“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Over the last few days Jane has received a number of telephone calls — as well as letters — from people about the country, asking for help from her and/or Seth. Some of the problems cited are quite severe, and often they’re beyond any reasonable [let alone quick] therapy that Jane, Seth, or I can offer. [...]

(As we waited for the session tonight, Jane said two channels from Seth were open: Seth could speak on the people who have been seeking her out, or give book dictation. [...]

[...] Now she coughed so steadily that Seth interrupted the delivery — which is a pretty rare occurrence. While Jane rested, I suggested that if Seth returned it would be better if he discussed the reasons behind her coughing. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(Seth’s reference to “illustrated Seth material” stems from ideas I’ve mentioned to Jane recently. [...]

[...] Seth said that when the body began to recover, it would be an overall development. [...]

(Jane didn’t know whether she wanted a session tonight or not, but I suggested she have at least a short one, so Seth could say something about her moving ability.)

(“Good evening, Seth.”

(Lying on her back as usual, Jane began to speak for Seth right after LuAnn had given her her eye drops as usual. Seth’s voice was average.)

(During lunch I’d asked Jane if she thought Seth might want to comment on the sinful self, and its material. [...]

(“Afternoon, Seth.”)

[...] After Peggy left I read Jane the one line Seth had given. [...]

[...] “The funny thing is,” Jane said, “I thought that that was coming from Seth—that is, he was speaking the words, though he usually doesn’t do things like that.... [...] I had the feeling that that was being read loudly and clearly and richly by Seth—I could hear him doing it.”

(At the start this evening, she’d been unsure that Seth was involved. We talked about how Seth has said he wasn’t a poet, way back at the beginning of the sessions in 1963. [...]

[...] sorting it by date, when Jane said, “Will you write something down for me?” She actually thought it might be from Seth—she could hear his voice reciting it, I believe she said. [...]

(“Good afternoon, Seth.”)

[...] In one way, perhaps hard to describe, it is such a perfect observation on Seth’s part—the first sentence of the above paragraph. Jane, as Seth, watched me tolerantly. [...]

[...] There followed a short exchange between Seth and me, after he asked if I had any questions. [...] Seth agreed. [...]

(Before the session I asked that Seth discuss two questions. [...]

[...] I came down with it after asking Seth last Monday, December 7, whether the taped session we’d made for the Claire TV show in Washington had been shown yet. [...]

[...] See Chapter 21 of Seth Speaks for more on the Christ entity. According to history, Christ was crucified, and the other two members of Seth’s Christ entity, John the Baptist and St. Paul, were beheaded. Seth hasn’t mentioned India before in connection with any of the three, so that information would be new. [...] As I told Jane after the session, Seth’s Christ material tonight reminded me of the idea of the Christ book, which Seth mentioned in Personal Reality.)

[...] She thought Seth would discuss such relationships this evening.)

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(I should have asked Seth what he meant by nearly.)

[...] It might be noted here that Seth devoted a group of sessions last November, December, and January to some of the meanings and uses of inner and outer sound. That material was new to us, and included information on the Egyptians’ use of “inaudible” sound to help build the Pyramids; according to Seth the Romans also employed such sound in erecting the enormous, truly awesome city of Heliopolis at Baalbek, in what is now the Middle Eastern country of Lebanon. [...]

[...] Seth commented in Chapter Twenty of Seth Speaks: “The Speakers, more than most, are highly active through all aspects of existence, whether physical or nonphysical, waking or sleeping, between lives or at other levels of reality….”

[...] Seth asked the question because of a prolonged burst of hammering from the apartment below us. [...]

(As Seth, Jane paused during her delivery. [...]

[...] For more on Idea Construction see The Seth Material and Seth Speaks.)

To this end, through Ruburt, I am producing the continuing body of the Seth material, and books, each in a different way geared to these goals. In my present book, The Nature of Personal Reality: A Seth Book, I am including techniques that will allow you and thousands of others to use these ideas in normal daily living, to enrich the life that you know and to help you understand and solve your problems.

(Tonight I asked Jane if Seth would deliver his promised letter for correspondents. [...]

(“Good evening Seth.”)

[...] Jane and I wondered what role Billy’s illness might play in our affair with David—surely a way of thinking that would have been quite alien to us before the advent of the Seth material.

“I wouldn’t mind getting something from Seth on why Billy got sick,” I said to Jane after supper. [...]

Jane knew, however, that provided she held the session Seth’s material would be dictation for Dreams. [...]

(Jane’s delivery for Seth hadn’t been her fastest by any means, although that “energy personality essence” closed out the paragraph above quite intently and with more than a little amusement. [...]

(At lunch today I suggested to Jane that she put together a short book on the Frameworks 1 and 2 material Seth has given us since he introduced that concept in a private session last September 17, 1977. [...] In a way the suggestion was my idea of trying to do something about Seth producing books within books, as I discussed in my opening notes for the 814th session; but Seth is so prolific that it seems we’ll never get all of his material published at this time.

[...] Yet Seth didn’t call it dictation.

[...] As the hours passed she reacted to Seth’s data by becoming very loose and relaxed. [...]

(“Thank you, Seth.”

(Rob read their session of the previous evening when Seth gave more information on Sumari. Seth came through.)

([Rob:] “Thank you, Seth.”)

(Seth came through again after the exercise.)

(Seth gives the following list of whole names.)

