“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Aggrieved but smiling:) I had much more than a mere chapter in mind. I had a complete book in mind, though not of great length. It would involve the various mechanics necessary for such communications on my part; the necessary preliminaries in order to make Ruburt aware of my presence initially—

The first book would of course introduce me, and it would involve a study of mediumship; not from the viewpoint of the medium, but from the viewpoint of the personality for which she speaks.

This book would bear my name. But I would dedicate it—

Alice. (Pause.) The name Grossman also comes to mind, but I do not know the connection. (Cecile Grossman was an editor at Prentice-Hall then.) Mossman has an uncle, I believe, of whom he is fond, or was fond. The name Albert comes to mind. A 1962 engagement or marriage.

He needs the challenge, and I am sure that he will meet it. It is far stranger than fiction, and if he will but see, such a book carries its own built-in suspense.

Now my book will necessarily have some things in it that will not be new to you, but it will have much information of which you have little or no knowledge now. It will be quite an original document.

It may have the air of a series of lectures, but I shall see to it that they are interesting ones. I will add whatever is needed in the nature of demonstrations as we go. (Long pause.)

Now I have an experiment for you. You may not think much of it. (Pause.) But try it.

Do it as an act of will, and your intuitions, oddly enough, will be refreshed. They need not serve automatically as inhibiting factors unless you allow them to. But it is not enough in your case to ignore them and despise them. Let them work for you.

You do not have to be afraid of going along with what these sounds represent. You will not lose your sense of isolation nor your individuality. This is basically behind your reaction, having to do with your early life. You felt your mother’s liveliness and vitality threatening, for it was not disciplined in any manner, but erratic.

The exercise will do much to override this, for you are strong enough and you need inner freedom. There is behind such seemingly undirected, abstract tumult and energy, direction that cannot be intellectually perceived, but can be intuitively sensed. And this is the force that is behind your own art and all creativity. (Pause.)

It can even serve as a framework for creativity, for from these raw materials you can forge and direct energy for your own purposes. You can take that tumult and use it, but not if you set yourself up against it. Then, it is threatening to you.

I have given you a few examples simply to clarify my remarks. But these evidences of action, apparently chaotic and undisciplined, are parts of inner frameworks that do have both purpose and reason.

As you know, even your physical system reacts when you brace yourself against these things as irritations. But properly used they can lead you to exaltations, and you would use such exaltations then in a disciplined, directed manner.

Crystallization follows crystallized experience. Art comes from raw emotion, within your system at least, that is then crystallized and disciplined. The seemingly chaotic is recognized, felt, and then put into patterns. What is not generally understood however, is that the seemingly chaotic experiences do have purpose. The state of your inner physical organism, viewed from another perspective, is a chaotic one, but it works to find purpose.

(10:52. Jane did not respond, sitting quietly, so after a short pause I said good night to Seth on the assumption that the session was over. But she then resumed as Seth.)

You can do this in the opposite manner, building up from sounds visual frameworks that are completely original portraits, created from the sound of voices. Even landscapes, elemental but fragile, built up from the ebb and flowing voice of traffic as it passes by your door. As an artist use everything.

Very many. I could hardly keep track of them all. (Smile.) I do not have birthdays now, but I have had many. I had many death days, but I do not have those now either.