“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(At 8:45 Jane awoke from her nap feeling much refreshed. She asked me if she could share my studio with me and of course I agreed, having offered this arrangement some time ago. Her desk and books do not take up much room. Jane was so enthusiastic over this idea that she forgot to be nervous before the session began.

Well, I certainly would not want Ruburt throwing furniture at me. You understand of course that I am speaking of mock terror. When Ruburt’s resentment finally flares, that is no time for me to be around.

I am quite pleased, you will benefit by this, and also from the other changes in your establishment that you have been considering, including a method of using the back room all year. Resentment had a lot to do with Ruburt’s banging around. Not resentment at you, Joseph, but resentment because he felt guilty for not being satisfied. If you intend to stay where you are for any amount of time, then you would do well to get the most out of your establishment, and the enlargement being contemplated would be very beneficial.

Give the spider an ego and an intellect and you will see then how the picture would change. These would enable him to enlarge upon his scope of awareness and activity, but at the same time impediments would be placed so that the web construction would no longer appear either as direct as far as its source is concerned, nor as spontaneous.

It should be obvious that although an idea is born in time, after its conception it is free from time in a way that a spider’s web can never be free from time. To the extent that a construction exists as camouflage, to that extent it is bound by and vulnerable to physical laws.

(Break at 9:31. Jane was dissociated to a fair degree. By break time her delivery had become very deliberate, with quite a few pauses. Her voice was normal. The same conditions prevailed when she resumed at 9:36.)

It is actually a field, that is energy field, boundary. It protects the inner self by acting as a barrier that keeps the whole self’s energy controlled, and keeps it from seeping away. At the same time it protects the whole self from certain radiations which do not here concern you. No living consciousness exists on any plane without this tissue capsule enclosing it.

The portrait that you sent to the gallery is evocative. It continues to grow. It is not completely at the mercy of a completed camouflage. The whole self is never completely constructed on your plane. At best it finds expression now and then. A camouflage plane, merely by being what it is, makes it impossible for the whole self to find expression. There is almost hypnotic focus of energy for a particular time for a particular reason.

(A Kennedy rocker sat opposite my desk. Now Jane sat down there. She laughed. Her eyes were merry. She sipped at a small glass of wine as she dictated to me. It was one of the few times I had seen her sit down during a session.)

(Break at 10:32. Jane was in her usual state of dissociation this time. See the 16th session for Seth’s dissertation on flying saucers and their dilemma of form.

(She said she also had the feeling the quality of this material had something to do with psychological time, yet in a way that had nothing to do with gaining time. She felt Seth would discuss this after break. She sat down during part of her delivery at Seth’s bidding, so that I wouldn’t miss any of the material. Also, her broadly smiling face felt different than usual to her; Jane said she really felt Seth’s emotions during this delivery, and added that Seth thought he was being smart.

This value, or this particular extension of self to include other self experience, is one of the attributes that can be expected through the use of psychological time. It is an attribute that is independent of and free from your physical as well as clock time. You should remember the difference between physical time and clock time—I have given them to you.

First of all, experimentation and interest is growing in an exterior fashion as far as what you call ESP is concerned. Your next momentous discoveries will be along these lines but not in the immediate future. In your camouflage universe you are severely hampered as far as space travel is concerned, by the time elements involved in the camouflage universe itself. On your terms it will simply take too long to get where you want to go.

On serious matters involving your present time, what is going on at any particular moment, the pendulum can be counted upon as giving valid information from the subconscious.

For other matters a light stage of hypnosis is necessary at this time, and a very careful phrasing of questions. The pendulum is responsive to unconscious muscular speech and does give answers from the subconscious. We are involved in something much deeper. Ruburt’s subconscious on its own is simply not capable of arriving at the knowledge that you are getting in our sessions.

(Break at 11:07. Jane tapped on my desk to make emphasis for the last line of her delivery. She was dissociated as usual. She said that the last two monologues found her way out; she did not remember pacing, smoking, sipping drinks, etc. She reported that just as her delivery ended, she had another mental picture. This time she saw herself in the enlarged kitchen, looking out of a horizontal-type window at the river.

I am making up in value on another scale entirely for the last time. It is very possible that you both may need a rest now and then, and if so you will get it. But for quite a while it will not involve missing sessions but shortening them. Right now you are both doing extremely well. Ruburt, incidentally, was right. I had intended giving you a week off after your first thirty sessions. However you didn’t ask for them, and you didn’t seem to need a vacation, so I took advantage of it.

At one time she was in a subordinate position to you, Joseph, and without knowing why she would have been very domineering if you were a tenant. In the gallery relationship Ruburt is tacitly above her in the hierarchy and there is no difficulty. As friends a relationship would be excellent, as she would benefit very much, and you would both benefit by the help that you would be able to give her.

She worked on one of your farms in Denmark. She was, if you’ll excuse the expression, no beauty, and at the time you were not one to look for spiritual values in your women. She resented this very much. She also resented your son.

All things in good time, and believe you me, we shall have some good times. Incidentally, Ruburt is not pregnant. Put this in the record or not as you choose.