“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane now began to gesture with her hands and arms.) It is as if there were two portions of a bridge, like a toll bridge or a drawbridge, and these two portions you see must meet. When you wish to contact me at other than appointed times, I may or may not be easily (underlined) available. Your own emotional need and impetus will however be made known to me. Therefore if that need is strong I would of course be here, even as you would not disregard the need of a friend. I am not automatically available however any more than you are.

I am however, again, automatically a part of the message that I bring to you. At times, for various reasons, I am here more completely than in other sessions. These reasons however have to do with circumstances that are usually beyond “normal” control: electromagnetic conditions, psychological circumstances—the psychological climate for example. All of these could be considered as atmospheric conditions through which I must enter.

As I have told you, to some extent then projection is involved, both on my part and on Ruburt’s. The question, am I always available to you when you want me, is based upon the old limited concept of personality (pointing to Sue, humorously), for even our friend here can be in two places at the same time—and I have had more training.

(To me:) I have told you that your own presence is also involved here to some extent, and whether or not you are present at any given session.

Give us a moment. (Pause.) Now when you watch, say, educational TV, you see the teacher, and he speaks. He may or may not actually be speaking at that time, for you may be watching a film. But the teacher exists whether or not he is speaking at that time, in your terms, and his message is as legitimate. So now see Ruburt as my TV screen. I must come through much more clearly, and you have here the essence of the teacher.

For again, the medium is the message in the spacious present, and when- ever the time for the program arrives I am here in your present, regardless of where I am in what you would term my present.

Give us a moment. (Pause.) This does not mean however that I use Ruburt as a puppet, and stuff his mouth with tapes as a recorder, and that you are always listening to replays, or that emotionally I am not here during such sessions. It means that in such multidimensional communications I can be here emotionally. I can be here in your terms at appointed times, for the medium is also more than the message.

The teacher is within the tape. The personality is condensed. Your question stems however from the idea that if I am here I cannot be somewhere else at the same time, or that all of my energies must be focused here at the session. There are aspects of my identity with which you are not acquainted, though you may be at some later date in your terms. (Smile.