“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The session was held in our large front room. It was a warm night. The windows were of necessity open and traffic noise was quite audible, but we heard Jane without difficulty. She began speaking while sitting down and with her eyes closed. Her manner was quite active and she smiled often. Almost immediately her voice acquired a somewhat hard edge that cut through the traffic noise, and she maintained this through most of the session. The “brogue” that sometimes crops up was also quite in evidence.)

(Our visitors were a young couple from next door, stopping briefly before continuing on other errands. They do not know about the sessions. After their departure, we agreed that our friends probably sensed that something unusual was going on. We did not ask them to stay. And as Bill Gallagher pointed out, they probably heard the deep Seth voice while in the hall outside our door; upon admittance they saw no one with which to identify such a voice. Also, although the room was well lighted the shades were closed, a practice Jane and I do not indulge in otherwise.

(Jane resumed in the same deep voice, which now was quite amused, and at a faster pace at 9:35.)

(Jane’s voice hit a louder and stronger note briefly. Again she was much amused. She sat opposite Bill Gallagher. Now, her eyes still closed, she hiked her chair closer, then pointed at him.)

Therefore, in the dream state communication is possible between all portions of the self. The personality appears in its truest state if it seems, in dreams, that you are free of space and time. It is indeed because the basic self is free of space and time. If you appear to hear voices out of the past, if you seem to see into the future, it is because the dream state is a more or less faithful approximation of a basic reality in which your time and space simply do not exist.

(Break at 9:58. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her voice had been on the deeper side, with the brogue apparent at times. Her eyes had remained closed. She had remained seated.

(Jane resumed in the same manner, her voice rather strong, at 10:10. Again, Seth was quite amused.)

(Grinning, Jane pointed to Bill Gallagher. Her eyes were still closed, her voice a bit deep, her pace fast.)

(Break at 10:23. Jane was dissociated as usual. She knew when her eyes opened, she said. As she looked around at us she felt that she saw us once removed, or as through a sheet of glass. To come out of the trance she blinked or squeezed her eyes shut several times. Her voice had maintained its deeper than usual note.

(Jane resumed with her eyes closed, and in the same deeper voice, at 10:31.)

(End at 10:50. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes had remained closed, her voice had been good, her pace fast.

(During tonight’s exchange her voice had not been as deep as during the regular session preceding it. She had however spoken quite rapidly.)