“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(A nap after lunch seemed to restore Jane to a “workable state,” as she put it. Naturally we wondered what, if anything, Seth might say about the experience. I also read to Jane just before the session two questions I had written out recently for Seth’s consideration.)

Your ego, in common ordinary terms, has changed as a result of our sessions, in that it is now concerned with other realities also. In common sense terms, the ego handles manipulations within physical reality, and focuses brilliantly within a rather narrow range.

Now you project in your sleep whether or not you know it. But this feeling of jealousy prevents you from using consciously what you have gained. Unconsciously of course the experience does sift through, and like any other experience you use it in your work. But you could use more.

Do you have any questions pertaining directly now to what I have been telling you?

(Sometimes when I make notes I don’t have enough time to consider the material being received. Now is a case in point. I somewhat misinterpreted what Seth had said concerning projections. I commented aloud to Jane about how I thought that I had been using my psychic abilities in my paintings, quite consciously and deliberately as a most welcome aid.

(Humorously.) My telepathic abilities must not be operating well this evening, for I took it for granted that this is what you meant by your question; knowing what I did of your use of the psychic knowledge in your present works.

For that matter the book has changed you see from what it was, as he has changed from what he was. He also knows that the book will be published, and this inner information has been given to him in one way or another time and time again.

It is an example of the way in which his abilities came to his aid, giving him inner assurances when they were most needed. He realizes that he is a creator of the book, not its prisoner, and he once thought that he was. He has stepped clear of it (pause), its fate no longer seen as his fate, regardless of what happens to the book.

(10:15. Jane popped right out of trance. It was a funny situation. She knew what she had said about the book, under consideration at Ace Books, where Don Wollheim is editor-in-chief, and was at once concerned about distorting material, etc. “I wish I hadn’t said it,” she commented wryly, after I remarked that we hadn’t pushed for any answers from Seth; or even asked any questions about the dream book specifically, before the session.