“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane nodded, eyes closed.) For many reasons, most of which you have both discussed. He is somewhat in a state of shock, having been brought up short. He will quickly readjust however, for he now has faith in the new direction of his work. Now give us a moment.

The inner psychological realization is the important event here, rather than, for example, the letter (from Prentice-Hall) itself. The true event is the psychological one. Ruburt’s readiness to do the kind of book he will now do was signaled by those episodes having to do with me in the dream book.

The signals were picked up though he did not realize either that he had come to the realization that his work would change, nor that he had signaled so. I add to make him feel better (smile), and you also, that he could not have done —I am going slowly here so as not to offend his sensibilities—he could not have done earlier the kind of book he will do now. His understanding, and even his writing abilities, were simply not up to it.

Now as far as our own material is concerned, it has taken short shrift for some time. There are loose ends dangling in many areas. We shall try to add some continuity and consistency, therefore. You have still been given but a sketchy outline, in truth, but we have time to fill it in. For that matter, the outline is scarcely completed.

Give us a moment. (Pause, eyes closed. Jane’s trance was now deeper, her delivery more emphatic and a little stronger.) We will want to deal overall with the nature of reality as it exists within your camouflage system, as it exists in other systems, and with the overall characteristics that pertain to it, regardless of any given manifestation. That is, certain characteristics belong to reality, regardless of the methods by which it brings itself forth.

Some of this material will automatically answer many questions with which you have been concerned, problems with which your scientists are now dealing. Involved in this also will be the interrelationship that exists between systems of reality, including certain points of contact that connect them all. The last should be underlined. For these various apex points can be mathematically arrived at, and will in some distant future of yours serve as contact points; in some cases taking the place of space travel.

Now you may take your break. Your work is cut out for you, and I am the scissors.

Now, specifically this applies to the work of what Ruburt and you would refer to as spiritualistic. The work of mediums, or books about mediums, that deal exclusively with conventional religious concepts, and that interpret reality in those limited terms.

(By now Jane’s voice was more powerful, her delivery sure and rapid, her eyes open often; they were very dark. As she said later, it was along in here that she really began to experience a great surge of energy, sweeping her along.)

Now some further remarks as to a point about which you and Ruburt have both wondered.

A more powerful connection exists, you see, now; and this means you have reached, as you are well aware, somewhat beyond the personality by which I usually make myself known to you. Even if I continue to speak, end the trance.

(As Seth also suggested, I touched her leg at the ankle, since she sat across from me at the coffee table with her feet upon it. This too helped. I continued speaking to her and touched her other ankle. This time Jane jumped, very nearly violently, her eyes closed. In a few moments she said the mere touch caused her reaction. By now she was consciously aware that something definitely unusual had been taking place, and the second touch conflicted here.

(Jane said, eyes closed, “I don’t know what to do now.” Her feeling was related, she now said, to the feeling she’d had all day, the lethargy, in a way she couldn’t explain. Yet apprehension wasn’t a part of it. She now felt chilly. I got her a glass of water.

(When the additional energy began to manifest itself after break, Jane said it seemed another channel opened up, a great energy. She felt it being transformed into words through her. It was the best feeling of its kind she’d ever had, “as though this energy was coming from a very distant place, or great depths,” yet she was aware of words as she spoke them. This appears to be in conflict with accounts we have read, wherein mediums have no awareness or memory of events in trance. Yet Jane’s trance was very obviously an excellent one. Now however, all Jane remembered was that the voice said she was reaching beyond the usual Seth personality.

(The energy sweeping her along was so strong, Jane said, that she now wondered how she would have ended the session had not the voice suggested this; but I could reassure her that from observation now I could tell when her trance was very deep, and knew enough now to end it when necessary. Jane said that tonight she was as “un-me” as she had ever been. In retrospect it was a bit frightening—there was a terrific sense of power and energy. She hadn’t been as “cozily Seth” as usual; less cozily a personality in our terms; but she also didn’t know who or what was responsible, aside from the great energy.

(At 11:07 she still felt the energy, but it was slowly diminishing; although still strong. Jane feels the energy went through her yet left a residue, for she now felt much better than before the session. Again in retrospect, she said the episode was “slightly scary,” while agreeing that she had given inner permission for it to take place. She asked me to make these detailed notes for later reference.)