“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(As instructed by Seth in the last session, I had compiled a list of questions for this chapter. It wasn’t complete but, surprisingly, it already ran to five typed pages and some fifty-two items. I contributed a lot of them, but also consulted with Jane. The list included some of the many interesting questions Sue Watkins had asked; we had saved these, along with those raised by ourselves and others in connection with various older sessions. All of the questions, we thought, had a timeless quality.

(Earlier today I told Jane that I was afraid the questions weren’t very representative of Seth’s book, and that to assemble a truly relevant list of them would require an intimate study of each chapter. This we hadn’t done, of course — partly because of time limitations; partly because Jane hadn’t wanted to be that involved consciously. We were left hoping that intuitively the list would be an appropriate one.

(We sat for the session at 9:00, as we almost always do, but Seth didn’t appear with his usual promptness. As the time passed, Jane said she thought she was somewhat uptight because of the questions; she had read them after supper. The session was held in my studio for more privacy. Finally, Jane took off her glasses.)

(“All right, question number two: Was the statement given by Jane, while speaking for you, correct, that there have been millions of Speakers? Or was this distorted?” See the 568th session, in Chapter Seventeen.)

(Pause at 9:35. Jane’s pace was quite slow.) The Christ entity was one. The Buddha was another. These Speakers are as active when they are nonphysical as when they are physical. The Christ entity had many reincarnations before the emergence of the Christ “personality” as known; as did the Buddha.

(“Number eleven: In Chapter Seventeen you said it would require more training on Jane’s part before she could deliver a Speaker manuscript, and that even then the work involved could take five years. What kind of training?”)

(10:12. Jane’s pace had speeded up considerably, as though she had lost some sort of nervousness. She said that now she felt much better about the question-and-answer format. So did I. The studio had cooled off considerably. Jane said she hadn’t been cold in trance, but was now.

(“We’ll call this eleven-a: Wouldn’t you say then that these sessions are Speaker training for Jane and me, raised to a conscious level?”)

(“Number nine: You told us you were going to elaborate upon what you perceive when you are speaking through Jane to a roomful of people. In that ESP class session, you mentioned going into a trance yourself, and the effort required by you to pinpoint us in our time and space.”)

(“Number ten: Are you going to tell us about some of the ways you contacted Jane before these sessions began?”)

I mentioned some of that in an earlier chapter. Much of her training, as Jane, took place in the dream state. There were frequent out-of-body projections in which she attended classes, taught initially by various Speakers. The information gained was often brought to conscious layers through the poetry. (Long pause at 11:15.)

(It was. I skipped down to number nineteen, a question I almost hadn’t bothered to write down. “Do you have any interest in perceiving our daily lives when you’re not speaking through Jane? Is this possible?”)