“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I was really quite tired, yet after the session, I was astonished to discover that Seth had dictated an excellent exposition on the physical senses and had begun a description of the inner ones. [...] Seth began by speaking about the physical senses.

[...] At this point, the Seth sessions themselves had only been going on for a month and a half. [...]

Had I been using Seth’s “inner senses” in the Bronson experience? [...]

[...] “I guess I’ll ‘specialize’ with Seth. [...]

[...] I mentioned three questions I hoped Seth would cover at least in part: Jane’s projected call to Tam at Prentice-Hall tomorrow morning, re substituting Seth’s new book for Adventures; Jane’s planned letter to Eleanor Friede about Rich Bed; and whether Jane should continue with ESP class.

[...] Many elements in Tam’s dream tallied with events depicted in this session, bearing out Seth’s contention that Tam already sensed the conflicts over Adventures, etc. We are to send him what’s done on Seth’s new book.

[...] I saw at once that if valid they also meant Jane must shelve her projected book, Adventures in Consciousness, and concentrate on things like Rich Bed, the Dialogues (poetry), and, perhaps, let Seth do his own thing in sessions. [...]

[...] I deeply hoped Seth would agree with us. [...]

(Jane had remarked the other day that she thought Seth would talk about her reaction to class and the mail—topics discussed in the opening notes for the last session. I was also still thinking about her reaction to the sessions themselves: the idea that she could feel inferior to Seth and/or the material was, as I noted, a pretty new one for me, and somewhat surprising. [...]

(I suggested now that Seth talk about Jane’s very uncomfortable state concerning her backside, hips and legs. [...] She finally felt Seth around at 9:55. [...]

(So here again, we have a reference to Jane’s possible feelings about Seth and what he does, regardless of whether his labors may be eventually published as “a Seth book.” [...]

(“Walter wants to be ‘a great psychic teacher’ like me or Cayce,” Jane said as we waited for Seth to come through. [...]

(Before the session I had asked Jane if Seth could give me some more data on the art and gallery material begun in the last session. [...] I was a little surprised to hear Seth start right in on the gallery data.)

(“Good evening, Seth.” [...]

[...] The cooler didn’t make so much noise that Seth had any trouble speaking above it.

[...] She said traffic noise had bothered her at the session’s start, until Seth had me turn on the cooler. [...]

In very simplified terms, then, Jane regards Seth as a personagram, “a multidimensional personification of another Aspect of the entity or source self, as expressed through the medium.” Aspects like Seth, she wrote in Chapter 11, “would have to communicate through the psychic fabric of the focus personality. [...] I think that I always sensed this about Seth. It wasn’t that I mistrusted the Seth personality, but I felt it was a personification of something else — and that ‘something else’ wasn’t a person in our terms … Yet in an odd way I felt that he was more than that, or represented more; and that his psychological reality straddled worlds … I sensed a multidimensionality of personality that I couldn’t define.”

3. In Note 6 for Session 681 I quoted Seth on his own ability to predict (which he seldom indulges), and on the subject in general. He also commented on predictions in a more amused way in ESP class for January 5, 1971; see the transcript in the Appendix of Seth Speaks: “Time, in your terms, is plastic. [...]

Now — good evening.
(“Good evening, Seth.”

[...] This 704th session continues briefly in Volume 2, where Seth gives the heading for Section 4 [which opens that second volume]; then he adds a few words of personal material for Jane and me before saying good night at 11:21 P.M. The notes for tonight’s session are presented below, however, since all of them refer to material already given.

