“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(As far as we knew, Seth would resume dictation on Chapter Three of his book this evening. A minute or two before the session began Jane told me that she had a “glimmer” from Seth — a few sentences. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(As Seth, Jane leaned forward for emphasis while speaking. [...]

(Now Seth briefly discussed some out-of-body episodes that Jane had experienced yesterday afternoon.)

[...] She remembered the last sentence Seth spoke. This was a reference to the fact that Jane got “mad” at Seth—one of the few times this has occurred—at an ESP-class session last night, for some remarks Seth made concerning Jane’s tendency to intellectually categorize people. [...]

(Before tonight’s session I read to Jane this question: “In the 462nd Session, page 232, you say [meaning Seth] that any perception, however slight, alters every atom within our physical structure. [...]

(Jane began speaking for Seth in a fast and active manner, voice good, eyes open often, etc.)

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(Both of us have been rereading Seth’s own resolutions for the New Year frequently, as given on January 1, 1979. [...] I could list many more, but probably won’t. I still don’t think Seth would want to spend much time discussing that old material in any detail, since he’s said many times that focusing on what was wrong in the past is negative and self-defeating. [...]

(A note: Seth’s material reminded me of his comments in the deleted 371st session for October 11, 1967. I read it last night; Seth answered my questions about what he sees when he looks at me, both as himself, and through Jane’s eyes. [...]

[...] “I hope Seth doesn’t talk too loud,” Jane said as we waited for him to come through, “or I might lose that tooth.” [...]

[...] Marian knows of the Seth thing.

(As Seth, Jane took a swallow of milk. [...] She held the half-empty glass of milk up to me, her Seth voice booming out:)

5. All in Volume 1: Note 1 for Session 698 contains quotations from the dream material Seth gave in the 92nd session for September 28, 1964. Then see the equally interesting information on dreams in Session 699; I especially like Seth’s statement that “In a way, one remembered dream can be compared to a psychological photograph….” [...]

[...] I read parts of the last session to her, to remind us both of what Seth had discussed. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(About the envelope tests — Seth had to be almost omnipotent — because she transferred the authority of the church to him. [...] But the church wouldn’t approve of Seth, I said. Enter the idea of she starting a false church — heretical indeed — with a false god, Seth. [...]

(The mail from Prentice-Hall is increasing considerably, whether or not this is in line with Seth’s recent statement that an increase in sales of the books is under way. [...] Perhaps I’ll take the time from Dreams to work out a final fan letter — including Seth’s — to send folks who write. [...]

(I asked her about Seth, a male, speaking through a woman. [...] She recalled that once Seth said that if he’d come through as a woman she wouldn’t have stood for it. [...]

(This material is free-association stuff, following Seth’s suggestion in the private session for Jane on May 15. [...]

2 After the session I wanted to tie in Seth’s material on infinity with mathematical ideas of that concept, but my reading soon convinced me that such an idea was too involved a task for a simple note like this. However, I told Jane, in his own way Seth had incorporated mathematical ideas in his material: I saw correlations between his probable realities, his intervals, and the concept of an infinite number of points on a line—and that some mathematical definitions of infinity are considered to be more basic, or of a greater order, than others. Actually, in various branches of mathematics, from the works of Euclid (the Greek mathematician who flourished around 300 B.C.) to modern information theory, I found many relationships with Seth’s ideas. I do think that Seth’s material on the “origin” of our universe can be termed an “ideal point,” embracing our mathematical systems, and that his concept of All That Is has no “limits” in mathematical terms. [...]

[...] She recalled that back in her 20s—some 15 years before she initiated the Seth material—she’d written a series of poems about our species returning to the earth from space. “And here’s Seth saying that it’s actually happened that way—at least in some probable realities,” she said. [...]

[...] Yet when Seth came through his material certainly sounded like book work to me.)

