“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now, my dear young man. You may indeed sit there and observe me. But I also sit here and observe you, whether or not Ruburt’s eyes are opened or closed.

There is nothing wrong in trying to perceive tomorrow. (Pause.) It is risky however to live today in such a manner. There are too many errors that can be made when dealing with precognitive elements. You are dealing with a world of probabilities. Now Ferd looked into a possible future, and this was quite legitimate—as a probable future. There is much concerning time that you do not yet understand, and I cannot explain it to you, unfortunately, in an evening. This may sound contradictory, but it is not. It is possible to perceive the future as it will be; on the other hand the future itself is always changing, for you change it in the present. (Pause.) In the precise moment in which you spoke the words, there was a probability, and a good one, that the event would occur as stated.

Two days later, the conditions had completely changed. This is too complicated, and you do not have the background now. However, the future event predicted was bound up with a series of events that would have had to occur within that two-day period. Some of these events would have been trivial, but all would have led him toward that predicted big win. There are two men in particular he would have met. These events did not occur, and another group of probabilities now exist.

There was a hope on Stephen’s part, and you responded to it. Not by any subconscious fakery, far from it. But you perceived the probable future that did exist as such; and I do not mean it only existed symbolically. Your desire to help him led to that perception. You would be the worse off, and your brother, if this were not so. You cannot use your ability in this fashion—purposely, you see.

Your ability will help you in your dealings with physical reality, in very definite ways. But not necessarily in the ways that you would consciously choose.

I am going to speak freely and again no questions now. We will clear up what we can when we can; but allow the impressions uninterrupted flow.

It seems she wears something that resembles an earring about her neck (Jane gestured, as though describing something that hung about her neck and dangled to her waist), but I do not believe it is an earring.

The hair at one time a rather odd gray—a strange darkish gray. I believe a mole here (Jane touched her right cheek); though it may not be a mole but some facial characteristic here, you see. (Touch again.) A voice with a clicking sound. I believe these impressions referring to the grandmother.

(While speaking for Seth, she had a mental image of a back room, and an “impression” of a storm. She also felt she had looked at a photograph, but could not say whether of a man or a woman; perhaps an old-fashioned photo. Jane said she feels it is “her end of the deal” not to block the material.

Give us a moment. The mother feels the family lined up against her. The same sort of a situation existed basically in her own family, though in a somewhat different manner. But the pattern was there.

There is a balance within the family. Love is expressed to you on occasions when it could not be expressed to other members of the family; but still stays within the family, you see. The family, therefore, has its strengths and its safety valves. Australia serves as a uniting theme of common background, for all save your mother. It also serves as a uniting promise for the future, and gives you common dreams.

I was in touch with your Ferd, briefly. He is not yet aware of many aspects of his new condition (Jane’s voice was becoming somewhat deeper and faster), and is now learning to manipulate within it. Therefore even for us, communication was somewhat difficult, distorted and restrained. We are on different levels. We exist within the same system but within different levels of it. His periods of communication are necessarily brief, simply because he is unable at this time to utilize his energy to that direction with any effectiveness.