“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

As soon as I took Jim Young up on his word that I could make whatever statement I want to about Jane’s work, I knew that this Preface would contain relatively little about Seth, Dreams and Projection of Consciousness itself, and I wrote to Jim about this. The book stands perfectly well on its own. These notes, then, will contain material not only about Jane, but my own involvement with her, her work, and her death. I trust that even though physically she’s no longer with me, my wife agrees with my choices, for she helped me learn that the one truly unique thing I have to offer the world is my own creation of it.

Right now, though, I want to present a message from Valerie that she received upon awakening at 6:30 A.M. on September 6, 1985 — some six weeks ago, in other words, and a year and a day after Jane died.

“Rob,” Valerie wrote at the end of her material, “I hope this has meaning for you, and whether it is Jane’s, or my subconscious words, it is beautiful, wise and useful — best to you until next time.”

[...] Often they remind me of other things I would like to say … I have never trusted the written word half as much as I trust the spoken word, and on your plane it is difficult to trust either, but as I mentioned, I always enjoyed conversation, which is the liveliest of the arts.

[...] He uses emotional inflections delivering the material that greatly add to the meaning of the words themselves, however, and he may have had this in mind. Words really come to life as he speaks them.)

Again the mental words — surely not mine — responded. [...]

Because Ruburt deals in words, it is easy for me to communicate in this way. [...]

My dear Joseph, one word only. [...]

“Why can’t you just take Mark’s word for it?” Rob said.

[...] It is difficult for me to have to string this material out in words and for you to record it. [...]

[...] And another word about our material; Ruburt’s mind is an excellent one and well given to serve our ends at this time. [...]

[...] Then these materializations of panic and pain play about the physical body, projected by the ego, and steal the powers of the subconscious mind from their natural constructive tasks.… In other words, the ego becomes a tool to disrupt rather than to create.

[...] After taking a few words through the board, she set it aside, stood up and began to speak for Seth as she paced about the room. [...]

[...] She still wonders where the material comes from, especially when she doesn’t know what she is saying from one word to the next. [...]

[...] Her laugh was completely different … as was her way of using words. [...]

[...] He would be sensitive to them, in other words, as you feel heat or cold without necessarily touching ice or fire.

The actual communication is not in words or pictures. [...]

If you will use psychological time as I have told you, you will get immediate first-hand experience with many facets of reality which take me pages to explain with the use of words. [...]

[...] He wants to know where the words are coming from and still wonders if I am a part of his subconscious; and I must admit that I find such an idea appalling. [...]

Now if you’re ready, I have a few words to say about your beautiful, if haphazard, experience with the inner senses the other evening.

[...] In other words, peeping inwards and outwards at the same ‘time’ you will find that all divisions are illusion and all time is one time. [...]

[...] I was in no condition to cooperate, so Jane wrote the words down. [...]

[...] I would think that I was telling Rob about each scene as I saw it, but then he would ask a question, and I’d realize that I hadn’t said a word for some time.

I do not believe you will have any saucer landings for quite some while — not physical landings in the usual sense of the word. [...]

“In other words, people from other systems of reality do appear in ours?” Rob asked.