“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(This session is in answer to two highly creative pages Jane wrote between 7:30—9:00 PM this evening. We’ve already spent half an hour talking over their contents; even while we discussed them Jane remembered elements she hadn’t written down. It seems that several different altered states of consciousness were involved, so we’re very interested in what Seth will say. Much of the experience took place in Jane’s library, which she is writing about in Aspects II, as we call it.

To some extent Ruburt has identified with him. He was after all Ruburt’s mother’s father, and therefore the source out of which Ruburt’s mother came—the higher power, so to speak. The ape emotionally represented the instincts in true light, as dependable, supportive, and as the basis for earthly existence. Ruburt as an infant, then, experienced the strength of the earthly source. This means that he is to trust his instincts as far as letters are concerned, or healing, or whatever. At the same time the ape male and female represents the sexual quality of the earth, male and female being simply other versions of each other. This automatically helps resolve certain conflicts Ruburt had involving male-female identifications. In other terms the past was altered, in that Ruburt now experienced the yearned-for mother love that was warm in its animal female understanding, supportive and strong enough to easily bear a child’s small ragings and hatreds.

Being shorter also would bring about physical alterations that would themselves protect against instinct or animal behavior. This fit in with his work ideas, and yours, earlier, as given—cutting out distractions, et cetera.