“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(“I’m just waiting,” she said. “That’s what shits me—and here last night and this morning I was getting it all so clearly.” Then a bit later: “What I’m getting now are just disconnected things.” So something was there after all. “Come on, Seth,” she said with unconscious humor, “for Christ’s sake let’s go. Now I’m getting something over there [to her left] that’s entirely disconnected from what I was getting two minutes ago over here. You know what it’s like when you test water with your finger to see if it’s the right temperature before you jump in? Well, things have to come together in a certain way before I feel right....”

Now: in a fashion, for the sake of this discussion (underlined), the blacks as slaves partially represented the great creative, exuberant, unattached, unconscious powers that were to be restrained, at least for a while. Their belief in dreams, love of music and song, even a certain mystical feeling of connection with the land—these elements were allowed the Negroes only because they were not considered fully human. White men and women were not supposed to act like that.