“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Our young friend here has many questions. His mind is buzzing with them. He is so impatient. There is one question however that I will indeed answer now, and it has to do with the delight with which he views fire.

If I may borrow a quote from another elderly gentleman: that is elementary, Watson. He has simply discovered that fire affected him in this manner. But any warmth or flickering light will do the same.

As he matures and learns, and studies and works, he will then be able to do this when he wishes to do so. There are no significant unhealthy elements connected in this rather innocent regard for fire. Now. The shift of his consciousness is unsteady. He has no discipline over it, and is sometimes in a state of consciousness that is between. Training will allow a strong disciplined focus within either reality.

Now if you please, give me a moment, and I shall use it well. (Pause, eyes closed.) These are simply impressions. I shall make no attempt to unscramble them at this point. They will have to do with our new friend. (Venice.)

A guild or a group of artisans. A father of three children, one of whom later becomes a member of a parliament. (Pause.) One of whom joins a profession that had to do with keeping records of water levels or consumption, (Jane shakes head) this being a civil employment.

The wife dies young. She was of foreign descent, I believe French. Her people were destroyed in a plague. Her family name (pause) … I hear it, you see, but I do not see it (pause)… You will have to work phonetically: V I S W A (repeated), from some place near Bordeaux in France.

That was a small yes indeed. (Amused, eyes closed, Jane leaned forward.) Now let us see. Ruburt and I engage in a cooperative venture, truly a psychological gestalt, in which our personalities meet, rather in a dimension that is neither here nor there. Together we form a sort of psychological bridge between dimensions, for I cannot completely exist within your three-dimensional system now, and he cannot completely enter the dimension in which I do have my primary existence.

So there is a projection of consciousness on both of our parts to some degree. Now, I like the type of questions that you ask (to Venice), and I enjoy an inquiring mind. Do you have any other questions? (Pause; voice good, eyes closed.)

(“Do you want to tackle one of Pete’s questions?”

Now give us a moment. (Pause.) We will see what we can do with our spiritual firebug here.

(Pete wanted to know if his love of anything to do with Spain was the result of a life lived there.)

You want the answers to the wrong questions. You want me to deprive you of experience that you need, and in the reality in which you now exist, and in which you are learning very well to manipulate. You shall not get in the habit of having me tell you what will happen. I say this in all good humor and with due affection. (Pause, smile.) Do you understand?

(“Do you want to spell it?”)

S A R I C K E. Do you have other questions?