“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(“I think Seth’s heading toward something new,” Jane said at 9:20, as we sat waiting for the session. “Funny — not that we’re going to come up with new words, but some new ideas. I feel like I’ve had three or four drinks, or as though I’m in a different state of consciousness already — and here I haven’t had anything except this apricot juice …”

(Indeed, we were out of beer, which Jane usually drinks during the sessions, and she didn’t want any wine. “I feel him — Seth — around now,” she said, “but it’s like last time: I’m getting stuff, but I’m waiting until it’s clear … I don’t really feel looped, but the center of focus I always use in the sessions seems strange. There’s an unfamiliarity about finding it. I’d say, although I don’t know, that I’m already in a deeper state than usual …”

(“Good evening, Seth.”

(“I’d say the part of her that was close to us is. But that part may be resting there, too. “For reasons too personal to go into here, we haven’t yet tried to “tune into” my mother in her new environment. I suggested that the rest of the session be devoted to Jane herself, but Seth had other ideas. Resume at 11:15.)

(Long pause at 11:29.) While words are difficult to use here, again, what I am saying applies, in different ways perhaps, to the behavior of worlds, atoms, and psychological structures. Give us a moment … In the life that you know, as given in Personal Reality, your beliefs act to specify the particular probable events that will become “real.”¹⁰ Because you are a probable self, an understanding of your own nature will show you some of the abilities, not used here, but present, that you can indeed choose to actualize. You can draw then from your own bank of probable abilities, for there will be traces of them in you. They are being developed in another reality; therefore in this one they can be utilized far easier than you might suppose. When you exercise your right arm, your left arm benefits. When you develop abilities in one system, to some extent they are easier to develop in another. (To me:) In deciding to do some writing (for the Seth books, as an example), you are also drawing upon abilities that you have worked on in another system, and through your intent you are to a certain extent blending probabilities.¹¹

(Pause at 11:36. Seth came through with a page or so of material for Jane, then wound up the session at 11:48 P.M.

(I’d say that Seth’s information after 11:29 implies at least a partial answer to the questions Jane asked at break. And tonight, just as she had following last Monday’s session, Jane realized that she was actively delivering material on probabilities both in the sleep state and while partially awake.)

1. Seth finished dictating Personal Reality in July, 1973, but it took me until November to complete my notes for it and type the finished manuscript. Prentice-Hall will publish it in July, 1974. Jane and I still have to correct page proofs for the book, however; they’re due from the printer next month.

3. A note added later: Of course, as soon as Seth mentioned units of consciousness in “Unknown” Reality I thought of the electromagnetic energy units (EE units, as he called them) that he’d discussed in 1969 and 1971. See sessions 504 through 506 in the Appendix of The Seth Material, and the 581st session in Chapter 20 of Seth Speaks, respectively. In the latter material he used several evocative analogies to describe his EE units: “… basically emanations rising from consciousness … the invisible breath of consciousness … The emanations are actually emotional tones … The units are just beneath the range of physical matter.”

However, nowhere in tonight’s 682nd session does Seth refer to EE units by name — and for a reason, as will be seen late in the next session. In his earlier material he left himself plenty of room to add to his data on such units of consciousness. “They are one form [my emphasis] that emotional energy takes,” he told us in the 504th session. And in the 581st session: “There are many ranges and great varieties of such EE units, all existing beyond your perceivable reach. To lump them together in such a way, however, is misleading, for within all of this there is great order.”

4. Again, see the 581st session in Chapter 20 of Seth Speaks for material on EE units and postulated faster-than-light particles like the tachyon. (It’s been stated in theory, incidentally, that although tachyons themselves travel faster than light, their radiation doesn’t. This radiation, then, the carrier of all of the information we could gather about tachyons [or similar particles], would be observable by us.)

The electron is one of the wave-particles in motion adjacent to the atom’s nucleus. It would be very large when compared to Seth’s basic unit of consciousness, but because an electron can “move” from the orbit of one nucleus to that of another without traversing the space between, the electron can still furnish a crude analogy to the ability of those units of consciousness to “appear in several places at once, and without going through space.”

6. For the second time in the session, Seth referred to the chance that the individual might feel insignificant within the enormous reaches of the inner universe. He also mentioned such a possibility in the 681st session at 10:00. (See Note 2 for that session as well.)

I find Seth’s discussions about probabilities most intriguing, and sense no physical or emotional threat. Jane feels the same way. “My concern, when I’m aware of it, is for the readers,” she told me after the session. “I don’t want any of them to feel swept away.”

10. Much of Personal Reality contains material on beliefs, of course; see chapters 14 and 15, among others. Seth’s information on “the point of power,” given in the 657th session in Chapter 15, is especially appropriate here.

11. Seth’s description of how I’m blending two probable selves reminded me of his material on the way Jane is doing the same thing. See the 680th session at 11:02. It can hardly be coincidental that Jane and I are using our individual writing abilities as the cohesive — the “glue” — to unite our respective sets of probable selves.