“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(On the evening of August 5, Thursday, Jane and I mailed Dr. Instream a copy of the 175th session, held August 4,1965, and asked him to check the telepathic/clairvoyant information on pages 176-77. We had not heard from Dr. Instream recently, up to the time we mailed the letter.

(Jane’s clairvoyant experiences continue. Some are more complete than others and can happen at any time of the day. Some appear while she is awake and active, others when she is in a drowsy state. They have been appearing often enough recently so that she now keeps a separate record of them. See also the notes at the beginning of the 173rd session.

Her previous lives were four. Her spiritual existence this time was a very happy one. The personality however was never entirely centered within physical reality, and was able to cope with it only by remaining relatively aloof.

When we have a suitable period of time it would be most beneficial for us to discuss the various members of your present family, Joseph, in connection with their past experiences.

She felt that it was her responsibility to have a child, and so she did. At the same time, because of the child’s defect, she managed to produce a child who was relatively free of those pressures against which she reacted. She produced in other words an idiot, who was in his own way supremely invulnerable to the realization of misfortune, a child who would not grow mentally into an adult, and a child who would remain secure in a relatively eternal childhood.

The child was extremely gentle in his way, and in his way he is still a gentle child. We are speaking honestly here, and so I will say that she would herself have preferred to dwell in such a dreamlike state herself. She was never a part of her century or her time, and she tried to protect her offspring according to her own limits, by seeing to it that his escape would be a more definite one than her own.

(As stated before, Jane met Ella twice, both times rather briefly some years ago, and has no idea how much she remembers of the visits subconsciously. Jane met Ella’s husband Wilbur once; he died a few years ago. I remember Wilbur as a small gentle man who was a tailor and who smoked strong cigars. He had a white mustache and a gravel voice. I recall that the family accused him of drinking heavily and of not taking care of Ella, although I recall no objective evidence of this. I always liked Wilbur. After his death Ella was moved to a nursing home.

(The shuffling Seth refers to above may have to do with the material on time and the electrical field. See the following sessions among others: 122, 123, 125, 126, 128, 131, 135. According to them, Seth would have to sort through blocks of electrical intensities in order to lift out individual bits of information.)

(Alice is a cousin to my family although we barely know her. Ella was greatly attached to her, I believe, and the two women spent some time together in the same rest home. Alice was a missionary in Korea for many years. She left the home where Ella was staying a year before Ella’s death. At the funeral Sunday we heard that Alice, at 80-odd years, was still alive, traveling about the country at the moment in connection with the sale of some property.)

His own fear is somewhat a danger. It is much less than it was, and your relationship has done much to better that situation. I will at some time say more. Ruburt’s love for you, his ability to love in general, is his protection. So he has nothing to fear.

We will not go deeply into the sensations this evening, mainly because I am thinking of you, and do not wish to take up more than my share of your time.

When situations arise it is sometimes necessary that additional time be spent; but when it is not necessary then it is best that you have leisure and hours to devote to your own work.

(End at 10:45. Jane blinked several times, squeezing her lids shut, then was out of her trance. Her eyes had stayed open until the end. She had been dissociated as usual. While speaking she had been aware that her eyes were open.