“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Last week in one of her ESP classes, Jane found herself speaking as Ruburt, knowing she was doing so. There was evidently strong telepathic/clairvoyant communication with another student when this occurred, for as Ruburt, Jane, while conscious, described a certain ancient scene set about a campfire; Jane and her student, also female, described the same scene. Jane saw the scene clearly, and among other facts realized that in this ancient time both she and the student were existing as males in that life. Jane has been giving this episode much thought.)

Now apropos (Nandor) Fodor’s book (the title will be given at the end of this session), yes, Jane, there is a Seth (emphatic delivery, leaning forward, eyes open), and I was not born a psychic infant from your own personality. Nor was I formed in such a manner. (Relaxed, a smile.)

There were certain capabilities and potentials, always present, that could not be fulfilled through physical reincarnations. Probabilities that never became actualities through any life (pause), a latent personality then that went its own way, and, quite literally was never a physical person. (Long pause.)

Now. As you know, and we will return now to the familiar name, Ruburt was experiencing a concept. The unfamiliarity of the experience frightened him.

(See the 443rd session.) Rather naturally he placed emotional connotations, or superimposed these upon the experience. He will not have such difficulties as he learns. There was obviously no intent to discomfort him, and it was Jane who became alarmed.

Other concepts, as vividly felt you see, might not have, bothered him, or he might have found them extremely supportive. His own abilities were at a high level. The circumstances were relatively good, though somewhat unstable; a period of three days was particularly beneficial however, which is why it appeared that so much was happening at once.

Jane should be able to contact Ruburt rather easily. It was because of the conceptual experience in our session that Ruburt emerged in practical terms. Again now, we are all independent with our own futures and pasts, in your terms. We are all however connected...

(As Jane spoke in trance now I had a little experience of my own. This took place while she was speaking, and I continued writing without interruption. Quite naturally, it seemed, I now realized that I was seeing a robed figure standing in a doorway, just beyond Jane’s right shoulder as she faced me seated in her rocker. The figure was perhaps three feet tall, standing facing me but with the light coming from the doorway behind so that the face was in shadow.

(I seemed to have the ability to shift my focus so as to see more of the scene. I became aware that another figure was seated at a table just in front of the robed figure, with its head, also shadowed, turned toward the robed one. While Jane spoke and as I made my notes, I found time to do a little sketch in the margin. The sketch merely recorded the idea of what I had seen, and noted the composition, for I thought it would make a good painting. I saw all this in color: browns, reds and yellows.

(I did not have time to speculate about who I was seeing. In perhaps a minute the experience had passed. Jane was still speaking as Seth. )

(10:20. Jane again left trance fairly quickly. She said she knew what blocking Seth was referring to; she felt herself “come up” just before break. The material Seth wanted to discuss was about Jane and Ruburt and Jane’s writing. Jane believed it was an extension of the arrangement Seth mentioned briefly on page 124, when he talked about Jane accepting inspiration and ideas from Ruburt without realizing it.

Ruburt has always been highly involved with Jane’s writing, imparting intuitive truths, and Jane’s psychic abilities were precisely what made the inspiration possible. You cannot separate creative and psychic ability. When Jane seriously questioned her psychic nature, she was without realizing it questioning also the basis of her own creativity, and this interfered with the writing.

In this life Jane has always been able to utilize psychic abilities very well, without knowing it. The basis of her work then was psychic. Without this the development into what you call mediumship would not have occurred. In Ruburt’s case, you had better put Jane’s case here, the personality was able to mature enough to consciously handle more and more data, to let further developments occur. Otherwise for example I would only have been able to communicate to Jane in her dreams, or through Ruburt.

(In a letter dated Oct. 23 Tam Mossman wrote us that Hans Holzer would consider doing the introduction for the Seth Material, provided he was listed as co-author. This was quite unexpected by us, and the offer was turned down. We had known Mossman might ask Holzer to do an intro, but Holzer’s demand to co-author the book was not suspected by us.

(See also the notes preceding the 443rd session. These deal with an unexpected royalty check for Jane from F. Fell, and I wanted to know if this event was the unexpected word concerning a book. We did not particularly think so. Due to the pressure of other events however Seth never answered my query on this.)

(See pages 111-12 of the 442nd session for Oct. 14, 1968 in which Seth warns us not to get into other cars. We have scrupulously followed this advice since October 14, and to date no mishaps have taken place. This auto data was one I wanted to ask about particularly.)

He was able to utilize unusually strong amounts of energy in our work of late, and will find his energy even more abundant and dependable in his writing, our work, and normal living. And now again good evening. I have tried to clear up several points for you.