“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Before the session tonight Jane and I discussed the excellent manner in which Seth was able to relate to the various people who have witnessed sessions. This ability escaped us for some time, until we finally realized the various approaches used by Seth to make the material given meaningful to the very different personalities involved.)

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

I told you that if this material and information was ultimately to mean anything in your terms, then it must be related to people. I will see that it relates to many kinds of people. It will be given in many ways. There is no reason why the less intellectual should not have access to it, or that it should discriminate against them for their lack of gray matter. (Humorously.)

The material is quite legitimate, regardless of the ways in which I may choose to present it at various times. The basic principles of it will rest in our own sessions where those who are curious enough and gifted enough intellectually may find the arguments and reasons upon which it is built.

There will be those who cannot understand. For them the material will not be watered down, and has not been. But it will be given in simpler terms. You need not worry about a Seth Reader. There will be one, and I will write it.

(Before the session I told Jane, half jokingly, that she should publish a Seth Reader, said volume to contain Seth material on many subjects, presented in a rather more simplified way.)

It will be written to the intuitions and the emotions, and so it will be done somewhat differently. Intuitive truths, as Ruburt should know, can also be revealed in other than highly intellectual ways. Some will intuitively understand the material far better than others who may grasp it intellectually but without emotional comprehension.

The whole body of the material, by the time that we are done, will speak in various ways to various types of individuals who may not be able to speak to each other. Ruburt becomes intellectually scandalized when I speak simply. I have no need to worry about my intellectual superiority. I am perfectly free to communicate what should be communicated. He is however still at the stage where he takes pleasure in intellectual superiority, and somewhat looks down upon those who are not so intellectually gifted. (Amused.) A common-enough failing.

The attitude however could automatically make the material unavailable to many who need it, can understand it intuitively, and will use it well. There will be others, like Ruburt himself and like yourself, Joseph, who will be intrigued by those fuller developments and arguments given in the basic material. And upon these, again, the logical framework of the work will rest.

In the past because of Ruburt’s own difficulties, I merely hinted at future developments. I will tell you now however that within our own framework of sessions, and with what I call contact sessions with others, other books will materialize. There will be several in which the basic principles will be given simply, directly, with many examples to the ordinary man and woman.

(A couple of days ago we began to collect the sessions given by Seth in Jane’s ESP class in a separate category. This work, just beginning, gave rise to the idea for a Seth Reader, etc.)

(The phone rang at 9:35 and interrupted Seth’s delivery. Jane herself answered the call before I could do so. The call nicely pointed up the material for the session given above, re making it known to others, etc; the call was from a prospective ESP class member.

As a painter you use many mediums. You may portray a basic idea in various ways, and produce many excellent paintings in doing so. And using the English language I can still speak in many tongues, and present the material.

(Yesterday, Tuesday, Seth spoke over the telephone for the first time. The occasion took place during a call from Tam, in New York City, to Jane in Elmira, at about 9:30 PM, and lasted at the most perhaps five minutes.

(Jane had requested that Seth communicate with her during a dream, and that she remember the dream. Next morning however she could only recall that such a dream had taken place; no details appeared.)

(Here Seth refers to preparations I am making to paint a larger, 3/4-length portrait. Jane has seen a pen and ink drawing I did recently, which is the basis for the painting.

(“I will.” Meaning that as soon as I finished the painting I would be after Seth for the information. I felt that by insisting I could get the data now, but decided to wait.

(A note: After the session Jane told me that she knew what Seth was going to tell me when I had finished the painting under discussion. I asked Jane just how she knew this; was Seth telling me one thing, and Jane another; did Jane divine the information from Seth as he spoke through her, or what? We can learn more about this later; this is the first time we have been aware of information being given and received in just this manner, though it may have happened before. But as Seth told me about the painting Jane knew what he was to tell me.)

(“Good. Good night, Seth, and thank you.”

(“Very good.” See the 458th session, when Seth dealt with his availability to us during sessions, etc.

(10:44. Jane left trance quickly. She said Seth could have continued for an hour, etc., in his excellent mood. His presence had been immediate this evening.

(As instructed, I gave myself suggestions for dream-projection recall, though I was tired. In the morning I was vexed to realize I had a memory of an experience involving Seth, but it was such that I couldn’t recall enough consciously to make notes.)