“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(At about the time that personal session was held, we’d been reading a book on the lives of some of the well-known mystics of the past. Most of them had functioned within religious frameworks, and Jane and I saw how their various environments had given color and shape to their transcendent experiences. [I would add that in turn those experiences obviously enriched those environments.] But in spite of Seth’s material, Jane told me: “I’m not a mystic. I don’t think of myself as one at all — not like those church people.” She smiled. “I don’t have a vision every time I want to do something important.

Two years later, while working on Chapter 22 of Psychic Politics, Jane herself wrote: “No one has really tried to map the natural contours of the psyche. Few even wonder if it can be done … The visions that don’t agree with the various religious and mystical dogmas, that aren’t couched in terms of Christ, Jehovah, or Buddha, might well represent holes in the official picture through which a glimmer of inner reality seeps…. But again, the insisted-upon literal interpretation [of a psychic or mystical event] hounds us.”