“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(At supper time this evening I told Jane that tonight she was going to  start dictating a new book for Seth, the “energy personality essence” for whom she speaks while she’s in trance — and that she was going to do the notes also. I’d record the “sessions,” adding times, dates, and the barest sort of other material, so that Jane could build up her own notes around those ingredients. My idea here was that as soon as I had a session typed from my original “shorthand,” Jane could add whatever she wanted to about her trance states, feelings, or ideas, while the session circumstances were still fresh in her mind.

(Seth finished dictating his last book, The “Unknown” Reality: A Seth Book, three months ago, in the 744th session for April 23. Jane finally admitted earlier today that she’s had only seven sessions since then because she didn’t want to make too much extra work for me while I’m busy with the complicated notes for that book. As soon as I realized why she was holding off, I decided to put her back to work on the Seth material, even though she hasn’t yet finished her own Psychic Politics.

(Jane said very little when I sprang the idea of a new book on her during the supper hour. “You took me by surprise,” she said at 9:10, as we sat for the session. “You called my bluff or something….”

(I laughed as I watched her prevaricate. We talked for a few moments, then Jane said, somewhat wonderingly: “I think I’ve got the title. It’s The Nature of the Psyche, colon: Its Human Expression. I’m not sure, but I think that’s it….”

(So it seemed that we were about to get underway with another excellent production from Seth, with Jane’s considerable — indeed vital — help. I understood that she might be a little concerned about his starting a new book on such short notice; but on the other hand, I had no doubt at all that Seth — and Jane — could do it. And I wanted her to be creatively involved with a continuing project. I thought it could underlie her daily life like a foundation.

(“As soon as I get it, we’ll start,” Jane said, and we sat waiting and sipping red wine. It was 9:23. She lit a cigarette. We fell silent.

I am writing this book through a personality known as Jane Roberts. That is the name given her at her birth. She shares with you the triumphs and travails of physical existence. (A one-minute pause.) Like you, she is presented with a life that seems to begin at her birth, and that is suspended from that point of emergence until the moment of death’s departure. She has asked the same questions that you ask in your quiet moments.

(10:17. “Now I’ve forgotten even the title,” Jane said as soon as she came out of an excellent trance, or dissociated state.

(Jane laughed. “You tell me to do something and I do it. Now I’ve got to go to the john, though — and besides that, I feel like I could go to bed and sleep for hours….”

(“Okay, go ahead,” I said, bantering. “Cop out if you want to.” I reminded her of the full title of Psyche, and made a few suggestions as to how she could proceed with her own written comments for the book stressing that she could handle them any way she liked. I just didn’t have time for more than the barest of session notes. However, I confessed to Jane, I couldn’t say that I really expected her to produce both the book itself; through Seth, and then do all the work involved in writing the notes too — yet as it turned out, to some extent she did help me annotate this work.

(Finally: “I’m just waiting,” Jane said. “I feel more stuff coming now….” Resume at a faster rate at 10:41.)