“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

SESSION 870, AUGUST 1, 1979
9:21 P.M. WEDNESDAY

(I’m just waiting,” Jane said at 9:19, after we’d been sitting for the session for perhaps fifteen minutes. “Come on, Seth, for Christ’s sake,” she said, with unintentional humor. “It really bothers me when I don’t start a session within a reasonable time: I wonder what kind of a block is there, you know….” Then: “I think that right now there’s some material I sense, but it hasn’t fallen into the right slot yet. I just want dictation…. Well, I guess I’m ready….” She was in trance before she laid her glasses on the coffee table between us. Her eyes were very dark now when she stared at me as Seth.)

Such action serves as a safeguard so that you do not overemphasize the gaps that may exist in yourself or in society, between the reality and the ideal condition. Many people want to change the world for the better, but that ideal seems so awe-inspiring that they think they can make no headway unless they perform some great acts of daring or heroism, or envision themselves in some political or religious place of power, or promote an uprising or rebellion. The ideal seems so remote and unreachable that, again, sometimes any means, however reprehensible, eventually can seem justified (see Session 850, for example). To change the world for the better, you must begin by changing your own life. There is no other way.

(“You did well tonight,” I told Jane. Her delivery had often been fast and, obviously, deeply felt. More than once I’ve seen her produce excellent material like she had tonight even though, before a session, she’d announce a reservation about holding it for one reason or another.

(“Yes. Tonight I just did it to do it,” Jane said. “I have sessions now at times when I wouldn’t have bothered to in the past. I was getting stuff from Seth before the session, but I haven’t the slightest idea of what he said in the session itself — I don’t remember anything. But it was good, huh?”)