“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane’s eyes were closed when she began speaking but they opened almost at once. For most of the session they remained open, usually quite wide, always darker than usual. Most of the time she stared directly at me, using many gestures, speaking with many smiles and in a voice often somewhat heavier than usual because of our open windows.

(Smile.) First of all however, a small note to our friend Ruburt. From me, dear Joseph, but on your behalf. Now. I would suggest that afternoons Joseph not be disturbed for any but the most unusual matters. It would be best indeed if Ruburt imagined that you were working out of the house, and he should be able to do this.

Your privacy during these hours is very important to you. He knows this of course, but forgets it. You may if your prefer close your bedroom door you see, neatly dividing your apartment in half during working hours. I do not know why you have not thought of this yourself, or in any case why you have not put it into practice.

The bird episode, you see, bothered him deeply. He made an effort not to call on you, but emotionally you see he felt that the whole world should stop to help his bird. (One of our cats nearly killed a young robin today, and Jane is trying to nurse it back to health.) The episode however was one of a series of interruptions of your private hours, and I do seriously recommend that you be allowed your work period without disturbance.

Now. As I said earlier, sense data does have a reality, but this reality does not reside in an object. The object represents your interpretation of the basic reality. The energy belongs to the idea. In other words, the prime energy within physical reality resides precisely in those intangibles which do not, because of their nature, appear within physical frameworks. They give life and reality to the physical framework.

You can intellectually understand what I am telling you, but the brain (shaking head) cannot experience reality directly. This experience must come from the mind, through use of the inner senses. I want it understood that camouflage physical reality is indeed a reality, even while it is a distortion of something else.

Do you have questions? (Jane changed hands on the envelope, but continued to hold it to her forehead.)

(See the tracing of the object on page 226, and the notes on page 227. Seth returns after break, briefly, but doesn’t add anything to our own connections with the envelope data.

(“Oval and brown.” The little sketch used as object shows but the top few leaves of the giant begonia. These show as oval. The interesting thing here is that the larger leaves of the plant at the office are now beginning to show definite brownish tones. As stated Jane has never seen the plant at the office in its fine growth—merely a slip from a parent plant here in the apartment. Since this house plant also is developing a brown cast, Jane could know this easily enough once she, or Seth, picked up the idea that the envelope object represented a begonia.

(My fourth question asked for the initials of this older woman. The question made Jane hesitate: “You had better wait on this. The older woman data leads Ruburt to make personal associations which could be distortive.” (Pause.) “We will try here with the initial A, or G.” Jane said the question brought her mother to her mind; Seth however did not want to give her mother’s name, which is Marie Roberts, or those initials; and Jane did not do so. But A or G as far as we know do not apply to Miss Callahan either, whose first name is Florence.

Now. I will keep you but briefly, though I could speak for some time.