“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Again this session took place without the board. As early as 8:35 Jane felt somewhat nervous. At 8:45 she had “no idea what he’s going to talk about tonight.” At 8:55, when I asked Jane if she had anything yet, she shook her head. She said that sometimes during a monologue she was aware that she was sipping wine or milk, and sometimes not.

If this were fully understood you see, then there would not be the necessity of looking for some god. I am certainly not going into the God concept at this time, though you can be certain that I will cover it thoroughly, since it is itself an idea camouflage covering something much different.

You know then that you yourselves create your universe and that each generation creates it anew in its own image. There is a growth principle operating in the realm of ideas and in the construction of these ideas into camouflage patterns.

The patterns evolve according to certain laws. They merely reflect the ideas behind them, and these ideas you must realize originate from different sources. They originate in the subconscious, it is true, but before this an idea quality is received by the inner senses. Sometimes this idea quality is received as intuition, where it sparks into the conscious mind. But the conscious ego is the primary manipulator of camouflage patterns and the obvious mover. The actual material from which camouflage patterns are formed is the vitality which exists and which is unconsciously used by your personalities.

At the same time the camouflage consciousness cannot be aware of the actual originator, and therefore must look for causes from the outside. In your dual system, that is, the two self-consciousnesses are more divided and alien to themselves than need be. The old idea of spirits pervading all physical matter actually represents an intuitive glimpse into reality that your sciences will finally arrive at in a long labored manner.

(Break at 9:56. This time we seemed to acquire a normal amount of material between breaks. Jane was fairly well dissociated also. She said that somehow the idea that all entities were in existence at the time of the creation of the earth shocked her.

(A few days ago, while doing some painting, the idea had popped into my conscious mind unbidden that the very act of painting a picture involved the construction of a plane. I had mentioned it to Jane at the time. Resume at 10:03.)

(Break at 10:30. The divider Seth referred to consists of an idea of mine to build a small bookshelf arrangement over Jane’s desk, so that she will have an enclosed working area at one end of our living room next to the windows.

(End at 11:38. Jane was very tired. She said that toward the end of the session she got the idea that our furniture-moving bout had helped get me through my danger period, which is the last part of winter, and that it had also taken care of her own first springtime burst of energy.)