“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

As for Jane: So many physical changes had taken place in her body today, she was so “out of it” by suppertime, that she didn’t know whether or not she could even have a session. She’d mentioned this morning that Seth might resume work on Dreams, and because of that feeling spent part of the day reviewing sessions for the book. After supper I got her iced wine—at her request—and started these notes while we waited to see what happened.

(9:40.) Your historical time is, say, but one species of time that dwells upon the earth. There are many others. Time itself emerges from idea, which is itself timeless (long pause), so in those terms there was no point where time began, though such a reference becomes necessary from your own viewpoint.

(Long pause at 9:55.) The Christ story in the beginning was not nearly as singular and neat as it might now seem, for the finally established official Christ figure was one settled upon from endless versions of a god-man, with which man’s psyche has long been involved: He was the psychic composite, the official Christ, carrying within his psychological personage echoes of old and new gods alike—a figure barely begun, comma, to be filled out in time, although originating outside of it (again, all very intently).

(10:02.) Paul (Saul of Tarsus) had his vision. Now the vision (in which Paul not only saw the light of Christ, but heard his voice) happened in the world of fact. It occurred—but Paul did not see, or communicate with (long pause), a person of divine heritage, sent by his father to earth, who lived the life of the official Christ, and who was crucified. Paul had a vision in response to the needs, desires, and dictates of his own psyche as it was connected to the world of his time, following the patterns of stories about Christ that he had heard that had begun to release within him a great yearning that was, in that vision, then, expressed.⁴

All of that was book dictation.

(10:13. After expressing a couple of reassuring thoughts for Jane, in line with his private material for Monday night’s session, Seth said good night at 10:15 P.M. “Listen, I came so close to not having this session,” Jane said. Her delivery had been very slow but more intent than usual, and she was surprised and pleased: “How about that? I’ll be damned. I looked the book over today, but I didn’t expect anything on it before next week. I didn’t know I’d get anything to do with Christ. I’ll bet that’s why he didn’t say it was book dictation until the end of the session….”

“I thought it was [book] dictation right away,” I laughed, “but I didn’t ask.” Jane hadn’t sensed any nervousness before the session, as she often does when knowing she’s about to resume work on a book project. She felt much better now.)

(“Jesus, I ought to go in trance more often,” Jane laughed after she’d ended the session at 10:20 P.M. “I wasn’t aware of how I was sitting or anything. I was the most comfortable I’ve been all day….”)