“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The following data are from Jane’s psychological time notebook: January 5, Tuesday: No results in particular. January 6, Wednesday, 11:30 AM: Achieved a light trance first, then felt as though my hands were crossed, but knew they weren’t. Extreme sensation of lightness and rising, as if from some pressure beneath me. Left hand moved occasionally of its own accord.

(John Bradley, of Williamsport, PA, visited us yesterday. He has witnessed several sessions. He could not attend tonight’s session but left with us a question concerning transubstantiation; John wanted Seth’s comments on the literal results, if any, of this Catholic ceremony.

In many respects it is a reflector, the surface of the self looking outward. While this is necessary, the whole remainder of the self could not be left to an organizer or caretaker who did not focus his attentions within the depths but sat, as it were, on the front porch of the house, leaving the inner workings unattended. The outer ego does not want to meet the inner ego. The outer ego does not want to admit the existence of the inner ego. As the eye cannot see its own pupil without a mirror, so the outer ego could not even see itself, were it not that the inner ego hides in the depths of all reflections.

(January 7, Thursday, 11:30 AM: Mentally I saw Mother’s old house. Recalled writing a poem as a child that I had completely forgotten, and at the time it had seemed tremendous to me. I recalled only the first two lines: “My backyard is a garden, In beauty unsurpassed.” I saw the old kitchen linoleum in color, and the outside cellar roof. I recalled an item on the roof I had been trying to paint lately. I couldn’t see it clearly. My left hand moved by itself.

(At the same time I felt the same sensation, although to a lesser degree, in my left kneecap, which instantly snapped or jerked my leg up. All this was direct and kinetic on my part.