“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Before the session we discussed the one séance we’ve ever tried, and which is described in Chapter 3 of The Seth Material. I said that the spectacular results obtained had seemed to come straight out of Framework 2. We also discussed the long essay on early man in Time for November 7, and I remarked that I’d like to ask Seth some questions about the state of our present “knowledge” about our heritage.

(Incidentally, Willy One died on November 5, last year.)

Each creature in its way is born with great expectations, and attempts to use whatever abilities it has to the fullest, to exercise them, and simply to thrill in their use. The day before Willy (One) died, his expectations were no different than they were when he was a kitten. His illness made performance more difficult, and yet in periods of rest he would start out again expecting to make the same leaps, and so often he did.

When for whatever reason you feel unsafe over a long period of time, or when you begin to retreat, in a frightened fashion—for there are many kinds of retreat—then you cut down your options to whatever degree, and you must of necessity cut down your expectations also. Under certain conditions in one area or another, or sometimes in many, you have dire expectations. There are too many people who expect the worst from you, yet even then the creative self will try from Framework 2 to bring all resources possible, through dreams and intuitions, to alter that pessimistic progress.

As I mentioned, a desire that is fitting to your nature automatically in Framework 2 collects all of the resources necessary to bring about its fulfillment in Framework 1. Because the desire is one fitting to an individual nature, it is also fitting in with the overall purposes of nature in general, so that the desire also attracts the limitless resources that are behind nature’s own majesty and power.

In a manner of speaking, and to a certain extent, one level of dreaming almost always involves a probable event that may or may not be actualized. That portion is taken into consideration, along with the same portion of all other dreams, so that the raw material for future events is processed. This occurs on a global basis, and is an everchanging process, for free will always operates, and the field of probabilities constantly changes.

(I’ll note here a small sign of the workings of Framework 2. Today I received a letter from the secretary of the British Psychic Society, Eleanor O’Keefe, thanking us for sending her an autographed copy of Cézanne a couple of weeks ago. She remarked upon something that at first escaped us both: her interest in art. Hence, I’d decided to send her a book on art, derived through Jane’s trance abilities. At the same time, I told Jane, we shouldn’t attach too much significance to this, since we’ve been sending out only Cézanne books—that is, anyone we send a book to gets one on art.