(Even though he said he was through with Mass Events for the evening, the first subject Seth touched upon now — my dream of early yesterday morning — certainly was related to statements he’d made just before break, like this one: “When you enter time and physical life, you are already aware of its conditions.” I think my dream is an excellent example of that philosophy; I’d discussed the dream with Jane yesterday, and intended to ask Seth to comment upon it this evening if he didn’t voluntarily do so. [...] Perhaps I should have questioned Seth about such possibilities, but their implications escaped me while he was speaking and I was busy taking notes. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(Now here’s what Seth had to say about the dream right after break ended:)

(The dream suggests numerous subjects that Seth didn’t go into, and that I’ll leave for the reader to consider: reincarnation, the shifting of ages and the independence of memory from time in the dream state, and so forth. [...]

(I had three questions for Seth. [...] Seth’s recent remark, that she was beginning to gain weight again, had alerted me to it, although I’d noticed in recent weeks that Jane was much too thin—when I helped her put on a shirt, take a bath, etc. 2: What’s going on generally with her, physically, or as Jane put it “Why is it—her recovery—taking so long?” 3. At least a few words from Seth generally on the whole Emir thing.)

(Seth. above, referred to a manuscript we received today, in which the coauthors claimed that Seth would do the introduction, and so forth. [...]

[...] He gave Jane the excellent news that wherever he went the Seth books were known, and that Jane truly was changing our society through her work. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

Seth talked about illness and suffering in general this evening, and about David in particular. [...] We have no idea of pressing Seth’s personal information upon David; doing that would be an invasion of his privacy. [...]

[...] When I remarked that I tried not to worry about such things anymore, she replied that she too had better get back to book work and forget the world’s troubles: “Come on, Seth, I’m here.” But even as she felt him around, she knew that Seth wouldn’t be giving book dictation per se.)

(Whispering as a joke in return: “Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] Jane had delivered all of the above material for Seth with an emphatic mixture of speed, irony, and amusement.)

[...] This was the first time, also, that Seth had separated his own data from that of Ruburt’s, or Jane’s. Refer to my tracing of the photograph on page 242. Seth’s data can be seen to apply rather directly, with the exception that the photo is of four people instead of three. [...]

(Jane told me that in the past she would have given her own interpretation of the photograph she had in mind along with Seth’s information. [...] But now she allowed Seth to separate the two impressions.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(I was glad to hear this, and had been wondering whether Seth would give me this suggestion without my asking. [...]

(“Yes,” I said, for I’d felt my stomach act up pretty strongly several times while Seth had been speaking. [...]

[...] So I felt guilty—I thought—about not concentrating on Seth’s book. [...]

[...] That time I reacted much more strongly, and Seth came through with an excellent session about it all. [...]

(“Thank you, Seth.” [...]

(At last break I’d asked Jane if Seth could say a few words about why my front tooth was bothering me. [...]

(“Thank you very much, Seth, Good night.” [...]

[...] Seth was quite accurate here. [...]

[...] Her teeth have been bothering her—difficulty in chewing, etc., but according to Seth she will improve in this area as I will. [...]

[...] Roger’s list contained a fourth question addressed to Seth; this one concerns the Bahai faith, was formulated by a girl friend of Pat’s, and will be answered by Seth at a later date.

(Strictly speaking, we do not believe Seth as we known him and are used to him, gave the material tonight. [...] Jane is used to giving impressions on her own as well as through Seth, but there seemed to be an intriguing difference this evening. [...]

(Since Jane looked at Roger’s list just before the usual session time we thought Seth might consider the questions. Seth did not come through however during the evening. [...]

(We thought this data preliminary to the regular session, since Jane will get flashes like this sometimes just before Seth speaks. This data didn’t seem to come from Seth, however. [...]

[...] At 4:10 Jane had a cigarette while I reminded her that I wanted Seth to comment on my dream about her last night. At 4:17 I read her what Seth had already given. [...]

[...] I repeated that I wanted Seth to comment on the question of diets and treatments for ailments. [...]

(“Afternoon, Seth.” [...]

[...] Seth had taken care of our questions.

[...] I massaged her toes as Seth had recently suggested, which got good results, then after I’d turned her, I gently worked her right leg back and forth as Seth had suggested. [...]

