“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(This material is deleted from the 584th session for May 3, 1971. It grew out of Seth’s answers to a couple of questions I asked for Chapter 20 of Seth’s own book. They had to do with Seth speaking through Jane in her lifetime; with my help, etc.

(Break at 10:09. Jane was well dissociated, she said. I read a few paragraphs from the first part of the session to her, since I thought them very important. The material led me to suggest some alternatives to our present routine and attitudes; Jane said the suggestions, which were only speculative at this stage, frightened her, but I did not intend this of course. I was only floundering around trying to find ways of relieving the symptoms, even if this meant suspending ESP classes, or the sessions, or whatever, while we tackled the problems at hand.

He thinks basically that it is, and he accepts the basic principles of the work—that is, the Seth material. He still finds reincarnation difficult to accept, but this is not the only sore point. Give us time. He sometimes is confused about the God concept also. He accepts the source of the material as beyond his usual self. If he were not committed to the material he would have ceased the sessions long ago. Do you have other questions now along this line?

No, personal material. The habit of thinking, again, is the point here—Ruburt’s pattern of thinking.

(“When The Seth Material was published and we went on tour: did this revive or intensify his fears about leading people astray?”)

In the beginning, if you recall, he made little effort to have the material published, or even to deal with the material itself in those terms. His first book dealt with your experiments, done on your own in the main, and with their results. This happened, that happened: people could accept or reject.

The material represented a body of teaching, which was at variance not only with his own childhood religious background, but to some extent with the intellectual ideas of early adulthood. He made the jump to publish the teachings, to that extent, so far.

Then he realized that the coverage given on your tour, the people being reached, and so then again he wondered. He was also using his writing ability, or putting his writing ability at the hand of the material. Then again it had better be legitimate, since it was obvious he was being interviewed as a psychic who wrote, rather than as a writer with psychic abilities.

(“It was very instructive. Thank you very much, Seth. Good night.”)

(11:28. Jane’s trance was again good. She said Seth was very affectionate tonight—that it was one of those nights, etc.)