“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

SESSION 151

(Jane has resumed smoking again, and we wondered whether Seth would comment on this during the session. The session was held in our living room rather than in our back room, because of a lawn party being held in back of the house.

(Our windows are now usually open, with the advent of better weather. This admits traffic noise also, and as we prepared for the session we were quite conscious of the difference compared to the quiet back room.

(As usual Jane spoke while sitting down and with her eyes closed. She also spoke more rapidly than she has for many a session; my notes indicate she delivered the first monologue entirely without pauses. It soon became apparent that the unaccustomed traffic noise was having its effect, also. Jane began speaking in a rather normal voice, but before long it began to deepen and strengthen. The volume increased a little, but the lower key and a peculiar heavy monotone her voice acquired cut across the noise. I heard her without difficulty. She maintained this heavy voice for most of the session.)

(For a more graphic interpretation of what a moment point might be, see Jane’s description of the concept she received from Seth in the 149th session.)

(Break at 9:31. Jane was fully dissociated—way out, as she put it, probably as far out as she has ever been. She was aware of her voice phenomena, she said, and her subjective reaction to it was very similar to the way she felt during the Father Trainor episode: she felt carried away by the voice as though she was inside it, in a very light weightless state. In Volume 3, see the 131st session for information on the Father Trainor experience.

(It might be interesting to note here that Seth began talking about action in the 13th session, January 6, 1964: “Love and hate, for example, are action,” and “In your plane, action is the main word of importance,” etc. See Volume 1, page 71.

(See the 138th and 141st sessions for material on the three creative dilemmas.)

(Of course Jane and I have for some time been aware of the possible differences in meaning between Seth and ourselves, over interpretation of the word “soon”. Sometimes the situation has been rather humorous, other times not. A good case in point would be the 104th session of November 4,1964. In it Seth stated that Jane had already made a sale, yet she did not receive confirmation of the sale of her ESP book until April 19, 1965. See the 147th session.

These moment points may, for simplicity’s sake, also be thought of as reference points from one system to another. Do you see now a connection here with camouflage, as explained in early sessions?

I will shortly close the session.