“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

SESSION 50

(I made a list of these, added a quick sketch of the horses, and Jane’s Saratoga experience and ecstasy experience, pages 65 and 66; all with the idea of quizzing Seth about them at tonight’s session. These experiences with psychological time have become so intriguing and numerous that Jane and I devised a method to keep a list of them, in chronological order for quick reference.

(Last Saturday we bought an extra tape to have on hand for Seth’s promised party session.

(Both of us napped until 8:45. No witnesses were scheduled. We felt quite relaxed, although as session time approached Jane felt somewhat nervous. She began to dictate in a normal voice, pacing slowly, and maintained these patterns all through the session. Her eyes darkened as usual.)

I see that we will have a quiet session this evening. I understand that Ruburt has been having his difficulties, and as I have said often, patience is not one of his attributes. May I congratulate you, as well as myself, for our fiftieth session. It takes some doing on all of our parts. Two sessions a week is a very strict and heavy schedule, as you probably know for yourselves by now.

Whenever you feel that you need a few sessions off, you may of course have them. I did not want to take the chance in the beginning. It is too hard to set up conditioning. Now however, whenever you want time off within reason—my reason—you shall have it.

(Break at 9:28. Jane was more fully dissociated than usual for a first monologue. Since this material was so interesting we decided to wait and see if Seth would take up our own personal experiences with psychological time later in this session. Jane resumed in the same low-key manner at 9:39.)

I suggest you take your break. I had some indecision, myself, as to whether or not to discuss with you matters dealing with any witnesses that might want to sit in on our sessions, and still may do so. Nevertheless at this point you seem to be holding your own. By all means take your break, and if it seems that I am shoving a lot at you this evening, it is only because I want to make the best of the time that we have.

(Last Saturday Jane received several brief flashes from Seth; we have been concerned lately with the best way to handle the problem of witnesses—that is, to familiarize potential witnesses with the material, and at the same time keep our sense of privacy, and also maintain control of the sessions. Jane rather angrily cut Seth off, feeling this is a problem we must handle ourselves.

(One idea we think has promise is that witnesses attending the Wednesday sessions—we decided to keep Monday sessions private so that we could relax—first read the material in another room while the session itself is going on. Then when they have familiarized themselves with the material they can sit in on the sessions and understand what is going on. But during this reading witnesses could take notes, etc., or approach the material in any way they saw fit. We keep but one copy on hand, so cannot let the material off the premises.

We will cover your experiences at another session. I am sorry to put you off, but tonight was an excellent night to give you the material we have covered; and I want to explain your experiences rather thoroughly, and also use them to delve further into our study of the inner senses. You have been doing particularly well, however. I told you that direct experience through the inner senses would be extremely vivid, and now you can realize this for yourself.

If you would give me my due credit, Ruburt, you would not need to stew half as much. Your Saturday evening social sessions are extremely beneficial to you both. No doubt you know that.

The inner-sense material will also be tied in with our laws of the inner universe, since they are equipped to recognize them. If I neglected to mention Ruburt’s attire, let me here express my approval. I am going to end the session unless you have any questions, since the material came through so well.

I do regret not discussing your experiences, since I know you were looking forward to their explanation. I wish you both a most delightful spring evening, what there is left of it, and as always hesitate to end our session. I found this one particularly pleasant.

(End at 11:25. Jane was dissociated as usual, “coming up,” as she puts it, toward the end of the delivery. During the session her eyes had darkened as usual; throughout her voice remained rather normal. Neither of us experienced any more hand phenomena.)