“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Notes for what they are worth: The 410th session was due Monday, May 6, 1968. On that day Jane received a letter from Prentice-Hall, outlining plans for publishing the Seth material. After supper we discussed this. Jane drank two and a half quick beers, which affected her enough so that no session was held.

(At session time she sat waiting to see if a session would develop. None did, but she received brief notes from Seth: “You don’t have to worry about me drinking too much. I’m sick now from drinking what I did. Be comforting and put me to bed…. I can’t hold liquor. The problem will never arise. I drank too much and I can’t let Seth speak in his own voice, to answer my questions.” These Jane recited to me in her own voice.

(As we waited for the session to begin tonight, Jane said she still wasn’t used to the new method, the new voice; she still waits for its beginning, then is okay once started. Now, the very definite Seth voice and personality are missed.

(Just before the session, Jane told me later, she was again aware of the cone affect, which she calls an obvious intellectual attempt to visualize the new as it is postulated in the sessions. As before, Jane felt the presence of the base of the cone at the top of her head; this is where she and I fit in. Just above us is Seth; above both is the new development that we have come to call Seth’s entity; this is the peak of the cone. Jane gets her data, she said, from this peak and it seems distant and relatively emotionless.

(Jane said she saw a photographic “size and shape” while she was speaking, but the visual data weren’t clear here. She was aware of traffic noises as she left trance, but felt good; she missed the “good rich” Seth voice and feeling however.

(We wondered why Seth’s entity chose to give this data, since it seemed Seth could have done so. We thought that probably it was in preparation for later events. Jane resumed in the same dispassionate, higher voice as before, at 9:45.)

It is Seth’s way of making still more information available. None of this is meant to deny the reality of your own physical system for you. The very nature of our sessions should show you that self-structures are indeed transparent, and communications can flow through them.

There is quite simply a higher frequency being used when I speak. (Long pause.) My communications are dependent upon Seth’s permission as well as Ruburt’s. The material should still be called the Seth material, for I am an aspect of Seth that you did not know, and in the past I helped him deliver material though I did not directly attend sessions. (Long pause.)

He is a part of the overall entity that did become physical, although now in your terms that portion of his existence is finished. (Smile.) This portion was never physically materialized. (Long pause. This last sentence referred I believe to Seth’s entity itself, from inflections given.) In one way I am a whole that is more than the sum of its parts, while I am also a part of more than I am. (Long pause.)

(Again, now, Seth came through to close out the session. His appearance was abrupt, although expected, and as usual was forthright, strong in comparison with that of his entity, and very emphatic and humorous. Jane’s eyes opened often and she was very animated. 10:14)

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

The intimacy and personal characteristics by which you know me to some extent drew you to me. At times they will simply be dispensed with, so that a clearer flow of information can be given. (Pause. Seth smiled.

(“Will it really be possible to describe to us an existence that has never been physical?” As Seth’s entity has mentioned doing.)

(“Yes. Okay, Seth. Good night.”

(10:41—I called Jane’s name three times, and she came out of trance easily. “I’ll tell you what happened,” she said, “after I…” She rested briefly, then explained. When I asked the question about explaining a nonphysical life, Jane said she felt that Seth tried to switch to the other source or voice, after his own brief answer, so that we could get more data. As noted, a long pause followed here, but Jane subjectively was not aware of this. My next question, about the back, then threw her off, seeming to come instantly after the previous question, and she couldn’t make contact with Seth’s entity. Although she felt “up high.”

(The result here, Jane said, was that she wanted to end the session, but couldn’t get her own voice back, and “nobody helped her out.” This was when I sat waiting to see what developed. As it happened, I was about to end the session when Seth spoke again and suggested that we do so.

(Jane spoke more about the cone effect described at the start of the session. Jane had a feeling of great distance to the top of the cone as it reached above her head. She felt lines from the base of the cone, across the top of her head, reach up to the cone’s peak. At the same time she received from Seth’s entity the words “Our existence is Joy.”