“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

SESSION 180

(Jane has been improving in her psychological time experiments since Seth advised her that she was trying too hard in the 178th session. Today she attained an excellent state.

(As I had for the 179th session, I prepared a test envelope in case we had a chance to use it during the session. This time the double envelopes contained a black and white photo I took of Jane at York Beach, ME, a little over a year ago this month. I thought this would have an extra emotional content, as did the symbol I used in the first test. [This is to be our second such test.]

(It will be remembered that it was at York Beach, in August 1963, that Jane and I saw the fragments we had ourselves created, according to Seth, in the dancing establishment called the Driftwood Lounge. This was some months before the sessions began. The snapshot was taken on the beach perhaps 200 yards from the Driftwood. For York Beach material see sessioms 9, 15, 17, 69, and 80 in Volumes 1 and 2.

(I took care that Jane did not see me preparing the envelopes this evening, although she was well aware a test might take place. We had discussed the matter earlier in the day but she had not given me an unequivocal yes or no answer, as to whether we should make such tests an everyday procedure during sessions. See Seth’s comments on this in the last session.

(Tonight’s session was held in our back room. My writing table is beside a bookcase, and before the session I slipped the test envelope between a couple of books without Jane being present. Thus I could easily reach it during the session.

(Jane spoke while sitting down and with her eyes closed for the entire session. Her voice was quiet, and although she used pauses her delivery was for the most part quite rapid. She began speaking at 8:59.)

(Bill Macdonnel was present but I was working in my studio. Jane said my absence annoyed her somewhat. Perhaps too cautiously, I had advised her against the attempt earlier in the day, since she had expressed general fatigue. She was also not quite sure of how sympathetic Bill was to the attempt. See the 131st and 158th sessions for details on the Father Trainor experiments in Volumes 3 and 4.

(Jane said she felt it when I dropped the test envelope into her lap. This did not make her nervous however; she was “already Seth,” she said. In the first test she had the envelope in her possession before the session began, and could not but help know that a test was in the offing.

(For some other material on concepts see the following sessions: 149, 151, 153, 164.

(The session resumed with Jane again sitting down and speaking with her eyes closed. Her voice was quiet and rather fast. She smiled in recollection of her ebullient feelings. Resume at 9:35.)

He has learned much however since our last session, and you can see that it was much better that we allowed the distortions to come through in our first test, since it allowed him to learn more about the simultaneous existence of our consciousnesses during a session.

(Peggy has had the object here in our apartment on a couple of visits not connected with the Seth sessions, and of course told Jane about it. Peggy began to carry it about with her a week or so ago after Jane and I had asked if Peggy and Bill, her husband, would cooperate with us in some future tests.

(See my notes at the start of session 180, page 206.)

You may now take a break and I will continue, or you may end the session as you prefer. As always I await your pleasure.

This will be helpful in other respects also. The practice will soon show excellent results. He will simply know which channels are which, and therefore can change his frequency, so to speak, with a surer hand. This has been a most enlightening session for you, and we have achieved results that do not show here yet. Do you have any questions, Joseph?

(See the 179th session.)

If you have any questions I will do my best to answer them. Or if not we will end the session.

My congratulations then. Your part in these sessions is extremely important, as I expect that you know.