“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I told you, Joseph, that I would discuss the magnetic alterations that caused me to call a quick ending to our last session. Now as a rule these conditions occur only during this particular season. All living things exist, as you know, in other than material form. Every living thing has what you would term an astral form or vehicle. This consists of electromagnetic realities operating within specific frequencies.

There is a preponderance of negative ions followed by an opposite effect that occurs with great rapidity immediately following sunset. On occasion there is an oversaturation that amounts to an extra envelope of atmospheric vibrations. This can persist on occasion until the following dawn.

Physically, you have storm conditions, but for our session purposes the atmosphere is highly unstable and not reliable. It places me, though not Ruburt, under additional pressure. Such circumstances occur infrequently. They can cause accidents, within your system, sudden and not always advantageous. Sometimes mass alterations of mood and the exhaustion of energies.

(9:40 break. At rest, Peg said that the above ideas fit into a pet theory of her own. Recently she conducted a small informal survey to discover the effect of weather upon human activities. Both Peg and Bill mentioned a chaotic state existing at the newspaper office where they work, though Bill said this was merely the result of a natural evolution of policies perhaps. Peg felt the situation was building up to some kind of climax; she spoke of small matters like limits being placed on personal phone calls, etc; various economies being instituted; the dissatisfaction of employees.

Now I found intermission highly amusing. The conditions of which I have been speaking are one thing. As far as the effect of weather upon the moods of individuals, we do have something else. For the weather is created by you, on a subconscious level. The weather, at any given time, is a direct physical interpretation of the inner mass mind. You do indeed react, but you have already created the conditions, you see, and you then react to these in both psychic and physical ways.

The inner state of each individual mind is projected outward. The inner state causes chemical changes in the physical body. Chemicals are thrown outward into the atmosphere. Hormones are released of particular varieties. Very definite and unique electrical changes occur in the skin, which change on a mass level the atmosphere at any given unit.

The process is constant. The weather causes psychic activities, to some extent assassinations and accidents. On the other hand, the atmosphere was originally mental and the weather originates from this mental level.

He is behaving in a compulsive manner. (Jane’s head drooped) His activities will cause a near-(underlined) crisis situation at the paper. He is squeezing the life from it symbolically and he senses the emotional (Jane’s voice sounded almost drugged here) crisis toward which he is propelled. There will be repercussions at his home first, and signs appearing there first.