“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(We’d postponed last night’s regularly scheduled session until Thursday because Jane had a dental problem [relining,] to resolve—but then tonight after supper she decided to have a session now “because you don’t know what might happen tomorrow....”)

(Long pauses.) You do not have to worry in an overly strained way about putting the new principles of life into practical experience at once. You do not need to worry or deride yourselves for stupidity if it appears (very long pause, eyes closed, at 9:04), looking over the long annals of work that we have done together, that it should have been obvious that our ideas were leading in certain directions—for not only have I been trying to divest you of official ideas, but to prepare you for the acceptance of a new version of reality: A version that could be described in many fashions. It has been during the annals of history, but many of those fashions also indisputably, and with the best of intentions, managed to give a faulty picture: you ended up with your gods and demons, unwieldy methods and cults, and often with the intellect downgraded. I hope of course that our “model” avoids many of those pitfalls.

(9:24.) You should understand that the approach is the best one to use in life, generally speaking, but it will improve all conditions, even if you still have difficulties in certain areas (pause), and that its use cannot help but promote the overall quality of your lives. That recognition takes the pressure off, so that you can to some extent relax your old attitudes enough so that you allow the magical approach (long pause) to work in those areas that have been a bone of contention.

(10:05 PM. “Gee, that was pretty weird in some fashion,” Jane said as soon as she was out of trance, “to sense all kinds of things that were really different.” She paused. “I want to put my finger on it. I didn’t expect anything different tonight, but I have a feeling that whether you can take advantage of it or not, it represents a kind of turning point....”

(Jane said she did know she was taking the very long pauses. At first she was “alarmed, wondering if I’d gone to sleep like that. It was a lapse of consciousness —that’s what bothered me. I was aware of each one, but after I came out of the first one I felt something else was involved, but I’m not sure what. I seemed to go someplace while speaking for Seth....”