“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(We expected Seth to speak tonight, and to deal with material Jane and I had been discussing just before session time. This was the case. Seth plunged in, in a most animated way, without preliminary greeting. Voice loud, eyes wide open, very active and intimate, pace fast and very humorous.)

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.

A fragment from the past, pertaining to a child. An initial encounter with the business world that was unpleasant. (Pause; one of many in here.) Mr. Mossman has a tendency to go overboard. A grandmother and a connection with a star. I do not know the connection—perhaps her name was Bright.

(“I was thinking about that today.” After doing a lot of griping last night.)

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.

This was added to by the sensed power of your father’s inhibited vitality. You felt the combination could sweep you aside, and literally destroy you. Undirected vitality and undisciplined vitality has frightened you, and noise to you represents the tumultuous undisciplined emotions that you feared.

Various sounds rush at you. From one inharmonious high-pitched yell for example, if you listen, you as an artist can sense the self that was forced to make that sound, perhaps emerge with a prize, an excellent portrait, or simply an unique and individual mouth. Or a landscape that screams out as the voice did.

(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.)

(Pause.) Now a musician translates visual data as though it was an auditory pattern; recreating say, and interpreting a bowl of grapes as a particular medley of musical notes.

(This session was held on June 24. My birthday is June 20.