“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(In line with a policy of trying to keep abreast of topics brought up during sessions, I mentioned to Jane this evening that I would like more data from Van Elver via the “sepia” discussion, begun in the 424th session; and some data about Jane’s impressions concerning the dream book when it was at Parker. See The Early Sessions, Volume 8, pages 329-330, June 29, 1968.

(Jane said she would like some data on the personality Ignaptha, mentioned by Seth during the session held for Gene Bernard a couple of years ago.

(Jane began speaking at a rapid pace, in her usual manner as Seth. )

In actuality, following the image through, and strictly as an analogy, there would also be an infinite number of threads, both above and below your own, all part of one inconceivably miraculous webwork. Yet each thread itself would not be one-dimensional, but of many dimensions, and conceivably (underlined), if you knew how (Jane pointed at me for emphasis, still speaking rapidly), there would be ways of leaping from one thread to the other. You would not therefore be forced to follow any particular thread in a single-line fashion.

Now. There is, and this will certainly seem a contradiction in terms, there is nonbeing. (Pause. Jane lit a cigarette.) It is a state, not of nothingness in your terms, but a state in which probabilities and possibilities are known, anticipated, but blocked from all expression.

(9:43. Jane left trance, which had been deep, easily. The call was from Bill Macdonnel in Santa Barbara, California. After she hung up Jane told me that before the session she’d had the feeling we would be interrupted in some way— probably through a visitor; but she hadn’t told me beforehand.

(Jane was speaking so rapidly here that I could not keep up, and I asked Seth to wait. I missed a word or two, but that’s all. It was obvious Jane’s trance was a very deep one.)

(10:20. This proved to be the end of the session. It was by my estimate Jane’s deepest trance yet achieved. Her eyes closed, she finally said to me: “I don’t know if I’m here or there. I’m so far out... I’m sitting here talking and I can feel it in my toes.”

(It was fifteen minutes before she could open her eyes. It was difficult for her to snap loose, though at no time did she exhibit any worry or concern. It seemed to be a long way back for Jane. I suspected her sensitivity to heat and humidity might have contributed to the trance depth; before the session she hadn’t felt very active, but still wanted to hold the session.

(Note that no answers to questions mentioned at the start of the session were received, and I did not interrupt. Seth plunged into the material. Jane said she strongly felt the material’s content, aside from the words, as she delivered it. She experienced it in other words.

(Twenty minutes after the session ended Jane was standing up, washing her face, etc., but still feeling the aftereffects of the trance. She went to bed and slept deeply in spite of the heat; it remained hot all night.)