“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Immediately Seth launched into a discussion of Sonja’s past life experiences. In the time available, he dwelt on one life in particular, during which he said Sonja had a cleft palate that impeded verbal communication. According to Seth, this partially accounted for her interest in the field of communications now. He also said that Sonja loved color and fabric and that she used these as a method of communication in the past life as well as in this one. Some names and places in fourteenth-century England were given, and these are being checked out.

The television camera lights were warm on my face. My husband, Rob, and I sat with Sonja Carlson and Jack Cole, who were interviewing us on the Boston “Today’s Woman Show” on television station WBZ. It was 10 A.M. on the last day of our first tour to promote my book, The Seth Material. This was our fifth television show. I tried to look composed and confident, though I still found it difficult to face strangers so early in the day, much less the world at large — particularly when I was expected to explain my own psychic experiences and the philosophical concepts of The Seth Material.

As he began the interview, Jack Cole told the unseen audience that I was a medium who spoke for a personality called Seth. He emphasized that my presence on the show didn’t necessarily mean that he or Sonja accepted Seth’s independent existence. I smiled, somewhat ruefully. Many people feel duty-bound to express skepticism as if it were an automatic badge of honor and intellectual superiority. I’d done the same thing in the past, so I could understand the attitude.

When I came out of trance, Rob was smiling, Jack and Sonja looked dazed, the camera crew were staring at me and the program was over. “Seth was great,” Rob said to me. I was overwhelmed with relief. It was over, then; Seth had come through on television. Hadn’t I alternately hoped that he would and been reluctant at the same time?

[...] Your Sonja was drawn by your own inner vehemence. [...]

[...] Moreover two of our first four visitors, Sonja Carlson and Louis D’Andreano, were from out of town.

(Sonja bought a painting from me on November 18, 1964, and is mentioned by Seth in the 108th session of that date. [...]

Sonja, all unwittingly, came to prey upon the situation. [...]

[...] We had not seen Sonja for several years. [...] Sonja has always been attached to a portrait I had painted before Jane and I were married, and at various times had urged me to sell it to her. [...]

[...] Yesterday I thought I had more understanding why Sonja wanted the painting, and so decided to sell it. [...]

[...] Truth to tell, we both missed it after Sonja left. [...]

[...] It will be based upon the conception of my painting of 1954 that I “sold to Sonja.” [...]

There is a Sonja connected here in this regard, only a girl that she knew in eight or ninth grade, briefly. [...]