“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The first part of the session was given over to a friend who needed help with a personal problem. She taped Seth’s information, then left when break came at 9:45.

The information on the Denmark life in Chapter Eleven is correct, except for a misinterpretation. That was one life divided into two separate periods — literally a life divided in terms of interests, concentration of abilities, and life styles.

Some of the names given, for example, applied to friends rather than to yourselves. The overall picture, the validity of the existence, carried through the distortions, however. I was a spice merchant. You were originally an artist, who turned rather dramatically into a landowner, and against your youthful ways.

Ruburt was a dabbler in art as a young man also, and you resented this, grown fat and prosperous. You wanted him to go into more acceptable work, and you were ashamed of your own early wanderings as an itinerant artist.

Here the division was set between the idea of owning property, as opposed to being an artist. In this life that has caused you considerable unease.

(In the 223rd session for January 16, 1966, Seth said that my name in the Denmark life was Larns Devonsdorf. My wife then was named Letti Cluse. My son — who is now Jane — was Graton. Seth, a prosperous merchant, traveler, and family friend, was named Brons Martzens.)

The general itinerary of my journeys as given in that session by Ruburt was correct. There were some distortions in other portions of that session, however.

It will do no good to ask deep questions concerning the history of the times of some personality who was impoverished, ignorant, and limited. He simply would not know the answers. The picture of any given life, therefore, usually comes through the experience of the personality who lived it.

(Pause at 10:35.) Again, those details will emerge that were important to him. In my particular case, I am so unfocused on my own reincarnational selves, and they have gone so far on their own, that I have little feeling of immediacy. Since we [Seth, Jane, and I] have been so involved however, those relationships remain important, and in your terms our present relationship was latent then. The Denmark life exists as much as this one does for you. “You” are simply focused within this picture of reality.

(Jane’s delivery was quite animated and positive here, as though Seth wanted her gestures to underscore the material.)

(And although I was getting weary, it was apparent that Seth could easily shift into a state where his energy would seem inexhaustible.)

(“I thought the personal material you gave for our witness tonight [before first break] was excellent.”)

It was indeed. It was tailor-made for her.

(11:27 P.M. “That was funny,” Jane said, after she rested for a few minutes. “I was really out that last time but it was for such a short time that I really felt the transitions from ‘here’ to ‘there’ and back. That word Sue used — ‘acceleration’ — is a good one….” See the 594th session.)