“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Perception of beauty through the senses is the trigger on your plane for subsequent inner perceptions. The two are so closely bound, through music for example, which can only be appreciated through the senses. Psychic actions take place which lead the individual beyond the senses. There is much more to be said here. There is a phrase which I will explain at a later date—inner senses—which you will find extremely interesting. By this I mean senses within the senses. I would use behind the senses but I believe this would lead to confusion.

Seeing for example a crowd of people, even if you yourself were among the crowd, you cannot experience the feeling that you were experiencing when the picture was taken, and though you may see before you the pictures of people who stood in that crowd, neither you nor they can see or experience the emotions that they felt. There is much more to be said here. I must move into these things slowly.

(Here Jane pounded on the desk for emphasis and began, surprisingly, to speak in a stronger voice. I had thought without becoming consciously involved that her voice had been strengthening and deepening since last break. Now, the deeper tone became unmistakable. As she talked it became even more pronounced, more formal and louder.

(Here again, Jane’s voice began to deepen.)

(“I’m afraid, Seth, that all the questions we’ve got written down here are rather serious. You caught us by surprise.”)

(“Do you have friendships on your plane, as we do here?”)

I have friendships where I am of course. The one thing about your plane that makes it such a tempting field of endeavor for all of us here is of course that we still have ties of an emotional kind, and we attempt, though clumsily, to make contact with friends. As you yourself write letters to friends in strange countries and do not forget them, so we do not forget.

(Along in here I had the intention of laying my notes aside, yet the habit was so strong that I continued writing rather automatically. Seth however began to talk faster than I could follow, so for the balance of the session I recorded key words and phrases and filled in between as soon as the session ended, while memory was still fresh. Jane and I agree that the following material is an accurate sum of Seth’s remarks.)

(I have the original account with my notes on the Seth sessions, along with three pages of notes she made with pen while in this state. Excerpts from these will be presented after this account. All of this material is presented here because Seth deals with it in the following session, the 15th.