“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

“In these side pockets, memory, so-called, is not so structured. Its ever-present living elements are apparent; and its growth. Its material is ever-fresh. Here the past still happens. Usually we experience it through neurological connections; that’s when it seems vivid or alive, but actually it’s that way all the time. Past motion and acts still go on, not recurring — it’s hard to explain — but those past actions are still exploring other probabilities, while our nervous structure focuses us in the one (physical) probable reality we’ve chosen. To us those other actions seem terminated … but that’s only because usually we can’t follow them.

“February 26, 1974. Since the first session on Seth’s book (the 679th) was held — and before we knew it was a book — I’ve been getting material on it in my sleep after each session. I’ve also done this on a few nights when sessions weren’t held. Last night was different in some way, though now I remember hardly anything. I just know I ‘woke myself up,’ saying rather angrily, ‘My consciousness just can’t handle … this stuff … this way,’ or something like that. I’m sure about the first part of that sentence but not about the last part. The material was on probabilities. I think I saw some of it written down — was I writing it? Anyway, I was getting too much of it at once. I didn’t know … where to put it … or how to express it with my kind of consciousness.

“Now I do recall something: I was getting a whole bunch of material and it was multidimensional. I was confused. I thought part of it went with stuff already given … but in a … probable way. I didn’t see how it could be inserted into a normal manuscript because it had this extra dimension. It was here that I got angry and woke myself up. As I opened my eyes, I realized that the material hadn’t been given yet in ‘Unknown’ Reality — though in the sleep state I was sure it had been.

“The whole thing had been going on for some time before I finally woke up with my objections. Several times earlier I’d awakened also, sat up, and smoked a cigarette. Each time as I lay down again, the material started coming. So the last time I said: ‘Now, look, Seth, if you want to take me to some of these probabilities, great; with you leading the way; but my consciousness is having a hell of a time handling whatever it is we’re doing.’ Then I fell asleep and the material stopped.”

(After we talked for a few more minutes, Jane said, “I’ve got the feeling you’re going to get answers to your questions about psychology — but they’ll be presented as the Preface to this book. [...] I meant generally, but she replied, “The Preface.” [...] But as he came through at 10:57:)

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