“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Here Jane’s voice began to get louder and to deepen as she paced back and forth. Although there was quite a change, her voice did not reach either the depth or volume of the previous session.)

Ruburt, you will cease smoking within two weeks. For one thing it is harmful, and believe me I will go into the reasons at a later date. They are so little understood. For another, I refuse to sound like a hoarse horse. It is not good for my morale. Your voice is too sensitive and rough this evening for me to attempt any transformation of it into the more melodious accents of my own.

(Break at 9:27. By now Jane’s voice had regained its normal tone, though it was a bit hoarse. We sipped some wine. Among other things I mentioned that I had intended to ask Seth about schizophrenia sometime. Jane began to get an answer to this, and when she began dictation her voice was normal. Resume at 9:30.)

(Jane’s voice was by now a little deeper and stronger; but that was the extent of such phenomena for this session.)

Many so-called cases of possession can be laid to this alone. The dominant personality can be likened on your plane to the dominant entity. Please understand that I am using an analogy here. As the personality on your plane actually changes, expands and grows according to its potentialities, as it presents at various times varied images to the world, such as—if you’ll excuse me for using clichés—a smiling face, a sorrowful face, but is still basically the same personality, so on another level does the entity present at various times a varied appearance and speak in a different voice. As the smiling and the sorrowful face also express and expand the personality, so too do the various reincarnated personalities express and expand the entity as a whole.

(Break at 9:50. When Jane began dictating again, her voice once more deepened slightly. Resume at 10:02.)

The entity is the sum of these layers, having all of this knowledge at conscious command at all times. Yet though I speak of them as one beneath the other they are not actually so, and I speak only for convenience. They are in all places, intertwined with paths leading from one to the other and with the echo of the entity’s voice resounding through each interconnecting corridor.

(Break at 10:37. During the above monologue Jane’s voice was quite normal, and so it remained for the rest of the session. Without my asking any questions, Jane resumed dictating at 10:45.)

(Jane dictates in a normal voice:)