“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In larger terms knowledge cannot simply be given. It must be experienced. Although you do not find me as warmly personal as the Seth with whom (staring directly at me) you have been acquainted, I am a personality. The information is not coming to you out of nowhere. Knowledge does not exist in those terms.

Without the sort of directed knowledge that you are receiving, you have what appears as inspiration, a hit-or-miss affair, highly distorted as a rule. (Pause.) In the case of your sessions, you habitually became accustomed to manipulating certain coordinates, and this manipulation constantly increases your ability to receive information from us, and to achieve consistency of results. The coordinates do affect the physical system or any such communications would be impossible.

He is forced in one way to reach further into inner reality, for I do not come as immediately to you as Seth as you knew him did. Since I am not here that immediately, then Ruburt must go further. Seth is always there between us to help in this procedure.

Seth as you knew him perceives your own system more clearly. (Pause.) From my viewpoint (pause) I do not perceive your physical universe then as you do. I do perceive your psychic values and emotional intensities, and realize that you perceive but very small segments of these. As you break down the spacious present into moments, which you then experience, so also you break down psychic identity, gestalts, into small self-structures.

I am not telling you that individuality does not exist, that it is an illusion, and that therefore I do not perceive it. I am telling you that you do not perceive your own individuality as a whole identity.

I can perceive many other systems similar to your own. I cannot with any ease or facility enter into them in any familiar manner however, to experience camouflage as you do. (Pause.) This does not mean of course that I am not aware of you.

It would be apparent, though I would not appear as matter. I do attempt to instruct you, for reasons earlier given, and your instruction is also to my benefit.

(Jane said that when “he” began talking about “my viewpoint,” she was really “up there” in the pyramid or cone. When I asked the question referring to the stronger Seth voice Jane felt somewhat bothered. The question, the interruption and the sound of my intruding voice, seemed to bother her and bring her down to another level, she said. Not greatly, but she did notice it. Nor do all questions bother her.

(“I don’t know what Ruburt would like to do.”)

—and I am the one who looks in on you. (Pause.) I will not keep you. Ruburt is doing well however with this development. Do you have any questions for me? I do not mind answering them.

Understand again that these divisions are arbitrary. We are part—independent portions—of the same personality, he and I. If you have no further questions I will leave you to your domestic quiet. Anytime you want me to liven your sessions up however I will do so. And I will be here often, as a matter of course, in our regular sessions.