“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I do not intend to let Ruburt in on any of my plans or intentions, as far as demonstrations are concerned. It is much better all around if he be kept clear of such knowledge. The last session with your friend went off extremely well, and I hope that he follows my advice. If Ruburt had known what was in my mind, he would have been nervous and self-conscious.

(“Just what do you mean when you speak of demonstrations? Or don’t you want to say?”)

I mean any such performance as suggested in your letter from the Psychic Society. What I do I will do. I am saying that I do not want Ruburt’s consciousness involved beforehand, and the nervous strain on Ruburt’s part of wondering how such events will come to pass must also be avoided.

Now, about the inner senses. They fit together in a much more organized fashion than the outer senses do, and in some cases they tend to overlap. To describe them separately is difficult at best, their functions are so intertwined; and the distinctions between them are oftentimes extremely subtle. Too subtle in a few cases to be appreciated by you.

You are doing better than Ruburt, as far as your outside homework is concerned. Work with the ESP cards will be beneficial to both of you, since as you progress you will, through certain subconscious cues become aware of varying circumstances that will enable you to feel when you are coming through.

For purposes of sending records to Duke you may be best covered by using two, an operator and a subject. But for your own, or our own purposes, one is sufficient. I do suggest however that you both also work with the cards.

I may make this a short session, since Ruburt is somewhat indisposed, and after all I am not that much of a taskmaster. But if I do make it a brief session, then I will have you exercise your abilities with the ESP cards until the ordinary ending of the session. So you will not get off scot-free.

There are difficulties also. Not so much in interpretation as the fact that some terms may be negatively suggestive, or that you may put emotional connotations where they do not belong.

This inner sense is not only an important one but is immensely beneficial, and is not misused in any way by those able to use it. Very simply, these senses do not function until they can be handled correctly. This sense in no way involves invasion. It does not imply that one entity can control another. It merely involves direct, instantaneous cognition of the essence of living tissue.

This fifth sense, then, would enable you some freedom to cross this living tissue boundary into other living territory. Do not think of this living tissue necessarily as flesh, since those who are capable of using this sense fully are not on your plane to begin with.

Direct experience in these inner senses will give you a much clearer picture of them than any words, even mine, can do. You understand however that any direct experience will be of very low power. I don’t want to blast you off your feet.

Molecular construction is formed from the inside, and is not rigid. On your plane such construction and such electronic and atomic patterns, frameworks and fields, are rigid to a degree, but even on your plane there is constant and apparent change. The pattern on your plane is more or less rigid while you exist on your plane. Nevertheless, the atoms and molecules within that pattern are far from rigid, though the pattern remains more or less the same. It is your habit, or the habit of your scientists, to carry apparent universal laws over into areas in which they do not apply.

And when I go more thoroughly into the actual manner in which man constructs his universe, this material will be a basic starting point. I do not intend to leave material in a general, undifferentiated fashion, but will add details. But first you need the skeleton outline.

I enjoyed the session myself very much, and am pleased that we could get this material through now. I had thought earlier that you would not be ready for it until a later time. I do hate as always to leave you—

(“What are you going to do now?”

(End at 11:00. Jane was dissociated as usual. She said that by now she felt much better than when she began the session, and that ordinarily she would have felt worse, considering all the walking she had been doing, etc.)