“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane talked with Peggy Gallagher briefly on the telephone this morning and learned that the Gallaghers returned to Elmira yesterday, Tuesday, from vacation in Puerto Rico. Jane learned little about their trip other than that the Gallaghers took many notes to use in checking against Seth’s notes; and that Bill found himself involved in a “strange experience” with a piano player and what he thought was telepathy. The four of us get together this weekend to hash over all the notes.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

I would like to discuss the inner senses in connection with some of the other material that you have been given more recently.

Now. As you know, the inner senses belong to that part of human personality that is not physically materialized. At various times I have spoken concerning the reality of what you refer to as the astral body. You must remember that over a year ago we discussed tissue capsules. The astral body is of this nature. It is composed of electromagnetic components. It is simply the unseen self.

(Seth began discussing the inner senses in the 20th session; by the 50th session he had gone into some detail on nine of them, with more to come. By the 59th session he had also included eleven basic laws of the inner universe, plus three properties of physical material.

While we are dealing now with your own species, it should be realized that all consciousness also possesses its own astral identity. The inner senses are part of this nonphysical self. They allow the personality to retain its relationship with nonphysical reality, permitting the material self to focus within its earthly environment.

The inner senses collect information of which the conscious self may not be aware. The astral identity of course is aware of communications from both the inner and outer environment. The astral identity is therefore actually a more complete representation of the whole personality, and its abilities are far-reaching. The inner ego of which we have spoken is the director of this astral identity. You should see now how this fits in with some of our older material.

(Seth began discussing the inner ego along with the inner senses, so material on it is woven through the sessions. A few recent sessions dealing with the inner ego are: 94, 151, 162, 173. See Volumes 3 and 4.)

(It was 10:24, and too late for an envelope test in my opinion. In the 197th session, Seth had suggested I give Jane these tests unannounced during the middle of the session. I had forgotten to do so, and when I realized this at last break had assumed it would be better to wait until next session.

(We discussed the test results and made some connections. We did not think Seth would clear up the doubtful points, at least not all of them, because of the lateness of the hour. This I regretted, though thinking the test was a good one. Jane was now tired.

(“Good night, Seth.”

(The unpleasant event referred to by Seth made several pieces of information given in the test data fall into place for us. The errors in introduction made by Jane at the gallery reception were humorous, but also so obvious that their significance could be hardly missed. One involved a cousin of mine whom we hardly see; the other involved the director of the other gallery in town, the Arnot, for whom Jane had worked until a couple of months before the reception at Bill’s gallery, which we now believe did take place in February.

(Jane’s relations with this man became so acerbic that she left his employ in the fall of 1964. At the time Seth said it was a wise move, and that from that point on Jane would do well with her writing. This has been the case. Seth also dealt rather extensively with the conflict between Jane and the director of the Arnot in the following sessions: 74, 75, 77, 79, 82, 84 and 85. All of Seth’s material on the situation has worked out. At the time, we found the psychological information contained in these sessions very helpful. See Volume 2.