“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(This afternoon at 2 PM a very large tree limb fell just outside our living room windows, where I type up these sessions.

(Before starting work this afternoon I studied my favorite tree for a while, noticing that the force of the wind had begun to peel back large sections of bark from some of the middle limbs. One of these limbs arched up over our lawn toward our living room on the second floor, and the jutting-out bay windows of the apartment beneath us on the ground floor. I remember thinking that if this limb should fall, it would be long enough to strike the house.

(I began work, sitting with my back to the tree so that I did not see the actual fall. I heard and felt a great roar. The whole house shook with a thump. I heard wires flap loose. Turning, I saw that this particular limb had indeed fallen. Fortunately, it had broken off halfway up, and its tip barely missed our house. Now the yard is littered with sections of limb several inches in diameter and perhaps twenty-five feet long. Our television cable has also been ripped loose.

To say I am energy is no lie. It is actually truer than many designations that would sound more authentic and complicated. I am a personality in essence-energy form. This in no way implies that I am a spirit, nor does it imply that I am some weird sort of granddaddy longlegs of science fiction. What I am is difficult to explain because of the limits set not only by your own knowledge but by the present method of our communications.

I do not know specific people, but I will improve upon these matters as our grand duchess lowers her guard. I am quite dependent upon your Ruburt-Jane, not in my own perceptions but in my ability to communicate them to you. The whole problem lies here, but we are making strides, and we are making them despite some personal temporary setbacks, when Ruburt reads a book that makes him worry about these sessions. Then all three of us work twice as hard for the same results.

We have come along far enough so that we are beyond the danger of failure, I believe. Confidence must be built up slowly. That is why I have managed things in the way that I have. Confidence is extremely important and your confidence, Joseph, is an important, I might say indispensable, plus in our whole relationship.

If Ruburt were going into very deep trance states such precautions would not be necessary. I prefer this sort of give and take however, which means that in many instances we must go slower, but we will be more sure of our results.

Any materializations by the way, returning to an offshoot of our earlier discussion, are at best the sort of thing involved as with Ruburt’s deep voice. That is, they represent rather than are, on your terms. They cannot exist in duration upon your level for any long periods. They are an attempt to reproduce a camouflage pattern or to approximate such a pattern. As such they make quite an effect upon your level, but they are always reassemblies and never are they the actual reappearance of the exact camouflage as it may once have existed upon your level.

(“On your plane or on ours?”)

Some is distorted. Our material is much more trustworthy. This in no way reflects upon Frank Watts. It has something to do with him but also something to do with the development of your own abilities.

I do not know about our friend of the frequent apparitions. You would have to try him.

(Here Seth referred to Bill Macdonnel. Bill is a schoolteacher in his mid-twenties, and one of our friends who has known about these sessions from the beginning. He has read much of the material, and participated in the seance we tried. He has quite often expressed a desire to witness a session. In past sessions Seth has given Bill the name of his entity, Mark, and answered for Bill several questions that we relayed. And of course we have been thinking lately that Bill would be an obvious choice for a witness.