“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane continues her improvements, although she’s been having periods of worry and doubt. Now she waited impatiently for Seth to come through: At first I’d thought she would pass up the session. Finally she felt her boy around. “I’m glad,” I joked. “I was afraid he might only get as far as Coleman Avenue — a block away — or someplace like that. I didn’t want to sit around waiting, and wasting my time. …”)

It is not true, of course, that before the time of modern psychology man had a concept of himself that dealt with conscious exterior aspects only, although it has been written that until that time man thought of himself as a kind of flat-surfaced self — minus, for example, subconscious or unconscious complexity.

Anyone who experienced “something that could not exist” was therefore to some extent or another deluded or deranged. There is no doubt that the accepted dimensions of psychological reality began to shrink precisely at the time that modern psychology began. (Long pause.) Modern psychology was an attempt to make man conform to the new scientific world view.