“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 …”

(10:55. Jane was quickly out of another good trance; once again it had been a long one. Her delivery had been fast at times. “I knew what I was saying when I said it, but I’ve forgotten it all now …” She paused, then continued in a way I thought somewhat unusual for her: “We’re doing the best we can with what abilities we’ve got. You wonder what this material’s application is — what good does it do to know it?”

(Jane wondered how tonight’s material applied to my mother, [who had died three months ago]: “… to Mom Butts herself — not just the theory of it … Is she in another probability now?”

(“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.)

(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.

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.”

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.