“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I saw the reddish rims of these eyes, and their black lashes with the utmost clarity. The skin about them was a light brown. At the fringes of my field of vision I saw that the face containing these magnificent eyes was quite hairy, covered by long black shining hair almost as though I was visualizing a throwback to more primitive man. But there was no sense of primitiveness here; these limpid brown eyes regarded me impassively; there was no intrinsic threat. These eyes merely stared back at me from beneath heavy black brows.

(Strange to say, I did not come fully awake as one does when arising in the morning for example. I achieved a state close to waking only, in spite of my momentary panic. Jane began to question me; she told me the next morning that I described the vision to her while speaking in a sleepy monotone. I was conscious of doing this, and that it took some little time, yet felt no urge to prod myself wide awake. I recall that I felt it urgent that I tell her what had taken place as soon as possible. I thought of getting up to make a drawing of what I had seen, but decided I would not forget. This is certainly true; this vision is as vivid and clear in memory today as it was a second after it ended. I do intend making a drawing, in color, for those who may be interested.

In your particular state of consciousness on that particular evening, your attention strayed beyond your ordinary fields of perception. You perceived an inhabitant of another system. There was indeed a quite unusual point of contact reached; most unusual indeed in that you not only perceived this individual, but he also perceived you.

You did not break it purposely, but the other individual concerned was bewildered, and to some extent frightened, and he withdrew. You were indeed quite willing to strike out physically. It was this emotional reaction that was felt by the other individual, and the other individual had no idea what this emotion was.

We have spoken, saying that the ego has a relatively small but intense focus. Your friend however has an even smaller specific field of attention, to yourway of thinking. The concentration however and the focus is much more intense than that with which you are familiar.

Because his range was so large, your dissociated conditions simply met more easily than otherwise. However, once his attention was centered here, he turned his conscious attention to full focus upon what he perceived. Nor did he perceive your physical form as you know it. But he picked up fully your emotional recognition and fear, and these were translated or perceived by him in his own fashion, so that to him you appeared as a mass of varying colors, and as movement of severe intensity.

Such encounters do occur with what would appear to be startling frequency, when those in your system are sleeping; but they are very seldom remembered. What was however extremely unusual was that this contact was recognized as such by two inhabitants of completely different systems.

Such encounters also occur during waking hours, but the ego is not aware of them. I will have some comments later in the session that may enable you to become more aware of other realities beside your own, and also some advice that will enable you to operate within your own system more effectively.

You translated, now, this data into other terms. The alien nature of the individual you translated into an animalistic appearance. This was not to emphasize any lower or base characteristics, but was your way of translating the individual’s exceptionally clear, pure and single-minded perception. For the intensity behind the perception reminded you of the unswerving attention often displayed in animals: a complete lack of trickery as it is understood by you.

It exists within your physical universe but it is not of your physical universe, and it does not deal with physical matter at all. It is an old system, using your viewpoint. It has what I will call an inverted time system, which I will gladly discuss for you whenever you prefer.

The entity has awareness of these ten portions of itself. Consciously however no one of the ten personalities is aware of the others, nor of the entity. Each of the ten egos travels along an egotistical time of successive moments. We understand that subconsciously much more knowledge is available, but not to the ego as a rule.

(Break at 10:05. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes had been open much of the time, her pace good, her voice average. She said Seth could have continued in this vein, but stopped because the usual tests were due. Seth had the next thought or concept waiting, Jane said, and all she had to do was give voice to it.

Some guests at his office earlier, in the nature of nuisances. A connection here with Ticonderoga. Perhaps one of the visitors was from there. I do not know, but this has application connected with his office today. (Pause.)

(The rest of the test data appears to be all of a piece, and can be connected with a young friend of ours with whom I used to work. Two years ago the friend enlisted in the Marines and was sent to Alaska. He returned to Elmira over the holidays on furlough. I met him twice but Jane did not see him at all. She did listen to me talk about him, of course.

Now I will keep you but briefly.

There is no use pretending of course not to be annoyed. The point is simply to do your best, so that you gradually learn not to inhibit your reactions to them, but to change the nature of your habitual reactions to them.

I am taking this incident as an example, but my remarks are to you both, for you both have much room for improvement in this respect. It is true that I am not concerned directly, so you may think that it is easy for me to speak to you both in this way. However it is because I am not directly concerned that I can see the problem and point out ways in which it can be solved. For there will always be such difficulties, and a habit of concentrating upon them could be most disadvantageous.

(It was 10:55. I expected Jane to continue, but to my surprise I saw that she had left trance. Evidently there had been a misunderstanding on some level, or I hadn’t spoken clearly. Before we had time to discuss it she resumed, her eyes opened often, at 10:56.)

Now. When you react in such a manner, not only do you focus upon the present difficulty, but you project the difficulty and its imagined consequences into the future, turning expectation against you, and therefore bringing about the very conditions which you wish to avoid.

Incidents of this nature may seem trivial. However patterns of behavior are extremely important, and such focus upon disturbances are directly opposed to all I have been trying to tell you. And I am speaking here only of one individual, but such reactions are also picked up by others on a subconscious basis, and the circle can be a vicious one.

You both know this I am sure, as a rule you both do fairly well in following a more healthy procedure. But the lessons must be put into practice or they are worthless.

I have given you both sermon enough for this evening but I cannot emphasize too strongly the importance of what I have said. If you direct your inner self with confidence to steer you through your physical existence, it will do so. If you concentrate upon difficulties you will not allow it to do so. This method of giving yourself room will also help you to achieve a greater freedom in psychic matters. For any negative focus (and underline negative) within egotistical reality will automatically block you.

I am not accusing either of you of such habitual activities, but because of our relationship I do feel bound to mention such issues as they arise. You should know, both of you by now, that I have your best interests always in mind.