“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.)

Ruburt was correct. He did receive what he prefers to think of as a flash from me tonight. His dream was a mixture of telepathy, and this legitimate telepathic message was colored by the other elements that made up the dream, and this was subconscious fantasy. That is, he wove a dream about a legitimate telepathic communication.

The dream data was correct in its bare essentials. Your friend, Miss Callahan, said that she was going away, and that she did not really want to go away. The picture in the dream was partly subconscious guesswork with a touch of clairvoyance. Any such inner communications are basically the same in that they are picked up by the inner senses, whether or not the information is received as a telepathic communication or in terms of clairvoyance. Where a place for example is seen, rather than words being heard, is determined by the receiver of the message.

At the precise time of Ruburt’s dream, your friend Miss Callahan had, or rather was, deciding to leave this plane. Ruburt received this message directly. The unwillingness on Miss Callahan’s part represented of course her present personality’s protest against the change that a deeper part of herself deemed necessary and proper.

It was Miss Callahan’s discovery that she needed operations on both eyes that caused this deeper decision. Miss Callahan herself was conscious of natural dismay over the projected operations. When she told Ruburt of the operations, Ruburt leapt to the conclusion that this was the meaning of the dream, and that the dream data had been incomplete.

I think that before tonight, subconsciously Ruburt knew the true meaning of the dream. Part of the subconscious fantasy in the dream was of course valid, representing a watered-down version of the actual communication. For example, Miss Callahan’s black apparel. She had been preparing herself since she learned of the operations’ necessity for her own departure. Yet consciously of course, she was ignorant of her own inner decision, and this is always absolutely necessary.

(“You said once that the shock of birth was worse than the shock of death.”

(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.”)

That image was of another personality type fragment from another plane. I have used the word plane to describe any other existence sphere with which you are not familiar. I am afraid we will have to cease this practice. From here on I will use the word plane to refer to existences having to do with your own levels. That is your Miss Callahan I will say is on another plane, since this involves the continuation in some manner of a personality concept which you can understand.

(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.

(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.)

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