[...] Bill could not say much about Seth’s data. He said that Seth had correctly described the stout man with glasses, though the description was so general it could apply to many.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

([Bill:] “Good evening, Seth.”)

(Here Seth refers to Bill, who leaves for Syracuse tomorrow on a business trip for the Elmira newspaper.)

[...] Even Seth did this. [...] I added that I no longer believed the later sessions, in which Seth had talked about her getting better by the holidays this year, or her having turned a corner in probabilities. [...] Was this to be the “redemption” Seth had talked about a couple of years ago, and that I’d tried to deal with in the intro for Dreams? [...]

[...] Not a word from Seth about why she’s been so miserable for the past five days, or why her decubiti are worse, or my suggestion that she go back into the hospital, or the role the sinful self plays in all of this. [...] Then Seth returned as I finished this note.

[...] I note this aside from whatever changes may be taking place in her, as Seth has repeatedly maintained recently. [...]

[...] Seth had recently said the hospital experience had been a traumatic one for Jane—so why was she doing again the very things that could lead to a return to that situation? [...]

[...] The article also included information about the Seth material. See the 618th session in Chapter Three for an account of Seth’s meeting with Dick and the latter’s editor, Eleanor Friede.

2. Seth tells us in Chapter Nineteen of Seth Speaks: “Molecular structures send out their own messages, and unless you are tuned in to perceive them, they may be interpreted as meaningless noise.”

(Monday night, Jane had another vivid dream involving the Seth material, herself, and a certain kind of magazine story. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(“Thank you, Seth. [...] Neither of us had asked that Seth comment on money, etc.)

(“Thank you, Seth—”

(Going back to the end of our stay-at-home vacation, on June 25 Seth-Jane began delivering a series of 10 sessions that we held on Monday and Saturday evenings for a change, instead of following our usual Monday-Wednesday routine. [...] What if they’re related in oblique ways, yet Seth doesn’t call them book dictation? [...] We know that Seth will specify a given number of sessions for this book, for instance, yet we keep the freedom to consider adding other material.

[...] Strictly speaking, it isn’t dictation for Mass Events, but Jane and I are presenting portions of it here because Seth discussed events and memory with a different emphasis, and touched upon aspects of reincarnation² — all subjects that spring out of that ineffable, really undefinable quality he calls simultaneous time. I ask the reader to always keep in mind that no matter what subject he’s discussing, or from what viewpoint, Seth’s kind of “time” underlies all that our present physical senses translate into linear, concrete experience and history. For clarification, I also keep this in mind: Seth isn’t physical, as he defines himself, and that “energy personality essence” seemingly isn’t all that focused on the passage of time — as we are — yet way back in the 14th session for January 8, 1964, he told us that time “is therefore still a reality of some kind to me.” [...]

1. Sue Watkins has been mentioned, and at times quoted, in a number of Jane’s books: The Seth Material, Seth Speaks, Adventures in Consciousness, Psychic Politics, and both volumes of “Unknown” Reality. [...]

[...] This made us feel good indeed, for it signaled the first publication of a Seth book in three years [since Personal Reality came out in 1974]. [...]

(Before, she had noticed this sensation only during, or before sessions in which Seth’s larger personality spoke. Now we wondered whether this feeling would be transferred to the sessions held by Seth himself, and to other psychic endeavors.)

(At 9:19 Jane, As Seth, pointed at the floor, her eyes closed. [...] I did not because Seth was making an effort to give information on Jane’s back symptom, and thought this more important.

(Jane’s back had bothered her, beneath a shoulder blade, for the last two days, and I asked that Seth discuss this. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] Seth referred to me as Ruburt and to Rob as Joseph, saying that these were our entity names. [...] We didn’t have time to say much, however, because Seth came back in about ten minutes. During the break, Rob had made a remark about solidified emotion, and Seth began by saying:

[...] In the beginning, I took it for granted that Seth was a subconscious fantasy, personified, because I simply couldn’t accept the possibility of “spirits” or, for that matter, life after death. Then, after it became obvious that the Seth sessions were going to continue, we kept constant check on my personality characteristics and went to a psychologist — as any sane, red-blooded American would do under such circumstances in those days. Seth seemed far more mature and well-balanced than the psychologist, so finally I stopped worrying. [...]

[...] Rob said, aloud: “Seth, can you tell me anything about the vision I had two nights ago?”

Now, as Seth, I shoved the board aside and began to dictate:

(Ever since she began dictating Mass Events for Seth, Jane has felt like having book sessions but once a week — on Monday nights — and doing other things in between. So she’s been working on her own James, writing poetry, painting, and helping me out with Seth’s Psyche by doing some of the work I usually do when he’s finished a book: typing sessions for the manuscript, checking my rough notes, rewriting some of them and making suggestions about others. [...]

1. Seth’s material on dying and the nature of consciousness immediately reminded me of what he’d said at 11:20 in the 801st session: “Dying is a biological necessity…. [...] I’d been thinking about those passages, and when Seth returned to the subject tonight I decided to have some fun with our accepted social and scientific establishments by writing this note.

2. Seth and Jane have both referred to faster-than-light effects in earlier books. Seth did so while discussing his CU’s, or units of consciousness, for instance. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] Before the session I had asked that Seth discuss Jane’s difficulty with mobility in her arms, especially of late.

(As a matter of fact, Jane received the first copy of the Seth Speaks paperback in the mail today.)

[...] The back cover of the paperback Seth Speaks carries a full page advertisement for Seven.)

(“Good evening, Seth. [...]