“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The confidence that Ruburt receives in such circumstances is of great help to us all. We shall have a relaxed session this evening. There are several points however that I would like to make. They have to do with our discussion of time in general.

(This is the first time in many sessions that Willy has paid any attention to Jane during a session. In the early sessions he exhibited some drastic behavior at Seth’s presence and/or arrival. At times he would attempt to entangle himself in Jane’s legs as she paced about the room while speaking for Seth. At other times he seemed to exhibit plain panic, running to hide just before session time. Seth told us this was because the cat’s very acute senses detected his arrival on our plane. Willy, he said, would get used to his presence eventually and show no reaction; this has been the case now for well over a year.)

This event X becomes real then, in your terms, only when it is experienced or perceived by our conscious self. What about all of these other probable events, however? The only difference between them and event X is that event X was perceived and experienced by our conscious individual. In other words, were it not for this perception of the event X, it would still be as valid, or as invalid, as real or as unreal, as all the other probable events that were not perceived.

This leads us then to an obvious conclusion: if event X were not perceived it would still be a probability only. By the same token, if our individual chose to perceive and experience, say, event Y, then event Y would be the reality, and event X would still be unreal.

The man may work in a city. The woman may work in their home in the country. Of three children, all three may attend different schools. They are all still part of the same unit. They all operate out of the same house. There is no reason why any of the children could not spend his day at the office with the father of the family, basically speaking, but he would not be able to understand or perceive many of the events that occurred there.

I am trying to make this analogy clearer. The child would fit into the man’s office building, for example. There would be no boundary to keep him out while letting the father enter, physically speaking. The man could also enter the school. In the same manner there is no basic reason why one self, or rather one portion of the self, has its main experiences in one dimension, while other portions of the self experience reality within different fields.

Now I told you that this would be a relaxed session, and I shall here bring it to a close, unless there are any matters in particular about which you have questions. We got through a bit of difficult material this evening very well.

(It was very interesting to watch Jane produce the above-mentioned book of poetry. It grew out of earlier suggestions, and I would say the end result represented a fine example of spontaneous creative power at its best. The poems are of high qualityindeed, and Jane felt certain from the start that they would be published. It is difficult to publish poetry in hard-cover.

(Wednesday and Thursday nights, January 19 & 20, Jane gave herself suggestions that she would have a great abundance of energy. She usually uses suggestion each night, but this time she wanted a little something extra.

(Jane said she had been working quite happily on the book dealing with the Seth material, and on one about dreams. When she got the burst of energy on the poetry book idea however, she took advantage of it, and felt certain the material would be published. Here is a schedule of events: