“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(We sat ready for a session at 9 PM. Jane was still waiting by 9:10 for the session to begin; while feeling a little unsureness we were still confident that a session would be held. Notes later will explain the mechanisms involved.

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.

A personality is needed or the information would appear highly chaotic, and you would not know how to unscramble it, even if you were able to receive it. This is rather important. We not only give you information and help interpret it or translate it for you, but we also add to it our own experience with it. (Pause.) Your Seth would say we unscramble it for you, and then serve it neatly on a supper platter.

The unscrambled information, again, would be meaningless, and even undependable. Ruburt’s initial experience represented such an encounter. It is only because of his own abilities that he was able to translate the information for himself to any degree.

(“Yes.” This would be very recently. See the 406th session.

(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.

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.

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

(Same funny manner:) I will take him by the hand and lead him here, figuratively speaking of course. I have told him it would be good for him to extend himself in this direction; and he is quite correct. You will know it if he does.

(I also wanted to ask Seth just how we would know the presence of his entity, but did not interrupt since Seth seemed to want to keep speaking.)