“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.

(Once again I note that Jane’s physical improvements continue as described in recent sessions. She now sits down much more easily than in the past, with more ease even than she did last week. She sat down three times today in the bathroom, for instance, the most she’s done so since a little over four years ago, as we figured it. Jane laughed that she’d have made it four times in a row if Willy hadn’t interfered.

The spontaneous self, the creative self, is also immersed in Framework 2, and the creative conscious mind springs from there also, even though its focus must of necessity be in Framework 1’s world of space and time.

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.

In a basic manner, physical events are formed originally in Framework 2, where all the necessary computations are done in terms of probabilities, so that physical events then mesh properly in space and time.

(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.