“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now you must understand that this continues throughout the entire system—animal and plant life. Change is gradual. In many ways it is a sleeping system, change taking place so slowly and nonviolently that the danger is in a constant status quo. The mental associative patterns are completely different from your own. Even abruptness of thought, you see, carries implications of violence, of abrupt change—the breaking of one pattern for another.

The only way to avoid facing the problem you see was to limit the amount of free energy allotted to the individual, and available en masse. Also safeguards were automatically built into the physical structure so that accumulations of energy could not be repressed—so no buildup could then emerge with violent overtones. Those in this system take further steps very slowly, and it will be more difficult for them to learn to handle large amounts of energy constructively. Those in your own system are more venturesome, more daring. Consciousness is far too varied. No one system could contain it or satisfy it. Generally speaking then, individual entities choose the system which suits their personalities and general leanings. Your system presents a rather abrupt, explosive entrance into largely organized consciousness, but on an individual basis.

(10:55. This was the end of the session, rather abruptly. I was tired from writing at such a constant rapid pace, or would have continued the session though it was getting late. Jane was well-out, etc.; indeed after the session she said she was “still getting stuff.”)

[...] 11:35 p.m. The ending of the sessions was abrupt.)

[...] Jane said she was surprised at the abrupt way it began. [...]

A dismissal of some kind, someone dismisses them abruptly, perhaps, or dismisses the Jesuit or he has the impression. [...]

[...] The break was abrupt and unannounced. [...]

[...] Once again the abrupt ending. [...]

(The abrupt end of the session came then at 11:22 p.m.)

(Jane then arose abruptly and began to dictate in a voice somewhat stronger than usual, without greeting. [...]

[...] At the same time a door close by slammed abruptly. [...]

(The five of us were discussing the session when Jane spoke for Seth again, abruptly rising and dictating in the same strong voice. [...]

[...] “End of introduction,” Jane abruptly said. [...]

(This afternoon, frightened by a grim tale of lung cancer involving an acquaintance of ours, Jane made an abrupt effort to stop smoking. [...]

[...] At 9:25 she abruptly told me that she’d just “received” the title of a book I am to write: Through My Eyes. [...]

(Note: At about 9:00 tonight, Jane abruptly became aware of a marked improvement in her walking. [...]

[...] Seth withdrew rather abruptly, and noticing the change in Jane, I added, “I’ll help Ruburt get back if there’s any need.” [...]

(A minute later she abruptly began the session as I did mail.)

This was the reason for the rather abrupt switch from the Frank Watts identity to my own. [...]

–that I knew what I was doing when I abruptly and rather strongly, I admit, suggested that Ruburt leave the gallery, two full days before he was given his precious assistant directorship.

(Now, Jane’s voice abruptly became deeper and louder, as if for emphasis. [...]

Legitimate, balanced psychic journeyings will result in a beneficial effect as far as the ego and its ability to handle its concerns are involved; and whenever such journeyings or investigations result in a lessening of egotistic control over circumstance then anyone so involved should instantly ask himself questions, and abruptly halt.

[...] Jane’s pace had abruptly slowed drastically. [...]

(While telling me this, Jane abruptly remembered that during part of the delivery she seemed to be standing beside the long, floor-to-ceiling bookcase that divides our living room from her workroom. [...]

[...] Once again Jane abruptly stopped speaking, and this was the end of the session, unexpected as it was. [...]

9:45 P.M. I found Seth’s abrupt end of the session to be unexpected, in spite of Jane’s many long pauses. [...]

(Seth abruptly came through without greetings:)

(12:15 A.M. Seth ended the session as abruptly as he’d started it. [...]