“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane and I were back home from visiting Miss Callahan, in the hospital, by 8:30. We spent the time remaining before the session was due in discussing the flash Jane had received from Seth, concerning her dream about Miss C., and then in sitting quietly for a few minutes.

(Again we did not use the board. By 8:50, Jane felt her usual nervous pangs. The session actually began at 8:55, when Jane rose and began to pace and dictate. Her voice was a bit stronger than usual.)

(Jane had asked Miss Callahan about Frank Watts soon after our first session, of December 2/63.)

(Break at 9:28. Once again we felt that we had gathered a lot of material in just about half an hour. Jane was fairly dissociated, she said, except when she paused in her pacing to look out one of our living room windows. This window overlooks a very busy intersection, one house away. It was a very cold night, and Jane was intrigued by the patterns that lingering clouds of automobile exhausts left hanging in the air. Resume at 9:32, Jane dictating.)

(Break at 10:03. Up until near the end of this session, Jane spoke in a voice slightly stronger than usual, and paced at a fair rate. Her eyes retained their usual darkness during delivery. She was, she said, tired tonight; her mind was a blank, and yet the material came through. Resume at 10:12.)

(“That night Jane, Bill Macdonnel and I held our amateur ‘seance’ with your help, you said the image that replaced Jane’s reflection in the mirror was from another plane.”)

Later I will attempt to show you where the boundaries are, though (Jane laughed) there really are no boundaries, that form a variety of such planes into a sphere of relation in which to some extent cause and effect operates as you understand it. Beyond that for a long time there is no need for me to go any more deeply. I will speak of the entity, the personalities, the reincarnations, the diverse fragment groupings, the planes with which you are either familiar with or can understand, and ultimately try to deal with your question, implied if not spoken, as to where entities came from to begin with.

(Break at 10:55. Jane’s voice was getting tired by now. During the past two monologues she had been fairly well dissociated. She could feel Seth trying to get the material through without overloading her, she could feel him trying to get her to use the right words. It was as though, she said, Seth was stretching her brain in an effort to get the material through.

(The nature of this material of course led Jane and I to speculate a little bit, during break, about the fact that what we had as a species, and indeed the species itself, might be quite impermanent. Being personally interested in such things, we talked of the perhaps intrinsic impermanence of all of our works of art, whether it be painting, music, literature, etc. Resume at 11:04.)

(Indeed, Jane and I had both been strongly aware that Seth was evidently doing something with respect to time, during the last few sessions. The peculiar thing is that while the session is underway neither of us is aware of any change. It is only at a break, for instance, that we will notice the amount of material we have taken in half an hour or thereabouts. Without running actual physical tests for comparison, we seem to accumulate quite a bit more than would usually be possible without going at top speed. Yet during a session Jane while talking steadily, nevertheless pauses often, and I am no longer pressed to write at top speed to keep up with her.

(By now, Jane was quite tired. Her voice was low, and her pace much slower.)

I do strongly suggest that you begin work with these cards and also (Jane laughed) when you have the time that you continue your own attempt to use the inner senses outside these sessions. And (Jane laughed again) all of this with a balanced social life.

(Pausing, Jane stood with arms outstretched to the left of my desk. I could quickly see that some kind of a divider here would shield her working area from the entrance to our apartment.)

(End at 11:28. Jane reports that she was dissociated during this delivery also, in spite of being so tired.)