APPENDIX A
THREE OF JANE’S ADVENTURES IN PREDICTION. SETH COMMENTS. JANE’S CONTENTS OF THE MIND.

This appendix contains three of Jane Roberts’ (unfinished) essays on different kinds of “prediction” and precognition experience. Also included is one excerpt by Seth about Jane’s talents with a similar kind of experience.

Jane discusses “prediction” and precognition in her books: How to Develop Your ESP Power, Adventures in Consciousness, Psychic Politics, and The God of Jane.

She wrote these essays in 1980 and 1981. They were taken from her journals and edited as little as possible to preserve her original spirit. Jane usually wrote several drafts for her “own” books, but spoke her books by Seth in final draft form.

Too often (Jane writes) we just want to go full steam ahead — we want sublime visions. But here, in these subtle (byways) of subjective action, we very well might be seeing some of these hidden psychic motions upon which physical events rest … and how today’s events and last year’s rub against each other like leaves from the same tree. And how Seth’s sessions of last August seem to apply newly to today’s events. How sneaky and obvious it all is at the same time.

Today before I began work, for instance, I scribbled down ten quick phrases under the heading “Predictions: August 24, 1981.” This took perhaps three minutes or so. [Presented exactly as written by Jane.]

Predictions — Monday, August 24, 1981 — Noon — Jane Roberts

Around 1:00 P.M., as Rob and I finished lunch in the kitchen and waited for the mailman, a fan turned up. A young lad who usually showed up once a year. He was the one I described in The God of Jane who felt himself to be a woman trapped in a man’s body. He has some suicidal tendencies, and I’ve worried about that. But here he was, all grins this time … alive and several pounds more substantial.

I get the feeling that events are getting knocked into and out of prominence all the time! But catching the motion is something else again. [Presented exactly as written by Jane.]

“Predictions” — August 25, 1981 — Noon— Jane Roberts

Seth describes another sort of prediction experience of Jane’s in Volume II of Dreams, “Evolution” and Value Fulfillment. From the 932nd session, which she held on August 4, 1981:

“… One morning last weekend (Saturday) Ruburt [Jane] found himself suddenly and vividly thinking about some married friends. They lived out of town, separated in time by a drive of approximately (half an hour). Ruburt found himself wishing that the friends lived closer, and he was suddenly filled with a desire to see them. He imagined the couple at the house, and surprised himself by thinking that he might indeed call them later in the day and invite them down for the evening, even though she and Joseph [Rob] had both decided against guests that weekend.