“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(This is our first session since December 15,1965. The rest was our longest since the sessions began two years ago, and did us both much good. We were ready to go back to work, although Jane confessed to some feeling of nervousness as session time approached. But she did well. She had no urge to speak for Seth during vacation.

The ego cannot see that this moment point is open, so to speak, and represents an opening into many other dimensions. These dimensions may be traveled through; but they may not be traveled through by the ego, for the ego can only perceive those dimensions which it is physically equipped to see, or perceive.

Other portions of the self, on the one hand, are not so limited. It must be clearly understood however that these other portions of the self are incapable of the ego’s intense focus within physical reality. Their focus is elsewhere. However, these selves are not limited as is the ego to one main field of perception only, in the manner which Dunne believes. Dunne does leave intervening areas between dimensions which may be perceived by an observer from a neighboring dimension, but all in all his serial selves are to some large degree prisoners of those dimensions in which they exist.

Now. These other selves are more freewheeling. There are indeed limitations inherent within their structure, but in all cases any given identity is more than the dimension in which it finds itself. Its limitations may be great, but the limitations are set not by the identity’s nature but by the dimension in which it exists.

Two of these statements may appear at first glance to contradict themselves, but you shall shortly see that they do not, and you are left for now with a pretty question: for does the self, or identity, then form the perceptive dimension in which it exists, or is it created by the dimension?

We start once more with our moment point. For now this moment point which appears within your physical universe is but a small materialization of larger portions of the spacious present. In the dreaming state, when the ego is released from its idea of time as a series of moments, then other portions of the self can travel through these moment points, and you have here a journey through depths that have nothing to do with your (underline your) concept of time or space.

To this degree Dunne was correct. But the important point, if you will forgive a pun, is that these moment points are all intensities, electrical realities, and traveling through such dimensions involves a transformation of energy from one intensity to another. The whole self, or the entity of which I speak, is composed of all of these selves, but it must be realized that all divisions between these selves are illusions, basically speaking. For the sake of discussion we separate them, but in doing so we almost manage to change the very nature of that which we attempt to study.

Such communication between these various selves who compose an entity is natural, continuous. The ego does not perceive the communications, obviously; but the ego, you must understand, is not self one alone, it is only a portion of self one, or the physical self.

But self A is not limited to the ego’s perceptions only, therefore it may be said that self A’s perceptions are not limited, in toto, to the field in which it exists. For it is not so limited in dreams and in other states, yet while consciousness is in these other conditions, self a still exists within physical reality.

(It was now time for the 27th Dr. Instream test. As usual Jane sat with her eyes closed, her left hand to her face, her head down. Her pace was slow at the start, but picked up rather well as the test proceeded. Resume at 10:05.)

I pick up once more a connection with boxes, but here in this room. And they are larger, perhaps shoe boxes or that type.

I also pick up a rather uncharacteristic connection with a pipe. Either he has been given one, or he has purchased one; but there is a connection with a pipe here.

A carpeted hall outside the door; and it seems an overnight guest, who has in his possession a leatherlike bag that is not a suitcase, but meant to hold papers. (Pause.) Light brown, fairly new in appearance, having I believe about its edges brass or gold colored bands of some sort. The initial C connected with the owner of the bag, and also perhaps a G, though I am not certain of this last letter.

(It seems reasonable to describe a stay in the hospital as “a turbulent event, or unpleasantness,” and as “A disturbance again, and a storm; whether or not this storm is physical I do not know.” We of course realize there might be other connections in the private life of the patient, Miss Margaret M. Bunn. Lorraine does not know Miss Bunn. It is possible the hospital records contain more on Miss Bunn that would be revealing here, but I did not ask Lorraine to try to check.

This has to do with two separate principles. First of all there was a retention of image. Second of all, there was quite separately an association because of the size of the card given as test object. In the second case the association was Ruburt’s, for on his own he picked up a file-card image, but he translated this into the image of a box in which such file cards are often kept.

Actually it was fairly legitimate, but not carried far enough on Ruburt’s part. In this case he did very well in closing off his own associations.

My information will indeed be specific enough, but there are certain human interrelationships that he will more precisely perceive, for they have no particular meaning for me.

I did not know that you would tempt me with such a question at the end of a session; and you have no one but yourself to blame, if the session continues longer than you would have it.