“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.

(Jane’s voice during delivery tonight was a little stronger than usual throughout the session. Her pace was not fast, her eyes dark as usual.)

In the back of your mind is one question that I have avoided for many reasons. One of the main reasons for my avoiding it was the necessity of giving prerequisite material so that the answer would be at least partially comprehensible.

(Break at 9:27. Jane was “in between” this time, or but partly dissociated. It seemed that we had not acquired as much material as usual. By the end of her delivery she was talking a bit louder and at a slightly faster rate. Resume at 9:29.)

It was far from a purposeless arrangement. It involved a foresight hardly imaginable, and I repeat that you had your part in the initial reaction, as did every entity who lived or will live upon the earth; and here we are getting into something rather difficult but certainly no mystery.

Since all entities had a hand in when the first particle of matter came into physical materialization, then the inference is plain that entities not yet born upon your planet somehow existed then, and this is the case. You are familiar I am sure with the old religious Christian dictum that God always was and always will be, and this is considered a religious mystery. The fact is that entities always were and always will be, though not necessarily in the same form.

When your friend Philip innocently asked at what point human consciousness entered the picture, his question was not pertinent. Human consciousness involves entity consciousness, and entity consciousness asserted itself at the very first phase of physical materialization.

That includes constructing the earth itself, and when I spoke of the first particle I referred to the very first materialization of physical matter, period. It was this first particle before earth had its form to which I referred when saying that it was the result of the will of all the entities who would ever be born upon it.

(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.

Incidentally, your universe was not created by all entities, but only by the entities that needed a particular kind of experience. The fact that manipulation is important upon your plane is one of the main causes for wars.

(This time Jane was pretty well dissociated. She said that part of her knows when she smokes a cigarette, and part does not. I also asked her why she couldn’t sit down and deliver Seth’s messages, as well as do so much pacing. The question came up because I thought she was getting tired. Her voice was becoming hoarse. Resume at 10:36.)

On your particular kind of culturally organized grouping the camouflage is necessarily strong, and the outside senses correspondingly vivid. This of course is bound to block some inner data. At the same time it is the inner vitality which creates the camouflage to begin with. Joseph was right when he spoke of entities creating stages upon which to act out their problems. The point of course being that once the play begins the actors are so completely immersed in their roles that they forget that they themselves wrote the play, constructed the sets, or are even acting. The reason for this is rather apparent.

(Break at 11:00. Jane was by now quite tired. She delivered most of the above material sitting down. Her voice was lower than usual also. In order to check a bit on whether any telepathy was involved between us, I told Jane I had a question I wanted to ask Seth, but was not going to voice it, at least not yet.

Incidentally, I was able to give you some of the information about Miss Callahan by drawing upon some of the abilities or qualities of Frank Watts, even though he is resting at the time.

(And however loose the fit, I can state here that Miss Callahan was the subject or question I had in mind and wanted to know about.

A visit might help you. I have been waiting for the question you wanted to ask, or was that it?

(“That was it, Seth.”

(I had to laugh as Seth-Jane began the following monologue, for as soon as it began Jane got to her feet and resumed pacing. At the end of the session Jane said she got to her feet because she felt very dissociated sitting down; she was talking with her eyes closed and felt that she might slip into a trance. She said that Seth didn’t care about her position. I thought, though, that it was more than coincidence that Jane became more active, considering the subject matter of the next paragraph.)

I would also like to really bawl Ruburt out in strongest terms about his smoking habits. This time of year in particular too much smoking is not good; and he knows I was going to say this and blocked me nicely since the beginning of this session.

(“Why was Jane so upset about the killing of the starlings at the art gallery by the police over the weekend? She wrote a poem about it tonight, and she’s going to send it to the newspaper.”)

Ruburt was upset and for good reason. That is although in one way the birds that were killed were meeting a natural end, the reason behind this end was wrong in terms of emotional value and he sensed this. It goes without saying that a bird’s death is inevitable, but a cat killing a bird does not have to juggle the same sort of values with which man is concerned.

Your cat sensed me in the beginning of the session. He is however rather acquainted with me now. It takes a while for Ruburt and I to get together so to speak, and at that time I was diffused and he was confused.

(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.)