“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(No envelope experiment was held during the session.

(As the session began Jane’s voice was at once loud and quite a bit deeper than usual. This wasn’t her really strong voice by any means, yet it echoed from the living room walls; this effect I believe was accentuated because we had taken the rug up from the floor for the summer. But the voice was a good one, the best in many sessions. The windows were open and it easily rose above traffic sounds, etc.

(Jane’s pace was average, her eyes closed. She was also smoking, and her eyes, exceptionally dark, began to open after a few paragraphs. The session is quite unusual in two respects, as will be seen.)

(It was 9:29. Jane did not take a break. Her delivery was by now very animated and her eyes had begun opening often. The voice was just as strong as before, showing no signs of fatigue. Occasionally Jane sipped some wine and smoked a cigarette.)

Until you learn this you learn little, and until you learn this you do not know what it means to be practical. If you did not think projection was possible for you, you would never achieve a projection. You create your reality, and no one else can create it for you.

(At 10:15 Jane stopped speaking once again, ad sat very quietly, as before. Her voice had been strong and clear throughout, varying little in strength through the session. Since she was still in trance I thought it voluntary, and that she must feel in excellent form this evening. Her eyes were now closed.)

(I did, stretching. In an aside as I paced about, and as Seth, Jane assured me there was no rush to get back to notes, etc. But I was ready to resume at 10:18, and the strong voice once again boomed out.)

(Break at 10:29. Jane now came out of her trance for the first time since 9 PM. As far as we know this is by far the longest trance she has undergone. Nor was her emergence from it easy; she seemed to grope her way out of it slowly, eyes blinking with effort many times before they finally opened clearly.

(She was, she said, “way-out,” very well dissociated indeed. She had little recollection of her surroundings while speaking, and was quite surprised to learn her eyes had been wide open much of the time. She recalled a couple of cigarettes and a sip or two of wine, but these actions were “removed” from her.

(She knew, she said, at once that the voice was strong and loud. From the moment the session began she was “within the voice,” as though wrapped in a cocoon. The voice swept her along as it has on a few occasions in the past. Nor did she know she would be kept in trance during breaks to rest my writing hand. She thought Seth did this to keep the session short, yet get lots of material through. She felt a sense of strangeness at break time because she didn’t leave trance, but was not worried, nor did she try to get out of trance. Jane said she now felt quite tired.

(End at 10:45. Jane was again just as well dissociated as before, although this time her eyes remained closed. Seth, she said, could have continued all night, without strain, but he did not push her to do so. She just knew he could.