“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Whenever you are attached in any way, whenever consciousness is attached to a physical organism, then inner data will be interpreted in physical terms. You can indeed learn to perceive reality in other terms, and you are both doing so.

You must still deal with physical reality, for it is definitely the representation of inner data. I have said this constantly: Expectation is behind all sense data, and forms it. I have told you—and incidentally my lovely skeptics I have told you in the past—that you create your own physical environment and universe. Your physical condition in every way is a reflection of your inner expectations, accomplishments, and failures, and I have told you that any illness is the result of an inner distortion.

Now this distortion may possibly be a hangover from a previous existence, but it is a distortion. Projections in fact should give you an excellent idea of the reality of reincarnations. In an excellent projection you forget the self on the bed. You are in an entirely new environment, but you are still beset by certain personality tendencies that are yours.

It should be remembered that the intellect, in the light of this book, is as perfect then as any other manifestation of what is termed divine spirit. The intellect has been trained unfortunately to deal almost exclusively with the results of sense data. This does not mean that it cannot and should not do more.

I will tell you the book, in what Ruburt thinks of as its somewhat inane simplicity, is very profound. Nevertheless for others there are steps that must be followed through, and following these steps through brings the whole personality, including the intellect, to a more balanced understanding, which is my goal. The author, while basically correct, ignores for example the reality of reincarnation; and Ruburt’s protests to the contrary, reincarnation belongs both with metaphysics and psychology, and cannot be ignored.

And I will say precisely what you both said I would say.

(“What’s that?”

Illia. (My interpretation. Jane waved the envelope. Her eyes opened briefly.) I do not know to what this refers, and perhaps an F and R.

(“What’s that Gubatorial connection?”)

(Since this experiment was a little different, I had decided not to ask many questions, preferring to see what results were obtained without them. See the drawings on pages 152 and 153. When Jane came up with the Gubatorial data, I asked a question about this data only, and as I hoped she cleared it up.

(This procedure left me knowing only one thing about the object: that it came from some section of the New York Times, date unknown. Jane and I have often speculated on what part telepathy plays in the envelope experiments, since I usually am consciously aware of the object in detail. I thought the method used tonight might make ordinary telepathy harder to divine on Jane’s part. As it was we think the results were good; Seth evidently clairvoyantly read the object. If he got any help from me it was telepathy twice removed.

(“ Illia. I do not know to what this refers.” Illia is my interpretation of what Jane said, with some emphasis. The only word remotely approaching this is Aldeia Nova, meaning New Village, and is found in the article on page 12 of the full sheet, dealing with the Dominican Seminary in Portugal. See page 153.

(1st Question: What’s that gubatorial connection? “I am not sure on this. A magistrate. An election of sorts. Either of these. An authority.” Jane came through with flying colors on this, as I sought more data on her “Gubatorial—vernacular” data interpreted on page 159. See page 152 and 153. It can be seen that election day sales are mentioned in large type on both sides of page 11 and 12 of the New York Times for November 6,1966. The New York State elections were due the next Tuesday, November 8, and included the governorship contest.