“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

This session ran fourteen typewritten pages, and is so of one piece that it’s difficult to give excerpts, without including a good bit of background information. Here are portions of the last half of the session. Earlier, Seth and Gene had been discussing reality, and Gene had commented that existence was “kind of a lovely colossal joke.” Seth answered that “it is no joke. It is a means for the Whole to know Itself.”

“But that is a discussion of the me here and now.”

In here, because of the specific material, Rob began to wonder if projection was involved. “Are you at the location now?” he asked.

Now in here, I was changing my position in the air. As far as I can figure out, I was the one at the location, not Seth.

“Then a bay effect to the left. The land is like this, you see, not straight. The land here curves and juts out again.” Here again Seth gestured broadly to indicate the shape of the seacoast. He also said that the family had a strong foreign connection, though the name was not particularly foreign, and made some other remarks about the family’s history and members.

The family had come from Australia and hoped to return. Several other impressions, not mentioned here, were also right, others wrong: For example, Seth said that the mother was dead. Actually she was quite alive, though the family had cut her off emotionally and she did not always live at home.

He absolutely refuses to let people use him as a crutch—this goes for me, too—and maintains that the Seth Material itself provides a means by which people can understand themselves better, reevaluate their reality, and change it. Despite the sessions held now and then to help particular persons, and despite their incidents of extrasensory perception, the sessions remain focused primarily on the material. It is here we feel that the real significance of the sessions rests.

I’d like to close this chapter with excerpts from Session 329 recorded in March 1967 for a teacher-friend’s high-school group. Though Seth is speaking to teenagers here, the message is meaningful to each of us.