“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

They are not one-dimensional images therefore, nor for that matter are they static. They are vital, full of their own energy reality, living composites. In dreams as a rule you only perceive them as images. They possess a psychic identity however that is biological to some extent as far as you are concerned. In other words, at this time various biological changes must occur in order for you to tune in upon them directly.

You understand that these are units of electromagnetic patterns, highly codified, and not active little animals in your blood. (Dry humor, smile, eyes open.) Indeed, they take up no space, as the dream within your head takes up no space. They are the results of interactions, and still they exist in reality whether or not those interactions activate them.

(Break at 9:27. Jane was dissociated as usual. She had continued to be restless, shifting about often. Her eyes opened frequently, her pace was slow, and she had little memory of what she had said.

Connection with a large city. This Minneapolis connection, I do not know to what it refers. Again, a capital letter impression, a large M. Minneapolis, Mississippi—that length of word, with a place description connected.

(“What’s that about a Friday?”)

(“What does the big A refer to?”)

(“What’s that about a skirmish?”

(Break at 10:01. Jane had been out as usual, she said. Her eyes had remained closed during the experiment. Her pace had been much faster during the experiment than during the rest of the session. She said she was not aware of any of the data while she was giving it, or what it might mean, whether it was valid, etc.

(“An advantage. Something to do with an advantage.” Jane read the article aloud to us, then Bill, Don and I tried tipping the table first. We sat at the south end of the table and made the vacant north end rise as we chanted away, per instructions in the article. What the three women didn’t know at the time was that the three of us were helping nature out a little, making the free end of the table rise by conscious physical pressure from our hands.

(“Connection with a large city. This Minneapolis connection, I do not know to what it refers. Again, a capital letter impression, a large M. Minneapolis, Mississippi—that length of word, with a place description connected.” Jane said she was sure these long names beginning with an M reflected her attempts to come through with Milwaukee, rather than Minneapolis. She tied up the Milwaukee name to our having beer to drink at the gathering Friday evening: and of course a beer can furnished the metal object used in the experimental envelope. See page 88.

(1st Question: What’s that about a Friday? “A Friday connected with the item. Perhaps a 7, or 17, day of the month. Or 7 PM.” Seth is quite correct. See the copy of the note on page 86. Friday, October 7,1966 is specifically mentioned on the note which was one of the two envelope objects. 7 PM doesn’t enter in however. Later note by RFB: Very good.

(2nd Question: What does the big A refer to? “I do not know. A large A impression. Whether it is symbolic or literal I am not aware.” The meaning is symbolic, and Seth explains after break.

(4th Question: What’s that about a skirmish? “Having to do with an argument.” Again see page 96. There were several skirmishes during the evening over whether the three men were faking the table tipping. There was also one between Jane and me after company left. This was not an argument, but Jane forcefully presented her idea to the effect that she and I were obligated not to clown around with effects in the psychic field. I agreed.

(Just before Seth resumed Jane said she also thought she knew what the big A data, listed on page 93, meant, and that it had an old-fashioned connection also.

(“What do you think of the report of Jane’s publisher on the sale of her ESP book? “By telephone today Jane learned from her publisher, F. Fell, that the small first printing of her ESP book has sold out, even before publicity on the book has been launched. We were very surprised to learn this. The next 1500 copies are now being bound.”)

It is exactly what I told you, you see. (Jane leaned forward, eyes wide and very dark.

You make your reality from your expectations, and this is one of the greatest truths. I can tell you no better. You must deal with the realities that you have made, or change them. There are no alternatives. I cannot make you believe anything, and I would not if I could. This is not my purpose.

The data in our own experiments will progress with Ruburt’s confidence. He will learn to believe in himself and in me. Regardless of what you think I am, or am not, I have given evidence, surely, in all these sessions, of my own individuality, and evidence of my concern and feeling for you both.