“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The night was very hot and uncomfortably humid, but Jane didn’t want to miss the session. We held it in her study for a change, with all the doors and windows open.

(Before the session, we voiced the hope once more that Seth would at least comment on Jane’s latest experience involving book work in the sleep state. This had taken place during the early hours of May 29, and had been very vivid; see the notes leading off the 667th session in this chapter. Once again, though, for whatever reasons, Seth didn’t mention it. I also forgot to remind him to do so. It’s easy to miss out on asking specific questions during a session — I’ve done this even when I had a list of them prepared beforehand.

(And yet, as if to puzzle us further, Seth did talk about dream material that Jane had obtained just last night. This turned out to be in connection with Chapter Twenty….

(Jane’s pace tonight was rather slow, her voice quiet.)

(10:10. “That was one of the few times in all of these sessions,” Jane said, “when I was not even in trance.” She had squirmed about on her chair constantly, but her delivery had picked up to its usual steady pace. For more data on moment points, see the material at 9:26 in the last session. Resume at 10:28.)

(11:45. “No.” Though I did get Jane a drink when, still in trance, she held up her empty glass.)

(11:59. The evening had cooled off somewhat by now and Jane felt better, although she said noise in the house bad bothered her while she’d been under. This seldom happens.

(At break I reminded Jane that we wanted Seth to discuss her May 29 dream experience with book work, but no sooner had I done so than she began describing her dreams of last night. I’d forgotten about those for the moment.

(Last evening had also been very warm, and Jane had slept poorly: She kept waking up with data about dream landscapes being “right there” before her, and wondered if she could travel among them “like crossing fences from one backyard to the next.” At the same time she knew that all of these localities were part of a mass dream landscape. As far as she knew the material hadn’t come from Seth, Jane said, but in retrospect it seems obvious that it had been in preparation for Chapter Twenty.

(Seth was all ready to go, Jane added now as we discussed her dream material, so the session resumed at 12:03.)

2. Seth first discussed his theory of “moment points” in a set of four sessions in April and May, 1965, in connection with reincarnation and the dream universe. In the 152nd session he stated: “The whole self of which Ruburt is a part is an extremely elastic one. The various portions of this whole self reach outward and inward with much more resilience than most. [It] surrounds many more moment points simultaneously….” Through one of these, Seth added in a very simplified explanation, he could enter within the limits of Jane’s “psychic comprehension.”