“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

SESSION 114

(This is our first session since last Monday, December 7. It will be remembered that Seth gave us a brief rest, eliminating last Wednesday’s session.

(Jane had no idea of the material for the session as the time for it approached. She began dictation in a voice a little stronger than usual, at a rather slow rate with quite a few pauses. Her eyes were dark as usual, and she took her glasses off as the session began. Her pacing was quite slow.)

(Break at 9:28. Jane was dissociated as usual. At break time she then realized that she hadn’t smoked at all during the first delivery. As a rule Jane smokes steadily during sessions; even I hadn’t noticed she was going without cigarettes.

(By now I was also aware of a mild feeling of enlargement in the fingers of my right hand. The third finger was the most involved. Neither Jane or I have had many experiences of this kind in recent sessions. See the 47th and 55th sessions [in Volume 2} for more pronounced effects of this kind, including measurements.

None of this goes on in any one level. There is great interplay, and as I mentioned in an earlier session, inward energy is itself transformed and affected and enriched by the camouflage forms or units that it produces.

(An interesting little experience now came to light. Jane’s delivery had become very slow; as slow as the 110th session, which was as slow as any I recall. When I mentioned this Jane was quite surprised. It developed that while dictating she felt she was speaking rapidly. In actuality, her delivery had been so slow that at times she paced from one end of our living room to the other before giving voice to the next word. Thus it is seen that we had much different appreciations of the same amount of camouflage time. It might be added that during the 110th session, Jane was aware that she was speaking at a slow rate.

Dreams are such connectives, for you see that this preliminary material is very much to the point as far as our dream universe is concerned, and is itself a connective to that discussion. This will be the basis for our next session, for you will see how dreams also serve as the other face, so that man himself stands at a threshold that is also a barrier, or stands at a barrier that is also a threshold.

This interconnection means that the reality and actuality of each system is made possible by the existence of the other. Yet both are separate. This brings us to several points that I will leave for our next session.

This has been a most rewarding session, and I have enjoyed it. I would suggest here that our hardheaded friend, Ruburt, refresh himself tomorrow by loosening his schedule somewhat, and gaining new reservoirs of creative energy, through perhaps an aimless walk, or quiet contemplation.

And now I will close our session, hoping that you will apply tonight’s material to others, that is other sessions, as it adds to the total picture that I began to paint for you when I spoke of the so-called initial appearance of matter within your system.

(I was still aware of the feeling of enlargement in my right hand. I was careful not to confuse this with any cramping effect from holding a pen for so long. However, the feeling now became more pronounced, so that when I made a fist my fingers felt thicker, against a thicker palm, giving a feeling of restricted movement. Usually such effects begin to wane as soon as a session ends, but in this instance the sensation was stronger than ever five minutes later. It lasted for some fifteen minutes or so, during which time it gradually declined.