“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(After supper we set out to buy a tape recorder. We did not return to the house with it until 8:30, then looked it over until 8:45. Then we began to sit quietly in preparation for the session. As usual Jane began to get the jitters. We sat at the board; as soon as our fingers touched the pointer it spelled out Seth’s greeting.

Usually in these sessions only one inner sense is in strong operation, but as I mentioned in our last session, man does not trust anything which occurs to him or in him unless he is consciously aware of what he is doing, how he is doing it, and why. It bothers Ruburt, as he has said in my hearing, that often-times just before we begin our session formally he does not have a thought in his head. And then my excellent dissertations begin, if you will forgive a touch of egoism on my part.

Ruburt wants to know where the words are coming from. He still wants to know if I am part of his subconscious—and I must admit I do find such an idea appalling—and he wants his answers given to him in a manner which his conscious mind can understand. This is our 24th session, and I am still trying to give you the answers.

There is an inner sense, dear Joseph, that in a vague manner corresponds to your own inner images. That is, you use this inner sense quite inadvertently in your visions, except that as a result of your lack of consistent training you see these but dimly. Nor can you maintain them for long. You are of course familiar with the difference between the early movies, the stills without sound, the grotesque jerky motions, and the latest Technicolor achievements, with whatever embellishments have been added. In our attempts here in these sessions you hardly know what the camera is.

It is true that the difference is beyond words, that is the sense apparatus that you are trying to use, is much different than the outer apparatus with which you are familiar. The inner senses however give much stronger impressions than ones given by the outer senses. When we really progress in our sessions, you will have results that are as real as the outer camouflages that you take for granted.

Dear Joseph, apropos of your remarks during your break: I feel concept patterns, or at least that is the nearest I can come to explaining it to you, and this my dear friend will involve our third inner sense when we really go into that discussion. It involves a different idea entirely from the first inner sense, which somewhat corresponds on a different level to your empathy. There is a subtle distinction between the two senses that sets them apart.

(I took my pad over to our high, old-fashioned TV set. It made a good desk. I stood up to take Jane’s dictation for the rest of the session.)

This time however there was a remembrance of panic, but that is all. Actually you opened the door out of desire, stimulated by our sessions and out of curiosity, but you were still scared to death.