“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(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.

The physical body is but one small aspect of the various inner forms of which you are personally composed. As the various portions of your physical body are connected and interconnected, so the various portions of your other forms are also interconnected, and one to the other. (Pause.)

Your scientific fields of endeavor may stumble upon the mathematical probabilities involved in such other fields within perhaps a 60-year period, but they will not recognize the significance of the discovery—which will probably be made in an attempt to obtain more data concerning an idea related to Einstein’s special field theory.

Together, psychology and physics could bring about a new understanding of the nature of man, but the hints and signs will remain dormant and unused.

I want to make this clear: no postulated new force theory will answer their questions until it is realized that no system is closed, and that the physical universe is not the origin of, but the result of, the energy that they seek. (Pause.)

The physical universe is like a very poor photograph. As the pictures and representations in a photograph are only dim, incomplete symbols for the people and objects they represent, so the physical universe is but a dim image of the reality for which it stands.

True identity is as much divorced from ego reality as the photograph is from the person. There are connections between an individual and his photograph, and there are connections between the physical individual and the inner self, but the person must recognize the image in the photograph, for it will not recognize him.

(9:36. Jane’s eyes opened almost at once, and she easily came out of trance. There was still an element of unsureness in it, she said, but her ease of operation under the new regime was obvious.

(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.

(10:03. Jane again came out of trance easily. The sudden break surprised us. At the last break and this one, I had felt that Jane’s delivery slowed down as break time approached, something like a spring unwinding. Not that energy wasn’t available behind the material, but that perhaps something got in the way of the delivery. Perhaps, still, the newness of this latest approach.

I could have delivered this evening’s material. I would like him to become familiar with our innovation. (Smile.) He participates more when I speak in this manner. In one way I am indeed able to make closer contact, but we must take advantage of all of our sources, and so we shall.

I also participate to some degree, personally, in your system during our sessions. There is no need for Ruburt to feel uneasy when I speak in a different guise. That other portion has gone a different way, but we, are aware of our relationship.

Again however, the dog consciousness was its own. I did not for example control it, but I was aware of it.

(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 also received “an inability to translate anything else.” This was difficult for her to explain, she said; as though “they” were trying as best they could to explain what they really meant, and all she ended up with was joy. Also “struggle” was involved. The cone effect was her attempt to receive this data. Mentally she asked for the data in another way, feeling as though she were in “dimension 8” —in between gears. She wasn’t worried but it was a weird state of consciousness. At the end of the session she was aware of a radio playing downstairs.)