“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(This morning Jane invited Dr. and Mary Piper to witness the session tonight. The doctor and his wife accepted the invitation, contingent upon whether his office was still busy at session time, and whether they could get a baby sitter.

After eight o’clock on the night of a session, Ruburt should take steps so that he is not concerned over the question of whether or not particular visitors will arrive. I cannot get through to him as well when he is so concerned; nor, when he is so concerned, can I let him know ahead of time whether or not witnesses will arrive.

(From my seat at the living room table next to the windows, I happened to look out in time to see the Pipers turn the corner and move down the street toward our house. I pointed toward the window, and Jane caught my meaning.)

Now that your guests are indeed arriving, you may let them enter, or I myself will open the door. I suggest that this time you open the door, and bid that they be seated.

We will again use this chair, this time to explain our point. The chair is being constantly constructed. Now the chair represents a subdivision in matter, being what you term dead matter, though we know that consciousness is everywhere.

You know that you cannot perceive with the outer senses the pulsations of energy as they form this chair; because you cannot perceive these pulsations, the chair appears durable, a part of your time and space, and continuous in time and space.

Nevertheless, Norman has twice before been a man, and the time immediately preceding this existence he was a woman. There were two children then, and he is in this life closely acquainted with three individuals who were close to him in the past existence.

He once, and not purposely, broke a man’s back in an accident involving horses. There was no deep guilt involved. Nevertheless in the woman’s existence he passed by a feeling of guilt. This time he mends people’s backs, but this is not the only connection.

There has been a need for discipline, which is now somewhat being achieved, and past interests which have this time solidified into a more coherent purpose. We will at another time go more further into these particular matters.

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.

He was indeed at that time as superstitious as the rest. In a battle, he was killed by a Moor. The looting carried on in the name of the Christian God would indeed make the pagans blush.

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 material should be read from the beginning, with the exception of personal material which has been delivered this evening. There is no doubt that the development of matter, and an understanding of it, will enable you to manipulate it and also at times to discard it almost entirely.

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.

(While trying psychological time I had the following rather mild experiences. According to Seth in the 73rd session, my psychic energies are at low ebb.