. [...]

[...] “If Seth doesn’t mention my experiences, I’m going to interrupt and ask him,” Rob said. [...] Suddenly, Seth said,

[...] For the first time, I felt that Seth was “around” while we were socially engaged. [...] Should I introduce Seth to Mark or not? [...]

[...] Maybe Seth will know.

[...] It’s an excellent session, and, as Seth suggested, I’ll be reading it to her for at least several days.

(Once again, today her Seth voice was stronger than usual, with pauses.)

(“Good afternoon, Seth.”)

(“Good afternoon, Seth.”

1. With a little reflection it becomes obvious, but I think it important to note that Jane’s expression of the Seth material is certainly the result of her direct cognition. Because she has to deliver it linearly in words, which take “time,” she cannot produce her material almost at once, as the mathematical prodigy can his or her answers, but in their own way her communications with Seth are as psychologically clear and direct as the calculator’s objective products are with numbers, or the musician’s are with notes. From the very beginning of the sessions, in late 1963, I appreciated the speed with which Jane delivered the Seth material, and began recording the times involved throughout each session. [...] And when Jane speaks extemporaneously for Seth, her delivery is even more rapid. [...]

[...] It’s of one of my imaginary male heads, and I began it a week ago, following Seth’s material on art for me in the private session for April 9. [See Note 1 for the last session.] I explained to Jane that even while it’s incomplete, the painting contains improvements that I can already tell will be developed further in the next one. [...] I asked that Seth comment upon the painting tonight if he cared to.

Without being specific before the session, Jane said she felt “lots of stuff from Seth churning around.” [...]

(With a laugh: “Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] Somehow, after supper, we got on the subject of Seth doing a “quick book” about Jonestown and Three Mile Island, something that could be offered to the public very soon, instead of material that would show up in a regular Seth book a couple of years from now. We already had the perfect title for the book, one we’d jokingly originated following last Monday night’s session: Seth on Jonestown and Three Mile Island: Religious and Scientific Cults.

[...] But Jane had written some chapter headings, which were very good, and half a page of commentary for Seth’s hypothetical book. [...] Jane believed me, finally, and in the course of the conversation I learned that she’s also been worrying about which of Seth’s recent sessions should be presented in Mass Events. She agreed with the decisions I’d made in that area, but she also wanted Seth “to get back to the book per se, and call his sessions dictation.

[...] Yet I could see that I confused Jane, for to make such a venture possible we’d have to change certain beliefs and values that are deeply rooted within us; especially those about personal privacy and our reluctance to “go public” with such topical, immediate material, instead of trusting that the Seth material will exert a meaningful influence in society over the long run. [...] But I think the main portion of my enthusiasm stemmed from the frustration I often feel because much of Seth’s material will go unpublished at this time. [...]

[...] I’ll describe the latest of the many courses of action we’ve found ourselves considering over the years as we work with the Seth material, while trying to keep a balance between the realities we’ve created for ourselves and the possibilities we constantly encounter in the “outside” world.

[...] I was starting to get my stuff together when Jane asked me to get the Seth notebook out again. When Seth came through her voice was a bit hoarse, but with good subdued power. [...]

(“Afternoon, Seth.”)

(I read to her Seth’s opening paragraphs of yesterday’s session; these dealt with the roles of the conscious and subconscious minds. [...]

(I did tell Jane that when Seth came through again I wanted some material on the tension in her body, especially the leg. [...]

(Early in the sessions Seth began giving us lists of the inner senses and the basic laws of the inner universe. Value fulfillment, or the value climate of psychological reality, is the first basic law of the inner universe; Seth presented it in the 45th session in some detail. [...]

(Since the test object was picked by someone other than me, I had thought that some of Seth’s connections might be difficult to trace, and it appears to be the case here. Since the part of the data we can judge is pretty much on the ball, we think it reasonable to assume that the rest of Seth’s data may be equally good. [...]

[...] She said “To hell with it,” to herself, relaxed, and kept on speaking for Seth. She completely cut off her own associations; this ability to discriminate, Seth has told us, is very important, and will grow steadily on Jane’s part.

[...] Since Seth did not go into my latest vision this evening, I’ll save a description of it for next session. [...] It was of the head of a man I had known centuries earlier in a previous life, according to Seth.)

[...] Jane said that during one of the longer pauses she felt Seth trying to get at the name Nostratious from the earlier note data. [...] In an earlier session Seth told us Jane had been a medium in her Boston life, and that she had misused her abilities. [...]

(In the 253rd session Seth told us he didn’t dream of us, just as we didn’t dream of him, and promised to tell us why soon. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] According to Seth both of us lived in Boston before the Civil War, male and female then, as now.)

[...] The plans are simple; at session times next week Bill and Peggy will attempt to concentrate on Jane, Seth and me, with a view to seeing what Seth can pick up.

(It will be recalled that Seth himself [or Jane?] initiated the idea of asking me if I had an envelope test at each session. [...] In that session however Seth also said it would be better if Jane did not know whether I planned a test before any particular session.

(In the 180th session however, Seth’s comments led into the second envelope test, and in the 183rd session Seth queried me outright as to whether I had a third test for him. [...]

[...] In that session Seth also offered reassurance to Jane.

(Now Jane, as Seth, pointed to an acrylic seascape that I had recently hung on the wall opposite Seth’s portrait. [...] After the seascape Seth inspected an oil of a tree that I had painted in 1960; this hung beyond the seascape, toward the front door.)

(Jane said Seth seemed to have a tremendous fount of information to draw upon as she gave the data tonight, as though he had gathered it together just for this session. Jane felt that either she or Seth, or both, were looking at paintings as she talked.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] (Seth paused, then resumed.)

“Seth used Session 909 as a bridge between chapters 6 and 7 in Dreams. This means that now the session serves as a connective—a very effective lure, say—between volumes 1 and 2. Indeed, in retrospect it almost seems as though Seth, that ‘energy personality essence,’ planned it that way! [...]

As soon as I realized that Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment was going to be so long that it would require publication in two volumes, I began to think about how I was going to summarize here all of the material that Jane, Seth, and I had contributed to Volume 1. I developed the hilarious notion that if I did the job the way I really wanted to, this introduction would be as long as that first volume is itself! [...]

[...] However, I can help initiate that process by presenting short blocks of material from Seth-Jane and myself. [...]

First, Seth’s headings for the six chapters of Volume 1 give a broad outline of his material in that book: