“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane had delivered a rather lengthy but informal session for our guests last night, as we lingered around the supper table after a late meal. Dick recorded it and is to send us a transcript, so later we’ll be able to add a few excerpts from that material to this session.

(Earlier this evening Jane had sung quite spontaneously in Sumari, but her manner became more deliberate now as she began speaking for Seth.)

(10:46. Jane’s trance had been good. We were pleased that others had been present during some book dictation. The rest of the session was given over to our guests; Seth’s manner became more jovial and his pace speeded up considerably. End at about 12:30 a.m.

(Who wrote it? Dick didn’t claim authorship. He came across The Seth Material, saw similarities in Jane’s and his experiences, and came here to see if she or Seth could explain the phenomenon. There are points of correlation, of course, only Jane is presented not with just a voice but with an entire personality, Seth, who then writes books while she is in an altered state of consciousness. So she and Dick were highly interested in what Seth would say.

(Besides this Jane’s novel, The Education of Oversoul 7, was written under similar [and yet different] circumstances. She describes the processes involved in her Introduction, along with the creation of some of her poetry.⁴

(To Jane, these states are all aspects of the same kind of highly accelerated creativity that finally “goes beyond itself” into levels — or aspects — of reality that we don’t understand clearly yet. The whole question is also relevant in cases involving automatic writing, painting, singing, musical composition, etc.

(Note that Seth endorsed Jane’s theory of Aspects. She’s begun a book on the subject. In it she will explore — among other things — the nature, validity, and sources of such personalities as Seth, and the “intrusion” of intuitional or revelatory material. Once again, see her Introduction.)