“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(“Does that include data on the Speakers?” I planned to ask several questions about the Speakers.)

(“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.)

It was not distorted. The Speakers are gifted according to their own characters, some having far more abilities than others, but all playing roles in the communication of inner data. In your terms, therefore, some Speakers would be much more accomplished than others. For example, there have been a far smaller number of truly prominent Speakers than the number given.

There have been less than thirty great Speakers. Give us time here.

(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.

The greatest Speakers do not only translate and communicate inner data, but also go much further into these inner realms of reality than others connected with your physical system. They add, then, to the basic inner data. The greatest Speakers have not needed the intensive training necessary for most. Their unique combination of characteristics has made this unnecessary. (Pause. One of many.)

At another level, Emerson was a Speaker.

M-A-U-B-U-N-D-U, in Africa, 14 B.C. The Speakers, more than most, are highly active through all aspects of existence, whether physical or nonphysical, waking or sleeping, between lives or at other levels of reality. As certain physical data are carried along in the gene structure, so this inner information is codified within whatever psychological structures the Speakers may inhabit; but far more readily available than it is to other personalities. It needs, often, trigger points to release it, however. These can take place in either the waking or dream state, and they serve to open up the reservoirs of knowledge and make past training available.

I know that one of your questions has to do with a first Speaker.

(“Yes. Number four: Is it possible to name, or describe, a first Speaker?”)

Now: In greater terms, there was no first Speaker. Imagine that you wanted to be ten places at once, and that you actually sent one portion of yourself to each of these ten places. Imagine that you could scatter yourself in those ten directions, and that each of the ten portions were conscious, alert, and aware.

You — being the ten of you — would be aware of existence in each of the ten places. It would be impossible to ask which of the ten arrived first, except to say that all began with the original who decided to visit the ten locations. So it is with the Speakers, who in the same way do not originate in the locations or in the times in which they may appear.

Do you have more Speaker questions?

(“Well, that brings me to number three, which you’ve already been getting into: What is the original source of the Speaker data? Where did it come from, and when?”)

The original source of the Speaker data is the inner knowledge of the nature of reality that is within each individual. The Speakers are to keep the information alive in physical terms, to see that men do not bury it within and dam it up, to bring it — the information — to the attention of the conscious self.

They imprinted it, however, upon the physical brain through the use of memory. There was always great interaction however between inner and outer existence for them, as there is today. Valid information gained in the dream state was memorized in the morning. One Speaker heard another’s lesson in the dream state. On the other hand, pertinent physical data was also communicated one to another in the dream state, and both states were utilized to a high degree. (Pause.)

Do you have any more Speaker questions?

(“Number five: Were any of the disciples Speakers?”)

(“Number six: Can Speakers work with us while they are between physical lives?”)

They can, and do indeed. Both of you are being trained by other Speakers who are themselves between lives, this occurring in your dream states. The Speakers themselves obviously attain varying degrees of efficiency.

(“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?”)

I was speaking specifically of what you would term an ancient Speaker’s manuscript, and I thought that was what you were referring to.

(I told her that question number nine was next on the list. It had to do with Seth’s perceptions while speaking through her, and had been inspired by the ESP class session for February 9, 1971; excerpts from this are included in the 575th session in Chapter Nineteen. In the meantime I thought of another Speaker query, which I wrote down. Resume at 10:40.)

(“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?”)

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.)