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(The five dreams occurred on the evenings of October 27, November 19, December 1, December 3, and December 8. Since Seth deals only with dreams of November 19, December 1, and December 8, only these will be presented here from my dream notebook. Seth calls them dreams number 1, 2, and 3. The two dreams not given here are closely similar to the three presented below.

(Jane and I think the following material an excellent example of the way Seth interprets dreams, and it is presented in full. Seth doesn’t get all the way through his analysis, but promises to in an early session. [...]

(It will be remembered that in recent sessions Seth has promised to discuss two dreams which have been on my mind recently. [...]

(When Jane expressed a willingness to hold the session, she sipped a glass of wine while we waited for Seth to appear. [...]

1. Seth is the “energy personality essence” Jane speaks for while in a trance or dissociated state. Since he calls Jane by the male-oriented name of her larger or whole self, “Ruburt,” it follows that Seth also calls her “he,” “his,” and “him.”

“Then, in a private session held on the evening of September 17, 1977, Seth came through with a very exciting concept called ‘Framework 1 and Framework 2.’ Jane and I were so struck by the practical, far-reaching implications of this proposition that we began a concerted effort to put it to use in daily life. Briefly and very simply, Seth maintains that Framework 2, or inner reality, contains the creative source from which we form all events, and that by the proper focusing of attention we can draw from that vast subjective medium everything we need for a constructive, positive life in Framework 1, or physical reality.”

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(“Thank you, Seth.” [...]

(Before this evening’s session I had said that publication of the Seth material could help many more people than Jane [called Ruburt by Seth] could help personally in her ESP classes, and that too much energy expended in the classes took away from that available for the theoretical material available to us in our regular twice-weekly sessions. I had also said that now that her ESP students were quite used to Seth speaking during classes, the absence of this would be resented by them.)

In our sessions and in the Seth material I utilize—I must—the best that he as a personality has to offer, and that is considerable. [...] But he must use for a standard the Seth material itself. [...]

[...] An editor rejected the book but wrote a very encouraging letter concerning the publication of the Seth material. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] As in last session, I will indicate the time periodically to show the rate at which Seth delivers material.)

[...] Seth-Jane leaned forward for emphasis, gesturing, eyes dark and wide.)

[...] She tried to describe an image she’d had just before Seth began speaking, while saying it couldn’t really be put into words: “I saw… a field of something like stars. [...]

(End at 11:40 p.m. When Jane woke up the next morning, this passage of Seth’s from last night’s session was on her mind: “A group of selves forms a soul.” [...] Was Seth saying that we share a soul with others?

(Before Seth began book dictation, he spent fifteen minutes answering two questions we had for others.)

(Humorously, Seth made sure I noted down the last sentence correctly.)

[...] A note added later: Seth made a mistake here, as will be seen in the 639th session. [...]

(Sessions 760-61 were devoted to separate topics that Seth has been developing apart from his regular book dictation for Psyche.

[...] I think all of this psychic stuff that I’m half aware of has to be organized and expressed in our world — Seth, Cézanne, this book — so that we can make sense of the whole thing.”

[...] Since Seth discusses this himself in the session, I’ll let him carry on from here.)

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

3. After this session, I was rather surprised when Jane told me that the Jonestown tragedy was an emotionally charged subject for her, and that Seth knew it. [...] Involved also are her adamant feelings against having the Seth material used as the basis for any kind of cult, with herself as its leader. Hence, she’s continually examining Seth’s revelatory material — and her own — with very critical eyes to make sure she isn’t “a self-deluded nut leading people astray.” [...] See Seth’s material on evolution and fundamentalism in Session 829.

[...] The mass deaths at Jonestown (in November 1978) took place during our long layoff from book dictation, but Seth began discussing the affair almost at once in our private material, as Jane described in her own portion of the opening notes for Session 831. Now she told me that Seth introduced the subject in that manner so that later she’d be more at ease dealing with it for Mass Events.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] Seth promptly came through with two lines of encouraging material for her. [...]

