“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.

(Apropos of the above, I quote briefly from an article in the New York Times for May 9, 1968, written by Walter Sullivan and datelined May 8 from Cambridge, Massachusetts. However, Jane and I did not see the article until the day after tonight’s session; note that this session is held on the same day the article was published. A friend gives us the Times after he is through with it, the day after publication.

New discoveries of the qualities inherent in the molecule will lead to an understanding of molecular consciousness, at least a rudimentary knowledge. The implications here again will not be recognized for some time.

(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.

That is fine. We are experimenting. Some time will be involved. (Pause.) He was uneasy when our sessions first began. I knew he would not take this as a lark. (Leans forward, humorous.)

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.

(“You once, a long time ago, said something about a dog fragment.” Over three years ago.)

You do have a good memory indeed. The fragment is no longer concerned, however. It has left your system entirely. We do at times visit you, your system, by sending projections of ourselves in such innocent manners.

We will attempt to do so. The time will come.

(I asked the last question at 10:37, after a lengthy pause, to see if the session was over. Jane sat with her eyes closed, smiling. Well over a minute paused. I thought she was still in trance. She went through a variety of facial expressions, mostly smiling or quizzical, and changed her physical position several times. Two, then three minutes passed. Her eyes were still closed. I waited, wondering if something unusual might be taking place; ordinarily I would have ended the session. Now Jane looked puzzled. Four minutes.)

(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.”

(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.”