“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now, I wanted to make a few remarks concerning the unscheduled session which occurred.

There is a fine discrimination used in our sessions. There is indeed a tuning into, a reception of frequencies. Now it is extremely difficult to lock in here. There is a pulsation always occurring. It is difficult for Ruburt to maintain steadily that particular reception of frequency, and within certain limits there is sometimes a slipping in and out, so that now and then Ruburt’s personal subconscious is allowed to intrude. This is what happened the other evening.

(Break at 9:06. Jane’s eyes opened and she was out of trance. I too had been aware of the traffic noise, although I had pulled our kitchen window closed, I thought, before the session. I now latched it tightly, which helped, and pulled the curtains over it to further deaden the sounds.

(Jane now resumed, still with pauses, at 9:07.)

He is obviously drawing upon knowledge that is beyond his own conscious abilities. Now much of it would, and is, theoretically available to each human being; but practically of course things simply do not work that way. He is reaching beyond his own personal subconscious, for while the personal subconscious does have definite knowledge unknown to the conscious mind, it also has definite limits.

Information received must however be sifted through the subconscious. We are managing now in such a way that our material survives without undue coloration from the subconscious. The whole process is a complicated one, but the very act of holding the sessions is of great benefit to the organism as a whole. For the vibrations and frequencies which are received in order to make our communications possible, are also most beneficial in themselves to the human and psychic system.

Now. Some of the information that I gave you in our last session, concerning the portions of the self, seem rather alien, I am sure. Do not forget however that you are not even aware of many portions of the self that you know intellectually do exist. So it is not so strange to imagine other portions of the self with which you are not at all familiar in any conscious way.

Now. This system of probabilities is quite as real and actual as the system with which you are familiar, and you exist in it whether or not you realize it.

You simply are not focused within it, or your attention is not focused within it. You sometimes become aware of it when you are in the dream state. Now I have told you that these images have a reality, beside an imaginative reality.

Now, probabilities exist in the same manner. They simply are not concrete for you, as dreams are not concrete for you. You may dream for example of holding an apple, then wake up and the apple is gone. This does not mean that the apple did not exist. It simply means that in the waking state you are not aware of its reality. You do not experience it, or perceive it. In the same manner you do not perceive or experience physically the actuality of probable events.

Now a portion of you may be quite involved in these probable events. Another portion of yourself therefore is concerned here, and a portion with which you are not ordinarily familiar.

The system of probabilities is not as easily perceived even as those events that exist within the dream state, for with these you are familiar, while you are in the dream state. Often the ego is even made aware of dream events. Now the self that is the I of your dreams can quite legitimately be compared to the self that experiences probable events.

(Jane’s pace had become much slower by now. She used many pauses, some of them quite long as she sat quietly with her eyes closed.)

Now through hypnosis it has been ascertained that this dreaming I has memory of its past existence, which is made up of past dreams. You may call this the dreaming personality if you prefer, but it amounts to another self. Now the I who experiences probable events, not chosen for experience in the physical universe, has the same kind of identity and memory as this dream self. There is a constant subconscious interchange of information between these portions of the self.

Now I suggest your break.

(It was now time for the 38th Dr. Instream experiment. Once more Jane sat with her hands raised to her temples; her eyes were closed. She spoke with many short pauses, but her pace was not too slow in actuality. Resume at 10:05.)

Now. Give us a moment, please.

(Break at 10:20. Jane was dissociated as usual. Her eyes had remained closed, her pace not too slow. While she was giving the envelope data some snow broke loose from a steep third floor roof of the house, and came crashing down on a porch roof not far from our living room; the house shook. Jane heard this, she said, but was not bothered by it. But she now said the earlier interruption caused by the traffic had disturbed her, and she felt she hadn’t been at her best afterwards.

(Jane now said she puts herself “in the hands of whoever or whatever possesses these abilities” during such experiments, and tries to stay out of the way of what will happen.

(She was now smoking, and her eyes began to open at brief intervals, when she resumed at 10:37.)

Now we will shortly end our session.

Your fortunes are taking a turn for the better, as I told you that they would. The turn however is a result of development on your parts, and the development will accelerate now that it has reached a certain level, with of course continued application on your parts.

And now good evening. You are making your lives much more pleasant for yourselves.

(Jane now took a long pause at 10:51. Her eyes were closed.)

Now I shall close the session or continue as your prefer.