“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Both occasions panicked you. (Pause.) During one your mind was extremely passive. You were sitting down. I see you bent over a table, either reading or drawing, in the front upstairs room.

You picked up thoughts from your mother, directed against your father, and your father’s telepathic reply. Both of your parents supposed themselves to be thinking about the other. Neither was aware that the other was receiving the thoughts, answering them. They were indeed carrying on a conversation without speaking. Your father was in the living room and your mother in the bedroom. Your two brothers were not in the house at the time of the later event.

The younger may have been in the yard. It was in late fall or winter, early evening. You very clearly picked up the thoughts, convinced yourself that imagination was involved, but knew very well it was not.

The constant line of chatter developed by your one brother (Loren, a year younger than I am) was of course a defense to close out the constant telepathic storm. Your young brother (William, 9 years younger) never set up adequate defenses, so that his own mood swung, willy-nilly, as the psychic climate varied.

Your defense was a creative one however. It turned your natural psychic ability and channeled it into artwork. (Long pause.) The children literally were buffers between the parents. Remember however that there were also reasons having to do with past life experience, and that all of you chose these conditions.

(9:33. Jane left trance rather easily. Her pace had been average. She said that while speaking as Seth about me, she saw me, within, seated at a table or desk in the front upstairs bedroom of my parents’ home in Sayre, Pennsylvania. I was not seated at a drawing table such as I now have.

(During break Jane began to get further impressions on her own, and they are noted below. If she was in a trance now it was a very light one. Seth was not involved. It is interesting to see how association works in such cases.

(Jane now said she picked up something about my mother and dishes. My father, Jane said, had to go to a meeting of an organization like the Lions Club. Dues were due; there was something about money. There was a name, Gale, not that of a woman, connected with father .

(“No,” Jane said, “it’s not Gale, it’s something windy, it’s that Dr. Martin. I always think of him as a windbag. He was going to the meeting with your father.”

(This is good data also. Jane knew my father had belonged to the Lions Club. She did not know Dr. Martin was also a member, or that my father had been secretary of the club, and consequently handled money in the form of dues. I remember the big book my father used to keep the record of the club members’ dues, etc. In fact, my father and Dr. Martin were charter members of the Sayre Lions Club, initiated many years ago.

(Jane now said my mother had talked with Dr Martin’s wife Emma on the telephone earlier in the day. Emma had bought a new satin gown that day, and my mother was jealous. She was also mad at my father because he couldn’t afford such things for her. Jane said she “was sort of aware of a dress, and a telephone conversation between your mother and Emma.”

(A bit later Jane saw my mother in a gray dress with a pin and pearls. She was smiling and happy, Jane said, and went to the meeting also. It was ladies’ night.

He was shoveling coal up into buckets, very angry. You stood in the doorway and actually heard his thoughts in your head. (Pause.) You were so startled and frightened that you ran. In your father’s anger he had wished that your mother was dead, or that she would leave and take her brood with her. (Pause.)

(I thought this a neat bit of telepathic exchange, for as I asked Seth the question, I expected to receive just that kind of answer. I thought I would see physical manifestation again, and in an environment that was not slavishly dependent upon objects.)

Ruburt, at one point was an artist as a male. Give us time here. (Pause.) You at one time combined music and words. You did not write music. (Long pause.) Both of you have always been strongly creative, have always been concerned with translating inner reality outward.

(10:23. Jane left trance easily enough. She remembered little of what she had given. I explained to her about what I really meant by my question concerning physical life in the future, and she then said that Seth was going to comment on our experience in physical reality in new ways in the future, rather than experience a lifetime of continuous physical creatures.