“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Once again, I tried to get through to her that the sessions or her own work could offer ways to get through that period, or at least offer greater insights into it. “If it was me,” I said, and I probably shouldn’t have, “I couldn’t wait to get something on what’s going on, in the hope that it would help.” Lately I’ve more or less given up bugging her to have sessions, since it seemed that that activity was beyond her means at this time. I also tried to keep in mind Seth’s recent reference to her own natural rhythms, thinking that if she didn’t want sessions just now, that might actually be part of the healing process.

(“I do feel him slightly around,” she said at 7:30. “I’ve been telling myself....” Her voice trailed off, and I could see that she was struggling to stay awake. Yet she did manage to let a session happen. She began speaking for Seth with her eyes closed —but her voice was quite strong, comparatively speaking, with a minimum of tremor. Her eyes were quite dark when they finally opened to stare at me.)

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(I’ll have to admit that when Seth was speaking I wasn’t sure whether he was contradicting himself or not—first talking about my accusing Jane, then commending me....

(I scanned the local newspaper during “break.” “I think I’ll go to the john,” Jane said at 8:17. “What I was getting from Seth was that any hospital serves as a terrific example of a belief system....” Abruptly, Jane broke off speaking in her normal voice and began delivering her material in a different, light, hesitant voice that was in between her own and Seth’s: “....highlighted through the light of activity and interactions. That is, you have the medical beliefs themselves, with their appropriate props immediately available, so that suggestion becomes remarkably effective.”

(“I’m in a sort of transitory state,” Jane said after a pause, “between my own level of consciousness and Seth’s. There will be far more said on such issues, but in the same way, any organization devoted primarily to one large system of beliefs will always highlight the effectiveness with which belief systems operate. But what you see is the end product.”

(8:27 PM. “I don’t know where that came from,” Jane said. “I started to disappear from it, or go into another state or something.” Certainly she hadn’t sounded like she was giving her usual “own” dictation for the intro to Dreams, and certainly not like Seth. “Gee. I don’t know what that was. We’ll probably get something more on it later.”

(“Yeah. I’m glad I did.... I don’t know what I did with that last material. I felt like I could get a lot from Seth, but that was all I could do.”