“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Seth’s personality was expressing itself much more freely now that it was released from the board, particularly after the surprising fourteenth session. [...] I was nervous before we started, wondering whether Seth would come through or not. In those days I was always afraid that I’d go into trance, open my mouth, and—nothing! [...] Besides, I wasn’t even aware of how I knew when Seth was ready. We began sessions at 9 P.M. Five minutes before nine, I’d get that feeling again, that I was going to leap from a high diving board into a deep pool—and without knowing for sure whether or not I could swim.

[...] The remark about the change in my features was included in the notes, of course, but it was otherwise forgotten until a year later when it was brought rather forcibly to mind. When the session was over, my own voice was still fresh and clear, with no trace of the earlier difficulties. [...]

[...] I knew that he was concerned about me, but also tremendously interested in the material Seth had been giving. [...] The sense of another independent personality was stronger than it had ever been, and so I decided to continue. By now it was after 10:30. [...]

[...] As Rob looked down to take his notes, he realized that a vocal metamorphosis of some kind was taking place. He wrote as fast as he could, so he could also look up now and then to see what was going on. Now I stood almost in front of him, the un-Jane-like open eyes staring at him as if to make sure he understood what was being said.

He was referring, of course, to some reincarnational data he had given earlier. [...] Seth was also to say later that this past relationship was partially responsible for our communications.

Again, on reading the notes we were fascinated by the material, particularly since Seth told us that he was going to explain these Inner Senses more fully, and teach us how to use them. He was as good as his word, for as you will see shortly, he did give us instructions and we were to have all kinds of new experiences as we followed them. We didn’t know that this information was geared to our own level of understanding and quite simple in comparison with the elaborations that would follow.

[...] We knew that the voice change was significant, of course, but we didn’t realize that the power behind the voice was the more important issue. [...] Actually, the structure provided continuity and stability, but also was flexible enough to nurture latent developments of which we were then completely unaware. [...]

All during this time I was working at the local art gallery in the afternoons. [...] In fact few of our friends even knew what we were up to until the book was out. [...]

[...] Then he launched into his first discussion of the Inner Senses, a subject which was entirely new to us. It was to be elaborated upon in the future.

“Looking at Jane and knowing her natural feminine voice so well, I had to think twice to realize that this other new voice was issuing from her in such volume, and with no strain at all. I don’t know whether I was more surprised at the fact that Jane seemed not at all disturbed by this voice, or by the fact that it had such a definite deep and masculine tone.”