“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In your sleep you may have greeted friends who are strangers to your waking self. But consider the other side of the coin. For when you are asleep, you cannot find the street upon which you live your waking hours, and when you are asleep you do not know you waking self. The sleeping self is your identity.

This is most necessary. Certain questions may appear too simple to ask, but you must ask them and you must use your brains here.

(Break at 9:48. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes had remained closed. Her pace had been fast throughout, her voice somewhat stronger but not loud by any means.

(Our session was being held in our front room. Up until now none of us had noticed the traffic noise past the front of the house; but now that a test was to come I became conscious of it. Later Jane, Bill and Peggy concurred.

I also believe that he lost or misplaced an item from his own office at the school today. (Pause.) Or he misplaced it earlier and went to look for it today. The item having to do with cigarettes. A holder perhaps, or a lighter, but of that nature. (Pause.)

([Bill G:] “What significance do you attach to the fact that you seem to be right-handed, but left-handed in sessions?”)

(At an earlier break, Bill had mentioned to me, while Jane was out of the room, that he believed Jane was right-handed but that Seth used predominantly left-handed movements. I hadn’t noticed this, but told Bill Jane had talked at times of being left-handed as a child; I told him I remembered Jane saying something about being made to write right-handed in school.)

Now and then with Ruburt, to a smaller or lesser degree, my own habits therefore show through, for I manipulate his muscles in a different way than he does. But, scientifically again, this would not be proof of my existence as an independent personality who has survived physical death. Not that this concerns me, for it does not.

What we need you see are various elements that usually combine spontaneously, but that can be caused to combine when they would not usually combine. This I can usually take care of fairly well. However, I have freedoms that Ruburt does not have, and I am freer to use my abilities than he is.

It would be difficult for me to change the features of a third individual indeed, but far less difficult to change Ruburt’s features, since he gives me permission to work through him, and his mental and psychic abilities would help me. A picture would not help me on its own.

No one, you see, wants more proofs than our friend Ruburt, but often consciously he wants so much that he closes the doors through which I can come, and sets down barriers that belong to the ego alone.

I will let you have a break, and you can congratulate me, Joseph, for keeping my voice so well under control. I hear mighty yells when it is out of control, but no comments when it is under control.