“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Your enthusiasm is excellent. However, your enthusiasm can cause waves that can go up and down. You want a quiet surface. It would help you if before bed you imagine your mind like an ocean upon which you could walk. All feelings are on the waters, you are above. Then imagine yourself walking on the water, listening with your inner ear and using inner eyes. You should hear voices and see a figure on the horizon... let the figure come closer... Do not run. Relax and let the figure come to you.

(Seth’s remark stemmed from the fact that Jane’s hair was continually falling over her forehead and eyes; she had taken to brushing it back often; usually her glasses would keep the hair out of her eyes, but as a rule she doesn’t wear glasses in trance.)

Now. I would simply visit with you now ... for friendly purposes ... I am a teacher and I have this work. It must come only from one source.

That has been done before. All of this has been done before. Through many ages, in one way or another, I have spoken. (Humorously:) I never shut up. And others have spoken ... And there is always the difficulty in maintaining the integrity of the material and keeping it free of distortion... I have worked very hard to help Ruburt condition himself to provide for the material’s integrity and cut down on distortions (Smile:) I would be appalled at going through that all over again.

This helper is known to you in this present existence, but is not our friend here. (A smiling gesture to Tam.) It would make a lovely story. Give me a moment. (Pause.)

Now there were invading forces from the north and you moved ahead of them, warning the people; and sometimes because of your clairvoyant abilities you could tell just where the invading forces would be in a particular area. And so finally you warned the people, and so the people moved ahead of the forces.

(Here, speaking rapidly, Seth went to some pains to emphasize to Tam the importance of the individual being in full control of his abilities, letting them develop slowly and naturally at all times so that the individual would feel at ease with them. He used the speeding-car analogy to hammer home the point.)

(I ran an errand to the store not long after this. When I returned Jane and Tam informed me that Seth had come through again. This time the material concerned, among other things, plants and thoughts; Tam being very interested in plants and related subjects. Since we have no notes on this material, Tam said he would send us a brief resume of this last delivery, to include with these notes.

(Seth reiterated what he had said before about my healing powers.) When you pass people in the street, go to work immediately. (He went on to say that the same power could be applied to plants as well, and that I had apparently used same in my previous existence as a gardening monk.) A plant cannot fight back, (and it would be good to practice on something whose subconscious could not give me trouble. It would be “interesting” to make experiments, using this power, that could be recorded. )

You have nothing to worry about in terms of possession. (He then implied that spirits that had left the earth were seldom responsible in the first place.) Worry itself will, however, induce (he may have said “duplicate” ) a state similar to the preliminary stages of possession. (A person) never becomes possessed unless he has requested it, (when he is not interested in, or afraid of life, and would like another to take over the job.)(Eve recalls that at this point, he added:)

I should emphasize that it would be better for you not to play with tables at all, except here or in the company of others who are already familiar with such work.