“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane was very pleased now that Seth’s book was firmly under way after so many delays. Her energy has been “up” these days. After her long session Monday night, she had come back with an even longer one in ESP class Tuesday evening — and with Sumari¹ added, too. Now a third session was due tonight.

(9:54.) They grew up believing that the conscious mind was relatively powerless, that adult experience was set in the days of infancy. These concepts themselves set up artificial divisions. People learned that they should not be aware of “subconscious” material.

The concept of original sin was a very poor, limited and distorted one, but at least along with it went rather simple procedures: Through baptism you might be saved, or through certain words or sacraments or rituals redemption could be found. (See the Gospel according to Mark, 1:1–11, for instance.)

(Pause at 10:05. Certainly these sessions aren’t “spiritual” in usual terms. Still in trance, Jane lit a cigarette. Her beer was gone, but since I had a little left in my glass she reached over and helped herself.²)

At about the same time many intelligent persons were realizing that organized religions’ ideas of God, and of heaven and hell, were distorted, unjust, and smacked of children’s fairy tales. For these individuals there was no place to look for help.

(10:31. Jane’s trance had been deep. She felt better now, she said, because the weather had lost some of its oppressive quality. I told her that in my opinion the material tonight represented her and Seth at their best — and that it also had a deceptive simplicity. Jane was pleased, saying she felt quite free now about the production of the book.)

(“Yes.” I was just finishing my notes when Jane took off her glasses and resumed speaking for Seth. 10:53.)

(11:14.) I told you that the self was not limited, yet surely you think that your self stops where your skin meets space, that you are inside your skin. Period. Yet your environment is an extension of your self. It is the body of your experience, coalesced in physical form. The inner self forms the objects that you know as surely and automatically as it forms your finger or your eye.

(11:40. Jane was surprised to learn that almost fifty minutes had passed. Her delivery had become increasingly energetic and intent, and the session had turned into one of those occasions when she — and Seth — appeared to be quite capable of continuing half the night. I’d also picked up an infusion of energy. Because I was willing to continue, Jane changed her mind about ending the session here. Resume in the same manner at 11:56.)

Now: That was a rather general list of false beliefs. Now here is a more specific list of more intimate beliefs, any of which you may have personally about yourself.