“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

All actions in one way or another continue. It is only the outer senses which cannot perceive what does not fall into their own domain. When you perceive an action with your outer senses, you call it material if it is, or if it appears to be, static.

A panic reaction could be set off without the reasons for it known. This leads to ego confusion since the personality, trying hard to act in what it thinks is a reasonable manner, cannot understand the vehemence of its rebellion.

(Because she had been upset by the gallery situation, Jane at this point wished aloud that Seth could help her out as to what the future held; this is something we have scrupulously refrained from doing in any serious way, yet this time we sincerely felt we could use all the help we could get. Even so, we made no formal requests of Seth during break. Jane resumed as before at 10:31.)

—because you will understand that fearful expectations greatly color your perception of reality, and your construction of it.

(“What kind of a relative?”)

(“Try again. What kind of a relative are you?”)

(“In what year did you die?”)

(“What does the word mean?”)

(“What is Champlaine?”)

(“What year were you born?”)

(“What was your wife’s name?”)

(As Tom Roberts began to spell the name out, Jane and I both knew in advance what it would be.)

(“What do you mean by that?”)

(“What is your purpose in being with Del?”)

(“In what country was he a friend?”)

(“What plane are you on now?”

(“What are you doing where you are now?”)

(“In what way?”)

(I was groping on the spur of the moment. What I meant of course was that if Thomas Voghler and Tom Roberts were friends, and if Seth now knew Tom Roberts, then Seth would also know Thomas Voghler, or at least of him.)

(“What reasons?”)

(Three times the pointer moved to the above word on the board. Both of us were surprised. Joking, I asked Jane what she was doing to the pointer.

(“What is your relationship?”)

(“In what year did Seth die?”)

(“What is your entity name?”)

(“What do you think of the experience?”)

(“Can you tell us what Seth is thinking about your experience with us now?”)

(“What do you mean by that?”)

(9:00 PM: This might be called the Louisiana episode. I am somewhat unsure of this, and will have to wait for Seth’s explanation. Unfortunately I did not retain all of it upon leaving the desired state. It took me at least a day to recall what I am now putting down.

(“Say,” I said, “what’s going on down there?”

(“What’s your name?”

(“What town is this? Where do you live?”

(Things began to get vague, as though I was having trouble focusing on the situation any longer. It became very difficult for me to speak, and I recall trying very hard, almost desperately, to finish what I wanted to say.