“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(This evening I finished Appendix 18 for Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality, and Jane read it. At the same time she was experiencing rather profound physical changes in both her legs and feet, as she demonstrated for me. Her hips were also more flexible. Once again she felt somewhat disoriented, and once again I suggested that she forego the session. But as before, she wanted to try having it.

(Today we received an acknowledgement from the artist, Raphael Soyer, to whom I’d sent a copy of Cézanne a week or so ago. He told us he was reading the book.

There were “modern,” or highly sophisticated civilizations, utilizing some technology, long before the dates given for the invention of writing (about 3100 BC). Writing was invented and reinvented the art lost, then reemerging.

There were several such civilizations, some mainly agriculturally oriented, and in those technology was applied, but generally only for that purpose—to increase agricultural yield. Some were religiously oriented. Some were socially oriented, enjoying a kind of comradeship that would find, for example, television’s impersonal communications a mockery of the give-and-take that they enjoyed in personal contacts.

There were electric batteries (as we’ve read lately; see my files). There were airplanes (files). There was not a technological organization however as you know it, so that the technological achievements were considered somewhat in a fashion that your society now considers fine art—esthetic, to be collected by the wealthy, delightful, good for collectors but not particularly practical. The aura of the mind of man simply had a different cast.

In a way mental organization itself was different—psychic priorities, if you prefer. Religious ideas of course held their own sway then as they do now. The earth was felt to be a more lively participator, it was personified. Some of this is impossible to explain. People felt that the sun and the moon would be offended if electric lights were used, for example, that in retaliation they might refuse to shine.

Reading was generally accepted. Books were numerous, but reading was done in the daytime. Technology was considered a plaything. Airplanes were not generally used. They were novelties. People identified so with the earth, they could see no reason for fast travel. There were automobiles, again considered as fanciful, technological art.

The poles at one time were reversed. The earth has formed and reformed and reformed. The inner psychic organizations always determine the kind of challenges and civilizations that emerge. There have been civilizations devoted mainly to art, in which all other endeavors were considered subsidiary, and the quality of workmanship was everything, no matter what the product. Mass production was inconceivable, because the originality of each piece of art, or furniture, or bowl, held its value in that manner, and the idea of producing a copy of anything would have been considered ludicrous, or considered an act without reason.

(10:15. No matter what her feelings may have been before tonight’s session began, Jane’s pace and delivery had been much more animated and energetic than it usually has lately. She felt better at break, also. The material that had come through was quite unexpected. Evidently it had been inspired by our conversation after the last deleted session, about Seth’s material on animal-man and man-animal. Now I speculated about trying some drawings or paintings of man-animal, animal-man. Resume at 10:25.)

Continue to do your Framework 2 approaches. You build up interest there, as you do with money in a bank, and you will collect that interest. Ruburt’s approach with the phone call (to Tam) today was excellent, and that approach can be used in many other areas of your activities by both of you. He felt the contact taking hold, as you did one (recently), working with sales.