“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(For a while now Jane and I have been considering the question, aloud, of Seth’s availability to us whenever we choose to hold a session. This would take into account our physical time system, etc. We thought the question would have many ramifications. Note that I didn’t specifically ask that the question be discussed this evening.

A certain portion of my reality is therefore available to you during our appointed times, and the bridgework of which we have spoken is always available; and using it Ruburt can call upon me on other occasions.

(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.

(This is a different thing than Seth being available say at 8 AM, or noon, or other capricious hours we may choose. We have not conducted any tests to see if this is possible. We do know however that Seth would be available at any time under emotional stress, if we asked.)

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.

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.

For in my present in your terms, I am also the personality who is not speaking this evening, the Seth who does not have those characteristics with which you are so familiar. It is unfortunate that I must use terms of time to explain this to you, but as I told you many sessions ago, my time is not your time. (Humorously.)

Again, this does not imply that such a session is less legitimate than others. It simply means that I use what you would call time in a different way than you.

Now, some part of Ruburt is of course aware, for I would not intrude, and he has long since given his permission for such an arrangement. Nor, because you ask specific questions at a specific session, and I answer them, does it necessarily mean that the program has not been prepared, in your terms, earlier; for on many occasions I will see the questions within your mind, or the minds of your witnesses, and will therefore answer them, in your terms ahead of time.

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.

I use certain facets of my personality, for they are helpful as a teacher. You know all of me that you are able to know, at any given time in your terms. (Pause.) It would be relatively (underlined)but certainly practically impossible, for me to make my full reality clear to you, now, in our sessions, for your understanding would not contain it.

James. He was James Talbert. You were his niece. Matilda Montage. You were from a side of the family with French connections, and at that time flighty, easily upset, with some ability as a musician in piano, but without the discipline or drive to use the ability.

He was taking you to a concert. I do not know now, or see now, what initiated your reaction, but something happened that frightened you. You yelled at the horses and screamed. Your uncle fell. The horses panicked, and [he] fell beneath a hoof. You never forgave yourself, and now in your first reincarnation as a woman since that time, you decided to be the vehicle through which he could enter physical reality again, and so became his mother in physical terms.

Now these are things, some of the things, that you do not want to face consciously. Your uncle did not blame you for the accident at the time. While there was a past family connection, you were not the closest of friends, and there was no need or desire on either of your parts for a family connection of any duration in this life.

At one time you and the child were also brothers. He was impatient with you at times, for he remembered you as a companion in male pursuits, and bitterly resented your femininity.

Even the first had its psychological implications, for the uncle at that time was dissatisfied with existence, and with his accomplishments, and the carelessness that helped result in his accident was also partially his own. But the fact that the conception was accidental, and the death was accidental, has its own intuitive logic.

You used to wonder what there was about her that so captivated your father, since he had an obvious preference for her, and you would watch her secretly, trying to find the answer. You disliked her heartily but the fascination kept at you, so that you studied her mannerisms, and even at times tried to copy them.

Your sister was also fond of the uncle, and therefore was instrumental in this life in allowing him new entry; but you joined for that purpose only. The fascination was an expression of a past fascination of a different kind, though you were pleased that this time you were older.