“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(This session was held to obtains answers to two questions we had for Seth. Both pertained to Jane’s book on the Seth material, which she is just finishing. One question had to do with the oil showing two male heads which I painted in 1965. The other concerned the envelope test held in the 300th session. Jane is dealing with both of these points in Chapter Eight of her book.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(This, then, was the question. The envelope object for the test in question was a piece torn from a hidden page of The New York Times. The piece was small in relation to the page, which I did not see. [Hiding it in the studio while my eyes were closed, etc.] Yet when Seth, through Jane, gave the test results, much accurate data was given concerning the full page that lay in the back room, as well as the actual small envelope object in Jane’s hand during the session. We wanted to know how such a thing was possible.)

This does not involve projection. (Which we had wondered about this afternoon.) There were other issues, having to do with Ruburt’s own mental characteristics. Now it is true that generally speaking, material of an emotional nature actually has a stronger vitality, and is easier to perceive. Beyond this however Ruburt has no(smile) love for detail, and will always use detail as a clue to see where it will lead him. He would not be content simply to give the details on the snatches of paper as you gave them. This is fairly automatic, this tendency, and the nature of his mental life. We use this, I hope to advantage, in our sessions in other ways, and I will have more to say concerning this.

Only at such times, during that kind of a test, did he become antagonistic. Do you have questions on this material?

(By this I meant to ask Seth if he planned to dictate a chapter, or at least a few pages, for Jane’s book on the material. Jane and I have talked about this before. But it can be seen that Seth doesn’t directly answer the question.)

There will be more material on the (ELM) units of which we have been speaking. (Jane may use this material in the appendix.) I wanted to tell you that when Ruburt sends off his book we will try to give you more information on the art gallery material.

(We found Seth’s data tonight on Jane’s reaction to tests very interesting. I talked about cases we had read about, where hypnosis was used to get the subject to focus only upon the test item, ignoring any other data even if relevant. The discussion veered around to our wondering how Jane would do under such conditions, when Seth abruptly resumed at 9:50.)

There are many areas of knowledge in which any given individual is uninterested. He will not bother to use normal perception to obtain it. Much of the material dealing with perception that I have given makes this point quite clear. (Pause.) Ruburt is correct. I give him access to large fields of focus, I help him change the energy that he uses in perception into other directions, to turn it inward. I made information available to him. Then according to his basic characteristics, he used that information accordingly. I gave him nudges to lead him in the proper direction. Do you have questions?

(Jane said she didn’t really want to speak for Seth’s entity tonight, if that’s what she was trying to do, so I suggested she break it off. Jane said “things were significant in the room,” a phrase she has used before when preparing to speak for Seth’s entity, or Seth II as we sometimes call “him.”)