“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(This morning at breakfast I had announced that light was also a mental enzyme, to Jane’s surprise and somewhat to my own. We opened this session by sitting at the board as usual, without asking questions. The answers, once we were underway, began through the board.

(“Seth, why do Jane’s eyes appear to be darker and more luminous now, when she’s delivering your messages? Our cat’s eyes also had that same look in the last session.”)

Concentration. (Jane dictates:) Yet ego is relaxed. The cat focuses upon one thing at a time even though it has no strong ego. So Jane concentrates while I give her the messages, even though it is not her ego which is concentrating. You get a subconscious focus different in many ways from conscious concentration. In this state the attention is focused inward rather than outward, and it is the inner senses more than the outer that are being exercised. The cat is doing the same thing in his way that Jane is, and in the particular situation you are thinking of his inner senses, that is the cat’s, were focused in my direction.

(By now Jane’s voice had begun to grow somewhat deeper and louder.)

(Break at 9:45. Jane and I both were surprised at the amount of material we had gathered in forty-five minutes. The time seemed to fly. During this session our cat Willy slept the whole time. Jane’s voice never went beyond a certain medium deepening and a small increase in volume. At times as she talked it was quite normal. During this break I mentioned that I would like to ask Seth about flying saucers. Jane resumed dictating at 9:51.)

(Here Jane pounded the table for emphasis, although her voice was normal.)

(However, I did take down three full closely-written pages of material during this time. This included pauses during Jane’s dissertation, besides the regular-paced rhythm she uses. Therefore it seems plausible to us that some sort of time foreshortening may have taken place. Note that I had also remarked at the end of the first break how the time seemed to fly, and commented upon the amount of material we were accumulating.)

Ruburt, you can stop playing ring around the rosy. (Break at 10:20. Seth referred to Jane’s habit of pacing endlessly around the room as she talked. Although her voice sounded normal to me, Jane said that during this session even so she has a subjective feeling that her voice is different, and that sometimes it is a strain to pause in the middle of a monologue to speak to me as herself and not Seth. At these times she reports that she would rather nod her head to a remark or question of mine, so as not to break her continuity with Seth. Jane resumed dictation at 10:28.)

(I asked Jane if she felt all right, and she nodded her head in agreement.)

(Once again Jane’s voice became loud; but it was still quite recognizable as her voice.)

(Jane dictated the answer in a loud firm voice.)

(Break at 11:28. We were both very tired by now, Jane especially. We decided to end the session with one more question. During this answer Jane spoke in a low and quiet voice. Resume at 11:30.

(“Seth, what do you think about Jane talking to the students at Elmira College this afternoon?”)

(These notes typed up by Jane on January 17, 1964. They are from material written down by Rob immediately after the events of January 16, 1964.