“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(“Yes.” Seth meant that we could hold sessions on a daily basis. Jane and I had talked about this earlier tonight, without being too serious about it. Actually, though, we won’t have any extra time; the finished manuscript of this book is due at Prentice-Hall in October, and will require much work in order to get it done by then. )

(“Fiction” is the word Seth wanted here, he said when I interrupted the session to ask him.)

(9:40. Jane said she’d used the phrase given by Seth at 9:04, “Facts are only accepted fiction….” just this afternoon in her own theoretical work, Aspect Psychology; she had also written about ideas very much like those Seth presented at 9:15.

Your dreams are private, as your waking life is, and yet there is a mass waking experience and a mass dreaming experience in which each individual finds his or her own place, and accepts or rejects events. In your terms, the race at any given “time” simultaneously works out problems in the dream state, and those solutions are then physically materialized. Because there is more freedom from time and space in the dream state, there is greater overall perspective; many solutions that may appear poor in the short range — as they are physically activated — will in the longer range be seen as highly creative.

(Pause at 10:29. See Chapter Fourteen for some of Seth’s material on probabilities.)

Again, in your dreams you work with probabilities and decide which ones will become your physical “true facts.” Here you have great freedom both individually and as a race. Here each man works out his own destiny, and with the use of this dream information quite consciously chooses which episodes he will physically materialize and experience.

(Seth caught me. I wanted book work to continue, yet I was sure that his unexpected digression would also be interesting. It was — very much so: In material covering several pages, he discussed my mother and her recent experiences with probabilities in her advanced old age. The complicated family situation involving Mother Butts isn’t gone into here, but Jane and I decided to include the more generalized parts of Seth’s information; we think it will help others in their relationships with old people.

(See the 650th session in Chapter Thirteen for data related to the psychic accelerations discussed below. Seth also comments on the hemispheres of the brain in that session.)

There are definite material changes. The portions of the brain not used during highly focused physical life are turned on, as they also are in infancy and in certain stages of adolescence. The changes are triggered in each person individually.

She must experience such events in your time series, where to others they do not fit. I am giving you this material not only because of your personal concern but for its general application. The grappling with probabilities enables your mother to judge the circumstances of her physical life, and to program herself ahead of time, so to speak, for her next adventure.

(“Thank you, Seth. Good night.” 11:33 p.m.)