“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane now motioned toward the door. Recovering my wits by now and realizing that the name Mark referred to Bill’s entity name, given to us by Seth at our seance, I went to the door and opened it. No one was there. Nor had I heard anyone coming up the stairs.

(By now I was completely puzzled; and Jane, evidently not wanting to speak on her own yet, looked at me and shrugged. We had heard the sound of a car, I remembered, and people going into the apartment downstairs; perhaps that had caused our confusion. I had a peculiar feeling of dismay, as though we had lost control somehow.

I have mentioned a test and I will go into this in a moment, also to me the rather obvious cause of the glaring distortion. However, and I have emphasized this at times, because of our materials and methods of communication such distortions will almost of necessity occur now and then. We can only hope for their gradual disappearance, but we cannot force their disappearance. That is, you cannot. Outside of putting Ruburt in a deep trance, there is nothing that I can do along this line. And there you have it.

For personality reasons neither of you would be happy, I’m afraid, were Ruburt to go into deep trances at my instigation during sessions. And you, Joseph, would be much less enthusiastic even than Ruburt. So we must simply work as we are and make the best of it for now.

You must however remember that this whole experience is new for Ruburt, and that necessary purity of perception and communication needs to develop. Now as for the cause of the glaring distortion. It is ridiculously simple. Indeed you must already know what it is.

And now my two wounded pigeons, bandage yourselves up in a short period of rest. You will fly away yet. I hope these few remarks have been crumbs for your flagging confidence. But humor aside, you cannot start out without expecting some difficulties along the way, and in this most difficult area of communication particularly. Mark my words.

And incidentally, do not blame your friend for not arriving. You are not going to make him over, and he tries very hard within the limits set by his entity. And now if all the fireworks are over, may I return to the subject from which I was so uproariously interrupted.

Tuesday does not exist to the inner ego. Your outer ego is now experiencing the camouflage time year of 1964. This simply does not exist to the inner ego, therefore the inner ego is effortlessly aware of any choices or decisions that you may make freely in say 1970. It does not affect your choice. It has absolutely nothing to do with whatever future choice you may make. It is aware of such future choices simply because the camouflage future does not exist for it.

Now, both of you have particularly strongly-developed latent abilities as far as the inner senses are concerned. Otherwise these sessions would not be possible. It is true that at the present time your abilities vary in direction, yet they complement each other in action and therefore in result.

I now suggest your regular break.

(Break at 11:05. Jane was dissociated as usual. The ache in her shoulder had let up somewhat, but she was not too surprised now to develop a pain in a foot. During break she hopped about until it too eased up. Discussing distortions during break, we recalled that once or twice Seth had mentioned using the deep trance state. Neither of us cared much for the idea. Jane resumed at 11:12.)

(Break at 11:36. Jane was dissociated as usual. She said Seth had been trying to get the above paragraph in all evening. Jane was obviously tired now, so I told Seth we’d hear from him next Monday as usual. Jane resumed at 11:37.)