“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane used many pauses, some of them long, in delivery; her eyes opened at times.)

Give us a moment. (Pause.)

Give us a moment. (Pause over one minute.)

Again, this is simply a rushing in of energy where it was most needed, once the barriers have been removed. This is a natural reaction. (Long pause.) Whenever the ego gains overcontrol, or sets itself up to oppose deep and basic action within the whole personality, then in doing so it also blocks to some considerable extent the passage or use of the whole personality’s vital energy.

Give us a moment. (Pause, hand to eyes. Jane’s voice still persisted in the light, gentle, almost lilting quality, quite different from the usual deeper Seth voice.) The Seth personality has been an intermediary, and a legitimate one. (Pause.) The information already given to you regarding the nature of personality gestalts should make this development seem indeed a fitting one.

(Pause. This information was given perhaps 200 sessions ago.)

Some material he can present to you more clearly than I. This was particularly true up to this present point. (Pause. I wondered: if Seth isn’t speaking now, who is?) He is closer to you in personality makeup and closer to your reality, therefore he could transmit ideas to Ruburt in more understandable terms than I.

There was a point, you see, of interpretation and translation (pause) as Seth interpreted material from me in such a way that Ruburt could then receive it. At our last session, with the greater efficiency and the development on Ruburt’s part (pause), the material was more direct, and the translation at his end automatic and smoothly performed.

(10:02. Jane stopped speaking, then nodded when I asked if she was all right. Her eyes began to open soon afterward. She had thought the session terribly slow, and thus was surprised at the amount of time passed. She had thought of pauses between individual words while she spoke. She didn’t recall any of’ the material after the part about soaking up energy.

I, who am the source (pause), sent a portion of myself, an independent portion, to you. Seth as you then thought of him, was far more than a delivery boy however, for it was his peculiar personality, and his particular qualities, which gave the material life for you.

You have always been then in contact with me, but you were only able to see a portion of me. (Pause.) Keep in mind that all names are arbitrary, and we use them merely for your convenience, as we use words. (Still speaking carefully.) Basically, Seth’s name or mine isn’t important. Individuality is important, and continues in ways you barely suspect. (Long pause; voice light, not like Seth.)

In one way, in the most important way, and in the only basic way, I am Seth, dispensing with certain (pause) characteristics which are mine (leaning forward) which I used to contact you.

Simply, as an analogy, and only (underlined) as an analogy, I am what you would refer to as a future Seth, as Seth in a quote “higher” stage of development. This is not to be taken literally however, since both of us are fully independent, and exist simultaneously. (Pause.)

(After the session Jane told me that in here she began to feel the familiar surge of great energy again—that no matter how fast she spoke she couldn’t keep up with the words forming and leaving her. Yet at this time her pace was still but average, with many pauses, and her voice still peculiarly gentle.)

Regardless of the apex point however, attraction operates, and there are reasons why these particular connections have been made rather than others. There are events that unite us and that have served as turning points in the development of our various personalities. In some strange manner, what I am, now, is linked to what you are. (Pause. Jane looked at me.

(Voice still gentle and lilting.) I look back on you as the selves from which I sprang, and yet I am more than the sum of what you will be when you are finished with the other dimensions and times that I have known. For I have sprung entirely away from you, and would be alien in your terms. That you can even contact me (pause), is a most remarkable development. Yet had you not been able to contact me I would not be what I am.

I am far more however than this portion of me that you contact, for it is only one portion of me that experienced that reality. (Pause.) It is highly important that the material not be distorted then, for most communications take place on far different levels than this, so closely connected with your own system that even the most undistorted material is highly distorted, because the communicators themselves are so closely involved with camouflages, and do not realize that they create the realities which they then describe.

(Pause.) I have done my best to give you an understanding as a basis for our future sessions. Seth as you knew him will also be Seth as you know him; for whether or not I speak as myself or through him, as you think of him, he is still the intermediary and the connection between us, and he will help transmit energy; but more, he will also appear as himself as you have known him. There are necessary emotional elements that are uniquely his own. (Pause.) My personality structure is far different—very rewarding to me (smile, eyes open), but very unfamiliar to you. You will understand him better emotionally, and need, I believe, that strong connection.

I do not want you to feel I have taken away a friend. I am also a friend. In many ways I am the same friend. Still, only a small portion of what I am speaks to you now. (Pause.) Other portions of me are concerned elsewhere, for I am aware of my own existence in other dimensions, and keep track of them, and direct my many selves. (Pause, eyes closed. Then Jane said in a faint voice:) Call him.