“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now. If our exuberant Ruburt has calmed down, and if our friend Philip has put down his paper, we shall begin.

Now. So-called hunches indeed are often caused by an inner recognition that a given event might occur. As you know, there is no cause and effect as you understand it. Nevertheless there are probabilities. Now basically it is not true to say that an individual’s decisions must be based upon concrete events within his own past, nor that he is largely imprisoned by his past, nor that his future actions are predetermined by his past experience. For as you now understand the past is as real as the future, no more and no less. The past exists as far as the individual is concerned as a pattern of electromagnetic currents within the brain, and these connections constantly change.

I would like these points made most clearly. Now. An event foreseen through precognition or clairvoyance, a future event, may or may not actually occur within time as you know it. For you are seeing into probabilities, and the probable event may or may not occur, within your time system.

I shall now let you take a break, and enjoy a brief social discussion.

For now, just write down 12th Street, and let it go at that. The 12th Street may have a significance to Philip.

Now. These probabilities, these events that may or may not occur, are extremely interesting. Let us consider our self one and time one. As a rule our self two can indeed view what may happen in self one’s future. However, our self two views probabilities, and some of these probabilities will indeed occur to self one. Some will not, and this is where, again, our friends Priestley and Dunne fall short.

Someday we shall explain this in mathematical terms. However for now we shall try plain English. Every thought is composed of its own energy, and it has an effect within energy. We are not speaking here now of your tired old cause and effect theory however. Every action changes every other action. Any probability is a reality whether or not it occurs within your own system, and I shall add to that early mention.

(Jane’s eyes now began to open wide for emphasis; they were very dark. Her voice was strong, her manner most emphatic and fast. She gestured frequently as she spoke.)

In such a system therefore your ideas of present, past and future would not exist. Nor would your idea of one and only one event at a time be understood. Now this dimension exists in a reality which Priestley nor Dunne even began to examine.

(Just before first break Seth had mentioned a 12th St. in connection with John Bradley. Jane now asked John about it, but John said he wouldn’t tell her anything about such a statement yet. Jane said she received this bit of data quite strongly while giving Seth’s other material, and that at first she wasn’t going to give voice to it because she wasn’t sure if it was from Seth or herself. Then she decided to speak it out anyhow.

(Jane’s eyes had been open and very dark during much of the above delivery. Since it was now time for the 33rd Dr. Instream test however, her eyes closed and her pace slowed considerably. Her head was down, her hands raised to her face. Resume at 10:05.)

Now, give us a moment for our Dr. Instream material.

Now for other impressions. Wisteria.

Philip, during the test data please try to be as quiet as possible. Dr. Instream’s hypnosis experiments now doing very well. Some slight difficulty in one particular area, caused by a motor malfunction. The malfunction the result of subconscious associations on the part of the subject. (Pause.)

(“12th Street.” John now told us that he took several meals in the Manger Hotel—pronounced with a hard G—and had some business engagements there also. This hotel is on either 12th or 13th St. in Cleveland; John was not positive, but felt the address would be 12th Street rather than 13th Street.

Here I also pick up 34. Now I am not certain whether this refers to the age of one of the women, or whether they live on a 34th Street in the same city. One has a connection with jewelry.

But I am going too far, for I am thinking now of the bartender, and this will not help us.

Now, my heartiest regards to you all. And as always I regret leaving, for you grow on me.

There is a child, a female, who is seemingly not connected with any of these episodes, who will be important in a man’s decision. Now see what you can make of all this.

(As John explained company politics to us now, he said he thought he saw a connection with Seth’s mention of an “apartment.” on page 235. It will be remembered that at first John could offer nothing for this data. Mr. McKeown, John said, had gone so far as to invite him up to his private room at the Sheraton-Hilton, for more secluded talks involving the company. At the time John was somewhat surprised that a high company official would pay particular attention to him. It was during such meetings as this, and those at the Manger, that the sounding-out process commenced.