“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.

(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….”

(“You’ll have to be lenient with me. If I’m going to do the notes, there won’t be many. And I don’t know about a new book tonight. At least, I don’t have an idea in my head.”

(“You don’t need any. Which would you rather do?” I joked. “Start a new book or give birth to a child?”

(“This,” she said promptly, meaning the session. “But you have nine months to get used to having a baby. And I’m not ready for either of the books Seth has mentioned doing — the Christ book, or the one he talked about last month, on cultural reality. So what could a new one possibly be about?”

(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.