“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(When Jane did begin to speak at 9:11, she used the same high, somewhat distant and quite precise voice as before, the one belonging to what we call, somewhat inaccurately, Seth’s entity. The voice is very clear, without much volume and many pauses, most of them short. One of its oddities is that a sentence often ends on an upbeat note, instead of the voice dropping at the end as is usual. This effect still fools me at times, for a sentence will have ended whereas I think Jane has only paused briefly in the midst of one.

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.

(True. Jane’s realization came last evening as she described the event to her ESP students. This was news to me, also, for she had not told me about it. She said that in between such events it is surprisingly easy to forget about them. Often a question or statement of mine, for instance, will remind her to tell me something. Note that in the last session, my notes contain no reference to Jane’s feeling that she was, however momentarily, between two worlds.)

(“It’s just funny,” she said, “going in and going out. It’s like coming down out of trance; it wasn’t like this before. He waits and I find him up there, where before he [meaning Seth] came all the way down to me.”

(Pause.) Your own world, from my perspective, does not exist in the way I am sure it exists for you. Your camouflages are not clear to me, though I understand what they mean to you.

(Smile, eyes open.) Short range predictions would be most difficult for me, since I cannot break down time as you think of it to that degree. I perceive instead at one glance seemingly whole segments of your time field. (Pause.)

(Pause.) To me this would be highly disadvantageous. From my viewpoint, you are far more alone than I. (Long pause.) From my viewpoint, it is difficult to understand your intense preoccupation with a system that represents such a small portion of your whole experience. (Pause.)

(Pause, eyes open, then closed.) I am not always aware of the you that you feel yourself to be, however. (Pause.) Seth has told me that in some future, in your terms, he would help me in this regard; bringing me closer, he said, for a good look. If so, you should probably know it.

I am speaking of my natural position. I can alter my viewpoint in which case your system becomes much clearer to me.

(Jane said that when she speaks for Seth’s entity “it’s like I’m emptying myself out up there someplace,” and that when Seth speaks “he fills me up.” But in the first case she doesn’t know where she goes.

—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.