(I’d been commenting on her call tonight to a psychiatrist—Dr. Beahrs—who’d written her recently from Washington state, and of his informing her that another doctor out there is also using the Seth material ideas in dealing with her patients. [...] Yet, I added, the fact that the two medical people had discovered Seth was, in a small way, a sign that the material had at least managed some sort of transcendent movement. [...]

(Then in today’s mail Jane received a letter from another doctor, as well as from a professor of mathematics – also signs that the Seth material was capable of wider appeal. [...] Then Jane dictated the words quoted above, saying Seth would probably cover them in tonight’s session. [...]

[...] This would be a sign of the spontaneous change Seth mentioned in a late session. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] As Seth, Jane pointed to my portrait of Seth; it hung on the wall behind me, so that she faced it as she sat in her rocker.)

(This in turn led me to wonder if tonight’s session contradicted one held several years ago, in which Seth stated that I had lived to an old age in the Denmark life. [...] Seth goes into more detail on this in the 595th session, in the Appendix.

[...] Tam Mossman, Jane’s editor at Prentice Hall, called this morning to say that the first copies of her book, The Seth Material, have arrived at Prentice Hall from the printer. [...]

(In Chapter Eight, Seth had said this was my way of trying to see models for my paintings. [...]

(Bill Gallagher said that in his opinion Jane, when speaking as Jane, doesn’t move her facial muscles the same as Seth does. Seth forms his words more carefully and distinctly, Bill said, and this effort shows.

[...] It will be remembered that Jane’s entity name is Ruburt, and that Seth refers to Ruburt as “he”; our interpretation of this being that Jane’s entity is male-oriented in the overall sense. Many sessions ago however Seth explained that this male or female orientation had little if anything to do with sex as we conceive it.

(Peggy’s entity name is Aniac, given by Seth in the 158th session. Seth has given little information on Peg’s entity, but his use of “he” evidently means that Peg’s entity, like Jane’s, is male-oriented.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] [Class sessions aren’t numbered.] Occasionally Jane has wondered what effect, if any, the break would have on Seth’s book. However, after giving me some very astute data about my painting, Seth resumed book dictation very smoothly at 9:33 — just as though there hadn’t been any time lapse from February 11 to March 18.

(A note: I thought it would be of interest to show, by periodically recording the time, how long Seth takes to deliver a certain amount of finished material for his book.)

[...] My eye troubles started the same spring that Seth started dictating it; I was doing James; Frank L. was building the porches; and the Gallery of Silence people were bugging us. Before though, the fact escaped me that Seth had started Mass Events—representing his and my direct attack on official dictums—or so it seemed to me. [...] The long breaks when Seth didn’t dictate may have come when I got particularly concerned about the material, the wisdom of presenting it to the world, etc. In fact Seth gave us Frameworks 1 and 2 stuff in there, to help me. [...]

(Jane told me this afternoon that she’d had a flash from Seth about my reincarnational episodes of late, and how I was in the process of uncovering my personal “past”, as Seth says in The “Unknown” Reality.

[...] Thank you very much, Seth. [...]

(Check the book to see just where Seth says this, possibly with a note on my own adventures inserted; a referral to the Appendix?)

[...] Somewhere in here I felt that I could have a Seth session regarding Barb. [...] Barb knows hardly anything, though I think she knows about Seth in a general way. [...] After a short while I no longer felt that Seth was around. [...]

[...] I didn’t know my abilities were that good, to tell the truth; and had no idea that there was any danger of acting as a medium without Seth. I used to worry that if Seth gave wrong data this would reflect on the legitimate nature of that personality. This time Seth was not present. [...]

(Then—to me suddenly—in my own voice and without Seth, I began to give impressions about Barb’s past life. [...]

[...] Again I saw nothing; no images; but I was oddly unprotected; the emotional state was not a bit pleasant as I was screaming over this episode, apparently a past one of Barb’s. With Seth, for example, I feel nothing. [...]