“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The session was held in our front room, with the four of us sitting in a circle, roughly. Jane spoke while sitting down and with her eyes closed. Her pace was rather fast but I had no trouble keeping up with her; nor did Lorraine, using shorthand.

My heartiest greetings to our visitors.

We will make an effort to return to our own material.

(There came a knock on the door, and Jane stopped speaking. We don’t use our front room for sessions anymore unless we have witnesses, in order to avoid the risk of interruptions. In the past such interruptions have been physically painful for Jane. She has compared the shock of an interruption to being doused with ice water.

(We all sat quietly for a moment. I was then surprised to note that Jane had come out of her trance with no difficulty, and that her eyes were open. In fact, it was she who answered the door, to speak briefly with someone who was looking for another apartment on our floor.

Now. We will indeed cooperate in any investigation in which we may become involved. We will however progress at our own rate, without due speed, and we will in all cases keep our own sessions as uncomplicated as possible.

There will indeed be a give and take between the three of us, and your good investigators. I thought it best in our recorded session that I speak frankly, now, and so I did.

I am interested in adding now to our own discussions, for it is time that we enlarged both their quality and scope. We will almost immediately embark upon a more concentrated study of the personality as it operates within its dream reality.

I will let you take a break, since I am attempting to take the human limitations that are involved in our situation into consideration. There is no reason why you must take notes until your fingers feel as if they would drop. First however, I wish to give particular greetings to our friend Mark, who has consented to visit our circle. I speak fondly in my own manner. By all means take your break, and we will continue with our session.

(Jane’s manner had been smiling and active during her first delivery, and it became even more so when she resumed speaking. She often leaned forward in her chair, gesturing and pointing even though her eyes remained closed. Her voice, still deep, hit occasional stronger spots so that it almost boomed out. I began to wonder what our neighbors might hear, since our windows were open. Resume at 9:24.)

You will then discover that this dream situation can be used for your own advantage. We will go into the ways and means by which such advantages can be obtained. The information will be of a very practical nature, and it will still serve to advance our theoretical material.

We will also be concerned with the framework of the human personality as it exists within several levels of reality. We will conclude our discussion concerning the nature of action, in so far as action is considered by itself. We will always be concerned with a discussion of action, even though other subjects are under consideration however, since it is impossible to divide action into various parts even for the purpose of discussion.

Shortly after, we will take a group of sessions to discuss particular dreams, and interpret them. In no case will we ever leave the basic material. It will serve as the framework from which, and within which, all of our sessions have their existence.

There are reasons why certain personalities have been drawn to our sessions. This is obvious. Some of you have known each other in past lives. There are other reasons which, if you will excuse me, we shall not consider this evening simply because you do not yet have a basic understanding of certain issues which are involved. You can be assured of my interest and concern. My scope of activity is simply larger than your own.

This session is somewhat in the nature of a transitory session, for we will almost immediately in following sessions return to our main interests.

I am attempting to take some workload from Joseph now. He needs a rest in this respect. We will however in our next session return to our usual format.

Otherwise we will shortly end. I am concerned that we return to our material, for there will be times when it will be necessary for us to focus our energies in other directions. Such circumstances will not arise frequently, but they will arise. I am most sympathetic, Joseph, to the predicament in which you found yourself last weekend, and when we are alone we will discuss efforts that may be taken in the future. You did very well, considering the whole situation.