“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

How Seth, Dreams … eventually came to be issued by Stillpoint Publishing, how it can even be thought of as a “lost manuscript,” makes a most interesting account that I’ll just outline here. First, though, I remind the reader that Jane spoke in a trance or dissociated state for a discarnate personality who calls himself Seth; by his own definition he’s an “energy personality essence,” no longer focused within physical reality. Last July my agent, Tam Mossman, phoned to ask that I search Jane’s papers for a manuscript he remembers her submitting to him some seventeen years ago, when he had been a young editor just beginning a career with Prentice-Hall. That manuscript is Seth, Dreams and Projection of Consciousness. As soon as he’d reviewed it back then, Tam had asked Jane to do a book on Seth himself. The result? The Seth Material, for which Jane signed a contract in December 1968. The book came out in 1970; and in it she had used certain portions of Seth, Dreams …

She did not remember him … as she taught his children. [...] But beyond this, Miss Cunningham’s present personality has been gently disentangling itself from this plane of reality — and she simply did not remember him.

Remembering how upset I had been about the death of the starlings, Rob asked, “Could you say something about the birds that were killed at the gallery?”

[...] Then I remembered the date given by Seth, so I asked as casually as I could, “When did all this happen?”

[...] Suddenly I remembered the jolt I’d felt at the base of my neck … had I had an attack of some sort? [...]

If you remember what you know of the trance state — in a light trance, you are able to maintain awareness of self, your environment and your place in it. [...]

Now, in a deep trance the subject, though fully aware of what is happening in the trance, may remember nothing of it afterward. [...]

[...] You must remember what I said earlier about mental enzymes and my remark that color can sometimes be heard … The tree recognizes a human being, though it does not see the human being in your terms. [...]

Neither should the ego react so violently that it remembers and reacts to past storms in the midst of clear and sunny weather. [...]

[...] He remembers having learned to read, but he does not remember having learned to see, and what he cannot consciously remember, he fears.

[...] Now this seems so obvious that it is almost impossible to remember what a revelation it seemed at the time. [...]

If you remember this, inner data will come through much more easily, and you will be able to control it. [...]

[...] He is in such good health now that it’s difficult to remember how badly he felt. [...]

[...] I remember thinking that no book of etiquette even written could give me an answer.

[...] I remembered none of this.)

[...] The thing to remember, though, is that this interchangeability can occur, and is, therefore, a property of mental enzymes in general. [...]

[...] Remember my first published short story, “Red Wagon,” in Fantasy and Science Fiction? It was based on reincarnation. [...]