(In between all of this activity, when we were alone for quiet moments, I mentioned a question to Jane that I’d thought of last night; I hoped Seth might go into it, I said. [...]

(I also reminded Jane that we’d like a word from Seth on our negative-type dreams of the night before last, and which I’d described in yesterday’s session.)

(“Same to you, Seth.”)

(Aside from her sympathetic response, Jane found the letter evocative of some of her own psychic experiences, and asked me to put it in our Seth notebook for an answer — we felt that Seth’s reply would be of interest to many. [...]

[...] She had told no one about them, though, and wanted to know if we could ask Seth about their meaning. [...]

[...] She began speaking for Seth very quietly.)

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(Last April 18 Seth gave a private session for me that for the past several months I’ve been rereading almost daily. [...] In the session Seth postulates two men, both portions of myself, who represents the conflicting sets of beliefs I’ve carried for years. [...]

[...] Now whenever I sense a conflict arising, I do as I’d figured out—and as Seth himself suggested recently: I ask the advice of the first man; what would he do in these situations? [...]

[...] The idea, of course, is only to integrate the two often opposing points of view, instead of having them in conflict with each other, since, as Seth says, we always have some practical need of Framework 1 activity. [...]

[...] She wanted some material on the whole business tonight from Seth. [...]

(While I’m doing my own work on Mass Events we’ll hold the sessions for Seth’s Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment, of course. My own long-range goal in working with the Seth books is one that I’ve found very difficult to achieve: I want to catch up on the backlog of work involved with the books so that I can devote most of my efforts to whatever the current Seth book is — while Seth is still producing it. [...]

[...] Come on, Seth….” Nevertheless, we knew that Seth would soon finish Mass Events; he’s been very neatly summing it up in recent sessions.

(And these final notes: We still don’t know whether the Dutch edition of Seth Speaks has been published — but we do know that our good friend Sue Watkins is presently working on Chapter 15 of Conversations With Seth, the book she’s writing about Jane’s ESP classes. [...]

(10:36 P.M. And on that gentle note Seth brought Mass Events to a close. [...]

[...] Once again, as it often has since she began dictating this book, Jane’s delivery for Seth had taken on a charged and inspired cast. [...] Perhaps her method of presentation was in keeping with Seth’s own pronouncement at the beginning of his Preface, almost three months ago: “This book will be my most ambitious project thus far. [...]

1. Later, I asked Seth to comment upon his most intriguing statement. [...] Seth:

[...] I’ve been picking up some great stuff from Seth on the book, too….” [...]

(Seth repeated the last phrase very loudly when I failed to understand him the first time.)

[...] I did have a question for Seth now—one made up of a number of questions, actually, and another one of my favorites. [...] It grows out of Seth’s philosophy, obviously, yet it also reflects my own, and concerns man’s attempts to both fight and grasp his heritage. [...]

1. There isn’t any such word as incalculatable, of course, but that’s what Jane came through with as she spoke for Seth. [...] Seldom indeed does she make such slips while delivering the Seth material—much less often than any of us may do in daily life.

2. Seth referred to a question I periodically ask Jane, but seldom discuss with others simply because they don’t seem to be interested: What’s happened to all of the Rembrandts? [...] To link the “great masters” with our species’ reincarnational intents and drives, as Seth mentions in this session, opens up a new field for understanding my question, and a very large and intriguing one indeed.

[...] “Among other things,” I note there, “the poem is a passionate declaration of psychic independence, written in response to Seth’s ideas in this book.” [...]

[...] “I’m Seth. [...] I have here the Christ Book, as well as another Seth book, The Rules of Love: A Seth Book. [...]

[...] Fred looked pained but kept talking very smoothly, as Seth. [...] I didn’t realize that when Fred’s Seth told me Fred was getting cold, he really meant it. [...]

[...] I am Seth. [...]

[...] “I know you don’t believe me, Robert, but I am Seth. [...]