“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane first mentioned a couple of weeks ago that Seth, her trance personality, would start another book of his own soon. The idea had just “come” to her after supper one night. We hadn’t taken it very seriously, since we’d finished proofreading Seth’s first book, Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul,¹ only last month; certainly we weren’t prepared for the fact that he was quite capable of launching another such project so quickly. Nor did Jane have any conscious thoughts about subject matter, or a title, for any projected Seth book.

(The energy at Jane’s command still impresses me, especially when I consider that she weighs less than ninety-five pounds. Given her permission, Seth can come through very powerfully indeed. Her delivery now though was average. By this I mean that when she speaks for Seth her voice drops in register, becomes somewhat stronger, and acquires Seth’s own deliberate but unique accent and rhythm. Jane took off her glasses and placed them on the coffee table between us. The next moment, her eyes much darker, she was in full trance.)

(10:00. Jane was out of trance easily. “I’ve got a feeling,” she said, “that that’s the start of Chapter One.” Her impression stemmed from the way Seth had called his material an “essay” tonight — which is something he hasn’t done before. It developed that she was partially correct. Resume at 10:07.)

(Still in trance, Jane took a long pause at 10:37. Her eyes closed, she sat rocking back and forth with one foot upon the edge of the coffee table.)

(End at 10:47 p.m. Jane’s delivery as Seth had been quiet but rather fast, considering the modest speed I can attain while taking verbatim notes in my homemade shorthand. “I think I’ve got half of the title,” she said as soon as she was out of trance. “It’s The Nature of Personal Reality — hyphen or colon — then something else, but I didn’t get that part. All of a sudden I’m exhausted,” she added, laughing, “but don’t write that down.”