“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane has been back on a regular schedule of psychological time now for a while, on the restricted twenty-minute schedule set by Seth. She experiments just before noon. She usually achieves what she calls an excellent state, and this is as far as the experiments have carried her.

(I was a little tired, however, from the extensive typing involved from the last session, and reminded Jane that some of her comments regarding this were not good suggestions. She agreed. She had lit a cigarette during break, and now when she resumed speaking she held the cigarette in a hand. I thought this meant she might be getting ready to open her eyes while delivering material. But she resumed with her eyes closed, in the same quiet dry voice, at 9:27.)

Now indeed we will overcome our Ruburt’s poor suggestions.

(Jane now smiled again, then opened her eyes. They were again dark and luminous as she looked at me. This however was not the intent stare of the last session, but a more conversational and quiet one.)

I did indeed wish to experiment, though not on a spectacular basis, along the lines that we are using this evening. I now and then enjoy sitting at a comfortable table with you, with his eyes open, and it is good training for Ruburt.

(Jane, now, looked at me but occasionally. Her voice remained quiet. She used pauses less often and they were short ones. She spoke while looking casually ahead for the most part, and performed such ordinary chores as putting out her cigarette, sipping from a glass of wine, sometimes rocking back and forth, etc.)

I will now suggest your own break.

If I am, myself, subdued this evening in contrast with my activities in our last session, it is only because I would give you both a needed rest. I particularly enjoyed the session myself. I will now give you a break. I will end the session if you prefer, or I will continue.

(Break at 10:15. Jane was again well dissociated. She said that when speaking with her eyes open she is not as sharply aware of the transition from a trance state to a nontrance state. Now, she felt as though she could quite easily slip back into a trance, although she did not feel Seth.

Our material concerning the construction of the physical universe and of physical matter in general may now, perhaps, give you an idea of how important suggestion is. Also consider our material on expectation, for indeed expectation comes closer, as a term, than does suggestion.

(Jane’s eyes now closed. She continued speaking without interruption, and her eyes remained closed for the balance of the session.)

I will indeed now close our session. For Ruburt’s benefit, may I here add that in my remarks of our last session, I was speaking of our sessions only, and did not mean to take credit for any of Ruburt’s own creative work. I am saying this in gentle tones, to avoid upsetting him further.

Again, my heartiest and most fond wishes to you both. Ruburt incidentally would do well to be even more aware than usual, since he is at a peak now of psychic activity.

Your painting will now spur you on.