“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(On September 26, 1964, Jane and I sent sessions 39-91 to the publisher, Frederick Fell, NY, NY. On February 16, 1965 we asked for the return of the material. On March 5, 1965, F. Fell wrote that the sessions were being carefully read.

(See pages 102, 107, 114, 125 and 136 for some predictions of sales concerning Jane’s writings. Page 102 is a psy-time experiment of Jane’s; the rest are statements made during sessions. They range from October 30, 1964 to November 11, 1964. The sessions are 102, 103, 104 and 106. The letter of February 16 to F. Fell was referred to by Seth in the 135th session.

(Jane has been studying psy-time regularly, and reports that almost as a matter of routine now she attains what she calls an “excellent state”, involving a feeling of much lightness and separation from her physical self. She believes she is on the verge of being able to travel from her physical body, and is getting used to the idea very gradually. She often feels herself to be partially “out” of her body, but as yet always exercises control to avoid going too far, too fast.

(Once again we held the session in our back bedroom, and found it very peaceful and quiet behind closed doors. Jane had no idea of the material for the session. She spoke while sitting down and with her eyes closed. Her voice was quiet and clear throughout the session. Her rate of delivery was again quite slow; some of her pauses were long. She began speaking at 9:01.)

(Break at 9:27. Jane was well dissociated. She said she believes she is farther “out” when the sessions are very slow, as tonight. The pauses could last for an hour as far as she is concerned or knows.

(Jane said some subjective feelings are difficult to put into words. While talking about action and identity, she had an inner perception of a whole concept, of some kind of inside visual sense of action without seeing any object. She said this description is as direct as she can make it. While experiencing such a thing, Jane said she is not conscious of being apart from the experience. Rather, she seems to be part of it.

(Jane resumed dictation in the same slow and quiet manner at 9:37.)

(Jane now took a very long pause.)

(Jane took a very long pause.)

(Break at 10:02. Jane reported she was as well dissociated as she has ever been. She used to be afraid that when she was “way out” she would be empty, but she has discovered the state is not like that at all.

(Groping for words, Jane explained that she feels as though she is “wresting” material [not implying a struggle however] from Seth or some other source with a deep part of her consciousness that is below her ego consciousness. She feels that just recently she has in some manner begun to experience concepts in a more involved, different dimension of consciousness. It is a state of perception she hadn’t attained before, perhaps until as recently as the last session and this one.

(Indeed, Jane said, although she now thinks she was aware of this grasping of concepts in the last session, she did not mention it because her conscious awareness of it was so fleeting. Even now, she cannot say how long during the session itself she is involved in this manner. It is a very rich experience. Jane also believes the quiet back room we now use for the sessions is very helpful.

(Break at 10:31. Jane was dissociated. She feels she has attained a visceral knowledge of concepts, meaning that she feels them within. She also realized she was aware of what she dictated to me during the session, although not the word-for-word order of the material. She called this a psychological experience. She obtained the information one way, and passed it on to me another way.

(Jane also now realized that she had at her command the full contents of the 60th session, although again not in word-for-word order. This is the first time she has been aware of this experience. She did not feel tired, nor did she look it to me.

(Seth-Jane had some material on consciousness and the direction of focus in the 94th session, among others.)

(Jane now took another very long pause.)

(End at 10:58. Jane was again well dissociated.

(She felt Seth could have continued, but did not push her. Jane feels now that these recent developments mean she has given some kind of consent to go along with the sessions into a deeper trance state, to step back farther from her ego. A step at a time, very cautiously.

(Jane thinks that tonight her ego didn’t experience anything, although some part of her did. She thinks her ego gave at least tacit consent. And yet her ego assimilated the experience. She feels that this evening’s session was good because of her experience with past sessions. She felt light at times during the session. At times she was not conscious of being in her body; yet neither was she conscious of being anyplace else.

(Jane said an interaction takes place between us that makes the sessions possible. It happens within her, she is the one doing the experiencing, yet I am also necessary. She has a feeling of effortlessness on her part, and is not at all afraid.)