“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I am going to give you some more material concerning our discussion of matter, but first I would like to make one comment.

We will now continue with a discussion that we have begun concerning the nature of matter, and bringing up in particular one point I wish to make clear.

I have not known either of your guests before, but then I do not have to. I am not the nervous one. It is Ruburt who constantly, and oftentimes bull-headedly, blocks what I have to say.

He was an alchemist. He has been in past existences concerned with matters that lie beneath matter, if you will excuse a pun; and for this reason the interest has grown. One life was in a country close to what you now call Palestine, I believe approximately 832 A.D., and in this life the accident occurred.

Again, we find that the woman has been twice a male. This has given an open-mindedness that is this time combined with a more feminine intuition. The nearest I can come now is that one life was concerned with the occupation of a boatsman, of rather small craft, skirting near the shores of the Mediterranean.

There is still a tendency here to depend perhaps overmuch on intuitions which are basically sound; but such a dependence must go hand in hand with the discipline of which I have spoken. The death occurred in desert. It happened very close to Lepanto. He was then in his late fifties, and left two women. Not one. Also one son and four daughters.

There is much more along these lines. I believe he sent a message to one woman by a young man, and the message was not delivered. This will not mean much to his present personality on a conscious level, but the fact that the message was not delivered will mean much to the inner self, for that previous personality had set store by it.

The child of the man and the woman has existed as a personality four times before, which makes him older than his parents, in a manner of speaking. He died as a young child upon one occasion, a girl with musical abilities. During another existence in, I believe Babylonia, he was what passed for a scribe.

The depth of this reality cannot be plunged into in the same manner that one plunges into a river or a stream. The depth of this reality can, again, be compared to the depth of a sleep or a trance, or the depth of any common psychological experience.

I will now close the session, somewhat early by a few moments or so, and again I would suggest that your visitors read as much material as possible. They are of course welcome to any session, but a familiarity with the material will add to the benefit that can be received by witnessing a live session; and indeed, I can be a lively one. I have been in my time quite reprobate. Ruburt does not allow me much leeway at present. I will now bid you all a fond good evening. Your psychological time experiments should go better next week.