“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I would like to ask Seth if I was using my inner senses during the following episode, without being aware that I was doing so.

(I wonder: Watching the tree, did my inner senses tell me the limb would fall—information that I casually disregarded? Or is it just coincidence?

The American Society for Psychic Research will give you greater benefits I believe than the people at Duke, in this particular instance. I was not aware through Ruburt’s subconscious mind of the Society when Duke was mentioned earlier in these sessions. In the long run you are both better off that Ruburt’s publishing house did not take her book at this time. Incidentally, Ruburt is learning some inner confidence as far as depending upon his inner resources in the handling of problems in ordinary and professional life.

At some time you may be able to experience my structure. You see, the inner senses provide direct experience. The outer senses provide camouflaged distortions of translated secondhanded experience.

I do not think you are pushing her, nor am I. It is known however that a feeling of affirmation and confidence is indispensable in any such circumstances. The tricky thing here is that a plus expectancy and inner confidence always brings the best results with the least effort. Ruburt is attracted by and yet doubtful of his own abilities. This is based upon the personal feelings of Ruburt, who is a woman now and does not wish to appear flighty or hysteric.

This was the result in the past of the adolescent’s rather natural lack of discipline. You learned discipline at an early age, and therefore did not have to fear the abilities that you disciplined rather easily, and for reasons that I have explained to you earlier. This gives you greater inner confidence, and the confidence itself is a very important element in these sessions.

Always with Ruburt’s permission, and for that matter indirectly with your permission, for if Ruburt sensed you were against such a circumstance he would not give permission. There is here a gestalt and a delicate balance among us.

I do not bring about the trance state in the manner of which you are speaking. Ruburt switches another channel on, through which my essence can enter more readily. There is the problem here of my entry also into your conscious minds. This does certainly involve a looking inward on Ruburt’s part, but it is not self-hypnosis in the terms usually spoken of, merely a focusing upon an objective inner stimulus in much the same manner that you focus upon an outside camouflage stimulus.

It is one of my little tricks to add to his faltering and erratic confidence, and again this is with his inner permission.

Concerning your tree: You were aware that the tree would fall. You received this inner data at noon but you ignored it. In this case your outer senses served to restimulate the inner data. The noise of the wind and so forth gave you a glimmering of the earlier data that had not reached your consciousness.

Ruburt received the information and also ignored it. Ruburt also received information which he distorted about the Kennedy assassination. If you will both practice correct use of psychological time you will greatly aid such inner data.

“Die by his own hand.” The word hand was a distortion of the inner data. However, the symbolic truth was not impaired.

The material at the beginning of tonight’s session is important. I suggest when you can that you reread the material on the inner senses, the fifth dimension and your precious flying saucers. There is a connection here with the transference of energy from any one plane to another, and from the inner senses for example to a painting, that should be very helpful.

Your divider is an excellent camouflage pattern. In case you wondered Ruburt’s weekend fling with the furniture was a result of various things—an inner, unrecognized knowledge that her publisher would put off the book for now, and a burst of doubt over these sessions coupled with worries concerning your parents.

(“I’ve slipped up there lately. But I’ve started my exercises again.”)

(Jane also received a thought concept from Seth concerning his method of thinking. It was brief, but to the effect that if he were with a roomful of people he would not confront each one in turn but “experience” them altogether, using his inner senses to appreciate as a whole all the personalities and emotions about him.