“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(By 8:50 Jane said, “I sort of feel Seth around, but I don’t know what he’s going to talk about.” She also said she did not feel quite as nervous. At 8:58 she had received Seth’s greeting; but she held him off until 9 PM.

(In the beginning her voice was a little strong but not deep; her eyes were dark as usual and her pace rather slow and steady. By first break her voice was normal, and since these conditions prevailed for the rest of the session they need not be mentioned again.)

His bursts of nervous energy usually begin in January and are somewhat the result of chemicals that appear in the air at that time. Much of this energy is channeled into his work, but when there is trouble or a lag, then look out. Nevertheless if you can believe it this siege is about over, the energy itself finding much more beneficial outlet in the poetry which comes with a splurge at the end of March as a rule.

The constant furniture moving certainly bothers you, Joseph. Except for the definite inconvenience which it causes you and for the energy lost, it is not seriously detrimental. Used judiciously, it can be a good outlet for excess nervous energy; but not, dear Ruburt, day after day after day. Do you want to be a poet or a furniture mover? I do suggest strongly now that you desist. My comments on this matter hereby end.

(I had mentioned this thought to Jane several hours ago, thinking that if she needed an exclusive workroom there was no solution for it but to move to a larger apartment.)

You do experience time, but not time as it is bound by your camouflage patterns. As I have mentioned you can in a dream or daydream or through conscious use of psychological time experience many hours in a few clock minutes. This experience comes very close to the third inner sense. If you will remember again our imaginary experience through the inner senses as we looked down at the street, you will remember that I spoke of sensing not only the present essence of the living consciousnesses within a certain scope, but I also mentioned sensing their past and futures.

The music is more important to Ruburt than either of you know. If the man comes let him in. I will be with you but quiet, and I would be curious in any case. Perhaps I will tell you about your TV man. So be quiet, kind hearts.

(At 9:34 the service truck moved to the back of our house; we could see a man with a flashlight checking wires, etc., but no one knocked on our door. Jane resumed dictation at 9:35. And here again, her first few sentences answered the question in my own mind.)

You may have experiences through all of the inner senses but not at once. This is a great simplification. What I should perhaps add for the sake of clearness is that you will not as a rule be aware of data that comes to you through more than one sense, inner sense, at a time.

In the various levels of existence the inner and outer egos begin to merge. Gradually direct experience of inner reality is spoon-fed by the inner ego through the mouth of the subconscious to the outer ego. The division between the inner and outer egos is necessary for other reasons than the nature of direct experience itself. That is, the outer ego is shielded from direct experience of reality because it could not take the impact of such experience. But this is not the only reason.

(For the next four paragraphs, I experienced many instances of what I thought might be telepathy between Jane and me. I did not receive whole sentences from her, but often would seem to pick out the exact words of a phrase just before she gave voice to them.)

Basic reality is not uncontrolled, savage, undisciplined or chaotic, but if you were suddenly confronted with it at your present state of development you would be like a straw in a hurricane. But because of your weakness, the various levels of existence merely prepare you and equip you for the experience of true reality, of which you have but a glimmering.

To the extent that you are able to allow yourselves to be aware of data received by the inner senses, you are preparing yourself and are that far ahead. You remember, Joseph, the rather frightening sensation you felt during one instance of your use of one inner sense, when you translated inner data into the almost nightmare picture of open mouths that could not scream. This is but a minute instance.

I do not mean to mislead you. Basic reality is not by nature terrifying. It is however vibrant and direct to the extreme, and you must be prepared before you experience such an ultrasonic action. A direct experience of reality involves complete use of all the inner senses to an integrated cognizance field. A very weak analogy can be found if you imagine at one time hearing the most exciting and moving music imaginable, while simultaneously smelling the strongest but not necessarily unpleasant odor, viewing the most emotionally-charged scene while feeling intense and vivid bodily sensations. In normal life you even turn down outer-sense stimuli for the sake of simplicity, and to enable you to focus upon those stimuli close at hand.

It is thinned out further by my own subconscious, because my inner and outer egos are not yet a complete unity, although I am, or my outer ego is, in direct contact with my inner ego on some occasions. Nevertheless my subconscious is not yet dispensed with but is still retained somewhat in the order of your archaic appendix.

Such exercises as a rule will not take up time during sessions however, but will appear at other occasions, consume hardly any clock time at all, and seem spontaneous. As preparation I suggest that your reread the material given so far on the inner senses, the first, second and third. We will go into the other inner senses at future sessions.

Your television repairman has 3 children, a kind heart, and something wrong with his left foot. This is not noticeable but something is wrong with his left foot. One of the bones.

Sleeping with your heads to the north is excellent, on your plane only. Because of magnetic properties your molecules are aligned with greater efficiency. I certainly do not like to go into household matters. A point, however: Your bed should never be in your main room. Not only do you have lack of privacy, one of Ruburt’s squawks, and not only should various biological functions be separated on your plane as I have suggested, but the room itself, while excellent for some purposes involving use of the intellect, is simply not good for sleeping.

The back room is the best for sleeping. However it is also the best for your working purposes, Joseph. The small room will do as a sleeping room, but the head of the bed should be at the north. And in the use of psychological time exercises you would do well if your head was at the north.