“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Seth’s personality was expressing itself much more freely now that it was released from the board, particularly after the surprising fourteenth session. [...] We began sessions at 9 P.M. Five minutes before nine, I’d get that feeling again, that I was going to leap from a high diving board into a deep pool—and without knowing for sure whether or not I could swim.

[...] We’d read about the Patience Worth case, where a Mrs. Curren produced novels and poetry through the Ouija board and automatic writing, but we were completely unfamiliar with the idea of anyone’s speaking for another personality. [...]

[...] Our first Ouija board session had been on December 2, 1963. [...]

[...] I had the board set up, ready for the opening of the session. [...] And so again we did not use the board to open a session. [...]

(Jane and I were rather amused by Seth’s cavalier advice to keep the board. But then we had never told him these sessions began on a borrowed board. [...]

[...] For one thing, you may dispense with the board. [...]

As for another advancement you have made, beside dispensing with the material board—and this advancement has to do with the so-called flashes that Ruburt has received between sessions—he has achieved a state in which he can receive inner data from me more readily. [...]

[...] End of session, and—the dream (of mine) will not go by the board, either. [...]

(Again, Jane and I sat at the Ouija board at the appointed hour. [...]

(After this message, Jane clearly heard within the following, although the board did not spell it out:)

(We began, as usual, by sitting at the board. [...] Although we took the first few answers through the board, from the beginning Jane received them mentally also. [...]

(Here Jane shoved the board aside, got to her feet and began to dictate:)

(This morning at breakfast I announced suddenly, to Jane’s surprise and my own, that light was a mental enzyme … We started tonight’s session sitting at the board as usual, without asking questions.)

(Here I put the board aside and began to speak as Seth.)

Then, with strong humorous accents he spoke about the Ouija board which we still used to open and close sessions. [...] The board gives us a breathing spell and is a method of saying good day or good evening, or tipping one’s hat. [...] … At the end of a session it would be most cordial to touch your hands briefly to the board. [...]

[...] It hadn’t been a month yet since we began with the Ouija board. [...]

(As usual we began by sitting silently at the board.

(Jane lay the board aside. [...]

[...] Since we had dispensed with taking messages through the board in the main, this session was the slowest-paced one to date. [...]

(At the board, we said good night as usual.

[...] Though we’d started these sessions with the Ouija board, Jane had made such a rapid progression that she was already giving some material vocally. However, at the time we still used the board to obtain answers to most of our questions. After I made my statement about Ruburt and Joseph, Seth spelled out his reply through the board’s pointer as it moved quickly beneath our fingertips:)

[...] In Chapter 1 of The Seth Material Jane described how we began these sessions [on December 2, 1963] through our use of the Ouija board. [...] Just before Seth announced his presence to us in that same session, Frank Withers spelled out a remark through the board that meant little to Jane and me at the time: “One whole entity may need several manifestations, even at simultaneous so-called times.”

[...] We believe this to be a valid interpretation: My drawing board at the office, with the begonia beside it, happens to be the first in line of several. Just beyond my board is a very large table that is used to spread out very large printed sheets before they are cut up into individual cards, etc. [...]

(As soon as Jane dispensed with the Ouija board when these sessions got under way three years ago, she took to pacing the floor endlessly while giving a session. [...]

[...] As I sit at my drawing board at the office, perhaps a foot or eighteen inches from the begonia plant which served as a model for the envelope object, I am given my paycheck each Friday afternoon.

I would like you for the moment to clear the board, as much of course as possible. [...]

[...] I told Jane that tomorrow I’d replace the oil portrait of mine that’s been there on the bulletin board. [...]

[...] Discussed also were the memos the legal department has been sending to the board of directors at Prentice-Hall. Many of these have been derogatory; we now plan to ask Tam for the names of the individual board members, and we want to learn how to write to them to be sure they personally receive our messages. [...]

Almost immediately I heard the words in my head, as before, but I insisted on starting with the board. [...]

The pointer began to dash across the board. [...]

[...] Rob wrote the questions down so he wouldn’t forget them, and two nights later we sat down at the board once more. [...]

In the 4th session for December 8, 1963, the personality Jane and I had been contacting through the Ouija board, Frank Withers, spelled out with the board’s pointer the message that he preferred to be called Seth—and Seth it’s been ever since. [...]

[...] Although she was by then receiving quick mental answers to many of our questions in the sessions, often she was still cautiously verifying those responses by having at least their beginnings spelled out letter by letter upon the board. [...]

These lives exist simultaneously across the board, however. [...]

[...] There is, as your friend Sue Watkins said, “constant action across the board.”

(Sitting at the board, we said good night with the pointer. The board replied.)

(We began as usual by sitting at the board without speaking.

(Jane was already receiving Seth within, so she laid the board aside and began to pace and dictate, as usual.)

[...] Instead you would show others how to board such craft.

The painting itself, and any painting, rises out of the empty board through the force of your own emotions, and the board becomes the focal point that collects, draws together and directs the energy from your inner self, into form.

(By now Jane and I were very curious, since this was the first time we had ever had the chance to resume with a contact made previously on the board. [...]

Many people working with the Ouija board or automatic writing receive messages that seem, or purport, to come from historic personages. [...]

Yet in many such instances, the Ouija board operator or the automatic writer is to some extent or another tuning in to a world view, struggling to open roads of perception free enough to perceive an altered version of reality, but not equipped enough through training and temperament, perhaps, to express it.

[...] When you use the Ouija board or trance procedures, you frequently free philosophical areas of your mind that have been frozen. [...]

You may signify this to yourself symbolically, so that the board or the automatic writing designates its origin as being Socrates¹⁰ or Plato. [...]