“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

7. While writing poetry on the evening of September 9, 1963, Jane had her first consciously recognized psychic experience. It was a massive one, lasting at least two hours, astonishing her with the “barrage” of new ideas she discovered while immersed in it. During part of that time her consciousness left her body; and during it she produced through automatic writing a manuscript called The Physical Universe As Idea Construction. Later Seth told us that Jane’s alteration of consciousness had represented his first attempt to make “formal” contact with her, although she wasn’t aware of it then.

Idea Construction did serve as a psychic trigger, however; it led Jane to her outline for How to Develop Your ESP Power (see Note 2 for Seth’s Preface in this book), then to the beginning of the Seth sessions two months later. “Enough energy was generated in that evening to change the direction of my life and my husband’s,” she wrote in Chapter 1 of The Seth Material. In that chapter she examines the experience in some detail, and gives excerpts from Idea Construction itself. In Seth Speaks, see her Introduction and Session 596 in the Appendix for further references to that original manuscript.

Idea Construction still charms Jane whenever she reads it over. It’s never been published, but she feels that all of her subsequent work is directly related to it.