“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(We preferred not to go, but took the ticket to avoid explanations, without making promises. We thought the affair would be dull. I forgot about the incident until a couple of days ago, when I found the ticket in a coat pocket. Jane hadn’t seen it since last November. I sealed it in the usual double envelope, between two pieces of Bristol.

(The session was held in our front room. There was a chance that Peggy Gallagher would be present with a press camera, to take some pictures of Jane while she was in trance. Jane’s publisher has written requesting some photos, drawings, etc., in connection with the book Jane is now writing on the Seth material. Peggy is a writer for Elmira’s newspaper, the Star-Gazette, and has access to the necessary equipment.

(For the session Jane and I looked more presentable than usual, but by 8:30 Peggy had not appeared. In my daily predictions for today, made yesterday, I had noted that Peggy would not make it. The predictions were made at 3 PM, March 15; Seth has something to say about the hour and day later in the session.

I would like to continue the discussion we began in our last session.

It is a great mistake to imagine that the human being has but one ego, however. The ego represents merely any given pattern of characteristics, psychological characteristics, that happen to be dominant at any given time. If any kind of a thorough investigation were to be carried on, it would become apparent that during one lifetime any given individual will display several, sometimes quite different, egos at various times, each one quite honestly seeing itself as the permanent I.

There is the same sort of disorientation that the ego experiences within physical reality when an individual dreams. The same sort of psychological reshuffling occurs. If it did not occur, then in most cases communication would not be possible, simply because the survival personality would have such difficulty in impressing the personality who was still ego-oriented within the physical system.

In my communications to you, I speak as my whole self, and not on the part of any one of the egos which have been dominant in other existences. If I had known either of you as contemporaries within your physical time in your present existence, then after death I would have assumed, once again, the dominant ego by which you had known me. I am not tied to physical existence by any strong emotional bonds however, and my personality structure is more advanced than is usual for communicators from other systems.

This connecting psychological framework does some of the translating for me, that a reassembled ego would do for me. It delivers information to Ruburt in a way which he can understand. Occasionally I do communicate without this psychological framework, as when I impress him directly, telepathically, with a concept.

(“Connection with a dog.” I drew a blank here. Jane offered a connection perhaps twice removed from the object. Leonard Yaudes has a girlfriend who has a dog; occasionally they leave the dog in Leonard’s apartment when they go out on a date. The connection would be that the object came from Leonard’s apartment. It is a weak one, in that the girl in question is not the girl who was present in the apartment on November 20,1965, when Jane and I were given the object. Jane didn’t know whether her interpretation was correct.

A good deal was legitimate, but not precisely-enough interpreted. Whether or not a test such as this were involved, Ruburt’s terms and your own would not agree as to the printed material and so forth.

(End at 10:53. Jane had been dissociated as usual. Her eyes had remained closed. In my daily predictions for today, made yesterday, I had noted down that Peggy would not appear this evening. I made them at 3 PM.)