“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now, we shall begin by talking around some issues. To some extent the fact that Ruburt’s book is being read in his hometown disconcerts him. Those whom he relegated to the past are brought into the present. This causes some (panic?); there is a feeling that he is back in their control, and that the book in this respect has lain him vulnerable.

It is this basic feeling about the book and Saratoga that suddenly activated past associations and brought on some identification with his mother. He should remember here that he is not the person who lived in Saratoga now, unless he chooses in a self-limiting way to be so. The book itself, oddly enough, provides a certain protection for it informs others of his basic strength. It shocked him to know that people of the past were reading the book in his present, and seemed to draw him closer to those original associations that caused him to leave Saratoga.

He identified with the bird the cat caught. His mother was superstitiously afraid of cats and in the incident in his bedroom an immediate identification was set up, under emotional stress and because of past feelings.

The sensitivity to sneakers was activated because of these connections with the mother, the children’s work hung upon the wall—this is another connection with his own past, you see, with early grades, and so is the colored girl, Dagmar, as Edward Briscoe was the only colored boy in his early grades.

Give me a moment. (Pause.) It is a rather lengthy explanation. (Pause.) The cavemen were pseudorealities. There were five others involved. There was a time travel here, but it was into a probable past. You knew that this was a reality in which you had not participated. You were in no danger within it, for you had never existed in it. The others were probability travelers like yourself. If you like, I will give you a more detailed explanation at our next session.