“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Our session last evening was a rather serious one, for I believe it necessary that the terms of these endeavors be stated at once, and as clearly as possible. I do not want to burst any bubbles, nor did I want to encourage you along these lines unless you were willing to devote considerable energy in these directions. We can now to some degree relax and enjoy a quiet evening. I am aware of your considerable list of formidable questions. We shall get to these in good time.

The session last evening was to some extent inhibited because of the emotional climate that affected our good Jesuit (Bill Gallagher). He was not at his best. We shall not encounter that difficulty this evening. This does not mean however that we shall necessarily put on any circus displays.

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.

(9:37. Jane’s delivery had been active, fast at times, with her eyes usually closed. Voice a bit stronger than usual. Pete said the back condition mentioned could apply to either his father or brother. Jane, of course, was aware of this. Resume at 9:45.)

(10:02. The last of the tape was used up, and the recorder turned off. Jane was a long time, comparatively, coming out of trance. She had been “way out”, she said, and felt there had been no blocking on her part at all. She felt very good about this.

(Jane’s words were slurred a bit, and I thought she was again in a deep trance. She was using pauses however, whereas before break she had been speaking rather rapidly.)

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.

Three children in a kitchen, sitting in a row, in her past, and she is one of them. She is six. (Pause.) There is an argument among adults, and a door slams. The location was near water, or the street had water in it, or there was a connection with swans—all of this applying to that episode.

There is some resentment here, a smoldering one. She would have preferred to have been born a male. This is her first existence as a woman. An episode occurring when she was approximately in a sixth grade (pause) added to an already existing sense of insecurity. (Pause.) There are also other-life connections that enter in here. The family also uses the mother as a way of testing its own strength and unity, and as a method of channeling aggression. Often she picks up the aggression of the family, and then reacts for you all. You can then blame her without facing the fact of the underlying aggression.

(10:43. Jane was again far-out, she said. Her eyes were mostly closed, her pace fairly rapid. Resume at 10:55.)

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.

(11:05. Jane was again far-out, she said, and as break came she was still aware of the surging power that lay behind such voice effects. It took her longer than usual to open her eyes, etc. At break we discussed more of Pete’s questions. Resume at 11:20.)